OF MANS SOULE. Chap. I. 9 



But indeed, if we look well into the matter, we fhall find , that 

 fetting afidc the notion efExiftettct or of Being, all o'?r other no- 

 tions arc nothing elfe, but comparifons and refaftt ; tnd that by 

 the mediation of rejpeftf, the natures of all things arc in us : and 

 that by the varying of them, we multiply our notion* : which in 

 their firft divifion , that reduceth their fevcrall kinds into gcnertll 

 heads , doe increafe into the ten famous tribes , that Logicians 

 call Predicaments : and they dot comprehend under them , all the 

 particular notions that man Iruh ,or can have , according to th? 

 courfe of knowledge in this life. Of which PrfMcamexts the 

 feven laft arc To manifeftly refpeclive , that all men acknowledge 

 them to be fo. Subftance we have already fhewed to have a rcfpeft 

 unto Bein^^HAHtity we proved in the firft Chapter of the former 

 Treat i le of th.- nature and of the operation of Bodies, to confift in 

 a rdped unto parts, ^jtality is divided into foure branches : 

 whereof fower is clcarely a refpectto that over which it hath 

 poWc r, or from w hich it may fuffer. Habite is a refpecl to the fub- 

 ftance wherein it is; as being the property by which it is well or 

 ill, conveniently or inconveniently affrcled, in rcpardofirs owne 

 nature; as you may obferve in health , or fickncfle , or the like. 

 Jhepajfibie^ti'ilitie* are thofc which we have explicated, in dif- 

 courfing of thv Elements and of Mixt5;ind whofc natures we have 

 there ("hewed do confift in rtfpecls of idling or of '(uffering. Figure 

 cry&*;><?(whic'\ is the laft branchof the divilion of thePredicament 

 of Qaality ) is nothing elfe,but a certain difpofition of one part of 

 t body to another. Anafo you fee, how all the ten Pre4icame*ts 

 doe confift purely in diversity of Rejpefls: and by cenfequence, 

 all our conceits and notions ( excepting that of Being , which 

 is the ftock, upon which all the reft are grafted ) are nothing 

 elfe, but various refpeds; finceall of them whatfoevtr, are 

 cotnprifed under thofe gencrall heads. Concerning which, wee 

 (hall not need to dilate cur fcives any further ; feeing they are 

 to be found in Ariftotle t K\& in his Commentators , largely dif- 

 courfod of. 



In the next place, let usobferve, how our understanding be- u 

 havcthitfclfc,in confidering and in apprehending thefe refpec^F. 

 We have already declared, that the variety of our notion?, doth a- 

 rife out ofthe refpeds which diverfcthings have to one another : 

 hence will follow, that of the fame thing , wee may have various 



notions 



