16 The Immortality of the Soul Book I
3. Wherefore, being fully grounded and rooted in this so concerning a Perrwation, she is freed from all poor and abject thoughts and designs; and as little admires him that gets the most of this World, be it by Industry, Fortune or Policy, as a discreet and serious man does the spoils of School-boyes, it being very inconsiderable to him who got the victory at Cocks or Cob-nut, or whose bag returned home the fullest stuffed with Counters or Cherry-stones.
4. She has therefore no amulation, unless it be of doing good, and of out-stripping, if it were possible, the noblest examples of either the present or part Ages; nor any contest , unlefs it be with her self, that (he has made no greater proficiency towards the scope flie aimes at: and aiming at nothing but what is not in the power of men to confer upon her with courage flie sets upon the main work; and being still more faithful! to her self, and to that Light that aflifts her, at last tasts the first fruits of her future harvest ,and does more then presage that great Happiness that is accrewing to her. And fo quit from the troubles and anxieties of this prefent world, staies in it with Tranquility and Content and at last leaves it with Joy
5. The Knowledge therefore and belief of the Immortalitj of the Soul being of fo grand Importance, we are engaged more carefully and punctually to handle this fo weighty a Theory: which will not be performed by multiplying of words, but by a more frugall ufe of them; letting nothing fall from our pen, but what makes closely to the matter, nor omitting any thing materiall for the evincing the truth thereof.
C H A P. II. ^ 1. That the Soule's immortality is deomstrable. by the Authors method, to all but mere Scepticks. 2. An Illustration of his First Axiome. 3. A confirmation and example of the Second. 4. An explication of the Third. 5. An explication and proof of the Fourth. 6. A proof of the Fifth. 7. of the Sixth. 8. An example of the Seventh, 9. A confirmation of the truth of the Eighth. 10, A demonfiration and example of the Ninth. 11. Penetrability the immediate Property of Incorporeall Substance. 12. As also Indiscerpibility. 13. A proof and illustration of the Tenth Axiome.
I, AND to slop all Creep-holes, and leave no place for the subterfuges and evasions of confused and cavilling spirits I shall prefix forne few Axiomes, of that plainness and evidence, that no man in his wits but will be ashamed to deny them, if he will admit any thing at all to be true. But as for perfect Scepticisme, it is a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laught at, then seriously opposed. For when a man is fo fugitive and unsetled, that he will not sland to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, then he can write in the water, or tye knots of the wind. But for those that
