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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.
I have told you, That there is an antecedent more certain Perception, than by Definition; by which I know that I see, hear, taste, am, and by which the Soul, in act, is conscious of it self.
§. 10. You ask, 1. Is it a real Being? Answ. I told you, Nothing can do nothing.
2. Is it really different from the Body? Answ. A Substance which hath in it self an Essential Principle of Life, Intellection, and Volition, and that which hath not, are really different. Try whether you can make a Body feel, or understand without a Soul. 2. Those that are separable, are really different.
2. Is it really different from the Body? Answ. A Substance which hath in it self an Essential Principle of Life, Intellection, and Volition, and that which hath not, are really different. Try whether you can make a Body feel, or understand without a Soul. 2. Those that are seperable, are really different.
3. You ask, Is it able to be without it? Answ. What should hinder it? The Body made not the Soul: A viler Substance giveth not being to a nobler. 2. Nothing at all can be without continued Divine sustentation. But we see, Juxta naturam, God annihilateth no Substance: Changes are but by composition, and separation, and action, but not by annihilation. An Atom of Earth or Water, is not annihilated; and why should we suspect, that a Spiritual Substance is? Yea, the contrary is fully evident, tho God is able to annihilate all things.