A26976:113
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.
And you once hit on that true notion of the Conditio materiae as a necessary Conceptus Entis praeter ipsam materiam & formam, Metaphys. c. 2. p. 10. [Verum Ens dicitur respectu formae, Legitimaeque Conditionis materiae: Neque enim Galea ex tenui Papyro fabricata & concinnata vera galea est, sed potius ludicrum illius imitamentum. And so elsewhere. Yet now you make the […] to be the Form.
And you once hit on that true notion of the Conditio materiae as a necessary Conceptus Entis praeter ipsam materiam & formam, Metaphys. c. 2. p. 10. [Verum Ens dicitur respectu formae, Legitimaeque Conditionis materiae: Neque enim Galea ex tenui Papyro fabricata & concinnata vera galea est, sed potius ludicrum illius imitamentum. And so elsewhere. Yet now you make the 〈…〉 to be the Form.
[…] you make all Spirits to […] some matter, You […] to be but Anima Mund•• […] it either as a […] Substance, as we say […] the Body, or else as the forma […] which is but Conceptus inadaequatu•. […] Vitality is forma animae. If in the first […], you that say that operation of the Soul proveth locality, and ascribe Amplitude and Quantity to God, and the three dimensions, do seem to make him Intellectually though not actually Divisible: That is, the Intellect may conceive of God as partly in the Sun, and partly on Earth, &c. or else you must ask pardon of your opposed Holenmerians as you name them, and say as they, that God is totus in toto & totus in qualibet part.
〈…〉 you make all Spirits to 〈…〉 some matter, You 〈…〉 to be but Anima Mund•• 〈…〉 it either as a 〈…〉 Substance, as we say 〈…〉 the Body, or else as the forma which is but Conceptus inadaequatu. Vitality is forma animae. If in the first , you that say that operation of the Soul proveth locality, and ascribe Amplitude and Quantity to God, and the three dimensions, do seem to make him Intellectually though not actually Divisible: That is, the Intellect may conceive of God as partly in the Sun, and partly on Earth, &c. or else you must ask pardon of your opposed Holenmerians as you name them, and say as they, that God is totus in toto & totus in qualibet parte.