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A71322 The infancie of the soule; or, The soule of an infant A subiect neuer yet treated of by any. Which sheweth the infusion there of whiles that the infant resteth in the wombe: the time when, with the manner how. Gathered from the boosome of trueth; begunne in loue, and finished in the desire to posit others. The contnets are in the next page following. William Hill.; Infancie of the soule. Hill, William, Doctor in Diuinitie, attributed name. aut; Hill, William, b. 1574 or 5. aut 1605 (1605) STC 13506; ESTC S115206 22,718 46

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the tyrannie of Rome shal redound vnto his prayse and make vs more wise in our owne follies But to make some vse of Tertullians anima that with vs affirmeth both the resurrection of the Soule and Body and hath excellently confuted the Stoicks and Epicures in denying the immortallitie in his Booke De anima Chap. de conceptu animae reiecting the corporalitie of the Soule and traducement you shale finde matter of great moment sharpe wit and sufficient proofe both by the experience of the Mothers and reason of our selues That the Infants in their wombes haue life If life of necessitie Soules for it is the life it selfe Nay not any other strange or contrarie liuelinesse then their owne Mothers but the same life with them hi motus gaudia vestra speaking vnto their Mothers such as be Child-bearing women saith These motions be your ioyes and these be your manifest securitie that so thou mayst beleeue the Infant to liue and play The places of Scripture I referre vnto their proper places and desire the Reader that can with Aesops Cocke finde a Pearle or with Virgill make any golden vse of Aennius dounge to peruse that Chap. and Booke In which they shall find Thornes that will prick and sweete Flowers which haue a most fragrant sent Anselmus vpon the Corinthians saith That it is vnited vnto the body and giueth life vnto it in the Mothers wombe and that without it it cannot liue being brought foorth Chrisostome in his Booke De Recuperatione lapsi sayth Non anima pro corpore sed corpus pro anima nec corpus in anima sed anima in corpore sita est That the Soule was not made for the Body but the Body for the Soule neither is the Body placed in the Soule but the Soule is placed in the Body So that a man may say that the Body is a Circumference of the Soules substaunce which is infused sayth hee into the Body before the breath yet brought out of the wombe with the Body not dying with the Body but the Body being depriued thereof reuertens aut glorificabitur aut in perpeticum apud inferos cruciabitur returning vnto him that gaue it it shall be either glorified or else for euer and euer in Hell be tormented Sactius Porta the imitator of the Sarbonistes in his second Sermon Feria 2. Pentecostes parte 2. sayth That Anima in homine est forma dans totam or dinem esse perfecti Datenim viuere et moueri The Soule in man is the forme giuing the whole order of being perfect for it giueth power to mooue and to liue Zanchius in his most deuine worke of the Soule sayth That God in the beginning Created the Body of Man Now the Body is generated by the combination of Man and Woman But yet the creation of the Soule doth continue as in the first and is infused immediatly from God the Creator thereof without any helpe of the nature of Father or Mother into the Body whenas the members are fully finished while the Childe is in the Mothers belly Brentius with the rest affirme the reasonable Soule to be in Children in the Wombe For sayth hee else neither Ieremie nor Iohn Bapiist could haue been fanctified in the same for there is no sanctification or making holy but after sinne For that which is sanctified is holy vnto God and vs by imputation of righteousnesse vnto that which before was sinfull Now there can neither be sinne nor yet holynesse without a subiect And I say the Soule is the subiect of both and after a second meaning is the Body also Children say the Sorbonistes could not be conceaued and brought foorth in sinne vnlesse before the birth of the Child the Soule were in the Infant And therefore Iohn Chappius a well nurtured birde of that ill fauoured broode in his explanation of Raymundus summus sayth not denying the beeing of the Soule for why then should hee with the rest of that rowt that attribute so much to inwarde grace vnto the outwarde elelement affirme that if any part of the Childe appeareth out of the Wombe and some other part remayne in the same yet that it ought to be baptized yea if the part so appearing be but the hand or heele in case that the woman be in danger of death and by hers the child And with such asseueration doth he affirme it as that in no case to be any more Baptized adding his reason hee sayth That because Baptizme is for the Soule and not the Body and the Soule is Tota in toto et toto in qualibet parte Corporis And Raymundus himselfe sayth Si puer egreditur matris ventrem moriturus Et nequeat nasci totus pars quae patet extra Si caput est ter aqua perfundatur