OFMANSSOVLE. Chap. XI. 117 



it foJloweth clearely , chat whatfoever (concerning them) is not in 

 this infant, can never be. 



Thefe two conclusions being thus demonftrated jlet us in the next 3; 

 place determine, how all actions of pure fpirics, which have no re- All pure fpi- 

 fpeft to bodieSjmuft of nectffity be indivilible ; that is,muft include" 1 ^ woril * 

 no continuate fucaffion : by which, I meane fuch a fucceffion, as^^ 

 may be divided into parts without end : for if wee looke well into 

 it, wee (hill finde, that a continuate fucceffion cannot bee a thing, 

 which hath in it felfa Being: and the reafbn is,bccaufe the cffence of 

 fuch a fucceffion,confifteth in having fom of its par tsal ready pa fled, 

 and others of them yet to come : but on the other fide, it is evident, 

 that no fuch thing can bee, uhofe eflentiall ingredients are not ic 

 felfe : and therefore it followeth evidently, that iucha thing as we 

 call fucceflion, can have no being in it felfc : feeing that one cflen- 

 tiall part of it, never is with the other : therefore, fuch a fucceflion, 

 muft have its being in fome permanent thing, which mult bee divi- 

 iible for that is eflentially required in fucctflion : but permanent 

 divifibility i* that, which wee call Biggenefle or Quantity ; from 

 which pure fpirits are free : and therefore, it is moft evident, 

 that all their actions in refpeft of thernfelvcs, are abfoluicly iu 

 divifible. 



Now, to make ufc of this doftrine to our intent : we'fay, that 

 fince our foule, when it is feparated from our body, is a pure fpirit Th at a 'foule 

 or undcrftanding ; and that all her aftions are indivifible 5 and that feparated from 

 all acYions of other fpirits upon her muft likewife be fuch ; and by ha body can 

 tonfequence, that there can benoconiiauat.e.fucccflicn of action a- ^ f e ^"J 

 mong them : wee rauft of neceflicy conclude , that according to the tfje $ ^ 

 private nature of the (bule, and according to the common notion of ihnr of her 

 fpirituall things ; there can bee no change made in her, after the reparation, 

 firft inftant of her parting from her body ; but, what happinefle or 

 mifcry betideth her in that inftant,continueth with her for all eter- 

 nity. Yet it is not my mindetofay* that by thecourfeoftheuni- 

 verfall refolutions,from which fix is not wholy exempr 3 & from (u- 

 pernaturall adminiftration of corporall things ,there may not refult 

 fbme change in her. But the confederation of that matter, I remitt 

 to thofe treatises, unto which it belongcth; as not depending, nor 

 enfuing from tfae particular nature of the foule : and therefore, not 

 falling under our difculfion in this place. 



Thw fame condufion may bee proved by an other arpu- 



(Hhh 3) 



