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A43108	Anthropōlogia, or, A philosophic discourse concerning man being the anatomy both of his soul and body : wherein the nature, origin, union, immaterality, immortality, extension, and faculties of the one and the parts, humours, temperaments, complexions, functions, sexes, and ages respecting the other are concisely delineated / by S.H.	Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1190; ESTC R28065	83,471	253

good and wise ends unknown to us reserve to himself the continual exercise of his Creative Power in the successive production of new Souls The other is Neither is it propogated Extraduce that the Soul is propogated Extraduce from the Soul of the Parent but the absurdity of this Opinion is evident enough from these following reasons Several Arguments against the Souls Propagt 1977. 1 This Hypothesis supposeth the Soul of the parent to be Discerpible and so to Communicate its own Essence to the Constituting the Soul of the Foet us which can be granted to no Incorporeal Being 2 It supposeth multitudes of Souls daily Created which never come to perfection as in Abortions and Effluxes of Seed and this suppofition cannot but too much derogate from the Wisdom of the Divine Architect 3 Such is the Genesis of any thing as is the Analysis but this is the Analysis of Man that the Body should return to the dust whence it came and the Spirit to God that gave it so that seeing the Spirit had its immediate Origen from God at its Creation doubtless at its Dissolution it doth immediatly retuen to him 4 Were the Soul Generated Extraduce it must either be from the Soul or from the Body of the Parent not from the SOul because nothing can be Generated of a thing Incorporeal Incorpireal Beings do not come under sch alterations not from the Body quia nil dat quod in se non habet Because no Incorporeal Thing can be produce out of a Thing Corporeal Not from both for then the Soul of the Partus would certainly participate of the Nature of them both and so become a Substance partly Corporeal and partly Incorporeal 5 The only Way and Method of its being done were it possible it could be done is enough to Induce us to believe the contrary for then the Soul would be a Substance Compounded of Two pieces of a Spirit the one abstracted from the Spirit of the Male the other from the Soul of the Famale Parent and these Two Pieccs or Paris Blended together into one to Compose a Rational Soul which supposal how Irrational Fictitious and Ridiculous it is any Rational Creature may presently apprehend The true Origen of a Soul viz. That it is immediately Created by God It reamins then that we lay down the true Origen of the Soul which is that it was immediately created by God and infased into the Body This Opinion though it be ancient yet several considerable reasons do incline me to believe it as Orthodox and Genuine and the verity of it may easily be manifested not only by the Confutation of the Two former Opinions but from the Testimony of Sacred Writ viz. he formed the Spirit of Man within him CHAP. IV. Of the Vnion of the Soul to the Body THe Soul being a Substance of an Active and Vigorous Nature God who is its Prime Parent being the Father of Spirits deemed it requisite to bestow upon it a Body dilicately Fabricated not only that this might be its Domicil wherein it should lye Incarcerate That Spirits stand in need of Bodies to Act in as the Platonists would have us believe but he really intended that a part of a Spirits felicity should consist in its Union to some body or other which it might make Use of as a compleatly Organized Machin whereby the better to performe its Actions therefore to Angelic Spirits he gave AEthereal Lucid and Star-like Bodies to the Souls of Men while they continue in these Lower Regions Terrestial Bodies yet curiously Fabricated and fit for their Motions and Operations but when they are devested of these by the assaults of Death then he orders them to enter into Aerial Vehicles that so the easier they may Soar into the invisible Regions of the Coelestial Habitacle and to retain these till the Resurrection when they shall re-assume their former Bodies Transformed and Modified into the Nature of Angelic ones But I shall refer a further Procedure upon this till I come to the Immortality of the Soul and shall here treat a little of the manner of its Union to these our Bodies This is a thing so sublime that it transcends the reach of humane intellect to conceive so capacious that it exceeds the limits of Reason to comprehend so abstruse and difficult that it puzzels the Wits of all Philosophers to demonstrate how Two Substances the one Spiritual the other Corporeal things of a quite contrary Nature should constitute but one Compositum what Medium these can be found for their Union by what means the more principal part doth Vivifi● and Actuate the part more inferiour what moving Virtue it doth Exert and Communicate to the Body and by what kind of contact this is done Surely these are things that none but he that is the Sole Author of these Phoenomena can demonstrate how or in what manner they are performed yet that they are performed is very