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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.
§. 21. But if the difference between Beasts, Trees, Stones, and Men, be only the organical contexture of the body; then 1. Either all these have but one Soul, and […] are but one, save corporeally. 2. Or […] very Stone, Tree and Beast hath an Intellectual Soul: for it is evident that man hath by its Operations.
§. 21. But if the difference between Beasts, Trees, Stones, and Men, be only the organical contexture of the body; then 1. Either all these have but one Soul, and 〈…〉 are but one, save corporeally. 2. Or 〈…〉 very Stone, Tree and Beast hath an Intellectual Soul: for it is evident that man hath by its Operations.
I. Had you made but Virtue and Vice to be only the effects of the bodies contexture, sure you would only blame the maker •f ⟨p. 42⟩your body, and not your self, for any of your Crimes: For yon did not make your own body, if you were nothing.
Is the common light and sense of Nature no Evidence? Doth not all the world difference Virtue and Vice, moral good and evil? Is it only the difference of an Instrument in Tune, and out of Tune? Either then all called sin is good; or God, or the universal Soul, only is to be blamed. Then to call you a Knave, or a Liar, or Perjured, &c. is no more disgrace, than to say, that you are sick, or blind. Then all Laws are made only to bind God, or the Anima mundi; and all punishment is threatened to God, or this common Soul. And it is God, or the common Soul only in a body, which sorroweth, feareth, feeleth pain or pleasure.