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A30633	Of the soul of the world and of particular souls in a letter to Mr. Lock, occasioned by Mr. Keil's reflections upon an essay lately published concerning reason / by the author of that essay.	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1699 (1699)	Wing B6153; ESTC R20304	19,901	52

any other way be sure of it but by Revelation If he mean it is impossible I should be absolutely sure of it but by Revelation and that for this reason 't is a Presumption in me to assert the Opinion since I am not assured of it that way he must excuse me if I differ from him For in the first place I will take the liberty to tell him what I believe most others who consider would upon occasion that there are many Degrees of a just Confidence that yet do all fall much beneath Infallibility or absolute Certainty Besides methinks it should content him as being a sufficient ground of asserting any Opinion even with Confidence that there is Reason for the Opinion tho he that asserts it cannot be absolutely sure of it without a Revelation especially since Mr. Keil himself I dare say will not affirm he had a Revelation for all he confidently asserts in his Book of which yet he cannot be absolutely sure without one but what there is of Revelation in the Question between him and me he may be told hereafter and might have learned somewhat of it from the Essay where also he might have seen that there was some reason for the Opinion And whereas he says that I as confidently assert my Opinion to be true as other Men believe that it is false If I should yield him so much what would follow but this That if this be all 't is only Confidence on either side I confidently assert it to be true other men as confidently believe that it is false And when equal Confidence and nothing else is in both the Scales what shall turn them But certainly tho other Men if but other Men believe an Opinion to be false that any one affirms to be true it will not necessarily follow that 't is false indeed for if it should Mr. Keil himself who writes in opposition to other Men and those very worthy Men must believe himself in the wrong Box till he can convince them ay and all the rest of Mankind that think otherwise than he does for till then other Men will believe that what he says is false Indeed if my Opinion went contrary to common Sense and that all other Men or but all considerate wise and thinking Men were in another belief I should be very apt to suspect I was imposed upon by false Appearances but there is nothing of this in the matter as will be manifest presently Mr. Keil closes up his Censure for all he says against me is Censure only not Argument with telling his Readers his Belief which is that I will find but few that will take the Opinion upon my word In truth it is not my desire as it is not reason any should nor as it falls out is there any need they should for if a Revelation in the Holy Scriptures if the Authority of some of the most thinking and sagacious Philosophers and if Reasons taken from the Phaenomena of Nature can put any Sentiment beyond the Misfortune of being precarious mine is safe enough from that Imputation As for Revelation what interest it hath in this Opinion I have shewed in my Essay from Genesis Ch. 1. v. 2. compared with Psalm 147. v. 15 16 c. which I will not repeat only I will add that I think it abundantly confirmed by an Evidence I find in the Book intituled The Wisdom of Solomon where it is said Ch. 1. v. 7. The Spirit of the Lord filleth all the World and the same that maintaineth all things hath Knowledg of the Voice This Spirit as it hath in the Holy Scriptures the Denomination of the Spirit of God because it comes from him and is his hand in all his Influences upon the World so it hath that of the Spirit or Soul of the Creatures whether these be Plants Sensitives or Men as being that Vital Principle that acts and actuates them all Thus in Psal. 104. v. 29. that which is called the Breath of the Creatures or the immediate Principle that makes them live and is their Soul upon whose Departure they are said to die and to return to their Dust is in the 30th verse of the same Psalm called the Spirit of the Lord which being sent into them makes them live Thou sendest forth thy Spirit and they live and thou renewest the face of the Earth This is particularly affirmed as to Man by Elihu Job 33. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me and the Breath of the Almighty hath given me Life By Job himself Chap. 27. v. 3. All the while my Breath is in me and the Spirit of God is in my Nostrils And by Elihu again more comprehensively Job Chap. 34. v. 14 15. If he set his Heart upon Man to take notice of him and remark his Iniquities and consequently gather unto himself his Spirit and his Breath all Flesh shall perish together and Man shall turn again unto Dust. Plainly intimating that the Spirit of God as if it were a common Soul is the Original Principle of Life and vital Operation in Man as well as in all things else that have Life See Isa. 42. 5. The Prophetical Scheme in Ezekiel Ch. 37. concerning the dry Bones is very pertinent and full to the same purpose For when the dry Bones are to be made to live God is introduced saying to them v. 5. Behold I will cause Breath to enter into you and you shall live And he effects it by the same steps and in the same manner as he created Man at first For first he organized Bodies v. 7 8. The Bones came together Bone to his Bone the Sinews and the Flesh came upon them and the Skin covered them above But tho the Bodies were organized yet being not inspir'd for there was no Breath in them they were not made to live as yet and therefore to make them living Bodies and put Soul into them the Prophet had a Commission to the MUNDANE SPIRIT to come and animate them v. 9 10. Then said he unto me Prophesy unto the Wind prophesy Son of Man and say to the Wind Thus saith the Lord God Come from the four Winds O Breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live So I prophesied as he commanded me and the Breath came into them and they lived Where it may be observed that the Spirit that quickneth and giveth Life to those Bodies is compared to inspired Wind or Breath that this Spirit of Life or quickening Breath is diffused throughout the Universe in all the Quarters thereof and that it is intirely at the Command and Beck of God For it is Breath is called upon to come and quicken those Bodies and it is called upon to come and quicken them from the four Winds and it is no sooner called upon but it comes forthwith and quickens them It may also be observed that the Breath or common Spirit of Life that blew upon those Bodies as it came upon them all so it was apportioned by