apparent and such is the curiosity of that busie and Pragmatic Creature Man that he cannot contain himself from Prying into the Causes of those things the effects whereof declare them so to be tho they are never so abstruse He thinks there is nothing so locked up in the Cabinet of Nature but by his diligence he may find the Key or that there are no Rareties Treasured up in the Magazine of this Created World that he by a diligent Scrutiny cannot find out Some therefore will tell us That in Man there are Three Essential parts a Body a Soul and a Spirit the Body say they is a Substance made of the Grosser Matter viz. Flesh Blood Bones Nerves Cartilages Veins Arteries c. The Soul is a Substance tho Material yet of an AEtherial and Subtilized Nature Fiery and Flammeous Participating both of the Nature of a Body and of a Spirit and the Spirit which is their Third ingredient in their noble Composition is altogether Incorporeal United to the Body by the mediation of the Corporeal Soul Others will affirm that the Soul being the Ruling part The Cartesians sits like a Queen in the Palace of the Brain upon her Throne the Conarion which is a little Glans●lous Body almost in the midst thereof there she Contemplates of the Regions of her Kingdom and the Members of that Common-wealth being always attended with her Viceroy the Animal Spirit whereby she doth at Pleasure send an Embassy into the most Remote Parts of this little World thro the nerves But how well the Authors or Abetters of these Two Opinions have hit the Mark. I leave to the Credulous Reader to determine concerning the First I shall only Query a few things That the Soul is not United by the Mediatioc of the Corporeal Soul evinced by several Queries 1 Whether it be sense to say a Meterial Soul 2 Suppose it be whether there be any such thing as they imagine by it in the Body of Man 3 Whether Body and Spirit be not things of

Immortality being continually preserved by the Almighty Concourse of Him that created them Not that I think the Souls of Brutes to be capable of that Felicity or Misery the Souls of Men are but we may either suppose them to proceed from the Anima Mundi or Soul of the World which may also be supposed to be Immaterial and so return to it at the Dissolution or rather that when they are divested of their Bodies they take to themselves Aereal ones Some there are that will not admit but explode Aereal Vehicles who suppose That the Souls of them surviving Death doth so continue in a State of Inactivity Insensibility Sleep Silence and Stupor until by a Transmigration they re-assume new Bodies to act in for while Spirits are divested of Bodies they cannot exert any Action But this Supposition would destroy our own Assertion alrady laid down concerning the Active and Cogitant Nature of the Soul But least I should exceed my bounds in too long a Digression I shall now come to the next general Head proposed in Order to treat on and that is The Immortality of the Soul CHAP. VI. Of the Immortality of the Soul The Immortality of the Soul Proved FRom what hath been already alledged concerning the Nature Origin Union and Immateriality of the Soul may with great facility and by necessary consequence be gathered its Immortality also and the fore-precedent things may serve for Topics whence we may raise so many Arguments clearly to evince the same From its Nature The Nature of the Soul is so evident a Demonstraitve of its Immortality that whoever understands the one cannot but easily apprehend the other Is not Spirituality a plain Manifesto of a Durable Existence and Activity and Cogitancy and inseparable Concomitant of Immortality How undeniably doth Plato the Mirror of the Mirror of the World for Learning demonstrates from the Souls being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-moving that it is also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ever-moving Is it probable that those inestimable Creatures whose very Essence declares them to be made for a high or end were created for nothing but to actuate these Bodies for a momentary space and then to return to nothing Shall those Pious and Divine Souls who for hopes of the Fruition of the endless Pleasures of another Life have wich great alacrity and content of mind undergone the difficulties of this Mortal Pilgrimage find nothing at the end of their Journey for their reward but a final annihilation And shall the malevolent Slaves of the Devil who have lavished their Patrimony and spent their days in serving the God of this World and in doing Obeisance to their Lusts and Debauched Appetites be discharged from the Penalty of their horrid Crimes by a Cessation of their Essence What can prove a greater Derogation from the Equity of a just Creator than so gross and Supposition Will He From its Origin who hath formed a Creature so like himself so soon destroy it What can be a greater Reflexion on his Wisdom Shall that puff of Divine Breath which had its Rise from Gods Immediate Inspiration subside vanish and become a Non entity Certainly That hand that could immediately produce a Being out of nothing can by an Immediate Concourse preserve it from relapsing into nothing again neither are