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A95924	Theoremata theologica: = Theological treatises. Octo theses theologicæ: eight theses of divinity. 1. Animæ humanæ productio: Production of mans soul. 2. Puræ Dei prædestinatio: Divine predestination. 3. Verum ecclesiæ regimen: The tru [sic] church regiment. 4. Prædictiones de Messia: Predictions of Messias. 5. Duæ Christi genealogiæ: Christs two genealogies. 6. Apocalypsis patefacta: The revelation reveled. 7. Christi regnum in terra: Christs millenar reign. 8. Mundi hujus dissolutio: The worlds dissolution. / Complied or collected by Rob. Vilvain. Price at press in sheets 3 .s.	Vilvain, Robert, 1575?-1663.	1654 (1654)	Wing V397; Thomason E898_1; ESTC R3206	418,235	540

the whol and every part to make a perfect Woman so caled becaus taken totaly out of Man sans mention of any Soul infusion It appears not that the Soul therein died nor can her Soul be caled part of his more then her body though both extracted from him nor can two be confused but the same transfused in al and every part as the Souls Nature is whol in the whol and whol in every part of the body Of Christ S. Luke speaks God sent the Angel Gabriel to a Virgin espoused to Joseph who said Hail Mary lo thou shalt Luke 1. 26. to the 36. bear a Son and cal his name Jesus Then said she How shal this be sith I know not a man He answered The Holy Ghost shall com upon thee and power of the most high overshadow thee therefore that holy thing to be born of thee shal be caled the Son of God So the manner of his conception was metaphisical or miraculous without male-male-seed ineffably and incomprehensibly by the Holy Ghost yet was he according to his whol humanity conceived formed fostered in the womb nine Solar moneths or 39 weeks the usual time or term of womens gravidation as other Embryons being like to us in al things save sin only from which he was priviledged becaus the Vessel divinely purified So that if other Souls be created his was if generated his was likewise The debate then concerns al mankind and every individual Soul which is a perplexed knot to unty and intricat Maze to tread aright This blindness bewrais our innat ignorance who scars know what a Soul is whence it proceeds or how 't is produced Nosce teipsum being the hardest lesson to learn which none ever wel attained Ignorant Homines quae sit Natura Animai Lucretius Nata sit an contra Nascentibus insinuetur An simul intereat nobiscum morte dire●pta An tenebras Erebi visat vastasque lacunas An Pecudes alias divinitus ingrediatur What the Souls nature is men know not wel Nor whether bred or in Babes infus'd can tel Whether by death with us it quit doth quel Or els goes to the dark deep Cels of Hel Or by Gods power in other Creatures dwel God knows himself and ●hen al things intuitivly in himself but man other things bette● then hi●self yet how can one take measure of any thing saith Pliny that is ignorant of himself To pass by al abstrus virtues of Vegetals arcane miracles of Minerals admirable properties of precious Stones and view their outer surface or color only Who can tel why Grass is green a Ruby red or Pearl pale But what strange strife hath been about the principles of our Nature and production of both Parts For the corporeal how doe Phisitians and Philosophers jar or jangle about the seed whence it should proced Archelaus asserts it a milky slime or mud drawn from the earth A cold muddy conceipt Pythagoras the scum or froth of our best blood A frothy fancy Alcmaeon part of the Brain A brainless buz Plato a distilling marrow of the back bone Democritus a substance extracted from al members Zeno Mans spirit and spoil of his Soul Epicurus a fragment both of Body and Soul Hippocrates a portion of radical moisture Aristotle an excrement of the last concoction in the solid parts Others blood refined by heat of the Genitals Al which are lame not expressing the efficient matter or form For seed materially consists both of Blood and Spirit concocted into a white frothy humor by the Testicles which Females hav latent tho not prominent for the use of procreation and from them not of brain back bone or other part soly derived But whether females send or spend any operativ geniture is much controverted The Perepatetics deny it But Galenists contest that no conception can be without concurrence of both Parents seed which is indubitably the truest Opinion The spiritual part affords much more matter or fuel of altercation about the Soul 1. What it is Aristole refels divers Tenets but his own description halts at last 't is easy to say what 't is not not what ' t is It is no temper of elements nor blood nor energy