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Show 0 ; Of the .AduanCe'mentof Le~ning, . 'l! roc! us . and the r eft, with the M a~h em attq t} es. For ·i~J~fe ;;:.ere the Artswhich had a kmde of Premo f,e· nirt~re with them' fenerally. So haue th~ Akhymtf.h , made a Philofophie Qut of a fe~ ex:pwm ems of the . Furnace; and Gilber111s ottr C oumrey ~an hath made a Philofophie out of the. ~bterua!tons of a Loa.dfione. So cicero, when recutng the {euerall ~pinions of tlie nature of the [oule, lie foun~ a Mul I· tian, that held the foul~ was but a barmome, faytr . plealantly: H ic ab artc fua mm rece~t, &c. Bnt, of ~h~. e conceits vf rijlotle fpeaketh fenonfly and v:'.tfe•y, when lie (ayth.: J'2.r~i rejficiu'!t ad £due a de ftutlt prc-nuntianr. . · · . ·, Anothei: Errour is animpatien~Ce of doubt,~nd .. haft tciafi'ertion without due and tnature fufpenuo~ .gfiudgement. For the two wayes of co~temphu· en are ·not vnlike the ~wo wayes of af.lton, con1- m0nly fpoken of b-y the AndemS.T,he o~e plain and fmooth in ihe beginning') and in the· end un.paffable: the o.ther rough a~d troublefome ~n. t~e entrarce ,. btlt after a while f~ure and euen.,.fo tt ts tn cote.mpla ... tion, if a tnan will begin with certainries, hee ~halt end in doubts; but if he will be c~ntent to beg~nne .. \Vitn doubts; he fbaUend incertatnties. Another Error i~ in the· manner of the tradition-. ~and ·dehtterie of knowledge-; wbi(h is for the moft· part Magifirall and.: peremptorie; and not in genu .. .Qt1s and faithfull, in a fort, as m~y be fooneft beief· ·tted; and not eaftlefl examined: It is true ~ thar t~ · · ;~t?fn~endious.Trcatifes for Erattife, that fourme ts .. not 'I . ·The firfl ~oo~. · not -to bee difallowed~ But in the true handling of knowledge, tnen ought no[ to fall either on the one fide . into the veyne of r c/ieirts the Epicurean : zxj_l ta~ metuens, quam ne t!ubitare ali qua de re vidcretur; Nor on the other fide into Socrates his irronicall ' I doubting of all things, burro propound things kn- - cerely,with more or leffe a[eueration:as they ftand . · in a mans owne iudgement, prooued more or lefT e . . Other ·Errors there are in the fcope that men ' pro_pound to themfelues,, w~ereunto they bend· .. .thetr endeauours: fOr whereas the more confiant and deuqte kind of Profeffors of any fcience ought to propound to themfelues, to tnake [orne additions to their Science; they conuert their labours to . a!pire to certaine fecond Prizes; as to be a profound: Interpreter or C61nenter; to ?ea fharpe (ham pion or- J?efetlder; to be a _n1ethodtcal! Cotnpounder or· abndger ; and _fo the: Patrimonie of knowledge comm eth to be {om etimes improoued~but feldome·· augtnented. . , .. But thegreateflError of aU the refl_, is the . mifia •. k1ng or mifplacing of the lafi or. furthefi end of know~edge ~ for men haue entred into a.defire of Lrarnr~g51~d knowledge, fometimes vpon a ·natu-raU cuno!:ue, and inquifitiue appetite; fomerimes . to enr~rtatne their min des \Vith variede arid delight;- -f?!Jleum~s for ornament and reputation; and forne .. _u?l ~s to tnable them to vielorie of wit and contradithon, and ·mofi times for lukar and profesfion,anil, fcldqp1e· finc.erely_ to giue.·a true account of theif' . G 3 guifi· ·. |