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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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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 ⟨p. 26⟩not to you as a Teacher. But whereas you say, that these make three no more than Animal, Homo, and Brutum, or Cupiditas, Desiderium, and Fuga, you silence me; for it beseemeth me not to speak to you in a Teaching Language, and there is no other to convince you. And if all that I have said in Method. Theol. will not do it, I confess it will not easily be done, Animal, Homo, and Brutum, are three words containing only a Generical, and specific nature in two distinct species of Subjects: If you think that in the Sun Virtus-motiva, illuminativa, & calefactiva, or in mans Soul a vegetative, sensitive, and Intellective power, or in the latter, mentally-active, Intellective, and Volitive Virtue, are no other, I will not persuade you to change your mind, much less give you any Answer to your simile of cupiditas, desiderium, fuga, save that you might almost as well have named any three Words.
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 ⟨p. 26⟩not to you as a Teacher. But whereas you say, that these make three no more than Animal, Homo, and Brutum, or Cupiditas, Desiderium, and Fuga, you silence me; for it beseemeth me not to speak to you in a Teaching Language, and there is no other to convince you. And if all that I have said in Method. Theol. will not do it, I confess it will not easily be done, Animal, Homo, and Brutum, are three words containing only a Generical, and specifick nature in two distinct species of Subjects: If you think that in the Sun Virtus-motiva, illuminativa, & calefactiva, or in mans Soul a vegetative, sensitive, and Intellective power, or in the latter, mentally-active, Intellective, and Volitive Virtue, are no other, I will not persuade you to change your mind, much less give you any Answer to your simile of cupiditas, desiderium, fuga, save that you might almost as well have named any three Words.