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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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§. 18. To your Explications p. 4. I say, 1. None doubts, but all the world is the work of one prime operating Cause; Whom I hope you see in them, is of perfect power, wisdom and goodness, the chief efficient dirigent and final cause of all.
§. 18. To your Explications p. 4. I say, 1. None doubts, but all the world is the work of one prime operating Cause; Whom I hope you see in them, is of perfect power, wisdom aud goodness, the chief efficient dirigent and final cause of all.
2. I doubt not, but the created universe is all one thing or frame; and no one atom or part totally separated from, and independent on the rest.
2. I doubt not, but the created universe is all one thing or frame; and no one atome or part totally separated from, and independent on the rest.
3. But yet the parts are multitudes, and heterogeneous, and have their Individuation, and are at once many and one in several respects. And the unity of the Universe, or of inferior universal Causes (as the Sun, or an anima telluris, &c.) are certainly consistent with the specific and individual differences of the parts.
3. But yet the parts are multitudes, and heterogeneous, and have their Individuation, and are at once many and one in several respects. And the unity of the Universe, or of inferior universal Causes (as the Sun, or an anima telluris, &c.) are certainly consistent with the specifick and individual differences of the parts.