[Section. 2] Secondly, how the Soule was created.
There was the Creating of Adams Soule, and our Soules: How Adam came by his Soule we know;
Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.
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- Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.
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- Church, Hen. (Henry), fl. 1636-1638.
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- London :: Printed [by J. Norton and J. Okes] for John Rothwell, and are to be sold at the Sunne, in Pauls Church-yard,
- M.DC.XXXVII. [1637]
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"Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18711.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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how we come, by our Soules; for the manner wee know not: Adams Souls was by inspiration, Gen. 2.7. Spiration and Reason differs Adams Soule, and makes a distinction from the Soule of other creatures, which is onely in the blood: we come by our Soules, some thinke, by participation; as one candle doth light an∣other; by generation, a man beget a man compleat••: some thinke our Soules come by infusion by a particu∣lar inspiration; when the child first quickens in the wombe: but this is certaine, no man knowes the way of the Spirit, Eccles. 11.5. when all is imagined, little is concluded concerning this question.