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nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Drunkards persons with the Falling-sickness c. nay all of us spend a great part of our dayes without our Souls for while we are in sound sleep our Rationality ceaseth pro tempore Thus this immortal Spirit goes and comes as occasion serves That which is finite and mortal ceaseth from the time of the grave till the time of the resurrection But whole man is finite and mortal Ergo. Minor proved That which is elemental is finite and mortal But whole man is elemental Ergo. Minor proved All that is created is elemental But whole man is created Ergo. Major proved That which is material is elemental But all that is created is material for that which is not material is nothing Major proved two ways First If that which is matter be not compounded of the four elements then that which is no matter must be compounded of them else no composition at all and besides the four elements there is nothing else to compound with or to make this or that matter or thing of But no matter is uncapable of composition for of nothing comes nothing Therefore that which is matter is compounded of the four elements Secondly If matter created be not Elementary then the Heavens and the Earth with the things therein contained which are infallibly Matter Created are void of the elemental properties to wit heaviness lightness thickness thinness heat coldness moysture dryness But experience teacheth that the Heaven and the earth with the things therein contained are not void of those properties but are essentially consistent thereof Ergo Matter created must needs be elementary And so whole man being matter created is elemental finite and mortal and so ceaseth from the time of the grave till the time of the Resurrection Another Argument disproving any actual immortality to be in fallen Man If there be an immortal Soul as is imagined in man then it must be neither hot nor dry nor cold nor moyst neither thick nor thin nor heavy nor light for all such compositions in fallen nature are mortal and finite as before proved for they are elemental But every thing in nature must be one or some of those or all those together for in nature nothing can be but it must be hot or dry cold or moyst thick or thin heavy or light for of those radical Qualities the whole creation consisteth that is not a creature that is not composed thereof If there can be any thing in Nature void of those qualities let it be named where it is how it can be what and whereof it is and that shall be called the immortal Soul but such a thing to be in nature is past Imagination yea absolutely impossible Therefore no immortality in fallen man as he is wholly elemental so is he wholly dissoluble Every element returnes to its Centre his earthly part unto the earth his moysture or watery part unto the water his warmth or firy part to the seat of fire his airy part unto the air and thus the composition Man returneth to his simples and so ceaseth from his Being and is become as before that composition or elemental conception Imagine how it was before he was formed conceived or born and even so is it with him when he is dead for as before his conception he was in his elements even so after his death he returneth to the same and hath no more being nor otherwise after death then before life and so there is no more time to him after his death to the Resurrection or recomposition of his elements then there was to him from the creation to his birth which is none at all Another Argument That which is not partly immortal as well as mortal doth cease from life or Being from the time of the grave till the Resurrection But man is not partly immortal as well as mortal Ergo. Minor proved That which is partly immortal partly mortal hath two lifes or Beings But man hath not two beings or lifes Therefore man is not partly immortal partly mortal Major and Minor proved and first the Major If that which is partly mortal partly immortal have not two lifes or Beings then that being must be all a mortal being and then whole man dies or else all an immortal being then whole man lives for ever or else his flesh is no more part of him then a tree is part of an house and so when the Heads-man chopt off the Bishop of Caterburies head he cut off no part of the man Therefore man must either be all mortal or all immortall or that which is partly mortal partly immortal must have two beings or lifes Minor proved to wit that man hath not two lifes or beings If there be two distinct lifes or beings in man then one creature is two creatures for the distinction of Beings is the distinction of creatures But for one creature to be two creatures is impossible Ergo there cannot be two beings in man That the distinction of beings is the distinction of creatures I prove thus If the distinction of beings be not the distinction of creatures then a man is a Bull a Beare a Lion a Dragon c. yea all things is one thing and one thing is all things But man is not a Bull a Bear a Lion c. Therefore the distinction of Beings is the distinction of Creatures The consequence proved If my being did not distinguish me from an owl and a woodcock and thy being the same then an owl and a woodcock were both writer and reader But an owl and a woodcock is neither writer nor reader Therefore the distinction of beings must needs be the distinction of creatures And so it is impossible for one man to have two Beings except one man be two men Therefore if he have not two beings he hath either none or but one and if but one that must be all mortall or all immortal For contraryes cannot possibly be in one object Now if he be all mortal then he must all die if all immortal then he must all live for ever but our dying natures witness against that therefore this must be the sum of all That whole man is mortal Therefore well saies Tertullian in his Book de Anima that the Soul and Body of man are both one which saith Saint Jerome in his Epistle to Marcellina and Anapsychia was the opinion of the greatest part of the Westerne Churches And Saint Austine in his four Books of the original of Souls leaves the question undecided neither dares he rashly determine any thing And his second Book of Retractions Chap. 56. doth witness that he continued in that opinion to his death As testifieth Moulin in his Anatom pag. 67. Chap. II. Considerations from the Creation Fall and Resurrection of man disproving the Opinion of the Soul imagining the better part of man immortal and proving him as a reasonable creature wholly mortal HAving had some consideration concerning the state of the Question in hand from