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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

* Man had died without resur●ection ●ad not Christ redeemed it ●herefore aswel may we say that all shall not rise as that Christ died not for all for if one be needs must the other 1 Cor. 15. 21. 22. thereafter either of part or whole till this Promise of Christ The seed of the woman shall breake the Serpents Head which is not compleated till the Resurrection for then and not before Mans immortality is in Actuall Being whose beatitude and infelicity comes through Faith and infidelity So that Death reduceth this productio Entis ex Non-ente ad Non-entem returnes Man to what he was before he was that is not to Be Psal 115. 47. the Dead prayse not the Lord neither they that go down into silence And Psal 116. 4. His breath goeth forth he returneth to the Earth in that very Day his thoughts perish see more pag. 5. 6. 7. 8. But the Resurrection restoreth this non-ented Entitie to an everlasting Being 1 Cor. 15. 42. It is sowne in corruption it is raised in incorruption Thus Mortality is derivated to all Adams posterity The first Man quatenus homo is of the Earth earthly as is the earthly such are they that are earth 1 Cor. 15. 47. 48. But the Earth of which Man is is corruptible and shall be burnt up with fire 2 Pet. 3. 10. Therefore whole Man is corruptible for as in Adam all dye 1 Cor. 15. 22 even so in Christ shall all be made alive what fell in Adam shall be raised by Christ what was mortalized by the earthly Man shall be immortalized by the Heavenly man wherefore All not a part of Man was mortalized by Adam or else onely the fallen c 3. Absur part must be redeemed and not the whole man for no more of man then fell was redeemed and if the body only fell and his formall part his soul continued immortall then that part of man his body only was purchased not his constitutive or better part his Soul So that the bodies d 4. Abs●… only of the Reprobate according to this fancy shall be damned for nothing of Adam but what fell of Adam can be made lyable to condemnation and what of him stood shall stand as well as the Angels that never fell But in Christ we are compleate Coll. 2. 10. Therefore in Adam totally fallen Further If Adams fall was not a compleat change of his whole man-hood from immortality to absolute mortality of the whole then e 5. Absu●… in the day that he did eate the forbidden Fruit He did not surely dye for He implyes his Manhood and my very Opposites confesse the Soul the very Essence and Being of Manhood and in the Day and surely dye imply Execution as well as Transgression to be then for both have equally relation to the Day In the Day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye so as well may we say he did not eat as did not dye That Day And if nothing dyed that is became mortall but his Body then f 6. Absu● that dyed and his Soul lived that is must be as it was at first before God breathed life into it that is a dead corps and indeed was never other if the Soul were a distinct Being of it self and all life in it self and the Body but an Instrument to it whereby it performeth all motion and action as Nemesius on Mans Nature p. 266. with others maintaine And thus it must needs follow that this Death threatned was a meer g 7. Absur●… Scar-crow even nothing at all for He that is his constitutive part his Soul continued immortall and unchanged and used his body instrumentally as it did before the Transgression and if it be Answered it became sinfull and subject to sin and so of finall Condemnation in Hell at the length I Reply That before he sinned he was subject to sin or else he could not have sinned for quicquid est in actu prius fuit in potentia and if the wages of sin be death then he must be of necessity subject to death the effect as well as sin the cause at the same time And so consequently the Souls possibility of sinning being producted into Actuall sin the Soul must have its wages Actuall mortality Further if the Soules Death be onely that of Hell then the principall or efficient cause deepest in the Transgression was * 8. Absur●… lesse punished then the instrumentall the Body being but the Souls instrument whereby it acts and moves as if a Magistrate should hang the Hatchet and spare the Man that beate a mans braines out with it and so the Soul suffer the last death and scapethe first which is as preposterous as if this Death 9. Absurd should be received before this Life Moreover Condemnation in Hell is not properly but remotely the reward of Adams Fall For properly Condemnation is the wages of* Infidelity or unbeleife in Christ as Salvation is of Beleife So that none can be condemned into Hell Joh. 3. 3. 19. 36. but such as are actually guilty of refusing of Christ because immortality or the Resurrection cannot be by Propagation or Succession as mortality from Adam to his Issue and so the Child though temporally yet shall it not eternally be punished for his Fathers sin but his Condemnation shall be of himself Having thus from the Creation Fall Restitution and Resurrection laid a ground-worke for this mortality let us see how it commensurates with the universality of Scripture and Reason CHAP. II. Scriptures to prove this Mortality JOb 4. 19 21. How much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth doth not their excellencie which is in them goe away they die even without Wisdome Job 14. 1 2. Man that is born of a woman is of few daiies and full of trouble he commeth up like a flower and is cut downe he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not and ver 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. For there is hope of a Tree if it be cut downe that it will sprout againe and that the under-branch thereof will not cease though the root thereof wax old in the ground and the stock thereof drie in the earth Yet through the sent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant But man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he As the waters faile from the sea and the flood decayeth and dryeth up So man lyeth downe and riseth not till the heavens be no more they shall not awake out of their sleep Psal 103. 15. 16. As for man his dayes are as grasse as a flower of the field so he flourisheth for the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more From these two places compared we may see that man not his flesh only for that makes not man but flesh and spirit sensu

