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therefore, God never wrought miracle, to convince Atheisme, because 

 his ordinary works convince it. 



P. 109. [10} Comp. Macrobius, in Somn. Scip. ii. 12: Idea physici 

 mundnm magnum hominem, et hominem brevem mundum esse dixernnt. 

 [13] Gen. i; Ps. viii. 3, 6. Comp. Bereshith Rabba, 8: Rabbi 

 Tiphrai, in the name of R. Acha (says), the superior beings were created 

 in the image and likeness (of God), and do not increase and multiply ; 

 the inferior increase and multiply, but were not created in the image and 

 likeness (of God). [24] See p. 10, 1. 5. [33] hath : Observe the con 

 struction as in p. 34, 1. 25, so great an affinity hath fiction and belief. 



P. no. [4] Otherwise., spirits: i.e. with respect to the nature of 

 angels and spirits the case is different. Comp. p. 158, 1. 2. Lat. Secus 

 est quod ad angelorum et spirituum naluram attinet. [7] Col. ii. 4, 18. 

 [AS&quot; 1 7] Lat. caterum sobria circa illos inquisitio, qua vel per rerum cor- 

 porearum scalam ad eorum naturam pernoscendam ascendat, vel in anima 

 hiimana veluti in specula earn intueatur neutiquam prohibetur. [23! 2 Cor 

 ii. ii. [27] many: The theory of angels and that of fallen spirits form 

 a large and not very profitable chapter in every Summa Theologize. 

 (Ellis.) See Reginald Scot s Discourse concerning Devils and Spirits. 

 [30] De Augm. iii. 3. 



P. in. [2] Diog. Laert. ix. 72: \v 0v9$ yap i) d^Ofta. Cic. Acad. 

 Post. i. 1 2. [3] Paracelsus, Lib. Meteor, cap. 4. [9] pioneers : Pion- 

 ners in ed. 1605. [17-23] And here .. superstition: Omitted in the 

 Lat. [33] De Augm. iii. 4. 



P. 112. [8] from mistaking: i.e. from being misundeistood. Comp. 

 D Ewes, Journal of the House of Commons, p. 560: Mr. Winch, one 

 of the Committee in the Bill to keep horses from stealing, &c. [12] 

 Comp. what Bacon says of Aristotle, p. 127. [23] John v. 43. [31] 

 his scholar: Alexander the Great. 



P. 113. [4] Adapted from Lucan, x. 20 &c. Mr. Ellis has pointed 

 out that Bacon has changed not only the order of words but the con 

 struction. The whole passage stands thus: 



Illic Pellaei proles vesana Philippi, 

 Felix prrcdo, jacet, terrarum vindice fato 

 Raptus; sacratis totum spargenda per orbem 

 Membra viri posuere adytis. Fortuna pepercit 

 Manibus, et regni duravit ad ultima fatum. 

 Nam sibi libertas unquam si redderet orbem 

 Ludibrio servatus erat, non utile mundo 

 Editus exemplum, c. 



[ii] usque ad aras: i.e. so far as is consistent with religious obligations. 

 Plutarch (De Vitioso Pudore, vi.) relates that Pericles, when asked to 

 perjure himself for his friend, replied, mxpi rov ffatpov $i\os dpi. See 

 also Plut. Prsecepta Ger. Reipubl. xiii. 17; Aul. Gellius, Noct. Alt. i. 3. 



