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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 33-34: Ad SECT. XXXIII, XXXIV.
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. As in all, our difference lieth in a much smaller matter than you thought. so in your great design of convincing the blinded Sadducees of this Age, and in the truly pious Conclusion in your 34. Sect. I not only agree with you, but in my own name, and many others, humbly tender you unfeigned Thanks.
§. 2. As in all, our difference lieth in a much smaller matter than you thought. so in your great design of convincing the blinded Sadduces of this Age, and in the truly pious Conclusion in your 34. Sect. I not only agree with you, but in my own name, and many others, humbly tender you unfeigned Thanks.
§ 3. And because I would not seem more distant from you than I am, I shall first tell you, that on these Subjects your thoughts and mine have been so long working to the same ends & much in the same way, that, 1655. your Book ⟨p. 95⟩against Atheism and my popular discourses of the unreasonableness of Infidelity coming out together, we both used many of the same Histories of Apparitions, Witches, &c. for Confirmation; and in that Book of yours, you have these following words, which if they are not (as I think they are not) mischievous, it's like mine of the same importance are not so, nor are more so proved by you than your own.
Antid. Li. 1. p. 17. [The parts of a Spirit can be no more separated though they be dilated, than you can cut off the Rays of the Sun by a pair of Scissors made of pellucid Chrystal.]
Antid. Li. 1. p. 17. [The parts of a Spirit can be no more separated though they be dilated, than you can cut off the Rays of the Sun by a pair of Scissars made of pellucide Chrystal.]