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then for fuch adions as arc the Beginning of operation, there 

 can bee no doabt but that they are likewife to be /bund, and 

 are refused, in the fame Vniverfality 5 as, love of good^con, 

 fultation, refolution, prudential! eletion ? and the fail mori- 

 on; for who knovveth all things, can nor choofe but knorv 

 what is good, and that good, is to beeprofecuced : and vvhor 

 feeth compleatly al the meanes of cfFeAiug & attaining to fai$ 

 intended good; hath already confaJted & refolvcd ofthc beft: 

 & whounderftandeth perfect Jy the matter he is to work up- 

 on,hath already made his prudential election :fb that there re- 

 malndh nothing more to be don but to give the tirtt impulfe. 

 And thus you ice, that this univeriality of knowledge in 

 the fouie, comprehended a)l,isall j perfbrmeth all ; and no 

 imaginable good or happinefle, isout of her reach. A noble 

 creiture^and not to becatt away upon fiich traCb as moit mep 

 employ their thoughts in. Vpon whom it is now time to re- 

 flet; and to conficfer.what effeAs the cfivers manners of liv- 

 ing in this world, do work upon her in the next ; if firft wee 

 acquic our felves of a promile wee made at the end of the 

 laft Chapter. For it being now amply declared, that the ftate 

 of a Soule exempted from her body, is a iiate of pure bcing-jx. 

 follOiVeth manifertly, that there is neither aiUonnor pa/Jion 

 in that fhte rwhich being fo, it is beyond all oppo/ltion that 

 the ibule can not dye: for ic is evident that all corruption, 

 mutt come from the aft ion of an other thing,upon that whicft 

 is corrupted; and therefore that thing muft be capable of being 

 made better and of being made worie.Now then.ifa feparated 

 foule be in a finall ttate, where fhe can neither 6ee bettered,or 

 wof fcned,(as fhe muft be,if flie be fuch a thing.as we have de- 

 clared) it iblloweth that fheecan not poflfibiy loofe 'thcllfixg 

 which fli3 hathnnd fithenceher paflfageout ofthcbody,doili 

 not change her nature,but only her ftatc; : t is cleare, that Hie 

 is of the fame nature ( even in the body .'though in this her du- 

 rance, flie be jubj'eA to be forged (as it werejby the hammers 

 ofcorporeall object beating upon her ; yet fo, that of her lelfe 

 (lie Mill - s what flie is. And therefore as foone as (he is out of 

 the partible core, in which fliee fuftereth by rcalbn ofthat 

 Cj fliee present Jy becommeth impaflible^as being purely of 



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