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And now 1 hope the intelligent Reader will conceive I have 

 performed my protnif^and haveftcvred the Souleofman to be Two 

 an Iramortall fnbftMce: for fince it is ifo/anc*, ic hath a Be- arguments to 

 in 9 ;and finccit is immateriall fubttance., it hath a B.-iug ot iti P'ove the 

 ovvne force; without needing a con lore body* tohelpeic to fu- J?mc: 

 ttainc itsv//te*.-for to be a /ubttance. is to be theiub;eit of 

 Exigence-, and confequently,eo be an immateriall liibttance, is to 

 be a fabject capable of *//fcc<r, without ths hdpe of matter or 

 of Quantity. It can not therefore be required of me , to ule 

 any farther induttry^o prove fuch a Ibulc to be imtnortall : but 

 who will comradict her being fo, is obliged to (hew that foe is 

 mortall : for it fbiloweth in rea(bn,that Oie will keepe her bcig % 

 unles by ibmc force (lie be bereaved ofit;it being a ruieihac who. 

 foever putteth a thing co bejs not bound,fbr the continuation of 

 chat things being, to prove that it is not changed : but on the 

 other fide, he that averrcthit is changed, is bound o bring in 

 his evidence of a (uflhcient cauie to change it: for to have a tiling 

 remaine,'"s natures ownedictamen^nd tbiloiveth out ofthe cau- 

 ies which gave it being: but to make an alteration , fuppoieth a 

 cfiange^in the cauies; and therefore the obiigation of proofs ly- 

 cthonthitfide. f . 



NcvertheleCfe.togive iatisfavftion to thofe,whoare carne q to The fame ii 

 fee every article positively proved, we wiii make that.part coo our 

 Province. Let us then remember ,that Immortality fignifyeth a h 

 negatian , or a not having of Mortality : and that a pofitive not 

 termejs required to expreife a change by; fince nature teacheth cus to the 

 us,that whatibever is^ will rc-maine with c >c Being it hath : unlcfrc ofe of 

 it be forced out of it: ifthen we fimv, that Mans foule harh not mortal i y 

 thofe groundesin her, which makcth all things we fee tojbe 

 mortal V^emurt be allowed to have acquitted our fejvcs of the 

 cHifgc,of proving her Immvr tali ^.For thii end let us looke round 

 about us, and inquire of all the things we meetewith.by what 

 meanc s they are changet^ and come to a period and are no more. 

 The pure elements will tell you, that they have their Change by 

 rare&ftion and condemnation, and no otherwise.- mixed bodies, 

 by alteration of their mixture.- fmall bodies, by theaclivity of 

 working upon them; and by the meanesof rare- 



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