A26976:67
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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Ans. Dr. Glisson, de Vita Naturae and Campanella, have said so much against you of this, that supposing the Reader to have perused them, I will not repeat it.
Did you think that there is no Perception but sensitive or Intellectual? Such indeed the vegetative Spirit hath not; but it hath a vegetative Perception. A Plant groweth in a Soil of various qualities: It attracteth to itself that part of Nutriment which is congruous to it, and digesteth that so Attracted: And therefore it hath an answerable Perception, which sort is congruous to it, and which not, when it neglecteth one sort, and draweth another. It doth not see or feel it, nor understand it, but insensibly perceiveth it.
3. You say, you [do not easily assent to that conceit of a Trinity in this Conceptus formalis which I make to consist in Virtute una-trina, vitally, perceptiva, appetitiva.]
3. You say, you [do not easily assent to that conceit of a Trinity in this Conceptus formalis which I make to consist in Virtute una-trina, vitali, perceptiva, appetitiva.]
Ans. Nor did I easily assent to it; nor did Dr. Glisson after 80 Years of age, easily procure men to assent to it, nor Campanella take so marvellously with others as he did with our Commenius and some such. And far be it from me to expect you should easily assent to it, when I come