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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.
E. g. Many individual Apples grow on the same Tree; yea, Crabs and Apples by divers grafts, nourished on the same stock: One may rot, or be sower, and not another. Millions of Trees, as also of Herbs and Flowers, good and poisonous, all grow in the same earth. Here is Unity, and great Diversity. And tho self-moving. Animals be not fixed on the earth, no doubt they have a contiguity, or continuity, as parts with the Universe. But for all that, a Toad is not a Man, nor a man in torment, undifferenced from another at ease, nor a bad man all one with a good.
E. g. Many individual Apples grow on the same Tree; yea, Crabs and Apples by divers grafts, nourished on the same stock: One may rot, or be sower, and not another. Millions of Trees, as also of Herbs and Flowers, good and poysonous, all grow in the same earth. Here is Unity, and great Diversity. And tho self-moving. Animals be not fixed on the earth, no doubr they have a contiguity, or continuity, as parts with the Universe. But for all that, a Toad is not a Man, nor a man in torment, undifferenced from another at ease, nor a bad man all one with a good.
§. 19. And if any should have a conceit, That there is nothing but God and matter. I have fully confuted it in the Appendix to ⟨p. 40⟩Reas. of Christian Religion. Matter is no such omnipotent sapiential thing in it self, as to need no cause or maker, any more than Compounds. And to think, that the infinite God would make no nobler Creature than dead matter, no liker himself▪ to glorify him, is antecedently absurd, but consequently notoriously false. For tho nothing be acted without him, it's evident that he hath made active Natures with a principle of self-moving in themselves. The Sun differs from a clod, by more than being matter variously moved by God, even by a self-moving power also. Else there were no living creature, but bodies in themselves dead, animated by God. But it would be too tedious to say all against this that's to be said.
§. 19. And if any should have a conceit, That there is nothing but God and matter. I have fully confuted it in the Appendix to