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A53583	Man wholly mortal, or, A treatise wherein 'tis proved, both theologically and philosophically, that as whole man sinned, so whole man died ... with doubts and objections answered and resolved, both by Scripture and reason ... : also, divers other mysteries, as of heaven, hell, the extent of the resurrection, the new-creation, &c. opened, and presented to the trial of better judgment. / by R.O.; Mans mortallitie	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.; Overton, Robert, ca. 1609-ca. 1668.	1675 (1675)	Wing O629C; Wing O640_CANCELLED; ESTC R11918	46,615	138

the Dictates of Nature and Reason let us repair to the unerring rule of the Scriptures to see how this mortality is either proved or disproved thereby And first we may consider that the Scripture saith that when God had molded formed and compleatly proportionated Adam of the dust of the ground he breathed in his face the breath of life and man became a living Soul Gen. 2.7 Here first we are to consider that we are not to speak of Man as the title or word man may be ascribed to the humane shape or carcasse as in this place it seemeth it is by way of distinction from other forms but of such an humane shape or carcasse as is a living soul and so alwayes when we speak or treat of man in this point of difference we are not to mean his carcase in humane form or shape onely but as he is a rational living soul in that form and so call'd man for the text ascribeth the title of Man to him both before and after the breathing in his face the breath of life and man became a living Soul therefore that living Soul was Man That which was formed or made of the earth became a living soul or creature by the breathing or communicating the breath of life a communicative rational Faculty or property of life in his kinde That liveless Lumpe became a living soul and not such a living soul another creature a distinct being of it self was infused into that formed matter that had its Being before that Infusion and can be when the body ceaseth as is vulgarly supposed That which was breathed before it was breathed was not a living soul but that which was breathed upon became the living soul no living soul was ascribed to man before that so that man was formed and man became a living soul as Paul saith 1 Cor. 15.45 The first man Adam was made a living Soul which was his natural body as vers 44. of whom was the woman both innocent free from sin and so from Death and mortality For the wages of Sin is Death Romans 6.23 therefore before sin there could be no death but as by one man sin entered into the world even so death by sin Rom. 5.12 and by the offence of one man Judgement came upon all men unto death vers 18. and 1 Cor. 15.21 by man came death therefore man was created free from the power of death so to continue but in the day he did eat the forbidden fruit he became mortal and as he was made a living soul 1 Cor. 15.45 so by transgression a dying soul Gen. 2.17 that is in dying to die or by becomming mortal be dissolved or return to what he was the dust Gen. 3.19 namely his Elements Thus Man was gloriously immortal yet no longer a Creature incorruptible then during innocent For Gen. 2.17 God said Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye or dying thou shalt die that is thy immortality shall be changed for mortality Immortal Adam shall be made mortal not apart of thee but Thou shalt surely dye even whole man without the least exception of any the worst or noblest part of him unless God had a mental reservation but even the same Thou that livest Thou shalt surely die that must die wherein was life then surely if he had an immortal Soul which is the life of the body that must be made mortal The result of all which is this That what of Adam was immortal through Innocency was to be mortalized by Transgression But whole Adam quatenus Animal rationale was in Innocency immortal 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 of him without which he was not Man as is vulgarly supposed and zealously meintained 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 sinned with that with which he could not which made him fall when he did not for if Adam sinned and that not it was no part of him so that Adam was a living Soul when he was not And if Adam sinned with that which he had not he sinned with that with which he could not which made him fall when he did not which Bo-peepe in impossible For if Adam was mortalized and That not It was no part of him this they must confess or else the otheer follows Now whereas many from the expression of God's breathing into man the breath of life and he became a living soul conceive an Angelical Entitie a supernatural spiritual infinite Existence to be couched in the flesh or mens corpulency whose being doth not depend on it but is proper and peculiar to it self let such know that so weake is the ground from whence it is concepted that by the same reason the like may be said of fish birds and beasts for the breath of life and a living soul is ascribed to them as well as to man Gen. 7.21 to which read the margent in R. Jatran compared with vers 28. and vers 30. And to every beast of the earth and to every Foul of the Aire and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is a living soul see the margent 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 God fulfilled his threatned Curse upon him saying Gen. 3.19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou return unto the Ground for out of it wast thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return Here he is plainly disrobed of all his immortality he must to Dust without the least mention of any being thereafter either of part or whole till the Resurrection for then and not before Mans immortality is in Actual 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 praise not the Lord neither they that goe downe 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 Christ the second man Adam who is made a quicking Spirit 1 Cor. 15.45 at the Resurrection restoreth this non-ented Entitie to an everlasting Being 1 Cor. 5.42 It is sowne in corruption it is raised in incorruption Thus Mortality is derivated to all Adams posteritie The first man quatenus homo is of the Earth earthly as is the earthly such are they that are earthly 1 Cor. 15.47 48. But the Earth of which Man is is corruptable and

