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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.
For all things at first had their Origin from the deep dark Waters: witness Moses Philosophy, in the 1st of Genesis, on which the Spirit of God is said to move. I am far from believing those Waters such as that Element we daily make use of; but that they were material, appears by those multitudes of material Productions they brought forth. And if those Waters were material, such were all things they d•d produce, among which was Man, of whom the Text asserts nothing more plain; for it saith, God created man of the dust of the earth; the most gross part and sediment of those Waters, after all things else were created. Now the Body only is not Man; for Man is a living Creature: it is that therefore by which the Body lives and acts, that constitutes the Man. Now the Apostle mentioneth Man to consist of Body, Soul and Spirit. My Argument then is this, God created man of the dust of the earth.
For all things at first had their Origine from the deep dark Waters: witness Moses Philosophy, in the 1st of Genesis, on which the Spirit of God is said to move. I am far from believing those Waters such as that Element we daily make use of; but that they were material, appears by those multitudes of material Productions they brought forth. And if those Waters were material, such were all things they d•d produce, among which was Man, of whom the Text asserts nothing more plain; for it saith, God created man of the dust of the earth; the most gross part and sedement of those Waters, after all things else were created. Now the Body only is not Man; for Man is a living Creature: it is that therefore by which the Body lives and acts, that constitutes the Man. Now the Apostle mentioneth Man to consist of Body, Soul and Spirit. My Argument then is this, God created man of the dust of the earth.
But Man consists of a Body Soul and Spirit: