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A90237	Mans mortalitie: or, A treatise wherein 'tis proved, both theologically and philosophically, that whole man (as a rationall creature) is a compound wholly mortall, contrary to that common distinction of soule and body: and that the present going of the soule into heaven or hell is a meer fiction: and that at the resurrection is the beginning of our immortality, and then actual condemnation, and salvation, and not before. : With all doubts and objections answered, and resolved, both by scripture and reason; discovering the multitude of blasphemies, and absurdities that arise from the fancie of the soule. : Also divers other mysteries, as, of heaven, hell, Christs humane residence, the extent of the resurrection, the new creation, &c. opened, and presented to the tryall of better judgments. / By R.O.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.; Writer, Clement, fl. 1627-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing O629E; ESTC R11330	42,502	47

to morrow we die And so k 59. Abs so many bellyes so many Gods and no other It is objected That the rarenesse of conception argues a supernaturall immediate assistance essentiall without which the soul cannot be Answ That commeth by a naturall defect and not by the withholding of Gods immediate hand else he should have a speciall and immediate hand in Adultery And so Whoremongers and Adulterers sets God a work to create Souls for k 61. Abs their Bastards which is to make God a slave to their lusts Further it is objected That God hath from eternity decreed concerning man above all creatures both who should come into the world and at what time Therefore accordingly he must have a work in mans conception above other creatures Answ No such thing followeth for time and number may be appoynted and yet the due course of nature proceed as well without as with an immediate assistance towards man in his kind as in Beasts in their kind Moreover Woolner in his Treatise on the Soul pag. 115. saith That the more spirituall parts and chiefly the Soul is but partly mediately partly immediately conceived at the first instant or union of the seed of both Sexes For by it pag. 127. he saith the corporeall parts are prepared and perfected Therefore it must of necessity be at the first instant or else no conception And pag. 129. That all Soules as well of Beasts as of men are essentially as perfect at the first instant of conception as ever afterwards And pag. 97. he saith The Soul can live without the body and cannot be corrupted by it Answ That then it followeth If a woman miscarry immediately after that very instant l 35. Abs that the Soul of that Effluction or unshapen deformed peece of congealed blood being immortal must needs continue its immortality and that Effluction as well as perfect bodies shall be raised againe for if degrees of corporall perfection hinder then those that are borne imperfect as without legs arms or hands or any other member as divers are they m 63 Abs shall never be raised againe and so out of the compasse of Christs death and though it should be granted that Christs death is denyed an Embrio yet that soules immortality cannot be nullified for immortality once begun must never have an end and he saith it cannot suffer with the flesh therefore if not with the whole masse of mans corpulency growne to its full perfection much lesse with an Embrio that is ten times lesse imperfect and invalid for he saith it is as perfect at the first instant as ever afterwards therefore it must be saved or damned if there be any for others but no man knowes how or Absurd which way except it can be proved Christ dyed for bare soules soules without bodies which will puzzle the cunningest soule that ever was made in the marring and mard in the making Further it is objected Creatures propagated out of kind as by buggery as Apes Satyres c. are supposed are not endowed with reasonable soules Ergo soules are created immediately or however of necessity Gods superficient power is joyned to the propagation thereof Answ As I will not altogether confidently affirme they have rationall soules so will I not altogether deny it For in Man it is some organicall deficiency more or lesse that is the cause that some men are lesse rationall then others for some have abundance of wisdome and some are meere fooles and in children whose Organs are not come to perfection there is not so much as there is in an Ape This premised why in some measure as far as by those improper Organs can be expressed may they not be rationall though not in the same degree as is capable of God as well as Infants who are as uncapable pro tempore as Apes But perchance it will be replyed that then Christ dyed for Apes as well as for Infants I Answer Christ dyed not for the rationall part separated from the materiall nor the materiall from the rationall if there should be such buggery births or if by that unnaturall course they should meet in one which is impossible for the blessing of procreating any thing in its kind is to the kind for that neither but for the naturall production by the conjunction of both Sexes legitimate from Adam and not such unnaturall by-blowes As for births out of kind they come within the compasse of the Curse and cannot any wayes claim priviledge in the Restoration but must expect with Thornes Bryars and all manner of Vermin and Filth which breedeth on corruption to be done away when mortality is swallowed up of life For all other Creatures as well as Man shall be raised and delivered from death at the Resurrection my Reasons and grounds for it be these First that otherwise the The Resurrection of Beasts c. curse in Adam would extend further then the blessing in Christ contrary to the Scriptures For as in Adam all dye even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15. 