A TREATISE 



THE F I F T CHAPTER. 



Containing p roofes out of our (irtgular apfrekenjiotts , that ottr 

 fettle is incorporeal/. 



i. A S in our firft Treatife we diflefted nature, and (hewed, how 



The conneAI-XjLOUtofthenotion and firft divifion of Quantity, arifeth that 

 on of the fob- va ft multiplicity of things, which filling this world , falleth un- 

 fequent chap- ^ ^ confideraticn of our fenfes : fo in the bednnine of this fe- 

 ters with the IT- / L r L j .. r 



precedent. cond Treatife, we have learched into thole operations of a man 

 (attributed to.his foule) by which he is conceived to excell all 

 - other living creatures: and there difcevered, that the admirable, 

 and unlimited variety of works, which is feen in mens writings 

 and actions, doth all flow from the fource of fingle apprehenjies> t 

 and even from one bare notion of Being : which is the root and 

 principle, from whence all others derive their origine; and into 

 which all may be refolved; works proceeding from refolutions, 

 they from difcourfes,thefe being compofed of judgements , and 

 judgements of fingleapprehenfions, This part we muft now re- 

 view, and enquire what we can find in mans operation t arguing 

 tint tt*litj rf his Soul, whether it be corporeal! or ne. For if thcfe 

 fingle apprehenfions,and the precedes compounded of them,may 

 be performed by the ordering of rare and denfe parts (as the other 

 works of nature are) then they will be corporeall, and of the fame 

 kind withthofe, which we opened in the firft Trcatife : but if we 

 {hall prove, that they cannot poflibly be deduced from multipli- 

 city ,and order of Quantitative parts, when we may confidently 

 refolve our/elves,that in the caufe from which they flow, is a na- 

 ture wholly discrepant from that which refideth among bodies, 

 and among corporeall things. 



This we fhall htre labour to doe: and to that end , we will be- 

 gin our work with reflecting upon what we have delivered of a 

 fingle apprehenn"on,in the firft Chapter of this fccond Treatife : 

 whole nature we there firft explicated in common ; and thence 

 proceeded to fome particular apprehenfions ; and laftly fhewcd 

 the extent they comprehended. Thefe then muft be the fub jeft of 

 our prefent fpecujation. 



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