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SECT. XXVII. From its Divine Original.
ORiginal of Souls, none can be found here on Earth, for there is no mixture or composition in Souls, nor any appearance that they were born or moulded; nothing of Water, Wind, or Fire, for in these Natures there is nothing which hath a Power of Memory, Understand∣ing, or Thought, which can both retain what is past, foresee what is to come, and comprehend what is present, which are Divine Properties; nor will it ever be made out, whence they could be deriv'd upon man, but from God. There is then a peculiar Nature and Power of the Soul, distant from these visible and known Na∣tures. Whatever therefore is that Principle which hath Sense, which hath Wisdom, which hath Will, which hath Activity, it is Celestial and Divine, and there∣fore, must of necessity be eternal. Nor in truth can God himself, as he is understood of us, be otherwise appre∣hended, than as a Spirit uncontroul'd and free, separate from all mortal Contagion, perceiving all things, and moving all things, and being it self endu'd with ever∣lasting Motion.