mal Esse, one Operation. Thus he. The Soul with her Essence penetrates and pervades the whole Body, and yet is not where the Body is, but nowhere in the Universe!
With what manifest repugnancy therefore to their other Assertions the Nullibists hold this ridiculous Conclusion, we have sufficiently seen, and how weak their chiefest prop is, That whatever is Extended is Material; which is not onely confuted by irresragable Arguments, Chap. 6, 7, and 8. Enchyrid. Mataphy, but we have here also, by so clearly proving that all Spirits are somewhere, utterly subverted it, even from that very Concession or Opinion of the Nullibists themselves, who concede or aver that whatsoever is somewhere is extended. Which Spirits are and yet are not Material.
SECT. VII.
But we will not pass by their more slight reasonings in so great a matter, or rather so monstrous. Of which the first is, That the Mind of Man thinks of such things as are no where, nor have any relation to place, no not so much as to Logical place or Ubi. Of which sort are many truths as well Moral as Theological and Logical, which being of such a nature that they are no where, the Mind of Man which conceives them is necessarily no where also. But how crazily and inconsequently they collect that the humane Soul is nowhere, for that it thinks of those things that are no where, may be apparent to any one from hence, and especially to the Nullibists themselves; because from the same reason it would follow that the Mind of Man is somewhere, because sometimes, if not always in a manner, it thinks of those things which are somewhere, as all Material things are Which yet they dare not grant, because it would plainly follow from thence, according to their Doctrine, that the Mind or Soul of Man were extended, and so would become corporeal and devoid of all Cogitation. But besides, These things which they say
