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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.
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. 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⟩you think, what ever is the Recipient moved Matter, that the invisible Mover is not present and contiguous? It is that immediate mover which I call Fire, and am fully satisfied doth it not by Motion only, but the exerting of its triple Virtue.
§ 2. I tell you still, the Greek Fathers I think, as well as I, call'd 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⟩you think, what ever is the Recipient moved Matter, that the invisible Mover is not present and contiguous? It is that immediate mover which I call Fire, and am fully satisfied doth it not by Motion only, but the exerting of its triple Virtue.
§ 3. You confess, Sect. 24. the common use of the name of Fire applied to Souls by the old Philosophers: and still you say it was but Symbolically: and did they find no Reason to make Fire a Symbol rather than Earth or Water. When I still tell you that it is only analogically that Souls may be called Fire, did you fairly to pretend the contrary?