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Show 2"," 02¢ng of IVAN. 32‘ PHI 1? to find where, and when he had it-,that is to fay, to find lome cer- beaf't. There be beafts, that at a year old obferve more, and purfue that which is for their good, more prudently, than a child can do at ten. As Prudence is a Prafumrion of the Future, contraétcd from the Cmitt-rare of tain, and limited time and place, in which to begin a method of f€€k~ ing. Again, from thence, his thoughts run over tllC {211116 places and taken from other things ( not future but ) pail alfo. For he that hath Sometimes a man feeks what he hath loft ; and from that place, and time, wherein hee mifies it, his mind runs back, from place to place, and time to time, times, to find what action, or Other occafion might make him lofe it. This we call Remembrance, or Calling to mind : the Latines call it Reminifcemia, as it were a Re-roming of our former actions. Sometimes a man knows a place determinate, within the compafle whereof he is to feek-7 and then his thoughts run over all the parts thereof, in the fame manner, as one would fweep a room, to find a jewell -, or as a Spaniel ranges the field, till he find a fent -, or as a man lhould run over the Alphabet, to {tart a rime . Prudence. 65411.3. Salmz'a ,a hunting out of the caufes, of fome effeas Pl'cfcm 0r Pan; orof the effects, of fome prefent or pail cauie. Sometime a man defires to know the event of an action -, and then he thinketh of fome like action pad, and the events thereofone after another ~, fuppofing like events will follow like actions. As he that forefees what wil become of a Criminal,re-cons what he has feen fol» 10w on the like Crime before 3 having this order of thoughts, The Crime, the Officer, the Prifon,the judge, and the Gallowes. Which kind of thoughts, is called Farefighr, and Prudence, 01' Providence - and fometimes Wz‘fdome,thoughfiichconjecture, through the diflij cultyofobferving all circumltances, be very fallacious. But this is certain -, by how much one man has more experience of thinos Par} than anothtr ~, by fo much alfo he is more Prudent, and his ebxpetfta3 tionsthe feldomerfaile him. The Prefmtonelyhasa being in Na" ture ~, things pit/i have abeing in the Memory onelv, but‘things to [WI/e have no being at all, the Future being but 3: fiction of the mind, applying the fequels of aftions Pal't, t0 the afiions that are l'rcient, which with mo ft certainty is done by him that has molt EX- penence -, but notwnh certaintyenough. And though it be called Prudence,when ofMAN' Experience of time Puff : So there is a Praefumtion of things Paft feen by what courfes and degrees, a flourifhing State hath firft. come into civil warre, and then to ruine -, upon the fight ofthe ruines of any other State, will guelle, the like warre, and the like courfes have been there alfo. But this conjeéture, has the fame incertainty almolt with the conjecture of the Future 5 both being grounded one- lyu on Experience. _ T iere is no other act of mans mind, that I can remember-,naturally planted in him, fo, as toneed no other thing, to the exercife ofit, but to be born a man , and live With the ufe of his five Senfes. Thofe other Faculties, of'which I fhall fpeak by and by, and which feem proper to man onely, are acquired, and ~encrcafed by Rudy and indu- ftry, and ofmol‘t men learned by infiruction, and difcipline -, and proceed all from the invention of Words, and Speech. For befides Senfe, and Thoughts, and the Traync of thoughts, the mind ofman has no other motion -, though by the help of Speech, and Method, the fame Facultyes may be improved to fuch a height, as to diftin- guifn men from all other living Creatures. Whatfoever we imagine, is Finite. Therefore there is no Idea, or conception of any thing we call Infinite. No man can have in his mind an Image of infinite magnitude 3 nor Conceive infinite fwift- nefs, infinite time, 01' infinite force, or infinite power. When we fay any thing is infinite, we fignifie onely, that we are not able to con- ceive the ends, and bounds of the thing named 5 having no Concep- tion of the thing,but ofour own inability. And therefore the Name of God is ufed, not to make us conceive him 5 (for he is Imompre- the Event anfwcreth our Expeftation 3 yet in its own he‘nfiéle ; and his greatnelfe, and power are unconceivable 3) but that Ydiiid] 15‘:l‘t::;(1)\tv1l(1i;‘ll:Cc, bjlongs onely to him by whofe will they are rd we may honour him. Alfo becaufe whatfoever ( as I faid before, ) we conceive, has been perceived firft by fenfe, either all «It 9W6; or nature, it is but Preiuinption. For the forefight of things to come by pans .7 11111311 can hnvp The btli Prophet nfiiiirfllwl proceeds Prophecy. . . )Arid,mpci‘naturally, ist re btf't gueffer -, and the boil ouefl'el. he that is molt vetted and iiudied in the matters he gtieiles at t? {0 ‘1 ) hath moli 513mm to gueilc by. i" t i X m A Sig/it, is (lit Event Antecedent, ofthe Cfinfcquent; and Con‘ trarily, theLoniequcnt oi the Antecedent, when . the ii]re Co i nfe~ quences hare been obltn ed. before : And tl it ottner they have been oblerved, tht lelit‘ uncertain is the Sione. And tlter‘clore he that ha moil CNPCI'ICHCC in any kind ofbulinfflc, s h :isiutzlr Signes, wher eby Xlgdutfilt attlhe Ihrnre tnnt , andconitquenthvi,1,3,». [1191i prudent: no r"!)ll511k' rtPlCiC'nUng any thing, not fubjeé‘t to fenfe. No man there fore can conceive any thing, but he mull conceive it in fome place -, and indued with fome determinate magnitude -, and which may be divided into parts 5 nor that any thing is all in this place, and all in another place at the fame time -, nor that two, or more things can be in one, and the fame place at once: For none of thefe things ever have, or can be incident to Senfe, but are abfurd fpeeches, taken upon credit ( without any fignification at all,) from deceived Philofophcrs, and deceived, or deceiving Schoolemen. n 1_ ‘\ mut iinoit prudent than he thatis newin that kind of buli- Pgrsnytscxtlty:t;(l;;:gti:llllt1t ‘l;\;1;llyly:1ci\‘tllllilgt or; naturall and extent N‘W‘C'i‘llitlt‘ili‘it it: iii.) 3.9m}? "R‘Ptninkihc comm)" ~ no?, 1) Itmnu tsat oiitznguiil'iegll man from , n til; -lf. ‘ C CHAR IV. the tinieprg'h |