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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.
To love our selves, to be unwilling to be miserable, and willing to be happy; to love God as good, if known, &c. are acts of the Soul as necessary, as for fire to burn combustible contiguous matter; or for a Brute to eat; so that all the Testimonies which is produced by these necessary acts by knowing men, hath a Physical certainty, the contrary being impossible. And this is infallible historical ⟨p. 64⟩knowledge of matter of fact. Thus we know there is such a City as Rome, Paris, Venice, &c. and that there was such a man as K. James, Ed. 6. Hen. 8. William the Conqueror, &c. And that the Statutes now ascribed to Ed. 3. and other Kings and their Parliaments are genuine. For Judges judge by them; Lawyers plead them, Kings own them, all men hold their Estates and Lives by them. Contrary mens Interest by Lawyers are daily pleaded by them against each other; and if any one would deny, forge or corrupt a Statute▪ Interest would engage the rest against him to detect his fraud.
To love our selves, to be unwilling to be miserable, and willing to be happy; to love God as good, if known, &c. are acts of the Soul as necessary, as for fire to burn combustible contiguous matter; or for a Bruit to eat; so that all the Testimonies which is produced by these necessary acts by knowing men, hath a Physical certainty, the contrary being impossible. And this is infallible historical ⟨p. 64⟩knowledg of matter of fact. Thus we know there is such a City as Rome, Paris, Venice, &c. and that there was such a man as K. James, Ed. 6. Hen. 8. William the Conqueror, &c. And that the Statutes now ascribed to Ed. 3. and other Kings and their Parliaments are genuine. For Judges judge by them; Lawyers plead them, Kings own them, all men hold their Estates and Lives by them. Contrary mens Interest by Lawyers are daily pleaded by them against each other; and if any one would deny, forge or corrupt a Statute▪ Interest would engage the rest against him to detect his fraud.