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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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it perceiveth that great trouble is to be expected, many Prejudices and Difficulties to be grappled with; a severe hand to be held over Passions; a narrow Restraint to be observed towards Mutinous and Rebellious Eruptions of the Mind, fewer inablements for advancing our Fortunes, and infinite other the like bars of present contentment; which withdraw the Will, and make it renounce courses so severe and disagreeable to the Liberty it desires. Hereupon comes the second Act of the Understanding, Efficacy and Weight of Consideration, whereby it compares the Circumstances of that Difficulty of Good to the Will in regard of the small time, they shall continue; with the consequent and unspeakable Good, that will in the end ensue there from, and also with the unsufferable Torments that follow the vileness of present Pleasures. Whence the Will is made more inclinable (by the Assistance of greater Power than its own) to go along rather through Thorns with Virtue, than with adulterate and painted pleasures to dance towards ruin.
it perceiveth that great trouble is to be expected, many Prejudices and Difficulties to be grapled with; a severe hand to be held over Passions; a narrow Restraint to be observed towards Mutinous and Rebellious Eruptions of the Minde, fewer inablements for advancing our Fortunes, and infinite other the like bars of present contentment; which withdraw the Will, and make it renounce courses so severe and disagreeable to the Liberty it desires. Hereupon comes the second Act of the Vnderstanding, Efficacy and Weight of Consideration, whereby it compares the Circumstances of that Difficulty of Good to the Will in regard of the small time, they shall continue; with the consequent and unspeakable Good, that will in the end ensue there from, and also with the unsufferable Torments that follow the vilenesse of present Pleasures. Whence the Will is made more inclinable (by the Assistance of greater Power than its owne) to goe along rather through Thornes with Vertue, than with adulterate and painted pleasures to daunce towards ruine.
Now of these two, the defect of the former works properly a Blinded Understanding; but the Defect of the Latter, namely, an Insufficiency ⟨p. 524⟩