22. For the wages of sinne is death but the gift of God is eternall life through Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 23. Therefore Death comming upon all the Creatures by the sinne of Adam no death being before sinne life shall come upon all by Christ Secondly the beasts were not given Man to eate in the Innocencie but to all flesh wherein was the breath of life was given the greene herbe for meat Therefore the death of the beasts c. was part of the Curse and so to be done away by Christ Thirdly if the other Creatures doe not rise againe then Christ shall not conquer Death but when it is said O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory it will be answered in Beasts because they are still captivated under its bondage But as by one man death entered into the world Ro. 5. 12. and by man came death by man shal come resurrection from death and the last Enemy that shall be destroyed is death and death shall be swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 21. 54. Therefore death shall not retaine them but they must be delivered out of its Jawes Fourthly those ensuing Scriptures doe clearly prove it Col. 1. 15. to the 23. All things were created by him and for him whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven and be not removed away from the hope of the Gospel which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven And Mar. 16. 15. Go ye into all the world preach the Gospel to every creature that is Glad tydings life and Resurrection from the bondage of corruption to every Creature by Christ therefore is he said to be the First borne of every Creature the First that 's borne or raised from the Dead so that those whereof he is the First must follow that is every creature else could he not be the First borne

condensation and at the Day of the Lord the Heavens shall passe away with a great noyse and the elements shall melt with fervent heat 2 Pet. 3. 10. But their habitation is of a better and enduring substance Heb. 10. 13. eternall 2 Cor. 5. 1. an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1. 4. whereas this makes it mortall corruptible and fading so that the soul changeth but one corruptible earthly mansion for an other that shall fleet away and no more place shall be found for it Rev. 10. 20. and 21. 1. 4ly Christ was the first fruits of them that slept and thereby as he tould his Disciples he went to prepare a place for them in his Fathers house Therefore if it were then to prepare it was not then in esse there could be none in before it self was in Being so that if Abraham Isaac c. as soon as they died entred presently therein it is as if we should be actually in a House before the House be built or enjoy the Purchase before the Price be paid or Possession had I may and not without ground positively affirme that the place of Glory for the dead Saints is not yet and shall not actually Be till the Heaven o● the place of glory for the Saints not till the Resurrection dissolution of those Heavens and this earth according to that of Isaiah 65. 15. For behold I create New Heavens and a New Earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind Chap. 66. the New Heavens and the New earth shall remaine before me saith the Lord. And 2 Pet. 3. 12. t is said we look for New Heavens and a New Earth after the dissolution of the old ver 12. wherein dwelleth righteousnesse And Iohn after he had revealed the end and finall dissolution of the world and the Judgment of the quick and dead saith And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away and there was no more Sea And ver 2. 3. c. And I saw the holy City c. Whence is observable that Isaiah Peter and Iohn with one consent in probation that they did not meane any state in this world expresly conclude the dissolution of those Heavens this earth before their prophesie be fulfilled 2ly that they are not the same with those they stile them New to distinguish them from the old 3ly that they intend no renovation of the old Isaiah maketh them a work of Creation I create New Heavens c. 4ly to confirme it further Isaiah declareth their eternity the New Heavens and the New Earth shall continue before me saith the Lord 5ly Peter maketh them pure and undefiled wherein dwelleth righteousnesse And into this New Earth Iohn saw the holy City New Ierusalem comming down from God out of Heaven ver 2. and heard a voyce out of Heaven saying Behold the Tabernacle of God with men and he will dwell with them ver 3. and ver 27. there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth whence it is most certaine that it shall never be defiled with sin for the glory of God shall lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof ver 23. and they shall raigne for ever and ever cap. 22. 5. 6ly there shall be no teares no death nor sorrow nor any more paine for the former things are passed away cap. 21. 4. none of all which is computable with the state of this world but if compared with those places which speake of the state of glory or habitation for the Saints that sleep in Christ after this life as 1 Pet. 1. 4. where it is made an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away and Heb. 10. 