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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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§. 26. Your mistake of Adam's cas•• and Solomon's words, is so gross, that I will not confute it, lest the description of it offend you.
§. 17. The case of failing memories is answered before, in the case of Infancy and Apoplexies, &c. Our memory faileth in our sleep: and yet when we awake, we find that there remains the same knowledge of Arts and Sciences. They did not end at night, and were not all new made the next morning. The Acts ceased, because the receptivity of the passive Organ ceased: but the Habit and Faculty continued. And when memory in old men faileth about names, and words, and little matters, their judgments about great things are usually stronger (by better Habits) than young mens.
§. 17. The case of failing memories is answered before, in the case of Infancy and Apop•exies, &c. Our memory faileth in our sleep: and yet when we awake, we find that there remains the same knowledg of Arts and Sciences. They did not end at night, and were not all new made tne next morning. The Acts ceased, because the receptivity of the passive Organ ceased: but the Habit and Faculty continued. And when memory in old men faileth about names, and words, and little matters, their judgments about great things are usually stronger (by better Habits) than young mens.
§. 28. You say, You know nothing wherein Man excels Beasts, but may be referred to the benefit of speech and hands, capable of effecting its Conceptions.