THE PREFACE 



Ttfis writing was defatted 1 9 htvefeen the light un- 

 der the name of one Treatife. But after it was drA wn 

 in paper; <ti I caft a view over it J found the Proaenti- 

 allpart (which is that which treatcth of Bodies) ft ample in 

 rejpefi of the other (which was th'e end of it ^ and for wboftLs 

 fake 1 medledwith it) that I readily apprehended my Reader 

 would think I had gone much aflrayfrom my Text t when pro- 

 pofing tofteak of the Immortality of Mans Soulc, three partf 

 of four e of the whole I>ifcourfe y jbouldnotfo much as in ont^? 

 word mention that fettle > whofe nature and proprieties I aymed 

 atthedifcovery of. To avoid this incongruity ^eccafioned me 

 to change the name and unity of the work $ and to make thc_s 

 furvay of bodies^ a body by it felfe : though fubordinate to the 

 TreatifcoftheSoule. Which not with [landing it be lejfe in 

 bulke then the other , yet I dare promife my Reader^ that if he 

 beftew the paines requifite toperfeb? himfelfe in itjje will find 

 as much time wellftent in the due reading ofit^ as in the^> 

 reading of the former Treatifc^ th$*ghfar more large. 



But I di ft erne an objection obvious to be made^ or rather A 

 )ueflion , Why ifbould ftendfo much time in the con/ideati- 

 on if Botits, whereof nine that hath formerly written of this 

 fubjeCt^ hath in any meafure done the like ? 



I might anfwer that they had , upon other oecafons, frfl 

 written of the nature ofBodits : a* I may infance in Ari- 



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