6 7 A TREATISE 



objecl fecming to be fuch or fuch, is nothing elfe , but the (bale is 

 fo qualified. 



And in this we find, that the certainty of the firft Principles, 

 as for example of this Proposition , That the whole is bigger then 

 the Part, will depend in a particular foalc of her certainty of her 

 owne Being : for although this Propofition would have a necef- 

 lity in the very connexion of the termes , ndtwithftanding th^re 

 were not in nature any whole or Part- yet this neceffity would not 

 be a neceflity of Exiftence or of Being in the object , but a ne- 

 ceffity ofcenn^xion , as it were of two parts of the foule : and 

 fo, if verity and f alfity be not perfectly in the foule,but in the com- 

 parifon to actuall exiftence, the foule would not be perfectly true, 

 or (to fay more properly) would not have the perfection of truth 

 in her, by having or knowing this PropoStion , unletie withal! 

 (he were certain, that there were exiftent, an object of this Pro- 

 pofition: of which (as we have faidj fhe cannot be certain, with- 

 out being certain f her owne Being-, fo that in ef&ct, the identi- 

 fication of other things among themfelves, by which fuch things 

 areknowne, dothcomeatthelaft toberetrived in the exiftence 

 of the foule it felfe, and to be in the foule, by the identification of 

 thofe other things unto her fclfe. 



5* Now then to proceed 'co the proof e of our propofed conclufi- 



rh ? t th< : ^ oule on , it is ckare , that the adding of one thing to another, doth out 

 c a a pac a ky =nd of the force of this addition, perfedl the thing unto which the 

 confcquemly is addition is made, if the advenient thing be added in fuch way , as 

 theformeris apt to receive it : but it is evident, that the foule is 

 made fit by former Propositions , to be identifyed to latter ones; 

 for wee fee that the former ones draw on, and inferrc the lat- 

 ter ones.- and therefore it folio weth, that the more is addedto 

 the foule , the greater is her aptitude to have more, or to bee 

 more encreakd : andcoi.fequcntly, that the more is added un- 

 to her, the more may ftill bee added; and the more capable 

 and more earneft fhee is , to have more. Wherefore it cannot be 

 denyed , but that fn ceinthe nature of the objects there is no 

 impediment to hinder their being together in the foule, ( as 

 wee have proved a little above ) and that in her by receiving 

 new objects into her, there is a continuall encreaife of capa- 

 city to receive more - t fliee hath an amplitude to knowledge 



abfoiutdy 



