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Show 372 Part4; or THE KINGDOME Cbttp.46, Mr. 4. OF DAR It'NESSE.‘ coo/:46. To know now upon What grounds they fay there be Efrem" bythem, that by this doctrine of Separated Eflemet, built on the Abflrofi, or Subflontza/l Forum, wee are to confider what thofc words do properly fignifie. The ufe of Words, is to regifler to our Vain Philolophy of Ariftotle, would fright them from Obeying the Laws of their Countrey, with empty names; as men fright felves, and make manifei't to others the Thoughts and Conceptions of ourMinds. Of which ‘Nords, fome are the names ofthe Things Birds from the Corn With an empty doublet,a hat, andacr00ked conceived; as the names of all forts of Bodies,that work upon the Senfes, and leave an Impreffion in the Imagination : Others are the names of the Imaginations themi‘elves'7 that isto fay, ofthofe Ideas, or mentall Images we have of all things wee fee , or remember: And others againe are names of Names-7 or of different forts of Speech: As Vmwfiofl, Plum/1, Singular, are the names ofNames; and Defimtion, Afltrmation, Negation, True, I‘d/ff, Syllog/fmc, Interrogation, Prom-fr, Covenant, are the names of certain Forms of Speech. Others ferve to thew the Confequence, or Repugnance of one name to another; as when one faith, A Miro/1'; a Body, hec intendeth that the name of Body is neceffarily confequent to the name of Mm; as being but feverall names of the fame thing, Mon, which Confequence is fignified by coupling them together with the word 15. And as wee ufe the Verbe 1:; fo the Latiiiesufe theirVerbe 5]}, and the Greeks their‘Vig7 through all its Declinati- ons. Whether all other Nations of the world have in their feverall languagesa word that anfwereth to it, or not,l cannot tell: but 1 am fure they have not need of it : For the placing of two names in order may ferve to fignifie their Confeqtience , if it were the cufiomc , ( for Cuflome is it, that give woi-de their force , ) as well as the words 15, or Ere, or Art, and the like. And if it were fo, that there wereaLanguage without any \‘tib mfwerable to Efl, or 1:, or Ber; yet the men that ufed it would bee not a jOt the leife capable ofInferring, Concluding, and or all kind of Reafoning, than were the Greeks, and Latiifcs. Biit \\h;it then would become of thefe Terms, of Jimmy, Iiyfmrc, Hs'mm/i') ljfmtiolity, that are derived from it, and of'maiiy more that de- pend on thefe, applyed as moft commonly they are? They .‘ilc therefore no Names of Things; but Signes, by whichwte make flick. For it is upon this ground,that when a Man is dead and buried, they fay his Soule (that is his Life) can walk feparated front his Body, and is feen by night amongfl the graves. Upon the fame ground they fay, that the Figure, and Colour,and Tait ofa peece of Bread, has a being, there , where they fay there is no Bread: And upon the fame ground they fay, that Faith,and Wif~ dome, and other Vertues are i‘onietimes pawreolintoa man, {ome- times blown into him from Heaven; asir the Vertuous, and their Vertues could be afunder, and a great many other things that ferve to leffen the dependanCe of Subjects on the Soveraign Power of their Countrey. For who will endeavour to obey the Laws,if he expeét Obedience to be Powred or Blown into himf Or who will not obeya l'rieft, that can make God, rather than his Soveraign; nay than Godhimfelfef Or who,that is in fear of Ghofls, will nor bear great refde to thofe that can make the Holy Water, that drives them from him'.' And this {hall fufftce for an example ofthe Errors, which are brought intothe Church, from the Banner, and EyjénoexofAriitotle: which it may be he knew to be falfe Pliilol‘ophy; but writ it as a thing conlonant to, and cor- roborative of their Religion; and fearing the fate of Socrates. Being once fallen into this Error of Separated Eflmoer, they are thereby necciiarily involved in many other abftirdities that follow it. For feeing they will have thcfe Forms to be rcall, they are obliged to ailigntliein for»: place. But becaufe they lioldthcm Incorporeall, without alldimeniion ontant1ty,and all men know that Place is Dittienfion,and not to be tilled,biit hythat which is Corpoteall, they are driven to uphold their credit withadiflinc‘ti- on, that they are notindeed any where (.‘zrcumfmptwé,biitDe/i'uitit? : VVtiich 'l‘ei‘ms being meet VV'ords, and in this occalion infignificant,pafle onely in Ltitine,that the vanity of them may hec concealed. For the Circumitripuon ofa thing, is nothing clle but known, that wee conceivethe Confequence of one name or Attit- the Determination, or Defining ofits Place-sand fo botlitthcrms bute to another : as when we fay, a Mm, 2'5, it [IUD/g Body , we: mean not thatthe Moziis one thing, the Liv/log Body anollltl‘, and ofthe Diliintfticm are the fame. And in particular, of the Eileiice of the 11, or Immg a third : but that the Margaiid the [stir/22g BUZI'yJS tire in his little Finger, and Allot it in everytitlichatt (how ianll io- fame thing, becaufe the Confequence, If'bro [1M it Mao, hoe z; 4 Lean _; B04315 3 true Confequencedignified by that word Is. 'l‘liercibi e, fv‘ aMan, \\'lilCll( they fay )ishis Soule,thcy affirm it, to be {\llof_it ever ) of his Body; and yet no more Soule in the Whole Body,than in any one ofthoie Parts. Can any mantliinkthat God is lerved 5e" Body, to italic, to [m Speakmg, to LIT!) to See, LillLl ll‘t ll: with iuch abfurditicsf And yet alltliisis neceilary to beleeve , to InfinlthCS; alio Corpormy, I/Vit/l-‘rng3 Spoofing, Lif;~)5/q/11,.t ititle m?) that flgnifie jufl the fame,are the names of Kat/mtg, .is i have thofe that will belcevc the EXiftcnce oi‘an lncorporeall Soule, Sepa- eliewliere more amply expreiled. But to what pui'poi'e ( may fome man fay 3, is iiich tithtiltr 1'1 1 work ofthis nature, where -I pretendto nothingbut whit Exit:- ".{h‘ylo the doctrine of Government and Obedience 7‘ It is to 11115 PurPOszthltmen may nOlOngfrl‘llllbi'IllClIlltht‘sKO b; .dinttd. by rated from the Body. And when they come to give account, how an Incorporeall Sub- flance can be capable of Pain, and be tormented in the fire of Hell, or Purgatory, they have nothing at all to aniwer , but that it cannot be known how fire can burn Soules. Bbb Again. |