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of colour, figure , f?ft,nnd the like, in an apple. For as tbcfc arc 

 not different bodies or fubftanccSj diftiiiguifhed one from ano- 

 ther; bin arc the fame one entire thing, xverklng level-ally upon 

 the fcn!es, arid that accordingly, maketh thefc dirTerent pi&urcs 

 in the micd; which are there as much di{tinguifhed, as if they 

 were piftin-es of dirTerent fubftanccs. So, the parts which are 

 conhdered in Quantity, arc not divers things : but are onely a 

 virtu* or power to be divers things : which virtue, making ie- 

 vernll imprefliorre upon the fenfes, occafioneth fcrcrall notions 

 in the understanding : and the underftanding is (o much the 

 more prone to conceive thofe parts as diftin& things, by how 

 much Quantky is nearer to be diftin& things, then the qualities 

 of theappfe are. For Quantity, i$ a poflibility to be made di- 

 ftin<5l things by divifion : whereas the others, are but a virtue 

 to do diftincl: things. And yet ( as we have touched above) 

 nothing can be more manifeft, then that if Quantity be divifi- 

 bility ( which is a portability, tiiat many things may be m^eof 

 it ) thefe parts ait not yet divers thing?. So that, if ( for exam- 

 ple) a rod belaid before us, and half of it be hid from our 

 fights and the other half appear; it is not one part or thing that 

 flieweth it (elf, and another part or thing that doth not fhew ic 

 fclf : bit it is the fame rod or thing, \rhich fhevvcth it lelf ac- 

 cerding to the poffibility of being one new thing, but doth not 

 fhevv it fclf according to the poflibility of being the other of 

 the two things it may be made by divifion. Which cyampik if 

 k be well ccufidercd will make it oioch more eafty fink into 

 us> that a hand, or eye, or foot, is not a diftincl: cbing by it (elf; 

 but that it is the man, according as he hath a certain viimie or 

 power in torn to diftin^t operations. For if you fever atiy of 

 %he(e-pftrrs f/oni the wh-ofc body; cl'e 'hand can no more hold; 

 nnrtihe eye fee ; nor tlie r fooc'walk ; which are the powers that 

 dBentiallycopyftittitc them -to be what they -are : and chereftM* 

 y. . they are r>o longer a hnnd, r.n eye, or a foor. 



Thcfoiuuonof Now then to come to ?he objection ; let us e-xmnine how 

 f<at."nd~ fcrre'Scnfe may-bc-3'Kowcdio-bc judge inthis difficahy:and we 

 that scnfc can- -fh^]\ find, tlvat Senff cannot dere-hmrjne any one port in a Uody: 

 SethtTone f r lfr ' r cflnrld, it \\ot?!<! prccifcly tcH, where that part beginncth 

 parr be ii'ftin- -oremleth: butirlxrinn forced irvn rhatit bc*pinnethanden<ieth 



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another or no. 'in mdivff)bles;it is ccrwin,thot Sonic onnot dcrcrnunc oi them. 



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