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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49843	Observations upon a sermon intituled, A confutation of atheism from the faculties of the soul, alias̀, Matter and motion cannot think preached April 4, 1692 : by way of refutation.	Layton, Henry, 1622-1705.	1692 (1692)	Wing L756; ESTC R39115	14,582	19

World daily communicates for supplying the daily Decays of them I conceive Matter thus constituted impregnated irrigated and enlivened may by Divine Power be made cogitative That the Insects work according to Rules of Art and Science I know none who can observe them and deny it that Brutes have their Senses Affections Passions Appetites and Motions all Men do grant but the most blind and wilful among the Cartesians also that they have Phansie Memory and Perceivances acted in and by their Brains and Dr. Willis dict lib. p. 59. says in Hominibus Brutis eadem prorsus est conformatio organorum animalium And the Evidences that Cogitation and all other rational Acts in Men depend upon the Brain and are performed in it and by it seem to me so clear and undeniable as that joined to the rest it may pass for a strong Proof that the Brain of Man is cogitative Matter or very like it And as to his phrasing it that Omnipotence it self cannot make cogitative Body there may be applied a Saying of Dr. Willis p. 5. such Men it seems do think quod Deus nihil amplius fabricare valeat quam quod homo possit concipere aut effingere Well but our Preacher says this cannot be done because of the Incapacity of the Subject to this I answer that Aaron's Rod laid upon the Tabernacle was dry Wood and seemed to be under an incapacity of bearing Fruit and yet in the morning by Divine Power it had budded and brought forth Blossoms and yielded Almonds the Red Sea stood like Walls and Jordan staid its Waters from running downwards the Chaldean Fire forbore to burn God's Servants or so much as to singe their Cloths all which are Acts beyond the natural Capacities of the Agents of them and so was the multiplying of the Loaves and Fishes under the Gospel and what will our Preacher say to Matth. 19.24 Hath a Camel the Capacity of going through the Eye of a needle Christ says with Men this is impossible but not with God for with him all things are possible whence it seems possible with him to make cogitative Body notwithstanding our Preachers assurance to the contrary That the cogitative Power very much depends upon the good Disposition Soundness and Temperament of the Brain is a thing so well known as it seems to need very little confirmation David Psal 146.3 says When the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish the new Translation reads Mans breath goeth forth he returns to his earth and that very day his thoughts perish The perishing of his Thoughts may be expounded his Intentions or Designs but more literally and fully it seems to intend the Man's power and faculty of Thinking for the Man dead can think no more But what is it that dies our Preacher will deny that his Soul dies and yet by Death the Man's Faculty of Thinking is certainly destroyed viz. by Death of the Body and the Parts and Organs of it ergo the Body or some Organs of it are materia cogitativa And the same may be further proved ex principiis for during Childhood and whilst the cogitative Parts and Organs are immature we think like Children but grown to maturity we put away childish Thoughts or modes of Thinking and yet then if the Brain happen to be clouded with Fumes from the Spleen or other Distempers or even by those from Wine or Strong-drink the Man cannot think orderly or rationally and in phrenetick Distempers Mens Thoughts rave and rove without Order or any Coherence or Connexion at all in Diseases where the Head is stupified as Apoplexies the Man becomes temporally incapable of any Thoughts at all From all which I collect that the Particles of Blood inflamed ascending from the Heart unto the Head are there further rarified and made lucid irradiating the Brain and the Ventricles thereof and that to these Spirits and Organs God hath imparted a discerning Faculty or Power and that when these Organs are sound and perfect and the flaming Particles clear bright and lucid they work to a perfection of degrees in the Minds Reason and Thoughts of Men unto which God adds when he pleases afflatum divini numinis and that accumulates an excellency of Perfection to Man and in him of thinking inventing and discerning P. 31. Our Preacher says he hath sufficiently shewn that Sense and Perception can never be the product of any kind of Matter or Motion And if this be true let our Readers make themselves the Judges Well but says he if this cannot be corporeal it must come from an incorporeal Substance within us If he will take a material Spirit for an incorporeal Substance we are agreed but if he will have this incorporeal Substance to be an immaterial intelligent angelical Spirit I answer he hath not proved the necessity of its being so nor that the thing is so nay here he confesses we cannot conceive the manner of our Souls Action and Passion nor what hold it can lay on the Body when it voluntarily moves it this is what we cannot conceive of such a Soul But I desire him to tell us what he doth conceive or know concerning such a Soul that he will evince to Reason quod sit quid sit unde oritur quando ingreditur ubi residet quomodo operatur an separatim subsistit quo avolat deficiente corpore If he can teach scientifically concerning these Points his word will be better taken in many other things and yet even then I could hardly credit his next Assertion viz. tho we cannot conceive the Soul nor its Actings yet we are as certain of them as of any Mathematical Truth whatsoever which I both can conceive and may be easily demonstrated to me The Truth and Reasonableness of this Assertion shall be left to those who are at leisure to consider of them P. 32. He confesses his Ignorance in causes of Mens Pleasure Pain Sleep Activity he says this Knowledge exceeds Man's narrow Faculties and is out of the reach of our Discovery he discerns excellent Final Causes of the vital Conjunction of Body and Soul but the Instrumental he knows not nor how they are united or tied together he resolves all into God's good Pleasure but he shews us no Evidence that it is or ever was his Pleasure to inform Mankind by an Immaterial Intelligent Spirit which is capable of living in a State of Separation from the Body And if Corporeal Powers be confessedly too hard for him it may seem strange he should attempt upon the Disquisition concerning the Being and Operations of an Immaterial Soul in Man without so much as offering to make any positive proof of the Thing from the Grounds either of Reason or Scripture I am not able to credit his bare Word for it nor his negative proof that it must be so because he thinks it cannot be otherwise These persuasions seem of small force with those who think the