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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. XXXIV. Of the Souls immortality proved by its simplicity, independence, agreement of Nations in acknowledging God and duties due unto him, dignity above other Creatures, power of understanding things immortal, unsatiablenesse by objects Mortal, freeness from all causes of corruption.
CHAP. XXXIV. Of the Soules immortality proved by its simplicity, independance, agreement of Nations in acknowledging God and duties due unto him, dignity above other Creatures, power of understanding things immortall, unsatiablenesse by objects Mortall, freenesse from all causes of corruption.
And from this Simplicity follows by a necessary & unavoidable consequence, the third property spoken of,* Immortality, it being absolutely impossible (as Tully excellently observes, & it is the argument of Jul. Scaliger on this very occasion) for any simple and uncompounded Nature to be subject to death and corruption; For (saith Tully) Interitus est discessus & secretio ac direptus earum partium quae conjunctione •liqua tenebantur. It is a separation (and as it were) a divulsion of parts, before united each to other, so that where there is *no Union, there can be no separation, and by consequence no death nor mortality.
ANd from this Simplicity followes by a necessary & unavoydable consequence, the third property spoken of,* Immortality, it being absolutely impossible (as Tully excellently observes, & it is the argument of Iul. Scaliger on this very occasion) for any simple and uncompounded Nature to be subject to death and corruption; For (saith Tully) Interitus est discessus & secretio ac direptus earum partium quae conjunctione •liqua tenebantur. It is a separation (and as it were) a divulsion of parts, before united each to other, so that where there is