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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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CHAP. XXXII. Of the Original of the Reasonable Soul, whether it be immediately Created and Infused, or derived by Seminal Traduction from the Parents. Of the Derivation of Original sin.
CHAP. XXXII. Of the Originall of the Reasonable Soule, whether it be immediatly Created and Infused, or derived by Seminall Traduction from the Parents. Of the Derivation of Originall sinne.
The dignity of Man in respect of his Soul alone, may be gathered from a consideration either of the whole, or of the par•s thereof. Concerning the whole, we shall consider two things; Its Original, and its Nature. Concerning the Original of the Soul, divers men have diversly thought; for, to let pass the Opinion ofa Seleucus, who affirmed that it was educed out of the Earth, and that bof Origin and the Plato•ists who say that the Souls of men were long ago created, and after detruded into the Body as into a Prison: There are three Opinions touching this question. The first of those who affirm the Traduction of the Soul by genera•, some of which so affirm because they judged […] a Corporeal substance, as did cTertullian. Others because they believed that one spirit might as easily proceed from another, as one fire or light be kindled by another: as dApollinarius, Nemesis, and divers in the Western Churches, as St. Hierome witnesseth. The second, of those who deny the natural Traduction, and say that the