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withall I muft needs fay, they doe not direftly hit it, To under- 

 ftand the utinolt that may be inferred out of fuch Propofitions, 

 we may note two conditions in them : thefirft is, that general- 

 ly thefe Propofitions ire univerfall ones ; and thereby have that 

 force to convince the fpirituality of the foule, which we. have ex- 

 plicated and fhewed to belong unto univerfall termes : the fecond 

 is, that in thefe Propofitions, there is a neceflity of connexion be- 

 tween their termes ; fuch an one , or at the leaft very like there- 

 unto , as we explicated in thofe Propofitions , which beare their 

 evidence plaine in their very termes. And out of this wee may 

 draw another argument for the fpirituality of the foule: for wee 

 fee that all corporeall agents and patients, are defc&ible and con- 

 tingent; that is to fay, fometimes, or if (if you will) tnoft times, 

 they attaine their effeci; but withali,fometimes (be it never fo fel- 

 dome) they mifie of it : and accordingly, it happeneth foraetimes 

 that our eyes, our ear es, our touch, and the reft of our fenfes are 

 deceived; though for the moft part, they give us true informations 

 of what they converfe with : but thefe Propofitions of eternall 

 verity doe never faile : they have in themfelves an indefcftibili- 

 ty infuperable ; and confequently , they give evidence that the 

 foules nature is of a higher degree of conftancy and certainty ,then 

 what talleth within the compaflc of bodies : and is of a nobler 

 and different ftraine , from all corporeall things : for this certain- 

 ty is entayled upon fuch Propofitions by the force of Being; which 

 is the proper ob/ edl of the foule : and they have their Being ; as 

 limbes and parts of the fouie. 



As f or the tcrme of Eternall verity t lt is not to be taken pofi- 

 tively , as if thefe Propofitions, or their objects, had any true eter- 

 nity or perfeverance, without beginning or ending : but only ne- 

 ganvely ; that is , that there can be no time , in which they arc 

 italic : and therefore, we cannot out of their having fuch a kind of 

 Eternity belonging to them, argue a capacity of infinite .time or 

 duration in our foule that comprehended them. 



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