Chap- x. OFMANSSOVLE 



fide, when I examine the martet co the boctorue,! find that 

 itcommethnot home toour adversaries intention. For as 

 when we looks upon a thing, we conceive wcworke upon 

 that thing, whereas in truth we do buc lee our (elves in fuclra 

 po-fition that the thing fcene mty workc upon uj : i n like 

 manner our looking upon the phantafmes inourbraine ; i* 

 notourlbules atfion upon them, but it is our letting thecn 

 beat at our common icnfe; that is.our letting them workc 

 upon our fbulc. The effect whereofis^hat either onr foalc is 

 bettered in her lelfe-as when we (hidy and contemplate : or 

 el(e,that (he bcttereih Comcthing-without us, as when by this 

 thinking,wc order any a& ion. 



But,if they will have this Aviome a\rayle them,they (hold 

 fliew that the fbule is not of her felfe a knowledge ; which if 

 they be able to do,even then when to our thinking, (he fee- 

 msth not fo much as to thinke, we will yeeld they have Tea- 

 ton : but that will be impoflible to them to do ; for (h: is af- 

 -wayes, of her lelfe, a knorvledge.though in the body (he ne- 

 ver expreflcth fomuch, but when (he is put to ir. Or clfe 

 they fliould fbew , that this knowledge which the foule is of 

 iier felfe^win not by changing the manner of her Evidence t 

 become an aftuall know ledge ,inft cad of the habituall know- 

 ledge which now appeareth in her* 



But as thefc A r iftotdiam embrace and fticke to one .Axi- 

 +m* of their Patroncjlb t hey fbregoe and prevaricate againft . '9 

 an other: for as it is Ariftotles dorine,that a fubttance is for Tilc . forracr 

 irs operation 3 and were invaineand fuperfiiiousifit could 

 not prac^ife it;fo Irkewife it is confeflctf doclrinejthat C^/<r- 

 ter is for it* forme and not the forme forthewattfr. And yet 

 ihefe men pretend that the (bule/erveth for nothing but the 

 governing ofthe body :whereas contrafiwife,both all ArUio- 

 ties doclrinc ,and common (en fe convinceth, that the body 

 mu'* be for the (bulc. WMchifit t>e, nothing can be more 

 Cf nfenraneous to Reason, then to conceive that the durance 

 which the foule hath in the body.is affigned her.ro worke and 

 mould in henthe future ftate, which (heiitohsvi after thfs 

 life : andihat no more operations are to be expected from her 



Gi after 



