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made : and accordingly we fee , that who hath not the art,can- 

 not make fuch compositions : but who hath, can when he plea- 

 feth : and if any man would be able to make them, he prefently 

 ftudycth the art : fo that it cannot be doubted, but that artificiall 

 things are alwayes madebythe ufe of thole rules which teach 

 the making of them ; although for the moft part we arc not able 

 to perceive how fuch rules are ufed ; and bcfides this, we are 

 furethat we doe notoncly make ufe of thofe rules we learned at 

 the firlr, but when we are arrived to Ma ftery in any art, we make 

 ule of them in a qaite different manner tHcn we did in the begin- 

 ning, and then we doe in any other thing, wherein we find pair;e 

 and difficulty. 



In the fecond cfrccT: that we experience of our under Handing, 4. 



( which is,our calling about for new conceptions, when thofe it How the. tm- 

 alrtady hath,appear not fufficient to direct what it hath in hand) jerfanding 



the force and working of it, is very evident: for this effect pro- tc . aabouc 

 ,, , - - wncnitwant- 



,, , L r t n.- jf-ii 



ceedeth out or a want or latisracrion : and this belcngcth proper- et h 



ly to the underftanJ ing ;ror if evidence and fatlsfaction be quali- grounds for 

 tics of it,thenof n.ceflity the privation of thefc qualities, muft aAion. 

 likewife belong unto it ; as alio to difcerne that privation, and 

 to ufe meanes to avoid it : and in the very cafting about, we fee 

 a choice made : and that things are not taken promifcuoufly as 

 they come of a ro w,bnt t hat feme of them are fet afide, & others 

 advanced for ule .* which argueth plainly the knowledge and go- 

 vernment of the understanding, 



But the third operation, is that which giveth cleared evidence r 



of the peculiar and diftincT: working of the understanding : for if HOW reafon 

 we mark the contestation and ftrife within us,between ourfenfu- doth rule over 

 all part and his antagonift which maintaineth the refolution fet jenfc and pal- 

 by reafon.and obfcrve how exceedingly their courfes and procee- ' 

 dings differ from one another; wefliall more plainly difcern 

 the nature, and power, andefficacieofboth of them. We may 

 perceive that the motions againft Re*f0n t rife up iuibulently, 

 as it were in billowes, and like a hill of boy ling water (as truly 

 Prf^ofl is a conglobation of fpiritsj doe put us into an unquiet 

 and diftempered heat and confulion; on the olher fide, Rcafon 

 endcftvoureth to keepe us in our due temper, by fometimes 

 commanding downe this growing fea ; otherwhiles, by con- 

 teating in fome aicafare the dcfires of it,and fo diverting another 



way 



