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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 14-16: Ad SECT. XIV, XV, XVI.
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Ad SECT. XIV, XV, XVI.
§ 1 Here you would first know, How I know that the Vitalitas formalis belongs not to Matter, unless I have an Antecedent notion of Spirit distinct from Matter. Ans. 1. I consent not to Dr. Glisson, who thought all. Matter had a Vital Form. But I undertake not to prove that God cannot endow any Matter with a Vital Form. And forma denominat; where I find the Form of a Spirit I'll call it Spirit.
§ 1 HEre you would first know, How I know that the Vitalitas formalis belongs not to Matter, unless I have an Antecedent notion of Spirit distinct from Matter. Ans. 1. I consent not to Dr. Glisson, who thought all. Matter had a Vital Form. But I undertake not to prove that God cannot endow any Matter with a Vital Form. And forma denominat; where I find the Form of a Spirit I'le call it Spirit.
2. Dr. Henry Moore in his Metaph. would ask me, how I know that a Helmet may not be made of Paper; and he and I would agree that Paper is not materia disposita, and yet we would not call it Galeae formam.
§ 2. Your denial of Substantiality to be ex traduce, I answered before; telling you that I think it is both ex emanatione creativa, & ex traduce, but not by either alone; nor all Souls that ever will be, created in Indiscerptible Individuality at once, and transmuted from Body to Body.