88 A TREATISE 



which is within, in the inward fouie, whofe nature wcefinde by 

 difcourfe and efte&s, though wee cannot fee it in it felfe.)To this 

 purpofe we may obferve, that if we are todiicourfe, or 10 doe ; any 

 thin<7, wee are guided the right way in that fubjeft wee have ia 

 band, by a multitude of particular thoughts; wh'ch areailof 

 them terminated in that di/courfe or action : and confequently 

 every aft of our minde, is as it were an a&uall rule or direttion_, 

 for fome pai t of fuch difcoude oration : fo that wee may con. 

 ceive a compleate thought ( compounded of many particular 

 ones) to be a thiug, that ordereth on entire difcourfe or a&ion of 

 our life. 



A thought being thus described,, let us in the next place trye, 

 if we can make an apprehenfion, what n Science or an Art is : as, 

 what the Science of jlftronomy is ; or what the art of playing on 

 the O^4jis,when the Aftronomer thinketh not of the motions 

 of the Heavens, nor the Organift of playing onhisinftru- 

 ment : which fcjence and art., doe neverthelefle even then refide 

 in the Aftronorner, and in the Organift . and wefinde^that theie 

 are but the refultesof many former compleat thoughts ; as be- 

 ing thofe very thoughts in remainder; wfeatibever this may fig, 

 uifie, 



Laftly, Let us conceive (if we can) & power or capacity to be- 

 ing : Vnto which capacity, if any Being be broughr.that it is tsn- 

 feperably glewed and riveted unto it, by its very being a being . 

 ad if any two things bee brought unro it by the vertue of one 

 being, common to both thofe things, that both of them, by this 

 one^mg doe become one betwixt themfelves, and with this ca- 

 pacity ; and that fo there is no end or period of this addition of 

 things, by the mediation of being but that by linkesand rings, 

 all the things that are in the world, may hang,together betwixt 

 themfelves, and to this power; if all of them may bee brought 

 unto it by the Glew and vertue of being : ih fueh fcrt as we have 

 formerly declared, pafleth in the Soule. 



Now let us put this together, and make up fuch a thing, as 

 groweth out f the capacity to Being ,thus a^uared.and cleaving 

 to all things that any way have -being and tvee fliall fee, that it 

 |}ecommeth a whole entire world, ordered and clinging together 

 vrith a great ftrength and nece/fity, as can proceed from the na- 

 tnre of bcin and of co*traditthn - and our reafon wfll tell us 



