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chat not any of them will doe the functions they are framed for, 

 unlefle fome other thing doe ftirre them upland caufe them to to 

 doe. As for example; a knife, if itbcthruttorprcfled, will cue, 

 otherwife,ic will lye (till and have no efreft rand as it tereth with 

 a knife, fo it doth in the fame manner with thole bodies, which 

 feeme molt to move themfelves j as upon a little consideration, 

 willappeare plainly. A beatt feemeth to move it fejfe : but if we 

 call to mind, what we have del vered upon trrsfubjeft in the firft 

 Treatife, wee fliail finde that whenfoever he beginnethto move, 

 he either perceiveth fomething by his fenfe, which caufeth his mo- 

 tion^r elfe he remembreth ibmething that is in his braine, which 

 worketh the likeefte&. Now iffenfeprcfentethhim anobjecl: 

 that caufeth his motion, we fee manifestly, that it is an external! 

 cauie which maketh him move : but if memory doe it, wee fliall 

 find that ttirred by fome other part as by the ftomack, or by the 

 heart, which is empty, or heated, or hath received ibme other im- 

 preffion from an other body, fo that/opner or latter, we fhall dif. 

 caver an outward mover. The like is in naturaJl motions ; as, in 

 heavy things, their eafie following (if they bee fucked) an other 

 way then downwards, tettifyeth that their motion downwards 

 hath an extriniecall motor, as is before declared : and not only 

 in thcfe, but throughout, in al 1 other corpora Jl things. So that in 

 a word, all bodies are of this nature.that unlefle fome other thing 

 prefle them and alter them, when they are quier.theyremaine foj 

 and have noa<ftivity,otherwifethen from an extnnfecall mover : 

 but of the foule, we have declared the contrary and that, by its 

 nature, motion may proceed from jr, without any mutation in ir, 

 or without its receiving any order, direction, or impulie, from an 

 extrinfecallcaufe. 



" So that, now fummiDg np together, all we have /aid upon this 

 A fcefcriotion occafion, we, finde a foule exempted from the body 5 to be ; An in- 

 if the 5oulc. divifible fubftance, exempted from place 4x4 time, jetfrefcvtt* 

 both i an AftHatt and, prefent knowledge of all things that may hee 

 And. a. sailor rate, even fy ivhat it felfeis, to all things 

 er. This fheis, if fliebe perfect : but if (he be imper- 

 ; then, is fre all this to the proportion of her growth, (if fo I 

 may fay) and face is powerful! according to the mcafure of her 

 knowledge, and of her will. So that in fine, a feparated foule, is 

 f a nature to have, and to know, and to govcrne all thing?. 



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