A26976:93
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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§ 1. I Confessed my Ignorance of the Cause of the descensus gravium; whether it be from a Principle made by God essential to the matter that descendeth, ⟨p. 37⟩or from an intrinsic compounding Active nature, or only from an extrinsic Mover. You here bid me not despair, for it is demonstrable that the descensus gravium is not from any principle springing from their own Matter, but from an Immaterial principle distinct therefrom.
§ 1. I Confest my Ignorance of the Cause of the descensus gravium; whether it be from a Principle made by God essential to the matter that descendeth, ⟨p. 37⟩or from an intrinsick compounding Active nature, or only from an extrinsick Mover. You here bid me not despair, for it is demonstrable that the descensus gravium is not from any principle springing from their own Matter, but from an Immaterial principle distinct therefrom.
Ans. 1. All doth not demonstrate to me, which some call demonstration; I perceive you note not at all what is my doubt, and how can you then solve it? I do not think that the Gravitation is from a principle springing from the Matter. How can a Principle of Motion spring from Matter? But the doubt is of the several ways forenamed: 1. Whether it be from a principle in the Matter, as Dr. Glisson thought, as a Conceptus inadaequatus of its Essence, or at least an inseparable Quality or Accident. 2. Or whether it be by an Essential Compounding Principle, as Anima in homine: 3. Or by an extrinsic Agent only; Did you think that you had answered these?
Ans. 1. All doth not demonstrate to me, which some call demonstration; I perceive you note not at all what is my doubt, and how can you then solve it? I do not think that the Gravitation is from a principle springing from the Matter. How can a Principle of Motion spring from Matter? But the doubt is of the several waies forenamed: 1. Whether it be from a principle in the Matter, as Dr. Glisson thought, as a Conceptus inadaequatus of its Essence, or at least an inseparable Quality or Accident. 2. Or whether it be by an Essential Compounding Principle, as Anima in homine: 3. Or by an extrinsick Agent only; Did you think that you had answered these?