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A44580	An introduction to the Teutonick philosophie being a determination concerning the original of the soul, viz. whether it be immediately created God and infus'd into the body, or transmitted from the parent / by C. Hotham ... at the close of the dispute held in the publique schooles of the University of Cambridge at the Commencement, March 3, 1646 ; Englished by D.F.; Ad philosophiam teutonicam manuductio. English	Hotham, Charles, 1615-1672.; Hotham, Durant, 1617?-1691.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2896; ESTC R11445	21,441	96

Scripture it is evident that God yet attendeth the noble work of creation of Soules as in that place The Soules would faile before me that I have made and that other Who formeth the spirit of man in him with that of Eliphaz The breath of the Almighty enlivened me To these the maintainers of Traduction answer with much ease and satisfaction That all these places argue no other then the fatherly care and providence of Gods intent over man as our Saviour expresses it more then Sparrows his more carefull presidence over the nativities and production of men then beasts and this not over their soul only for which those places are urged but over their bodies also as in the 33. Psalm if the infusiats will grant us but an equall latitude with them of interpreting framing severally one by one the hearts of them the like of which expression is not through out concerning the Soule and that of Job Thou hast powred me out like Milke and crudled me like Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes Now if the mention of Gods immediate workmanship of each particular body hath no force of argument to affirm that they have no relation of a plenary Son-ship to the naturall visible Parent neither doe all those other of the Soule Ob. 3. 4. But there remain Scriptur●s of more and greater force in which God is set forth as the authour and maker of the Soule in a peculiar and distinct manner from the body where he is called the Father of spirits and in Ecclesiastes where the body is said to return to the Earth from whence it came and the spirit to God that gave it Ans ad 3. For the first Scripture if no Gospel had been nor our Saviours dispute with Nicodemus recorded by Holy writ wherein that deep point of Regeneration is opened and the relation of our soul's son-ship to God that Scripture had had some difficulty in it but our second birth is there clearly intended in which sense God is frequenlty called our Father we his Sons a new creature born not of flesh and blood or by mans carnall affection but by the will of God and me thinks that from these very Scriptures wee may elicite no contemptible deduction in favour of the Souls processe from the visible Parent arguing That the subject of generation and regeneration being the same it is true Logick if we say Because regenerate therefore first generated The other place of Ecclesiastes I confess is somthing more stringent and all the knots not easily loosed by the Propounders of it For if the soul be there understood the soules of wicked men shall go thither whence all Scripture hath debarr'd them But it will be said without violence to Scripture that all souls return to God seated in his several thrones of judgment and mercy to Gods love or wrath yet both to God Ans ad 4. What the return of the soul to God is with the manner of it I shall at this present make no curious disquisition But as to the purpose why this place is urged I propose this more genuine interpretation The spirit shall return to him that gave it that is to the first Author of that divine particle of breath inspired to our first Father And that this place relates to the first original of mans soule and not all succeeding that place in Zachary makes it very evident where the efformation of the humane spirit is joined with the coagulation of the earth and expansion of the heavens Thus saith the Lord which stretcheth forth the heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him And in this very sense we are frequently called in Holy Writ dust and ashes and yet from Adam untill this time flesh hath begot flesh Therefore the application must necessarily be either to the ultimate terme of resolution or first matter of our bodies existence There remains one place of Scripture which is the sword and speare of those that defend the continued creation of souls and it is in the 21. of Exod. v. 22. the Septuagint render the place thus If a man smite a woman and the fruit come from her unfashioned the smiter shall onely undergoe such a mulct as the womans husband shall set down but if it come from her formed soule shall be required for soule Hence say they it is evident that the soul comes not into the body till it have forme and fashion befitting such a guest and therefore not transmitted from the Parent but first created and then infused But certainly that argument bears neither weapon of offence nor defence For be the soule either Gods immediate off-spring or issue of an inferiour agent maintain but no actual existence before the completion of at least the vital parts the crime of murder ariseth equally from both opinions Some to fill up the number are pleased further to argue Gods being yet busied in the creation of soules from those words of Christ related by St. John My Father worketh hitherto and I work But to this I must needs answer That these men certainly except they take for granted that God sate idle till he roused himself up to the creation of the world intend only by this reasoning to make the Reader sport yet if any will morosely exact another answer take this further reply extremely well proportioned to the rudenesse of the Argument God doth as yet operate by his cooperating concourse with the creatures according to their severall natures Thus far haue Authorities of Holy Writ been examined one Argument remains thought unexplicable drawn jointly from Philosophy and Divinity by the Patrons of the Soules infusion And this it is Obj. 6. If the soul be a naturall proceed then either from the paternal or maternal seed or both jointly The mothers solely all reject If only the fathers it had been as good man had been alone If both then is the soule a compound divisible mortal besides if either both or the paternal solely from whence shall Christs soul be derived who had no mortal father And then by what rules of the Traduciaries Philosophy shall we call Christ true man But let us retort this argument and so we shall soon finde that it hath more noise then force change but the term of Body for Soule and I shall point the argument as sharp for our own purpose The body of man is either of paternal or maternal seed or of both none entitles the Mother solely if onely the Father or or both whence was Christs body who had no humane Father or how is he truly man So the infusiasts must either leave this argument or let the Body also partake in their high priviledge of immediate creation But as to those things which concern the Person of Christ the Scripture poseth mankinde with an explanation of his generation His Birth Life and Death being a successive miracle A God born a