34. it is called an enduring substance and cap. 11. 14. it is called a Countrey and ver 15. an heavenly Countrey which so answer and correspond with this New Creation that thereto only it is computable therefore they must needs be one and the same and that they are the prophesies themselves do witnesse as Rev. 21. 24. the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and cap. 22. 5. there they shall raigne for ever and for ever and Peter makes it the end of their faith saying we according to his promise look for new Heavens c. and further to confirme it compare Rev. 7. 14. 15. 16. 17. with cap. 20. 1. 2. 3 4. and you shall find that it shall be the reward of those that come out of tribulation c. Therefore this is the inheritance incorruptible and undefiled c. the purchased possession Ephe. 1. 14. the World to come ver 21. the reward and end of our faith This being thus it is impossible that any should injoy that for the present which is yet to create So that the Thiefe is found a World too short of this Paradice Object Peter saith it is reserved in Heaven To that and such like expressions I Answer that the word Heaven being fittest to expresse the highnesse of its degree and exaltation of its glory to sence is used for no other end so that the meaning is reserved in highest dignity for Heaven in Scripture is oftentimes used to expresse the height and dignity of a thing as Isa 14. 12. Object Isaiah there shall be no more thence an Infant of dayes nor an old man that hath filled his dayes for the Child shall dye an hundred yeares old c. Answ That if this be expounded by Iohns Revelation it cannot admit of an interpretation sutable to the state of this world for he saith there shall be no death there cap. 21. 4. and before he sheweth that Death the last enemy that shall be destroyed was cast into the Lake Therefore it is impossible there should be any death there So that those expressions of Isaiah are metaphoricall to expresse the durance of their state which Iohn revealeth to be for ever and ever cap. 22. 5. Some indeed attribute this of Isaiah to the Thousand years of Christs Raigne in the Gospels glory which commeth betwixt the Fall of the Beast and the wars of Gog and Magog to which though it should relate yet that double cord of Peter and Iohn is sufficient to confirm the thing both without contradiction plainly and expresly affirming this New Creation to be after the destruction of the old Object For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven it selfe now to appeare in the presence of God for us Heb. 9. 24. Answ If the subject or matter in hand of that place be observed the obscurity or seeming contradiction hereto will vanish the subject thereof is the state of the two Covenants or Testaments the Old and the New the first worldly and carnall the other heavenly and spiritual the first the shadow the second the substance the first had

if reserved for both till then I le be bold to say it shall not be till nor before then Moreover Rev. 19. 20. it is said the beast and the false Prophet and them that worshipped his image were cast alive into the lake of fire and brimstone and c. 20. 10. And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake and this v. 6. 14. is called the second death therefore this casting into the Lake must be after the Fall of Antichrist and after he hath done deceiving and not before for if he be there now he hath done deceiving for once there it is impossible he should deceive but that he hath not there is more witnesses then stars in the Skie or sands in the Sea our innumerable sinnes whose just reward is the second death If it be Questioned where then the Divels are Observe they are but Creatures and such as are fallen from their Heavenly mansions therefore within the Sublunary compasse so that as the Earth is the proper place for ponderous and grosse bodies and the Devils being more subtile and aiereal may be referred to the air and not without ground from Scripture for Ephes 2. 2. the Devil is called the Prince of the power of the aire so that their casting into Hell must be the aire and Hell may as well be put for the aire in those places as in other for the grave c. their prison or place of custody as the grave to the dead And Rev. 12. 9. t is said he was cast into the earth and his Angels c. This premised Hell and Damnation not yet well might ignorance straine it self into such incertaine conceits about the place of it's Being and it not as yet Some have feigned it in Mount Aetna some in the Element of Fire which is betwixt the upper region of the Aire and the Globe of the Moon some to be in the Caves of the Earth and Conduits of the Sea some only in the Sea as Archer in his Personall raigne of Christ mentions because the Divels were cast into the Swine which ran violently down a steopplace into the Sea Mar. 5. 3. surely they might as wel say they have f 30. Abs Milstones about their necks because it is also said better a milstone were tyed about his neck and he cast into the bottome of the Sea for the one followeth no more then the other Some say it is in the earth equally so far distant from the surface as Heaven is above it as Phillips c. and this he labours to confirme with Scripture as Pro. 15. 4. The way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from Hell beneath and Phil. 2. 10. That in the name of Iesus every knee should bow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth i. e. in Hell saith he And Luke 16. The rich man saw Abraham a far off and Lazarus in his bosome And Ezek. 31. 