TO THE
READER.
Reader.
HAving in the foregoing Discourse sufficiently declared, impartially discussed, and as I hope, solidly Confuted the Opinions of the Holenmerians and Nullibists, I thought it not amiss to exhibit also to thy view, the Opinion of the Psychopyrists, (for so I rather call them than Pneumatopyrists; because the Word is more compendious and less sonorous, and may bear the same Sense, ψύχιν as well as πνέειν, signifying Spirare, whence the Latin word Spiritus is, and our English, Spirit. Not to add that all Created Spirits, and they only are here meant, are ψυχαὶ in all probability, and actuate some Matter or other) I thought fit, I say, to acquaint thee with the Opinion of these Psychopyrists, Philosophers that make the Essence or Substance of all created Spirits to be Fire, for so the Word Psychopyrist signifies.
It is an Opinion which I have had no occasion to meddle with since my Juvenile Altercations with Eugenius Philalethes, which is now many Yearsago.
