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when they teach us that fciemificall fyllogifmej can not be made 

 without univcriaJl propofit ions :fb that we fee^unles thefc things 

 be if ripped from PUc e and Time^hcy arc not according to our 

 meaningraudyctBeverthckfle, we give them both the name 

 and the nature ofa Thixgjex of ayW/?*w/,or of a Itvixg Tht*fo 

 or of wiiaifeever elie may by our manner of conceiving oren m 

 deavours, be freed from the lubjc&ion of time and PUcr. Thus 

 then we plainely lee^that it is a very different thing;/* 4*, and to 

 be in a Place und thereforc,out of a Tkixges being in no fUct y it 

 can not be inferred, That it isnot^tthtt it is no fnbftanc e' nor 

 con trar iw ife,out of its foi*gUL it be inferred,^*/ it iri a y/ace : 

 thcreisnomanbutofhimfetfepcrceivetfi the raJfe consequence 

 of this argument,* thing ; is ; therefore ft fa hot, or it iscolcf: and 

 the reafon is, because hot and cold, are particular accidents of a 

 body; and therefore a body cao be without cither of them. The 

 like proportion is betweene Being in genera 11, & &*'* * -^*^,or 

 Befog in A JWjcfor both thefe-, are patticuJars in refpecl of Sting: 

 but to be in af>bce is nothing eife, but to be in a circttmftMit Bo- 

 ^:and fo what is not in a Bodyjs not in a Place: therefore, as ic 

 were an absurd illation to kyjt ^therefore it is in a Body ; no 

 ]e{Te is it toiay^ it /^therefore // is-fomnvhcrt* which is cquVa- 

 knt to , in fome "Body : and fo a great Matter ( Peradvenmre 

 one of thegreateft,andt judiciou(eft that eifer havebeenej teJletfi 

 us plainly, that of k felfe ie is evident, to thofe who are truly lear- 

 ned., that incerporedl fubfoMccs tire not tn -P/afe^Tid Arirtotlc 

 teacheth US/^ the Vnivtrfeis not i* P/art. 



But now to make ufc of this dilcourfe^wc muft intimate what 

 it is we ' .ell at in it.' we direft it to two ends^fTrft, to lead on 

 our t noughts, and to helps our apprehention , in framing iome 

 conception of a ipiriruall fiibftance, without refidenccin Place, 

 and to prevent our fancies checking at fen abftraftion j fince 

 we fee that we ufe it in our ordinary /peech^when we think not 

 n it,nor labour for it,in all univerfali antfiadefinire tertresmext 

 to trace out an eminent propriety of a Operated foule.- namely, 

 that fhe is no whereandj(yet upon the matter,) rhat flic is every 

 wheretthit (he is bound to noplacc^nd yet remote from none .- 

 that fhe " s able to worke upon aJj,without fliifting from one to 

 another, or comming neere any : and that fli e is/free from al', 

 or palling from any one. 



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