Ἐγὼ δὲ τί βέλομαι ; καταμαθεῖν τὴν φύσιν, καὶ ταύτῃ ἕπεσθαι. Ζηλῶ γὰρ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἐφ ̓ ἧς ἐδεὶς, πώποτε ἐβλάβη. LONDON: Epict. Marc. Antonin Printed for A. MILLAR in the Strand. 7025 THAT a refiftance to any change of its The confequences of the want of active powers in matter, viz. that all thofe effects common- ly afcribed to certain natural powers refid- ing in matter are immediately produced by the power of an immaterial Being. Hence a conftant and univerfal Providence in the material world, extending to the minutest That the foul after death is not in a state of infenfibility, torpor, or deadness; but must Still remain an active living being, when Separated from the body. The controversy &c. 248 That a refiftance to any change of its prefent ftate is essential to matter, and inconfiftent with any active power in it. Y the foul we understand that which is active and percipient in us, be it what it will (a): its activity appears in moving the body, and in the command it hath over its own thoughts; its perceptivity, in being fenfible of the action of mat (a) These are the uncontested properties of the foul, whatever be the fubftance of it; whether material, or immaterial: and this defcription fhall be always kept in view throughout these papers. VOL. I. B ter |