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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 29-31: Ad SECT. XXIX, XXX, XXXI.
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You mean well: It is informing truth which you intend, and offer to the world. And we are all greatly beholden to you for so industrious calling foolish sensualists to the study and notion of invisible beings, without which what a Carcass or nothing were the world. But all our conceptions here must have their allowances, and we must confess their weakness.
You mean well: It is informing truth which you intend, and offer to the world. And we are all greatly beholden to you for so industrious calling foolish sensualists to the study and notion of invisible beings, without which what a Carkass or nothing were the world. But all our conceptions here must have their allowances, and we must confess their weakness.
And you might have informed us of all that you know, without fathering opinions on others, which they never owned, and then nicknaming them from your own fiction: As if we said that Souls are fire, and also took fire as you do for Candles, and hot Irons, &c. only.
§ 2. Now I that pretend not to a perfect definition repeat that which is the nearest to it that I understand.