immortall spirit be something else then we are not conceived x 47 Abs perfect men and as we are conceived so are we borne y 48 Abs trees brutes or I know not what and afterwards are made men if we be men at all and so z 49 Abs Infants that dye in the wombe or in the birth are little better then trees and worse then beasts Fiftly if the soule be not generated with the body but a creature infused into a dead body for they say the soule is forma formans that giveth life and motion to the body Then it is lawfull to be a * Absurd Nigromancer for Nigromancie is nothing but putting a spirit into a dead body and so it is but an imitation of God and God the onely Nigromancer and a 50. Abs all the men in the world but Nigromantick Apparitions whose spirits when they have done the work for which they were put into the bodies desert them as other conjured Ghosts doe Sixtly It is granted that the body considered meerly sensitive cannot sinne and that the body is but an instrument or as the pen in the hand of a Writer to the Soule whereby it acts and moves Therefore if the Soule come immediately from God or there be an immediate work of his in its production then of necessity that immortall thing and not our mortall flesh is Author of all sinne and it onely prone to all sinne and not the flesh no more then a conduite though a meet instrument to convey water is the author or fount of water or prone to spring And so Gods immediate hand b 51. Abs is the cause of all sin that man had better been without this soul for it must needs be some damnable wicked spirit c 52. Abs or some Devil that God puts in him for such as the fruit is such must the tree be but the fruit is damnably wicked Therefore the Soul must be some damnable wicked thing No marvell then if Reprobates must needs sin and be damned since God infuses such a malignant Soul that councels them with Iobs wife to curse God and dye yea such a one as wholy works out their condemnation This is as if a man should d 53. Abs break his horses legs and then knocke out his brains for halting If it be said the soul comes pure from God and it is the body that corrupteth it I Answer that this to excuse God one way makes him like the tyrant Mezentius that bound living men to dead bodyes till the putrefaction Vir. Aen. Absurd and corruption of the stinking corps had killed them Besides the mind may sin without the Action of the body but not the body without the mind for a man may covet in his mind and not act with his body and yet sin but if he do with his body and not consent with his mind he sinneth not as for example a man may accidentally and ignorantly kill a man by a blow which was never intended or aimed at him and yet he not guilty of murther but if he intend it in his mind though he never do it he is guilty Therefore the body may be made sinfull by the soul but not the soul by the body Now to the other kind who say that this supernaturall work by nature is effected by Gods speciall supernaturall assistance operating or applicated to this naturall aptitude in whose mutuall concurrence this immortall substance is concepted and in conception united to the flesh the whole in the whole and the whole in every part To which I Answer that there is no more speciall supernaturall efficiency from God in mans procreation then in other creatures but that speciall gift or naturall instinct to every kind of creature given in the Creation to produce its kind whether vegetative sensitive or rationall Gen. 1. 25. 1 Cor. 15. 38. for the gift or blessing is all one and the same and alike unto all according to their kinds as appears Gen. 1. 22. God blessed the Fowles and Fish saying Be fruitfull and multiply and fill the waters in the Seas and let the Fowles multiply in the earth And verse 28. the selfe same he speaks of man and woman And God blessed them and said unto them Be fruitfull and replenish the earth and by this blessing or Natures generall instinct equally unto all men and all other creatures continue their multiplications and procreations So that the Fowles Fish c. have as great and speciall assistance as Man in their conceptions and procreations equally mediate and naturall Therefore if by Mans conception an Angelicall immortall Soul is producted so likewise is there the e 54. Abs like in other creatures The result of all which is this that as Fish Birds and Beasts each in their kind procreate their kind without any transcendency of nature So man in his kind begets man corruptible man begets nothing but what is corruptible not halfe mortall halfe immortall halfe Angel halfe man but compleat man totally mortall for through mortall organs immortality cannot be conveyed or therein possibly reside If it be scrupled that this destroyeth the hope of our faith I Answer It doth but remove it from a false principle to a true from a deceitfull fancie to an infallible object the Resurrection For though I ascribe nothing actually to nature but corruption yet potentially I ascribe incorruption as to the kernill of an Apple a Tree may not actually yet potentially be ascribed So I grant that Nature produceth the Seed to which when she hath done her elementary work even all that shee can doe and in all things transient finished her course even from that corrupted seed Christ supernaturally raiseth an incortuptible body 1 Cor. 15. 36. Thou foole that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die it is sowne in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sowne a naturall body it is raised a spirituall body Therefore nothing of Man can be immortall but what first hath seen corruption So that if that which is made the better and most excellent part of Man without which he is NO MAN as is held titled the Soul shall not see corruption it shall not f 55. Abs participate of the immortallity purchased by Christ but must needs perish except there be Ens extra Deum as that strange invented Entitie must needs be and so consequently g 56. Abs NO MAN shall be saved And as before it incur'd this Absurdity that the Soules of the damned shall not perish but stand as well as the Stative Angels So by this the Soules both of the righteous and wicked shall for ever cease and never be immortallized at the Resurrection And thence the denyall both of Resurrection Condemnation and Salvation Heaven and Hell God and Christ h 57. Abs is inavoydable After rusheth in the Epicurean Blasphemy i 58. Abs Let us eat and drinke for