perfect at the first instant as ever afterwards therefore it must be saved or damned if there be any for others but no man knows how or which way except it can be proved Christ dyed for bare souls souls without bodies which will puzzle the cunningest soul that ever was made in the marring and mar'd in the making Further it is objected Creatures propagated out of kinde as by buggery as Apes Satyres c. are supposed are not endowed with reasonable souls Ergo souls are created immediately or however of necessity Gods superficient power is joyned to the propagation thereof Answ As I will not altogether confidently affirm they have rational souls so will I not altogether deny it For in man it is some organical deficiency more or less that is the cause that some men are less rational then others for some have abundance of wisedome and some are meer fools and in children whose Organs are not come to perfection there is not so much as there is in an Ape This premised why in some measure as far as by those improper Organs can be expressed may they not be rational though not in the same degree as is capable of God as well as Infants who are as uncapable pro tempore as Apes But perchance it will be replyed that then Christ dyed for Apes as well as for Infants I answer Christ dyed not for the rational part separated from the material nor the material from the rational if there should be such Buggery-births or if by that unnatural course they should meet in one which is impossible for the blessing of procreating any thing in its kinde is to the kinde for that neither but for the natural production by the conjunction of both Sexes legitimate from Adam and not such unnatural by-blowes As for births out of kinde they come within the compass of the Curse and cannot any wayes claime priviledge in the Restoration but must expect with Thornes Briers and all manner of Vermine and Filth which breedeth on corruption to be done away when mortality is swallowed up of life For all other Creatures as well as man shall be raised and delivered from Death at the Resurrection my Reasons and grounds for it be these First that otherwise the curse in Adam would extend further then the blessing in Christ contrary to the Scriptures For as in Adam all dye even so in Christ shall all be made alive 1 Cor. 15.22 For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.23 Therefore Death coming upon all the Creatures by the sin of Adam no death being before sin life shall come upon all by Christ Secondly the Beasts were not given man to eat in the Innocency but to all flesh wherein was the breath of life was given the green herbe for meat Therefore the death of the Beasts c. was part of the Curse and so to be done away by Christ Thirdly If the other Creatures do not rise again then Christ shall not conquer death but when it is said O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory it will be answered In Beasts because they are still captivated under its bondage But as by one man death entered into the world Rom. 5.12 and by man came Death by man shall come resurrection from Death and the last Enemy that shall be destroyed is Death and Death shall be swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15.21 54. Therefore Death shall not retain them but they must be delivered out of its Jawes Fourthly these ensuing Scriptures do clearly prove it Col. 1.15 to the 23. All things were created by him and for him whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven and be not removed away from the hope of the Gospel which yee have heard and which was preached to every Creature under Heaven And Mar. 16.15 Go yee into all the World and preach the Gospel to every Creature that is Glad Tydings life and Resurrection from the bondage of corruption to every Creature by Christ therefore is he said to be the First-born of every Creature the First that 's born or raised from the Dead so that those whereof he is the First must follow that is every creature else could he not be the First-born from the Dead of them all And Rev. 21.5 after the dissolution of all things he saith Behold I make all things New And Psal 104. David reckoning up Men Cattel c. saith Thou takest away their breath and they die thou sendest forth thy spirit and renewest the face of the Earth and Psal 102. speaking of the Heavens saith as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed and Isaiah saith in the New Earth the Wolfe and the Lambe shall feed together and the Lion shall eate straw like a Bullocke and Paul saith Rom. 8.19 20 21. The earnest expectation of the Creature waiteth for the manifectation of the sons of God For the Creature was made subject to vanitie not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope because the Creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God for we know that the whole Creation groaneth and traveleth in pain till now Therefore the Gospel or Glad Tydings is unto all all are under hope and all things men beasts c. shall be made new or restored at the Resurrection and so Death shall be swallowed up in victory and mortality of life or Death having given up her dead shall be cast into the Lake Rev. 20.13 15. Thus much by the by Now to our matter in hand But be it granted that those births are not endowed with reasonable souls yet doth it not follow that God createth immediately the soul or immediately assisteth nature in it's production more then the body for this is an instance out of kind● therefore cannot expect the blessing of the kinde but be as it self is unnatural and cursed for to the kinde is required Sexes of the kinde thereto God hath given the blessing to beget its kinde as well for man to beget perfect man as for the beasts to beget perfect beasts so that whatsoever is born of man naturally is man though one be ennobled with more excellencys then another A born Fool would have been a better instance for if to them rational Souls were denyed it might be thought Nature naturally begetteth meer irrational brutish inhumane bodies and rationality or humanity is a meer supernatural worke To prevent such a cavil I answer that by the Soularies grounds there can be no born fooles Infants new born yea an Embryo should be as actually rational as men of ripeness of years for they say the soul is rationality it self and that rationality is no more of the body then inke is of the pen and the soul is absolutely perfect at the first instant yea 't is forma