there any Motives to perswade him that can do this to will the contrary Were the Soul generated from the Parent it might then be corruptible but it hath its Origin from a higher Principle it must needs the● be of a Nature more lasting permanent and durable From its Union It s Union also is another Test o● its Immortal Existence if it were united to the Animal Spriit by in near Approximation to the Nature of it or if fixt and fastened to the Pineale Glandule this might be a plausible Pretext to make us entertain some thoughts of its Mortality and Perishing with the Body whereby it is so much influenced but seeing its Union is caused by its permeating the Body and extending and diffusing it self thro every part thereof and so by a vigorous Energy actuating the same certainly all such Imaginations conceiving it Mortal are now banisht and exploded Our Fourth Topic is not likewise empty of proof to demonstrate this Truth From its Immateriality Were the Soul a Substance compounded of the Four Elements or Five Chymic Principles Blended together we should have little reason to plead for its Immortality because all Corporeal Things are subject to Corruption and have that within the verge of their own Essence that in time will cause a Dissolution in them Nam contraria contraiis destruuntur For Contrary Things are destroyed by their Contraries and all Mixed Bodies have within themselves Qualities may I call them so repugnant one to another but the Soul as hath already been proved being of an Immaterial Nature is not obnoxious to any such Cause of Mutability And Nature it self teacheth us That whatsoever hath a Being will be possessed of it until it meet with something to destroy it But now what contrary Principles opposite Elements or repugnant Qualities can Psycotomists or Anatomists of Souls I mean those that hold them Material and so Mortal find in the Analysis of Spirits There are masty more Arguments of undubitable Verity and undeniable Evidence to evince the Souls Immortality as its Infinite Desire of More Mediums to prove the same and its Solicitude about an Immortal State in Dissatisfaction under all the Felicities of this Life and vehement Appetite and Desire after Eternal Beatitude the Fear of Death the Remorses and Stings of Conscience which all Men fall under upon the Sense of Guilt But the Largeness of the Subject and the intended Brevity to which I have limited myself will admit only of a Transitory Glance upon every Thing that occurs to our Speculation Of the Stale of the Soul after Death that it doth not sleep Having therefore proceeded thus far I shall add a little concerning the Manner of the State the Soul remains in immediately after its Dissolution from the Body and that it That I do not believe as some do That it remains in a State of Sleep and Stupor till the Resurrection but that it takes up an Aereal Vehicle and hereby its Motion is made Feasible which if the Soul were devoid of a Body it would be impossible to perform If the Soul immediately after its Separation from the Body pass not only into a State but a Place either of Eternal Misery or Everlasting Happiness it is contrary to the Laws of Nature it should be carried thither without a Body That Souls assume Vehicles after Death for Loco motion is a Property of Bodies and no way to be performed by Spirits separate from Bodies Besides to argue for Vehicles it is a Priviledge proper only to the Deity to live and act alone without Vital Union with a Body It is Natural to a Soul to inliven a

Body and therefore it is not probable that it should be kept so long in an Unnatural State of Separation Again It is more than probable from Scripture That the Souls of Wicked Men after Death have Punishment of Sense and Pain besides Remorse of Conscience But lest some out of prejudice should condemn this Opinion of Vehicles as an Opinion newly feigned and foisted into Phylosophic Books more out of Novelty than Probability or as an Assertion dangerous or inconsistent with true Faith and Religion Vehicles owned by the Ancient Fathers I shall produce now the Testimonies of some of the Ancient Fathers who were the Abettors of this Hypothesis Tertullian and Irenaeus were of this Perswasion Origen also was of the same mind Viz. That Souls after Death have certain Subtil Bodies retaining the same Characterizing Form which their Terrestrial Bodies had and that the Apparitions of the Dead are the Souls themselves surviving in a Luciform Body Augustine also granteth That Souls after Death cannot be carried to any Corporeal Place or locally moved without Bodies Nor is it conceivable how Imperfect Beings could have Sense or Imagination without Bodies saith Origen For Origen contra Cels saith he It is the nature of an Incorporeal Thing always to stand in need of a Body suitable to the Place wherein it is And altho I must confess Origen did maintain some things contrary to the Doctrine of the Church yet his Authority is no less Authentic for this thing than the Authority of the rest because this was never reckoned in the Catalogue of his Errors Let me adde likewise I That our Saviour's bidding his Disciples feel him The same implicitely evidenced from Scripture