Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker.

  • Benjamin Parker
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1738
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Credit: Philosophical dissertations, with proper reflections : proving I. The non-eternity of matter and that there is a vacuum. II. That there must necessarily be one self-existent being in three self-existent properties ... III. That the light and heat of the sun ... are purely spiritous ... IV. That the soul is immortal / By Benjamin Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But all created Beings whether Material or Spiritual, as they rauft neceffarily have had a Beginning of Exigence, muft be fubjedled to Duration, as well as to Place or Motion $ for whatever had a Beginning, its future Exigence muft ever be lengthening, tho’ it ftiou’d exift to Eternity hereafter ; therefore its Exiftence is Progteftivd tho’ Eternal to come, and fo may be call’d an eternal Duration. But Neceflity of Exiftence, as it is without Beginning, fo it implies an Impoffibility of its Non-Exiftence, and renders fuch Exiftence in¬ capable of Progreffion or Duration, and there- fore of its Eternity being either iengthned or jhortned, and fo incapable of either Additions or Subftradtions. DISSERTATION IV* * Of the Immortality of the Soul. ROM the foregoing Proof of the Being and Jgj Attributes of God it appears, that Matter is Incapable of Self-Exiftence, therefore it may be fubjected to Decay and Corruption : And that the Self-Exiftent Being muft neceffarily be a fpiritual and immaterial Effence, therefore no¬ thing that was created could become capable of Intelligence and Reafon that was merely Mate¬ rial, and not actuated with Spiritj for whate¬ ver material Bodies are endued with Reafon and Intelligence it muft be from the Adtuation of an immaterial and fpiritual Exiftence in that ma¬ terial Body y and tho’ during the Union of this fpiritual Exiftence, or of the Soul with the Bo¬ dy, the Body will enjoy Senfations proper to their joint Connedlion, yet there are alfo Sen¬ fations
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