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hee faith ; .and if wee- fhould meet with one that were not Sa- 

 tisfied of the verity of thejn , wee would not goe about to 

 prove them to him , bat would onely apply our fdvestomake 

 him reflect upon the words hee fpcaketh, without ufing any 

 further induftry togainc his aflent thereunto : wHich is a ma- 

 nifeft figne, that in fuch-Propofitions, the apprehending or 

 underftanding them , is the fame thing as to know them and 

 to confent unto them; or at the Icaft, that they are fo necef- 

 farily conjoyned , astheoncfolloweth immediately out of the 

 other, without.needing any other caufes to promote thiscf- 

 fecl, more then that araanbedifpofed, and willing to fee the 

 truth : (b as wee may conclude , that to wnderftand a Propc- 

 fition which onely carrieth itscvidence with it, is to know it. 

 And by the fame reafon , although the evidence of a Propo- 

 fition , (hould not at the firft fight bee prefently obvious unto 

 us, yet With unfolding and explicating of it , wee come at 

 length to difcerne it ; then like wife the apprehending of it , is 

 the knowing of it. 



We muft therefore enquire, what it is that caufeth this evi- 

 dence : and to that purpofe , reflecting upon thofe inttances wee 

 have given oflsteMtica/lPropijitions, we may in them obferve,that 

 evidence arifeth oat of the plaine Identification ot the extreames 

 that are affirmed of one another; fo that , in what Propofition foe- 

 ver,"the Identification of the exrreames is plaine, the truth of it is 

 evident unto us, and our mind is fatisfied and at quiet; as being 

 aflured that it knoweth it to be (o as the words fay it. Now all af- 

 firmative Proportions doe by the forme of them import an Iden- 

 tification of their extreames, (for they all agree infaying Thuit. 

 that) yet they are not all alike in the evidence of their Identifica- 

 tion : for infome it ftieweth it felfe plainly, without needing any 

 further help to difcover it; and thofe are without any more adoc 

 knowne of themfelves , as fuch ldeHtic*tt fay ings, wee even 

 now gave for examples ; others require a journey fomcwhat 

 further about to fhew their Identification ; which if it bee 

 not fo hidden , but that it may in the end bee difcovered and 

 brought to light, as foon as that is done, the knowledge fetled by 

 them in the loule a is certainc and fatisfaftory as well as the o- 

 ther : but if it be fo obfcure, that we -cannot difplay the Iden- 

 tification of it , then our mind fufpcndcth his aflent , and is 



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