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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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In their Civill respects, we should also observe how they may be severally wrought upon and ⟨p. 42⟩impressed; and how, and on what occasions, it is fit to gather and fortify, or to slack and remit them; how to discover, or suppress, or nourish, o• alter, or mix them, as may be most advantageous; what use may be made of each mans particular Age, Nature, P•opension; how to advance and promote our just ends, upon the observation of the Character and dispositions of these, whom we are to deal withal.
In their Civill respects, we should also observe how they may be severally wrought upon and ⟨p. 42⟩impressed; and how, and on what occasions, it is fit to gather and fortifie, or to slack and remit them; how to discover, or suppresse, or nourish, o• alter, or mix them, as may be most advantagious; what use may be made of each mans particular Age, Nature, P•opension; how to advance and promote our just ends, upon the observation of the Character and dispositions of these, whom we are to deale withall.
And this Civill use of Passion, is copiously handled in a learned and excellent discourse of Aristotle, in the second Book of his Rhetorics; unto which profession, in this respect, it properly belongeth: because in matter of Action, and of Judicature, Affection in some sort is an Auditor, or Judge, as he speaks. But it seemeth strange, that a man of so vast sufficiency and judgement; and who had, as we may well conjecture, an Ambition to knit every Science into an entire Body, which in other mens Labours lay broken and scattered; should yet in his Books De Animâ over-pass the discovery of their Nature, Essence, Operation a•d Properties; and in his Books of Moral Philosophy, should not remember to acquaint us with the Indifferency, Irregularity, Subordination Rebellion, Conspiracy, Discords, Causes, Effects; consequences of each particular of them, being circumstances of obvious and daily use in our Life, and of necessary and singular benefit, to give light unto the government of right Reason.