ABSTRACT
David Papillon was from a French Protestant family and moved to England as a child. He became a military engineer and fought on the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War in the 1640s. The Rational is a spark of the divine essence, and therefore immaterial, and immortal, but the Sensitive is materiall and earthly, and therefore mortal and corruptible, and from hence the Christian Philosophy, doth infer the resurrection of the body, because it hath such an affinity with one of the powers of the soul; besides, the Rational power doth its operations without the aid of the corporal organs, but the Sensitive cannot execute its functions without the assistance of the organs of the body, and that is the reason, why the operations of it are more carnal, and those of the Rational more divine and celestial.
