4i 6 CONCLUSION. 



upon his Logical! and Meiap.iyficail workcs, judge whether 

 in bulk? our Doctrire bee not confbrmab.'e to the courfe 

 of his , and of all the belt Phiioiophers that have l)eene and 

 are; though in dctatltor particulars, we fomettmes mingle 

 therewith.,, our owne private judgements : as = every one of 

 them , hath likewife fliewed us the way to doe , by the liberty 

 thcmlelves have taken to diflent in ibme points from their pre- 

 deceflburs. 



And -were it our turne, to declare and teach Logikeand 

 Metaphifickes, we iliould be forced to goe the way of matter, 

 and of fotmti , and of privations ', in fuch fort as Arittotle hath 

 trodden it cut to us , in his workes of that ftrainc. But this 

 is not our taske for the prefent for no man that comtempla- 

 teth^ nature as he ought, can choofe but ice that theie notions 

 are no more neceifary , when we confider the framing of the 

 elements, then when we examine the making of compounded 

 bodies : and therefore, thefe are to be fetapart^as higher prin- 

 ciples, and of another ftraine, then need be made ufe of for 

 the aduall compofition of compounded things , and for the 

 refolution of them in their material! ingredients , or to.caufe 

 their particular motions ; which are the fubje&swenowdif- 

 courfe of. 



Upon this occafion, I thinkeitnot amifTeto touch , how 

 the latter (e6latours , or rather pretenders of Arif lot le, (for 

 truly they have not his way) have introduced a modell of do- 

 clrine (ot rather of ignorance) out of his words , which he 

 never fomucbas dreamed of; howbeit theyalledge texts out 

 pf him to confirme what they fay, as Heretickes doe out of 

 Scripture to prove their aflertions: for whereas he called cer- 

 taine collections or portions of things, by certaine common 

 names (as the -art of Logicke-re^ureth) terming fome of 

 them gtMliti<s t dtliers AR'uns, otlwrrs Places , or HMes, or 

 RfUtivtf; or the like : thefe his latter followers, have concei- 

 ted that thefe names did not dvfi^ne a concurrence of fundry 

 things, or a divers difpofition of the parts of any rhino , me 

 of which fomeeffeci: refulted j which the urkkrrtanding con- 

 all together/ haife 'exprefled the : not ion* -of 4t' by one 



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