OF MANS SOULE. Chap.II. 3 



What then can we imagine, but that the very nature of a thing 2. 

 apprehended, is truly in the man, who doth apprehend it ? And 7 he very thing 

 that ta apprehend ought,is to have the nature of that thing with- ! c f f! fc |^ tnjly 

 in ones felfe ? And that man,by apprehending, doth become the Jbnding who 

 thing apprehended ; not by change or hjs nature unto it, but by rightly apprc- 

 afliimption of it unto his ? hcndcth it. 



Here ptradvemure forne will reply .that we prcflfc our inference 

 too far : and will peremptorily deny the things rcall being in our 

 mind, when we make a true and full apprehenfion of it - 3 account-, 

 ingitfufficientforourpurpofe, that fomelikenefle, or image of 

 the thing be there; out of which, we may draw all thefe, whe- 

 ther centemplations, or woi kes, or difpofals of the thing. But by 

 that time this objection is throughly looked into, and that lo 

 much as they allow is duly examined, I belceve we (hall find our 

 .quarrelltobe onely about the word, not about the matter: and 

 that indeed, both of us do mean the fame, howbcit diverfly con- 

 ceived :and that in fubftance their cxprefiion,in what they grant, 

 importeth the fame as ours doth : which,it is true, they firft deny 

 in words ; but- that may be, becaufe the thing is not by them 

 rightly underftcod. 



let us then difcuflc the matter particularly. What is likenefle, 

 but an imperfect unity between a thing, and that which it isfaid 

 to be like unto? If the likenefle be imperfed, it is more unlike 

 then it is like unto it: and the liker it is,the more it is one with it; 

 untill at length, the growing likenefle may arrive to fuch a per- 

 fedion, and to fuch an unity with the thing it is like unto , 

 that then, it (hall no longer be like, but is become wholly the 

 fame, with that forracrlyithadbutarefemblance of. For ex- 

 ample, let us confider , in what confifteth the likenefle unto a 

 man, of a picture drawnc in black and whitereprefentinga man: 

 and we (hall find, it is onely in the proportion of the limbes and 

 features ; for the colours, the bulke, and all things elfc arc unlike ; 

 but the proportions are the very fame, in a man and in a pi- 

 fture;jretthatpidureisbutalikencfle, bccaufe it wanteth big- 

 nefle and colour : give it them, and neverthelefie it will bee but 

 a likenefle , becaufe it wanteth all the diiuenfions of cor- 

 poreity or bulk, which are in a mans body; adde alfe thofe to it; & 

 mil it will be but a likenefle or reprefentation of a man , bccaufe 

 it wanteth the warmth , the foftnefle, and the other qualities 



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