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good, and dcfert the greater, (wherein, neither judgement it falfc, 

 nor eittes inclination is naught)mecrcly out of the improportion 

 of the two inclinations or judgements to their otjc&s: for that a 

 foulemay be duely ordered, and in a fhte of being well, fliee nmft 

 have a lefler inclination to a lefler good, and a greater inclination 

 to a greater good and in pure fpirits , thefe inclirutions are no- 

 thing elfe, but the ftrength of their judgements .: which judgements 

 in foules, whiles they are in their/bodies, are made by the repetition 

 of more afts from ftrongercaufes , or in more favourable circuni- 

 ftances. And fo it appeareth,how without any falfity in any judge- 

 ment, a foule may become miferable, by herconverfadoninthis 

 world ; where all her inclinations generally are good , unlcfle the 

 disproportion of them, do make them bad. 



THE TWELFTH CHAPTER. 



Of the yerfcverance of a foule , in the flate Jhee findeth hey felfe it? y 

 at her firfl fepartion from her body. 



THus wee have brought mans foule, out of the body (he lived in ,. 

 here, and by which me converted, and had commerce with the Theexplica- 

 other parts of this world : and we have affigned her, her firft array on,and 

 and ftole, with which (he may be feene in the next world : (othat ^[^ f 

 now there remaineth onely for us to confider, what (hall betide her ^ \^ e ^^ t 

 afterwards j and whether any change may happen to her s and bee j n aft, the cf 

 made in her, after the firft initant of her being a pure fpiritj (epara- feftmuft alf 

 ted from all confortfljippc with materiall fubftances. To deter- ^ c< 

 mine this point the more clearely, let us call to minde, an ax : .ome 

 that Ariftotlc giveth us in his logicke ; which teacheth us That as 

 it is trttc^if the effett be, there isacatt/e; fo likewife it is mo ft true 

 that if the caufe be in aft. or c*ufig t the effeft muf alfo be. Which 

 Axiome may be underftood two waies : the one, that if the cau(e 

 hath its cflfeft, then the efFeft alfo is: and this is no great miftery 

 or for it, are any thankes due to the teacher; it being but a repeti- 

 tion, and laying over againe of the fame thing. The other way is, 

 thatifthecaufe bee perfect in the nature of being acaufe* then 

 theeffe&is: which is as much as to fay, that if nothing be wanting 

 to the caule, abftra&ing precifely from the effect ; then neither is 



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