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CHAP. II. 



7'he Confequence of the Doctrine «5/" three dijlinci Subftances in Man. — 

 Theje Subftances cannot be tranfmuted into one another — nor nvill 

 //j(f Deftrudlon of one. be attended zuith the Deftrudlion 0/" another. 

 — Still lefs "will they be deftroyed by the Deftru(Slion of the Body. 

 — The Intelledual Subftance cannot be fo deflroyed^ as it operates 

 ivithout Body : — Nor the Animal or Vegetable Subftances, though 

 they do not operate ivithout Body. — 'Thefe are not perifliable by their 

 oiji'n wfl/Mr^,^«';z§- Immaterial Subftances. — Of the feparateExiftences 

 of thefe Minds. — The Intelledlual does fo ex'i/l. — The Animal and 

 Vegetable Minds do not exijl feparately. — Of the Doflrine oj Tranf- 

 migration. — Hoiv to be underftood upon the Principles of this Phi' 

 lofophy. — Into ivhat Bodies the fcueral Minds tranfmigratc. — Whe- 

 ther the Human Mind tran/migrates into the Brute. — NoTranf- 

 migration of the Elemental Life. — This Philofophy eJiablifJoes the 

 fcparate Exiftence, and the Immortality of the Soul, upon thefurejl 

 Foundation. — The Do^rine of h\icvc\.\\x% and o/Mr Locke eaftly refu- 

 ted upon the Principles of this Philofophy. — Coniparifon of the Hu- 

 man Soul to the Mafter of a Ship. — Of the life of this Philofophy 

 in Theology. ^ 



AND, in (he frjl place, it Is evident that, if the Intelledual, 

 Animal, and Vegetable Life, which make our wonderful 

 compofition, are diftindt Subftances, it is impoffible that the one can 

 be tranfmuted into the other ; for there is no fuch thing in Nature 

 as a metamorphofis of any Individual Subftance, or any Species of 



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