If he begin hisconfiderations very low,and from the very bot- 

 tome and root of the affaire, which is from the firft and all com- 

 prehending principles of the qaeftion ,and proceed on orderly ta- 

 king all before him j iiis judgement is accounted deep, frofeund, 

 4^/W*W;frhthttcaftethl6farre, as to leave behind him no 

 part of the matter he if inquiring abut s & then driveth his coarfe 

 fteadily and fmoothly forwards, without any leaps over rugged 

 paflages, or interruptions, orloofe breaches; rauft of neccffity 

 make a well grounded judgement j and fuchan one, as cannot 

 cafily be overthrown,or he be cafily removed from it. 



And this is indeed the full reafon, of what a little above we on- 

 ly glanced tt : namely, why underftanding men are ufually ac- 

 counted obftinate in their tenets,and are hard to be removed from 

 their opinions once fetled in their minds : for when other men 

 oppofe them,they urge nothing (for the moft part) againft thefc 

 jaditious mens refolutions or beliefes^but what they have alrea- 

 dy throughly forefeen .- but thefe on the other fide, doe fee a great 

 deale, that their oppofers reach not unto ; fo that notwithftand- 

 ing all fuch oppofition,they continue ftill unfhaken in their )*&gt- 

 ments : for which,the others which fee not as much as they , doe 

 ifoinke them obftinate, and not led by reafon, becaufe they fol- 

 low not that ftiort reafon, beyond which themfelves cannot 

 reach. 



The contrary vice to this, is called a fright judgement: and con- 

 fifteth herein, that a man out of a few, and an inlufricient num- 

 ber of circurnftanccs,refolveth the whole cafe: which temerity 

 and fliort fightednefle of judgement, is fignificantly taxed in our 

 EflgHfh proverb,that tfoolcs bolt isfoonefiot. 



Thus much for the beginning of a judgement : the next confi- 



What han a- ^ crtt ^ on ma y ^ concerning the end of it ; in regard whereof,if it 



cure judgment, reach to the utmoft extent and period of what is confidcrablein 



and what a duf a hard queftion propofedjitgaineth the title of Jkarfc, or rff*b~ 



OK- tile, and acute ; for the iardnefle of the matter that perplexeth 



oncsj'udgemcnt, confiftethfn the involution of things, which 



looked upoii in gro0e, doe fteme to have no diftinftion or oppo- 



fition among themfelves; and yet are in truth of very different 



and contrary natures. Nowagoodj'udgmentdivrdethandcut- 



tcth through them, and allotted unto every particular thing its 



proper limits and bounds ; wherefore, as incorporcattfnbftan- 



cefj 



