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thcfe two applied to one another, : muft produce fuch effeds , is 

 we aflRrme our fenfes have ? that is,to pafTe the outward object, 

 by different degrees, unto an inward receiver. 



Againc, let us cart our eyes upon the naturall rcfblution of j 

 bodies , and how they move us, and we mall thereby difcover, Why the fenfcs 

 both what the fenlcs are , and why they arc juft fb many , and " "^TJ fire 



that they cannot be more. For an out ward body may move us, in . J umber / 



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either in its ownebuJkc or quantity | or as it worketh upon an- fionof sllchc 



other. The firft is dene by the touch , the fecond by the care, former dodria 

 when a body moving the ayrc, makcth us take notice of his mo- concemijg 

 tion. Now in refblution.there are three adive parts proceeding t ^ lcm? 

 from a body,which have power to move us.The fiery par,which 

 you lee worketh upon our eyes,by the vertue of light. The ayric 

 paT which we know moveth our nofcthrils, by being fucked in 

 with the ayre. And Jaftly.the fait, which difTolveth in watcr^and 

 (b moveth our watry fenfe; which is our tafte. 



And thefe being all the adive parts , that mew themfelves in 

 therefblutionofabody; how can we imagine there mould be 

 any more fenies to be wrought upon ? for what the flablc body 

 iheweth of it felfe,vvill be reduced to the touch : what as it mo- 

 ? eth,to hearing : what the refolntions of it^according to the na- 

 tures of the refolved atomes that fly abroad j will concerne the 

 other three fenfes,as wehave declared. And more waies ofvyor- 

 king 3 or of adive parts, we cannot conceive to fpring out of the 

 nature of a body. 



Finally, if we caft our eyes upon the intention of nature : to 

 what purpofc are our fenfes , but to bring us into knowledge of 

 the natures of the fiibftances we converge withall ? furely , to 

 cffcd this , there cannot be invented a betrer,or more reafbna- 

 ble expedient, then to bring unto our judgement (eate the like- 

 neffes or extracts ofthofefubftances, in Co delicate a model/, 

 that they may not be often/we or cumbcrfbme ; like fb many 

 patternes prefented unto us , to know by them. what the whole 

 piece is: fbrallfimilitude is a communication betweene pro 

 things in that quality , wherein their likenefle confifteth : and 

 therefore we cannot doubt , but that nature hath given us by 

 the meanes we have explicated , an eflay to all the thingt in the 

 world, that fall under our commerce, whereby of judge whether 

 they be profitable or nocivc unto us j and yet in To delicate and 



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