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Show Ojehe a(/ua~cem.ep~ ·Ofiear~ing.,.· . . ha e }gill due, as ti~e w,l_uch 1s th~ A~thor. of rAmhh bononkpri.acdof his .due, w h1ch 1s furd er imd fttrderto difcouer truth. Th~ts hable I goneo- \'ler thefe three di(ea[C:s of lear:nmg, .. befiPes .the -which there are fomcl other ra~Her.pe"'a t humors, .then fourmed difea{e s, vvhicb neucrtha\~s are not fo {ecret and intrinfike, but that they fall vnder a po- .. pular obferuation and traducement; .and therefore are not to be pa[ed ouer. . · l:he firft of thefe is the extreatne affechng of two · -extreamities;: The one Antiquity, The other No .. uelty; wherein it Ceemeth the~ children of time doe take.aftertHe nattlreand· malhceofthefather. For as he deuowteth his children; {o one of them (eek .. etbrto deuoure and fuppreOe the other; yv_ bile An· ~iiquity cituieth there iliould be n evy add ~ttons,1 and .Nondty; cannot be Content to add, b~tt tt muh d ~~ .face; Surelyt~e aduife of the Prop~et 1s ~he- trt~e d~ ·tettion in this matter, Starifoper"Vtas anttquas,(? vt· ~ete qttttnatn fit ·'Via rcEf4 & bona, & arnbu!ate inra. ·Antiquity defer,ueth thau:e\tetece, that men .onld .tnakea fland thereup~n, .and ·di(couer \vhat is the ·Bell way?bui when the difcouery iswell taken t.he~1 to make pJogresfion. i\nd to fpeake truly, Anttq!tt., , iafeca!i Iutlentus J.li-undi. There times are the ancient ·times·wHentbeworld is ancient,&. not.thofe which. we ·count antie~t. ordine:retrog,rado) by a.computa .. cion·nal:kward frotn our felue.s. · · Anothet·Error-induc ~\'by·tbe former is a diOrn~ ~~ any ~bing ili~u~~ ~c~ o~w to ~e~ found 1 ~lhlt . W l lC • . - ·. . . The ftrfl13 ook! ~ . · . g 4 which th~ ~orld ili~uld haue tnilfed and paffed ouer fo long ume, as 1f the fame obietlion were to be made to time, that Lucian ma~eth to Iupi(tr, and other the heathen Gods, of which he woondreth that they begot fo many Children in old time and begot none in his time, and asketh whether 'they were become feptuagenarie, or whether the lawe Pappia madea~ainfiold mens mariages had refiray-ned them.~ 1t feemeth men doubt, Ieafl titne is be- ·." come p~ff chtldren and generation; wherein con- · · trary.w~fe, we f~e commonly the leuitie and vnconr : fiancte of mens 1ud~en1ents, \V liich till a matter bee done,wonder that It can be done· and a !Toone as it is done, woonder againe that it w~s no fooner done· as ~e fee in the expe~ition of J lex~tnder imo Ajia; whtch ~t firft was prentdged as a vall and impofsible · ~nterpttze; and ye~ afierwar~s it pleafeth Liuye to make no more of tt, than this, Nil aliud quam bene artfos van~ conte1n11ere. And the fame happened to ColumbtH tn the ~e~erne Nauigation. But in in tel~ letluall ~atters, tt ts much tpore cotnmon; as may . ~e feen In mofi of the propolttions ofEt~cb·de,which till th~y b.ee d.emonflrate, they{eeme firange to our a~ent' bu.t bet~g demonfirate' our tnind accepret-h of_them by a ktnd ofrela ~ ion(as the Lawyers fpeak) .as tf we had kno·lt\'ne thetn before I • • . Another Errour that hath al!o (orne alfinitie I wnh the former.,is ~conceit that of forrner opinions <>:feB s a~er vartette and examination, the befi hath fiill preuatled ; and fuppreffed the reft; So as if a . G man '. , |
