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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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Chap. III. hn^oth' s Account <strong>of</strong> Nature. 167Arijlotle'5 nature can be nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> matter, nor <strong>the</strong> forms, nor <strong>the</strong> accidents <strong>of</strong>bodies, it <strong>is</strong> plain, that, according to h<strong>is</strong> own principles, it muft be incorporeal.2t. Now if <strong>the</strong> plaftick nature be incorporeal, <strong>the</strong>n it muft <strong>of</strong> necefTitybe ei<strong>the</strong>r an inferior power or faculty <strong>of</strong> fomefoui, which <strong>is</strong> alfo confcious,fenfuive, or rational ;or elfe a lower fiibftantial life by itfelf, devoid <strong>of</strong> animalconfcioufnefs. The Platonifls feem to affirm both <strong>the</strong>fe too-e<strong>the</strong>r,namely, that <strong>the</strong>re <strong>is</strong> a plaftick nature lodged in <strong>all</strong> particular fouls <strong>of</strong> animals,brutes, <strong>and</strong> men, <strong>and</strong> alfo that <strong>the</strong>re <strong>is</strong> a general plaftick or fperm^tick principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole univerfe diftinft from <strong>the</strong>ir higher mundanefoul, though fubordinate to it, <strong>and</strong> dependent upon it ', ji Xiy<strong>of</strong>j-ivn (^Jo-k ymnfj.a.^'j)(ri^ TT^orioixi ivvxlari^ov (^toVvi;, Tba(, which <strong>is</strong> calkd nature, <strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>f-fpring <strong>of</strong> anhigher foul, which hath a more powerful life in it. And though Arifiotle donot fo clearly acknowledge <strong>the</strong> incorporeity <strong>and</strong> fubftantiality <strong>of</strong> fouls, ye<strong>the</strong> concurs very much with th<strong>is</strong> Platonick d<strong>of</strong>trine, that nature <strong>is</strong> ei<strong>the</strong>r alower power, or faculty <strong>of</strong> fome confcious foul, or elfe an inferior kind <strong>of</strong>life by itfelf, depending upon a fuperior foul.And th<strong>is</strong> we fli<strong>all</strong> make to appear from h<strong>is</strong> book de partibus animalium, L. i.

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