of life nor Galens Crasis but in general an essential quickning form which givs Plants a life vegetant Beasts a sentient comprising the Former and Men an intelligent including both as a Pentagon contains a Tetragon and that a Trigon For Souls being Forms and thos relativs not subsisting alone but as parts of compounds are hatdly defined or disquired 2. What manner of substance it is whether corporal or incorporeal for God only is simply immaterial and al things els in som sort corporal tho not visible as neither is pure Air. Hence divers Divines aver Angels to be corporeal becaus finit and limited to place being bounded as it were with a superfi●ies that they cannot be ubiquitants every wher or elswher at once Much more then Mens Souls which liv in Bodies The Schools say a Body is in place circumscriptivly a Spirit definitivly be it so but is not definit so to be here as not to be elswhere Doo not Spirits ascend descend and change place Is not their motion made in time tho very swift Are not thes acts proper passions of a Body though impalpable invisible imperceptible God then is a Spirit in creat purely immaterial Angels creat comparatly material and so are Souls separat much more thos in Bodies But what maner of substance whether aereal etherial or subtler sublimer essence none save the Father of Spirits can define or determin 3. How it attains or acquires knowledg Whether by remembrance of what it knew before as Plato affirms supposing a precreation which is improbable Or by the senses service as Aristotle asserts which is ignoble Or by her own inbred seeds of understanding which is most honourable the senses conduce much to manure the mind and improv science but our Soul of it self apprehendeth judgeth retaineth reasoneth resolveth without instruction though better or wors according to the various temper or symetry of the brain hir chief organ For 't is absurd that so divine an essence should rely on vile deceitful sens which only comprehends accidents color sound savor odor not the forms or nature of things much less Natures secrets or universal insensible objects Nay if science com from sense then such as hav sharpest sight hearing c. should be wisest or wittiest which oft befals contrary and men born deaf dumb or blind are of acutest entelechy therfore that principle of Peripatum Nothing is in the intellect which was not first under sens can scars stand sound for though it be furthered by sens yet it depends not thereon sith the senses are subordinat and know nothing without it 4. How many Souls cohabit in one body whether three or but one Som say three whereof the Vegetativ and Sensitiv dy with the body but intellectiv livs eternaly The most orthodox allow only one

proper soly to himself but spiritual communion common to al the Faithful We beleev Adam was a tru Man yet not begot by Man nor born of Woman but formed by God of the Virgin Earth as Irenaeus cals it And Eve a very Woman yet had no Father nor Mother but made of Adams rib Why then can any doubt that Christ was a tru Man though not begot by Man but framed of Davids seed in the Virgins womb by the holy Ghost for 't is fit sith the first Adam was moulded by Gods hand the secund should be made by the same without Mans concurrence that he might hav a semblance or similitud of production like the first Thus Gods Son becam the Son of Man of David of Abram of Adam why then doo we not beleev that the Sons of Adam and Abram folowing the Adoption shal becom the Sons of God For 't is stranger that God should be made Man in shape of a Servant to suffer death on Earth then that Man shal be exalted to reign in Heaven yet the first is doon why then doth any diffide of the last sith he died not in vain The next to Abram compriseth ten Fathers Sem Arphaxad 2 Sect. Salah Heber Peleg Reu Sarug Nahor Terah Abram but Luke superads Cainan after Arphaxad from the septuagints version however crept in by Transcribers mistake not found in Moses Canon which is the sole foundation of authentic Note authority Here note that of Noahs three Sons Mankinds sires or stock Fathers after the Flood God chos Sem the secund to be Christs Father after the Flesh who tho Sem had sundry Sons yet passing by al selects Arphaxad and contracting his Covenant into narower lists or limits confines it to Hebers family being content to be caled the God of Gen. 9. 26. 