Chap. X. OF MANS SOVLE. 



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body ; they tneeily trifl: : for either (here is forac irucmura(io 

 made in her by that if hich they call a warning ,or there i> not; if 

 there be not how becommcrh ic a warding to her? Or what is it 

 more to her then it* a ftraw were wagged at the ^ncipcdes?Buc 

 if there be fomc mutation (b: it never fo lictlcj trade in her by 

 a corporcall motion ; what (hould hinder, why (he may not by 

 means of her bo jy,actainc unco fcic nee (he never had ; as we I a$ 

 by ic receive any the Icaft i itrinfeoll mutarion wimlcc'. cr > 

 For if once we id nit auy mutability in h from any corporea 1 

 motion i c is far more conformable unto rraion to fuppofc it in 

 regard of that which is her naturall perfection, & of thac, which 

 by her operations wcc fee flic haih immediately after fuch cor- 

 poreill motion?, and whcrof before them there appeared in her 

 nomarksat a!l;theto fuppofeit in regard of a dark intimation, 

 of w c h we neither know.it if nor how it is petformed. Surely ,n 

 Rationall Philofopher fecing.a thing, whofcnatvre is to koir t 

 have a <r/jr,whercas formerly it cxifted not; & cbfcrving^how 

 that thin^ by Imlc and little giveth fignes ot more and more 

 knowle ! ge 3 cin doubt but that as (he could be changed from not 

 -/ to being ; fe, may flice like wife bee chingcd from leflc 

 knowing, to more knowing. 



This then being i rcfragably fetled, that in tf-cbody flic doth _ 



* . . , J ,- n - , . That the know- 



cncreafc mknowJedgc.-er us co-netoourdimculty Scexitrine Ie(J which i 



what tris encreafe in the body availeth her j feeing that asfoorc foulgctteth in this 

 25 fh: partech from it^fliefball of her own nature enjoy, and be life will make her 

 replemfhed with the knowledge of all things : why iliouldftc knowledge in the 

 laboiioufly ftrive to anticipate the getting of a few drops which lfe '" 

 b ji enc'eafe her thirft and anxiety ; when having but a iirtlc pa- 

 tience,, fhe finll a: one full and cvcrlafting draught drink i-p the 

 tfho'e fez of it ? We know that the ioule is a thing, made pro- 

 p-rtionab'y to the making of its body ; feeing, \ r is the bodies 

 compartccr : and wee have concluded, that whiles it is in the 

 body, ic acquireth perfection in that way, which the nature of it 

 is capaSl'eof: that ii, in knowledge: as the body acquireth 

 perfection its way; which is, in ftrcngth and agility. Now then 

 let us compare the proceedings of the cne, with thole of the o- 

 ther fubftancej and peridventure wee may gaine force light to 

 difcerhc what advantage it may prove unto a loul a to remain long 



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