18. Yet shalt thou be brought down with the Trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the Earth But those and such like places which literally seem to import Hell conclude the thing no more then other literall expressions prove God to have corpulent eyes eares hands c. but are expressions after the manner of men to shew the gradation of condition betwixt the wicked and the righteous the one the extreamest debasement the other the extreamest exaltation which could not be better figurated to sence then by Heaven and Earth And in particular thus The first as Pro. 15. 24. is litterall or figurative which interpretation can neither be canonicall nor rationall for thereby wise men must not tread upon the g 31. Abs ground but must walk upon the Aire or upon the water as Christ and Peter upon the Sea Mat. 14. 25. 29. and there only the way of life for it saith their way is above For the second as Phil. 2. 10. that is both propheticall and figurative to shew how in processe of time all Degrees shall subject to Christ Angels Men Beasts Devils and Death whose Degrees is thus literally expressed to sence by Heaven Earth under the Earth or Angels that are highest in dignity and so coelestiall Men and sublunars the midle and so terrestriall Divels and Death the lowest and so subterrestriall The third as Luke 16. is parabolicall of which more anon and it seemes by this if Hell be so deep in the Earth h 32. Abs the Damned have wonderfull good eyes to see through the earths grosse body and the Heavens 12. Spheares into the Coelum Empyreum to spy Lazarus in Abrahams bosome or else Heaven must be there too even in the centure of the Earth this is the consequence of such parabollicall Arguments And the 4th or last as Ezek. 31. 18. is a kin to those for it is but to shew how that Pharaoh in the height of his pride and fury was brought to confusion which in the 15. v. is expressed by In the day when he went down into the grave and v. 14. unto death to the nether parts of the earth to the pit and v. 17. into Hell all which shew but the sudden death and utter confusion of Pharaoh and his Army and at the utmost Hell here can be but put for death or the grave and not for any such place of torment There is yet an other Opinion of the place of Hell which is the best that ever I heard or read of and that is according to Archers judgment the Earth reduced to its prima materia or created matter which he saith cannot be consumed and there shall the Damned be cast But least I should dive further in the inquisition of the place then my Commission will reach I le leave it to the wofull experience of the damned at the day of Judgment Object 8. such a one caught up into the third Heavens how that he was caught up into Paradice 2 Cor. 12. 2. 4. there Paradice is put for the third Heavens And to this compare Christs Answer to the theife upon the Crosse This day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Therefore Paradice is the third Heavens the place for the souls of the righteous whither the Theifes soul went that day Answ First Christ was not there that day himself for his humanity was three dayes and three nights in the grave after his death 2ly His whole humanity soul and body as 't is called suffered death as it was necessary for if his body only suffered what should our souls have done for a Redeemer of this more hereafter so that the saying of the prophet is fulfilled Psal 16. 10. For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell i. e. his manhood in the grave nor suffer thine holy One to see corruption i. e. or there to putrifie 3ly If so then the souls of the righteous have an earthly fading habitation for the 12. Spheares are as the earth is a meer elementall

Empyreum which the Astronomers have invented for his residence I know no better ground they have for it then such as Dromodotus the Philosopher in Pedantius had to prove there was Divels Sunt Antipodes Ergo Daemones Sunt Coeli Ergo Coelum Empyreum Object 10. Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne to God who gave it Eccles 12. 7. Answ By spirit cannot be meant such a thing as the soul except all soules go to God and none to the Devil for it is indifferently spoken of all but by spirit is meant life which hath various expressions in Scripture it is the will of God that dust shal be made man and live and it is done and he liveth and his will that it shall dye and it dyeth or returneth to what it was he withdraweth his communicated power and man ceaseth the spirit shall returne the communication power or faculty of life shall cease to God that gave it in him that communicated or gave it in whom we live move and have our being no otherwise mans spirit or life returneth to God that gave it he taketh away the breath and the creatures dye and returne to their dust Psal 104. 29. for the life of man is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Iam. 4. 14. Object 11. And they stoned Steven calling upon God and saying Lord Iesus receive my spirit Act. 7. 59. Answ This is a commendation of his life or being into the hands of God in whom with Christ our lives are hid Col. 3. 3. as a full assurance of his hope and faith in the Resurrection that when Christ who is our life should appeare he also might appeare with him in glory For God is not the God of the dead but of the living for all live unto him Luke 20. 