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6 A Tredtife of B O D I E S. Chap, r . 



6. Now to come to another point that maketh toourpre- 



TWO iom of font pnrpofc. We may obiervc there arc two forts or hn- 



nod- guage to exprefle our notions by : The onr hc-longeth in ge- 



ne nera ji to all mankind, and the hmpleii perfon, that cm but 



o a'l . r i 



he ochcr apprehend and Ipeak ienic, is as much iw.ge of it as tha 

 greateft Dolour in the fthooJs : and in this, the words cx- 

 prefle the things properly and plainly, accordingto the ns- 

 turall conceptions that all people agree in making of them. 

 The other fort of language is circled in with* narrower 

 bounds ; and is underftood onely by thofc that in a parti- 

 cular and exprefle manner haveb-ren trained up unto it : and 

 many of the words which are proper to it .have been, by the 

 authours of it,tranflated and wrefted from the gencrall con- 

 ceptions ofthe fame words, by Come metaphore, or fimilitude, 

 or aJlufion, to fervc their private turns. Without the firft 

 manner of exprefling our notions, mankind could not live in 

 {bciety together, and converfe with one another : whereas, 

 the other hath no further extent, then among (iich perfonsas 

 have agreed together to explicate and defigne among them- 

 felves particular notions peculiar to their arts and arrairs. 



Of the firft kind, arethofe tennc generall heads, which 

 Arirtetlc calleth Predicaments: under which he (who was 

 the moft judicious orderer of notions, and dire&our of mens 

 conceptions that ever lived ) hath comprhcd whatsoever 

 hath, or can have, a being in nature. For when any object 

 occtirreth to our thoughts, we either confider the effrntiall 

 and fundamcntall Being of it ; or we re ferre it to Tome fpecies 

 of Quantitie; or we di/cover fome qualities in it ; or we per- 

 ceive that it doeth< or that itfuffereth fbmething; or we con- 

 ceive it in fbmc determinate place, or time, and the like. Of 

 all which, every man living chat enjoyeth but the ufe of rea- 

 fon findeth naturally within oimfelf at the very firrt naming 

 of them, a plain, complete, and fatisfying notion ; which is 

 the fame without any the leaft variation, in all mankind ; 

 unleOe it be in fuch, as have induftruoufly, and by force, and 

 with much labour, perplexed and depraved thofe primary 

 and finccre imprcflions, which nature had freely made in 

 them. 



Of the fccond fort, arc the particular words of art by 



which 



