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The true Notion of a Spirit.

the middle of the Ring of Trumpeters, viz. where the Conarion is: Wherefore the Percipient itself, namely the Soul, is in the midst of this Ring as well as the Conarion, and therefore is some where. Assuredly he that denies that he conceives the force of this Demonstration, and acknowledges that the Perception indeed is at the extreme parts of the said Lines, and in the middle of the Ring of Trumpeters, but contends in the mean time that the Mind her self is not there, forasmuch as she is no where; this Man certainly is either Delirant and Crazed, or else Plays Tricks, and slimly and obliquely insinuates that the perception which is made in the Conarion, is to be attributed to the Conarion it self; and that the Mind, so far as it is conceived to be an incorporeal Substance, is to be exterminated out of the Universe, as an useless Figment and Chimæra.


SECT. XI.

The Explication of the Opinion of the Holenmerians, together with their Two Reasons thereof proposed.

And thus much of the Opinion of the Nullibists. Let us now examine the Opinion of the Holenmerians, whose Explication is thus: Let there be

Fig. 2. what Body you please, suppose C, D, E, which the Soul or a Spirit may possess and penetrate. The Holenmerians affirm, that the whole Soul or Spirit does occupy and possess the whole Body C, D, E, by its Essence; and that it is also wholly or all of it in every part or point of the said Body C, D, E, as in A, for Example, and in B, and the rest of the least parts or points of it. This is a brief and clear Explication of their Opinion.

But the Reasons that induce them to embrace it, and so stifly to maintain it, are these two only, or at least chiefly, as