velut astruos Imagining with the grosse-heads their fellow brethren that without Baptisme they could not be saued So depriuing God whose hand is most plentious in giuing saluation of all grace and power and attributing so much grace vnto the dumbe ellement as that Delet omne peccatum it abollisheth all sinne Why then be Children depriued of the full fruition of God But this is my fayth and beleefe That Infants in the Wombe which die in the birth shall rise in the last day and be partakers either of life or death be either in Heauen or Hell I acknowledge not any third or fourth place but the blood of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to be the one and sole Purgation of the sinnes both of our Soule and Body SECTO 10. GRatian in his seconde part of the Decree Consta. 2. quest Capit. 5. consuluisti to proue him a Murtherer that slayeth a Child of one dayes age formeth an argument A minore ad maius Si ille qui conceptum in vtero per abortum deleuerit homicidia est quanto magis If he be a Homicyde that killeth a Child in the Wombe by abortion which he graunteth how much more hee that killeth such a Child The glosse vpon the same place acknowledgeth not onely him to be a Homicide but also Qui procurat venena sterilitatis But Stephanus in the latter end of Consuluisti allotting punishment vnto another kind of offence sayth Homocida dicatur qui conceptum in vtero deliuerit Hee must be called a Homicide that killeth a Child in the Mothers wombe whether it be by blow or potion for the foundation or ground of the Law is this That if the Soule be infused and an Abortiue caused then there is murther committed But if the Soule be not infused then the Law will not graunt such Abortions to appertaine vnto Homicide Nec deput auit tale quod geretur in vi●ro hominem Neither hath it iudged such a thing as is borne in the belly to be a Man For Lexnoluit adhomicidium pertinere quod nondum dicipotest anima viua in eo corpore quod sensu caret For the Law will not haue that belong vnto Murther which cannot be sayd to be
because it giueth life Wickerus likewise in his Sintaxes 91. Page sayth That the Soule is a certaine Deuine substaunce incorporall beautifull simple impassible and immortall infused into mans body and is seperable by the dissolution and death of the body without which Man cannot be perfect This reasonable Soule at first generation of Man is plunged and infused Multo humore a quo vires offenduntur calligantur et obtenibrantur with much moysture from the which the powers be hurt blinded and made darke no otherwise then the cleere flame is dimmed by the moystnesse of much greene wood By which it hapneth that Infants seeme to be voyde of reason at the first birth But those humors in time deminishing and the Body being made more dry it sheweth further power This caused one to say That if the Seede Menstruall blood which be the two materiall principles of which we be fashioned were cold and dry as they be hot moyst that Children should be able for to reason SECTIO 8. BY the authoritie of these I haue shewed the Soule to be in the Infant while that it is in the Mothers wombe Neither may the difference of the time of the infusion be any may me vnto this proposition for they all agree in this That it is in the Body before it is brought foorth the wombe The onely difference is the instant When it should be infused which one conceales as a misterie belonging to the hidden secrets of God Adding one thing very necessary out of Wickerus De Secretis Cap. 5. That neither our Soules nor the Soules of our Parents were before their Bodyes Neither did their Bodyes liue or mooue without the Soule I come vnto the Fathers of our Fayth and defendors of our Religion The Proofes of the Fathers SECTIO 9. LActantius an vtter enemie vnto Athiesme and Epicurisme in his 19. Chap. of his little Booke De opificio Dei In which he preserreth the weake birth of Man with his nakednesse before the strength of Beastes with their clothinges treating of the Soule sayth That a Body may be borne of bodyes because some thing is conferred from both But De animis anima non potest that a Soule cannot bring foorth a Soule because nothing can seperate a thing that is thinne and incomprehensible And therfore our Soules are not traduced from our Fathers but are from one and the selfe same Father God of all But in his 17. Chap. he sheweth the Creation and infusion and sayth flatly that Anima non est aer ore conceptus quia multo prius gignitur anima quam concipi aer ore possit The Soule is not the ayer or breath receaued at the mouth for that the Soule is created a long time before breath can be drawne in at the mouth neither is it put into the Body after the breath Sed post conceptum protinus foorthwith after the conception when Nature which in that place he calleth Necessitatem Deuinam hath framed the Child in the wombe Therefore was the Soule falsely called of the Gentiles Spiritus for that by their opinion it was winde and breath for that wee by drawing winde and ayer at the mouth do seeme to liue But this is false for that the Body