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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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§ 3. And you mis-suppose me to suppose that the whole Substance of all Humane Souls, are but the same which once in Adam was but one, and from him divided. Writing is a tedious work, because it so hardly causeth men to understand us. I suppose that a continued Creative Emanation from the Father of Spirits, giveth out all that Spiritual Substantiality which becometh new Souls; but that God hath ordained that the Generating Souls shall first receive this Divine Emanation, and be organical ☞ in communicating it to the Semen▪ and so to new organical Bodies; not that the Parents Souls only dispose ⟨p. 56⟩the seminal recipient Matter, but are themselves partly receptive, and then active in the communication: It will be a defective similitude if I say, as a Burning-glass by a receptive contraction of the Sun Beams, is instrumental in kindling combustible matter: Rather as one Candle kindleth a thousand, and yet the substance of the Lucid and Called Being, is communicated from the Ignite Air by the means of that one Candle. (For that it is only Motus a Motu, I believe not.)
§ 3. And you mis-suppose me to suppose that the whole Substance of all Humane Souls, are but the same which once in Adam was but one, and from him divided. Writing is a tedious work, because it so hardly causeth men to understand us. I suppose that a continued Creative Emanation from the Father of Spirits, giveth out all that Spiritual Substantiality which becometh new Souls; but that God hath ordained that the Generating Souls shall first receive this Divine Emanation, and be organical ☞ in communicating it to the Semen▪ and so to new organical Bodies; not that the Parents Souls only dispose ⟨p. 56⟩the seminal recipient Matter, but are themselves partly receptive, and then active in the communication: It will be a defective similitude if I say, as a Burning-glass by a receptive contraction of the Sun Beams, is instrumental in kindling combustible matter: Rather as one Candle kindleth a thousand, and yet the substance of the Lucid and Calid Being, is communicated from the Ignite Air by the means of that one Candle. (For that it is only Motus a Motu, I believe not.)