CONCLUSION. 



And this is the general ieourie of their Philolbphy; whofe 



great fubtilty , and queint {peculations in enquiring hovv things 



doe come to paffe afford no better fatisfaction then to Ca.y upon 



every occafion , that there is an entity ^ which maketh it be fp. 



As if you aske them , hovv a w*M it white, or HM\$ ? They will 



tell you , there is an Entity or Quttitj , vvhofe effence is to be 



whitcHtft or bltckfufe , diftuled through the wall. If you con- 



tinue to aske, hovv doth whiteneffe Iticke to the wail ? They 



reply, that it is by meanes of an Entity called Vatv* t whofe na- 



ture it is actually to joyne whitenefle , Ind thewalaogether. 



And then if you enquire hovv it commeth to paffe , that one 



white is like another ? They will as readily anfvvtr that this is 



wrought by another Entity , whofe nature is to be/^wj^ f and 



it maketh one thing like another. The confideration of whiek 



doctrine , maketh me remember a ridiculous f a'e of a trewant 



fchoolboyes latine : who upon a time when he came home to 



fee his friends , being asked by his father , what was latine for 



bretd ? anfwered kr+blfttt and for fan? hmbtu j and the like 



of all other things he asked him , adding onely a termination in 



btu , to the plaine Englifh word ef every one of them : which 



his father perceiving,, and (though ignorant of Latine) yet pre- 



fently apprehending , that the myfferies his fbnne had learned, 



deferved not the expence of keeping him at fchoole , bad him 



immediately put off his kpbw and fhotfibnt , and fall to his old 



trade of treading Mortcribtu.ln like manner,thefe great Clerks 



do as readily finde a pretty Quality or mood.vvhereby to render 



the nature orcaufes of any effect in their eafie Philofbphy^s this 



Boy did a But to ftamp upon any English word,andcoyne it into 



his mocklatine. 



But to be ferious, as the weight of the matter requireth , let 

 thefe Co peremptory pretenders of A riftocle , &evv me but one 

 text in him , where he admitteth any middle diftin&ion (foch 

 as thofe modcrne Philofbphers doe., and muft needs admit, who 

 maintaine the qualities we have rejected ) betwixt that which 

 he calleth Numerieall^d that which he calleth oFRiafi* , or of 

 Hction^r ofDtfinitio* , (the firfi of which we may terme to be 

 of, or in things ; the other to be M our bcadt, or 4fco*rfct : or the 



one 



