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The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed…
The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed perplexing doubtfulness / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1682
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.
§. 15. Page 4. you say; You know all matter is eternal.
But you know no such thing. If it be Eternal, it hath one Divine perfection: and if so, it must have the rest, and so should be God. But what's your proof?
You again (believe the Souls concentration in its body]. Ans. Words insignificant. It's Idem or Aliud. If Idem, then dust is Essentially Vital and Intellectual. Deny not spiritual forms, if every clod or stone have them. If. Aliud, how prove you it to be there, rather than elsewhere? And if you considered well, you would not believe essential, substantial life and mind, to lye dead and unactive, so long as the dust is so.
§. 16. You come to the hardest Objecti- [The Souls defective acting in infants, idiots, the sick, &c. and say, [It would rather not act, if it were as represented.]
§. 16. You come to the hardest Objecti- [The Souls defective acting in infants, ideots, the sick, &c. and say, [It would rather not act, if it were as represented.]