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they from that happinefle& perfe$ien,which confiftcth in know- 

 ing aH things? Of which full lea, ve never theleflcfindc even in 

 this low ebbe,that ourfouleisa channcllcapable,and is framed 

 a fit veffell andinltrumcnt to receive ir,when the tide fliall come 

 in upon it, which we are fure it can not do, JimiJl the bankes of 

 our body which hinder it.be broken cfowne 



This laft con fi deration, without doubt, hath added no finaJI 

 corroboration to our former prooferjvyhich are fo numerous and Tfcc fe J BC 

 fodeare,a$paradventure itmayappeare fupcrfluous, to fay any provc d 

 more to this point; fince one convincing argument eftablifteth bwa 

 the verity of a corclufion,as efficatioufly as a hundred;and there- c 

 fore Mathematicians nfebut one fingle proofe in all their Propo- v Ith J c 

 ficion s; afcer which other fupernumerary ones, would be but te- 

 dious ncvcrthehSjfinceal thefeveral wayes,by which we may look 

 into the nature of our foule(the imporranteft fubjeft we can bu- 

 fy our thoughts upon ) can not faileof being pleafing and de- 

 lightfull tous > wemuttnot omit to refleit alittJeupon that 

 great property of our foule,by which Hie is able to move and to 

 worke,without her felfe being moved or touched. Vnto which 

 adding, that all Life confifteth in motion, and thar all motion of 

 bodies commeth.from feme other thing without them; we may 

 evidently conclude, that our fbule^who can move without seceu 

 ving her motion from a bread, hath in her felfe a fpring of life; for 

 the which fhe is not beholding (as Bodies are^to fome extrinfe- 

 cal caufc of a nature like unto her;but only to him,who gave her 

 to be what fhe is. But if (lie have fucfi a Spring of Life within her, 

 it weare unreafbnable to irragine, that fhe died upon the occafion 

 ofthe death of another thing,that exercife.thno a&ion of Jife,but 

 as it is caufed by another. 



Neither may we ne^lecl that ordinary confederation, which 9t 

 taketh notice.ihat our fouie maketh ufe of Prdp^fitions of eter- The Cune u 

 nail truth, which we have above produced .among our proofcs for Fovcd from 

 her being of a (pirituail nature; and (hall now employ it for the "er manncr-of 

 proving her Jmmortfilh by confi dcring, that the notion of Btig, JJJ"^" 

 which tculeth thtfe Propofitionsfo, as they fcareno mutation or troimdcd in 

 shaking by timejs the very robte of the ibule; and that which gi- being. 

 vetii her her nature,and which flicwceh ic fclfc ia all her operaii- 

 ons: fo that, if from Being, arriveth unto thefePropofr.i )ns to 

 fjaie no time, the Jikemuft of neccdity betide alfo rhc fub- 



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