receaueth not life from the breath which hath his originall o● seate in the Lunges but from the Soule which is whole not by parts dispersed into the whole body for it liueth being in the Mothers wombe It is called Soule for that it giueth life It is called Spirit because it bath in it spirituall animall and kindly life and for that it maketh the body for to breath Anima and Animus are both one in substaunce and nature though they differ in name by supposed quallities Anima leadeth by Reason Animus by Counsaile It is called Anima while it giueth life Mens while it hath a Minde Animus while it hath Counsaile Ratio while it iudgeth Spiritus while it breatheth Sensus while it feeleth Et ista non differunt in substantia quemadmodum in nominibus quoniam omnia ista vna anima est And these differ not in substaunce as they differ in name because all these is but one Soule as Augustine affirmeth in his Booke De Spiritu et anima Cap. 24. Lactantius in his 17. Chap. De opificio Dei sayth That Ratio et natura animi percipi non potest The reason and nature of the Soule cannot be vnderstood For in deede the Soule of man aboue all Creatures doth most perfectly represent the image of God whose immortall and infinite beeing is as incomprehensible as himselfe and so vnsearchable as that his wisedome and vnderstanding maketh the wisedome of man foolishnesse and plaine dotage Yet hath he made himselfe familiar with vs in our owne nature fleshe and infirmitie sinne onely excepted and hath openly reuealed him selfe vnto vs so farre as the nature of man can endure Hee is sayde to be muisible and in this dooth our Soule represent in vs his image For what man hath at any time seene the Soule of man Certainely it cannot be seene or felt and yet it is in the whole Body and in euery part thereof which giueth life vnto one member and so vnto all Tertullian dreaming in his Booke De Resurrectione carnis of a certaine corpulencie of the Soule hauing a certaine proper kind of substaunce and massiuenesse did thereby prooue as himselfe thinketh sufficiently in his Booke De anima the traducing of the Soule from the seede of our Parents affirming that as Euah receaued from Adam her flesh and bones so likewise that shee receaued her Soule from Adams But to banish Tertullian with his errour as he was most grosse in what he erred and to embrace him with his trueth as in what he wrote truely he wrote most deuinely Adam when as he saw that God had giuen him a follow imparted vnto her as well his nature as name and sayd This is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones shee shall be called Woman because shee was taken out of Man He being taught by God knew well that she had no part nor portion of his Soule for if shee had he would haue sayd that this is bone of my bone flesh of my flesh and Soule of my Soule But leauing the last he teacheth vs that the Soule is not a naturall substaunce begotten by the effusion of Seede as Tertullian imagineth but a subaunce which at that instant when the Body is fully framed is created of nothing and at that instant infused into the Body But to excuse Tertullian by his reasons as they be sharpe to condemne him in all thinges for that he did contradict the Scriptures sometime I esteeme it a great folly But so to esteeme of him as an excellent scourge of Heresie and confuter of Hereuques In Christian charitie I acknowledge thus much that Nemo omnibus horis sapit especially in those of affliction which duely considered in him being learned and broken by
alyuing Soule in that Body which lacketh sence Decreti pars 2. causa 32. quest 5. Capite quod vero and in the immediate Chapter following Moses he prooueth by the authoritie of Moses That if the Body be fully framed then the Soule is infused And by the creation of Adam whose Body was first framed and distinguished by members and immediatly the Soule infused which he affirmeth in the generation of Man still to continue the Body being fully formed the Soule to be created and in the creation infused Caluine with the rest affirme That if a man strike a woman with Child and the Child die or be borne dead that is Murther or Homicide which surely cannot be enacted without the depriuation of life nor no depriuation of life without the reasonable Soule for it is the Soule that giueth life The Interpretors of the Bookes of Moses deuide Murther into two partes The one is Homicidium and that is present death among the Iewes The other is Infanticidium The murther of an Infant For this were they not put to death vntill the cause were tryed before the Iudge and adiudged by the Magistrate who hauing found the Infant so to be killed before perfect in all his members without which there was no losse for the losse or depriuation of which by his blow he was likewise to pay his life so that had it not been fully formed and fashioned in the members and partes of the Body hee that did so strike the Woman should redeeme his life with a portion of Money But if otherwise hee should be condemned vnto death and no satisfaction to be taken for the life of the Babe