and from Moses and Elias appearing upon the Mount And from all other Apparitions and telling them a Spirit had not Flesh and Bones that is no Solid Body seems to imply that they have Thinner Bodies which they may visibly appear in And also Moses and Elias visibly appearing upon the Mount argues That they had real Visible Bodies Hereby likewise we may very easily solve the Phaenomena of the Apparitions of Men and Women after their death without imagining that they take up their Bodies when Defunct and walk about with them or that these Bodies are actuated by the Devil for then they would become Objects of the Sense of Feeling but those that have seen such Apparitions do declare the contrary finding no resistance when they strike at them Likewise their vanishing and seeming to penetrate Doors or Walls shews they are not those Bodies and certainly they cannot be supposed to be the Souls themselves ● seperate from all Body for they are never visible But if we will admit this Hypothesis of Vehicles we may easily imagine how they retain their Visibility by causing only a Reflexion of Light and lose their Tractability by reason of their Tenuity and Rarity Now at the Resurrection Of the Resurrection and New Modification of the Body these Souls which have dwelt thus long in Vehicles do re-assume those very Numeric Bodies which before they deposed yet not such gross corruptible ones as they then were For the happiness of Souls consisteth not in their Conjunction with such gross Terrestrial Bodies as these we now have Scripture as well as Phylosophy complaining of them as a heavy load and burthen to the Soul but the Soul at the Resurrection will assume a Body Immortal Incorruptible Glorious and Lucid Star-like and Spiritual Heavenly and Angelic not this Fleshy Body gilded and varnished on the out-side only but changed thro-out Our Souls are Strangers and Pilgrims in these Terrestrial Bodies their proper Home and Countrey is their Heavenly Body these very Bodies we now carry about with us shall then be transformed and modified into a Heavenly Form and this is very agreeable with the Principles of Nature for according to Phylosophy the Grossest Body may by meer Motion be reduced to the Rarity and Tenuity of the Finest Aether and if thus what then cannot the Wise Fabricator of Heaven and Earth perform CHAP. VII Of the Extension of the Soul HAving already asserted the Extension of the Soul thro the Body it is requisite I should a little demonstrate or at least explicate my meaning in this my Assertion then if I remove those Difficulties which this Hypothesis may seem to labour under and manifest the contrary Assertion to be attended with far more and greater difficulties I hope I shall have performed my promise As for the Objections against the Souls Extension I know but two that have any thing of validity or cogency in them nor they neither when rightly considered The First is this viz. That this supposeth the Soul to be Material for say they Extension is an Essential Property of Bodies Cartes Princ. Phil. Pars 1. Sect. 4. and applicable to no other Creature yea says Cartes The very Nature and Essence of a Body consisteth in nothing else but Extention To this I answer That both Reason and Experience attest the contrary for were Extension a Property only pertinent to Matter then the Notion of a Vacuum proved by unanswerable Arguments Arguments to prove a Vacuum and demonstrated by visible Experiments must be quite exploded Are not Local Motion Rarefaction Condensation Levity and Ponderosity the Corporeity of Light and its Expansion thro the Air Rational Grounds to induce us to believe that there are certain Disseminate Vacuola in Bodies Which Mediums you may see exceedingly well promoted by Renowned Gassendus Gassendus in Epicurum a Learned Senator of Epicurus and Eminent Dr. Charleton Charleton's Philosophy a Proselyte of Gassendus but if Reason will not evince let Experiments demonstrate The Torrecellian Experiment so often mentioned in the Elaborate Works of the Royal Society is an infallible Proof hereof And hath not the Honourable Robert Boyle Boyle's Physico-Mechanic Experiments made it indubitably certain by his Excellent Instrument the Air Pump How this Experiment is performed by it you may see in his Physico-Mechanic Experiments Also the Experiment of the Aeolipile doth plainly evince it And surely Dr. Henshaw Dr. Henshaw's Aerochalinos Member of the Royal Society doth suppose the being of a Vacuum when in his Aerochalinos he lays down a Method of Building of a Domicil to change the state of the included Air A Vacuum demonstrated by Experiments by letting it out and in at pleasure This is so evidently demonstrated by our late Ingenuous Philosophers that I think none now but those who thro prejudice are resolved to penetrate no farther into the Bowels of Nature or make no deeper Scrutiny into the Mysteries of Philosophy than is consistent with the Old Phylosophy or than the Ancient Libels lead into can be so Irrational as to deny it I shall therefore also as the Writers of this Age do take it for granted and make this my Medium to beat down the Pretended Maxim viz. That Extension is a property essential to