CONCLUSION 



to the-order of bodies , the unknown nature ofcerutne-entiucs 

 named Quditift either doe or may proceed , from the lame 

 cautes, which produce tho!eknowne effects, that all fides a. 

 gree, doe not (land in need of any fuch myfticall Pliiiotbphy. 

 And this being the main hinge upon which hangeth and moveth 

 the full and cleare relbl ving of our maine , aoa great queition, 

 Of the immortally oftkefottk $ I allure my feUc.the paines I have 

 taken in this particular, will not be deemed iuperHuou* or te- 

 dious : and withall, I hope I have employed them with lo good 

 fuccefle, as hence forward, wee fhali not DC any more troubled, 

 with objections drawne from their hidden and incomprehenfl- 

 ble nature : and that we ftand upon evenground, with thofe of 

 the contrary opinion : for fince we have Jhewedjiow all adVtom 

 may be performed among bodies, without having any recourfe 

 to fach Etit$esa.nd j^t4lities as they pretend and paint out to us, 

 it is now their parr (if they will have them admitted) to prove 

 that in nature there are fuch. 



. Having then brought the Philofophy of bodies unto thefe 

 termes ; that which remaineth for us to pcrforme, is to /hew 

 that thofe aftions of our fbule, for which we call herafpirit,are 

 cf /kch a nature, as they cannot be reduced into thofe princi- 

 ples, by which all corporeall afhons are effc&ed. For the proof 

 of our original! intent, no more then this 3 can be exa&ed at 

 our hands ; fo that if our pofitive proofes^lliall carry us yet be. - 

 yond this, it cannot be dcnyed, but that we five over meafire, 

 and doe illuttratewitha greater light, what fs already fuflfici- 

 ently difcerned. In our proceeding, we have the precedence of 

 nature : for laving for our ground , the naturall conceptions 

 which mankuide maketh of quantity 5 we finde that a body is a 

 meere paffiye thing confining of divers parts, which by motion 

 may be diverfly ordered j and confequently, that it is capable 

 of no other diange or operation , then fuch as motion may 

 produce, by various ordering the divers parts of it : and 

 then , feeing that R^rt and Petf* , is the primary and ade- 

 quate diviflon of Bxiiet - t k fblfoweth evidently that what 

 cannot bee effected by the various difpofition of rare and 

 denie parts , cannot proceed or bee effected by a pure 



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