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from the limitedne{s of the active power ofthe foul, that it can do f or be intent uponone thing only at a time ; and if thinkingWere doing nothing, the doing anything elseWould not exclude it. And as .this helps toshew us, that thinking is action, in whateverdegree of intenfeness; so it assists us, in somewanner, to get a transient glance of theboundless, adorable power and perfections ofthe Deity , who performs an infinity of ac-tions, infinitely different, all at once, in allplaces, without perturbation or perplexity.We have scarce any other way of seeing thegreatness of his perfections, but by bringingthem into comparison with what is difficultto us. When they become great beyond acertain pitch, we lose the sense of their great-ness; and, if I may so fay, by ffill increas-ing they become less to us.

XVIII. To confirm farther the incesiantactivity of the foul considered in its own na-ture, we may next observe that as all will-ing is action, so xKi^willmg is the only actionof the human foul; or all that it doth whenit acts, is only exerting an act of volition.When it moves the animal spirits, in orderX 4 to