27. Sem which is the first time he is named the God of one more then another Yet let not us of Japhets linage be danted or dismaied but rely on his promiss pacted with Sem to perswad Japhet to dwel in his Tents or allure his posterity to embrace the Covenant made with Sems family which is since fulfilled For he dwelt in Sems hous from their first being a Nation under Moses abov 1600. yeers and in Japhets from their union into Christ abov 1600. mo having visited us also in the ends of the Earth So though our Parents be not among Christs Progenitors after the Flesh which is the Jews privilege by natural generation yet being united by Faith we com of him by spiritual affinity through the Grace of regeneration from which they are excluded without tru repentance and reception The third to David includs thirteen Fathers Isaac Jacob 3 Sect. Juda Pharez Ezram Aram Aminadab Naasson Salmon Booz Obed Jesse David Wher mark how 't is said Jacob Note begot Juda and his Brethren not Abraham begot Isaac and his Brethren to shew that al Abrahams Sons tho Circumcised belong not to the Covenant nor did God chuse their Posterities to be his Church or peculiar People as he did Jacobs Sons and their Seed For to them pertained the Adoption Glory Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Covenant giving the Law Gods Service and Promisses What a Prerogativ is this Al Jacobs issu partake of external Adoption not so al Abrahams to import that Gods caling is free being Debtor to none Therfore such as are outwardly caled should be much more thankful for his mercy sith he hath passed by so many of Adams and Japhets families far more famous then us with whom he deigned to Covenant remembring that sundry are externly Adopted which are not elected by Grace Here is a doubt or demand why Thamar who subtly Question sought seed by Incest of her Father in Law Juda Rahab by Nation a Canaanit by Conversation a Courtezan and Bathsheba guilty of Adultery with David if not accessary of hir Husband Vria's death are numbred among Christs carnal Mothers but Sara and Rebecca renowned for conjugal chastity omitted Three special reasons are rendred 1. To humble the Jews Answer who greatly gloried to be Abrahams Of-spring but folowed not his Virtues deeming their prosapy a sufficient patrociny for al vices to which end their Parents crimes are purposly pourtraied that al may know how tru Nobility lies not in preemmence of Blood or Birth but the Graces of mind and Mens personal maners which make a Man Hence Nazianzen replied to one that upbraided his mean discent my Parentage perhaps is a reproach to me but thou to thy Progenitors 2. To comfort poor penitent Sinners for Christ cam not as a Judg to chastise Mens misdeeds but a Phisition to cure our maladies who assumed our Nature to clens us from sin 3. To set forth Christs great Glory who took no holines from his Ancestors for if they al had excelled in piety it had bin litle for him to be holy but discending from sinners yet born sinless he is manifested to be the chief high Priest holy Heb. 7. 26. harmless und●filed seperat from sinners and higher then the Heavens Therfore Papists pretending his honor in asserting the blessed Virgin to be conceived sans sin doo indeed dishonor him as if he had holines of Nature from hir and could not be born sinless unles she had bin so conceived Cannot the holy Ghost discern Davids seed from sinful contagion Yes he sanctified and separated it from sin to make it the Lords Body St. Bernard blamed the Chanons of Lyons for instituting hir Fest of sinless conception taxing it as presumptuous novity and termed it Mother of temerity Sister of superstition and Daughter of levity For 't is Christs peculiar perogativ who must sanctify al to be conceived free from sin Hence he concluded that the glorious Virgin wil gladly want such honor wherby sin seems to be advanced and fucatious sanctity introduced Another point to be pondered is that Salmon begot Booz by Rahab a Canaanit and Booz Obed by Ruth a Moabit both Gentils yet Christs Mothers which may comfort Gentils That God is no Accepter of persons but whoever Gab. 3. 28. Acts 4. 12. cals on his name the only Name under Heaven Christ Jesus shal be saved The fourth to Zerobabel Records a Role of Fathers wher 4 Sect. Matthew draws a line by Salomon Luke by Nathan his whol Brother Here a doubt occurs how Christ could descend from both Which is resolved that the Jews provided if a Man died Issuless his Brother or next Kinsman must marry his Wife to rais up seed Now Solomons race ended in Jeconiah the 1 Chron. 3. 17. eighteenth after him who died Childless as Jeremy foretold yet 't is said he had Sons meaning Successors For Salathiel Son to Neri steps in as Heir stiled by Matthew Jeconiahs Son viz. Legal and Regal For they reckoned a duple descent 1. Natural by direct generation one from another 2. Legal by collateral succession of next Kin. Hence grew the Evangelists several intentions Luke drawing Christs