7 6 A TREATISE 



I remember how Sir Philip Sidney (the Phoenix of the age he 

 lived in, and the glory of our nation, and the patterne to poftcrity 

 of a compleat, a gallant, and a perfect Gentleman) aptly calleth 

 our hands,thc instruments of inftrurnents ; from Ariftotle t who 

 ttfmeththemOrgaxaorganorttm, oruniverfall inftruments, fit- 

 ly moulded to be employed in any fervice ; whereas nature hath 

 to all other creatures appropriated their inftruments to determi- 

 nate actions, but to man, (he hath fin thefe) given fuchjas might 

 beapplycdtoany kind of work whatfoever: and accordingly 

 we fee, that the fame kind of bird, ftill buildeth her neft,and bree- 

 deth her young ones, in the fame wayj without any the lead va- 

 riance at all : but men do build their houfes as they plcafe, fome- 

 times upon hils, fometimes in vales, fometimes under the earth, 

 and fometimes upon the tops of trees : and the manners of bree- 

 ding or inftruding their children, are as divers, as thecuftoracs 

 of nations and townes: and in all other actions, our Mafters 

 note it for a property peculiar to Man , that hee ufeth to ar- 

 rive unto the fame end by divers means, as to transport our 

 febes unto fome place wee would goe unto, eyther by wa- 

 ter, or by horfe, or by coach , or by litter, as we pleafe: 

 whereas we fee no fuch variety im like actions of other living 

 creatures. 



All which being fo, we may conclude, that the foules procee- 

 ding either to anfwers, or to action, argueth cleerly that fliee 

 hath within her felfe fuch. an indirTercncie, as is joyned with a 

 meants to determine this indif&rencie : .the contrary whereof 

 we fee in all corporeall engines; for they have every ftep in the 

 whole courfeef their wayes, chalked out unto them, by their ve- 

 ry framing, (as hath been amply declared in the firft Treatife) 

 and have the determination of their worke, from end to end fet 

 downe, and given them by their artificier and maker : and there- 

 fore it is moft evident, that the foule cannot be a thing compo- 

 fedor framed of materiall and quantitative parts, feeing ihec 

 hath not her wayes fet downe unto her, but frarncth them of her 

 4. felfe, according te the accidents that occur. 



That the quiet The fame nature of the foule, difeovereth it felfe in the quiet 

 proceeding of proceeding of Reafen, when it workcth with greiteft ftrength 

 v ^g our s well knowing, that its cfficicioufnefle cenfifteth 



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