Chap. 2. ATrettlfeof BODIES, j^ 



ir would be divided 3 if it were divided into all the parts into 

 which ic is divifiblc; therefore ic is di/iinguRhcd into indivifi-. 

 bles. The major proportion is evident to any man that hath 

 eyes of understanding. The minor, is. the confcfiion or rather 

 the pofition of the sdvcrfiry. when he faitii that ail its parts are 

 actually diftinguiflu'd. The consequence CHI no: he calumniated, 

 (iflce that indivifibles, whether they ,bc lef>i rated 01- joyncd, are 

 (till but indivifibles; though that \vhidi is cocnpoied of {hem b 

 divifible. It rauft rhen be granted that all the parts which are in 

 Quantity, are indivifibles- which parts being actually in it, and 

 the whole being compoled of theft pares onely, ic folio weth, that 

 Quantity is compoled and made of itidivifib/es. 



If any fliouid caviiJ at the Supposition, and fay, we firetch ic 

 furrtitr then they intend it /"by taking all the parts to be diftitt*- 

 guifhed; whereas they mean onely that there arc parts a&uaHy 

 in Quantity, abftrailiog fromW.- by reafon that alt, in this 

 matter, would infcrre an infinity j which to be avfrtuaUy in any 

 created thing, they will allow to be iinpoffible. Our anfwer will 

 fce, to reprelent unto them how this is barely fatd, without any 

 /ground or coiour of reafon, merely to evade the inconvenience 

 that the argument driveth them unto. For if any parts be a&u- 

 aHy diftinguifliedj why jfhould not all be fof What prerogative 

 liave foiric that the others have not ? And how came .they \yy 

 '\~J If they have their ahiall diftkidHon out oftheif ilaojre of 

 being parts, then ail mft enjoy it alike, and all be equally di- 

 ftmgutfhed/as the foppofaion goeth : andthtymuft all be in- 

 <3ivifibles as we have proved. Behdes to prevent the cavill upon 

 the word *8> we may change the expreflion of the Proportion 

 into a negative : for if they admit ( as they do ) that there is no- 

 part in Quantity, but is diftinguifbed as farre as it may be di- 

 fiingupfHed, then the (ame conclusion followeth wkh 110 lei& 

 evicrcnce; and all wi(i prove mdivifrbks, as before. 



Bm it is impoflible that indivifibles fhould make Qirantny-; 5. 

 for if they fhouldjit muft be done either by a finite and deter- Quantity can, 

 minate number, or by an infinite multitude ofthfctn. If you fay pofedof indif 

 by a finke; !t us take ( for example ) three .indivifibles, and by 

 adding them together, let us fuppoiealine to be cQinpo<{c<l; 

 whofe extent being onely longitude, it is the firft and {implied 

 fpcdcs of Quamity, and therefore -wbatfocvor is divifible into 



parts*- 



