Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

Nay, 3. It is rather to be thought that some ⟨p. 18⟩Action is their constant state without which the cessation of their very form, would be inferred.

§ 30. But all that can be said with reason is that separated Souls, and Souls hereafter in Spiritual Bodies, will have Actions of another mode, and very different from these that we now perceive in flesh. And be it so. They will yet be radically, of the same Kind, and they will be formally or eminently such as we now call, Vitality, Intellection and Volition; And they will be no lower nor less excellent if not far more; And then what the difference will be, Christ knoweth whom I trust, and in season I shall know. But to talk of a Dead Life, an unactive activity, or a Sleeping Soul, is fitter for a sleeping than a waking man.

§ 31. It's true that Diseases or Hurts do now hinder the Souls Intellectual perceptions in the body, and in Infancy and Sleep they are imperfect. Which proveth indeed that the Acts commonly called Intellection and Volition, have now something in them also of sensation, and that sensitive operations are diversified by the Organs of the several senses. And that bare Intellection and Volition without any sensation is now scarce to be observed in us, though the Soul may have such acts intrinsically and in its profundity. For it is now so united to this body, that it acteth on it as our form; And indeed the Act, observed by us cannot be denied to be such as are specified or modified at least, by the Agents, and the Recipients, and Sub-Agents parts conjunct. But, 1. As the Sun would do the same thing ex parte sui if in vacuo only it sent forth its beams, though this were no Illumination or Calefaction, because there were no Recipient, to be Illuminated and Heated by it. And it would lose nothing by the want of objects; so the Soul, had it no Body ⟨p. 19⟩