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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45603	The harmless opinion of the revolution of humane souls as a probable hypothesis, and very serviceable to clear many doubts, and answer many objections of atheists against the divine providence, and the Holy Scriptures. Modestly defended in a reply to a late treatise, signed by J.H. printed at Oxford, and called by him, An answer to some queries, proposed by W.C. or a refutation of Helmont's pernicious error, &c.		1694 (1694)	Wing H799A; ESTC R221587	22,402	53

of the Children may or do impregnate the Fathers without Confusion See for this in Gen. 46.26 So may the Souls of the Fathers live in the Children by Impregnation or Revolution without all Confusion as the chief Assertors of the Hypothesis of the Revolutions do hold for thus they understand these words Exod. 20. Visiting the Iniquities of the Fathers upon or in the Children to the third and fourth Generation That is when the Souls of the Fathers live again by Revolution three ●or four several times in the Children they are gently corrected and punished in order to their Melioration or Amendment which is called their Visiting but if they do not Amend they suffer Excision for some long tract of time and have not the benefit of any farther Revolution until that tract of time be expired But if in the third or fourth Revolution they amend and are Meliorated in any degree they may have many Revolutions as the Cabbalists say Even as many they need were it to a Thousand Generations For so they understand these words Shew Mercy to Thousands of them that love me and regard my Commandments so the translation which is said to express the rich and abundant Mercy of God but not that so many shall be needed as Christ adviced the Disciples to forgive not only seven times a Day but seventy seven times And yet none need so many times Forgiveness every Day for it is probable few if any need or have above twelve answering the twelve Hours of the Day How beit I find not that the Ancient Cabbalist Writers limit the number of the Revolutions to twelve that being rather queried than asserted as a probable Circumstance by some private Persons but whether true or false ●oucheth not the substance of the Opinion it self as neither do some other Circumstantial ●hings Query in the two hundred Queries or Historically Narated in the Printed Epistle cited by ●his Author But that he saith The Inquirer ●●th not Argu● from the Murder of Abel that bears equal weight with that of Zacharias but ●his is only the Authors own Conceit but the Argument holds equally good from the Murder of Abel as that of Zacharias nor do his two supposed Reasons he brings ruin the proof for the Souls of all those Jews upon whom the Blood of Abel was charged might have been at that very time in Cain when he murder'd righteous Abel and might have been consenting to that Act of murder in Cain as according to the Doctrine of the Cabbalists concerning Pre-existence we all Sinned in Adam being in him when he Sinned and concenting to his Sin And it is but a weak and trifling Objection that some make against this that so many Souls could not be contained in Adam for Souls being Spirits and in corporeal Beings do not justle for room as Bodies do There were seven unclean Spirits in Mary Magdalen and a Legion of unclean Spirits the Legion containing 6000 and more in one Man But if Spirits did justle for rooms as Bodies do so many could not have been in them His second supposed Reason proceeds from his own Ignorance or in Advertency and not from the Letter cited by him for though the Letter and Book of the two hundred Queries allow to every Man if need be and that they are not perfectly converted and restored sooner a Thousand Years to live in the Body yet they allow four Thousand Years for the whole time from the first to last as suppose the Intervals of time that Souls are diflodged from all Humane Bodies until they return to live in Bodies together with that time they live in Bodies till all their Revolutions be finished making up the space of four Thousand Years See for this in the Book of the two Hunred Queries Query 27 28 61. all which expeesly mention four Thousand Years His flourish by his envying against the favorers of this innocent Hypothesis grounded only on his Mistakes and inadvertency I let pass without any other Answer on this Head In his Answer to the fifth Query from Ezek. 16.25 He is grosly mistaken as if these words did imply an exalted manner of denying that ever Jerusalem to wit the Stone or Timber or Houses but the People shall return to her former estate for the following words in ver 60 61 62 63. do plainly intimate that she to wit the People shall return and God will Mercifully remember his Covenant with them and shall have this good Effect on them that they shall remember their ways and shall be ashamed when she shall receive her two Sisters Sodom and Samaria so that the words are no denial but a positive promise to Jerusalem and the other two viz. Sodom and Samaria His Reasons against this are not worth answering as if by Cities were to be meant not the People but the Houses of Stone and Timber whereas it is plain the People only is to be understood and not the Houses with their Materials or as if all returns were made within a Thousand Years according to the Hypothes●● of the Revolutions but that is showed above to be his mistake the whole Interval being four Thousand Years And his third Reason is very weak and idle like the former for tho●● all the Citizens of Sodom were destroyed and had no posterity of their own to revolve in the● might revolve in others having nearest Affinity or Relation to them that did remain of othe● Cites In his Answer to Query six from Psal 90. ●● Thou turnest Man to De●●ruction and sayest Return ye Children of Men. He alledgeth this Return is at the general Resurrection but the following words correct his mistake that have a necessary reference to them for a Thousand Years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a Watch in the Night which Peter i● his ● Epist 3.8 expounds as holding fort Gods long Suffering towards Men in general giving them four Thousand Years space from first to last in order to repent and amend which is but as four Days or as four Watches o●● Night therefore this Return of Men seemed not to be understood of the general Resurrection but of the Revolutions of the Souls of Men and the like may be said in answer to what he saith from that other place in Eccles 1.4 Generation goeth and Generation cometh Which must needs have another sence than what we say Year cometh and Year goeth because of the Similitudes and Examples that Solomon bringeth from the Sun the Winds and the Rivers for the same Year goeth away cometh not again but the same Sun that goeth down riseth again and the same Wind that goeth to the South returneth to the North and the same Rivers that come from the Sea return to the Sea Therefore the same Generation of Men in Solomon's time that went off did afterwards return again until they finish their Circuit excepting such particulars as were made perfect and so need no Revolution And here he anticipates that