422 Obje&iom to th& immateriality

tion, &c. are again rectified; and by his powerthat they continue still to be performed, af-ter they are rectified ? And why should thefoul have liberty to leave the body, He con-tinuing to exert his almighty power in keep-ing up the œconomy ? Or before the final in-eptitude is suffered to take place? (SeeN° 21.of the last Section.) Since the union requireshis particular act and intervention; the se-paration must also require his particular actand intervention; otherwise the union wouldbe vain, and the design frustrated.

XIX. Lucretius makes it an argument ofthe soul’s being material, that it doth notleave all the parts of the body at once, rejoic-ing y as a serpent to lay down her exuviæ (h)."Here it is to be observed, that he makes that

(h) Nee fhi ~enim quifquam moriens fentiri videturIre form animam incolmnende corpore toto\

Nec prius ad jugulum, et super as succedere faucets *Veritm defcere in certd regione locatam ;

Ut senfus altos, in parte quemque fua, scitDijfolvi: quodft immortalis nojlra for et mens ;

Non jam fe moriens dijfolvi conquereretur ;Sedmagis ire for as, vejlemque relinquere, ut angnis,Gauderet, prœlonga fenex a ut ccrnua cervus.

Ver. 606.

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