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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 20-21: Ad SECT. XX. XXI.
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.
§. 2. Ad sect. 21. But you ask [Whether by Active power I mean a power always exerting itself into act, so that this fire is always moving, enlightening, and hot formaliter, else why should it be called Ignis?]
§. 2. Ad sect. 21. But you ask [Whether by Active power I mean a power alwaies exerting itself into act, so that this fire is alwaies moving, enlightning, and hot formaliter, else why should it be called Ignis?]
Ans. Answer your self, when you speak of a power of Sensation, and Intellection and Volition in a Soul, do you mean a power always exerting itself into sensation, Intellection and Volition, else why is it called a Soul.] Ans. 2. I mean a power which hath always an inclination to Act; & hath its own secret immanent act, & always acts ad extra, when it hath fit recipient ⟨p. 70⟩objects. As to your oft mentioned Confutation of Judge Hale, having not read it, I am no Judge of your performance.
Ans. Answer your self, when you speak of a power of Sensation, and Intellection and Volition in a Soul, do you mean a power alwaies exerting itself into sensation, Intellection and Volition, else why is it called a Soul.] Ans. 2. I mean a power which hath alwaies an inclination to Act; & hath its own secret immanent act, & alwaies acts ad extra, when it hath fit recipient ⟨p. 70⟩objects. As to your oft mentioned Confutation of Judge Hale, having not read it, I am no Judge of your performance.
You Question what is this new igneous substance never heard of before] while in all Ages it hath been so famous a controversy; when not only the Stoics but most old Philosophers gave to it so much more than meet; when Lud. Le Grand, would make us believe that it was almost the only God of all the Heathen World, under various names, and while so many new Sects have written so many volumes of it, who would have believed that even Dr. Henry More had never heard of it before?