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to this, isthat he is able to comprife a multitude in oneindivifi- 

 ble notion i and yet, that notion cxprcfle the multiplicity of what 

 itcontaincth : as we fee in numbers, where the indiviftblc con- 

 ception of ten, * hundred^ thoftfttn^Scc.doth plainly exprefle the 

 fubj'eft to be many ; and yet that notion of the number bindeth 

 them up (as I miy fayj into one bundle, that in it fdfeadmitleth 

 no divifion, nor will permit that the leaft part be taken from it ; 

 for if it be, the whole bnndle is dtftroyed and vaniflieth : as 

 when I take ten, if one be diminifhed from it, it is no longer 

 ten, but nine. It farcth in like manner with the conceptions we 

 frame of ^f//,and Every *ne, as it doth with numbers j for if but 

 one be deficient ,it is but a part, and not all, or every ne : fo that 

 thefe notions doe invifibly terminate a multitude. And like te 

 this notion,isthc name orterme whole ^n refpecT: of things which 

 as yet have not divifion,but are capable of being divided ; for it is 

 fo rigorous,that if the leaft atome or thoaght be wanting, it is no 

 longer the wW#,but onely a part. 



And this is as much as at prcfent appeareth unto me needfull 14. 

 to be faid, concerning (ingle apprehenfions : unlefle I b: permit- The power of 

 ted to adde for a conclusion, this little note, (which peradven- tl ? e imderftan- 



ture might have been more properly fet downe in another place. din j? rcach ^ th 

 i j r r j c n L L j if ' as f ar as the 



where we difceurfed or Being , but that it occurred not then to txtent O f ^ ; w 



me) that apprehcnfion being rooted in the nature of Sting, the 

 power of it (preadeth it felfe as farre as the extent of Being : and 

 confequently reacheth to all things whatfoever ; for whatfoever 

 is a *w*g;,hath Being; and that unto which Being doth not reach, 

 is nothing. Nay, it is not limited there, but grafpeth even at - 

 thing t and ay meth to make a notion of it, and planteth its gene- 

 ration, by multiplying it felfe by negations of whatfoevcr is. 

 Hence we have the notions of deafnefle, ofdumbneffe, of blind- 

 nefle, of lanaencfle, of baldncffe, of dcath,of finne, and of all evils 

 whatfoever, by the want of fuch goods,as are fcnfiblc unte us 



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