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tnat iucU a thing,ifit be aitive>can frame a world, fuch an one as 

 we Jive inland arc a irnall parcell of jit" it have matter to workc 

 upon; and caa order whatloever hath Sti^tny way that ic i$ 

 capable of being ordered, to do by it, and to make of it, whatfoc- 

 vex ean be don by,and made of fuch matter. 



All thefe conceptions (especially by the affittance of the laft) 

 may ferve a litle to iliadow out a perfect foulc, which is, ^ow 

 ledge t *Hart)*rule,adire8;io*,of(ttl things: and all this by being 

 all things^in a degree & ftraine proper and peculiar to it fcHe.- 8c 

 an unperfed foule } is a participation of this Idea : that i , a know- 

 ledge , a rule, and a direition/or as much as it is, and a$ it attai- 

 nech unto. N w as in our thoughts it is the corporeaJl part only 

 which maketh a noife^and a fhew outwardly, but the fpirituall 

 thought, is no otherwifc perceived then in its effect, in ordering 

 trie bodily ads ; in like fort,wemn(t not conceive this knowledge 

 to be a w0f/0;but meerely to be a thing or Being, out of which 

 the ordering and moving of other things doth flow; it /elfe re- 

 maining fixed and immoveablc; and beaanfe all that is ;oyned 

 unto it,is there riveted by Bci>*g,or identification*, and that when 

 one thing is an other, the other is againe it; it is impoflible that 

 one fliould exceed the other,and be any thing that is not it: and 

 therefore., in the foule there cao be noparts,no accidents, no acj- 

 ditioas^noappcndances^othing that Hicketh to it and is not if 

 but whatloever ,'$ in her is/o/c,and the foule,isall that which is 

 within her; fo that all that is of her, and all that belongcth unto 

 her,is nothing but one pure fimple fubftance, peradventure Me- 

 taphyfically,or formerly diviiibl?;(in fuch fort as we have explica- 

 ted in the firtt Trcatife.of the divifibility bctweene quantity and 

 fobRance)but not quantitatively,a$ bodies are divifible. In fine, 

 it is, and nothing but fubttance; all that is in it, being 



joyned and imped into it,by the verw nature of JJf/^wc ma- 

 keth fubftance.Thisthenjs the fabrtantiall conceit of a humane 

 fouie ftripped of her body. . 2 



Now, to conceive vhar proprieties this fubftance is furniflied That afepc- 

 withjlet us refie^ upon the notions we frame ofthings,when we r*d foule i 

 confider them in Common: as when we think of a man,of bread, in n ^.^"' nct 

 ofiome particular vertue, ofavice,orofwhatfoeverelfe]and let abfcn"from 

 s note, how in fuch 3 ourdifcourfc determinetft no f/^r,nor t imc\ any pi a c, 

 aay,lf it fhoul^ic would marre the difcourfc ; as Logitians ffiew, 



