A26976:52
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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But if you take Penetrability passively, then you mean that Spirits may be penetrated by Bodies, or by one another, or both. No doubt you mean both, and so, as I said, Bodies also are penetrable, both actively and passively; that is, Bodies can penetrate Spirits, and be penetrated by Spirits. Whether any Bodies penetrate each other, viz. whether Light or its vehicle at least be a Body, and whether it penetrate the body of Glass or Chrystal, with more about these matters, I have heretofore spoken in my Reasons of the Christian Religion Append. Obj. 2. p. 525. and forward.
§ 3. To conclude this; as in natural mixed Bodies, there are three principles, Materia, Materiae Dispositio (for that I think is a fitter expression than Privatio) & Forma; so in simple Beings there are three (not parts, but) conceptus inadaequati answerable hereto; viz.
§ 3. To conclude this; as in natural mixt Bodies, there are three principles, Materia, Materiae Dispositio (for that I think is a fitter expression than Privatio) & Forma; so in simple Beings there are three (not parts, but) conceptus inadaequati answerable hereto; viz.
I. In the three passive Elements, Earth, Water and Air, there is in each, 1. The Matter, 2. The Disposition of that matter by contexture, and various modes, of which Impenetrability and Divisibility are parts; 3. The passive Form resulting from all these, which consisteth in their various aptitude to their uses; especially their Receptivity of the Influx of the Active Natures. Here you put two Attributes together, which are both but parts of the Materiae Dispositio, and call them two the Form.