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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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A fourth saith it is a clear fire proceeding from the power of the heavenly father, an incorruptible substance, and the maintainer of life, containing almost all the whole world with the full plenty thereof in his bosom.
A fourth saith it is a cleare fire proceeding from the power of the heavenly father, an incorruptible substance, and the maintainer of life, containing almost all the whole world with the full plenty therof in his bosome.
But one of them proceedeth yet further, affirming that he that setteth his mind upon Godliness, shall save even his body, though it be never so frail: and by those words he acknowledgeth the very glorifying of the body.
But one of them proseedeth yet further, affirming that he that setteth his mind upon Godliness, shall save even his body, though it be never so fraile: and by those words hee acknowledgeth the very glorifying of the body.
All these are reported by Psellus, and he confesseth that Plato and Pythagoras learned the doctrine of the souls Immortality of the Chaldeans, in so much ⟨p. 12⟩that some think the Chaldeans are those that Plato speaks of,1 when he saith, that the ancient and holy Oracles are to be believed, which affirm mens souls to be immortal, and that in another life, they must come before a Judg that will require an account of all their doings, the result whereof cometh to this, that the soul of man proceedeth immediately from God, that is to say; that the father of the body is one, and the father of the soul is another; that the soul is not a bodily substance, but a spirit and a light, that at the departure thereof from hence, it is to go to a Paradise, & therefore ought to make haste unto death and that it is so far from mortality, that it maketh even the body Immortal: what can we say more at this day, even in the time of light wherein we live of the same opinion was Hordelitus, as is reported by Philolaus.