Thirdly, Arg. 3 that the soul is not the body, nor any part of it, but soul and body two very different things, appears of it self without further proof, for if the soul were the body, or any part of the body, it would, nay must needs grow with the body, and decline with the body, it would be maimed with the body, and sick with the body, for else how can it dye with the body, but daily experience proves the contrary, for were soul the same with, or part of the body, the greater the body were, the greater would the soul be: but the contrary appears, those that are strongest in mind, are commonly weakest in body, and the soul is seen to be full of liveliness in a languishing body, and to grow the more in force by the ⟨p. 5⟩decay of the body, by growing of the soul I mean, (mistake me not) not that it increaseth or diminisheth, it is capable of neither, but its profiting in power and virtue; again, if the soul were the body or any part of it, it would languish with the body: he that is wounded in his body, would be wounded in his understanding, as well as in his members: he that is sick of any disease, should also be sick in his reason: he that limpeth or halteth, should halt in his reason also; the blind mans soul should be blind, and the lame mans lame; but the contrary appears, the maimed, the sick, the cripples, the blind, have their understanding clear sighted, their reason sound, their discourse vigorous, and their soul safe and sound; on the other side, many a man dieth, whose body is sound, and differeth not a whit in any part, from what it was when he was living, anatomize him, the quickest eyed Chirurgeon shall see, nor perceive no cause of his death, outward nor inward, nor failing of any particular, to cause it, and yet life, motion, sense, and understanding, are out of it, we may say then (if we are not wilfully blind, for none so blind as he that will not see) that there was something in the body, that was not of the body, that was a far other thing then the body.
Thirdly, Arg. 3 that the soule is not the body, nor any part of it, but soule and body two very different things, appears of it selfe without further proofe, for if the soule were the body, or any part of the body, it would, nay must needs grow with the body, and decline with the body, it would be maimed with the body, and sick with the body, for else how can it dye with the body, but daily experience proves the contrary, for were soule the same with, or part of the body, the greater the body were, the greater would the soule be: but the contrary appears, those that are strongest in mind, are commonly weakest in body, and the soule is seene to be full of livelinesse in a languishing body, and to grow the more in force by the ⟨p. 5⟩decay of the body, by growing of the soule I meane, (mistake me not) not that it increaseth or diminisheth, it is capable of neither, but its profiting in power and vertue; againe, if the soule were the body or any part of it, it would languish with the body: hee that is wounded in his body, would be wounded in his understanding, as well as in his members: he that is sicke of any disease, should also be sicke in his reason: he that limpeth or halteth, should halt in his reason also; the blind mans soule should be blind, and the lame mans lame; but the contrary appeares, the maimed, the sicke, the cripples, the blind, have their understanding cleere sighted, their reason sound, their discourse vigorous, and their soule safe and sound; on the other side, many a man dieth, whose body is sound, and differeth not a whit in any part, from what it was when he was living, anatomize him, the quickest eyed Chyrurgian shal see, nor perceive no cause of his death, outward nor inward, nor failing of any particular, to cause it, and yet life, motion, sence, and understanding, are out of it, we may say then (if wee are not wilfully blind, for none so blind as he that will not see) that there was something in the body, that was not of the body, that was a farre other thing then the body.
