How do you proue the immortalitie of the soule?
1. By sundrie testimonies of Scripturea 1.1.
Againe, by arguments taken: first, from the forme of creation: for the soule of man was created by diuine inspiration, and therefore both diuine and immortall.
2. From that very knowledge which God hath put into the soule, because such a vigor as doth soone vanish away is neuer able to aspire to immortalitie and the fountain of life: for all things cor∣porall feare to transcend, and so consequently to search by admira∣ble sharpnes things celestiall, diuine, and eternall.
3. By the testimonie of conscience, which by the guiltinesse of sinnes doth conceiue horrible terrors: now if the soule were not im∣mortall, what need such terrors of future feare?
4. By the effects or the excellent gifts of the soule, wherwith it doth excell, as that it vieweth the heauens, and sheweth her force in deuising sundry and very admirable things.
5. From the nature thereof, not only that it is simple in it owne essence, and void of contrarietie and all bodily accidents: but be∣cause it is the image of God, Gen. 1.26.27. but no mortall thing can be the image of the immortall God. Yea the meate of mans soule is immortallb 1.2. And vnlesse the soule be immortall, our faith and al our religion is in vaine, 1. Cor. 15.14. the godly are miserable, the vn∣godly happy and blessed: the beasts be more happie then men: God is not affected with any regard of the iust or vniust. To al these adde in the last place the common consent of all nations.