* OF MANS S O U L E. Chap. V. 



our aflertion, our next work muft be, to try if we can doe the 

 like, by reflecting upon particular tpprchcnfions. We confidercd 

 them of two forts, calling one kind,*#vr/ktf ones ; and the o- 

 thcr, colle fliv e ones : in thy univerfall ones, we took notice of 

 two conditions, the abftrAftion, and the ttniverfality of them: 

 now truly if we hid no other evidence, but what will rife from 

 the firft of thcfe, that alone would convince and carry theconclu- 

 fion: for though among corporeall things, tfce fame may be now 

 in one place, now in another ^or fometimcs have one figure,fbme- 

 titnes another,and ftill be the fame things, as for example wax or 

 watcr;yct,it is impoffible to ionagin any bodily thing whatfoever, 

 to be at any time without all kind of figure.or without any plact 

 at ail.or indifferent to this or to that; and neverthelefll 1 , all things 

 whatfoever,when they are unmrfally apprehended by thefoule, 

 have this condition in her by reafon of their abOraclion there, 

 which in themfelves is impotfiblc unto them. When we fay, wa- 

 ter, fire,old,filvt r,bread, &c, doe we man or exprcffc any deter- 

 minate figure? If we doe, none but that precife figure , will fervc 

 or content us: but it is evident, that of a hundred different ones, 

 any and every one doth alike intircly fatisfy us ; when we call fr 

 mony, if we reflect upon our fanfy , peradvemure wee (hall find 

 there a purfe of crowns : neverthelefle, if our meflengcr brings 'us a 

 purfeof piftols, we fhall not except aainft it , as not being what 

 we intended in our mind,becaufc it is n<ft that which was painted 

 in.our.1 fanfy : it is therefore evident, that our metning and our 

 fanfy were different; for other wife,nothing would bnvefatisfyed 

 us,but that which was in our fanfy. Likewifs in the: very word 

 (which is the picture of our notion ) we fee an indiffcrencyjfor no 

 dictionary will ttll us, that this word Monj doth rot fignify as 

 "well piftols as crowns: and accordingly we fee, that if our mean- 

 ing had bin precifely of crowns, we {hould have blamed our felvcs 

 for not having named crowr.s,and not him that brought us piftols* 

 when we fpoke to him by the name of mony : and therefore it is 

 moft cleare,that cur undcrftanding or meaning is not fixed or dc - 

 termined to any one particular; but it is equally indifferent to all 7 

 tndconfequentlyjthatitcanaotbelike any thing which entret h T tar the uni- 



by the fenfes; and therefore not corporeall. X crf i lj 7 of ^ b " 



--"-- Itraftcd non- 



vgrfalitj which addeth unto their abftradion, one admirable par- ih c fame. 



The fccond condition of VnivcrfallApfrehenfiont, is their now- or 

 3 their abftradion, one admirable par- 

 Dd(| 4 ticularity 



