gitimate distribution the parts ought consentire cum toto, & dissentire inter se, to agree with the whole, but disagree one with another. Now in this distribution that they do sufficiently disagree, it is very manifest. It remains only to be proved, that one of the parts, namely that which supposes that a Cogitative substance may be Material, is repugnant to the Nature of the whole. This is that clear, solid, and manifest way or Method according to the known Laws of Logick; but that new way, a kind of Sophistry and pleasant Mode of trifling and prevaricating.
SECT. V.
As for the second Axiom or Principle, viz. That whatsoever is extended is Material; for the evincing the falsity thereof, there want no new Arguments, if one have but recourse to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Chapters of Enchiridium Metaphysicum, where, by unanswerable reasonings it is demonstrated, That there is a certain Immaterial and Immovable Extensum distinct from the Movable Matter. But however, out of the Consectary of their third Principle, we shall prove at once, that all Spirits are Extended as being somewhere, against the wild and ridiculous Opinion of the Nullibists.
Whose third Principle, and out of which immediately and precisely they conclude Spirits to be no where, is, Whatsoever is unextended is no where. Which I very willingly grant; but on this condition, that they on the other side concede (and I doubt not but they will) That whatsoever is somewhere is also extended; from which Consectary I will evince with Mathematical certainty, That God and our Soul, and all other Immaterial Beings, are in some sort extended: For the Nullibists themselves acknowledge and assert, that the Operations wherewith the Soul acts on the Body, are in the Body; and that Power or Divine Vertue wherewith God acts on the Matter and moves it, is present in every part of the Matter. Whence it is easily gathered, That
