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Show Part I. of M AN' Chap}. ' craft ambitious rfons abufe the lim 6 people, men would gliiictIiZh morye fitted thanptchey are for civill O drence. And this ought to be the work of the Schooles : but they rather nourifh fuch doétrine. For ( not knowing what Imagination, or the Of MA N. 61149.3. no certainty what we {hall Imagine next; 011er this is certain, it thall be fomething that fucceeded the fame before, at one time or ther. angfhis Trayne of Thoughts, or Mentall Difcourfe, is of two forts. 7 'mjm' of Senfes are), what they receive, they teach : fome fa-ying, that Imagi- The firft is Vagm'ded, wzt/Jout Defigne, and inconfiant; Wherein Thought! nations rife of themfelves, and have no caufe : Others that they rip: molt commonly from the Will 5 and that Good thou hts are blown (infpircd)intoa man, by God; and Evrll thoughts y the Divell; orthat Good thou hrs are owred (infufed) into a man, by there is no Pallionate Thought, to govern and direét thofe that follow, to it felf, as the end and {cope of fome defire, or Other pallion: In which cafe the thoughts are laid to wander, and leem tmpertment one to another, as ina Dream. Such are Commonly the thoughts of men, that are not onely without company, but alfo Without care ofany ungmded, and Evill ones by t ie Diveilfiome fay the Senfes receive the Species of things, and deliver them to the Common-fenfe; and the Cm mon Senfe delivers them over to the Farley, and the FanCy to the Memory, and the Memory to the Judgment, like handing of things from one to another, with many words making nothing under‘ lladrrflwding . Part I. thing 5 though even then their Thoughts are as bufie as at other times, but without harmony 535 the found which a Lute out of tune would veeld to any man 5 or in tune, to one that couldnot play. ‘And yet in this wild ranging of the mind, a man may oft-times perceive the way flood. of it, and the dependance ofone thought upon another. for in a Dil- The Imagination that is rayfed in man (or any other indued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or othercreature voluntary couri‘c of our prelcnt Civill warre,what could feem more impertinent, than to ask ( as one did ) what was the value of a Roman Penny 2' Yet fignes, is that we generally call underflmdmg; and is common to the Cohzerence to me was manifeft enough. For the Thought of the Man and Beafl. Fora dogge by cufiome will underftand the call, or the rating of his Mailer -, and f0 will many other Beafls. That Underflanding which is peculiar to man, is the Under-{landing not and his will 5 but his conceptions and thoughts, by the fequell and contexture warre, introduced the Thought of the delivering up the King to his Enemies -, The Thought ofthat, brouoht in the Thought of the deli- vering up ot‘Chrilt; and that again the Thought of the 30 pence, wiichwasthe pl‘lCC ofthattreafon : and thence eafily followed that malicious queltion -, and all this in a moment of time -, for Thought is of the names of things into Affirmations, and Other formes of Speech: And of this kinde olenderlNegations, tand ing I [hall {peak hereafter. qtuck. The fecond is more confiant; as being regulated by fome defire, T}‘.€£VZ€ of and deligne. For the imprelfion made by fuch things as wee defire, or T/waf/YE '3" feare, is ltrong, and permanent ,or, (if it ceafe for a time,) of quick gxtlxrc'd. return : fo fh‘ong it is fometimes, as to hinder and break our lleep. From Delire, arileth the Thought of lbme means we have feen pro- Q C H A P. I I I. Of the Confi‘qumce or T R A Y N E of Imagimtiom. Y Confcqumce, or Tu Y n E of Tho luccellion of One Thought to ano ughts, I underftand that {iingunh it from Difcourfe in worther, which is called ( to dids) Menu/1 Difcourfe. When a man thi th on any thi ng whatfoever Thought after, is not altogenke r fo caliiall as it feems to) His next CVL‘fy Thought to every Thothe be N t ugh have no Imagination, whereo t fucceeds indifi‘Erenrl Butas 0 f we have not formerly had Sen whole, or inparts -, lo we hav fewc?c e no Tra nfition from one ImaOin to another, whereof we never 2m realon whereof 18 this. All had the like before in our SenfeD a??? Fancies are MOtions within thole made in the Senfe: us reliS. e Andrhofe motions that immedia'tel Eiucecse0f ded one another in the fem e, continue alfo together after Seniie: In {Cb much as the fimner commin mm, the later followrth g again to take place, and be przedomj by coherence of t manne: , as water upon a plain Table is drat t ung perceived , r fometimes one thing, for , tes . netimes anorl1e f . it wri to pail:, in tune, that in the 1m agining of anyt hirnguc edre crh, , eethe is no duce the like of that which we ayme at -, and from the thought ofthat, the thought of means tothat meangand fo continually, till we come to fome beginning within our own power. And becaufe the End, by the greatnelle ofthe impreflion, comes often to mind, in cafe our thoughts begin to wander, they are quickly again reduced into the way: which obferved by one of the feven wife men, made him SIVC men this przecept, which is now wm'ne nut, Raff/ice flnem -, that is to fay, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that dire cits all your thoughts in the way to attain it. The 'i‘rayn ofiegulated Thoughts is of two kinds -, One, when ofan efl'ect imagined, wee feek the caufes, or means that produce it: and thisis common to Man and Bealt. The other is, when imagi- ning any thing wharfoever, wee leek all the pollible effects, that can by it be produced -, that is to fay, we imagine what we can do with it, when wee have it. Of which I have not at any time feen any figne, but in man onely7 for this is a curiolity hardly incident to the nature of any living creature that has no other Paliion but are hunger, thirl't,lu{t, and anger. In fumme,the lenfuall, fuel] as Mind,when it is governed by defigne, is nothing Difconrle of the but Seeking, or the faculty of Invention, which the Latines call Saga/ms, and S o/vrl/d 1 |