38. And thus and no otherwise was his spirit commended or returned to him that gave it whose spirit goeth forth and we are renewed Psal 104. 30. answerable to that of the two Witnesses into whom the spirit of life from God after they had lien dead three dayes and an halfe entered into them and they stood upon their feet Object 12. God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life Gen. 2. 7. Ergo man hath an immortall soul Answ Then so is the foul of a Beast for Solomon saith their breath is all one Eccl. 3. 19. and David reckoning up the creatures and man amongst them saith indifferently of them all God hideth his face and they are troubled he taketh away their breath they dye and returne to their dust Psal 104. 29. and this is further amplified in Gen. 1. 33. to every thing in the Earth wherein there is a living soul c. and cap. 7. 21. 22. all flesh dyed in whose nostrils was the breath of life and Num. 31. 28. all which make no difference betwixt them but as the one dyeth so dyeth the other and man hath no preheminence above a beast For what man is he that liveth and shall not see death or deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah Psal 89. 48. Object 13. And it came to passe the Beggar dyed and was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosome c. Luke 16. from the 22. to the end Answ There was never such a man as Dives or Lazarus or ever such a thing happened no more then Iothams Trees did walke and talke Iud. 9. 8. but was a Parable to prove that nothing is more effectuall for conversion then the ordinary preaching of the Word by the ministration of the servants of God Further the consequence concerning the soul is but drawn from the literall sence in which sence I shall deny it canonicall Scripture for it makes in that sence more for bodies then the souls present being in Heaven or Hell ver 23. 24. and maketh Abraham the Father of the Damned ver 24. 25. 27. 30. and ver 22. Dives dyed and was buried and yet v. 23. he lift up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham c. and v. 25. he cryed for Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger to coole his tongue which in the literall sence thus applycated must needs be contradictory unlesse his eyes tongue and Lazarus finger was not buried or their souls had corporeall corpulent members which to conceit is ridiculous Therefore from this place the Resurrection of the body before the day of Judgment even as soon as a man is buried may better be proved then such a present soularie enterance into Heaven or Hell Object 14. By which also he went and preached to them in prison Answ By which that is by that whereby he was quickened or raised from the dead his divine nature the God-head as the foregoing words whereon the sence of those depend doth evidence ver 18. Christ once suffered c. death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit ver 19. by which also he went c. So that he went and preached by that whereby he was quickened or raised Therefore the preaching here meant was not by that which was raised but by that which did raise which was ministerially as the following words further evidence shewing to whom he preached even those which were disobedient in the dayes of Noah on whom the long suffering of God waited while the Arke was a preparing those were the spirits here meant the wicked of those dayes which are now in prison that is dead or imprisoned in the Elements Here the grave or death is called a prison as indeed it is for therein all that dye are reserved in the chaines of death the Elements not to be delivered till Judgement Rev. 20. 13. according to Iob. 3. 18. there the prisoners rest together Object 15. Therefore gloryfie God in your body and in your spirit 1 Cor. 6. 20. Answ Before he calleth the body the Temple of the holy Ghost ver 29. and ver 15. the members of Christ which needs must be the whole man and not his bare carcase for in death who can praise the Lord in it can be no habitation for the holy Ghost and therein were they to glorifie Absurd God to make Christ the head of such members were to make God the God of the dead and not of the living therefore by body and spirit is meant whole man aiming at a thorough and perfect sanctification as well in that which respecteth thought the spirit as in that which respecteth action the body inwardly to glorifie God as well as outwardly to flee fornication c. Object 16. I saw under the Altar the soules of them that were slaine for the word of God c. and they cried with a loud voyce c. Revel 6. 10. 11. Answ They were such souls as lay under the Altar flaine or sacrificed or as ver 11. hath it were killed these therefore being dead soules or martyred Saints their cry must be as the cry of the blood of

