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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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§. 29. You say, You know no better way to attain a right knowledge of our selves, than by beholding our selves in Adam, and enquiring what Nature had endued him with, which will fall far short of what we now admire in our selves.
§. 29. You say, You know no better way to attain a right knowledg of our selves, than by beholding our selves in Adam, and enquiring what Nature had endued him with, which will fall far short of what we now admire in our selves.
Answ. 1. As a multitude of Objects, and Experiences, more tend to Wisdom than one alone; so to know both what Adam was, and what all men are, and do, doth evidence more to our information, than to know Adam's first Case alone.
2. Adam's first Powers are to be known by his acts; and his acts were not to be done at once, in a minute, or a day: And we have not the History of his Life much after his Fall. But we may be sure, that Adam's Nature in Innocency, was no baser than ours corrupted. And therefore Adam had the Powers of doing whatever other men since have done.
3. But let us come to your Test: 1. Adam was made a living Soul by the breath of God, after the making of his body of the earth.