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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    other Planets, which are purpofely fitted, as be“ fore obferv’d, for the Entertainment of ’em thereby to anfwer the wile Defignsof its Crea¬ tion for their Ufe and Benefit. The fame may be alfo obferv’d as to the Vi- fibiiity of the Rays or the reflected Light from the Bodies a d Atmofpheres of the primary and fecondary Planets, which, being themfeives illumiated in the fame manner as this Globe we inhabit, can again reftedt that very Illumination into the fame Atmpfphere that is capable to entertain the Light of the Sun ; when, at the fame Time it mu ft be felf-evident, that there can no material Particles arifing from their Bo¬ dies, accompany that borrowed and reflected Light, and it is certain alfo that the Rays of Light which fhine from them become luminous, vifibie, and confpicuous in the very fame man¬ ner, and by the very fame Laws of the primary Light itfelf, fo that the Rays of Light are in thcmfelves immaterial and purely fpirituous. I t may be objected that the Light of the Sun, and thofe of the Moon and Planets, which fhine with a borrowed Light, are different; in that the Sun affords Heat along with the Light, but the Moon and Planets afford no Heat, but only a Reflection of that Light they receive from the Sun, and that that Heat which proceeds from the primary Fountain, the Sun, muft at leaft carry along with it feme very ratified Pai'v tides and Effluvia of Matter from its flaming Fountain of F 1 r k. 13-4 111