17. Of the powers that co-exist in spirits yet narrower.
If we are at a loss in respect of the powers and operations
of bodies, I think it is easy to conclude we are much more in the dark in reference to spirits; whereof we naturally
have no ideas but what we draw from that of our own, by reflecting on the operations of our own souls within us,
as far as they can come within our observation. But how inconsiderable a rank the spirits that inhabit our bodies
hold amongst those various and possibly innumerable kinds of nobler beings; and how far short they come of the
endowments and perfections of cherubim and seraphim, and infinite sorts of spirits above us, is what by a
transient hint in another place I have offered to my reader's consideration.