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the other, we cannot doubt, but that otir apprehenfions havefo 

 too : which will be conceived beft,by looking into the ad of our 

 mind, when it framethfuch variety of- apprehenfions belonging 

 to one thing, corrclpondent to the variety in words of an tdjettive 

 glcwed unto his /*/*//'; and attending needfully to what 

 we meane, when we fpeak fo. The HebrcwesdoetxprefTc this 

 union, or comprifing of two'TTTfterent apprehenfions under one 

 notion, by putting in the gcnetive cafe, the word which cxpref- 

 fcth one of them, (much like the rule in LiBies Grammar , that 

 wherrtwo fubftantives come together, if they belong to the fame 

 thing, the one is put in the genetive cafe.) As when in the Scrip- 

 tyre we meet with thcfe words, the jttAge of ttnjuftice , t he /pence 

 ofreickedneffe,thcmaxof(inneiG>rfde*tk', which in our phrafc 

 of fpeaking, doe fignify anunjuft judge, a wicked fpence , and a 

 finfullor dead man. In which it is evident, that as well the man- 

 ner of underftanding, as of fpeaking, taketh each paire of thfe 

 notions to belong unto one thing; that is , to hive both of them, 

 one and the fame Exiftencc t although there intervene not the for- 

 mall expn. flion of their being one. Thus we fee, how one Being 

 fervcth two different waycs to joyne and utiitc ftverall apprehen- 

 fions : and if we will examine all the negotiations of our under- 

 ftanding, we (hall hardly find any notions fo farrediftant, but 

 mafy be brought together, cither by the one of thefc wayes, or by 

 rhe other. 



But this compofition and joyning of feverall apprehenfions by 4. 

 the git w of Being, is not fufficient to make us deem a thing to be That a fctlcd 

 really.' fuch, as their union painteth in the mind, er as tfie words fo judgement b 

 tyed together doe exprcfle in fpeech.Well may it catife us to think 

 ofthething;buttothink,or to deem itfuchan one ( which word 

 of deeming, we (hall 1 bee obliged henceforward to ufe frequently, 

 becaufe the word thinkjng is fubjecT: to equivocation) requireth 

 the addition of Ibtacthing mere, then barely this compofition of 

 tpprchenfionsj which unlc ffc they be kept ftraight by fome levell, 

 may as well fwarve from the fubj eel, as make a true picture of it. 

 Here then we are to examine, what it is that raaketh us thinkc 

 any thing to be' fuch as wee apprehend it : this wee arc furc 

 of , that when we doc fo, our actions which proceed upon rca- 

 fon, and which have relation to thtt thing , ire governed and 

 ftecrcd in every circumftancc, jaft as the thing were truly fo: 



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