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A TREATISE 



for feeing that her idion is an ordering, and that in this line there 

 are but two forts of things in the world,namely, fuch as do order, 

 and fuch as are to be ordered ; it is mamfeft,that the aftion muft 

 by nature and in the univerfall confideratien of it,begin from the 

 crderer (in whom order hath its life and fubfiftence) and not from 

 that which is to receive it : then, fithencc ordering is motion, 

 it followeth evidently that the foulc is a mover and a beginner of 

 motion. 



But fince we may conceive two forts of movers; the one 

 when the agent is moved to move j the other, when of it felfe 

 it beginneth the motion without being moved j we are to en- 

 quire, unto which of thefe two the foule belengeth. But to ap- 

 prehend the queftion rightly, we will illuftrate it by an example: 

 let us fuppofe that fome aftion is fit to begin at ten of the clock : 

 now we may imagine an agent to begin this aftion in two dif- 

 ferent manners ; the one,that the clock {hiking ten, brcedeth or 

 ftirreth fome what in him, frem whence this adHon followeth j 

 The other manner is, that the agent may of his own nature, have 

 fuch an acluallcomprchenfion or decurrence of time within him- 

 felfe, as that without receiving any warning from abroad, but as 

 though he moved and ordered the clock as well as his owne in- 

 ftruments, he may of himfelfebe fit and ready, juft at that hcure 

 to begin that adion; not as if the clock told him what houre it 

 is, but as if he by governing the clock, made that houre to be, as 

 well as he caufeth the adion to begin at that houre. 3 n the firft f 

 thefc manners, the agent is moved to move; bat in thefecond, 

 he moveth of himfelfe, without being moved by any thing elfe. 

 And in this fecond way, our foulc of her owne nature communi- 

 cateth her felte to quantitative things, and giveth -them moti- 

 on : which followeth oat of what we have already proved, 

 that a foule, in her owne nature, is thefubjecl: of an infinite 

 knowledge , and therefore is capable of having fuch a generall 

 comprchenfion, as well of time, and of thecourfe of all other 

 things, as of the particular aftion (he is to doe; and confequent- 

 ly, ftandeth not in need of a Monitor without her , to dircft her 

 when to begin. 



If then it be an imprevaricablc law with all bodies, that 

 none whatfoever can move unleffe it bee moved by another; 



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