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not in the multitude of parts,which Ptjfion breedeth, but in the 

 wel ordering of thofe it already hath under its command. Where- 

 as the ftrength of Quantity, and the encreafc of its ftrength, con- 

 fifteth in the multitude of its parts; as will evidently appefre to 

 whom (hall confider this point deeply. 



Thus we have in a fummary manner gone through all the ope- j. 

 rations of the foule, which in the beginning of this latter Trca- A conclusion 

 tife, we heaped together as materials, wherewith to raifcan ofwhachaih 

 immateriall and fpirituall building. Neither, I hope, will our b ^ cn f * id **r 

 Reader be offended with us, for being more fuccinft and con- " 

 cifcinallour diTcourfe concerning our foule, then where wee 

 delivered the doctrine of Bodies : forthedifficultnefeof this'ub- 

 jeft, and the nicety required to the exprefiingoor conceptions 

 concerning it, wherein fas the proverb is) a haire is to be clo- 

 ven, would not allow us that liberty of ranging about, as when 

 we treated of Bodies. What occurreth among them, may be il- 

 luftrated by examples within their owne orbe, and of their owne 

 pitch ; bat to difphy the operations of a foule, we can finde no 

 inftancesthat arc able to reach them ; t. l ey would rather em- 

 broile and darken them : for the exaft propriety of words, muft 

 be ftriftly and rigoroufly obfervcd in them : and the Reader fhall 

 penetrate more into the nature and depth of them, by ferious me- 

 ditation and reflection upon the hints we have here given, (effica- 

 cious enough, I hope, to excite thofe thoughts he fhould have 

 for thispurpofe,andt fteere them the right way) then by much 

 and voluminous reading, or by hearing long and polifhed dif- 

 courfcs of this fLbjeft, 



Formypart, if what I have here faid, (houldro any man ap- 

 peare not fufficient to convince that our foule is of a fpirituall 

 and far different nature, from all fuch things as in our firft Treatife 

 we have difcourfed upon, and taken for the heads and rnoft gene- 

 rall kinds of Bodies, Cunto which all other particular ones, and 

 their motions may be reduced) I fhall become a fuitortehim, 

 In entreating him to take this fubjeft into his handling, where it 

 beginneth to be unwieldy for mine, and to declare unto us, upon 

 the principles we have fctlcd in the firft Treatife, and upon con- 

 (idcring the nature of a body, (which is the firft of all our 

 notions) how thefe particulars wee have reflected upon in 



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