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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.
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.
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.
And first I am for agreeing on the sense of words before we use them in definitions.
1. I take not the word [Spirit] to be of univocal signification here, but so analogical as to be equivocal. God and Creatures are not univocally called [Spirits.] ⟨p. 83⟩2. I know not (and I think no other) that all Created Spirits in the universe are so far of one substantial consistence as that the word [Spirit] univocally fits them all, as a Genus among the 15 senses of the word before said mentioned by Martinius; when we confine it to one, men are apt to boggle at the ambiguity: yet when we have defined it, the name is to be used.