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ought I know.or can fufped to the contrary, be cndewed in the 

 next world with as much know ledgers the foule of the greateft 

 Clerke that ever 1 ;ved/ and if an abortive do not arrive ib farre, 

 as to the knowledge of fome one c hingj know no reafon 9 why 

 we fhould beleeve it arrived to the nature of man. 



Whence it fblloweth , that this amplitude of knowledge, ic 

 common to all humane fbules/of what pitch Ibever they feeme 

 to be herej.vhen they are feperated from their bodies . as alfo, 

 that if any error have crept inroa mans judgement., during this 

 Hfe 3 whether it be offome uni verfall conclusion , or of fome par- 

 ticular thing.all fuch will be abolifhedthen.by the truth appea- 

 ring on the oppofitefidejfl thence two contradi&ory judgements, 

 can not poilefle our fbule together: as even in this worid,as well 

 e\perience,as reafon teacheth us. 



But unawares I have engulfed my felfe into a fea of contra - 

 diclion/rom no meaneadverfarie*:'br Alexander, Aphrodifeus, 

 .5 Pomponatious and the leranedefi of che Peripatetike fchoole.wii 



An anfwer co a jj o f t hem rife up in maine oppofition againfi this do&rine of 

 ehe objcaion$ m j ne; f] ievv j n g novv f n t ^ e body , all our fbules knowledge is 

 ^~ made,by the work ; ng of our fanfie ; and that there is no ad of 

 : the our fbule, without fpecularion of fantafmes refiding in our me- 

 topcrifhmory: therefore, feeing chat when our body is gone, allthofe 

 with the body.]{ tt ] e bodyes offantafmes are gone with it; what figne is there , 

 that any operation can remaine? And hence they inferre , that 

 feeing every fubftance hath its Eeing for its operations fake. and 

 by confequence were vaine and fuperfluous in the world, if it 

 could not en joy /and exercife its operation; there is no neceflity 

 or end, why the foule of a man fliould furvive his body /and con* 

 fequently^there is no reafon to immagfne other, then that it pe. 

 riflieth when the man dieth. Thisisthefubftance of their Ar. 

 gument| which indeed is nothing elfc , but to gueffe without 

 'round,or rather again/tall ground.- but how foe ver, this com- 

 fort I have,that I have to doe with Peripatetics; men that will 

 heareabd anfwer reafon.-and to fuch I addrefle my fpeech. 



To joyne ifTue then with them,and to encounter them with 

 their owne weapons,let us call to minde^hat Ariftotle holdeth 

 light to be. He^faith^f^ it is a fftddaixe and momentary 



