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 That the Operation of the Soul and the moving Power of God is somewhere, viz. in the Body, and in the Matter. But the Operation of the Soul wherewith it acts on the Body and the Soul it self, and the Divine Power wherewith God moves the Matter and God himself, are together, nor can so much as be imagined separate one from the other; namely, the Operation from the Soul, and the Power from God. Wherefore if the Operation of the Soul is somewhere, the Soul is somewhere, viz. there where the Operation is. And if the Power of God be somewhere, God is somewhere, namely, there where the Divine Power is; He in every part of the Matter, the Soul in the humane Body. Whosoever can deny this, by the, same reason he may deny that common Notion in Mathematicks, Quantities that are singly equal to one third, are equal to one another.

Nd verily that which we contend for, the Nullibists seem apertly to assert, even in their own express words, as it is evident in Lambertus Velthusius in his De Initiis Primæ Philosophiæ, in the Chapter De Ubi. Who though he does manifestly affirm that God and the Mind of man by their Operations are in every part or some one part of the Matter; and that in that sence, namely, in respect of their Operations, the Soul may be truly said to be somewhere, God every-where; as if that were the only mode of their presence: yet he does expresly grant that the Essence is no where separate from that whereby God or a created Spirit is said to be, the one every-where, the other somewhere; that no man may conceit the Essence of God to be where the rest of his Attributes are not. That the Essence of God is in Heaven, but that his Vertue diffuses itself beyond Heaven. No, by no means, saith he, Wheresoever God's Power or Operation is, there is the Nature of God; forasmuch as God is a Substance devoid of all composition. Thus far Velthusius. Whence I assume, But the Power or Operation of God