A46060:66
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.
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.
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 soule sees by the eye, and hearing locally in the eare, and so common sence, judgment & memory locally adherent to, and inherent in their places, & hee proveth it, with this frigid argument: because if the member be perished the sence falles.
- 1Mans mortality pag. 13.
Answ. To which I answer, if the eye be the thing that seeth, and the ear the thing that heareth, why do we not see things double, and hear sounds double, seeing we have two eyes & two ears, it is the soul then that seeth & heareth, and these which he taketh to be our senses are but the instruments of our senses, for when our eyes are shut or picked out, we then behold a thousand things in our mind, yea and then our understanding is most quick sighted, when the quickest of our eyesight, is as good as quenched, or quite dead how is it possible that the reasonable soul should be tied to the senses? what a worthy reason is it to say the soul dyeth with the sense, seeing the true senses, do grow & increase, even then when the instruments of the senses do die.
Answ. To which I answer, if the ey be the thing that seeth, and the eare the thing that heareth, why doe we not see things double, and heare sounds double, seeing wee have two eys & two ears, it is the soul then that seeth & heareth, and these which hee taketh to be our sences are but the instruments of our sences, for when our eys are shut or pickt out, we then behold a thousand things in our mind, yea and then our understanding is most quick sighted, when the quickest of our eyesight, is as good as quenched, or quite dead how is it possible that the reasonable soule should be tied to the sences? what a worthy reason is it to say the soule dyeth with the sence, seeing the true sences, do grow & increas, even then when the instruments of the sences doe die.