Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil

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lia been rejected, and after Rejection, Iost,

an obliterates ascis the Multitude, or Venwi semen, o gratis the Multitude, id notofine approve that hicli is populi r and light, tha that whicli is solid, and profound . For Time is of the Nature of a River, hi clicarrie down to us hings ligh and Noha

resst, i an ver- early an peremptor Re

AN OTHER Error succeed in Thai,

whicli, last mentioned is that affer the Distributionis particula Aris an Scien CCS.Int thei severa Clastes, mos Men have pre

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are made rom Turreis, o very igh laces, and it is impossibi for aman to explore themore remote, an dee per Paris of an Science, is e stand ut pota the Flat an die- vel of the a me Science, and ascendio the watch-Tower a it ere of a igher Sci

a Reverence, and a Lindis Adorationis the Minyan Understanding of Mam; by mean Swhereos, en have illidrawn themselves frona the Contemplationis Nature, and the Observations of Experieuce, tumbling up and down in their own peculations an Conceiis But these nobi opinators, and is Pina so speah Intellectualisls, horare, not-with standing, commoni taken for the most sublime and divine Philosophers , Heraclitus

in their isti littis mori is, but no in thes great

orta For the dis dat the Alphabet ascit

mere O Nature, and the Prime of the Divine orti ; hich f the didio do thesmight perhaps by teps and Degrees, after the nuru ledge of simple et ters, and then Syllabies, come a last, to rea perfecti thea ex an Volume of the Creatures it et f. But they, contrariWise hy continua Meditatio an Agitationis thei Wit, urge, an das it ere invocate their Wn Spiriis, o divinea

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vine, and ive ut oracles tanto hem, by

nexion illi his Lalter, g, That Men many Times easse an infecto hei Meditations, an Doctrines, illi certain opinions, and Conceits of their own, hicli the holymostin Admiration or illi sonae ciences, towhicli the are mos addicted an devoted dyin and tincturin a it e re ali sther things illi hos Dariings of theirs, tho a Paint ver fallacio us an deceivable So

ne Philosophy ut of the Loadstone. So tacero, hen recit in the severa opinion sconcerning the Nature of the oul, he had atlast et illi a Musician, ho held the sulto e Harmony, sat pleas intly This Maureas ot for going ut in his ruri Prosesson. But of thesessor o Errors, Aristioris says apt-ly, and isely, They that consor ut eis

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out due and mature Suspensio of Judgment. For the two Ways o Contemplation re notun like the in Ways of Action, osten men

ner o delivering nowledge, hicli, for theruost pari, is Imperious an Magisteriai, notIngenuous an Liberal contrived a tocommand Assent ather, than to submit toEXamination. 'lliso deny, ut that in Compendious reatisses, design' sor Practice, that Formis Uritin is to be retained Buta nota It an compleat Tractates of Sciences, both Extremes, in m Judgment, areo beavoided, as et that of Velleius the Epicure an Ail tam metuentis, quam ne dubitare dare aliqrta videretur, πbo ear nothin so

an d

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by the weight of Argument an Rei n. OTHER Error there are in the cope

that Men propo un to thenaseives, an towhicli the divert thei Endeavours and La- bourg For hereas the more diligent ea- ders, and more note Professors of Learn in g, ought chies to mahe his thei Aim, imi The mal in sonae considerable Addition tolli Ar the professe these Men on theother Side content themialve to e Secondson ly , courting the Nam ei ther of a subile Interpreter, or os a mari tough Antagonist, oris a methodica Abridger. From hen celli Revenues an Tributes of Sciences comero b augmented, ut o the Patrimon and

Iust

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no in the east mea Professor an Lucrative Learning ior nam no ignorant, o much that diveris an interrupis the Progresistam: and Advancement of Kno in Iedge , like in deed the olde Appio throrun te fore Atalanta, ,hich hil me stoops to laxe p. the Race in the mea time is hinder'd Declinat

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Nor again is it m Mean in as a Dido Socrates to cali do Philosophy stom

is that Natura Philosoph should e laidaside, to the end that Mora an Politica1 Philosophyint might be in Vogum: ut asHeaven and Earth conspire an consent to-

ing rejected ali that is solid and fruitsul maybe preserve&; that so, nowledge ma notbe a Courtes an or Pleasure or amand-maidio Profit ut as a Spouse, for Generation, Fruit, and honest Coinfort. AND OK, methlialis, I have explain'dan laid open, as by a in os Dissection, thos peccant Humours the principat of them a least which have notini been an Impediment to the Proficience of Learn in g, but have also gi ven occasion to the traducingos t. Whicli is I have done to much tot he quic si, it musti remember'd , Parthfulare the otind of a Friend4 ut he Lisses of an Enem' are deceit Prov. xvii. 6. However, this a te stra seem to have gained, to deserve Belles in the solio Nin Encomtum, si acu

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that is, in the Attributes, and Acts of God a far a the arereveale to an, an may be search' intowith Sobriely. In hicli alter, thema meos Learn in iis improper since ali earn ingis Knowledge acquired , and norinowledge in God is acquired, ut Original. There revi must look ut for sonae ther ame , towit, Visdom, o Sapience, a themoly Scrip- iure calicit. THE Marte then stand thus es In the Work of Creation, e se a do ubi Emat a

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of the orna Thisaein laid do inn, it isto e observ'd that for an Thing hichappear in the Histor, of the Creation to

idom. Further more, a to the Creation of the alter, it is no recorded that Godsaid, et there e maυen and Earth, a Was

the Stylem a LaN, o Decree. LET procee seo God o Angeis, whos Nature in Order of Dignit is extio Od. e se in the Orders of Angeis, sociar a Credit is to e gi ven to that Celestia Hierarchy, et forti unde the a me