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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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Now since that Opinion which denieth the Traduction, seemeth most agreeable to the spiritual substance of the soul, I shall here produce some few reasons for the Creation, and solve an argument or two alleged for the Traduction of the Soul, reserving notwithstanding unto my self, and others, the liberty and modesty of St. Austins hesitation, which also I find allowed1 by the Holy Ghost himself.
Now since that Opinion which denieth the Traduction, seemeth most agreeable to the spirituall substance of the soule, I shall here produce some few reasons for the Creation, and solve an argument or two alledg'd for the Traduction of the Soule, reserving notwithstanding unto my selfe, and others, the liberty and modesty of St. Austins haesitation, which also I finde allowed1 by the Holy Ghost himselfe.
Two things there are of certainty in this point. 1. That the soul is not any corporeal Mass or substance measurable by quantity, or capable of substantial augmentation. 2. That ⟨p. 393⟩the Traduction of one thing out of another, doth connotate these two things, That the thing traduced doth derive Being from the other, as from its original principle; & that this derivation be not any other manner of way, but Ratione semi•ali, & per modum decisionis, by a seminal way, and the decision, separation, or effluxion of substance from the other: which things being laid, The Arguments against Traduction are these.
Two things there are of certainty in this point. 1. That the soule is not any corporeall Masse or substance measurable by quantity, or capable of substantiall augmentation. 2. That