Part. ,.Sed.,, .Anatomy oftbe S.oule. Memb.::subf.r o• $ UB S BC. IO, ofthe vnderjlanding. ~ Meta110?on. Nderftandingu ~power ofthe Soule," bywbichwe perceive, know; remember,andjudge ,u welljingulars, .u unJverftls:havingcertam innate notices or beginnings of arts, aref/efling aE!ion, by whtch it judgethofhil owne doings, andexamines them. Out of this definition (bdides his chiefe office, which is to apprehend, judge all that he performes, without the helpe ofany Infrrurnems or Organs) three differences appeare betwixt amanand a beafr. As lirfr,thefenfe only comprehends Singularities,the Uoderfranding Vniverfolities. Secondly, the fenfe hath no innate notions. Thirdly, brutesc:mnot reflectuponthemfelves. Bees indeed make neat and curious workes, and m~ny other creatures befides; but when they have done, they cannot judge of them. ':lis object is God, Ens, all na. rure,and whatfoever is to be underfrood: wh!Ch fucceJ!ivdy it apprehends. Theobjectfirfrmoving the Vnderftanding, isfome fenfible thing; after by difcourfing, the minde findes our thecorporeall fubfrance, and from thence the fpirituall. His actions (fomefay) are Apprehenjion, Compojitim, DwrjiDn, Dtfcourjing,Rea(oning, Memory, which fome include in Invention, and Iudgement. The common divifions are of the Underftanding; .Agent, and p atiwt; Speculative, and Praflicke; InHabit,or in Ati;Simple,orCompound. The Agent is that which is called the Wit ofman, acumeq or fubti!ty, jharp-· ne/Jeof invention, when he dothinventofhimfelfe without a teacher, or learnes a new, which ablhacts thofe intelligibleSpecies from the Phantafi~ !Nihil in int<l- and transferres them to the paJ!ive Under:ftanding, 1 becauje there iJ nothing lellu,quodMn in theunder{landing,wht<h w.u not fii-ft m theftnft. That which the imaginapriw "'"" tionhathtakenfromthe fenfe, this Agent iudgethof, whetheritbetrueor •nftnfo. falf~;and being foiudg.ed he commits it to the Pafsible tob.e kept. The Age~t is aDoctor or Teacher,rherafive a fcholar; and his office is to keepe and farther judge offuch things as are committed cp his charge:as a bareand , rafed t.able adirfl, capableofaJI formes and notions.Now thefe Notions are rwo-f<>ld, Atlionsor Habits: Actions, by which we take Notions of, and perceive things; Hd>its, which aredurablelights and notions,which we may Pelcurio. q[e wh~n wew1ll. Some reckon up ezght krndes ofthem, Senft, Experience. Inte(figenu,F4#h,Sujpicion,Error,Opinion,Science; towhich ar.eacfded Art, m The P"" P-rudency,Wifedome: ~s alfo "!Synterefis ,Dic1amen rationiJ,Conftience;[o thai part of clto in all there•be 14. fpeci~s ofthe underftanding, ofwhich fome are innAte, as confc"ncc. theth_ree !aftmentioned; the other aregotten by doctrine,learning, and ufe. Plato will hav~ all to be innate: Arijlotle reckons up but five inrellectuall habits:two f}eculati'll~,as that inttUig'enc.,ftheprinciples,andftience ofconclufion: two pratlic~ ,as Prudency ,whofe ende is to practife;A_rt to fabricate; Wtfedmu: to comprehend the ufe and expenmenrs of all nonons and habtts whatfoever. Which divifion of-Arijlqtle (if it be confidered aright) is all onewith tnerrecedent; fotthree being innate, and five a•quifite, the reil: are improper, imperfect, and inamore ftrict examirution exduded. Ofall thefel lho~d more amply dilate, but my fubject will nor pcr!lli~. Three of them
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