Abel And the like vision of dead Saints confirmes it as cap. 20. v. 4. 5. And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand yeares but the rest of the dead lived not again till c. whence it is plaine that he beheld the Resurrection or restoration of life unto dead soules even of them that were beheaded but the rest lay dead or lived not again till c. Thus much of illegitimate Objections from Scripture Now to the probation hereof from Procreation or Generation and as near as I can to resolve all occurrent Objections thereon that shall confront CHAP. VI. Of procreation how from thence this Mortallity is proved IT is supposed as I conceive by none that what naturally proceedeth from Man simply by the course of nature can be immortall but must first tast of mortality And therefore there are two sorts of Opinions to maintaine this Heathenish Invention about the soul whereon its immortality is grounded which I shall chiefly encounter the one that it is created and infused at the conception and so only Gods work The other that it is concepted by the woman through the concurrence of the seed of both sexes but not simply by the course of nature but by the supernaturall and extraordinary assistance or efficacy of God in conception more then in other creatures and so partly mans and partly Gods work But that I may utterly demolish the structure of this Invention I shall turne up the foundation of each kind in its place But first I shall speak a word or two in generall of Procreation it self That whole man is generated by man observe That as the whole Tree is potentially in the seed and actually in time springeth from it or as many graines of wheat are in one graine virtually and perfectly actuall in time so in the seed of mankind is whole man potentially and wholly actuall in time or all Adams succession which in time are propagated were wholly in him life and limbs or as it is more common soule and body So that whatsoever in time is actuall by procreation it was at first potentially wholly in its originall Further Generatum sequitur naturam generantis He begat a sonne in his owne image Gen. 5. 3. is not onely philosophically but Theologically true Mat. 7. 16. Iob 4. 14. Therefore mortall Adam must beget mortall children in his owne likenesse soule and body except the soule was no part of his likenesse For that which is immortall cannot generatively proceed from that which is mortall as Christ saith that which is borne of the flesh is as it selfe is corruptible mutable flesh Iohn 3. 6. so then by this mortall flesh cannot be generated an immortall spirit or soule that can subsist by it selfe dissolved from the flesh for if it should in h 32. Abs that act it should goe beyond it selfe which is impossible and thereby more should be done i 33. Abs by man and woman in generation then God did or could doe in the Creation for he neither did or could create any thing greater purer or more excellent of nature then himselfe and such as could subsist without him But if this doctrine be true as Woolner in his Originall of the soul averreth fleshly man by a fleshly generation or mixture of the seed of both Sexes doth beget or conceive something greater purer and more excellent then himselfe an immortall substance an Angelicall entitie the Soule that can subsist without the flesh by which it is which is as fire k 34. Abs without light earth without heavinesse grosnesse c. should be by which they are and further the Effect to be prior dignitate precedent to the Cause as if a man l 35. Abs because a creature should be before his Creator But if it be Replyed that the soule is generated by the soule as the body by the body I Answer then there must be m 36. Abs He soules and She soules for without Sexes is no generation But now to the first sort who say it is by infusion or as the saying is Creando infunditur infundendo creatur To which I Answer that in conception there is corruption or marring according to the proverb corruptio unius est generatio alterius so that if it be by conceiving or creating infused and by infusion concepted or created that is as much to say it is n 37 Abs made in the marring and mard in the making or infused in the marring and mard in the infusion whence followeth that it is neither conceived created nor infused neither made nor mard but must be if it be no man knowes what or how o 38 Abs whether an Angel a Beast or a Monster any thing or nothing Riddle me riddle me what 's this a Soule a Soule Creando infunditur infundendo creatur Secondly if the Soule be a creature infused then Christ did not take the whole manhood from the seed of the woman but worse then a bare p 39 Abs brutish body a dead carcase But Christ was made of the seed of the woman according to the flesh Rom. 1. 3. Act. 2. 30. and was as we are sinne excepted Heb. 14. 15. and this our Image he received wholly from the woman Therefore receiving his whole humanitie from her the soule can be no infused creature 3. That which brake the Serpents head was Christs humanity But the seed of the woman brake the Serpents head Ergo. 4. If we consist of soule and body and are not men without both and receive not our soules from him but are daily created Then Adam q 40 Abs is the father of no man 2. Christ cannot be the r 41 Abs Son of man and so no Saviour because thereby his manhood constitutive part even that which should make him man could not be by the seed of the woman 4. So a man Å¿ 42 Abs is as much a father of fleas and lice which receive their matter from him as of his children 5. Whereas God blessed man and bid him as the rest of the creatures in their kind fill the Earth in his kind with men then he commanded him t 43 Abs to doe more then he had given him power for And so to content nature end supply her imbecility to obey is forced to a daily creation 6. Then God finished not the Creation in * Absurd sixe dayes but rested before hee had done creating Fourthly If the soule be infused it must be at the conception or after the conception If at the conception then every v 45 Abs abortive conception hath an immortall spirit in it and must rise againe If after then there is growth before w 46 Abs there is life which is impossible for the soule is made the vegetive as well as the motive sensitive or rationall part and if this