8 A TREATISE 



pctually in bodies ; obfcrvethe fuftenance we take ; which that it 

 may be once part of our body, is firft changed into a fubftancc like 

 our body, a ndceafeth being what it was: when water or any li- 

 quid body is received into a veflell, it loofeth itsowne figure, and 

 putteth on the figure of the veflell it is in . if heat cntreth into a 

 body that is already hot, that heatbecommeth thereby more hear,- 

 if into a cold body, it is converted into warmth:& in like manner, 

 all other corporeall things are accommodated to the qualities of 

 the recipient; and in it, they loofc their owne proper termcs and 

 confiftences .-but what commeth into the underftanding of a man, 

 is in fuchibrt received by him or joyned to him, that it ftill rctain- 

 eth its own proper limitations and particular nature; not withftan- 

 dingtheaflumptionofituntohim: for Being is joyned to every 

 thing there; fince (as wehavefaid) it is by Being that any thing 

 cc mmeth thither : and confequently this ftock of Being, maktth 

 every gtaft that is inoculated into it, Be what of its own nature it is; 

 for Being joyned to another notion, doth not change that notion, 

 but maketh it be what it was before; (ithence if it fhould be chan- 

 ged , Being were not added to it : as for example , adde Being to 

 the notion ofkftfe, and it maketh a knife, or that notion , to Be a 

 knife: and if after the addition, it doth not remaine a knife it was 

 not Beingy that was added to a knife. 



10. Out or the later of the Angularities proper toman, it folio weth, 



A multhude of that multitude ofthings may be united in him, wi hout fuffcring 



things may b:e tn y confufion among thcmfelvcs; but every one of them, will 



derftTndir 115 remaine with its proprieties, and diftind limitations: for foofne- 



without^'ml ceffity it muft be , when that which uniteth them to him, is the 



mingltdor & comparing of them to fomething befidesthemft-lves: which work 



confounded to- co uld not be performed , unlefle what is to be compared , doe re- 



gcthcr. taine exactly its owne nature, whereby the comparifon may bee 



made: no more then one can weigh two quantities one againft 



another , unlefle he keep afunder what is in each fcale , and keep 



all other weights from mingling with them: and accordingly 



we fee that we cannot compare black to white, or a horfc to an 



oxe , unlefle we take together, the properties by which black 



diftereth from white, or an oxe from ahorfe: and confequently, 



they mutt remaine unmingled and without confufion, precilcly 



what inthcmfehresthcy are, and 'be different in the fight of the 



comparer. 



But 



