46 Of Prede.£tiñation. 2. Denorrinatio.externa, fignifieth, z. The Denominabïlitás. 2. Or the atlual denomination. The fiat is confiderable i. qua talis. 2. Or incaufa velratione. Denominability infe is nothing elfe but an inade- quate Conceptionofens rationii : For I can call nothing by a Name. But theRatio denominanoi may be fomething; and as now intended is Relation. 2. And the aflual denomination is Res, that is, Verbum vel mentis veloris. 3. Entia Rationis takenyfefpivé & fubjeElivè are confeffed to be real Entities : but objeElivi it . is denied. All Objects are fo called, j. As aptitudinal. 2. Oraâuallyapprehended. s. As aptitudinal theyare not entia rations, butfomething antecedent. 2. As aElual, they are quid re- ale : For theyare conçeptus humanus inadequate expreffus,fsb ratione ma- feria.. A thought or conception is anMtwhich is quid reale : And every At confifteth of the modus agentis and theObjeí`I, which as fuch is quaß materia, and is eflential to the A&: fothat even Genus and Species, as in mans thoughtsarequidreale. And out of mans thoughts, they are Re- lation or nothing. 4. Relation is a fomething or nothing, which keepeth an exceeding room in all our Sciences. But when anatomized, it is confiderable, r. As in extrinfickObje&s. 2. As in the mindofman confidering them : s. In the Object there is, r. quid abfolutum, that is, the fubjeEl, the terminus, thefundamentum, cum rationefundandi. 2, The formalRe- lation. The firft is quid reale, as isconfeffed. The fecond is nothing betides the firft. It isnothing but rerum comparabilitas : And that com- parability isnothing, befides thequid abfolutum, or thing itfelt. When an Egg is new laid at the Antipodes, anEgg here is newly related to it ut fimile: But nothing is added to thisEgg; But only now the mind of man can compare it with that at the Antipodes, and confider, that in quantity, figure, colour, ô-c. they are like : which likenefs as in ovo is nothing befides the fame quantity,figure, colour, &c. themfelves. But by thofe Realities, it is capable o being compared, and the mind can raife an univerfal notion of both, as compared. 2. But this comparing AEI of theUndemanding is quid reale. So that Ockam in his Juodlibets hath well proved in manyqueftions, that Relation is nothing' befides the quidabfolutum in re & inmente humana. And thoughhis Gregor. Armin. at large difpute thatnon-entia maybe related, yetit ison this fuppofition, that non-entia may be imagined, and be the matterof a thought or con- ceptus, andas fuch theyare entia rations realia 5 thatis, that conceptur.is quidreale. But befides that, the Relatio non-entis is nothing but non- ens, andameernihi1. Yet I confefs that Reruns ordo is the fumof Relations andof morality ; and that thisOrdo is exiftent whether we thinkofit or hot : But thisOrda is nothing diftintt ababfolutis & rebus ordinati,, cum omnibus fuis modus circum(lantiisrealibus. Things are wonderfully diverfe bydiverfity of quantity, quality, diftance, mac. But thisdiverfity is nothing befides the faidabfolute quantity, quality, diftance, &c. .- ButT mutt not writea Logickfor you: I amby this much remembred, that, as David faith, man walketh in a vain Phewor Image; whenmulti- tudesofnothings go forfomethings, and fill up fo much of his thoughts and life, and conftitute fo much of his Learning which he glorieth in. C. "Butyou have faidnothing yet of thefifth, which is Modus Ends. " And futurition may bereduced-tathat. B.
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