A TREATISE 



fraught with imrmteriall notions,is not materiall; our conclusion 

 is well colleftcd , and a very good one ; for the premides out of 

 which we doe gather it , are within our kenning ; and therefore 

 if there were any defect in the confeqtience, wee (hould eafily 

 perceive it. Whence it appeareth clearly , that there is no parity 

 bet ween the deduction of our conclufion ,^bnd that other which 

 the objection urgeth, that our loule, becaufe it can know etcrnall 

 things , is alfo eternall ; for eternity is a thing beyond our com- 

 prehenfion: and therefore it ought ought not to be expected at 

 our hands, that wcfliouldbeabletogive an account where the 

 brack is. And to fay the truth, '^knowledge be taken properly, we 

 doe not know eternity; however by fupernaturall helps we may 

 come to know it: but in that cafe, the helps are likely to bee 

 proportianable to the tflftct. Neither are negations properly 

 knowne, feeing there is nothing to bee knowne of them. And 

 thus we fee that thefe objections doe proceed from the equivoca- 

 tion of the word knowledge > y fometimes ufed properly, other- 

 times applyed abusively. 



THE EIGHT CHAPTER. 



Contalningfroofesout ofow manner of proceeding t9*liox t 

 our foule is incorp&reall. 



I . T Doubt not but what we have already faid , hath fufficiently 

 That the.fculcsj^ convinced our foulcs being immateriall, unto whomfoever 

 being a power a ^ e to p enetra t e the for ce of the arguments wee have brought 



to order things , ,. t t /~j .L 



proveth her to ^ or P r ofe thereof, and will take the paiEics to cenlider them 

 e immaterial], them duely : C which muft bee done, by ferious and continu- 

 ed reflexion , and not by curfary reading , or by interrupted at- 

 tempts ) yet fince wee have ftill a whole field of proofes un- 

 touched , and that in fo important a matter, no evidence can be 

 too clear, nor any paines be accounted loft, that may redouble the 

 light, although it fhine already bright enough to difccrn what we 

 feek, we will make up the concert of unanimous teftimonies to 

 this already eftablifhed truth , by adding thofe arguments wee 

 fhall colleclout of the manner of our foules proceeding to action, 



unto 



