A TREATISE, &c. 



ment, befides this which we have now ufed j and it is this. Wharfo* 

 ever worketh purely by underttading and minde, cannot bee chan- 

 ged in its qperationSjUnlefie its understanding or minde be altered : 

 but this cannot happen, unlefle eytherit Icane fomewhat, it knew 

 not before j or forgetting a foreknowne truth, it begmne after- 

 wards to thinke a falficy. This fecond part, is itnpoffible, as wee 

 have already ihewed, when we proved that falfehood could have no 

 admittance into a fepa rated foule : and the former is as impcffiWe ; 

 it being likewife proved, that at her firft inftant of her reparation, 

 (he knoweth all things : wherefore, we may hence confidently con- 

 clude, that no change of minde, (that is no change at all jean hap- 

 pen to an abftra&ed foule. 



And thus, by difcourfe, we may arrive, to quit our felves eafily 

 of that famous objection , fo much peftering Chriftian Religion; 

 howGod,can in juftice impofe eternall paines upon a foule,for one 

 juftly punifhed finne, afted in a Chore (pace of time. For we fee.it folio weth by the 

 with eternall neceflary coucfe of nature, that if a man die in a diforderly affection 

 to any thing, as to his chiefe good , hee eternally remaineth by the 

 neceffity of hi* owne nature, in the fame affection: and there is no 

 imparity, that to eternall finne, there fuould bee impofed eternall 

 punifhmcnt. 



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