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without composition. Livifibility is such anaffection of substance, as thews on the onehand, that matter, because divisible, cannotthink, or be a living substance; and on theother, that spiritual substance, because think-ln g, cannot be divisible, or have parts.

XI. The human foul then, having no parts,Must he indissoluble in its nature, by any thingthat hath not power to destroy or annihilateit. And since it hath not a natural tendencyto annihilation, nor a power to annihilate itself,nor can be annihilated by any being finitelypowerful only; without an immediate act ofthe omnipotent Creator to annihilate it, itmujl endlejly abide an active perceptive sub -fiance, without either sear or hopes of dyingt hrough all eternity. Which is, in otherw °rds, to be immortal as to the agency ofnatural, or second causes; i. e. naturallyimmortal. And this is the immortality whichthe Atheist, and really in the general whatall men insist most upon. We insist to haveit proved in our own way; and demand thatit may be shewn immaterial, simple and un-compounded in its nature, as a pledge andsecurity that it is never to die, Lucretius

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