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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
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Ad SECT. XI.
§ 1. IN your further thoughts of this Sect. 11. you do first mis-suppose that my Question intimateth such a Divisibility of Souls, as of terrene Bodies into Atoms, or a contrary Union. Terrene Atoms have the most imperfect Union. All the Sands on the shore are not only divisible, but partly divided: I cannot say, that all the parts of the Air are so; much less of the Fire. There is a far closer Union of all the Substance of that Lucid Calefactive Element, than of Earth, Water, or Air.
§ 1. IN your further thoughts of this Sect. 11. you do first mis-suppose that my Question intimateth such a Divisibility of Souls, as of terrene Bodies into Atoms, or a contrary Union. Terrene Atoms have the most imperfect Union. All the Sands on the shoar are not only divisible, but partly divided: I cannot say, that all the parts of the Air are so; much less of the Fire. There is a far closer Union of all the Substance of that Lucid Calefactive Element, than of Earth, Water, or Air.
§ 2. And here I must insert, that after long thoughts, I doubt not but all things Created are truly one, and truly many: No one particle of the Universe is independent on the rest: Parts they are; as every part of a Clock or Watch: Every Leaf, and Grape, and Apple on the Tree hath a certain individuate or numerical Being, and yet every one is a part of the Tree: And every Herb and Tree is a part of the Garden or Orchard, and that a part of England, &c. and all a part of the Earth in which they grow; and no doubt the ⟨p. 55⟩