A view of that part of the late considerations adderest to H.H. about the…A view of that part of the late considerations addrest to H.H. about the…

What he adds concerning the Union of Soul and Body in our selves, (which he cannot deny to be distinct Substances) is, from a Man of so good sense, so surprisingly strange, and remote from the Purpose, that one would scarce think it from the same Man; but that he left this part to some other of the Club, and afterwards writ on, himself, without reading it over; or this was with him (what we are all liable to) some drowsy Interval.

For when he had himself recited as the Enquirer's words, or sense, If there is this Union between two so contrary Natures and Substances, as the Soul and Body, why may there not be a like Union between two or three created Spirits? He, without shadow of a pretence, feigns the Enquirer again to have forgot the Question, because Soul and Body are not both intelligent ⟨p. 32⟩[…] ⟨p. 33⟩[…] ⟨p. 34⟩[…] ⟨p. 35⟩[…] ⟨p. 36⟩Substances. And why, Sir, doth this argue him to have forgot the Question? 'Tis as if he expected a Man to be at the top of the Stairs, as soon as he touched the first Step. In a Series of Discourse, must the beginning touch the end, leaving out what is to come between, and connect both parts? What then serve Mediums for? And so farewell to all reasoning, since nothing can be proved by it self. He expected, it seems, I should have proved three intelligent Natures might be united, because three intelligent Natures might be united!

For when he had himself recited as the Enquirer's words, or sense, If there is this Union between two so contrary Natures and Substances, as the Soul and Body, why may there not be a like Union between two or three created Spirits? He, without shadow of a pretence, feigns the Enquirer again to have forgot the Question, because Soul and Body are not both intelligent