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Show Part I . 7 depJQ The INTR op 11ch N. r To defcribe the Nature of this Artificiall man, I will confide which Fir-fl, the Matter thereof, and the Artificcr, both is Mm . OF, MAN. . _ Secondly, How,and by what Coven/intents made 3 what are the Ri [m and juii: Panzer or Amt/Janey ofa Soveragne 5 and w at it is that prefer'uetb and a'zflolruet}; it. Thirdly, what is a Chriflian Common-wealth. Laitly,what is the Kingdoms of Darlene/5. CHARI. Of SENSE. Oncerningrhc Thoughts of man, I will confider them ' firfi Siagl], and afterwards in Tmyne, or dependanee Concerningthe firft,there isa faying much ufurped of late, That H'zfcdame is acquired, nqtbyl'mdm.' 0f Books, but 0E Me'f- COME" quently whereunto,thoieperfons, t rat for the moit part Can give .no Other proof of being Wile, take great delight to mew w rat they think they have read in men, by uncharitable cenfures of one another hehindthtir backs. Butthereisanother faying not of late underflood, by whichtllcy might learn truly to. read one another, if they would take the painsaandthat is,Nofce twp/um, Reaftby [elf : which was not meant, as it is now tried, to countenance, either the barbarous Rate of men in power, towards their inferiors , or to encourage men oflow degree,toa faweiebehaviourtowards their bettCI‘S; But to teach us, that forthe fimrlitudfiof the thoughts,and Palfions of one man, to the thoughts, and Pailions of another, whofoever looketh into himfelf, upon one another. singly, they are every one a Repre, ', : jmnm'on or Apparcme, of fome quality, or other Acci" ~ dent of abody without us -, which is commonly called an Objtc'i‘. Which Object worketh on the Eyes, Eares, and other parts of mans body-7 and by diverfity of working, produceth diverfity of Apparences. The Originall of them all,is that which we call 8 E N s E -, (For there is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at {M}, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of Senfe.) The refl are derived from that originall. To know the naturall caufe of Senfe, is not very neceffaryr to the buiinefs now in hand, and I have elfe-where written of the fame at 1nd confidereth what he doth, when he does thin/e, opine, reafzm, bape,fe.trc,&c, and upon what grounds 5 he ihall thereby read and know, what are the thoughts,and Palfions of all othermen, upon the large. Neverthelefs, to fill each part ofmy prefent method, I will briefly deliver the fame in this place. The caufe of Senie, is the Externall Body, or Objeot, which pref- {cth the organ proper to each Senfe, either immediatly, as in the Tait like occafrons. I fay the frmilitude ofPaftz'om, which are the fame in all men,a'cfirc,fr.1r(‘,/10 c,&c-, not the fimilitude of the objec'l: ofthe and Touch, or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: l'affions,which are the t rings defired,feared, boped,&c: for thefe the confliturion individuall, and particular education do fo vary, and they are fo cafie to be kept from our, knowledge, that the charaéters of mans heart, blotted and confounded as they are, with difiembling, ‘V‘ngxcountei‘lEiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible onely to himthatiearchetbhearts. Audtliougbby mans aaions wee d0 dif- eoxertheirdehgne fornttimes; yet to do it without comparin them \Vlllimll own, and diitinguiihing all circumflances, by which the cafe may come to be altered, is to decypher withoutakey, and be for the molt part deceived, by too nruehtruit, or by too much diflidence; as he that reads, is lnmielf a good orevrl man. Burlttoneman read another by his aftions never {0 perfectly, it ferves himont 1y mtit his acquaintance, which are but few. He that} is 2:33:32: "1:01;leanion:i muiltread in himfelf, not this, or that par- whichpreflirre,by the mediation of Nerves, and other firings, and membranes of the body,continuedinwards to the Brain, and Heart, caufeththere a refiitance , or counter-preflbre, or endeavour of the heart, to deliver it felt: which endeavour becaufe Outwardfeemeth to 1): liHI'lL‘ matter without. And this flaming, or filmy, is that which mtncallSmfl',andconiifleth, as to the Eye, in a fig/Its 0r C0101" jig/"red, 'l‘othc Eare,ina Animal, To the Nof'trill, in an Odour; To the Tongue and l'alat, in a Sizruoar, And to the relt of the body, in Hazy, (707513 [{il?‘(//'Jt'fli', SoftmflL), and fuch other qualities, as we difcern by 1L rel/pg. All which Qualities called Smfi/n'e, are in the object th;itc‘;irriL‘tl1 them , but {0 many leveral mOtions of the matter, b which it prellethour organs diverily. Neither iniis that are preilcd: art they anything the, but divers motions; (for motion, produceth nothing but motion.) Buttheirapparence to us is FanCy, the fame \\'.‘.kih§,th.ttdrcariring. And as preliing, rubbing, or firiking the Ef't‘gnakt‘s‘ us fancy a lightgand preifing the E-:ire,produceth a dime than to learn ahnv L7": ma . wllsfl} though it be hard to do, harder dov:nnivou‘nr . if"? spyct, when 1 {11.311 have f6: I?" wfllbr‘ ba " t.iiiitimpic'loi porter) him perfpicu01afly, the pains left ano- i ‘. . ontrt i0tonfidti,n he alto nnd not the fame in himfelf. Fer [his kind or Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonft'ration.- 7 lodothe bodits alto we ice, or hear, produce the fame by their thougahough rmobierved aetion. For ifthofe Colours,and Sounds, hit in the i'imires, or (ringers that caufc them , they could not bee. 1') 6511'? u fevered |