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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First I showed before, that the soul is not a body, neither increaseth nor decreaseth with the body, but contrary wise, the more the body decreaseth; the more the understanding increaseth, the nearer the body draweth to death the more freely doth the mind understand, the more the body abateth the more powerful ⟨p. 23⟩is the mind, why then should we think that the thing which becometh the stronger, by the weakness of the body, & which is advanced by the decay of the body, should perish to dust with the body? a mans seeing fails, because his eyes fail, but the blind mans understanding increaseth, because his eyes are not busied, and the old mans reason becometh more perfect, by the loss of his sight, & therefore why say we not, that the body failleth the soul, but the soul faileth not the body, that the glasses are out of the spectacles, but the eyes good still.
First I shewed before, that the soule is not a body, neither increaseth nor decreaseth with the body, but contrary wise, the more the body decreaseth; the more the understanding increaseth, the neerer the body draweth to death the more freely doth the mind understand, the more the body abateth the more powerfull ⟨p. 23⟩is the mind, why then should we thinke that the thing which becommeth the stronger, by the weaknesse of the body, & which is advanced by the decay of the body, should perish to dust with the body? a mans seeing fails, because his eyes faile, but the blind mans understanding encreaseth, because his eyes are not busied, and the old mans reason becommeth more perfect, by the losse of his sight, & therefore why say we not, that the body failleth the soule, but the soule faileth not the body, that the glasses are out of the spectacles, but the eyes good still.
Objoct. 1 But, 1saith R.O. the part or member is endowed with the faculty, & so seeing is in the eye naturally, & really, and not the soul sees by the eye, and hearing locally in the ear, and so common sense, judgment & memory locally adherent to, and inherent in their places, & he proveth it, with this frigid argument: because if the member be perished the sense falls.