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We find in the Third place, That this Power which Acts in Us as well to Obey and Serve us, as to Rule over us, Acts not between our Souls and our Bodies, (between whom it Acts without ceasing, as appears by all these Experiences which we have already remarked) as a Particular and a Free Cause, but as an
Universal and Necessary Cause, because we experience that it Acts not from the occasion of the same Immutable Laws, by which it hath resolv'd to entertain a Commerce between the Soul and the Body; and that this Power Acts exactly and in an Instant, as often as these Im∣mutable Laws require it, be the Consequence of it Good or Evil.
This Experience is Indubitable; for the Power which Acts in Us, do's not cease to de∣termine in our Souls the agreeable Pleasures and Resentments, which by its Immutable Laws ought to accompany the Motions which are profitable either to the good Disposition of the Body, or to the Conservation of the Species, al∣tho' the Disorder of unbridled Concupiscences should follow thereupon, which so often ruine both Soul and Body, and it is after the same manner with all the other agreeable Sentiments which this Power causes in us.
This Power regards not the Good or the Evil which may happen thereupon for particu∣lar Interests, but only the general Good of its Universal Ends, for the guidance of the Uni∣verse. Nothing is more Indubitable; and all these so certain and so sure Experiences, joyn'd to the infallible Knowledge which we have already acquir'd of the particular Nature of our Souls, will make us Easily comprehend how our Souls Are in our Bodies, and how they Operate there.