Sect. 4.
Whatsoever we men know, we have learned from our Phantasm; but there is no Phantasm of that which is either Infinite in magnitude, or time, Neque enim homo, saith he, neiiher man, nor any thing that is not infinite, can have any conceipt of that which is infinite.) He said true in affirming, that what we know,* 1.1 we have learned from our Phantasm; so although the soul of man have many things in it which have no being in the world, as Chime∣ra's, Utopia's, Leviathans, and our Phantasmes are pro∣perly of things in the world; yet those things which are in the understanding, and not in the world, are learned from those Phantasmes, which are of things in the world; as thus, That man who cannot behold the Sun in his own glory, and lustre, yet seeing him behinde a thin Cloud, can learn from thence, that the Sun, who shines so glorious, vailed, and hid from eyes by such a dark body, would have a strange high degree of resplen∣dent lustre, if we could see him as he is: So we learn from Phantasmes apparent, as the Apostle speaks, from visible things, to collect many apprehensions of that which is of its self invisible, and not to be perceived; and, having reduced one Conclusion, may collect from thence many more; and men desirous to know God (as he, who desires knowledge, doth) will make such collections. The Prophet David there, in a most hea∣venly invective, calls them not onely fools, but beastly people, who do not so collect, Psal. 94.8. Understand ye brutish among the People: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Mark; they were foolish, and brutish, because