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Show Judgment. Book IV. ~ them: But tMY bering empl'oyed, our Will bJtb no PoJoer to determin~ '""'Knowledge of tl1e Mind m\e way or other; that 1s done only by the ObjOCfs themfelves, as far as they areJclearly d1fcovered. And therefore, as far as Men's Scnfes are converrant about external ObjeCl:s,the Mind cai1- noibut t~ceivc rhofe !dear, which are prefented by them,and be informed of the Exifience of 1"hings without: and fo far as Men's Thoughts converfe with their own clear and difiinct ideal, they cannot but; in fome mcafurc obferve the Agreement,and Difagreement that is to be found amongQ fom~ of them, which isfo far Knowledge: and if they have Names forthpfe I!lta1, thej' have thus conlidered, they mufi needs be alfured oft he Truth of tbofc Propoutions, wh1ch exprefs that Agr~ement, or D1fagreement they p6-!:eive in thetrl, and be undoubtedly .convmced of thofe Truths. Fer what a Man fees; I}<\ cannot l:ut fee ; and what he percc1ves, he canno' but know that he perceives • . , . ~- 3· Thus he that has got the Ideal of Numbers, and bath taken th~ Pains to compare One, 7ivo, and ibree, to Six, cannQJ: chufe but know that they are equal : He that hath got the ldeg o_f n Triangle, o,ntl found the ways to meafurc liS Angles, and thelf Magmtudes, is as certai~ that its three Angles arc equal to two nght ones, as that it is impollible tor the fame to be, and not to be. Healfo that hath the !ded of an intelligen1, but froil and weak Being made by and depending ?n another~ who is eternal, om~ipotcnt, per~ fetlly wife ana ~ •. will as, ~ert~mly !mow that Ma[l\ 1s to honour, fcar,and obey God,as that the Sun fl1mes when he (ces it. For if he hath but the .Ideas of two fuch Beings in, his. Mind, a.nd wiU ~urn his Thoughts ihat way, and cqnlidet ~hem, he w1ll a~ cehamly find that the Jnf~rior, lilnilf, and Dc~6dfnr! >Sunder an Obhg;atwn t~ obey the Supre~ and 1_ 1116'~>\e, as hi! IS certa1t1 tO find, that ihree, l'rtJe, a9d Seven, ~re Wfir [ 4 -tl:.lt-fifteen, tf'he'\vill cohlitler, and CIJ!npute thofe'~umbers ;' rloi cad he .if furer in 'a 'clear Morning that the Sun is rifen, if he "'ill but opert hi~ Ey~, and tprn them that way. Bll! yet thef~ ~ruths, being" never 10 i:ettam, n~ver fo dear, He may be >gnol':lnt of e1t'her, or all of ' them, U.il.tl' \Vill heV~r 1take the Paindo errlploy his Facultiost >as he lhould,,to in• for!U himtelf ab<i1it them. ' ·''c>r - • J d ~~ •"( C I-Ji A <P. XIV. r1' 1\· t . IIJ fjL') ,, Of ]uau~e11t.' ,f' "'i ., . ~· t I ~,(If ,,,j J.l •'11" 1 f/( ' ~: f.T l-1 'E Uhderfiali~irt' f'aeulfiilll•lJtlng givlill·t\Y Mail, .:O:.barely '0"' ffir S~ulation 1 bllt alfo• feff the COndu6t of his 'l!AfcpiMatl :»flu)d be. ~t'a gr9r loiS, if he had ooilnn~ 1to ditMl>l\i!tl, but wJlit"ll~5 th~ Certatnty'pf true K11o'"lMge : for tha¥bl:ing vtt}'!riliGit and ft:tl!ty, as w~ have fe!:o, tlel ,Vould b6 Often u!terly iMhe dark\ lad\!' in tlioft of tile A~luns of hinlre, perfcatt at'a ltand, Haa lie Mtlil~ll;to guide bitt! itl tlt~ ~bfe'nc~ qft\eatatld certain·KIIoWlcil'ge: t'ol he'that will ri6l! M, 'till lie l1~s Den\o)1fttlttion that lt will nournb 1\lrfi · hi! !hat will ntlr' ftiH till llel\lfallibly ltn\lws theBtlfioefs he goeli' :lb6uti~ill fll<!Ceed wilt