A dissertation concerning the pre-existency of souls wherein the state of the question is briefly unfolded, and divers arguments and objections on both sides alledged and answered : and a free judgment concerning the summ of the controversie allowed to every one / being originally written in the Latine tongue, several years since by the learned C.P. ; and now made English by D.F. [and] D.P. upon the recommendation of F.M.H., their friend.
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A dissertation concerning the pre-existency of souls wherein the state of the question is briefly unfolded, and divers arguments and objections on both sides alledged and answered : and a free judgment concerning the summ of the controversie allowed to every one / being originally written in the Latine tongue, several years since by the learned C.P. ; and now made English by D.F. [and] D.P. upon the recommendation of F.M.H., their friend.
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C.P.
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London :: Printed for J. Wickins ... and Rob. Kettlewell ...,
1684.
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Soul.
Pre-existence.
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"A dissertation concerning the pre-existency of souls wherein the state of the question is briefly unfolded, and divers arguments and objections on both sides alledged and answered : and a free judgment concerning the summ of the controversie allowed to every one / being originally written in the Latine tongue, several years since by the learned C.P. ; and now made English by D.F. [and] D.P. upon the recommendation of F.M.H., their friend." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53891.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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The Antecedent is deny∣ed. 1. Because in the Text is found no such exclusive particle [Only]: but from the greater part, viz. the actual sins, is the denomina∣tion of the judgment made; therefore it may also be that that account must be gene∣rally rendred of original sin. 2. Granting, that an ac∣count was not to be given of this sin, yet it doth not
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follow, that it was not com∣mitted: because (1.) it would have been oblitera∣ted already by the general oblivion in the Soul. (2.) It should have already suffered punishment for it, viz. its being thrust down into this earthly Dungeon or Prison.
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