A work for none but angels & men : that is, to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or A book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more then a perfection or reflection of the sense, or temperature of humours; not traduced from the parents subsisting by it self without the body: how she exercises her powers in the body the vegetative or quickning power of the senses. Of the imagination or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions, motion of life, the locall motion, intellectual powers of the soul. Of the wit, understanding, reason, opinion, judgement, power of will, and the relations betwixt wit and will. Of the intellectuall memory, which is the souls store-house, wherein all that is laid up to the rein, remaineth there even after death and cannot be lost; that the souleis immortall, and cannot dye, cannot be destroyed, her cause cease h [sic] not, violence nor time cannot destroy her; and all objections answered to the contrary. /
Jenner, Thomas,active 1631-1656.
Davies, John,Sir,1569-1626.Nosce teipsum.
Thompson, Peter,1698-1770,former owner.StEdNL
Mynde, J.,active 1740-1770,engraver.
London: : Printed by M[ary]. S[immons]. for Thomas Jenner, at the south-entrance of the Royall Exchange.,
1658..
A prose adaptation by Thomas Jenner of "Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof" by Sir John Davies, the main constituent of his "Nosce teipsum".
Printer's name from Wing.
Each illustration with engraved verse below. A variant lacks engraved verse.
"What heaven is, vindicated from the vulgar mistakes, and grosse conceivings of many", an original work attributed to Jenner, has separate divisional title; pagination and register are continuous.
The verso of the leaf after page 13 is numbered "14".
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Chippendale armorial bookplate by J. Mynde on verso of title page: Sr. Peter Thompson, F.R.S.
Soul
England London.