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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Answer.
In this Saying is a Synec∣doche of one part for ano∣ther; where the Soul is taken for the body, as the Scripture also speaketh else∣where: as Psal. 16.10. He will not leave my soul in the Grave, &c. 2. In this also may be said to be a metony∣my of the form for the thing formed, of the Soul for the thing animated. 3. If the acception were pro∣per, this absurdity follows: that the Soul is propagated from the Father only, the
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Mother contributing no∣thing
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