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A TREATISE 



that goeth about any work according to art, (hewcth hee hath 

 in his head all the rules of that art, though he doe not diftinftly 

 remember them , or call them to mind whiles he worketh : for 

 if he have them not, how doth he work by them . ? Since then it 

 isclcare that hethinketh not of them at that time , it is as cleare,- 

 that more is in the foule at one time, then is in his fantafic,or then 

 can be there by materiall bodies, ( which wee have (hewed is 

 the way , whereby all things come into the fantafie) although it 

 bcthenimbltftand thefubtileft Agent of ail corpereall things 

 what foe ver. 



2. Another confideration whereby to evince the immateriality 



That the na- of the foule , concerneth the proceeding of fyllogifmes by linkes, 

 turc P of , dl f" faftned one to another : whence we may .take notice , that every 

 prove the foule one of them is a ftcp to another: and confequently , it is mani- 

 to be ordered ftft l ^ at according to the nature of the foule , they muft bee alto- 

 co infinite gether in her : fince , if any one were abfent , all the reft that fol- 

 knowlcdge s an(l lowed and depended upon that one , would have no ground- 

 tobehiraatc- in S' nor fixedneflc in the foule. Now it to this we adde , that 

 riall. ' what is to be knowne, is abfolutely and liquidly infinite, there 



cannot be brought or expefted a more pregnant and homc-wit- 

 neifc of our ioules fpirituality : it folio-wing out of thefe grounds^ 

 that the foale by its nature , is not only capable of, but is ex- 

 preffely ordered to an infinite knowledge of infinite objects alto- 

 gether; for thefetwo,/**^ indi*fi*ite fcience,are fo vaftly dif- 

 ferent from one another, that if the fame fubjeft bee capable of 

 both, it muft of neceflity be ordered to infinite, as to its chief eft 

 aft and end : and thus out of capacity in this fubjecl, its being orde- 

 red is well inferred ; though in other matters peradventure the 

 confequence may not be good. And accordingly who looketh 

 into Geometry, Arithmcticke, Z*V4f,orcvcn nttttreit felfe,will 

 evidently fee that the objefts of Knowledge, are every way , and 

 Th ^i moft ^ n ever y fcicnce, multipl) able without end. 

 naturall ob- Neither ought this to bee neglected , that a great part of the 

 jjftsofthefoulfbules objects , and indeed of thole that are meft naturall to 

 arc immateri- her , is above the capacity , and out of the reach of materiall 

 aH 5 andconfc- things. All Met aphyficks abft raft from quantity ; th inve- 

 Lr felfc ^8 at ^ on of God , of Angels, of the foule it felfe , either 

 concludetb immateriality, or at the laft worketh about it. 



What 