h:!YI! iittle Hfetodp, but lit fiill 'and 1\'erifl1. '1U •·" ' • · ' • ~- ~- Therefdre as GotHtas 1ft fome Things in litoa<l day-liglit . ts l!e l1as given us fo\ne certain i~owledge;' H10ugh !imlted '•t6 a few' 111iligl j ' in /Chap.XIV. Judgment. in comparifon, probably, as a Tafie of what intellectual Creatures arecapable of, to exc1tc m us a Defire and ~ndeavour after a better State: So 10 the greatcfi part of our Conce~nment,_ he has afforded us only the twihght.' as. I may fo fay,. of Prnbahlt~v, fUJtable, I pre fume, to that State of Mc'<ho~nty ~n~ Probatiopedlup, he has been plea fed to place in us here. wheretn ~e m1g~1tnot be overconfident, and prefume'; but might bye~ very day sExpenence be ll)ade fenfible of our lhort-lightednefs an~i'\blenefu to Er':'r; wluchm1ght be a conllnnt Admonition to us, to fpcod the day~ of th1s our Pdgnmagc With Jndulhy and Care, in the fearch, and fol: loWI!'gof_that war, whiCh mrght !.ad ~sto a State of greater PerfeCl:ion. 1t bemg htghl yi ratlonal to thmk,even where Revelation is filenr in th G: fi· That as Men em.ploy tho:e Talents, God has given tl)em,here, the~ fuaJj acctlrdmgly reccr,ve thelf Rewards at the clofe of the day, when their ,Sun fhall fet, and N1ght flJOIJ put an end to I heir Labours. ·' ' ~! 1 1. The Fa_culty, which God has given Man to enlighten him, next to dear and certmn Knowledg~1 IS J~dgn:ent: whereby, the Mind ;ales its Uea,,roagrce, or d1fagree; 05 wluch ts the fame, any Propolihon to be true, 6r falfc, Without perce1vmg a demonfirativ.e Evidence in the p r,The Mind fometimes cxercifes this Judgment out of necellity, wh;eo:J:: n:onfirauve Proo_fs, and cerr.am !{nowledge are not to be had ; and fomeumes · ou~ ofl:azmefs, Umkdfulnefs, or Hafie, even wheredemonl!rative and•certam Proofs are to b~ had. Men often flay not warily to examine the Agreement or D1fagreement of two id<as, whicl) they are defirou or .cencerned to kno~; but eith~r incapable of fuch Attention, as is r:~ qut1ite m a long :,rram of Gradatwns, or i~patien_t of dflay, lightly liir" o/• or wh_olly pafs ov_er the Proofs ; and fq Without makmg out the D~monfiranon, determme of the Agreement or Difagreementof two Ide IS 1t were by a view of theln, as they arc at a difiance and take it to be tl~ o~ or the other, as fecms mofi likely to them upon' fuch a Joofe furve~ !h•s Faculty of the Mmd, when it is exercifed i~Timcdiately about Things· 1S called Judgment; ~en about Truths d~livercd in Words, is mofi com~ !llonly called Affent or Dl{fent: which being the lnofi ufual way, wherem the Mmd has oc~alio~ to1employ this Faculty, I lhaU under thcfe Terms treat of >t, as leafi hable m our Language to Equivocation §. + Thus the Mmd h:ts two faculties, converfaot about Truth and Fallhood. Firjl, Khowlcdge, wheYeby it certainly perceive>, and is undoubtedly fatiSfied of the Agreement 6'~ Difagreement of any Ideas. . Secondly, Judgment, whtclJ 1s the. putting Ideas together, or feparat111g them from one another m the Mmd, when their certain Agreement, or D1fagreement >S n?t percc1ved, but prefomed to be fo; which is, as the W':'rd >mports, taken to be fo b¥fore it certainly appears. And if it fo amtes,, or feparates them, as m Reality Things are, it is right Judgm<n(. L,- 1~.,. •'l;.r. ;. .. r~. \ u u z C.H A P. |