things, yet nothing can so insinuate it self into it, as to disjoyn any thing of its Essence any where, or perforate it or make any Hole or Pore in it? That is, that I may speak briefly, What hinders but that there may be a Being that is immediately One of its own Nature, and not held together into one by virtue of some other, either Quality or Substance? Altho' every Being as a Being is Extended, because Extension in its precise Notion does not include any Physical Division, but the Mind infected with corporeal Imagination, does falsely and unskilfully feign it to be necessarily there.
SECT. XXV.
For it is nothing which the Nullibists here allege, while they say, That all Extension inferreth Parts, and all Parts Division. For besides that the first is false, forasmuch as Ens unum per se, a Being, one of it self, or of its own immediate Nature, although extended, yet includes no Parts in its Idea, but is conceived according to its proper Essence as a thing as simple as may be, and therefore compounded of no Parts. We Answer moreover, That it is not at all prejudicial to our Cause though we should grant that this Metaphysical Extension of Spirits is also divisible, but Logically only, not Physically; that is to say, is not discerpible. But that one should adjoyn a Physical divisibility to such an Extension, surely that must must necessarily proceed from the impotency of his Imagination, which his Mind cannot curb nor separate her self from the dregs and corporeal Foulness thereof; and hence it is that she tinctures and infects this Pure and Spiritual Extension with Corporeal Properties. But that an extended thing may be divided Logically or Intellectually, when in the mean time it can by no means be discerped, it sufficiently appears from hence, That a Physical Monad which has some Amplitude, though the least that possibly can be, is conceived thus to be divided in a Line consisting of any uneven num-ber
