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Show Of the t~dUAnCement oflettrni~g . . gJed and' broken, it W-ill feeme ·~Ore ~orra'lneand diffonant. For as,, when r rea~ 10 ~4Cttus, the A.c~. tions of Nero, or ClAudit~s. , wnhctt~umftances of times inducen1e.nts and Qccafions,l fin de them not · foftra~ge:but When I reade'rh~m inSnet()niusTra'!quitlus ga.thered into rytles and bundles, and not_Jn order of time-, they fccme more .rnonfiroUS and _In, crr:dible;So is it of any l~hilofophy r~portecl enucr, .· and difnitmbred bf Arttcles • , N e1~het ?oe I e·~· )·.elude opinions of latter ti-mes to bee hk~\Vlfe re_pre. Jented, ir•·this Kalende.r of Seds of Phdofophte,as that of, T heq phr.apus P arttfe/fos, t:loq uently r~duced into an hannonie, . by the. Penne of S~uer.tnus the .Dan~: A.nd that of TJiefiNs, and hi{ Scholler D·o. nius, beeing as a Pall:orall Philofophy , full of . . . .fenfe, but ,>f .no great depth • And that of Fra- · .,cajlqrim, .,vho though he.e.pretended not t.o make any new~ Philofophy, yet didvfethe abfolute~e-lfe ... of his O\Vne fenfe,vpon the olde.A?d th~t ~fGrlher· ~.111s, ol:lrc0untreyma~1., ·\vho r.e.utued, With lome .- - .alterations, and den1onllrations, th~ .o.pinions of · . XenophitneJ., and any o·ther worthy to be adtnitted. , Thus haue \Ve now dealt u\ two of the three he ames of Mans know lcdge,that is Radius Dir·eaus, which is . .refen;rd to N.lt.ur.e, Radim ReftAatls, whic · refer. ·rrd to God ,and cannot report true]y be.c.aufe of the .i~cqualitie-<>frhe Medium. Therercfieth. Radius Re~ ·f!.~-~114,\1\!nerc-by Man beholdeth and .contemplat~th hrmfeJfe. · .. ·.~.·~ ~VE come therefor_er-~~o\v to thatk~lowJc.dge, ·..~ · .whereunto .the anc1en t.0 racle duecrethvs, · ; :.which . Theftcond bOo!(!.· . 56 · iiJ,the kno1vledge of our fllses: \vhich tfcferueth~ ..,.,,.,••accurate hand'Jing, by ho\ve much it tou-. vs more neerely . ·This kno\v Jcd~c as it is the d Terme ofN arurall Philofoph yin the inten: dMiiri~Niln: So notwithfianaing it is. but a portionJ rurall Philof<>phy in the continent of Ndture: erally l€tthis be a Rule, that all paniti<:>IlS ledges,beaccepted rath~r for lines &veines., ICCII'IIrlflsandftptlrd-tions:~nd that the continu-entirenC's of knowledge bepreferued. For ry hercofha~h made particular Sciences, · e barren,lhallow, & erronious: while they bia Nourifhed and Maintained from the ountaine: S!lwe fee Cicero the Orator comf; SiJcrtttes and nis Schoole, that he \Vas the epa ted Philofophy , and Rhecoricke, n Rbetorick beca.me an etnptie & verbalf wee may fee th~t the opinion of Copernicus; ~a~~n .. ftne rotation oft he earth, VJ hioh A:firono- - not cori'ed, be<!'aufe it is nor repugnanr ., e i' hainot»ena, yet N aturaii·Philolophy ...... ~"~~ So ~e fee alfo that the Science of Me-b~ defiituted & forfaken h} ~Vatur41 P hi/o. nat much better then an En1peiricaJ pra. · thisTeferuation thcrf fore \Ve proceed s P u I L o s o P H Y or H v M A N r T 1 1!, t\vo parts : The one confiJer.cth Man-· Jiflrjbutiuely: The other c1ngregat~or ·in· as HVMANE PHILOSOPHY SIMP~E and PAR TICVLAR, or |