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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
OF THE NATURE OF SPIRITS: › Section 3-4: Ad SECT. III. & IV.
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Ad SECT. III. & IV.
§ 1. Your Third Section I am not concerned in: I tell you still I deny not your Penetrability and Indiscerpibility, though I lay not the stress on them as to ⟨p. 33⟩Certainty or Importance, as you do, and am past doubt that they do but defectively speak the Substantiality sub conceptu modali & dispositivo, and are unskilfully called the Forma Spiritus.
§ 1. YOur Third Section I am not concerned in: I tell you still I deny not your Penetrability and Indiscerpibility, though I lay not the stress on them as to ⟨p. 33⟩Certainty or Importance, as you do, and am past doubt that they do but defectively speak the Substantiality sub conceptu modali & dispositivo, and are unskilfully called the Forma Spiritus.
§ 2. Your 4th Section I had rather not have seen. 1. You dislike that I say, that [a self-moving Principle I dare not say is proper to a Spirit.] I hope Ignorance is never the worse for being confessed: All are not so wise as you. I deny it not; but I am not certain that Stones, Earth, and other heavy things, move not to the Earth by a self-moving Principle. I am not sure that if a Stone in the Air fall down, it is by a Spirits motion, and that God hath not made Gravitation, and other aggravative motion of Passives, to be an Essential self-moving Principle. Few men I think have thought otherwise. And yet I am not sure that all Stones and Clods are alive. If you are, bear with our Ignorance; for that is no Error.