English poem
Of The Soule Of Man And The Immortalitie Thereof 25
What the soule is
That the soule is a thing subsisting by it selfe without the body
That the soule is more then a perfection or reflection of the sense
That the Soule is more then the Temperature of the Humors of the Body
That the Soule is a Spirit
That it cannot be a Body
That the Soule is created immediately by God
Erronious opinions of the Creation of Soules
Objection:--That the Soule is Extraduce
The Answere to the Obiection
Reasons drawne from Nature
Reasons drawne from Diuinity
Why the Soule is United to the Body
In what manner the Soule is united to the Body
How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the Body
The Vegetatiue or quickening Power
The power of Sense
Sight
Hearing
Taste
Smelling
Feeling
The Imagination or Common Sense
The Fantasie
The Sensitiue Memorie
The Passions of Sense
The Motion of Life
The Locall Motion
The intellectuall Powers of the Soule
The Wit or Understanding
Reason, Vnderstanding
Opinion, Judgement
The Power of Will
The Relations betwixt Wit and Will
The Intellectuall Memorie
An Acclamation
That the Soule is Immortal, and cannot Die
Reason I--Drawne from the desire of Knowledge
Reason II--Drawn from the Motion of the Soule The Soul compared to a Riuer
Reason III--From Contempt of Death in the better Sort of Spirits
Reason IV--From the Feare of Death in the Wicked Soules
Reason V--From the generall Desire of Immortalitie
Reason VI--From the very Doubt and Disputation of Immortalitie
That the Soule cannot be destroyed
Her Cause ceaseth not
She hath no Contrary
Shee cannot Die for want of Food
Violence cannot destroy her
Time cannot destroy her
Objections against the Immortalitie of the Soule
Objection I
Answere
Objection II
Answere
Objection III
Answere
Objection IV
Answere
Objection V
Answere
The Generall Consent of All
Three Kinds of Life answerable to the three Powers of the Soule
An Acclamation
APPENDIX--REMARKS PREFIXED TO NAHUM TATE'S EDITION (1697) OF 'NOSCE TEIPSUM'