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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. X.
§ 1. I Said, [We grant that Spirits have a Quantitas discreta; they are numerous, individuate, and Formae see multiplicant: Generation is the work of Spirits, and not of Bodies. And how can I tell, that that God that can make many out of one, cannot make many into one, and unite and divide them as well as Matter.] You say, [This passage is worth our attentive consideration. And 1. You hence infer Amplitude ⟨p. 53⟩and Dimension of Spirits. Answ. I meddle not for you, nor against you: What's this to me?
§ 1. I Said, [We grant that Spirits have a Quantitas discreta; they are numerous, individuate, and Formae se multiplicant: Generation is the work of Spirits, and not of Bodies. And how can I tell, that that God that can make many out of one, cannot make many into one, and unite and divide them as well as Matter.] You say, [This passage is worth our attentive consideration. And 1. You hence infer Amplitude ⟨p. 53⟩and Dimension of Spirits. Answ. I meddle not for you, nor against you: What's this to me?
§ 2. You ask what are the Formae quae se multiplicant? Ans. Sensitive and Rational as well as Vegetative Spirits: You say, That must be Creation, or Self-division. Ans. No; it is but Generation. And in Append. to the Reas. of Christian Religion, I have partly showed that Generation is from God as the Prime Cause, and yet the Parents Souls as a Second Cause, so that somewhat of a sort of Creation and Traduction concur: which having further opened in Method. Theol. I here pretermit.