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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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196
Of the Principles
PaxE I.
been made cridene, chat Bodies, ot Whac
Frame Or Texture Coerer, arc barely
paltire Ideas in che Mind, irhich is more
dictane and hecerogencous trom them,
than Lighiis trom Darknels. Wehare
Benchat the Soulis Indirisible, TnCOr-
porcal, Onexcended, and ic IS conse-
quener Incorrupcible. Noching can bc
plainer, than thac cho Mocions, ChangCs,
Decars, and Dissolutions irhich ve
hourty sec betal natural Bodies (and
irtrich is Whac re mean by che course
of Nature) cannoc poltiblr altect an
Actire, Simple, Incompounded Sub.
stancc: Such a bcing, cherctore, is In-
dissoluble OY thC FOrcC OF NaturC, chac
15 10 PaY, the Soul of Man is naturally
Immorral.
5 242. Atcer Whac has been laid, cis,
I suppole, Dlain chat our Souls aec noc
eo be bnorn in the lame manner as
TenCclels, inactire Obiects, or by War
et Idea. Spirits and Ideas arc chinss (0
Wrhrolly disterene, thac When ve la,
they Exist, they are Rnomn, Or thc. lilc,
chese Words mulc noc be thoughe to
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