Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete

CHAP. 11. The Species a 1.1 of things are in the soule.

1. VVHerfore we find, that to learne these things whose Images we sucke not in by our Sences, but perceiue within by them∣selues, without Images, as they are; is nothing else, but by meditating to gather toge∣ther, and by diligent marking, to take notice of those same notions which the memory did before contayne more scatte∣ringly and confusedly; that so, being orderly and at hand as it were layd vp in the me∣mory, (where before they lur∣ked vncollected and neglect∣ed) they may more easily make proffer of themselues vnto our intention b 1.2 now made familiar vnto them.

2. And how many of this kinde does my memory still beare in mind which are found out already, and as I sayd, rea∣dy at hand as it were; which yet we are sayd to haue a 1.3 lear∣ned and to haue knowne: which if I should giue ouer to call to minde but for some short space of time, they be∣come so drowned againe, and so giue vs the slip, as it were, backe into such remote and priuy lodgings, that I must be put againe vnto new paines of meditation, for recouery of them to their former perfecti∣on. For other Quarter to re∣tyre b 1.4 vnto they haue not: but they must be rallied and drawne together againe, that they may bee knowne; that is to say, they must as it were be collected and gathered together from their dispersions: whence the word c 1.5 cogitatiō is deriued. For Cogo & Cogito are of the

same forme, as Ago and Actito, Facio and Factito. Notwith∣standing hath the mind of man so properly layd clayme vnto this word (Cogitation) as that now, not that which is gathered together in any o∣ther place, but in the mind one∣ly, (that is drawne together,) is by custome of speech pro∣perly now sayd to bee (cogi∣tated or) thought vpon.

Notes

• a 1.1

  The Species be the fore notes or notions of things. Scaliger. And these Species be indeed in the Soule, not diffused through∣out all, but seated in the vnder∣standing principally Aristotle l. 3. de Ani∣ma, cap. 4. which vn∣derstanding is the Intel∣lectiue me∣mory.
• b 1.2

  For Spe∣cies Inten∣tionales, See the Philoso∣phers See •••••• note vp∣on pag. 3. ••2
• a 1.3

  He ap∣peares to be of the Platonist mind, and that to Know was nothing but to Remember.
• b 1.4

  The brayne hath no Cell to put forgotten notions in.
• c 1.5

  Hee meanes, that to thinke or meditate vpon a note, is to gather to∣gether the scattered notions of it.