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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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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.
5. If there be nothing taken from the Parents, of which the soul is formed, then it is not traduced by natural generation: but there is nothing taken from the Parents, by which the soul is formed; for then in all Abortions and miscarrying Conceptions, the seed of the Soul would perish, and by consequence the soul it self would be corruptible, as having its Original from corruptible seed. These and divers1 other the like arguments are used to confirm the doctrine touching the Creation of the Reasonable Soul. Unto which may be added the judgement and testimony of some of the forecited Fathers. St. Hierome telleth us that the Original of the soul in mankind is not as in other ⟨p. 395⟩living creatures. Since as our Saviour speaketh, The Father worketh hitherto. And the Prophet Esat telleth us, That he formeth the spirit of m•n within him, and frameth the hearts of all men; as it is in the Psalms. And so Lactamius (whom I do wonder to find numbered amongst the Authors that affirm the Traduction of the soul, by Ruffinus, and the Author of the Dialogue amongst the works of Hierome). It may be questioned (saith he) whether the soul be generated out of the Father, Mother, or both. Neither of all three is true; Because the seed of the Soul is not put into the Body by either, or both of these. A Body may be borne out of their Bodies, because something may be out of both contributed; but a Soul cannot be borne out of their Souls, in as much as from so spiritual and incomprehensible a substance nothing can issue forth or be severed for that use. So also St. Hilary, The Soul of