shall be burnt up with fire 2 Pet. 3.10 Therefore whole Man is corruptable 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 part must be redeemed and not the whole man for no more of man then fell was redeemed and if the body onely fell and his formal part his soul continued immortal then that part of man his body onely was purchased not his constitutive or better part his Soul So that the bodies onely 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 compleat Col. 2.10 Therefore in Adam totally fallen Further If Adams fall was not a compleat change of his whole manhood from immortality to absolute mortality of the whole then in the day that he did eate the forbidden Fruit he did not surely die for He implyes his Man-hood and my very Opposites confess the Soul the very Essence and Being of Man-hood 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 eate as did not die That Day And if nothing dyed that is became mortal but his Body then that dyed 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 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 maintain And thus it must needs follow that this death threatned was a meer Scar-crow even nothing at all for He that is his constitutive part his Soul continued immortal and unchanged and used his body instrumentally as it did before the Transgression And if it be answered It became sinful and subject to sin and so of final 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 possibilty of sinning being producted into Actual sin the Soul must have its wages Actual mortality Further if the Souls Death be onely that of Hell so then principal or efficient cause deepest in the Transgression was less punished then the instrument 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 beat a mans brains out with it and so the Soul suffer the last death and scape the first which is as preposterous as if this Death 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 unbeliefe in Christ as Salvation is of Beliefe So that none can be condemned into Hell but such as are actually guilty of refusing 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 If the Soul as they say be the very life or have all life in it self and the body but its instrument then the body now hath no more life in it then when it is reduced to the earth but is as dead as a dore-naile And so at the Resurrection cannot be raised from death for that which never had life cannot be raised from death and the union of it to the Soul at the Resurrection they Fabulate on is but an addition of corpulency or gross matter to the Soul which in truth is no Resurrection at all from the dead no more then the restoration of flesh lost by Famine sickness c. For Resurrection from the death is not the addition of gross matter to life but the Restoration of life from death So that the restitution of lost flesh now to the soul is in quality as much a Resurrection from the dead as the addition of the whole body to the soul at the Last day which is to say with the Sadduces there is no Resurrection from the dead But the Soularies I know are loth to be branded for Sadduces which how they will avoid I cannot see for if the soul live separated from the body the body cannot be raised from the dead except the body had a life of its own differing from that of the soul and so a man must have two lives as they say a Cat hath nine the one mortal the other immortal and at the Resurrection have two immortalities If the soul be of a distinct being from the body and sinned as the body and thereby incurred the condemnation of Hell then must the soul have a particular redemption from thence as the body from the grave or else it must perish there for ever And if Christ redeemed us from thence then he must suffer the same eternal Torments that is the worme of conscience despaire everlasting chains of darkness c. But those he never suffered as witnesseth Doctor Ames to Bellarmine Ergo. If you urge that in his agony and sweating of blood he suffered equally with the Torments and therefore might be said to suffer eternal toments though he was never personally in hell then may we as well say that by his agony c. he suffered paine equivalent to death and therefore might be said to have suffered the death of the grave though personally he had never been in the grave for there is a greater equivalency betwixt those sufferings and the grave then betwixt his sweating of blood and the torments of the damned Spirits in hell CHAP. III. Scriptures to prove this Mortality JOb 3.12 13 16. Why did the knees prevent me or why the breasts that I should sucke for now I should have lien still and been quiet I should have s●ept then had I been at rest Or as a hidden untimely birth marke I had not been as an Infant that never saw light Job 4.19 21. How much less on them that dwell in Houses of clay whose Foundation is in the Dust which are crushed before the moth Doth not their excellency which is in them goe away they die even without Wisedome

