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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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are most certainely in the Infant being in the wombe For these beeing the proper actions of life and the Soule being the cause of it it cannot be but that the Soule should be in the Infant For that action is not so common as true Anima dat esse Hominem It is the Soule that giueth power to be a Man and not the Body for he is not a Man or Woman before the Soule be vnited vnto the Body And the Body cannot be called after either sex if it be once depriued of the Soule but rather a Body or Carcasse Plato might haue found in the Booke of Genesis that God first made the body of Adam of the Earth I had rather for the vnderstanding of the misterie sayd Instrumentalized the Body of Adam before he Created the Soule The which being perfected in the necessarie proportion of the members God immediatly createth the Soule of nothing and doth breath into his face the breath of life the which selfe same thing doth still continue saue that now it is Man that begets the Body and in the last disposing thereof God createth the Soule and in the creation infuseth it into the Infant whereby it is truly called a Man or Woman The Proofes of Phisitions SECTIO 7. NExt in order doth follow the Phisitions which cannot be truely called so without the knowledge of Philosophie They hauing occasion to treat of the procreation and generation of Man can not rightly speake thereof vnlesse they likewise treat of the Soule and the powers thereof And first to begin with Galen whom all his followers do reuerence as the perfecter of their broken Art Hee wondering to see so maruelous a frame as the Body of Man the number of his seu●rall partes the seating figure and vse of euery one 〈◊〉 to conclude that it was impossible that the vegitable Soule not the temperature could fashion a workemanship so singuler Yet for all this could he not perswade himselfe but that the reasonable Soule was corruptible and not immortall For he seeing often times by experience that it is altered so easily by heate by cold by moysture and by drougth and principally considering that the same departes from the Body by ouermuch heate or when a man giueth himselfe excessiuely to Lasciuiousnesse or drinketh Poyson and such other bodely alterations which bereaue the life For if it were bodilesse and spirituall as Plato taught him heate being a qualitie could not make the same to loose his powers nor set his operations in such a garboyle These reasons brought Galen into a confusion and though he had knowledge of the Euangelicall doctrine could not receaue it Yet for all that doubted not to say that it was in the body of an Infant for that it could not well worke without it vtterly depriuing the Soule vigitable or sensitiue of any power in so glorious a frame Hipocrates as Scaliger reports held that the Soule was sorged of Water and Ayer How he meanès I as yet vnderstand not by reason he breakes off in the rehearsall of his opinion yet I am inforced to thinke that Hipocrates indged the Soule to be an Ayerie substaunce For that Bartholomeus in his Booke of Naturall things sayth that the Soule taken as the auntient Phisitions did is a certaine Substaunce subtile and ayerie that by strength of heate multiplying in mans body and by the Arteries Veynes and Pulses giueth to Beastes breath life and working and voluntary moouing and strength By the meanes of Sinewes and Muscles in Bodyes that haue Soules it is ingendred by heate working in the blood and by turning vnto the Heart and by moouing and smyting the partes of the Heart the Spirite is made more pure and is turned into a more subtile kind and is called of the Phisitions Spiritus vitalis vitale or Liuely facultie And by the working in the Liuer it is called Spiritus naturalis Naturall facultie And working in the Head it is Spiritus animalis Animall facultie But we must not thinke this Spirite to be mans reasonable Soule but to be more truly the Chayre and vpholder of the same and proper instrument For by the nature of such a Spirit the Soule is ioyned to the Body and without the seruice of such a Spirite the Soule cannot exercise any acte perfectly in the Body And therefore if the Spirits be deminished or let in any worke the accord of the Soule and Body is resolued and the reasonable Soule hindered from her works in the Body As for example In Men that be amazed if the Spirit be comforted the Soule is comforted If one infeebled they be both touching the ruling of the Body But to add vnto these Men of more vnderstanding Fornelius no lesse praysed then prayse worthy In his 7. Booke and 13. Chapter De Procreatione sayth That the Soule created by the most excellent Creator of all things doth enter into inhabite and abide in the whole prepared and ordered body of the Infant euen in the moment of time and that is in the fourth Month in which time the Heart Brayne are finished From whence Iohn Rieslanus his Commentator dissenteth not yet more deuinely If in the fourtith day or in the fourth moneth or in the last formation it cannot nor may not be defined by a mortall creature for they are the hidden secrets of Gods wisedome the knowledge whereof the God of Gods hath not imparted to the inferior Gods Also Luodnicus Bonnaccolus in his Eneas muliebris 4. Cha. saith That the body is in 47. dayes fashioned or fully figured dayes notwithstanding be added substracted But then at that instant Anima rationalis a sublimi Deo creatur creataque infanditur the reasonable Soule is created of the high God and is infused into the Body And adding further sayth Etfi cum corpore non desinint cum corpore saltem incipiunt Although they die not with the body yet haue they their beginning with the Body Ambrosius Pareus in his 10. Cha. De generatione Hominis denying the traducing of the soule from our Parents or of others frō Adam Saith Credendum est in ipso articulo conformati foetus adeo creari et in foetum in funai It is to be beleeued that the soule is created by God in the very article of time in which the Young one is framed and to be infused into the Child Creando infunditur et infundendo creatur In the Creating it is infused and in the infusion it is created So that it is Tota in toto et tota in qualibet parte not deuided into parts but that it is a perfect Soule in the whole Body and yet whole in euery part and yet doth it not shew foorth all her powers either our originall sinne in which we be borne or for our naturall weaknesse In his 11. Chapter he saith That it is a perfection which moueth it selfe in vs the first mouing of our naturall faculties the true forme of Man and that it is vnited vnto the Body