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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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That you have drawn me thus effutire quae circa generationem, opinor, must help you to be patient with my tediousness. And the rather, because to avoid offending you, I will now pass by any further Answer to your Queries, Whether Adam's Soul was a Legion? which else was Adam's Soul? How come they to be Male and Female? was that number of Souls expanded or contracted? what a change by Venery? what becomes of the many Souls in the Chaste? and the rest. I would not by a particular Answer disgrace your Questions, or the jocular urgent amplifications. No doubt Lights are too low Illustrations; but the highest within the reach of sense. There was not a Legion of Candles in that which lighted a Legion: ⟨p. 57⟩nor need I tell you which of the lighted Candles was that which lighted it; nor why lighting more consumed not the first; nor why it kindled a Wax-Candle, and a Tallow-Candle, &c. I knew not till now that you thought Souls differed in Sex, because the Persons do. But I will not strive against your Conceit. The Soul of a Male and Female I better understand, than a Male and Female Soul.
That you have drawn me thus effutire quae circa generationem, opinor, must help you to be patient with my tediousness. And the rather, because to avoid offending you, I will now pass by any further Answer to your Queries, Whether Adam's Soul was a Legion? which else was Adam's Soul? How come they to be Male and Female? was that number of Souls expanded or contracted? what a change by Venery? what becomes of the many Souls in the Chast? and the rest. I would not by a particular Answer disgrace your Questions, or the jocular urgent amplifications. No doubt Lights are too low Illustrations; but the highest within the reach of sense. There was not a Legion of Candles in that which lighted a Legion: ⟨p. 57⟩nor need I tell you which of the lighted Candles was that which lighted it; nor why lighting more consumed not the first; nor why it kindled a Wax-Candle, and a Tallow-Candle, &c. I knew not till now that you thought Souls differed in Sex, because the Persons do. But I will not strive against your Conceit. The Soul of a Male and Female I better understand, than a Male and Female Soul.