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Show The · Prefaee. that it may not be refilled ; or a.lfo' that every where , for fome ~ornmodities take' ~r. the. av?ydtng of great incommod1ttes , Jt m.uft: be de. fended. Which obferva~ton ~ how neceffary 'tis to many thmgs , wtll appear in the contexture of the Work it felf. Among Philofoph~rs, ..l~ijl~t/( ' defervedly obtains the pnnctpal place, ~he~her you confider the or· der of Ius difcourfing' or the acute· nefs of his dill:iRguifhing , or ~he weight of his Rc:afons. Only I w1lh, that Principality had not? for fomc Ages, gone into Tyran~te; fo th2t Truth to which vf riftotle was a faithful! fervant, is oppreft by nothing more , than by the name of .Ari.ftotle. For my part, bot~ here and elf where ·I imitate the hberty of the Antien~ Chriftians, who were fworn to no Philofophers feet: not, that they did affent to them ' who {aid, Nothing ,;ould he knDw_n, than which nothing is more foohfh ; but, I that they judged no fett had feen all Truth and ~:tot any but had fome. :» W hercforo, Wherefore, to gather.up )ruth difperfed apJong them all,. and diffufed into Sects, into a Body; This they thought was indeed to deliver Ch:ri-ftian Inftitutions * . Om; purpofe ·is "' ~attanc. Into magnifie Arill-otle, but with that lilt. ~· 6: c. 9: h. h 'J" . I ]Jtflzn m ht, l!berty~ w IC He, m ove ofTtuth, former Apo-·' indulged to himfelftowards his own log. fa.ich, Thl M a.n11.e rs. H l·1n 1O rl•f S h ave a tWO-rrO } .Yi cdoo lalrrit/ lnso ot [lPlltiOa-- Ufe, as to our ArgumeQt: For they t,etber different fupply us with Examples ·and withfi0"! thPft of ' cb,,{l, nor altG ... · Sentences. i be Examples h'ave fo t.etlm the f•mt. much the more authority ·, as the t\ndfo of the: tt·m es an d N ati.o ns are more V.I r- orneeftf.. cwFo •r nedveexrJ-tuous: therefore we have preferred f refJed in part the old Greek and Roman above the wha~ w45.P1111t" · • ud zu hun f7T reft. Nor are the Sentences or rea[on. Tertul- Judgc:ments of Hill:orians to be con-liancals senecA tem~e d, ef ip ect·a Jl y w he n t he y are a- foafuitnh, ,1 1thme: u bmut-greemg: for the ~Jaw of Nature, as verftty of rp;,j.. we have faid is in fome fort proved· u~•t docf.4menes, ' no malt t1.1tr thence ; and the Law of Nat ions had "'fides cannot be proved otherwife. Sen- cl:rifl. _:\ugu. . f h P d tences o t e oets an Orators £hn.ep1ft.z.o a.. The g()Qd Man-have not fo much folidity: and we ,ers , whic/1 Cicero and I· tbcr Phih;f phtrs co,Mtnd, nt t~ught ~tnd lt,mtt i11 churche$ •fl t~ w~rldovu. See the farae,Ar,fii• o' the P!aronifts ll'ho he fairh, a [fw thi1t(S btint, ch~tnged, are c/7ri{iians. cpift. 's6. k de vera · rciJg.c. 3'. 8c Confefs, 1.1. c. f." l. 1. c. a. · ufe |
