Ἐγὼ δὲ τί βέλομαι ; καταμαθεῖν τὴν φύσιν, καὶ ταύτῃ ἕπεσθαι.

Ζηλῶ γὰρ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἐφ ̓ ἧς ἐδεὶς, πώποτε ἐβλάβη.

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CONTENTS.

SECT. I.

THAT a refiftance to any change of its
prefent ftate is effential to matter, and
inconfiftent with any active power in it,

SECT. II.

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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

things. Hence the neceffity of an immate-

rial Mover in all spontaneous motions, &c.

SE C T. III.

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The natural immortality of the foul fhewn

from its being a fimple or uncompounded

fubftance; what this immortality imports.

218

SECT.

SECT. IV.

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

between Mr. Locke, and his adverfaries

confidered, whether the foul thinks always,

&c.

248

SECT. V.

The feveral arguments against the immateri-

ality of the foul, urged by Lucretius and

others, examined, and fhewn fallacious, as

applying the equivocal fymptoms of a difor-

dered organ in a ftate of union to the foul

itfelf.

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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.

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