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Show . Oj the.:A.JutinCemeYtt ojtearning, . w~ and ~ake roome for i~eir opini_ons, ·~at~er ·than inthe1r ·true vfe and (er~uce; <;ertatnely) 1t ts a. . . thing may touch a man with arel1giotts woonder, ·iofee how the foot fiepsoffedtlccment,arethevery fame in Diuineand.Humane t[tUth.: for as in. Diuine truth Man cannot endure to oe£ome: as a Child; So inHumane,they. reputed the ~tt~nding th~Indu .. 8ions(whereofweetpeake) as 1f1t: were a{econd lnfancic or Child-hood. _ . . · · . t.rhirdly;alf·owefome 'Prir~ciples. or ·Axiom~swere· . :tishtly induce~; yet neuerthel~ e certain e it is, th~t JiiddlePropofittons,e:annot b.e dtdue~d fro.m thetn 1n . ;BuhieEf.IJ{N att4re by Sy8ogi(me·;that 1s, by Touch And Redufli1n of them to Principles tn a Middle r erme. It. is :true, that in Sciences popular, as J.lt6ralities,. L~wes, ~ndtbe like, yea·, and Diuinitie (becaufe it pleafet~ · ·God to apply him(elfe to th~capacity Gfth.e iimplefi~· tbat fourme·may tlaue ~fe ;· and in N atur all P htlofo• phie likewife, by way of argument ·or fatisfattorie ·.i.ltafon,f4u£4flenfom parit, operis Ejfcet~,t eft: But t?e · fttbtiltie of Nature and Operations will not: be·e 1r14 , · chayned in thofe bonds: For. ....Arguments c_opuft of · Propo(itifJns, an(J·p,,pgfJtiolls Gflf ol'l.ls,and· lP' ordesar.e i;ut die currenl Tokens or J.V.arkes of popular !V otion~ of thlnge1 : wbich Nations if they bee grofrely and ;variably coUeaed ont of Particulars; It is not the lalborious examinatiQ~ either of Con/equences of .·t:ArgNments, , . or fJ{ thl truth of Propofltions , th~t . . ---~ -· . ·c-u-e··r-~.-(o-rr-e-a- .·t-· h-a-t.E--r-t·-O·--ll..· -t;- 'b c:ing·(as the·Pht· fitia~~ . ' · r:.Fhe fecond 7joo{e. _~ ~ 51 · mo•!!a.Ke) in the firll digefHon ; . And: therefore · without cau(e ,_ t~t ~o. many exc~llcrit hers became· S-etptiques and t.Acadtmiques yed any certaintie of Knowledge, o; IOI"c.nC'mfi0n, a~d held opinion that the know.. . · man cxtende~ onely tQ Appearances, .and·~. ~IU:"ll .... .,.,~. ' It is trae, that. in So.cr.ate.s it.-vvas fup.~ . -be out afounne of Irony, Scientjam diflimu .. ulat1i1: For hee vfed to difable his know-to the end to inhanfe his Knowledge, like of'! ~berius in his begjnnings,that would: .. ,. but would not acknowledge fo mt1ch ; . later l.AcAdemy, which cicero embra,. Qpinion aHo of Acatalepfi.a (l deubt) was. fincerely; for that all thofe 'whi(h excclled:of fpeech, feeme · to haue chofen that · ·that_ which was ~teft t~ giue glorie · ----..... ......_. .... uence ,_ and v~r1able d1fcoucles :·be- -·-:-~-· · · 'ke Progrefies of pleafure, than. to an end. .. But afiitredly many feat~ bo.th cAcademyes, did. hold it .in. fubtiltie-, . · lltl!r·:(ttl·:·e,;• But ·heere was their:' cheefe· Er :- h~y · charged the de.ceite vppG>a, the.· ENCES; which in my Judgement (not-· ing a~I their Cauillations) are veri e .. fuffi.~ ertifie and repo~t truth (thougll~:not~ tnmediately, yet by t:omparifQn:; by· ,~ ..... ,lment; and by producing·, an~ vr.- -~ ........... ~s., a& are too 'fitbtile for .the fenGe.,to I . ·-~ompreh~nfible, by the fence,ana·othet: ~ ~ · ). --.. ---~ ~ |