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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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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.
E. g. Many individual Apples grow on the same Tree; yea, Crabs and Apples by divers grafts, nourished on the same stock: One may rot, or be sower, and not another. Millions of Trees, as also of Herbs and Flowers, good and poisonous, all grow in the same earth. Here is Unity, and great Diversity. And tho self-moving Animals be not fixed on the earth, no doubt they have a contiguity, or continuity, as parts with the Universe. But for all that, a Toad is not a Man, nor a man in torment, undifferenced from another at ease, nor a bad man all one with a good.
E. g. Many individual Apples grow on the same Tree; yea, Crabs and Apples by divers grafts, nourished on the same stock: One may rot, or be sower, and not another. Millions of Trees, as also of Herbs and Flowers, good and poysonous, all grow in the same earth. Here is Unity, and great Diversity. And tho self-moving Animals be not fixed on the earth, no doubr they have a contiguity, or continuity, as parts with the Universe. But for all that, a Toad is not a Man, nor a man in torment, undifferenced from another at ease, nor a bad man all one with a good.
§. 19. And if any should have a conce, That there is nothing but God and matter. I have fully confuted it in the Appendix to