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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
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§. 37. II. And you have at hand sensible proof of the individuation of spirits, by Witches, Contracts, and Apparitions: of which the world has unquestionable proof, tho there be very many Cheats. Read Mr. Glanvill's new Book, published by Dr. Moore, Lavater de Spectris, Zanchy de Angilii, Manlii Collect. Bodin's Daemonolog. Remigius of Witches, besides all the Mallei Malificorum, and doubt if you can. If you do, I can give you yet more, with full proof.
§. 38. III. But all that I have said to you, is but the least part, in comparison of the assurance which you may have by the full ⟨p. 69⟩revelats on of Jesus Christ, who hath brought life and immortality to light in the Gospel▪ where the state, the doom, the rewards and punishment of souls is asserted.
And without dark and long Ambages, or Roman Juggles, we prove the truth of this Gospel, briefly and infallibly thus:
I. The History of Christ's Life, Miracles, Doctrine, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, the Apostles Miracles, &c. is proved by such forementioned evidence, as hath physical certainty: Not such as dependeth only on mens honesty, or moral argument, much less on a pretended determining authority; but such as dependeth on necessary acts of man, even the consent of all sorts of contrary minds and interests, as we know the Statutes of the Land, or other certain History. But we are so far from needing to ask, which part of Christians it is that is this Church, that is to be believed, that it tendeth to the ascertaining of us, that all the Christian World, Papists, Protestants, Greeks, Muscovites, Armenians, Jacobites, Nestorians, &c. herein agree, even while they oppose each other. To know whether there was a Julius, or Augustus Caesar, a Virgil, Ovid Cicero, and which are their Works; yea, which are the Acts of Councils no man goeth to an authorized determining