Chip. i. A rrexife ^/BODIES. 



which learned men tife to exprcffe what they m?an in Scicn- 

 cci ; and the names of inftruments, and of fuch things as be- 

 long to trades, and the like : as a fine, a tangent, an epicycle, 

 a. deferent, an axe, a trowell, and fuch others ; the incelli- 

 gcMice of which bclongcth not to the generality of man- 

 Kindij but cntly to Geometricians , Aftronomers > Car- 

 penters, Mafbns, and fuch perfons as convecie familiarly 

 and frequently with thofe things. To learn the true fignifi- 

 cation of fuch words, we muft confult with thofc that have 

 the knowledge and pradrilc of them : as in like manner, to 

 under ft and the other kind of plain language* we muft ob~ 

 ferve how the words that compote it are apprehended, ufed, 

 and applied by mankind in gencralljand not receive into this 

 examination the wreflcd "or Metaphorical! n(es of any 

 learned men, who feek oftentimes ( beyond any ground in 

 nature) to frame a general! notion that may comprehend all 

 the particular ones, which in any fenfe, proper or improper* 

 may arife out of the life of one word. 



And this is the caufe of great errours in dilcoiirfe ; fo great 

 and important, as I cannot too much inculcate the caution 

 requifitc to the avoyding of this rock. Which that it may be fting words 

 the better apprehended, I will infhnce in one example of a 



common mea- 



moft plain and eafie conception wherein all mankind nacu- nin to xprefl 



r n . . _ . a more parcicu- 



rally agrceth, how the wreiting it from its proper gen we> Jaror.ftudicd 

 and original! fignification, leaded one into, ftwngc abftudtr notion - 

 Vies, ; and yet they pa(Te for fubtill fpeeulations. The notion 

 of being in a place, is naturally the fame ia all men living : 

 ask any fimple artifan , Where fuch, a man, fueh a houie,fuch 

 a tree> or fuch a thing is ; and he will anlw-er you in the very 

 fame manner as the learnedeft Philofopher would do: he will 

 tell you, the man you ask for, is in fuch a church, fitting in 

 fuch a piew, and in fuch a corner of it ; that the houfe you 

 inquire after, is in fuch a ftrect, and next to fuch two build- 

 ings on each fide of it; that the tree you would find out, is in 

 fuch aforeftj upon fueh a hill, near fuch a fountain, and by 

 fuch a bufh ; that the wine you would drink o is in fuch a 

 cellar, in fuch a part of it, and in fuch a cask. In conclufion, 

 no man living that fpeaketh naturally and freely out of the 

 notion he findeth clearly in his understanding, will give you 



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