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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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2. To have Being by Traduction, is, when the soul of the Child is derived from the soul of the Parent, by the means of Seed: but the Seed of the Parent cannot reach the Generation of the soul, both because the one is a Corporeal, the other a Spiritual substance, uncapable of Augmentation, or Detriment. Now that which is spiritual, cannot be produced out of that which is corporeal: neither can any Seed be discinded or issue out from the soul, being substantia simplex, & impartibilis, a substance simple, and indivisible.
2. To have Being by Traduction, is, when the soule of the Child is derived from the soule of the Parent, by the meanes of Seed: but the Seed of the Parent cannot reach the Generation of the soule, both because the one is a Corporeall, the other a Spirituall substance, uncapable of Augmentation, or Detriment. Now that which is spirituall, cannot be produced out of that which is corporeall: neither can any Seed be discinded or issue out from the soule, being substantia sim•lex, & impartibilis, a substance simple, and indivisible.
3. That which is separable from the body, and can subsist and work without it, doth not depend in its Being or making upon it; for if by the Generation ⟨p. 394⟩of the Body the soul be generated, by the corruption of the Body it would be corrupted; for every thing that is generable, is corruptible. But the Soul can subsist and work without the Body; therefore it doth not from corporeal generation derive its Being.
3. That which is separable from the body, and can subsist and work without it, doth not depend in its Being or making upon it; for if by the Generation ⟨p. 394⟩of the Body the soule be generated, by the corruption of the Body it would be corrupted; for every thing that is generable, is corruptible. But the Soule can subsist and work without the Body; therefore it doth not from corporeall generation derive its Being.