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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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§. 23. Add page 5. You well say, That Life is the cause of all motion: Yea, infinite Life, Wisdom and Love, is the cause of all: but there be second Causes under it: Plurima ex uno. And it maketh things various, which it moveth variously; and maketh them vital, sensitive or mental, which he will move to vital, sensitive and mental acts. Operari sequitur esse.
§. 24. You are apt to believe, That those eminent Faculties wherewith men seem mere Sensitives, are only the improvement of Speech, and reiterated Acts, till they become Habits.
§. 24. You are apt to believe, That those eminent Faculties wherewith men seem meer Sensitives, are only the improvement of Speech, and reiterated Acts, till they become Habits.
Ans. 1. I had a Parrot that spoke so very plainly, that no Man could discern but he could have spoke as well as a Man, if he had but had the Intellect of a Man; and quickly would learn new words, but showed no understanding of them.
Ans. 1. I had a Parrot that spoke so very plainly, that no Man could discern but he could have spoke as well as a Man, if he had but had the Intellect of a Man; and quickly would learn new words, but shewed no understanding of them.