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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
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.
§ 1. That my hasty Letter should occasion you to benefit the World with more of your Information, in so considerable a point, as is the nature of a Spirit, was more than I thought of, or could hope for: Had I imagined that you would have so far honoured it, I should have so written it, as might have drawn out more of your Instruction, and made your Animadversions yet more edifying.
§ 1. THat my hasty Letter should occasion you to benefit the World with more of your Information, in so considerable a point, as is the nature of a Spirit, was more than I thought of, or could hope for: Had I imagined that you would have so far honoured it, I should have so written it, as might have drawn out more of your Instruction, and made your Animadversions yet more edifying.
§ 2. I desired you to have forborne the title of Psychopyrist, for these Reasons: 1. Because it tendeth plainly to misinform the Reader, as if I held that Souls (or Spirits) are Fire; whereas in my Books and Letters, I still say otherwise. And that they may be so called not formaliter, or univoce, but only eminenter and analogice. And when a name on the Title page, & through the whole, and a supposition in much of your arguing, implieth that I hold what I renounce, it may wrong your Reader's understanding, though I am below the capacity of being wronged.
§ 2. I desired you to have forborn the title of Psychopyrist, for these Reasons: 1. Because it tendeth plainly to misinform the Reader, as if I held that Souls (or Spirits) are Fire; whereas in my Books and Letters, I still say otherwise. And that they may be so called not formaliter, or univoce, but only eminenter and analogice. And when a name on the Title page, & through the whole, and a supposition in much of your arguing, implyeth that I hold what I renounce, it may wrong your Reader's understanding, though I am below the capacity of being wronged.