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**Tf**tife ^/BODIES. Chap, r. 



And this courfe of the minds di(guifing and changing the 

 imprefTions it receiveth from outward objects, into appearances 

 quite differing from what the things arc in their own reall na- 

 tures ; rauiy be oblervcd not onely in multiplying Entities 

 where in tr.:th there is but one : but alio in a contrary man- 

 ner, by compriimg (evernli dittinc} things under one fingle 

 notion j which if aftet wards it be reflected back upon the 

 things themielves , is the occasion of cxceedioggrcatcrrours, 

 entaiigltthi >cme in unfupetabk difficulties. As for exam* 

 t Looking i:poa ftrcrall cubes or deyes^ whereof one Us of 

 > another of lead, atfea^d of ivory > a fourth of wood , a. 

 fcfth of giaflc, atid whttc o:het matter you pieate ; all thefc fe- 

 verall thing* agree together in my undetftanding, and are 

 there comprehended under, one frngle notion of artibe- whick 

 ( lifce a paimer that wew to deitgnc them onely in black and 

 white) roaketlh OJYC figute that reprefcntetli them all. Now >if 

 removing my 'coniideration from this ifnpreifion which the ft- 

 veralltut>es makeirt my iinderttanding, unto the cubes them- 

 feivet, I Khali unwarily fufrer my fdf to pia this o^>e notion 

 upon every one of them, and accordingly conceive it to be re* 

 ally itiihem; it will of neceflity fall out by this rnifapplying of 

 noiridft t& the reall things, that I murt *llovy 

 tOKKher emities, which never had noi-tan have any 

 in nature. 



From this toticeptton , Plato's Idea's had their birth; for he 

 ifthis under (randing ortfe imivedall notion that agreed 

 to evety individuall of the fame fpecks of fub&ance, 

 which itnprinttd that notion in him and conceiving that the 

 pi&areof anything rmift have an exafl correlpondence with 

 thethin it l-eprefenteth ; and not codfrderiMg that this was hut 

 an imperfect piclwrc of the individuall ttiat rnadeic: he did 

 thence conceive, there was actually in every indi^dnall lub- 

 ftanceont uniterfall Nature rtinning through all of that fpeties, 

 which made them be what they were. And then toftfidering 

 that cofp6reky, quantity, and other accidents of matter, could 

 not agree with this uniYCHall fubfitlcnt Nature, h <knied all 

 ihofetjf it: and To, "afeftrai^ing from all materiality in his I<:'CA"^ 

 nnd giving them vt reall & aihiall fubfi-ftence in nature, he made 

 them like Angels, whole eflenccs and fonnall reafons wtrc to bt 



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