but the death of the murtherer And by this reason of rendering life for life S. Augustine prooueth the beeing of the Soule in the Body of the Babe before it be borne or brought foorth into the worlde SECTIO 11. The Inference THus it is made most manifest by the assent of the best Writers which doe meete in one with the ground of the Cannon Law and approued by the arguments of Sanctification and Resurrection that the Soule is in the Infant being in the Mothers wombe before he be brought foorth into the world But if any bace bredd Brownist or vntimely Puritane should scorne these authorities affirming them the blasts of pride and that the Scripture had beene sufficient To such I say Pharises first pull out the Beame in your owne eyes And as I found the Scripture vnable to satisfie the copious capacitie of the Author being of the blantnesse of the rest of that Crewes vnderstanding being as vnable to vnderstand as Schollers well lettered are to teach them But to seale these Authorities with the signet of Gods owne mouth I leaue them still to kicke against prickes and come to the Sriptures SECTIO 12. The Proofes of Scripture MOSES in Exodus 21. Chap. 22. 23. vers setteth downe a Lawe vpon which all the former consents are grounded Iob in his 3. Chap. 11. verse expostulating his cause with God sayth Why dyed I not in the birth or why dyed I not when I came out of the Wombe See heere is Life before Death and that cannot be without the Soule reasonable Iob in his 10. Chap. and 10. verse speaking of his Generation and Conception sayth Hast not thou powred mee out as Milke and turned mee out as Cheese Thou hast clothed mee with skinne and ioyned mee togither with bones Thou hast giuen mee life Animasti Iunius annot 13. Iob. 32. 4. The spirit of the Lord hath made mee and the breath of the Almightie hath giuen mee life Psalme 139. 14 15 16 verses In which Verses the whole worke of Gods proceedinges are set downe Luke 1. 13. Thy wife Elizabeth shall beare a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iohn Luke 1. 41. The Babe sprang in the wombe Luke 1. 44. The Babe sprang in the wombe for ioy Genesis 25. 22. But the Children stroue togither within her Therefore shee sayd Why am I thus Verse 26. And after came his Brother out and his hand held Esau by the heele Gensis 38. 28. But when the time was come that she should be deliuered behold there were Twinnes in the Wombe Verse 29. Hee plucked his hand backe againe and loe his Brother came out first 1. Cor. 15. 25 The first man Adam was made a lyuing Soule SECTIO 13. The Inference THus by God his strict commaundement in repaying of Murther and by Iobes expostulating it is manifest that Babes haue life in their Mothers wombe but no life without the Soule which is shewed by the description of the Conception and Generation and of the infusion of the Soule Thou hast clothed mee that is Thou hast framed mee in the Wombe Thou hast giuen mee life that is A Soule More plainely doth he expresse the infusion of the Soule by the breathing of the Almightie Chap. 32. 4. Dauid likewise sheweth the misterie or secret of our Conception and by his wordes of continuance of time hee declareth that the reasonable Soule is not infused so soone as the Seede of man is efused neither in the commixion of the Seede with the Menstruall blood but when the body is in euery part and member fashioned which beeing added vnto Iobs saying Thou hast clothed mee with Skinne and ioyned mee togither with Bones and Sinewes is then so euident as that no darknesse can appeare in this light By the motion of the Child in Elizabeths wombe my proposition is most plaine the euidence most certaine for that Elizabeth acknowledgeth her Babe to haue done it for ioy Affections such as Mirth Sorrow Ioy Discontentment Gladnesse and Lamentation cannot be sayd to be in a body which hath not a reasonable Soule And I may truly say That as he was sanctified in the wombe according vnto the word of the Angel so likwise being a resonable Man had by the inspiration of the holy Ghost some perceauance of Maries Salutation or rather that her mouth vttered foorth his Prophecie for shee spake not before he sprang Exultat Elizabeth Iohannes intus impulerat Glorificat Dominum Mariae Christus intus instruxerat Elizabeth reioyseth but Iohn inwardly inforceth Marie doth glorifie the Lord but Christ being in her did inspire her And therefore doth Theophilactus the Breuiarie of Chrisostome say That what socuer Elizabeth spake prophettically not to be the wordes of Elizabeth but the wordes of the Infant and he that shewed the people the Messtas with his finger in the world doth reuerence him they both being in their Mothers wombe But if any shall say This is extraordinarie Then let them looke backe and behold Esau and Iacob whose mother with the payne she indured with them being in her wombe doth not onely acknowledge them to liue but before they are borne to be at strife one with another and there to warre for the supremacie Puto iam non animae solummodo probantur infantium sed et pugna I thinke sayth Tertullian in his