304. A Treatife o/B O D I E S. Chap, 27. 



\vc fhall fcarce'ly have left any qualities among bodies, to plead 

 for a fpiricuall manner of being or working ; that is? for a felf- 

 ehtity, and inftantaneous operation : which kind of things and 

 properties, vulgar Philofbphy is very earneft to attribute unto 

 our fenfcs: with what reafbn,and upon what ground let us now 

 eonfider. 



efHefe*fc & Thcfe qualities are reduced to five feverall heads, anfwerable 

 feeble qtuii- to fo many different wayes , whereby we receive notice of the 

 And'of^hTend bodies that are without us. And accordingly, they conftitute a 

 for which they like number of different fenfes: ofevcry one of which , we will 

 dilcourfe particularly, when we have examined the natures of 

 the qualities that affect them. But now, all the consideration we 

 fhall need to have of them, is onely this; That it is manifeft the 

 organes in us, by which fenfiblequahties do work upon us, arc 

 coporeall, and are made of the like ingredients as the reft of our 

 body is: and therefore muftof necefifity be liable to fuffer evil 

 and to receive good ( in fitch fort as all other bodies do ) from 

 thofc active qualities*which make and marre all things within 

 the limits of nature. By which terms of Evill and Good^I mean 

 thofe effects that are averfe or conformable to the particular na- 

 ture of any thing; and thereby do tend to the prefcrvation or 

 deftruclion of that individual!. 



Now we receiving from our (enfes the knowledge that we 

 have of things without us, do give names unto them according 

 tothepaffions and affections which thofe things caufe incur 

 fenfes : which being the fame in all mankind ( as lonr; as they 

 are confidercd in common, and that their effe&s are looked up- 

 on in groffe ) all the world agreech in one notion, and in one 

 name of the lame thing; for every man living is affected by it, 

 juft as his neighbour is, and as all men elfe in the world are. As 

 for cxamplcjheat or cold worketh the fame feeling in every man 

 compofed of flefh and bloud; and therefore whofbever ftiould 

 be asked of them would return the fame anfwer, that they caufc 

 fuch and fuch effects in his fen fe, pleafing or difpleafing to him, 

 according to their degrees, and as they tend to the good or evill 

 of his whole body. 



But ifwedefcend to particulars, we fhall find that fercra 11 

 men of differing constitutions do frame different notions of the 



fame 



