7, 8. But Ineffectual, if all Extension be divisible, and the essential Presence of a Spirit which pervades and is extended through the whole Body C D E, may for that very Reason be divided; for so the whole Essence which occupies the whole Body C D E, will be divided into Parts. No by no means will you say, forasmuch as it is wholly in every part of the Body.
Therefore it will be divided, if I may so speak, into so many Totalities. But what Logical Ear can bear a saying so absurd and abhorrent from all Reason, that a whole should not be divided into parts, but into wholes? But you will say at least, we shall have this granted us, that an essential Presence may be distributed or divided according to so many distinctly sited Totalities which occupy at once the whole Body C D E; yes verily, this shall be granted you, after you have demonstrated that a Spirit not bigger than a Physical Monad can occupy in the same instant all the Parts of the Body C D E, but upon this condition, that you acknowledge not sundry Totalities, but one only total Essence, tho' the least that can be imagined, can occupy that whole space, and when there is need, occupy in an instant, an infinite one; which the Holenmerians must of necessity hold touching the Divine Essence, because, according to their Opinion taken in the second Sense, (which pinches the whole Essence of a Spirit into the smallest point) the Divine Essence it self is not bigger than any Physical Monad. From whence it is apparent the three Objections which we brought in the beginning do again recur here, and utterly overwhelm the first reason of the Holenmerians: So that the remedy is far nore intolerable than the Disease.
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