OF MANS SOULE. Chap. II. a? 



trueorfalfe; according as the extremes ofit, arc or are not one 

 thing. 



There occurrcth no more unto my confederation to be faid in <?. 

 this place, concerning the aflents and judgements of the mind: Whatisafolid 

 unlefle it be, to explicate in a word or two, thefcverall qualities J 

 of them, which are found in feverall Perfons ; and to point at the O nc. 

 rcafon why they are called by thofe names, which they are uni- 

 verfally knowne by. To which parpofe we may obferve, that 

 judgement or deeming, being a quieting of the mind, it folio wcth 

 that the mind muft needs be at difquiet and at unreft, before it 

 commeth to j'udge : fo that we may conclude, that judgement or 

 thinking, is a good attained by a former motion. Now according 

 to the quality of this motion, the j'udgementor aflent, is quali- 

 fy ed and denominated. Wee muft therefore confider what 

 belongeth to motion; which when wee have done, wee 

 {hall in judgements find fomething proportionable there- 

 unto. 



We know there is a beginning and an ending in motion; and 

 that there are parts by which it is drawn out in kngth : all which 

 muft be particularly confidered,in our comparing of motions un- 

 to judgements. Now then, as he that would know precifely the 

 nature of any motion, muft not begin his furvay of it, after it 

 hath been fome time in fluxe ; nor muft give over his obferving it, 

 before it kave arrived unto its utmoft period; but ought to carry 

 his attention along from its firft origine, and pafle with it through 

 all its parts, untill it ceafing, give him leave to doe fo too (for 

 otherwife,it may happen that the courfe of it be differing in thole 

 parts he hath not obferved, from thofe that he hath, and accor- 

 dingly, the picture he (hall make of it by that imperfect fcant- 

 Hng, will prove in erroneous one;) fo in like manner, when a 

 man is to make a;J<wofanyjnatterin queftion, to give 

 a good account of it, he muft begin at the root, and follow fuc- 

 cefli vely all the branches it dividcih it felfe into, and drive, e- 

 very one of them to their utmoft extremity and period: and ac- 

 cording as in judging he behaveth him felfe well or ill, in the fe- 

 verall circumftances that are proportionable to the beginning, en- 

 ding,and parts of motion ; fo his judgement is qualify ed with the 

 names of feverall vcrtues agreeing thereunto, or of their oppo- 

 fitedefeclfi. 



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