A26976:108
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 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.
Ad SECT. VIII.
§ 1. Whereas I think that only Usage must expound the difference between the sense of Substance and Matter, you deny it not, but still mis-suppose that use taketh Matter but in one ⟨p. 46⟩sense, and never applieth it to spiritual Substance. All this de nomine is to little purpose, but I will recite some words of your own: Inch. Metaph. c. 2. p. 8, 9, 10. Essentia quae nihil aliud est quam materia & forma simul sumptae—Duo principia illa Entis interna & incomplexa quatenus ens est, esse Materiam & formam Logicam—Et uniuscujusque rei quatenus ens est Essentia consistit ex Amplitudine & Differentia quae amplitudinem ab amplitudine discriminat. Nam quod res quaelibet aliquatenus Ampla sit, ex eo patet, tum quod id voci materiae valde consonum sit quae tanquam principium Entis quatenus Ens est consideratur; tum etiam quod nullam aliam ideam menti nostrae ea afferre potest praeter hanc amplitudinem; Nec revera quicquam ab animis nostris concipi omni amplitudine destitutum—p. 10. Ex quibus omnibus tandem profluit praeclarum hoc consectarium quod omne Ens quatenus Ens est—Quantum, Quale—Ens dicitut respectu formae, legitimaeque conditionis materiae.—Quod omne Ens sit Quantum, ex illius Materiâ intelligitur—Then you blame them qui imaginantur quaedam Entia omni Materia carentia, etiam hac Logica, omnique ad materiam relatione.—p. 12. Omnis substantia ex eo quod Ens sit, Materiam quandam vel Amplitudinem in se includat.
§ 1. WHereas I think that only Vsage must expound the difference between the sense of Substance and Matter, you deny it not, but still missuppose that use taketh Matter but in one ⟨p. 46⟩sense, and never applieth it to spiritual Substance. All this de nomine is to little purpose, but I will recite some words of your own: Ench. Metaph. c. 2. p. 8, 9, 10. Essentia quae nihil aliud est quam materia & forma simul sumptae—Duo principia illa Entis interna & incomplexa quatenus ens est, esse Materiam & formam Logicam—Et uniuscujusque rei quatenus ens est Essentia consistit ex Amplitudine & Differentia quae amplitudinem ab amplitudine discriminat. Nam quod res quaelibet aliquatenus Ampla sit, ex eo patet, tum quod id voci materiae valde consonum sit quae tanquam principium Entis quatenus Ens est consideratur; tum etiam quod nullam aliam ideam menti nostrae ea afferre potest praeter hanc amplitudinem; Nec revera quicquam ab animis nostris concipi omni amplitudine destitutum—p. 10. Ex quibus omnibus tandem profluit praeclarum hoc consectarium quod omne Ens quatenus Ens est—Quantum, Quale—Ens dicitut respectu formae, legitimaeque conditionis materiae.—Quod omne Ens sit Quantum, ex illius Materiâ intelligitur—Then you blame them qui imaginantur quaedam Entia omni Materia carentia, etiam hac Logica, omnique ad materiam relatione.—p. 12. Omnis substantia ex eo quod Ens sit, Materiam quandam vel Amplitudinem in se includat.