OFMANS SOULE. Ghap.IV. 47 



But to fhew the exceptions I take againft this argument^ct us 

 examine, how this ad within us which we call watchfulm fle, 

 is performed : truly, me thinketh it appeareth to be nothing elfe, 

 but the promptitude and recourfe of fome fpirits, that are proper 

 for this cried 1 , which by a mans carneftnefle in his refolution,doe 

 take aftrong impreflion, and foare ftill ready to knock f requent- 

 lyatthedooreofourundtrftanding, and thereby enable it with 

 power to recall our ft rayed thoughts. Nay, the very reflexion it 

 felfe, which we make upon our thoughts, fcemeth unto me to 

 beonely this, that the objicl: beating upon the fanfie, carryeth 

 back with it at its retyring from thence, fome little particle 

 or atome of the braine or Septum Lucidun t againft which it 

 beateth,ftickingupon it; in like manner as upon asother occa- 

 fion, we inftanced in a ball rebounding from a grcene mudde 

 wall, unto which fome of the matter of the wall muft needs 

 dhcre: now this efcjVft, together with the addition it getteth 

 byitsftroake upon the fanfie , rebounding thence, and having no 

 more to doe there at prcfcnt , betaketh it fclfe to reft quietly in 

 fome cell it is difpofed into in the braine, as \ve have delivered 

 at large in our former Treatife , where we difcourfed sAMcmo- 

 rie : but whenfocverit is calledforagaine by the fanfie, or upon 

 any other occafion returneth thither, it com meth as it were cap- 

 ped with thisadditionall piece it acquired formerly inthe fanfie; 

 and fo fnaketh a rcprefentation of its own having been formerly 

 there. 



Yet, be thefe actions performed how they will, it cannot be 

 denyed, but that both of them arefuch, as arc not fit, nor would 

 beany wayes ufefull to creatures, that have net the power of 

 ordering their owne thoughts and fanfics, but are governed 

 throughout meerely by an uniform courfe of nature: which or- 

 dering of thoughts, being an operation fcafible onely by ratio- 

 nall creatures, and by none others, thefe two actions ( which 

 Would be in raine, whert fuch ordering is not uled) feeme to 

 be fpecially ordained by nature, for the fervice ofReafottzndof 

 the Vnderftanding ; although peradventme a precifc proper wor- 

 king of the undemanding, doe not cleerely ftiine in it. Much lefie 

 can we by experience finde among all the aclions we have hither- 

 to fpokcn of, that our Retfon or VAerftanding worketh fingly 

 and alone by it fclfc, without the afliftancc and confortftiip of 



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