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Imagination.

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MAGINATION has no limits, but when it is confined, we find the fhortness of the tether.

2. Some people are ftrangely overset by their imagination; they lose their health with anxiety to preserve it, and kill themselves through fear of dying.-JEREMY COLLIER.

3. IMAGINATION I understand to be, the representation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds; joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is paft; and of things prefent. For I comprehend in this imagination feigned and at pleafure; as if one fhould imagine fuch a man to be in the veftments of a Pope, or to have wings.-LORD BACON.

Immateriality of the Soul.

O man that owns the existence of an infinite Spirit, can doubt the poffibility of a finite spirit; that is, fuch a thing as is immaterial, and does not contain any principle of corruption. —ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.

2. WHEN We know cogitation is the prime attribute of a Spirit, we infer its immateriality, and thence its immortality. — ISAAC WATTS.

3. IMMATERIALITY resembles the shell of the Building. Now there is no arguing from the outfide to the infide. What if the cafe of a row of houses be the fame, does this hinder the furniture from being different? Angels are allowed to be fpirits of a superior kind, notwithstanding the common privilege of incorporiety; and for the fame reason there may, for aught we know, be some original disputes between human fouls. -JEREMY COLLIER.

4. So natural is the knowledge of the foul's immortality and of fome ubi for its fu

ture reception, that we find some tract or other of it in moft barbarous nations.-DR. HEYLIN.

POPE.

Independence.

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ET fortune do her worft, whatever the makes us lofe, as long as fhe never makes us lose our honefty and our independence.

2. HE that has the bufinefs of life at his difpofal, and has nobody to account to for his minutes, but God and himself, may, if he pleases, be happy without drudging for it. He needs not flatter the vain, nor be tired with the impertinent, nor ftand to the courtefy of knavery and folly. He needs not dance after the caprice of a humourist, nor bear a part in the extravagance of another. His fate does not hang upon any man's face a fmile will not tranfport him, nor a frown ruin him; for his fortune is better fixed than to float upon the pleasure of the nice and changeable.-JEREMY COLLIER.

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Infancy of Science.

N the beginning of the world, men had more corporeal force than afterwards. The reason of this al

lotment was probably to fupply their defect of fkill. In thofe early ages, they were more giants in their limbs than their understandings. In this infancy of science, extraordinary ftrength feems but neceffary; how otherwise, when invention was not come forward, when they wanted inftruments, when they had little of mathematical direction, could they have cultivated the earth, built houses, or managed their carriages? But when the mind grew large, the body grew lefs, and business went on as well as formerly.-Ibid.

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Innate Principles.

AD they, who would perfuade us that there are innate principles, confidered separately the parts out of which these propofitions are

made, they would not, perhaps, have been fo forward to believe they were innate.

LOCKE.

Inftinet, natural and argumentative.

VERY creature hath something in it fufficient to propagate the kind, and to conferve the individuals from perifhing in confufions and general disorders, which in beafts we call inftinet, that is, an habitual or prime difpofition to do certain things which are proportionable to the end whither it is defigned. Man alfo, if he be not more imperfect, must have the like, and because he knows and makes reflections upon his own acts and understands the reafon of it, that which in them is inftinct, in him is natural reafon, which is, a defire to preserve himself and his own kind; and differs from inftinct, because he understands his inftinct and the reasonableness of it, and they do not. But because man being a higher thing even in the order of Creation, and defigned to a more noble end, in his natural

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