from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life c. and to these adde 1 Cor. 15.29 Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all Why are they baptized for the dead These places joyntly holding forth the external Ordinance of Baptism or signe of the new Covenant which carieth the full representation of the whole worke of Redemption or perfect figuration of the new Covenant do manifestly set forth this Mortality for the death burial resurrection of Jesus Christ cannot in the external ordinance of bap●isme be represented as those places ●old forth it doth but by baptizing that is dipping or submerging the whole man into the water the evidence that whole man shall die and whole man be raised again by the total death and total Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 11.26 For as often as ye eat this bread and drinke this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come The bread and wine signifying his Body and blood as a sign of his death shew plainly that his death was total which could not be if his life shrunk into his soul and still lived But from hence is plain that not onely body but life it self was offered and dyed for Lev. 17.24 The life of all flesh is the blood thereof compare Gen. 2.4 5. But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall you not eat and surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast will I require and at the hand of man c. will I require the life of man whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed To these adde 2 Sam. 1.16.8.27 28. and 16.8 Mat. 23.30 35. with various such-like places all which plainly shew the life of all flesh as well of man as of beast is in the blood else Christs death by the representation of his blood could not be set forth nor could any by the effusion thereof die but his Soul blood or life was poured out unto death therefore his death was not in part but of the whole man Psal 89.48 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Acts 1.13 He seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in hell neither did his flesh see corruption Eccl. 4.1 2 3. doth shew that the living do suffer oppression but to the dead is none and chap. 9.4 5. they know not any thing For a living dog is better then a dead Lion Therefore Psal 146.2 David saith I will sing praises unto my God while I have any Being implying that in death there is no humane being James 4.14 Our life is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Rev. 16.3 Every living soul in the sea died chap 20.4 5. dead souls lived again CHAP. IV. Objections extorted from Scripture Answered OBject 1. Therefore we are alway confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord we are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 8. Whence is inferred a present injoyment of Glory immediately after death I Answer that both the foregoing and subsequent matter deny such an Interpretation or consequence for before wishing to be clothed with our House from Heaven on which is this expression of being present with the Lord he expounds that his meaning is thereby that mortality might be swallowed up of life or as he saith 1 Cor. 15.53 that this corruptable man might put on incorruption and this mortal put on immortalty And the following matter of the said words being laid down as the reason or ground why he so spake prove that by his presence with the Lord he meant nothing else but his state after the Resurrection for saith he We must all appear before the iudgment-seat of Christ that every one c vers 1. Object 2. For I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is much needful for you Phil. 1.23 14. I answer This is of the same nature therefore must have the same Interpretation for Paul did not preach one thing to the Philippians and the contrary to the Corinthians Besides such manner of expressions are not contradictory to this mortalitie for though there be long time to the Living till the Resurrection there is none to the Dead for from Adams death to his Resurrection at the end of the World will be to him as the twinkling of an eye to the Living yea the twinkling of an eye to the living is more time then a thousand yea ten thousand yeares is to the dead For Being onely commensurates with Time or length of days not to Be cannot possibly be capable thereof So that the Livings tedious anniversary expectation of the Resurrection and end of their faith is not a twinkling to the grave the livings Future is the deads Present Therefore it is well figurated in Scripture by sleepe as slept with his Fathers 1 Kings 11.43 fallen asleepe in Christ 1 Cor. 15.18 c. not that it is so long a time to the dead but that in nature there is nothing so represents death or non-being as sleepe So that this may take away all carnal security for who would not watch and pray over-night that knows he must dye in the morning live well and be wary to day that must rise and answer to morrow believe to day that would not be damned but saved to morrow This administers comfort to the righteous but terrour to the wicked Therefore Christ speakeing of his coming to Judgment saith I come quickly my reward is with me to let all men know that in death there is no delay their reward is present he will not stay an instant And further to confirm it saith again Surely I come quickely Amen even so come Lord Jesus Object 3. Thou fool this night shall thy soul be required of thee Luke 12.20 Answ The life of the whole person and not such as is fancied of the soul except it had a mouth to eate drinke c. as vers 9. Object 4. And it came to pass as her soul was in departing Gen. 35.18 Ergo there is such a thing as the Soul which continueth it's Being after death Answ No such matter for the sence of words is as she was dying or life a departing for the following words say she dyed which could not be if her soul her constitutive part lived still no more then a man can be said to lose his hand when he loses a finger Object 5. And he stretched himself upon the Child three times and cried unto the Lord and said O Lord my God pray thee let this