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cause_n	action_n	body_n	soul_n	1,426	5	5.4689	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25812	Aristoteles Master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof ...; Aristotle's Masterpiece.		1684 (1684)	Wing A3689; ESTC R4283	73,397	190

force of the Seed perform the work by degrees distinguishing the parts and rendering the form perfect Now as the life of every other Creature as it is testified in the 17 Chapter of Levitie is is in the Blood so the life of Man consisteth in the Soul the which although subject to passion by reason of the gross composture of the Body in which it has a temporary confinement yet it is immortal and cannot in it self corrupt or suffer change it being a spark of the divine mind and a blast of Almighty Breath that distinguishes Man from other Creatures and renders him immortal and that every man has a peculiar Soul it plainly appears by the vast difference between the Wit Judgment Opinion Manners Affections c. in men And this David observes when he says God hath in particular fashioned the Heart and Minds of all Men and has given to every one it s own Being and a Soul of its own Nature Hence Solomon rejoyced that God had given him a happy Soul and a Body agreeable and suitable to it It has caused many Disputes amongst the Learned especially Philosopers in what part of the Body the Soul chuseth to reside and some have given their opinion that its resident is in the middle of the Heart and from thence communicates it self to every part which Solomon in the Fourth of his Proverbs seems to assert when he says Keep thy Heart with all thy diligence because Life proceedeth therefrom but many curious Physicians scarching the Works of Nature in Man's Anatomy c. do give it as their Opinion that its chief Seat is in the Brain from whence proceed the Senses Faculties and Actions diffusing the operations of the Soul through all parts of the Body whereby it is enlivened with heat and force but it doth communicate particular force to be Heart by Arteries Catotides or sleepy Arteries that part upon the Throat the which if they happen to be broke or cut cause Barrenness and if stopped they become Apoplectick for there must necessarily be some ways through which the Spirits animal and vital may have intercourse and convey native heat from the Soul For although the Soul is said to reside in one place it operates in every part exercising every Member which are the Souls Instruments by which she manifesteth her pow'r but if it so happen that any of the Organical parts are out of Tune the Work is confuied as it may appear in the case of Idiots Madmen c. Though in some of them the Soul by forcibly working recovers her supernatural vigor they become right after a long dispondency of mind and in some it is lost in this life For as fire under ashes nor the Sun obscured from our sight by thick Clouds afford not their full lustre so the soul overwhelmed in moist or faulty matter is darkned and Reason thereby overclouded and although reason shines less in Children than in those that are arrived to maturity yet no man must imagine that the Soul is an Infant and grows up with the Child for then would it again decay but it suits it self to the weakness of Nature and the imbecility of Body wherein it is placed that it may the better operate And as the Body is more and more capable of receiving its influence so it shews it self in its prper lustre having its force and indowments at the time it enters the formed Child in the Womb for the Substance of it can receive nothing less And thus much to prove that the Soul comes not from the Parents Seed but is infused by God and the next thing now to be handled is its Immortality and thereby I shall demonstrate the certainty of the Resurrection That the Soul of Man is a divine Ray infused by God I have already made apparent and now come to shew you that whatever immediately proceeds from him must participate of his Nature and from thence consequently be as Immortal as it 's Original for although all other Creatures are indued with life and motion yet wnat they a reasonable Soul and from thence 't is concluded their life is in their Blood and that being corruptible they perish and after their expiring are no more But Man being endued with a reasonable Soul and stamped with the divine Image is of a different nature and tho' his Body be corruptible yet his Soul cannot perish but must when it is expunged its earthly Tabernacle return to God that gave it either to receive reward or punishment now that the body can sin of it self is impossible because wanting the Soul it cannot act nor proceed to any thing either good or evil for could it do so additional sins might be accumulated even in the Grave but 't is plain that after death there is a cessation for as Death leaves us so judgment finds us And St. John in the fifth Chapter of his Gospel tells us That the hour shall come that all that are in their Graves shall hear his Voice and they that have done well shall come forth to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of Condemnation And Holy Job in the fourteenth and nineteenth Chapter speaking to the same purposes says For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth And though after my Skin Worms destroy my body yet in my Flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine Eyes shall behold and not another though my Reins be consumed within me By this 't is plainly proved that the Soul is made of immortal Essence incapable of death having a place assigned it after its separation from the Body till the day of the general Resurrection not in the Grave but in a Mansion prepared by the Almighty for its Reception and that through the mighty working of him that is able to subdue all things to himself it shall again enter the same Body that was laid down tho' the dust thereof be scattered to the four Winds of Heaven nay such force and vigour shall it have that it shall as it were take up the Body for Job positively says I shall rise out of the Earth at the last day c. Which being applicable to the future Tense may be meant two ways I shall or will rise for plainly foreseeing the Resurrection he claimed it as the promise of his Creator Nay so far were the Heathens by the light of Nature from doubting the immortality of the Soul that Plato in his Phaedro thus reasons viz. What consists not of Elements saith he is immortal and can neve dye The Soul is not made of Elements nor of created matter but came from God and therefore it cannot dye c. Then may it be without difficulty granted that the body which has been a long Companion of the Souls will once again enjoy it never more to be separated for the Body at the Resurrection shall be incorruptible

