Sect. 5.
* 1.1This I disprove; for although a mans understanding is finite, and cannot grasp, or fully comprehend that which is infinite; yet it can lay hold on it, and apprehend, though not comprehend it; although it cannot inclose the whole being of that is infinite; yet he can discover that it is incomprehensible, and that discovery will give him some conceit of that infiniteness; yea the very know∣ledge of finite things will yeeld him some conceit of that is infinite: so he, who travelleth in an enclosed Country, can sever those hedges from his fancy, and can conceit what that Country would be, if those hedges and bounds were removed; although he do not see them so removed; yet he can conceive what manner of Country that would be, if they were removed. Men may con∣ceive that which neither is, nor ever was in the world, as an empty place, against which he hath disputed in his natural Philosophy (although many learned are of opi∣nion against him) and therefore had a conceipt of it. Men may, and learned men have expressed their opini∣ons to be of an infinite thing which is not, that is, of an infinite vacuity beyond the heavens, which give bounds to this visible world, & therefore have a conceipt of that infinite which they dispute for; men have had a conceit, and, methinks, he is not far from it, that this world hath had an eternal being; and therefore they had a conceit of this we call Eternity, which is an infinite duration; men have a conceit of infinity of number; and therefore somewhere, in his Book of Philosophy (I have forgot where) he most ingeniously expresseth it, that if a mans hand were as active as his head (or to this purpose) he