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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Indeed if we have all but one Soul, it's easy to love our Neighbours as our selves, because our Neighbours are our selves. But it's as easy to hate our selves as our Enemies, and the good as the bad, if all be one (for forma dat nomen & esse). But it's strange, that either God, or the Soul of the World, shall hate it self, and put it self to pain, and fight against it self, as in Wars, &c.
Indeed if we have all but one Soul, it's easie to love our Neighbours as our selves, because our Neighbours are our selves. But it's as easie to hate our selves as our Enemies, and the good as the bad, if all be one (for forma dat nomen & esse). But it's strange, that either God, or the Soul of the World, shall hate it self, and put it self to pain, and fight against it self, as in Wars, &c.
But if you think still, That there is nothing but God and dead matter actuated by him, I would beg your Answer to these few Questions.
1. Do you really believe, that there is a God? that is, an eternal infinite self-being, who hath all that power, knowledge, and goodness of will, in transcendent Eminency, which any Creature hath formally, and is the efficient Governor of all else that is. If not, all the world condemneth you: for it is not an uncaused Being, and can have nothing but from its Cause, who can give nothing greater than it self.
1. Do you really believe, that there is a God? that is, an eternal infinite self-being, who hath all that power, knowledg, and goodness of will, in transcendent Eminency, which any Creature hath formally, and is the efficient Governor of all else that is. If not, all the world condemneth you: for it is not an uncaused Being, and can have nothing but from its Cause, who can give nothing greater than it self.