the Publick a new Edition of Aurelius Victor cum Notis Variorum, &c. 2. MR. Humbert has lately published a new Edition, with large Additions, of Mr. Mattaire's Annales Typographici ab Artis inventæ Origine, ad annum 1664. Three Vol. in 4to. PR LONDON. Ropofals for Printing by Subfcription, A Book intituled, An Enquiry into the Na-ture of the Human Soul; wherein the Immateriality of the Soul is evinced from the Principles of Reafon and Philofophy. The CONDITIONS. I. THIS Book will contain upwards of forty Sheets, and will be printed in Quarto, with the fame Type, and on the fame Paper as the Specimen on the other Page. be II. THE Work being entirely finished, will put to the Prefs as foon as a competent Number of Subfcriptions are got in, and will be ready to be delivered to the Subscribers about the End of September at latest. III. The Price to Subfcribers in Sheets is Half a Guinea; five Shillings to be paid on Subfcription, and the reft on the Delivery of a perfect Book in Sheets. N. B. The Names of the Subfcribers will be printed before the Work. Art. 33. THIS Book to be printed for the Author, by whom Subfcriptions are taken in, at Forrest's Coffee-Houfe, Charing-Cross; and G. Strahan, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornbil, J. Gray, at the Cross-Keys in the Poultry, R. Robinfon, at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard, A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head in the Strand, A. Lyon, in Ruffel-ftreet, CoventGarden. A Brief Account of the feveral Parts of the Work, as given by the Author. It Tis fhewn, that a Fis inertie, or Resistance to any Change of its prefent ftate of Reft or Motion, is effential to Matter as a folid extended Subftance; and that a Power to move itself, or, when in Motion, to bring itself again to reft, is incompatible with this neceffary Refiftance in it, fince the Affirming the one implies the Negation of the other. II. HENCE what hath hitherto been called Natural Powers in Matter must be the inceffant Operation and Influence of an immaterial Caufe upon it: And the Neceffity of an immaterial Mover in all fpontaneous Motion is from the fame Principles particularly evinced. III. THE true notion of Mechanism, a Machine, and mechanical Motion adjufted from this Account of Matter; and the Confequences of all applied to the feveral Appearances in the Uni verse, and the Productions of Nature: Whence the conftant Influence of an Immaterial Being upon all the Parts of Matter appears neceffary: And this difcovers an Univerfal Providence in the Material World, extending itself to the minutest Things, IV. IT is fhewn, that the Soul after Death is not in a state of Infenfibility, Torpor, or Deadness; but muft ftill remain an active, living Being, when feperated from the Body, as well from the above Principles, as alfo from its not being fuppofable that an active, living Being fhould either become fuch at first, only from its Union with dead Matter; or have life and activity continued in it afterward, from the Prefence only of that inert, powerless Subftance: though in a state of Union the Indif-. pofition of a material Organ may hinder the exerting its Powers. V. THE feveral Arguments against the Immateriality of the Soul, urged by ancient or modern Writers, examined and fhewn fallacious; as applying the equivocal Symptoms of a difordered Organ in a ftate of Union, to the immaterial Mover, or Soul itfelf. VI. THE neceffary inertia or inactivity of Matter above explained, farther confidered with respect to the furprizing Phænomenon of dreaming; the Impoffibility of accounting for this Appearance from the fingle Principle of Matter and Motion, as many have attempted, fully fhewn; and the feveral Hypothefes invented for the Solution of it, as that of Democritus maintained by Lucretius, that of Ariftotle Ariftotle followed by Hobbes, and that of Epi- VII. DEAN Berkeley's Principles against the To all is prefix'd, A Difquifition, fhewing 2. Idea Juris Scotici: or a fummary View of INDEX its comparative Weight with Water, Page 111, &c. 22 23 3.02 303 304 Alliance, (Quadruple) the Defign of it, one between the Kings of England and Po- Stipulations made in it, the Emperor accedes to it, land, and the Empire, niftration, 303 Althan, (Cardinal) Complaints against his Admi- 389 Animals, their healthy State in what it chiefly con- fifts, Annibal, goes first to Spain, bis Exploits, paffes the Alps, bis Success in Italy, Apocalypfe, its Divine Authority vindicated, |