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XXI. We may take notice, before weleave this subject, that as there are manysymptoms in the compound of foul and body,occasioned by the material half, which shewdefects incompetent to a spiritual Being; and

and eternal) substance, could not be united at all. ver.8ox.

S^uippe etenim mortale eeterno jungere ; V und

Consentire putare ; & fungi mutua posse •,

Desipere ’ft: -

But on the contrary, it is really impossible that activityand inactivity, life and deadness, can consist in the famesubject [matter]. Thence follows a very undeniable ne-cessity of two different subjects of inhesion, viz. mate-rial, and immaterial substance : and then it is madnessindeed, (in him) to deny the possibility of their union,which is thus easily shewn to be fact. Yet how stronga difficulty is this made by modern Sceptics! Again,he fays, " Since the body cannot subsist without the“ foul, but putrifies (ver. 579. &fey.) we need not“ doubt but that this happens, because the foul, being" scattered through all tire body, hath evaporated, like“ smoke through the pores.” Here a poor scruple isendeavoured to be raised fromputrifaction; as if the bo-dy were not liable to putrify and be corrupted, in ma-ny cafes, while the animal lives; or were always liableto that, when it is dead. Again he fays, “ How could“ such a thin thing as the foul subsist, without the te-" gumentof the body ?” (ver. 602.) To keep it warmperhaps! from