strange Diseases as appears by young Widows and Virgins A second reason may be urged that although the society of a lawful Bed consist not altogether in these things yet it is apparent that the Female Sex is not better won and appear more blith and jocund than when they are often satisfied this way which is an inducement to believe that they have greater pleasure and reccive more content than a man for since by Nature much delight accompanies the ejection of the Seed by breaking forth of the swelling Spirit and the stiffness of the Nerves in which case the operation of the Womans part is double she suffering both ways even by ejection and reception whereby she is more recreated and delighted in the Venereal Act. Hence it is that the Child more frequently resembles the Mother than the Father because the Mother confers the most towards its Generation and further it may be instanced from the great love they bear them for besides their contributing Seminal matter they during the time they are in the Womb feed and nourish the Child with the purest Fountain of Blood which Opinion Galen confirms by allowing the Child to participate more of the Mother than the Father and refers the difference of the Sex to the influence of menstrual Blood but the reason of the likeness he attributes to the force of the Seed for as Plants receive more from fruitful ground than from the industry of the Husbandman so the Infant in more abundance receives from the Mother than the Father for first the Seed of both is heaped and fostered in the Womb and there grows to perfection being nourished with blood And hence it is that Children for the most part affect their Mothers best for it proceeds from the nearness of nature by a natural instinct because the Mothers forces were most imployed about ' em for nine months and sometimes ten she nourisheth the Child with her purest Blood then her love towards it newly born and the likelyness do clearly demonstrate that the Woman affordeth Seed and that Women do contribute more towards making the Child than Men. And thus much for the clearing of this point also and now to the third thing proposed viz. Whence grows the kind and whether the Man or the Woman is the cause of the Male or Female Insant The primal cause as is justly due in this and all other causes we must ascribe to God the Ruler and Disposer of all things yet many things by his high sufferance proceed in regular order by the Rules of Nature and are carried by their inbred motion according to their usual and natural Course without variation tho' indeed by favour from on high Sarah conceived Isaac Hanna Samuel and Elizabeth John the Baptist but these were to fulfil the Almighties Decree nor since those times have the Prayers of the righteous been unsuccessful in obtaining Children but passing over such Supernatural and Extraordinary causes that have their peculiar effects I shall proceed to speak of things natural and common and how Nature worketh by her inbred Forces for she prepares a Body fit for the reception of the Soul of whose Nature I shall hereaster discourse and gives every thing its temper but siuce there are two Principals out of which the Body of Man is made and which render the Child like the Progenitors and to be of one or the other Sex viz. Seed common to both Sex as I have before demonstrated and menstrual Blood proper to the Woman only The Similitude consists in the force of the Male or Female Seed so that it proves like to the one or the other as more or less plenty is afforded by either but the difference of Sex is not referred to the Seed but to the menstrual Blood which is proper to the Woman for were that force altogether retained in the Seed the mans Seed being of a hotter quality than the Womans Male Children would be superabundant none of the other Sex or very rarely would be propagated whereof the kind of the Creature is attributed to the temperament of the active qualities which consist in heat and cold and to the substance or nature of the matter under them that is to the flowing of the menstrual Blood now the Seed affords both force to procreate and form the Child and matter for its Generation also in the menstrual Blood there is both matter and force for as the Seed must helps the material Principles so likewise the menstrual Blood the potential Seed is saith famous Galen Blood well concocted by the Vessels that contain it so that Blood is not only the matter of generating the Child but also Seed in possibility that menstrual Blood has both principles as matter and faculty of effecting Many do allow that the Seed is the strongest efficient the matter of it being very little in quantity but the potential of efficient faculty of it is very feeble wherefore if the material part and principal of Generation according to which the Sex is made were only in the menstrual Blood then would the Children be all or mostly Females as if the efficient force was in the Seed they would be all Males but since both have operation in menstrual Blood Matter predominates in quantity and in the Seed force and verue Deservedly saith samous Galen the Child receives its Sex rather from the Mother than from the Father although his Seed doth contribute something to the material Principles though more weakly But as for similitude although Imagination be of extraordinary force it is referr'd rather to the Father than the Mother as to the quality of the Seed at or for a short time after Copulation but continues not long so to do for the Womans Seed receiving faculty from the menstrual Blood for the space of nine months overpowers the Mans as to that particular because the menstrual Blood flowing into the Vessels rather cherishes and augments the one than the other from which it may be more easily conjectured that the Woman not only affords matter to make the Child but force and vertue to perfect the Conception though the Womans Seed be fit Nutriment for the Mans by reason of the moisture and thinness of it being more fit to frame and make up Conception thereby for as of soft Wax and moist clay the Workman can frame what he intends so the Mans Seed mixing with the Womans as also with the menstrual Blood helps effectually to make the form and perfect part of Man or to give you a better comparison viz. as the Earth is to Plants so is the Womb for Conception for as the seed of every Plant requires the Earth to nourish and increase them so the Seed of Man requires the Womb which is affected with a desire of off-spring for by its moisture and the help of the effluent Blood it doth grow and incorease Hence you may plainly conjecture what curious Art Nature useth in conceiving and framing a Child which by an innate