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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.
A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Henry More at Christs-College in Cambridge.
A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Henry More at Christs-Colledge in Cambridge.
Reverend Sir,
I Had answered your desire sooner, but having lent out the Sadduc. Triumph. I staid till now to have •ad it returned (being loth to buy another, it costing me 6s.) But I was fain to get another at last, and •n the review I find that I have expressly given you my thoughts already •f your notion of a Spirit in my Methodus, having noted it in your Book of Atheism, and your Inch. Metaphys. In short. 1. I think you ⟨image 3⟩and I are agreed that we cannot conceive of a Spirit unico conceptu, but must have two inadequate conceptions of it: of which one is that which Dr. Glisson De Vita naturae, calls conceptus fundamentalis, and is that which we call Substantia: for we can scarce think of a Virtus formalis, which is not substantiae alicujus virtus, but qua virtus simpliciter existeth of itself; (unless we must so think with some of God.) And though this maketh not an actual composition, as Matter and Form in mixtis, yet intellectually we must take it as a distinct inadequate conceptus.
I Had answered your desire sooner, but having lent out the Sadduc. Triumph. I staid till now to have ad it returned (being loth to buy another, it costing me 6s.) But I was fain to get another at last, and n the review I find that I have exresly given you my thoughts already f your notion of a Spirit in my Methodus, having noted it in your Book of Atheism, and your Ench. Metaphys. In short. 1. I think you