CHAP. XI. Whether Time and Place be onely Imaginary.
IN the next Chapter, we are called to consider of the nature of Time and Place: which his Lordship occasionally falls upon, by reason of an Obiection, That lays so strong a siege to his Opinion, that I doubt hi•• Lordships Answer will hardly raise it. It ariseth from hence;
There a••e in the Soule various Operations and Workings, distinct in Time, and distinct in Place: which Distinction, though it may have an externall denomination in respect of Time and Place; yet ariseth not from thence, but is Internall or Intrinsecall to the Operations them∣se••ves; This Operation is not the Other, and the Other is not This. And thi•• distinction would remain though the distinct Operations were performed in the same Time, in the same Place: Cas••r and Pompey were not the same man, though Contemporary. The Water which to day runs down a River, is not the same water with that which yesterd••y ran in the same Place, the same Channell. Two Angels, though coexistent at th•• s••me Time in the same Place▪ the same part of the Ayr, are not yet the same Angel. Thus Nutrition, and Volition, or Intellection, though at the same Time, performed by the same Soule resident i•• the same Body, are yet distinct Acts. And on the contrary, a man remains the same man to Day, that he was Yesterd••y; at This place, that he was ••t Another place; though both Time and Place be altered.
Now there being in the Soule various Actings, distinct both in Time and Place (though they receive not their distinction from either are there not then so many severall Soules▪ (viz. if the Operations be the Souls Essence?) This is the Objection.