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7. Nextj fhe mult undoubtedly know then f bmewhac more.,thera 



That the leaft (he knew in the body ; for feeing that out 01 the things flaee al- 

 knowledge ready knowerh,other will follow by the meer ordering and con- 

 acquiiethin ntxion of them ; and thac the foules proper worke, is to order 

 her body of tling* : we can not doubt, but that, both the things (He knoweth 

 any one tiling in Luis world, muft of necetfity bee ordered in her to the bdt ad- 

 doih cjufe in vantage ; and likcwife, that all ihac,will be knowne, which wan- 

 her, when fhce tet h no other caufe for the knowing of it, but the ordering of 

 fromher'body ^ e ^ things : For ^ l ^ c natu * c of a thing, w ere Order, whocan 

 a compkat doubt but what were put into that thing, were put into Order ? 

 knowledge of NOW, that the nature of thefbuleis fuch,wecoile& eafily; for 

 al things what- e \ng that all order proceedeth from her, it mutt bee acknow- 

 focver. ^dged that Order is fidt in her : but what is in her, is her na- 



fure, her nature then is Order 3 and what is in her is ordered. In 

 faying of which, I doe not meane that there is fkch an order be- 

 tvveene the notions of a feparated (bule, as is 6etweene materiall 

 things that are ordered by the /bole whiles (heis in the body; for 

 feeing that the foule adequate caufe of fuch order ; (that is to fay, 

 a caule which can make any an fuch, and die whole kindeof it ') 

 it foiloweth.that fuch order is not in her ; for if it were, (he would 

 be cau'e of herfejfe, or of her owne parts. Order theretbre,in \ e", 

 mi>!t fignifie a thing more eminent, then fuch infedour orderj in 

 which refideth the power of making that in&tiout Order: and 

 this is nothing elfe, but the connexion of her notions by the 

 receflicy of^/w; which we have often explicated. And out of 

 this eminent or fuperiour kinde of order,our conclu'Ton fotioweth 

 no lefle then if the in/eriour order which wee fee in our fan'ies, 

 whiles our fbule is in our body, did refide in our interiocr fbule ; 

 for, it is the necelTity of identification, which doth the effec^-and 

 maketh the foule know ; and the order of iantafmes, is but a pre- 

 cedent condition in the bodily ^gent, that it may work upon the 

 jf>ule ; and if more famafmesthen one could be together, this or- 

 der ivoulj not beneceflary. 



Out of this, a notable aad a vaft conclusion mani/cftJy fbllovv- 

 eth : towif>thatif afbule, can know anyone thint; mere when 

 {he is out the &^ then what fa did know whiles lh; wasin the 

 body ; without any manner of doubt, &seknoweth all that can 



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