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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
OF THE NATURE OF SPIRITS: › Section 12-13: Ad SECT. XII, XIII.
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. XII, XIII.
The 12. Section being all mere fiction needs no further Answer.
THe 12. Section being all meer fiction needs no further Answer.
§ 1. It seems you call that the [excited Spirit of Nature,] lighting every Candle which other men call Fire: And so you will number Fire with Spirits.
§ 2. Your 13. Section is strange. 1. You say Penetrability and indivisibility are not accidents at all, no more than Rationale of a man. Ans. Anima rationalis is forma hominis in the strict proper sense of Forma as an Active Principle. Indivisible is a Negative, and it and Penetrable are the consistency or mode of the Substance ⟨p. 61⟩(or, as you call it, Matter:) As Amplitude, Quantity, Spissitude, Dimensions, Locality are by you said to be, which are called Forms in another sense, as the passive Elements differ from each other. But the Principium Activum being the true and only Form of a Spirit, these modalities and Consistencies are but conditio materiae, as you call it, or Substantiae as I call it, as to the Form. Yet that Dispositio materiae is Essential I have asserted.