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to so great name, there is this material dif-ference, motion is no more the actionof mat-ter than reft is 5 it is equally inactive in bothas hath been shewn. Matter stands in needof an external cause to put it into motion,or bring it to rest again ; but the foul dothnot want an external mover to set it a think-ing. And therefore there is no room to runa comparison between the action of the soul,which necessarily springs out of its own na-ture, and the motion of matter, which mustbe excited in it, by some being not material.This looks as if aSlion were equally extrin-sick to them both; or as if it were as natu-ral for the foul to be, without action, as formatter to be without motion; which is topervert our justest conceptions of spiritualsubstance.

Besides, allowing Mr. Locke’s acceptationof the word essence, that it is the real, in-

** that we sometimes think, and thence draw this infal-" lible consequence, that there is something in us that" has a power to think; but whether that substance" perpetually thinks, or no, we can be no farther assured“ than experience informs us.” B. 2. ch. 1. fe£i, 10.The reason why it is improver to refer to experience inthis cafe, will appear immediately.

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