"When a Body is vitally united to a Soul, Soul and Body are but One Person, because they are but One voluntary Agent, and have but One Conscious Life; but it is the Soul constitutes the Person, as being the Principle of all personal Acts, Sensations and Passions which the Body is only the Instrument of, but being vital Instrument is united to the Person, and becomes One Person with the Soul; for the Person reaches as far as the same Conscious Life does; but it is only this vital Union to the Soul, which receives the Body into the Unity of the same Person, not as part of the Person, but as an animated Instrument of Life and Action, which as it were, cements Soul and Body into One Person."
— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Rogers
Date
1694
Metaphor
"When a Body is vitally united to a Soul, Soul and Body are but One Person, because they are but One voluntary Agent, and have but One Conscious Life; but it is the Soul constitutes the Person, as being the Principle of all personal Acts, Sensations and Passions which the Body is only the Instrument of, but being vital Instrument is united to the Person, and becomes One Person with the Soul; for the Person reaches as far as the same Conscious Life does; but it is only this vital Union to the Soul, which receives the Body into the Unity of the same Person, not as part of the Person, but as an animated Instrument of Life and Action, which as it were, cements Soul and Body into One Person."
Metaphor in Context
[...] But does the Dean any where deny, That the Man, as consisting of Soul and Body, is a Humane Person? or, when united to a Body, affirm, that the Soul is the whole Person? He says indeed, That the Soul is the seat of Personality, the only Principle of Reason, Sensation, and a Conscious life, which consequently in a State of Separation is the Person, and when united to the Body constitutes the Person, and therefore may both be the Person, and constitute the Person. When a Body is vitally united to a Soul, Soul and Body are but One Person, because they are but One voluntary Agent, and have but One Conscious Life; but it is the Soul constitutes the Person, as being the Principle of all personal Acts, Sensations and Passions which the Body is only the Instrument of, but being vital Instrument is united to the Person, and becomes One Person with the Soul; for the Person reaches as far as the same Conscious Life does; but it is only this vital Union to the Soul, which receives the Body into the Unity of the same Person, not as part of the Person, but as an animated Instrument of Life and Action, which as it were, cements Soul and Body into One Person. A Soul vitally united to a Body, is an embodied Person, in a State of Separation it is the same Person still, but without a Body, which makes a great change in its Sensations, and manner of acting, but no more changes the Person, than the Man would be changed cloathed or uncloathed, were his Cloths as vitally united to his Body, as his Body is to his Soul. This is plain Sence; and if the Animadverter knows not how to reduce it to Terms of Art, I cannot help it. [...]
(p. 60)
(p. 60)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
1 entry in ESTC (1694).
William Sherlock, A Defence of Dr. Sherlock's Notion of a Trinity in Unity, in Answer to the Animadversions Upon His Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity. With a Post-Script Relating to the Calm Discourse of a Trinity in the Godhead. In a Letter to a Friend. (London: Printed for W. Rogers, at the Sun, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street, 1694).
William Sherlock, A Defence of Dr. Sherlock's Notion of a Trinity in Unity, in Answer to the Animadversions Upon His Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity. With a Post-Script Relating to the Calm Discourse of a Trinity in the Godhead. In a Letter to a Friend. (London: Printed for W. Rogers, at the Sun, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street, 1694).
Theme
As it Were
Date of Entry
07/02/2014