man not begotten a Virgin-Mother the God of Life himself suffering death These are horrid spectres to humane reason and silences that god of mankinde amongst the rest of the Heathen Oracles All which considered though they are a sufficient confutation of the last recited argument and exempt his birth from the Laws of inferiour creatures yet to make the busines more perspicuous I shall propose these three things First Though we determine that all Soules have a naturall production yet we may without any inconsistence exempt the first and second Adam nor let any man wonder that we here slip the cover from Prince Arthur's Shield since Gigantick instances are introduced to over-rule the ordinary measures and proportions of the propagation of man-kinde Secondly We affirm that if Souls be proceeds from visible agents no valid objection hinders us from determining the original solely from the Fathers seed yet with this concession that the concourse of the woman is of absolute necessity to elicite from man the vital ferment and to substantiate it into visible existence which otherwise would participate of the lot of the three miscarrying handfuls of seed mentioned by our Saviour that brought no fruit to perfection Adding further That the mother is not much more assistant to the production of living Souls then the great Beldame Tellus Mid-wit't by the Horns of Aries is to her numerous progeny of Vegetatives Thirdly For those Bug-bears of Divisibility and Mortality that would haunt the poor Soul if the father and mother were joint Parents of it that causeth to sound reason no matter of fear so long as we free them from the power of any natural agent to reduce that possibility into act submitting it onely to the benigne strength of Gods omnipotency Thus farre in favour of Traduction is sufficient One word concerning Creation of the Soule for when what a Soule is and what Creation is is well understood The night is past and the day will appear 'T is therefore carefully to be observed that in every creature partaking of that which we properly call Intellect whether Man or Angel there are three essentiall parts Spirit Soul and Body the distinction of which might evidently be made appear by reason and sacred Philosophy if we were not pin-folded within set limits of time By the Spirit here I understand not that common tye of the Body and the Soul but the supreme region of man or that divine principle by the mediation of which we have fellowship with God nor by the Body that unprofitable carcasse but a concrete notion of the gross spirits of sense and vegetation And by the Soule if we we may speak as things are I understand that middle Essence placed betwixt that heavenly and that brutal spirit but in this present controversie the word Soule comprehends a Hotch-potch of all these and all that is purely opposed to the Body is in this controversie caled Soul As for the notion of Creation that which the Schoolmen and their followers obtrude upon us viz. that 't is a framing of something out of nothing wants both truth and reason to support it for the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the original tongue and holy writ from whence the word Creation was first taken up hath no such signification but perpetually eternall to wit God and the great deep that is to say an infinite immeasurable space in every imaginable point whereof dwelt the whole Deity Secondly This Deep or more truly called space-infinite in all dimensions is not purely nothing seeing two points divers from each other might in it be assigned in which God was able to create so many worlds and a line extended from the one to the other would a be measure of the distance of one from the other and although this space be not quantity particularly determinate yet seeing that of two lines drawn in it that is to be said the longer that takes up more parts of this Deep from hence it may challenge all the denominations of quantity and dimension Thirdly Although that this bottomlesse Immensurable partake next under God most highly of the reality of being yet is it not God himself because its divisibility and severall other properties are diametrically opposite to the many attributes of the perfect Divine life and essence And therefore in an apt signification it may be termed the Body of the Deity or more fitly the eternal habitation of the Godhead Fourthly To this Deep or Abysse may be attributed all what the Philosophers ascribe to their Materia Prima to wit that it is neither quid quantum nor quale to wit none of these in a definite essence or tircumscrib'd figure or shape but interminately all The meaning of which is That the narrow speech and expressions of mankind with which they measure out and circumscribe their finite essences applied to this Infinite are too narrow nay contradictory in the enunciation of it and extend onely to declaration of a negative glimpse of its unimaginable vastnesse Yet foure properties are especially assign'd to this Abysse 1. Desire and inclination to corporeity or a force contracting crudling and constringing 2. Contrary to this a force impetuously resisting coagulation 3. From the joynt strife of these ariseth a spirit of anguish gnawing the bowels of the first matter 4. A great burning or pitchy dark fire Of all these properties of the eternall Abysse I can with ease make a visible resemblance in the conflict of Mettals with Waters corrosive especially in the dissolution of Iron with the oyle of Vitriol or in the coagulation of the oyle of Vitriol by Iron for the worke is one and the same Here upon the instant of the infusion of the oyle the coagulative spirit of Mars and Venus begins to worke to a sweet embracement of each other and marriage into one body but almost in the very same moment ariseth another furious force impatient of this union and incorporation ejecting both water and oyle with sudden violence over the brim of the highest Cucurbit and from this conflict of the constrictive power with the contrary spirit a third force ariseth which grates those hard filings of Iron into a soft and tender Chrystal and fourthly followeth that darke fire without chearing light yet sensible by the adventurous hand of him that dares touch the glasse Whosoever shall curiously behold this combate may well perceive the hideous stormes of the vast Ocean depainted to the most exact possibility of so small an Epitome and smelling those rancid fumes dispersed throughout the roome such as are said in the Apocalypse to ascend from the bottomlesse pit belcht out from this whirpoole I believe he shall need no further illustration of the Poets Tartarus or the Christians Hell having with some difficulty escaped stifling with overlooking this so well-limb'd a Breviate And to declare my thoughts plainly I account that part of this great Abysse from whence God shall retire himselfe within his own Center to be truly Hell