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The immortality of mans soul, proved bothThe immortality of mans soule, proved both
The immortality of mans soul, proved both by scripture and reason contrary to the fancy of R.O. in his book entitled Mans mortality ...The immortality of mans soule, proved both by scripture and reason contrary to the fancie of R.O. in his book intituled Mans mortality ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1645
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Secondly, it is plainly proved, Arg. 2 that man consists of two parts, Soul and Body; because they perform several and different works at one and the same time. The soul or mind of man will be at Constantinople, then at Rome, at Paris, at Lyons, in America, ⟨p. 4⟩in Africa, and dispatch all these journeys in a trice, look wheresoever thou directest it, there it is, and before thou callest it back, it is at home, while the body all this time is at home at work, or perhaps in bed; therefore the soul and body are two different parts: nay, the soul may, and often doth mind and desire good, when the body is acting sin, Rom. 7.23.24, 25 I find a law in my members warring against the law of my mind (or soul) and bringing me into captivity, to the law of my members, but was it his body that warred against his mind, and brought it into captivity? read the next verse, you shall see, O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death? or this body of death, as the margin more truly hath it, this mortal body. So then (saith he) with my mind I will serve the Lord, but with my flesh the law of sin: thus it plainly appears, the soul and body are two different parts.
Secondly, it is plainly proved, Arg. 2 that man consists of two parts, Soule and Body; because they performe severall and different works at one and the same time. The soule or mind of man will be at Constantinople, then at Rome, at Paris, at Lyons, in America, ⟨p. 4⟩in Affrick, and dispatch all these journies in a trice, looke wheresoever thou directest it, there it is, and before thou callest it back, it is at home, while the body al this time is at home at worke, or perhaps in bed; therefore the soule and body are two different parts: nay, the soule may, and often doth mind and desire good, when the body is acting sinne, Rom. 7.23.24, 25 I find a law in my members warring against the law of my mind (or soule) and bringing mee into captivity, to the law of my members, but was it his body that warred against his mind, and brought it into captivity? reade the next verse, you shall see, O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death? or this body of death, as the margin more truly hath it, this mortall body. So then (saith he) with my mind I will serve the Lord, but with my flesh the law of sin: thus it plainely appears, the soule and body are two different parts.