OF MANS SOVLE, Chap. XL 



To {umme all up in a few words : we fiode three rootes of infi- 

 nity in every a&ion of a fcparatcd foule.in refpeft of one in the bo- 

 dy : firft, the frecdome of her effence or fubftance in it (elfe : next, 

 that quality of hers, by which (he comprehendeth place and time; 

 that if, ail permanent and fucccdivc quantity : and hftly , the con- 

 currence of infinite knowledges to every aft ion of hers. Having 

 then this meafure in our hands,let us apply it to a well ordered,and 

 to a diiordercd foule parting out of this world : let us conlidcr the 

 one of them, fet upon thofe goods, which fhee(hall iherc have prc- 

 fent, and (hall fully enjoy : the other, languifhing after, and pining 

 away for thofe, which are impoflible for her ever to obtaine. What 

 joy, what content, what exultation of mind, in any living man, can 

 be conceived fo great 5 as to be compared with the happinttfeof one 

 of thefe foulesj And what griefe, what difcontcnt, what mifcry 

 can be like the others? 



Thefe are the different effects, which the divers manners of living 



in this world, doe caufe in foules after they are delivered from their 



bodies: out of which, and out of the difcourfe that hath difcove- 



red thefe effects unto us, we Ice a cleare refolution of that fo maine to bee in a bo- 



and agitated queftion among the Philofophers , why a rational! dy, and to live 



foule is imprifoned in a grofle body of fltfti and bloud > In truth, or r mc . 



the queftion is an illegitimate one ; as fuppofing a falfe ground: 



for the foules being in the body, is not an impdibnmeni of a thing 



that wasexiftent,beiore the foule and body met together j but her 



being there, is the naturallcourfe of beginning that, which can no 



other way come into the lifts of nature : for mould a ioule, by the 



courle of nature, obtaine her firft beeing without a body , eyther 



ftw would in the firft inihnt of her being.be perfeft in knowledge,or 



(he would not : if (he were,then would (he be a perfeft and compleat 



immateriall fubftance, not a foule ; whofe nature is to bee a corn- 



partner to the body, and to acquire her perfection by the mediati- 



on and fervice of corporeal! fenies : but -if (hee were not perfect in 



(cience, but were only a capacity thereunto, and like unto white pa- 



per, in which nothing were yet written ; then unit (Te (hee were put 



into a body ,(he could never arrive to know any thing, becaufe mo- 



tion and alteration areeffccV peculiar to bodies : therefore, it muft 



be agreed, that (h is naturally defigned to be in a body : but her 



being in a bodyjs her being one thing with the body, fhe i faid to 



(Hhh; be 



