TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . Tanaquil Fabers PREFACE TO THE READER Of the Third B o o k of LU C R ET IV S. BIS is that Book of Lucretius, which^above all the reJrJy ought to be read withmo ft Judgment andDifcretion: For finesit is in this, that the Foet endeavours toprove the Soul to be of a corporeal Nature^it may fall out that fome will too creduloujlyyield themfelves up to his Arguments; while others^, per-fivadcd that fuch a DoBrine, right or wrong, ought iobe condemn d without Mercy, will voluntarily deprivethemfelves of reading fo excellent a Book, Lefi this fljouldhappen,
TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . Tanaquil Fabers PREFACE TO THE READER Of the Third B o o k of LU C R ET IV S. BIS is that Book of Lucretius, which^above all the reJrJy ought to be read withmo ft Judgment andDifcretion: For finesit is in this, that the Foet endeavours toprove the Soul to be of a corporeal Nature^it may fall out that fome will too creduloujlyyield themfelves up to his Arguments; while others^, per-fivadcd that fuch a DoBrine, right or wrong, ought iobe condemn d without Mercy, will voluntarily deprivethemfelves of reading fo excellent a Book, Lefi this fljouldhappen, it will not be amifs to put them in Mind, thatmany of ihe Antients were of Opinion, that Spirits are to bereckon d in the Number of Corporeal Things, Amongthefe was not only Forphyriur, in his admirabk Xl^yr^^;tTf|* ^ i^ * but Thtinm and Jambliclms: andvf. us 190 Tana q,v i l F a b e rs ^i tis Chnfiiansy TertulUan^ Bafily and Au^ultin^ wlwention the more modern^ Nowifthefe Antknts weremcondemn dfor folloivlng this Bdief concerning SpritSythink there is no Reafon that we floould he fo much offenaed at Lucretiuss Opinion of Corporeal Souls. Hitherilis nothing hut what you may read without being fcand^lizfd at it. And would to God Lucretius had fioft hereFor others have afferted the Immortality of the Souly wk^tfjeverthelefs they helievd to he of th& fam Nature wifSpirits * however they refervd to it its own Right^or whthe Bounty,of God has befiojv^d upon it. But our Authoury when he has jhewn the Soul of Man to he a Corptreal Suhflrance, firenuoujly and ohfiinately aJfertSy that it;impajfiblcy but that it muft likewife befubjeB to Death anDijfolution^ and that the Generality of Menybeingaftoni^\cafi iowny and overawed by the Tyranny of Religiony mhorribly mifiakm to bdieve^ that ^y£ternas nigra lianas in morte timendum. Lucret they h
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