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name : but have imagined, that every one of thefe name? hai 

 correfpodcnt unto it, ibme realJ pofhive entity, or thing, 

 jeperated (in its ovvne nature) from the maine thing or fiib- 

 (iance in which it was , and indifferent to any other fubftance ; 

 but inall unto which it is linked, working ftill that efred"r,which 

 is to be expe&ed. from the nature of fucli a quality > or <&'*#, 

 &c. And thus, to the very negatives of things, as to the 

 names of points, lines, infants, andthelike, iheybaveima- 

 gined pofitive Entities to correipond : hkewife , to the names 

 of .?>" , f laces , aifd the like , they have framed other Enti- 

 ties : as alfb to the names oftolourj, founds, */?/, fnul^ tfttchtt t 

 and the reft of the fenfibk $*4/;//e/ , they have unto everyone 

 of them, allotted fpeciall Entities, and generally to all. qua- 

 lities whatfoeven Whereas nothing is more evident, then 

 that Ariftotle meaned by qualities no other thing , butthat dif- 

 pofition of parts , which is proper to one body, and is not 

 ipundmall: as you will plainly ice, i: you but examine, what 

 ic*w^,fc<4//^, Agilitjtfcunct^and fiich other qualities are j (for 

 by that name he calleth them ; an i by fuch examples giveth us 

 to underltand what .hemeaneth by the word Qtnd*j ) the firft 

 of w^iich is-nothing elfe but a composition of ieverall parts and 

 colours , in due proportion to one another : the next, but a due 

 temper ofthe humours, and the being of every part of the body, 

 in the ftate itfhould be : the third ., but a due proportion of the 

 ipirits and ftrength of the tinews: andthelatt, but ordered) 

 Phantafmes. 



No,v when thefe perverters of Arifiotle have framed luch 

 Entities , under that conception which nature hath attribu v 

 ted to fubflances , they doe immediately upon the nickc, witfv 

 the fame breath that defcribcd them as fubftanccs , deny 

 them to be fubftances : and thus they confound the firfl appre* 

 henfions of nature j by feeking learned and ftrained definitions 

 for p'ame things. After which,they are faine to looke for glew 

 and patte to joyne theie entities unto the fubftance they accom- 

 pany : which they finde with the fame facility , by imagining a 

 new entity, whofe nature it is to doe that which they have 

 need of. 



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