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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.
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.
2. Do you think this God can make a Creature that hath a subordinate Soul, or Spirit, to be the Principle of its own Vital Action, Intellection, and Volition, or not? Cannot God make a Spirit? If not, it is either because it is a Contradiction (which none can pretend), or because God is not Omnipotent; that is, is not God; and so there is no God; and so you deny what you granted. But if God can make a Spirit,
3. Why should you think he would not? Some of your mind say, That he doth all the good that he can; or else he were not perfectly good. Certainly his goodness is equal to his greatness, and is communicative.
3. Why should you think he would not? Some of your mind say, That he doth all the good that he can; or else he were not perfectly good. Certainly his goodness is equal to his greatness, and is commmunicative.