my turne, as well as the determinate indivifi- 

 ble point of truth. I am obliged to that,onely 

 in my maine great theme 5 which is the foule. 

 In regard of which, the numerous crooked 



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narrow cranies, and the reftrayned flexuous 

 rivolets of corporeall things, are all contemp- 

 tible, further then the knowledge of them 

 ferveth to the knowledge of the foule. And a 

 gallant man, whofe thoughts flye at the high- 

 eft game , requireth no further infight into 

 them, then to iatisfie himfelfe by what w r ay 

 they may be performed ; and deemeth it far 

 too meane for him, to dwel upon the fubtileft 

 of their myfteries for fcience fake. 



Befides this liberty that the fcope I ayme 

 at alloweth me of pafsing very curfbrily o- 

 ver fundry particulars^! find now at my read= 

 ing all over together, what I have written to 

 deliver it to the Printer , that even in that 

 which I ought to have done to comply with 

 my owne defigne and expectation , I am 

 fallen very fliort ib that if I had not unwa- 

 rily too farre engaged my felfe for the pre- 

 fent publishing it, truly I fhould have kept it 

 by me, till I had once againe gone over it. I 

 find the whole piece very confufedly done ; 



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