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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.
§. 34. You here pag. 7. divert from the point of the Immortality or Nature of the Soul, to that of the Resurrection of the Body: of which I will now say but this; Christ rose, and hath promised us a Resurrection, and nothing is difficult to God. [Greek or Hebrew] oft signifieth our living another life after this. The Body hath more parts than Earth and Water. The Spirits as we call them, which are the igneous parts, lodged in the purest aerial in the blood, &c. are that body in and by which the Soul doth operate on the rest. How much of these material Spirits the Soul may retain with it after Death, we know not: and if it have such a body▪ it hath partly the same; and God can make what Addition he please, which shall not contradict identity: Paul saith of Corn, God giveth it a body as pleaseth him, in some respect the same, &c. in some not the same that was sown. We do not hold, That all the flesh that ever a man had, shall be raised as that mans. If one man that was fat, grow lean in his sickness, we do not say, that all the flesh that sickness wasted, shall rise: It shall rise a spiritual body. God knoweth that which you and I know not.
§. 34. You here pag. 7. divert from the point of the Immortality or Nature of the Soul, to that of the Resurrection of the Body: of which I will now say but this; Christ rose, and hath promised us a Resurrection, and nothing is difficult to God. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 oft signifieth our living another life after this. The Body hath more parts than Earth and Water. The Spirits as we call them, which are the igneous parts, lodged in the purest aereal in the blood, &c. are that body in and by which the Soul doth operate on the rest. How much of these material Spirits the Soul may retain with it after Death, we know not: and if it have such a body▪ it hath partly the same; and God can make what Addition he please, which shall not contradict identity: Paul saith of Corn, God giveth it a body as pleaseth him, in some respect the same, &c. in some not the same that was sown. We do not hold, That all the flesh that ever a man had, shall be raised as that mans. If one man that was fat, grow lean in his sickness, we do not say, that all the flesh that sickness wasted, shall rise: It shall rise a spiritual body. God knoweth that which you and I know not.