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cularity , and it is , t hat they abftraft^n fuch fort, as to exprefle at 

 thefametiine even the very thing they abftrad from. How isit 

 ppdible that the fame thing can be, and not be in the fame notion.* 

 Yet let a man confidsr what he mtaneth when he faith,*zwjr ma 

 kath two ejes f md he (hall fee that he expreflcth nothing, whereby 

 any one man is diftinguiihed from another: and yet the force of 

 t his word Every , dothexprcfle that every man is diftinguifhed 

 from another/o that in truth, he exprefleth particularity it felfe in 

 common. Now let our imarteft and ingenioufeft advcrfary, fhew 

 or imagine if he can,how this may be done in a pidure,or in a fta- 

 tue, or in any rcfetnblance of a body or bodily thing: but if he can 

 not, kt him acknowledge an eminent and fingular propriety in 

 the foule, that is able to doe it. 



Letusreflcdjthat particularity in a body, is a collection of divers 

 qualities and circumftancesjas that it js white, of fuch a figure, in 

 iach a place, in fuch a time, and an infinitude of fuch like conditi- 

 ons,c0nglobatcd toget her: then if our foul be a body,the exprtffion 

 of the particularity of a body in the foul r muft be a participation in 

 her of fuch a conglobation , or of fuch things conglobated. Now 

 let us imagine if wt can, how fuch a participation fhould be in 

 cooimon, andfhould abftrad from all colour , all place , and all 

 thofe things of which the conglobation confifteth,adn yet we fee, 

 that in the foul this is done j and he who faith Every man t doth not 

 expnrfle any calour,place,or tirne,and nerercheles he doth by fay- 

 ing fo exprcflfejthat in every man there is a conglobation of colour, 

 plice,and time: for it could not be Every or,unlcs there were fuch 

 congloba ions to mikeEverj tne^ne: & if any conglobation were 

 exprefled in this termEverj onejt would not beEvcry ?,bHt on- 

 ly one *hne. No w if any coordination of parts can unfold and lay 

 open this riddle, I will renounce ail Philofophy & underftanding. 

 & . Coilcfti've A^rehcn^ens will afford us no meaner tcftimony 

 r J u ^ lve then the other two, for the fpirituality of our foule: for although it 



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ioe prove the ma y ^ eem unto us,bt:rore we reflect throughly on the matter, that 

 fame. we fee, or otherwife difcern by our fenfe,the numbers of thingsjas 



that the men in the next roome, arc three ; that the chaires there, 

 arctennejandthelikeof other things j yet after due confidera- 

 tion, wefhallfind, thatoureyt-,orfenfetelleth us but fingly of 

 each one, that it is one-, and fo runneth over every one of them; 

 keeping them ftill each by thcmfclves, under their owne feyerall 



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