_The deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated, but maintained by Syllogism and the Rule of Reason_,] and since this Book was written, by Mr. _White_ in his _Institutiones Sacræ_. _And when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not of the Miracle._] Those that have seen it, have been better informed then Sir _Henry Blount_ was, for he tells us that he desired to view the passage of _Moses_ into the Red Sea (not being above three days journey off) but the _Jews_ told him the precise place was not known within less than the space of a days journey along the shore; wherefore (saith he) I left that as too uncertain for any Observation. _In his Voyage into the Levant._ _Sect. 10. Pag. 18._ I had as lieve you tell me that _Anima est Angelus hominis, est corpus Dei_, as _Entelechia; Lux est umbra Dei_, as _actus perspicui._] Great variety of opinion there hath been amongst the Ancient Philosophers touching the definition of the Soul. _Thales_, his was, that it is a _Nature without Repose_. _Asclepiades_, that it is _an Exercitation of Sense_. _Hesiod_, that it is _a thing composed of Earth and Water_; _Parmenides_ holds, _of Earth and Fire_; _Galen_ that it is _Heat_; _Hippocrates_, that it is _a spirit diffused through the body_. Some others have held it to be _Light_; _Plato_ saith, 'tis _a Substance moving itself_; after cometh _Aristotle_ (whom the Author here reproveth) and goeth a degree farther, and saith it is _Entelechia_, that is, that which naturally makes the body to move. But this definition is as rigid as any of the other; for this tells us not what the _essence_, _origine_ or _nature_ of the _soul_ is, but only marks an _effect_ of it, and therefore signifieth no more than if he had said (as the Author's Phrase is) that it is _Angelus hominis_, or an _Intelligence_ that moveth man, as he supposed those other to do the Heavens.