A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

Now that which I intend chiefly out of these words, is the Subject to be sanctified, and that not the two former (viz.) Spirit and Soul, of whose uncleanness we have largely treated already, but of the Body, which is last of all; Only it is necessary to speak a little to the explication of these three parts of man, how they differ, for commonly when the Scripture speaketh of man it enumerateth but two parts, the Soul and the Body, as Eccles. 12. 7. and in the creation of man, we have only two parts instanced in, which are his Soul and his Body; Because of this there have been various conjectures upon this place, for some have hence made three parts of man, his Body, his Soul, which they make to be the sensitive part of man, and his Spirit, which they make to be some part (as it were) flowing from the essence of God, and this they acknowledge immortal, but the soul and the body (they say) are mortal; And the ancient Heretics the Apollinarists might run to this refuge, who denied Christ to have any rational soul, but his Divine Nature, and his sensitive soul and body, do make upon Christ. The Manichees also affirmed two souls in men, the one rational that was good, and of God; The other evil, and the fountain of evil, the sensitive soul, coming from the Devil. Yea Cerda upon Tertul. (de anima lib. 3.) saith, not only Dydimus, but others of the ancients did incline to this opinion, that the Spirit was a distinct part in a man from soul and body, which opinion Austin opposed.

Now that which I intend chiefly out of these words, is the Subject to be sanctified, and that not the two former (viz.) Spirit and Soul, of whose uncleanness we have largely treated already, but of the Body, which is last of all; Only it is necessary to speak a little to the explication of these three parts of man, how they differ, for commonly when the Scripture speaketh of man it enumerateth but two parts, the Soul and the Body, as Eccles. 12. 7. and in the creation of man, we have only two parts instanced in, which are his Soul and his Body; Because of this there have been various conjectures upon this place, for some have hence made three parts of man, his Body, his Soul, which they make to be the sensitive part of man, and his Spirit, which they make to be some part (as it were) flowing from the essence of God, and this they acknowledge immortal, but the soul and the body (they say) are mortal; And the ancient Heretiques the Apollinarists might runne to this refuge, who denied Christ to have any rational soul, but his Divine Nature, and his sensitive soul and body, do make upon Christ. The Manichees also affirmed two souls in men, the one rational that was good, and of God; The other evil, and the fountain of evil, the sensitive soul, coming from the Devil. Yea Cerda upon Tertul. (de anima lib. 3.) saith, not only Dydimus, but others of the ancients did incline to this opinion, that the Spirit was a distinct part in a man from soul and body, which opinion Austin opposed.