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LESSON IV.
Of the rest of the Predicaments.
1. THose things which relate or are compar'd to another, are either compar'd for having some Notion common to both; or for their A∣cting or Suffering; or else, by a certain third way, which participates of both these: as, when a Picture is made like the Originall, that neither acts upon the Picture, nor is the Picture (being wholy of another kind) really like it, yet in a manner, 'tis both: and this respect is call'd of the thing measu∣red to the Measure.
2. And, in this kind, there is one one∣ly relation, and that on the side of the Mea∣sured: For a Relation being the Order of one thing to another, and since, between two things, one may be so ordered to the other, that the other may either have or not have a coordination to it; it comes to passe that those things which are in the same order (such as are those two first kinds) have a relation on both sides, but those that are of different orders, so that,