Sect. VI.
AFter the pattern of that Mind they affirm this sensible World was made, and the exemplar being the most perfect of all created things, it must follow that this Image thereof be as perfect as its nature will bear. And since animate things are more perfect then the inanimate; and of those the rational then the irrationall, we must grant, this World hath a Soul perfect above all others. This is the first rationall Soul, which, though incorpo∣reall, and immateriall, is destin'd to the function of governing and moving corporeall Nature: not free from the body as that mind whence from Eternity it was deriv'd, as was the mind from God. Hence Platonists argue the World is eternall; its soul being such, and not capable of being without a body, that also must be from eternity; as likewise the motion of the Hea∣vens, because the Soul cannot be without moving.