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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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Lastly, some are Civill in Causes Deliberative, or Juridical, as Wisdom, pertinency and fitness to the Nature and Exigence of the End or1 Matter whereupon we speak. For in that case we are to ponder and measure what we say, by the end whereunto we say it, and to fit it to all the Circumstances incident thereunto. Paul amongst the Philosophers disputed with them from the Inscription of their Altar, from the Authority of their Poets, and from confessed Maxims of Reason, by these degrees convincing them of Idolatry, and lending them to Repentance. But amongst the Jews he disputed out of Scripture. With Felix that looked for money, he disputed of Righteousness and Judgement to come, but amongst ⟨p. 511⟩the Pharisees and Sadducees, of the Resurrection, that a Dissension amongst themselves might2 procure a party for him. It is not wisdom for a man in misery to speak with a high stile: or a man in Dignity with a Creeping. The same speech may be excellent in an umbratile Exercitation, which would be too pedantical, and smelling of the Lamp in a matter of serious and weighty debate; and that may be dainty meat i• one place for the fancy, which in another would be too thin for the Conscience. Nature hath guarded and compassed in the Tongue with the lips, like a folding Gate, and with the Teeth like3 a double Hedge, that we might be admonished to weigh and ponder our words before we produce them.
Lastly, some are Civill in Causes Deliberative, or Iuridicall, as Wisedome, pertinency and fitnes to the Nature and Exigence of the End or1 Matter whereupon we speake. For in that case we are to ponder and measure what we say, by the end whereunto we say it, and to fit it to all the Circumstances incident thereunto. Paul amongst the Philosophers disputed with them from the Inscription of their Altar, from the Authority of their Poets, and from confessed Maximes of Reason, by these degrees convincing them of Idolatry, and lending them to Repentance. But amongst the Iewes hee disputed out of Scripture. With Felix that looked for money, he disputed of Righteousnesse and Iudgement to come, but amongst