tell me how Fire affects the Soul
now she is in the Body, and I'll
tell them how it may torment it
when out of the Body. But this
by the by. The thing I directly in∣tend
is, that since the Soul may be
capable of Pain as well without the
Mediation of the Body as with it,
this cannot be its Distinction from
Grief that it affects the Soul by the
Mediation of the Body.But to go on, as I am not satisfied
with the Ground of your Distin∣ction,
so neither am I with the
Use and Application you make of
it. Mental Pain say you is an
Evil, but such as GOD does not
cause. Again, sensible Pain GOD
does indeed cause, but then that is
not properly the Evil of Man.
Now I cannot accord with you in
either of these. As to the first,
I think it very certain that mental
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