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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
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.
§. 20. When you tell us of [One life in all, differenced only by diversity of Organs], you mean God, or a common created Soul. If God, I tell you where I have confuted it. It's pity to torment or punish God in a murderer, or call him wicked in a wicked man: or that one man should be hanged, and another praised, because the Engines of their bodies are diverse. But the best Anatomists say, That nothing is to be seen in the brain of other Animals, why they might not be ⟨p. 41⟩as rational as Men. And if it be an Anime creata communis that you mean, either […] think it is a universal Soul to the univers•• world, or only to this Earth or Vortex. If to all the World, you feign it to have […] Prerogative. If to part of the world, […] each Vortex, Sun, Star, &c. have a dist••• individuate superior Soul, why not […] so inferiors? And why may not millions of individual Spirits consist with more common or universal Spirits, as well as the life […] Worms in your belly with yours. That which hath no Soul or Spirit of its own, […] not fit for such reception and communion with superior Spirits, as that which hath. Communion requireth some similitude. We see God useth not all things alike, because he makes them not like.
§. 20. When you tell us of [One life in all, differenc'd only by diversity of Organs], you mean God, or a common created Soul. If God, I tell you where I have confuted it. It's pity to torment or punish God in a murderer, or call him wicked in a wicked man: or that one man should be hang'd, and another prais'd, because the Engines of their bodies are diverse. But the best Anatomists say, That nothing is to be seen in the brain of other Animals, why they might not be ⟨p. 41⟩as rational as Men. And if it be an Anim• creata communis that you mean, either 〈…〉 think it is a universal Soul to the univers•• world, or only to this Earth or Vortex. If to all the World, you feign it to have 〈…〉 Prerogative. If to part of the world, 〈…〉 each Vortex, Sun, Star, &c. have a dist individuate superior Soul, why not so inferiors? And why may not millions of individual Spirits consist with more common or universal Spirits, as well as the life Worms in your belly with yours. That which hath no Soul or Spirit of its own, not fit for such reception and communion with superior Spirits, as that which hath. Communion requireth some similitude. We see God useth not all things alike, because he makes them not like.