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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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And I confess to you that I have oft told the Sadducees and Infidels, that urge seeming impossibilities against ⟨p. 9⟩the Resurrection, and the activity of separate Souls for want of Organs, that they are not sure that the Soul taketh not with it, at its departure hence, some seminal material Spirits (ethereal and airy;) and so that this spirituous or igneous body, which it carrieth hence, is a semen to the body, which it shall have at the Resurrection, no man knoweth the contrary, and no man knoweth that it is so.
And I confess to you that I have oft told the Sadduces and Infidels, that urge seeming impossibilities against ⟨p. 9⟩the Resurrection, and the activity of separate Souls for want of Organs, that they are not sure that the Soul taketh not with it, at its departure hence, some seminal material Spirits (ethereal and airy;) and so that this spirituous or igneous body, which it carrieth hence, is a semen to the body, which it shall have at the Resurrection, no man knoweth the contrary, and no man knoweth that it is so.
The Soul is many months here in organizing its own body in generation, and more in nourishing it to a useful state: That particular organical bodies are made ready to receive them just at death, is hard to be believed: That the matter of the Universe is still ready is past doubt. But how organized, or how the Soul worketh without Organs, we shall better know hereafter. Your opinion much favoureth the Pythagoreans; If the Soul be never out of a body, is it not as like to come into one new forming in the womb, as into we know not what or where?
The Soul is many months here in organizing its own body in generation, and more in nourishing it to a useful state: That particular organical bodies are made ready to receive them just at death, is hard to be believed: That the matter of the Vniverse is still ready is past doubt. But how organized, or how the Soul worketh without Organs, we shall better know hereafter. Your opinion much favoureth the Pythagoreans; If the Soul be never out of a body, is it not as like to come into one new forming in the womb, as into we know not what or where?