A26976:311
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.
There is in Compounds matter, and materiae dispositio receptiva, & forma. There is somewhat answerable […] spiritual uncompounded Beings. There is substantia, and substantiae dispositio, & forma. These are but intellectually distinct, and not […], and are but inadequate conceptions of one thing. That substantia is conceptus fundamentalis, is confessed. Some make penetr••bility and indivisibility, substantiae concep••• dispositi••. But the Virtus vitalis activa, intol• […], volitiva, in one, is the conceptus formatis.
There is in Compounds matter, and materiae dispositio receptiva, & forma. There is somewhat answerable 〈…〉 spiritual uncompounded Beings. There is substantia, and substantiae dispositio, & forma. These are but intellectually distinct, and not 〈…〉, and are but inadequate conceptions of one thing. That substantia is conceptus fundamentalis, is confest. Some make penetr••bility and indivisibility, substantiae concep••• dispositi••. But the Virtus vitalis activa, intol• 〈…〉, volitiva, in one, is the conceptus formatis.
2. But what mean you by [the active Principles concentration in its own body]? It is a strange Fxpression. 1. If you mean, that it's annihilated, then it remaineth not. […] If you mean, that it remaineth an active Principle, you mean a substance, or acci•••t. If […] substance, it seems you acknow•••g it a self-subsisting being, only not separate from its carcass. And if they be two, why are they not separable? If separable, why not separated? When the dust of the Carcass is scattered, is the Soul concentered in every atom, or but in one? And is it many, or one concentered Soul? If you mean, That it's but an accident, that's disproved before; what accident is it? If concentered in the body, the body, and every dust of it,