maSiivity of Matter, &c. 21s

Were a thing that wanted to be dissembled,the Atheist would change sides, and easilyprove it upon us. Probably Cartes' s opinionthat there was nothing but matter and motioninbrutes } hath been one reason among others,why so many of late have thought it notimpossible but that it might be so in men.There is indeed nothing more common to beheard than a confident assertion that it is im-possible to prove the foul to be immaterial . Andthe proving that it is immaterial in brutes,must, d fortiori , infer that it is so in men. Ifthe argument had only been urged againstthe Cartes an opinion, those who have ex-tended that conclusion also to the humansoul, must of course have relinquished theircause; so that more than enough is not prov-c d. (If truth is at all to be received, all theconsequences of it are to be received ; they arelikewise truth). The immateriality of the hu-man soul doth not fall, though the souls ofbrutes are at the fame time immaterial; nordoth the rational soul’s being such depend.*ipon the brute foul’s being not such.

XXXVII. But farther, though both are^material, it doth not follow that both areP 2 therefore