OF MANS SOULE. Chap. VI. *? 



abfolutely intinite , in fuch a manner as we have above cxprcfcd. 



Now to apply to our purpofe what we have gathered by this 

 difcourfc , it is cleare, that thefe two conditions of nt thing n*t 

 driving out another , and of infinity of acctjjions , doe openly dif- 

 claimefromqaantity, and from matter; for we fee that what 

 hath Quantity , or is a body , cannot admit a new thing into it, 

 unLfle iome other thing doe firft goe cut of it, to make roome 

 for the advenient one : and as for infinitude , it breedeth a fea of 

 contradictions, if it be but thought of in Quantity: and there- 

 fore we may conclude, that the foul, unto whom thefe two con- 

 ditions doe belong , is not quantitative or corporc all, butimma- 

 teriall, andofafpirituallnature. 



The fecond kind of oppofition, that occurreth in our thoughts, 6 . 

 or in our foule, is of Contradictory Proportions : it hath its origine ^hat the opp*. 

 intheoppQfitionof#^tonot: and is when a thing is iJ^S^J ^. 

 identifyed unto the foule, in fuch fort as we have faid, that a ludg- p fi t ionsm the 

 went or Dfw/ maketh the object become as it were a limbe, Soule doth 

 or pirt of the foule : and becaufc the conflict of two fuch Propo- prove her im- 

 fitions, if they were together in the foule, would make her bee matcualicy ' 

 fomething contrary to the nature of Bevtg Cif any thing can bee 

 contrary to Being) which in the fchooles thty call en s & non ti- 

 the impoflibility of her admitting into her fdfc twofuchPro- 

 pofitions together, doth teftify her firmc cleaving and her fix- 

 ednefle to Being : and fo doth confirme and bring new evi- 

 dence to that argument forthefouksfpirituality, which in the 

 fith Chapter of this part, we drew from the nature of Being. 



As for truth and falftiood , they fpring from the fame root as 

 the laft ; as being qualities confequent &> the oppofition of affir- 

 mative and negative PropofitionS; whereof if the one be true, 

 the other muft neceflarily befalfe : and therefore, we need not 

 fpend time in fetting down any particular confiderations of thefe; 

 fince what we have faid of the other, is apply able unto them : but 

 it is fufficient , that we thus note them, to give the Reader occa- j. 

 HOB to refleft upon them . Hov^Propofi- 



Atnong Proportions, there ire fome which Logitians doe term ti * ms of ***- 

 if Ettr nail truth : and out of thefe, there are ingenious men, who "Jovc'ui m 

 imagine that the immortality of the foule may be immediately materiality f 

 ffafucctf* Herein they rove not quite from the marke; though the foule. 



Ece i withall 



