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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Another Condition, under which and End or Means are to be proposed by the Will, is Sub rationo Eossibilis, as a good Possible. For if once the Understanding discover Impossibility in any Object, the Will cannot fasten any desire upon it: Since all Appetite is only terminated by that which can replenish and satiate the Power. Now all Satisfaction is by Fruition; all Fruition necessarily presupposeth a Possibility of Acquiring: So that where this is taken away, the Will is left Hopeless, and therefore Desireless; and therefore we see that the nearer any things comes to Impossibility, the more averse is the Will of most men from it: as is plain in these things that are perplexed and difficult to attain. And if ⟨p. 525⟩here the wish of him in the Poet be objected:
Another Condition, under which and End or Means are to be proposed by the Will, is Sub rationo Eossibilis, as a good Possible. For if once the Vnderstanding discover Impossibility in any Object, the Will cannot fasten any desire upon it: Since all Appetite is only terminated by that which can replennish and satiate the Power. Now all Satisfaction is by Fruition; all Fruition necessarily presupposeth a Possibility of Acquiring: So that where this is taken away, the Will is left Hopelesse, and therefore Desirelesse; and therefore we see that the neerer any things comes to Impossibility, the more averse is the Will of most men from it: as is plaine in these things that are perplexed and difficult to ateaine. And if ⟨p. 525⟩here the wish of him in the Poet be objected:
O mihi praeteritos refer at fi Jupiter ann•s?
O mihi praeteritos refer at fi Iupiter ann•s?