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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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§ 4. But you tell me, I must consider the Nature of Light throughly, and I shall find it nothing, but a certain motion of a Medium, whose particles are so or so qualified, some such way as Cartesianism drives at: But here's not Substances but Motion communicated, &c.
Ans. I had as willingly have heard Cartesius tell me any Dream else that ever came into his Brain: For this I greatly despise: And wonder not that any man is ignorant of the nature of Spirits, who is so grossly ignorant of the igneous analogical Nature as he was. I have said so much in divers Books against it, that I will not here in transitu any further touch so noble a Subject, than to tell you that if you have studied the old Stoics, Platonists, &c. and Patricius, Telesius, Campanella, Lud. le Grand, &c. as much as Cartesius, ⟨p. 58⟩I pity you for believing him. I doubt not the Substance of Fire hath a Virtus motiva, as well as illuminativa & catefactiva: And consequently that Light and Heat are neither of them without Motion: But that they are a triple operation of the Una-trina forma ignea, I am past doubt, (after as hard study as you can advise me to.) But your terms [certain motion] and an (unnamed) Medium, and particles so and so qualified, and some way, &c. are not notifying terms to me.
Ans. I had as willingly have heard Cartesius tell me any Dream else that ever came into his Brain: For this I greatly despise: And wonder not that any man is ignorant of the nature of Spirits, who is so grosly ignorant of the igneous analogical Nature as he was. I have said so much in divers Books against it, that I will not here in transitu any further touch so noble a Subject, than to tell you that if you have studied the old Stoicks, Platonists, &c. and Patricius, Telesius, Campanella, Lud. le Grand, &c. as much as Cartesius, ⟨p. 58⟩I pitty you for believing him. I doubt not the Substance of Fire hath a Virtus motiva, as well as illuminativa & catefactiva: And consequently that Light and Heat are neither of them without Motion: But that they are a tripple operation of the Vna-trina forma ignea, I am past doubt, (after as hard study as you can advise me to.) But your terms [certain motion] and an (unnamed) Medium, and particles so and so qualified, and some way, &c. are not notifying terms to me.