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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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First it may be Unconformable to the Law of right Reason, as in all manner of vicious and unsavoury Speeches. And the Corruption which hereby it incurs, is common to it with other Faculties, as the disproportion between Evil Thoughts and Reason dictating the contrary, worketh Corruption in the thoughts.
First it may be Vnconformable to the Law of right Reason, as in all manner of vitious and unsavory Speeches. And the Corruption which hereby it incurres, is common to it with other Faculties, as the disproportion betweene Evill Thoughts and Reason dictating the contrary, worketh Corruption in the thoughts.
And then secondly it may be disproportioned to the Conceits of the Mind in proposing them otherwise than they are inwardly […], and this is properly a Lye. Which I therefore call the principal Corruption of Speech, not (as I said) because I conceive in it a greater measure of heinousness and Guilt, than in any other Speeches (because all Guilt follows the Inconformity and Remotion from the Law of God and Reason; and therein other Speeches, as Blasphemy, and Sedition, may have a greater measure of wickedness) but because in a Lye I find both the forenamed Irregularities, it being a Speech not only uneven to the Conceits of the Mind; but repugnant also to the Will of God, and the Law of Nature.
And then secondly it may be disproportioned to the Conceipts of the Mind in proposing them otherwise than they are inwardly 〈…〉, and this is properly a Lye. Which I therefore call the principall Corruption of Speech, not (as I said) because I conceive in it a greater measure of heinousnesse and Guilt, than in any other Speeches (because all Guilt followes the Incomformity and Remotion from the Law of God and Reason; and therein other Speeches, as Blasphemy, and Sedition, may have a greater measure of wickednes) but because in a Lye I finde both the forenamed Irregularities, it being a Speech not only uneven to the Conceipts of the Mind; but repugnant also to the Will of God, and the Law of Na ture.