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after this Jife,but inttead o* them,a fetled /fate of/,feeing 

 thac,even in this life,according to Arift. do&rine, the proper 

 operations of the fouleare butcertaine Beings: fothat -we 

 may condude.that ifa foule were growne to the perfedion, 

 which her nature is capable of,(he would be nothing elfebut 

 a conftant #?/>, never changing from the nappineffeof the 

 beft Being. 



And although the texts of Ariftotle which remaine unto 

 as.,be uncertaine (peradventure , not fo much becaufe they 

 were originally fuch,in themfelves, as through the mingling. 

 of fome comments into the body of the texr^yet if we had 

 his bocke which he wrote of the foule upon the death of his 

 freind Eudemus, it is very likejy we fhould there fee his evi- 

 dent aiVertion of her Immortality^ fince it had beene very im- 

 pertinent to take occafion upon a friends death to write of 

 the fbule.if he intended to conclude, that ofa dead man there 

 were no foule. 



Out of this difcourfe icappeareth how thofe Adions which 

 the operations of we excrciie in this life^are to be underftoocf , when we heare 

 a fcparated Soule them attributed to the next.^or to thioke that they are to be 



compare* to her tato in their direct piaine meaning,and.inthatway , 

 operations in her ^fah t ^ e y are performed in this world ; were a great fim- 

 -plicity, and were to immagine a likecefTe betweene bodies 

 and fpirits,. wemu q therefore, elevate our mindeSj when we 

 wouitfpenetrate into the true meaning offueh cxpreffions, 

 andconfider how all the actions of our fouleare eminently 

 comprehended in the univerfality of koowledge s vs c have al- 

 ready explicated.. And lb, the Apprehensions, judgements, 

 difcouries^refleclions, talkings together , and all other fuch 

 a^ions of ours^whea they are attributed to feparated fouks , 

 are but inadequate names and reprcfetations of their in- 

 llantaneall fight of all things,for,ui that, they can notchoo/^ 

 but fee others mindes, which is .that we call talking, and like- 

 wife their owne,which we call reflexion : the reS are pJainc 

 partes. and are plainely contained in know ledge ; di^courfe 

 being but the falling into it; judgement the principles of it; 

 sod ftngle apprehensions the components of judgements. 



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