OF MANS S O U L E. Ghap. V. 55 



, ybicAtion, Dur/ttion&c. Now the reafon of this is, be- 

 caufeafubftance, (that is terminated within it fclfe) is a fit and t 

 fteady ground for the foulc to fixe it (life upon, whereas thefc Q- 

 thtr Appendixes of fubtlance, would not afford her cafie footing 

 tobuild her ftruclures upon, if the confidered them astuily they 

 are in thetnfelves: and therefore in her notion, (He giveththem 

 the qualities of fubftance : but withall it happeneth many times, 

 that by her doin^ thus,iPfhe be not very wary,{he is deceived and 

 falleth into grofle errors, 



rXiething more we muft renumber to take notice of; and it ic. 

 iSjthatifvve will compare the notions in our underftanding,with T hc difference 



the (isnes which beatinq in our finfic doe beget thofcnotions: we b . ctwixt lhc "- 

 n 11 i i e- j i uunoc a thinr 



ihall find, that thtk are but bardy ngnes: and doe not in their j n cur unc j cr . & 



owne nature cxprefle, eyther tht notions they raife,or the things ftandingjand 

 they are fignes of. This is evident in the images of the founds we ^ imprefllon 

 callwor<r>:foriti$cleare,thty have noliUenefli* either with the 'hatcorrefpoa- 

 things they fignifie, or with the thoughts they beget in us:smd we ^ ie [hin/in 

 fliall find it no lefle true of other images; for example,in the ex- our t"anfic,,doth 

 teriour imprt-filons of fenfible qualities, which feernc by them- provcthefamc. 

 fclrestobtintheunderrtanding ; for if we confidcr the matter 

 well, we (hall perceive that we underftand nothing more by 

 them, then we doe by meere words ; and that to worke, or to 

 difcourfeout of them, we muft feek into the < bjtcrs, and their 

 definitions; whereof we learnenorhing bythoie firft impreffi- 

 ons : for it feemeth, that (for example) hot, or red, or fweet, to a 

 man thatfiiftfeeth, orfeelcth , or taftcth them , fignifyeth no- 

 thing elfe, but a thing w hich maketh fuch an apprt'henfion in his 

 lfoule,or Tuch a phantafme in hisinteriour fenfejand neverthelcfle, 

 as yet the man knoweth not that he hath a foule , or an interiour 

 fenfe; nor doth reflect fo farteas to confidcr, that this motion 

 paflethbyhisexteriotirfenfc;but hi? apprebenfion is immediate- 

 ly carried to the thing without him; and het'imagineth that the 

 imprefllonheftelcth, isinthethinghefeelcth ar.d fo hec that 

 ftieuld f .'de himfelfe heated by a burning glafTf, and wert net ac- 

 quainted with the vertue of fuch aglaft- , would think the glaffa 

 were hot: yet certainly, his firft apprehenfion is of the motion 

 made in hisfanfie, (though he imagineth it dfewherc) which he 

 conceiveth to be the natnre of the thing that maketh it. And thus 

 wefeethatthecoBverfionofthefoule, is immediate to a thing 



without 



