A Treatife ^/BODIES. Chap, i . 



other anfwer to the queftion of, tvhe re A thing //, then fuch a 

 one as plainly expreficth his conceit of being in place, to be 

 no other, then a bodies being environed and mclofed by Tome 

 one, or feverall others that arc immediate unto it ; as the 

 place of aliqnour, is the vefieJl that comaineth it ; and the 

 pkceofthe veflell, is fuch a part of the chamber or houle 

 that it retteth upon, together with the ambient aire ; which 

 hath a (hare in making up the places of moft things. A net 

 this being the anther, that every man whatsoever will readi- 

 ly give to this queftion and every asker being fully fatisfied 

 \vith it ; we may fafely conclude, That all their notions and 

 conceptions of being in a place, are the fame; and confe- 

 quenly, that it is the naturaJl and true one. 



But then feme others, considering that fuch conditions as 

 thefe will not agree umo other things, which they likewife 

 conceit to be in a place ( for they receive it as an axi- 

 orne from their fenie, that whatfover is muft be fo-ne vherc, 

 and whatsoever is no where, is not at all) they fall to caftmg . 

 about how they may frame fome common notion to compre- 

 hend all the ieverall kinds of being in place, which they 

 imagine in the things they difcourle of. If there were no- 

 thing but bodies to be ranked by them in the Predicament of 

 Place, then that defcription I have already fet down would 1 

 be allowed by them, as fufficient. But fince that fpirits and 

 fpirituall things (as Angels, rationall fouls, verities, fcien- 

 cies. arts, and the like ) have a being in nature and yet will 

 not be comp ; ifcd in fuch a kind of place as a body is contain- 

 ed in ; they rack their tho -ghts to f peculate out fbmc com- 

 mon notion of being in place, which may be common to 

 theie, as well as to bodies ; like a common accident agreeing 

 to diverfe fiibjeib. And fo in the end they pirch upon an 

 Entity, which tbey call an #/ : and they conceit the nature 

 and formall rea on of that to be, the ranking of any thing in 

 a place when that Entity is thereunto affixed. And then they 

 have no further difficulty, in fettling an Angeil, or any pure 

 fpirit or immateriall eflence, in a pbce as properly, and as 

 completely, as if it were a corpoier.il fubfrance. It is but 

 afTigmng nn Ubi to fuch a fpirit, and he is prelently riveted 

 t what place you plealc > and by multiplying the llbies , 



