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Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompenses of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectic evil of the times / by William Bates ...Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The two principal faculties of ⟨p. 151⟩the humane Soul are the Understanding and the Will, and the Actions flowing from them exceed the power of the most refined matter however modified, and transcend any Principle that is only endowed with the powers of sense and imagination confined to matter.
The two principal faculties of ⟨p. 151⟩the humane Soul are the Understanding and the Will, and the Actions flowing from them exceed the power of the most refined matter however modified, and transcend any Principle that is only endowed with the powers of sense and imagination confin'd to matter.
To proceed orderly, I will first consider the Mind with respect to the quality of its objects, and manner how it is conversant about them.
1. The conception of things purely spiritual, God, Angels, separate Souls, the Analogies, the differences, and various respects of things, argue it to be of a spiritual nature. For 'tis and evident principle, there must be an Analogy between the Faculty and the Object. A material Glass cannot ⟨p. 152⟩represent a Spirit; it has no receptivity to take into it an object without figure, colour, and diversity of parts, the affections of matter. A spiritual object can only be apprehended by a spiritual operation, and that can only be produced by a spiritual Power. The being of things is the root of their working. Now rarefy matter to the highest fineness, reduce it to imperceptible Atoms, 'tis as truly Matter as a gross Body. For lightness and tenuity are as proper Attributes of matter, as weight and density, though less sensible.