Ch ap. 2 . *A Trtttife of B O D I E S . 



any individuall body unto which they are afligned, is at the 

 fameinftanc in as many diftant places, as they allot it different 

 Ubics : and if they afTigne the fame Ubi to fcyerall bodies, fo 

 many feverall ones as they afligne it unto will be in one and 

 the tame place: and noc onely many bodies in one place, but 

 even a whole bodie in an indivifible, by a kind of Ubi that hath 

 a pow er to refume all the extended parts and incloie them in a 

 point of place. All which prodigious conceits and impofTibili- 

 ties in nature do fpring out of their mifhkein framing Meta- 

 phyficall and abftra&ed conceptions , inftced of contenting 

 themfelves with thofe plain, ealie, and primary notions, which 

 nature ftampeth alike in all men of common fenfe, and un- 

 derftanding. As who defireth to be further inftrudted in this 

 particular, may perceive, if he take the pains to look over 

 what M. White hath difcourfed ofP/ace,in the fit ft of his Dia. 

 logues *Z)* Mundo. Unto which book Khali from time to 

 time ( according as I fhall have occafion ) referre my Reader 

 in thofe fubje&s the Authour takcth upon him to prove ; being 

 confident that his Metaphyficall demonstrations there, are aj 

 firm as any Mathematical] ones ( for Metaphyficall demon- 

 ftrations have in themfelves as much firmnefle, certainty and 

 evideneie as they ) and fo will appear as evident as they, unco 

 whofbever fhall underftand them throughly, and fhall frame 

 right conceptions of them : which ( how plain foevcr they feem 

 to be) is noc the work of every pretender to learning. 



CHAP. II. 

 Of QtttMtitie. 



\ Mong thofe primary afFeftions which occurre in the per- 

 j^ ul'iill of a body, Quantitie ( as I have obferved tn the 

 precedent chapter ) is one, and in a manner the firtt and the thc vul * ai *". d 



r / c 'mmon not>- 



root of all the refi. Therefore ( according to the caution we r.nofQ.,anrin< 

 have been fb prolix in giving, beeaufe icis offb main impor- un^^a't'fci 

 ta nee) if we aim at right undcrftanding the true nature of it, nature ofic. 

 we mufl examine, what apprehenfion all kinds of people ( that 

 is, mankind in generall ) maketli of it. By which proceeding, 

 -we do not make the ignorant multitude judge of that learning 

 which grovveth out of theconiideration of Quantitie: but one- 



