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Reasons of the Nullibists whereby they endeavour to maintain their Opinion, are sufficiently enervated and subverted. Nor have we need of any Arguments to establish the contrary Doctrine I will only desire by the by, that he that thinks his Mind is no where, would make trial of his faculty of Thinking; and when he has abstracted himself from all thought or sense of his Body, and fixed his Mind only on an Idea of an indefinite or infinite Extension, and also perceives himself to be some particular cogitant Being, let him make trial, I say, whether he can any way avoid it, but he must at the same time perceive that he is somewhere, namely, within this immense Extension, and that he is environ'd round about with it. Verily, I must ingenuously confess, I cannot conceive otherwise, and that I cannot but conceive an Idea of a certain Extension infinite and immovable, and of necessary and actual Existence: Which I most clearly deprehend, not to have been drawn in by the outward sense, but to be innate and essentially inherent in the Mind it self; and so to be the genuine object not of Imagination, but of Intellect; and that it is but perversly and without all judgement determined by the Nullibists, or Cartesians, that whatever is extended, is also or the Object of Imagination; When notwithstanding there is nothing imaginable, or the Object of Imagination, which is not sensible: For all Phantasms are drawn from the Senses. But this infinite Extension has no more to do with things that are sensible and fall under Imagination, than that which is most Incorporeal. But of this haply it will be more opportune to speak elsewhere.

In the mean time I will subjoin only one Argument, whereby I may manifestly evince that the Mind of Man is somewhere, and then I will betake my self to the discussing of the Opinion of the Holenmerians. Briefly therefore let us suppose some one environed