A26976:110
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.
You see here how much more now you write against your self than me: I never said that Spirits are material, nor that every Substance hath some matter, as you do.
§ 2. But this is but Materia Logica. Ans. And those that I excuse do but call it Materia metaphysica: And what's the meaning of Materia Logica? If Logic or Grammar use second Notions, Names, and Signs, if they be not rebus aptata they are false. What is it now but the aptitude of the Name that we speak of?
§ 2. But this is but Materia Logica. Ans. And those that I excuse do but call it Materia metaphysica: And what's the meaning of Materia Logica? If Logick or Grammar use second Notions, Names, and Signs, if they be not rebus aptata they are false. What is it now but the aptitude of the Name that we speak of?
Yea, you that make Spatium to be God, calling it Locus internus, really distinct from Bodies, yet say that you prove by Apodectical Arguments, that it is tribus dimensionibus praeditum: And no doubt God is a Spirit, so that you your self make a Spirit, even the Father of Spirits, to be Matter that hath Amplitude, Quantity, and the three dimensions; And yet write a Book against one as asserting Spirits to be matter, who never asserted it, unless the word Matter signify but Substance: For I ascribe no more to it than your Amplitude, if so much. And yet I take the word Amplitude to signify no form at all, no more than Quantity or Dimensions, or Indivisibility, or Penetrability, but to be ⟨p. 48⟩the Consistent Dispositio Substantiae▪
Yea, you that make Spatium to be God, calling it Locus internus, really distinct from Bodies, yet say that you prove by Apodectical Arguments, that it is tribus dimensionibus praeditum: And no doubt God is a Spirit, so that you your self make a Spirit, even the Father of Spirits, to be Matter that hath Amplitude, Quantity, and the three dimensions; And yet write a Book against one as asserting Spirits to be matter, who never asserted it, unless the word Matter signifie but Substance: For I ascribe no more to it than your Amplitude, if so much. And yet I take the word Amplitude to signifie no form at all, no more than Quantity or Dimensions, or Indivisibility, or Penetrability, but to be