OF MANS S O U LE. Chap.V. 51 



As for their nature, we may remember, how we refolved three 2. 

 things; firft, that by apprehcnfion, the very thing apprehended e incx1 ' 

 is by it felfein our foule : next, that the notion of Being , is the ^^^g, 

 firft of all notions, and isrefumed in all others : and thirdly , that m the foulc by 

 what is added to the notion ofBeingjs but refretts to other things, the power ot 

 Nowthenletusconfider, what kind of Engines they muftbe, apprchcnfion, 



that may have the power to make things themlelves to beinour;L^ 



.. -r t i * it -y .7 n- 11 to be immatc- 



fcule , if they were to bee there materially ? How mall the r i a ii. 



place, or the time paflfcd, be removed, and be put in another place, 

 indin another time ? How (hall the quantity of the heavens , of 

 the whole world, nay of bignefle exceeding all that by millions of 

 proportionall encreafes , be fliut up in the little circuite of mans 

 brame? And if we examine our (elves ftriftly, we fhall find 

 nothing wanting; all is there. How (hall the fame thing, bee 

 corporeally in two, nay in two thousand places, at the frme 

 time. ? And yet, in fo many is the funne, when two thouland 

 men think ot it at once. We muft then allow, that things are there 

 immaterially; and confequently, that what receiveth them, is im- 

 materiall ; fince every thing is received according to the meafure 

 and natare of what receiveth it. 



B at I eafily conceive, that the ftrangenefle and incredibility 

 ofourpofition,may counterballancetheforceofit : for who can 

 perfwade himfdf e, that the very thing he apprehendeth , is in his 

 mind ? I acknowledge, that if its being there, were to be under- 

 ftood corporeally, it were impoflible : but on the other fide, who 

 fhall eontider, that he knoweth the thing he rightly apprehendeth, 

 that it worketh in him , and maketh him work agreeable to its 

 nature , and that all the properties and fingularides ef it may 

 bee difplayed by what is in him , and are as it were unfolded 

 in his mind , hce can neither deny nor doubt, but that it is 

 there in an admirable and fpirituall manner. If you askc me 

 how this cometh to pafle ? And by what artifice, bodies are thus 

 fpiritualized ? I confeffe I fhall not bee able to fatisfy you : 

 but muft anfvver, that it is done, I know not how, by the 

 power of the foule: (he wine a foule,and I will tell you how it 

 worketh:but as we are fure there is a foulc, (that is to fay, a Prin- 

 cipktrom whence thefe operations fpring) though we cannot fee 

 it : fo we may, and doe certainly kno w s t h a t this my ftery is as we 

 fay; though beca ufc we underftand not the true and complett na - 



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