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of the mind, which we are to approach and view with 
more reverence and attention. 
V. 1. The knowledge of man is as the waters, some 
descending from above, and some springing from be- 
neath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other 
\/| inspired by divine revelation. The light of nature con- 
“seth in the notions of the mind and the reports of the 
senses: for as for knowledge which man receiveth by 
teaching, it is cumulative and not original; as in a water 
that besides his own spring-head is fed with other springs 
and streams. So then, according to these two differing 
illuminations or originals, knowledge is first of all divided 
into divinity and philosophy. . 
2. In philosophy, the contemplations of man do either 
penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are 
reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several | 
inquiries there do arise three knowledges; divine philo- 
sophy, natural philosophy, and human philosophy or 
humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with 
this triple character, of the power of God, the difference 
of nature, and the use’ of man. But because the distribu- 
tions and partitions of knowledge are not like several 
lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point; 
but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which 
hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and con- 
tinuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself 
into arms and boughs: therefore it is good, before we 
enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute 
one universal science, by the name of phzlosophia prima, 
primitive or summary philosophy, as the main and com- 
mon way, before we come where the ways part and divide 
themselves; which science whether I should report as 
deficient or no, I stand doubtful, For I find a certain 
