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A fccond propriety, not muchunlike the firft, we fiiall diico- 3. 

 ver ID a feparatcd foule, if we compare her with time. Wee have ** fope*- 

 heretoforc explicated, how time is the motion-of the heavens ; ^ c o d [ ou i c " 

 which giveth us our motion ; which meafureth all particular mo- nw' fubj5t t 

 tions; and which compprehendetfo all bodies, and maketh them ic. 

 awaite his icifure* From the large Empire of this proud Com- 

 mander, a feparateJ foule is free .-For although fhce doeconfift 

 with time, (that is to fty, fiiec is, whiles time is ; ) yet is (hec 

 not in trme ; nor doth (ice in any of her a&ions, expect time ; 

 but flic 14 able to frame time,to Ipinne or weave it out of fccr ielfc, 

 and to matter it. 



All which will appeare mankeftly, if wee confer what h is t 

 be in time. Ariftttle fliCWCth US ; that, to be comprehended, under 

 time, or to be in time, is, to be one of thofe moveables, whofe be- 

 ing conhfting in motion, caketh up buc a part of time ; and bach 

 its termes, before, and behind^ in time ; and is tneafured by time 

 and mutt exprcl: the flowing of Time, both for bcing&A for *8i. 

 0. Now all this manifcftly belongeth unto bodies, whofcboth 

 j&ion and being, is fubjed to a perpetual! Jocall metion and ake- 

 ration : and confequently, a feparated fouJe, who is totally a be- 

 ing, and hath her whole operation all together (as being nothing 

 but her felfe when we fpeake of her perfective operation; ) can 

 not be laid to bee in time, but is abibiutely free from it ; though 

 time dccgliefe by her, as it deth by other things : and (b, all th .t 

 (he know*th or can doe,<Tie doeth and knoweth at once,wi:h one 

 a of the underftanding, or rather, She is, (indeed and really,) 

 all that : and therefore fhee doth not require time to manage, or 

 order her thoughts, nor doe they fucceed one an other,by fiich vJ- 

 ciffimdes as men arc forced to thinkeof tningsby, becaufe their 

 fcnfie, and the Images in it which beate upon the foule to make 

 her thinke, whiles foe is in the body, are corporall, and therefore 

 doe require time to move in, and to give way to one an dot her * 

 hut fliee thinketh of all the things in the world, and of all that 

 fhee can thinke of) .together and at once ; as hereafter we intend 



A third propriety we may conceive to be in a feparatcd foufe, h * f f 

 by apprehending her to bee an A3iviy~ which that wee may itana( cJ| V g a 

 rightly underhand, let uscompare her, in regard of working, with fubftanceanvf 

 .abojy : rifleiVmg then upon the nature of bodies, wehall-find,all in itisadi' 



that* kic 



