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fo confcquentljr, whatfocver may be affirmed, and istruc, of the 

 prinairy notion, taay as well be affirmed, and is as true, of the 

 leverall particulars ,arifing out of the repugnant additins. Such a 

 notion,Logitianstermetnr/rr/*#one : that is, one that rea- 

 cheth indifferently and equally to all the particulars comprifed 

 under it. As for example : to the notion of a living creature , may 

 be added the notions ok Reafewtblc and unretfanable : which firlt 

 notion,whcn it is barely exprcfli-d, it detcrmimth no one of the 

 t wo fecondary notionSjinorc then it doth the other ; but is alike 

 indifferent to either ; and whatfoevcr bdongeth to a living crea- 

 ture,belongeth entirely both to a man and to a beaft : yet no one 

 thing, can be both reasonable and utreafonable. In like manner 

 when I fay, a man is a difcurftye creature ; under this word man> 

 there lyeth a notion, by which may befignifyed any particalar 

 man, as Thomas, lebn, Witiiam t 6cc.- though of it fclfe, it deter- 

 mine no one man whatfcever : and confequtntly, every one of 

 thefe particular men, muft be allowed to be a difcurfive creature, 

 becaufe the being liich, belongeth unto the notion of man , and 

 that notion unto all the particulars of Thomas John, wi&iam&t. 

 and yet no particular man can be both Th9mas and lehn , or lohn 

 and William ,&c. 



In this kind of notion, we may obferve yet one propriety more : 

 which is, that of itfelfe, and in its common terme, it doth not 

 caufe ones thought to range unto feveral ob/eds jnor doth itimply 

 that there arc many particulars comprifed under it: yet if there be 

 never f o many, that conceit will fit them every one ; and if there 

 be but one.ftill it will be no lefle accommodated to that one. As 

 for example: He that maketh a right apprehcnfion of a/#**,doth 

 not by that conception determine, whether there be many funs 

 or but one : and \\ every one of the ftars ( which we call fixed ) 

 be funs to other earths, it fitteth them all; and if there be no o- 

 ther funne,then that which fhineth to us, it is fatisfyed and taken 

 up with that : fo likcwife, before the production of Eve, the 

 notion of a man was as folly taken up by Adam alone, as it is 

 now by his numerous progcnie that filleth the world : nor doth 

 X 3' oar* underftanding, when that terme is pronounced, confider 

 din a a P muk-" ( out * ^ * orce * l ^ e terme >) whether there be many men, or 

 m^uLfcr one Wiety one- 

 notion. Another propnty in mans apprehcnfion not much unlike 



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