A TREATISE 



of a living body, which belong to a man : but if you give it all 

 thefe,then it is no longer a Hkenefle or image of a living creature, 

 but a living creature indeed ; and if perad venture this living crea- 

 ture doe continue ftill to be but the likeneflc of a man, it is becaufe 

 it wanteth fome perfections or proprieties belonging to a man* 

 and fo in that regard, is unlike a man; but if you allow it all thofe, 

 fo that in nothing it be unlike, then your taking away all un- 

 likenefle, taketh awaylikenefle too: and as before of dead, it 

 became a living creature, fonow of another living creature, it 

 becommcth a man, and is no longer like a man. You fee then 

 plainly the reafon, why that, which wee call * likf thills 

 iiQtthffame- for in fome part it is diflike : but if the likeneffe 

 were com pleat in every regard, then it were no longer to be 

 called//^, but the very thing it felfe: and therefore wee may 

 conclude, that if the Hkenefle of a thing, which the objcdion ai- 

 leweth to be in our knowledge, doe containc all that is in the 

 thing knowne, then it is in truth,no more a likenefle, but the vc j 

 ry knowne thing it felfe : and fo what they grant, ameunteth to 

 as ranch as we require ; though at the firft they goe about to ex- 

 clude it. 



3. * Having thus concluded, that when we apprehend any thing, 

 The apprchen- t]j at verv ^jpg j s j n us . \ ct us j n t h e next pl ace examine, how it 



ramming "So commeth thither, and what it is there. Which we (hall bett doe, 

 us by our fen- by anatomifing,and looking narrowly into the nature of fuch ap- 

 res,are refolva- prehenfioni, as we daily make of things. It is true, we faid even 

 ble imo other now, that we cannot divide the aftions of mans mind, further 

 more funple ^g j nto a p prc henfionS; and therefore we called them fimplc 

 ipprchenfions. rr r , '. , n n. 



and uncompofed ; and with good reafon ; tor it we reflect upon 



the operations of our rnind,wc (hall evidently perceive, that our 

 bare apprehenfions,and onely they,are fuch : but withall we muft 

 acknowledge,that all the apprehenfions we make 6f things com- 

 ming unto us by our fcnfes,are compofed of other more finglc ap- 

 prehenflons, and may be refolved into them: all which are as it 

 were the limbs and parts,that make up and constitute the other 



4. totall one. 



The apprehen- Let us make ufe of our former example, and diflefl the appre- 



S^ f ag hcnfion we make of a knife : I find in my undemanding that it is 

 js the molt urn- ,. /., f . .//, /. < J tr \ \ 



pie and bafi a thln g * on gi f broad, fo marp,fo heavy , of fuch a colour, to 

 f all ihe reft. roouldcd,fo tempered, &c. as is fit to cut withall. In this totall 



