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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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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.
4. If the Soul be seminally traduced, it must he either from the body, or from the soul of the Parents▪ not from the Body, for it is impossible for that which is not a body, to be made out of that which is a Body, no cause being able to produce an effect out of its own sphere, and more noble than it self; not from the soul, because that being a spiritual and impartible substance, can therefore have nothing severed from it by way of substantial seed unto the constitution of another soul.
4. If the Soule be seminally traduced, it must he either from the body, or from the soule of the Parents▪ not from the Body, for it is impossible for that which is not a body, to be made out of that which is a Body, no cause being able to produce an effect out of its owne spheare, and more noble than it selfe; not from the soule, because that being a spirituall and impartible substance, can therefore have nothing severed from it by way of substantiall seed unto the constitution of another soule.