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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 22-27: Ad Sect. 22. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
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Ad Sect. 22. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
§ 1. YOU puzzle me more and more: Before you said, Fire is nothing but motion of sulphureous particles, and only in Candles, Fire-sticks, hot Irons, &c. And yet now [The vehicles of Angels are Igneous or ethereal.] Is an Angel only in a Candle or hot Iron, &c. Is motion, yea motion of sulphureous particles their vehicle? If they are Animals, and have bodies, as you think, they are such as deserve a nobler Character.
§ 1. YOU puzzle me more and more: Before you said, Fire is nothing but motion of sulphureous particles, and only in Candles, Fire-sticks, hot Irons, &c. And yet now [The vehicles of Angels are Igneous or aethereal.] Is an Angel only in a Candle or hot Iron, &c. Is motion, yea motion of sulphureous particles their vehicle? If they are Animals, and have bodies, as you think, they are such as deserve a nobler Character.
§ 2. I tell you still, the Greek Fathers I think, as well as I, called mental and sensitive Spirits, Ignis, but Analogically, which you call Symbolically: If that satisfy you what have you all this while disputed against? And if Fire be the vehicle of Angels it is a substance. And when you se• the Motion, Light, and feel the heat, d• ⟨p. 73⟩