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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
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But you know no such thing. If it be Eternal, it hath one Divine perfection: and if so, it must have the rest, and so should be God. But what's your proof?
You again (believe the Souls concentration in its body]▪ Ans. Words insignificant. It's Idem or Aliud. If Idem, then dust is Essentially Vital and Intellectual. Deny not spiritual forms, if every clod or stone have them. If Aliud, how prove you it to be there, rather than elsewhere? And if you considered well, you would not believe essential, substantial life and mind, to lye dead and unactive, so long as the dust is so.
§. 16. You come to the hardest Objecti- [The Souls defective acting in infants, idiots, the sick, &c. and say, [It would rather not act, if it were as represented.]
§. 16. You come to the hardest Objecti- [The Souls defective acting in infants, ideots, the sick, &c. and say, [It would rather not act, if it were as represented.]
Ans. 1. It cannot be denied, but the Operations of the Soul here, are much of them upon the organized body; and tho not organical, as if they acted by an Organ, yet organical, as acting on an Organ; which is the material Spirit primarily. And so there go various Causes to some Effects, called Acts.