OF MANS SOULE. Ghap.IV. 41 



of difcourfe (whereof I my felfe have too frequent experience 

 in the writing of this Treatifc^ fo on the other fide, we cannot 

 perceive that any creature befides Man, doth it of fct purpofeand 

 formally as Man doth. 



THE FOURTH CHAPTER. 







How a man proceedeth to Attion. 



HAving thus taken a fummary view of the principall Qu^ali- If 

 ties a man is endued wiihall, Apprehending, Judging^ and That humane 

 Difcourfing ; and having (hewed how he is inriched in and by aftions proceed 

 them with the natures of all things in the world ; it remaineth fr m r \ vo . fcve - 

 for our laft work in this part, to confider in what manner hee undSSSSbe 

 makethufe fthistreafure in his ordinary actions : which it is and Senfe. 

 evident are of two different kinds, and conftqucntly have two 

 ftvcrill principles, Vnderitanding and Senfe, they fway by 

 turnes, and fometimes joync together, to produce a mixed acti- 

 on of both. 



If onely Senfe were the fountaine from whence his actions 

 fpring, we (hould obferve no other ftraine in any of them, then 

 ineerely that according to which Beafts peiforme theirs: they 

 would proceed evermore in aconftant unvaryable tenour , ac- 

 cording to the law of materiall things, one body working up- 

 on another , in fuch fort as we have declared in the former 

 Treatife. 



On the other fide, ifamanwereallunderftanding, and had 

 not tfeis bright lampe enclofed in a pitcher of clay, the bcames 

 of it would (hine without any allay of ditnneffe, thorough all he 

 did ; and he could doc nothing contrary to reaion, in purfuit of 

 the highcft end he hath prefixed unto hioifelfe ; for he neither 

 would, nor could doe any thing whatfoever, untill he had firft 

 confidertd all the particular circumftances, that had relation to 

 his action in hand ; and had then concluded, that upon the whole 

 matter, at this timc,and in this place, to attaine this end, it is fit- 

 ting and beft to doe thus or thus : which conelufion could be 

 no foonermade, but that the action would without any further 

 difpofition on his fide, immediately enfue, agreeable to the 



prin- 



