A26976:307
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.
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.
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 Atome 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.
§. 11. You say, If it be merely material, and differ from the Body but gradually, Death may be but its concentration of this active Principle in its own Body.
§. 11. You say, If it be meerly material, and differ from the Body but gradually, Death may be but its concentration of this active Principle in its own Body.
Answ. If you understand your own words, it's well. 1. Do you know what material signifieth? See Crakenthorp's Metaphysics, and he will tell you in part, it's an ambiguous word. Sometime it signifieth the same as substantia; and so Souls are material. Sometime it signifieth only that sort of Substance which is called corporeal. Dr. More tells you, That Penetrability, and Indivisibility, difference them.