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ar, we may;to refolve the fecond point propos’d, ve~-} jy, ry probably inferr that all the ridiculous ftories;sl 4). fables and manifeft untruths, which chefe Au--| »), thors fuffer fo eafily to flipinto their writings,,) Ji will infallibly rurn to their prejudice, and, which} 1. 18S)
“tons — ~ CER NT re ape ote à = The Hiftory of MAGI 303 ‘iis worfe,toa miftruft of the cruch of the fubjet ‘che y treat of » whenever fome more tree and un- ‘ie§confin’d wit, fhall be pleasd ro examine things with much more diligence and circum{pection lidithan the Demonographers do. Thus have thole of
the Reformation within the Jaft Century, made ii} ule or che Catholicks armes againit themlelves, by bringine upon the fiage the fiories of che Go/- lil den Legend, the Apparitions of Tyndal, the Sermons iti of Maillarty Menot, & Barleite, & fuch other pieces dja) written with no lefle fuper(tition than fimplicity, vi} co confirm themieives in the opinion they hold iif) of che nullity and falfity of their Afiracles. Thus dit hath the learned and judicious Ludoviens | a | a rib.2. de idle Vives, and after him Ramus, and the moderne tradend, inl, Philofophers, took no other courfero ruine and 4ifciplet © wii level chac Labyrinth of frivolous difficulties, iB ae 4) comprehended uncer thetitle of Parva Logica- Didlefticon
À lia, thanto make a full difcovery of the imperti- | woe nencies, flatnels, and extravagance of all thofe il, fooleries of Suppofitions , “Ampliations, Reftritts- iit ons, Sopbifms , Obligations, Appellations, and "Ml other iubrilcies much more trivial and ridicu- (Yous. And yet thefe were in {uch reputation for il che {pace of 400 years, chat they found: work 4 §| enouch for thofe who were accounted the great
| et Sophitts and Philofophers in the world, fueh
M] as, in comparilon of whom, CÆfiodorw and St, a, Augustine underftood nothing, as many are pete
al! fwaded, of Dialeétick, becaufe they have not,
al) inthe precepts they have left us thereof, made | any mention of the Chimera, Antichrift, Sortes, wilt Buridan’s Affe, Nulins et Nemo, Butthele,toge-
cher withallthofe frivolous rubricks and fophi-
ftications
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fications have been {o fortunately levell’d’ with)
the eround, by the forefaid Vives, chat they are: iui
banith’d both out of the Schools and the memos + i
fii ry of men,with as much confufon and contempr, tex
i as they had bin incroduc’d & maintain’d with ap. ber Spain, who the time of Lombard, and Peter of li] plaufe, from were che two firlt Authors and Pro- 4x: moters of chis excellent kind of Dialeétick, |
The refulc of all chis, then, will be, thac thofe li who can make better advantages of what | they read and learn than the flaves of Pedantifm | do, and who are fo induftrious as to judge of things co come, by a confideracion of what are pat, may by chefe examples eatily fore-iee, That the writings of Demzonographers, hydropical- |. ly blown up wichfo many fabies as almoft fiiflle ths the truth, are threatned wich the accomplifh=- | ment inchem, ot Paterculus’s faying, Narnraliter: Ai, quod procedere non potest, ecidit ; and will prove ER like chat oreat Co/ôfus of Rhodes, which was ru- td only by its own vait and prodigious height , or thofe great Edifices ; which make the very ve found. tions crack by the weight of cheir fuper-, |. fructures, And indeed experience teaches us 4. that there is nothing more dangerous thanto M. thuffle old wives tales, and relations that are! |. doubrful, if not apparentiy falte, among things L of conlequence# for the more circumipeét parc: À of mankind not able to credit, nay not toadmir | them, ic often happens, char the vulgar, who | hath not the abiliey co judge of things by them- Fu felves, is lead away by che opinion of thofe whom Pi icefleems the moft prudent, and, is perfwaded, | underfland chem muchbetter So that being by |. | their |”
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The Hiflory of MAGICK, ‘their example once ætivd to fo much conf: lence as to fleight and carp at any oneof thefe
ffories and opinions it had fomerimes held for
rue, it prelencly jumps into an equall uacer-
ifaincy and concempr ot all thole others for hich ic had not greater authoficy and better
jrounds than they "had for thole thac were dif: jarded,
+ rN ; his Fe ; Nam cubide conculcatur nimis ante metutum:
It were therefore much to be with’d, as well
“pr the reputation of our Demonographers,as che
Bestepance & explanation of the truth of the hbjeét they créac of, chat they would be hence brward more cautious than to advance anyHifto- yor Authority before they have dil ligently exa- hined all circnm#ances’, and wolild afford all pines their’ true Worth ahd Weight.” Sod doing l they not be led intoa difadvantageous Opi-
fon of et one but upon ¢ 200d sround, nor with-
dic realon advance thefe thvolons accufations ,
“gaughe with nought but wind and forgert, ‘nce chat when they come to be narrowly “kamind, and che cruüch chereof difcufsd,
commonly happens that they prove meer
MW Welummes, weakly-crounded fuipicions, and
rfhdeed bé vaine, light and inconfderate
nit
‘ords; which the Devill doth infenSbly im- lble on the good names of the innocent, to e end chey may one day prove occafions chat
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chat men ‘fhalt not ‘beable co difcern and punifil the guilty.
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