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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

MANS MORTALITIE OR A TREATISE Wherein 't is 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 Actuall 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. That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them all as the one dyeth so dyeth the other yea they have all one breath so that man hath no preheminence above a beast for all is vanity Ecclesiastes 3. 19. AMSTERDAM Printed by John Canne Anno Dom. 1644. To the Reader Judicious Reader THy serious perusall but the scorne and derision of the multitude hereof is my expectation Startle not thou be patient read ponder and Berean like try whether these things be so or no If any thing in it be worth thy owning take it it is thine as well as mine and I have my end thy benefit I wish it well to all but I feare it will be a Parable to most however I have unbosom'd my duty freely as I have received I give it freely to the World it is my faith as I beleeve so have I spoken I expect an Answer if it be such as will not hold tryall it is likely I shall vindicate my selfe but if by force of Argument it shall convince I shall be ready and free thankfully to embrace it and renounce my errour whether it be in part or in whole though in the maine I am nothing jealous had I therein doubted my weaknesse had not been thus visible to the World Whereas in severall places scattered through the Booke the use of the word Soule may seeme to some to imply that which I deny let such know it is for Argument sake not intending in the least any selfe distinct Being by it Thus desiring my endeavours may have a faire and equall tryall by Scripture and sollid Reason I commit thee to the blessing of God in the perusall thereof and rest Thine in the love of the Truth R. O. To his worthy friend the Author upon his Booke THe Hell hatch'd Doctrine of th' immortall Soule Discovered makes the hungry Furies houle And teare their snakey haire with griefe appal'd To see their Errour-leading Doctrine quail'd Hell undermin'd and Purgatory blowne Vp in the aire and all the spirits flowne Pluto undone thus forced for to yeeld The frightned Soules from the Elizian Field And squallid Charon now may leave his Trade To see all Soules made subject to the spade And Cerberus his dismall fate deplore To thinke that he shall scare the Soules no more But joy'd at this Minerva she doth run T' imbrace her Nurse Child great Apollo's Son The Heavens triumph i' th' wane of th' World to see Such light break out on its Posteritie They sue Mnesichole and so doe I To register this Mans Mortalitie N. C. VVOuld you a young Man see for to controule The Antient sure you 'd think he had no soul But God hath promised and still reveales To Babes what he from prudent men conceales Heavens blesse thee Man for bringing that to light Which Envy raked up i' th' dust for spight And may thy Booke be as a passing Bell To dying Man to toll his fatall knell S. R. MANS MORTALITY OR A Treatise proving MAN quatenus Animal rationale a Compound wholly Mortall CHAP. I. Of Mans Creation Fall Restitution and Resurrection how they disprove the Opinion of the Soul imagining the better part of Man immortall And proveth him quatenus homo wholly mortall TO omit tedious introductory Circumstances which are as commonly vselesse as prolix Observe That when God had moulded formed and compleatly proportionated Adam of the Dust of the ground he breathed in his face the breath of Lives * Orig. and Man became a living Soul Gen. 2. 7. That is he gave that life-lesse Body a communicative rationall Faculty or property of life in his kind And so it became a living Creature or compleate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of whom was the Woman both innocent and free from sin and so from Death and mortality For the wages of Sin is Death Rom. 5. 12. 1 Cor. 15. 56. Thus Man was gloriously immortall yet no longer a Creature incorruptible then during innocent For Gen. 2. 17. God said of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill thou shalt not eate of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye that is thy immortality shall be changed for mortality Immortall Adam shall be made mortall not a part of thee but Thou shalt surely dye even whole man without the least exception of any the worst or noblest part of him unlesse God had a mentall reservation but even the same Thou that livest Thou shalt surely dye that must dye wherein was life then surely if he had an immortall Soul which is the life of the body that must be made mortall The result of all which is this That what of Adam was immortall through Innocency was to be mortalized by Transgression But whole Adam quatenus Animal rationale was in Innocency immortall Ergo all and every part even whole Man was lyable to Death by Sin And so consequently if Adam had then such an indefinable thing in him and of him without which he was not Man as is vulgarly supposed but simply maintained by the Church of Rome England c. as an Angelical Spirit that neither could nor can be subject to mortality Then he had that he had not which made him be what he was not he a 1. Absur sinned with that with which he could not which made him Fall b 2. Absur when he did not which Bo-peepe is impossible For if Adam was martalized and That not It was no part of him this they must confesse or else the other followes This being thus cleared and proved from Adams Creation and Innocency let us proceed to his Fall Restitution and Resurrection who eating of the forbidden fruit whose nature was as was supposed by Nemesius the Philosopher to mortalize him as Mala insana are to destroy and reduce rationality to madnesse God fulfilled his threatned Curse upon him saying Gen. 3. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne unto the Ground for out of it wast thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt returne Here he is plainly disrobed of all his immortality he must to Dust without the least mention of any Being