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Earth and the foundations thereof his Legs 

 and Feet. But aflert in general that God 

 is the Life of every thing, yet is the thing 

 neither greater nor lefs for him. 



They hold that God dwelt in a Vacuity 

 before that he created the World, and that 

 as he dwelt in that Vacuity he created fe- 

 veral Beings out of himfelf, the firft were ^ 

 Angels, the fecond Souls, the third Spirits, 

 all differing in degrees of Purity, the firft 

 being more pure than the fecond, and the 

 fecond than the third. -The Angels, they 

 fay, neither ad Good nor Evil, the Souls 

 either Good or Evil, but the Spirits, or 

 Dewta's^ as they call them, ad fcarce any 

 thing but Evil. 



They have a good Opinion of the An- 

 jrels, and think their State mighty happy, 

 hoping that when they dye they fhall be 

 be made partakers of the fame Blifs and 

 Pleafure. 



They believe that every thing that hath 

 Life hath a Soul, but efpecially Man ^ and 

 they accordingly affirm, that as thefe Souls 

 behaved themfelves in their pre-exiftent 

 State, fo are their Adions in this World 

 either good or bad, by a fort of fatal Ne- 

 cefiity, which is very hard to conquer, or 

 to overcome. Hence it is, fay they, that 

 there are fo many diffei'ent Humours and 

 Difpofitions of Men, for their Souls, before 

 their entrance into their Bodies, being 

 tainted with different AfFedions, caufcs the 

 like differences in the Parties, whofe Bodies 

 are their Vehicles. So that if a Man hap- 

 pen to have a fuddain or unfortunate Death, 



they 



