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The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…
The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of quotations] / By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
printed by Timothy Green, 1722
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AND indeed, the Old Platonists had a Notion, of a certain Excellent Body, Pellucid, and Ethereal, Subservient unto the Faculties of the Soul, and Uniting it unto the more Terrestrial Body.
AND indeed, the Old Platonists had a Notion, of a certain Excellent Body, Pelluced, and Ethereal, Subservient unto the Faculties of the Soul, and Uniting it unto the more Terrestrial Body.
HEURNIUS, whom some Reckon and Value next unto Fernelius, (in his Institutions) describes it as, A kind of Ethereal Spirit, Ela•er […] out of the purest part of the Blood, and changed into the Substance of a very subtle Air; ⟨p. 4⟩and the prime Instrument of the Soul, for the performance of its Functions.
HEURNIUS, whom some Reckon and Value next unto Fernelius, (in his Institutions) describes it as, A kind of Etherial Spirit, Ela•er 〈…〉 out of the purest part of the Blood, and changed into the Substance of a very subtil Air; ⟨p. 4⟩and the prime Instrument of the Soul, for the performance of its Functions.
IV. OUR Nishmath-Chajim seems to be Commensurate unto our Bodies; and our Bodies are Conformable to the Shape which GOD our Maker gives to that Plastic Spirit, (if we may call it so:) But by what Principle the Particles of it, which may be finer than those of the Light it self, are kept in their Cohesion to one another; tis a thing yet Unknown unto us.