A46060:79
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.
In the Second place, I said, death is the uttermost point of moving, and the uttermost point of this life, for even in living we dye, & in dying we live, & there is not that step that we make in this life, but we step forward unto death, after the manner of a dial or a clock which endeth its moving, in moving from ⟨p. 31⟩minute to minute, take a way moving from a body, & it liveth no longer; now let us see if the soul also, be carried with the same moving, if it be, it may die with the body, if not it cannot, but we see it moves not with th• body, nay we see the contrary, a man may have his mind as free as an Emperor, though his body be in prison, whether the mind rest, or whether it be busied, bout the proper operations thereof, it is not perceived, either by the panting of the hart, or by the beating of the pulses, or by the breathing of the lunges, the body carries the soul about like a ship, the sticking fast thereof, or the tying of it to a post, hinders not our going up and down in it still.
In the Second place, I said, death is the uttermost poynt of moving, and the uttermost poynt of this life, for even in living we dye, & in dying we live, & there is not that step that we make in this life, but wee step forward unto death, after the manner of a diall or a clocke which endeth its moving, in moving from ⟨p. 31⟩minut to minut, take a way moving from a bod, & it liveth no longer; now let us see if the soule also, be caryed with the same moving, if it be, it may dy with the body, if not it cannot, but we see it moves not with th• body, nay we see the contrary, a man may have his mind as free as an Emperour, though his body be in prison, whether the mind rest, or whether it be busied, bout the proper operations thereof, it is not perceived, either by the panting of the hart, or by the beating of the pulses, or by the breathing of the lunges, the body carries the soule about like a ship, the sticking fast therof, or the tying of it to a post, hinders not our going up and down in it still.