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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.
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.
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 rarifie 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.
If a Beast could apprehend what discourse is, it were rational. The Soul therefore that understands the Spirituality of things is Spiritual; otherwise it should act extra sphaeram. The intellectual eye alone sees him that is Invisible, understands ⟨p. 153⟩