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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.
O mihi praeteritos refer at fi Jupiter ann•s?
O mihi praeteritos refer at fi Iupiter ann•s?
O that Jove would me restore, The years that I have lived before.
O that Iove would me restore, The yeares that I have liv'd before.
It may be answered that this was a Wish only, and not a Will. Since that which a man willeth, he doth really endeavour to obtain.
It may be answered that this was a Wish only, and not a Will. Since that which a man willeth, he doth really endeavour to obtaine.
The last Condition (which is restrained only to the utmost end of mans desire) is that it be proposed, Sub ratione Immortalis, as an Immortal Good. The Endlessness of Happiness is that only which maketh it a perfect End. For the Mind of man naturally is carried to an Immortality of Being; and therefore also consequently to an Immortality of Happiness; it being a necessary Desire of all Natural Agents, to attain a Perfection proportionate to the measure of their Continuance. So then mans End must not be only Good, but for ever Good, Totally and Eternally: not only a Fullness of Joy in the nature of it; but a Fullness of Perpetuity in the Continuance. Most perfect in proportion in the Spirituality; most infinite in proportion to the Immortality of mans Soul. The Frailty and Languishing of any Good, and a Foresight of the loss thereof, with the ablest Mids doth much weaken the Desire of it. And the reason is, because Providence and Forecast is a certain companion of the humane Nature; and he which is most a man, is most careful to contrive