OF MANS S O U LE. Chap. VII. 71 



What (hall I fay of Logicall notions , of thofe which are 

 called the fccond intentions ; about which there is fo much bu- 

 finefle both in the fchooles and in the world ? It is fufficient 

 that wee have already exprefled , how all our notions tre re- 

 Jpcftivt. But in particular the motives of humane actions arc 

 very abftracled confident ions : asfbr example, hope of things 

 to come, memory of things paflcd , venue, vice, honour, 

 {hamc, and the like. To thtfe let us adde, that when wee 

 teach or explicate any thing to ignorant perfons , we rauft frame 

 ourowneapprehenfions to their capacity, and wee muft fpeak 

 fuch things as they may comprehend: which capacity or extent 

 of comprehenfion wee cannot fee nor perceive by any fenfc, but 

 weejudgeitmeerelybyourReafon, and by our undemanding. 

 Wherefore , feeing that our opentien is mainely and chiefly 

 on and by fuch motives , as are not lyable to materiall princi- 

 ples and compofitions , it is evident , that the fpring-head from 

 whence fuch an operation floweth , muft alfo bee immateriall 

 and incorporeall. 



I am not ignorant, that this argument ufcth to be anf were J 

 by urging, that the foule likcwife knoweth Dctfeneffe , Dttmb- 

 nefe , Blindneffc', and fuch other notions of Nothings; and yet 

 is not from thence inferred to be nothing : it conceiveth God and 

 Eternity ; and y tt it is neither from it felfe , as God is , nor eter- 

 nall. In like manner (fay they) it may know incorporeall things, 

 and yet not be therefore it fclfc incorporeall. To this I reply, firft 

 wHhing them not to miftake me , but to give my argument 

 its full force and weight : for there is a very great difference be- 

 tween the knowing of a thing , in a drained , toylcfome , and 

 confuted manner, and the having a thing for its ordinary matter 

 and fubjecT: of negotiation : this argueth connaturality between 

 the foule and what it is in fuch fort con vcr fan t about; but that 

 doth not. Now what is inferred out of whole fciences and arts, 

 concerneth a maine ftock of the foulcs bufinefle, and not feme ex- 

 traordinary vertue or powers (he hath. 



But to come up to clofe to the anfwer : I fay , that if wee be- 

 ing throughly acquainted with materiall things , can find that it 

 is not in the poflibility of any fuch to be the likeneflc o! an imma- 

 teriall thing; and from thence doe inferre that our foule , for being 



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