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cation to place or time ; but, flic is, of her felfe, miHreflcof 

 beth, comprebemding all quantity whacfocvcr, in an indivi. 

 fible apprchenfion ; and ranking all the parts of motion, in 

 their compleate order : and knowing at once, what is to hap* 

 pen in every one of them. On the other fide ; an incorpora- 

 ted foule, by reafon of her being confined to the ufe of her 

 fcnfes, can tooke upon but one fingle definite place, or time, 

 at once; and needeth a long chainccf manydifcourfcsto' 

 comprehend all the circumftances of any one action : and yet 

 after all,how fhort (he is of comprehending all ? So that com- 

 paring the one of thcfe with the other, it is evident, that in 

 refpcct of time and place ; and in refpccl of any one fingular 

 a&ion; the proportion of a feparaied foule, to one in the bo- 

 dy, is as all time, or all place, in refpe& of any one piece, or 

 leaft parcellof them; or as the entire ab r olutecdmprehen- 

 der of all time and all place i is to the dilcovcrer ofa fmall 

 meafareoftherru For whacfbevcr a foule vrilleth in that ftatr, 

 free willeth it tor the whole extent of her duration j becaufc 

 fhe is then out-ofthe ftate or capacity of changing: and wifli- 

 eth for whatfoever (he wifheth, as for her abfolutegood ; and 

 therefore cmployeth the whole force of her judgment, upon 

 every particular wifh. Likewifethe eminency which a Sepa- 

 rated foule hath over place, is alfothen entirelyemployed up^- 

 on every particular wifh of hers; fince in that ftate there is no 

 variety of place left unto her, to wifh for fuch good in one 

 place.and to refute it in an other ; as, whiles Ih6 is in the body 

 hapnetti to every thing^fhe defircch* Wnerefote, whatfoever 

 fhe then wiflieth for, fhe wiflieth for it according to hercotn- 

 parifon unto place : that is to fay ; that as fuch a foule hath a 

 po.ver to worke at the fame time in all place by the abfolute 

 compretienfion, which fhe hath of place in abftra& : fb every 

 wifh ofthat foule ifit were concerning a thing to be made in 

 place,wcreable to make it in all places; through the exceffive 

 force Sccfficacy wch/he emploiethupon everjrparticurJar wifti 



The third eff<& by which aiiong bodycs we gathtrthc vi- 

 gour,and energy of the caofe that producetlvit, (to vf htc , the 

 doing of the like aclion, in a leflcr ti jie andia a larger excent,) 

 is but a combination cf the two former? and therefore it rcq ii- 

 reth no fimhfr particular infi fiance upon it, to fhevv, that like, 

 t? L r e in this , the proportion^ a feparated to an incorporated 



