A26976:15
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. The word Immaterial signifying nothing (but a negation) and Materia being by many Ancients used in the same sense as we do Substantia, I usually lay by the words.
3. The word Immaterial signifying nothing (but a negation) and Materia being by many Antients used in the same sense as we do Substantia, I usually lay by the words.
4. I hold to the distinction of Natures, or Substances Passive and Active.
5. I distinguish Spiritual Substances as such by the Purity of the Substance, besides the Formal Difference.
6. Yet I doubt not but all Created Spirits are somewhat Passive, quia influxum causae primae recipiunt: And you grant them a Spissitude and Extension, which signify as much as many mean that call them Material. But Custom having made Materia, but specially Corpus, to signify only such grosser Substance as the three Passive Elements have, I yield so to say, that Spirits are not Corporeal or Material.
6. Yet I doubt not but all Created Spirits are somewhat Passive, quia influxum causae primae recipiunt: And you grant them a Spissitude and Extension, which signifie as much as many mean that call them Material. But Custom having made Materia, but specially Corpus, to signifie onely such grosser Substance as the three Passive Elements have, I yield so to say, that Spirits are not Corporeal or Material.