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.

  • Parker, Benjamin, -1747.
Date:
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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    which, I believe is now the only Objection that is made againft it. First then, let it be obferv’d that the Rays of Light proceeding from the Sun, except they are incorporated with a proper Medium for their Entertainment, are invifible (fuch as are fpiritugl Exigences, except incorporated with fomething Material) and therefore paffibje with- out Hindrance or Retardation of the Motions of the Planets Revolutions ; Notwithftanding the Planets themfelves are warm’d and enlight- ned by the Heat and Light of the Sun’s Rayss by having their Atmofpheres purpofely adapted by infinite Wifdom and Power for the Recep¬ tion and Entertainment thereof by Refradtion and Refledfion, Thus tho’ the Sun itfelf is a material Body? or a Globe of Fire, yet it is fo adapted by infinite Wifdom to afford Light and Heat to the Globes within its luminous Reach, and yet the Rays of its Light and Pleat obftrudi not the Motions of thefe Globes thus enlightened and warm’d by its benign Influence., For it is plain that the Sun’s Rays ceafe to Illuminate any further than they find Enter¬ tainment in a proper Medium, as is obferv’d in our Atmofphere before its Rifing and after its Setting $ fo that where they are not incorporate with fomething Material they become Invifible^ and no ways luminous, which proves them to t>e only Spirituous j becaufe only luminous and vifibfe thro? their becoming incorporate with the Atmofphere of our Globe, or thofeof the other