OF THE SOUL OF THE WORLD AND OF Particular Souls IN A Letter to Mr. Lock occasioned by Mr. Keil's Reflections upon an Essay lately published concerning Reason By the Author of that Essay Minut. Fael in Octav. Veritas obvia sed requirentibus Erasmus in Hyperaspist l. 2. Verborum umbris territamur quùm in re nihil sit absurdi LONDON Printed for Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar M DC XC IX TO JOHN LOCK Esq SIR IT may seem an improper way of making satisfaction for a former Trouble to give a new one yet since you have pardoned the Confidence that made a Present to you of my Essay concerning Reason and that some very sharp Reflections have been published on a part of that Essay I hold my self obliged to send you my Defence of it My Intention in this Address is not to ingage you in the Protection or to the Countenance of any Opinion further than as Reason allows it nor is it to insinuate that you are of mine to gain it the more Authority For tho I could not procure a greater Advantage to any Opinion I own than to have others perswaded that you are of it yet I must do you the justice to profess that I am wholly ignorant what yours is as to the Point in debate I only appeal unto you now as I did at first as to an Arbiter or Judg for which your excellent penetrating Understanding highly qualifies you without inviting you as a Party to come to my Assistance which at this time I hope I shall not need Mr. Keil in the Introduction to his Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth hath done me the Honor tho I am not sure he designed it for one to mention me with several very celebrated Persons but he doth it in that manner and with that Abatement that I have no great cause of being exalted on that regard After he had instanced in Spinosa Dr. More and Mr. Hobbs as Authors of great Discoveries which might well demand Esteem and Veneration if they were real he picks out some of their Opinions which he believed the most obnoxious that by them his Readers may see how well they deserve such a Character He then adds But a new Philosopher naming me who am not ambitious of that Title has much outdone any I have yet mentioned in a Book lately printed concerning Reason there he assures us that there is but one universal Soul in the World which is omnipresent and acts upon all particular Organized Bodies and makes them produce Actions more or less perfect in proportion to the good Disposition of their Organs So that in Beasts that Soul is the Principle of the sensitive and vital Functions in Men it does not only perform these but also all other rational Actions just as if you would suppose a Hand of a vast Extention and a prodigious number of Fingers playing upon all the Organ-pipes in the World and making every one sound a particular Note according to the Disposition and Frame of the Pipe So this universal Soul acting upon all Bodies makes every one produce various Actions according to the different Disposition and Frame of their Organs This Opinion he as confidently asserts to be true as other Men believe that it is salse tho it is impossible he should any other way be sure of it but by Revelation and I believe he will find but few that will take it upon his word Mr. Keil I hope will give me leave to tell him without offence that the Representation of my Opinion had he pleased to make it in my own Terms would have been less invidious and withal more just than it appears in his However since he hath endeavoured by a Comparison to illustrate or else to expose for I cannot well resolve which 't is the Sentiment I own and that this Comparison is capable of being applied unto it to good purpose I will my self make use of it my own way But first I must give a Plan of my true Notion which in short is this That the Mosaical Spirit called Gen. I. v. 2. the Spirit of God being a Spirit of Life and present every where in all the Parts of the Universe is the Original of all the Energy Motion and Action therein especially of that which is Animal And that particular Souls for such I acknowledg there be are Portions of that Spirit acting in the several particular Bodies in which they are according to the Capacities Dispositions and Qualities of those Bodies A Sentiment conformable to two received Maxims Quicquid recipitur recipitur ad modum recipientis Actus activorum sunt in patiente disposito To make it imaginable let us suppose a vast Organ consisting of innumerable Pipes of different Sizes and Fabrick and this Organ to be filled with Wind blown into it and the Wind to be received and some portion of it appropriated by each particular Pipe Imagine also innumerable Fingers playing upon those several Pipes For then each particular Pipe being played upon will by means of the Wind be made to sound a particular Note differing from the Notes of all the other Pipes according as its Qualities Dispositions and Fabrick differ The World is as such an Organ an orderly Aggregate and the several sorts of Bodies that compose it are as the several Pipes of that Organ the Mosaical Spirit present every where throughout the whole World is as the Wind which is blown into the Organ This Spirit is received and apportioned by the several particular Bodies as the Wind in an Organ by the several particular Pipes and as these inspired with Wind being played upon do sound different Notes or Tunes so those animated with their respective Portions of the Mosaical Spirit being impressed and acted upon by Objects do perform their several vital Functions according to their several Dispositions and Fabrick Thus far the Comparison plainly holds but it may be carried a greater length and made serve to illustrate what I say in my Essay concerning the nature of Animals of Spirits and of Souls For it may be added that as the power of making an Organ sound at all or the power of making a particular Pipe to sound a particular Note arises not solely from the frame of the Organ or from that of the Pipe for the Organ sounds not at all if it be not inspired with Wind and tho inspired with Wind and consequently tho it gives a Sound yet it will not sound to such and such a particular Tune if it be not played upon with the Fingers In like manner the Power of making a Body live or of any particular Instrument of it exercise any particular Action of Cogitation as of Seeing or of Hearing arises not solely from the frame of the Body or from that of the particular Instrument the Eye or the Ear for the Body lives not if it be not animated with some Portion of the Mosaical Spirit and if it be