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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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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.
2. Adam and Eve were blessed with a generative multiplying Faculty: but they did not generate God; nor did every brute that had also that Faculty. Therefore there is a Soul which is not God, in every Animal, (nor yet an Universal Soul).
2. Adam and Eve were blessed with a generative multiplying Faculty: but they did not generate God; nor did every bruit that had also that Faculty. Therefore there is a Soul which is not God, in every Animal, (nor yet an Universal Soul).
3. Adam, no doubt, could not know external sensible Objects, till they were brought within the reach of his sense: no more can we.