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Show The Preface. The Preface. a beggar begging water of an Enemystoquenchthe great drought of death ; That indeed;.becaufefocalled?Orthat ipfi dixerunt, dothmake them tobefuch.2 (ere thefame day the Foorftoole ofTamerlane (both which parts Valerian bad alJo plaidbeing taken by Sapores :)that made Bellifarius play che moft viftorious tainly no.But this ‘is true,That where natural reafon hath busle anything foftrong againft itfelfesas thefame redfon can hardly affaileitmuch leffebatter st downe: the fameinenery queftionof Nature, and: finite power,may be approued fora fundamentall law of. humane knowledge. For: fajth Charronin, bis booke Of5oy ji appointed Baiazetto play the Grand Signiorofthe Turks inthe morning, % in (aptaine,ex laftly thepart ofa blinde beggar, of which examples many thoufands may be produced twhy Jbould other men, who are but as the leat wormes » COM plame ofwrongs ¢ ( ertainly there is no other account to be made ofthis ridiculous worldshana refolue,That the changeoffortune on thegreat Theater, is but as the changeofSarments on theleffe.. Forwhen onthe one and the other » enery man weares buthis own shinxthe Players are all alike. Now ifany man out of weaknes prife thepaffages of this world ocherwife (forfaith Petrarch,Magni ingenii eft reuocare mentem a {enfibus ) it is by reafon ofthat unhappyfantafie of ours which forgeth inthe braines of Manall the miferies (the corporall excepted) whereuntobeis /ubieét. Therein it is, that Misfortune e> Aduerfity work all that they worke.Forfecing Death,in the end ofthe Play, takes fromall whatfoener . Fortune2or For"i ce takes fromany one : itvf werea foolish q : madneffe in the[bipivr acke ofworldly thingswhere allfinkes but the Sorrow,to faue it. That were.as Seneca Jaith Fortune fuccumbere,quod triftius eftomni fato To fallynder For rep all other the moftmiferable deftinie. wifdomeyTout propofition humaine a autantd' authorite quel' aucre; fi 1a Sazepe. raifon non faicla difference ;Euery humane propofition hath equalhanthority;ifteafon make notthedifference,the re/t being but the fables ofprin ciples\Buthereof bow fhallthe vpright and onpartiall sudgement ofman gine a Sentence, where oppofition andexamination'.are not adnimittedtogive in euidence? And to.this purpofe it was well faid of Lackantius, Sapientiam fibi adimunt,1é.de ori: qui fine-vllo iudicio inuenta maiorum probant,éabaliis peeadum more °""*4>-+* ducuntui: They negleé their owne wifdome,who without anyiidgement approue theinuention ofthofe thatfore-wentthem; & fuffer themfelues after the manner ofBeafts, to beled by them... By the adnantage of which{loth and dulneffe,ignorance.is now become fopowerfull a Tyrantias it hath Set true Philofophy, thyfickind Diuinityin aPillory, and written.oner thefirft; Contra riegantempPrincipia; over the fecond-, Virtus {pecifica ;and oner the : third, Ecclefia Ronsana, Butfor myfelfe; Lfhallnener beper]waded, that God hathfhut opallight of of time pajt (which wecall Hiftory) info large a Table, may alfa bee Gan din placeof a:better reafon. F bre Theexamples of diuine proui Learning within thelanthorne ofAriftotles braines:or that it was eucr faiddns to him,as.vnto Efdras,Accendamin Cordetuo Lucernam intellectus : that God-bath, giuen inuention but tothe Heathen , and that they onelyinuaded Naa ture,andfound thefirength and bottome thereof; the fame Nature hawing confuce } ut it 6 now timete four it. fut:ik and withall,that t vt ri eh 9 whichshoe : Bee icles bath moueda mee pe to draw the piéture ries being abs - but rey en aerated Aaa dade fetch mybeginning fromthe beginning a earnerles) haueperfwadedPies me to inning fro reat For though SS ;. 60 Wit, (reation. aétions ofthe Almighty be febings thefe twoglorious gethertb at the onenecofferly pres nT! ft ; =e and (as it were) linked to- med all berftore,andleft nothing ofprice toafter-ages. That thefe arid thefe be the caufes ofthefe andthee effects;Time hath taught vs; and not reafon:and fo bath experience. without Art. Tbe Cheefe-wifeknoweth was well as the P hilofo- (for what father forfaketh the childe that he hathb Jurpofing Creation: Yr mony fence: egotten?)and soe Beenie Prouidence pre- pher. that fowre: Rennet doth coagulate her milke intoacnid. But ifwee askeareafon of chiscaufe, why thefowreneffe dothit? whereby it doth it ¢ andthe manner how ¢.1 thinkesthat thereisnothing to bee foundin vulgar Philofopky , to gone aboutto difioyne thi ieretts eemed to excell in Worldly wifes dume,baue tite ana and Poo: ) M6 EIS coverence - the Enicure denying Cred~ both Cred denying both id th that Prouidence, but granting fatisfie this.and manyatlerlike vulgar queftions. But man tocouer his ignorance nde d the Defences and Far treffesofollie ieee . that the nece/s, Earth, and wirh great labour finde out the things that are. before vs; that hath fofhort atimeinthe world, as he no foonerbegins tolearne, thanto die ; Ai $i ner: Creation: i i Shang eWorldhad 4 Beginning. the Ariftotcli an an ggran Nox roui dence, ? but aeny alshtine ongh Pro ; yid 7 ng both the Creation nyiin i and the Be 2inni innit:ng. we vaderftad,t , > the Creationin time om by faith ty a worke for Atiftocles rotten theword ofGod)be too weigh frandi ng) fou eS ig ; ee porethe indgement of Natur, Pa bim. ek . d ene and the impofsibility bein' be be Hhr ad ; p that tbofemen whic Hi me greatly tobe maryailed at.Andit is no leffe range in the ledft thingsdeho\cannot ginea true reafon for the Graffe vnderhisfeet,why it /hould begreene rather thanxéd,or ofany othercolosir; that could neueryet difcowerthe wayandreafon of Natures working,inthofe which are farreleffe noble ercatures than himfelfe-, whois farre more Noblethan the Fleauens them/elues t Man. (faith Salomon), that can hardly difcerne the things that.are vpon theysator that hath in his memory but borrowed knowledge; in bis-vnderftanding, nothing truly;that is ignorant of the Effenceof his owne foule,aiid which the wifeft of the Naturali/?s (ifAriftarle be he). could neuer fo much as define, but by the. Acton this maine point « ¢ r chirousofknowledge (feeing Ariftotle hathfailed in retrenhe. ahein ee taughtlittle other than termes in the ref?) baue fo ox Effe& telling »s tebat it works (sobich all men knowas wel as he)but notwhat fo abfolutely though I were perfedt,yet |knoyy not my foule,/sith lob.) Man, Jay, chat is but anIdiot in the next caufeof. bis ownelife,and in.the caufe of all,actons ae from the following and ouertaking we) oo d ipl i Jubiekted ies. éas all . MO/€ Phi hy ofophicall ‘ in‘themfelues. to. the in; law thofe Bicall ae }conty, utrary kinde of teaching theof fearch pr* ed either for phoetaltivel or curi rch of caufes , they haut Pofitions of Fleathen hilofophers > > are ia vy a pi bted grounds and s print ciple es tits it.1s which neither bejnoranyelfe,doth know, but GOD that created 1t-y (For of. bis-life + will (notwith/tayting) examine the Art of GOD in creating the World sof GO Dwho (faith fob) is Soexcellent.as wee knowhim not319+6 and |