OF MANS SOULE. Chap. VII. 69 



THE SEVENTH CHAPTER. 



Thtt our difconrfing doth prove our fettle to bee 

 incorporea/t. 



HAving thus runne over thofe proofes for the immatcri- j. 

 ality of our foule, which arifc out of her manner of That mdif- 

 working when fhee judgeth ; in the next place , wee are to cowfing the 



enquire what others , her manner of difceurfine will afford foul c?"^ 10 ^ 



r r _ST f i j /.moremuat 



us. Wee are lure , that fince our difcourfe is ctmpoied or the f - amc lim . 



judgements, and of (ingle apprehenfions, it cannot choofe then is in the 

 but furnifh us with all thofe pregnant arguments, that wee tancafie,which 

 drew from them. But that will not ferve our turne : wee proveth lc . r lo 

 look after new evidence : and wee fhall fee it .will give it us cm 

 with full hands. It confifteth in this : that when wee dif- 

 courfe, wee may tafily perceive there is more at one time in 

 our mind , then we can difcover to be in our fantafie ; for we 

 find, that in our fantafie, as one Proposition commeth, ano- 

 ther is gone : and although they that are gone, ftcme to bee 

 ready at a call, yet they are not in prefence; as being things 

 which -confift in motion , and that require place ; and there- 

 fore the one juttleth the other out of the place it poflefled. 

 But if it fared in like manner in our inward foule , we could 

 never attain unto knowledge: for it ismanifeft,ithat our foule 

 is not afluredof a conclufion, but by her feeing the premifles : if 

 then the premifles betaken away,thecorclufion that refteth upon 

 them,falleth to the ground : bat they are taken away, if they be out 

 ofcvjr mind: therefore, when our underftanding yeeldeth its affent 

 to a conclufion,it jnuft of neccflity have the premifles (till in it. 



B ut we muft not reft here; this confideration'will carry us on 

 a wonderous dealc further : wee know , that who fo goeth to 

 frame a new demonftration in any fubjeft, muft be certain he ta- 

 keth nothing contrary to what he bath learned in many bookes : 

 likcwife,that who willmakealatine verfe,or readeth a Poeme, 

 knoweth there is nothing in all that Poeme contrary to his Pro- 

 fodia : doe we not then manifeftly perceive a certame remain- 

 der of all thefe in his foule ? The like is in til arts: in which he 



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