OF MANS SOULE. Chap. IX. 79 



THE NINTH CHAPTER. 



That 9ur Settle u a Subftance, and Immortall. 



HAving concluded that our Souls is immateriall and indivi- 

 fible ; to proceed oneftep further, it cannot be denyed, but That Mans 

 that it is either a fubftanceor an accident ; it the latter, it muft be S^ulc is a 

 f the nature of the fubftancewhofe accident it isj for fo we fee fubftancc. 

 all accidents are : but in man when hisfoule is excluded, there is 

 no Ipirituall fubftarce at all, whereof we have any notice : and 

 therefore if it be an accident, it muft be a cerporeall accident, 

 or fome accident of a body ; as fome figure, temperature, harmc- 

 ny, or the like : and cor.fequcmly, it muft be divisible : but this ~~ 

 is contrary to what is proved in the former Chapters: and 

 therefore it cannot be a corporeall accident. Neither can it 

 be a fpirituall accident ; for unto what fpirituall fubftance 

 fhould it belong, when as nothing in man can be fufpefted tu be 

 fpirituall, but it felfe. Seeing then that it can be no accident, a 

 fubftancc it muft be, and muft have its Exiftcnce or Beingm 

 itfeUe, 



Here we have puffed the Rubicon of experirnentall knowledg: 2. 

 we are now out of the bounds that experience hath any jurifdi- That Man is 

 ctionover-- and from henceforth, we muft in all our fearchss and j^. p Jj, ndc r uf 

 conclufionsrclieonely upon the fingle evidence of Reafon. And ft a nccbcfide" 

 even this laft conclufion we have been faine to deduce out of the h : sbody. 

 force of abftraded reafoning upon what we had gathered be- 

 fore; not by icnmediate reflexion upon fome aftion weobfcrve 

 proceeding froai a man : yet withal), nature flallaeth out by adi- 

 red beame, fome littleglimmering ofthe verity ofit, to the eye 

 of Reafon that is within us : for as when we fee a deck move,or 

 a milljor any thing that goeth by many wheels, if we mark that 

 there are two contrary motions,in two divers parts of it,wc c anot 

 think that thofe contrary motions, do belong to one and the fame 

 continued body, but ihall prefently conclude, that there muft be 

 in that engine two fcverall bodies compacted together ; fo in 

 man, though his body be the firft mover that appeareth unto us, 

 yet feeing that in his actions, fome ef&fts doc ihewthcmfelves, 



which 



