Chap. f. vtTrtatife ^/ BO DIES. 41 



And thus we fee, by explicating the manner of this a^ion, 2. 

 that locall motion is nothing el.'c but the change of that refpeci Wh ?'* 



I-ILLJ JLI 1,1 -i bath nonoiully 



or relation, which the body moved hath to the reft ot the uni- and really, 

 rerfe, following out of Divifion: and the name of locall moti- 

 on, formally fignifieth oncly the mutation of a refpeft to other 

 cxtrinfccall bodies, fubfequcnt to that divifion. And this is fo 

 evident and agreeable to the notions that all mankind ( vvho^as 

 \\ehavefaid, is judge and raafter of language) naturally fra- 

 meth of places as I wonder much why any will labour to give 

 other artificiall and intricate doctrine of this that in it (elf is fo 

 plain and clear. What need is there to introduce an imagina- 

 ry fpace ( or with Joannes Grammaticus, a fubfiftent quan- 

 tity) that muft run through all the world; and then entayl 

 to every body an aiery entity, an uncohceiveable mood, an 

 unintelligible Ubij that by an mtrinlecall relation to fuch a part 

 f the imaginary fpace, mtift thereunto pin and fallen the bo- 

 dy it is in ? It muft needs be a ruinous Philosophy that is 

 grounded upon fuch a contradi&ion, as is the allotting of parts 

 unto that, which theauthours themfelves ( upon the matrer)ac- 

 knowledge to be merely nothing; and upon (o weak a fhift ( to 

 deliver them from the inconvemcncies that in their courfe of do- 

 ctrine other circumftances bring them unto) as is the volunta- 

 ry creating of new imaginary Entities in things , without any 

 ground in nature for them. Learned men fliould exprefle the 

 advantage and fubtility of their wits, by penetrating further 

 into nature , then the vulgar; not by vexing and wrefling it 

 from its own courfe. They fhould refine and carry higher, not 

 contradict anddeftroy the notions of mankind, in thole things 

 that it is the competent judge of: as it undoubtedly is of thole 

 primary notions which Anttorle hath ranked under ten heads: 

 which (as we have touched before) every body cm con- 

 ceive in gioffc : and the work of fcholars is to explicate them 

 in particular ; and not to make the yulgir believe they arc 

 mirtakcn , in framing thole apprehenfions that nature tai;ghc 

 them. 



Out of that which ha th been hitherto refblved it is manifeft, 

 that place really, and abftra&ing from the operation of the un- 

 derftaoding> is nothing elfe but the inward fuperficics of a body 

 that compaffcth and immediately contained) another. Which 



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