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we may fpcnd our time in triviall and ufeleflc fubtilitiei : and at 

 length, confound and mifapply the right ufe of our natural! . 

 dtfcpurfe , with a multitude of precepts drawne from artificiall 

 Logick> 



Bat to returne to our matter in hand; under this primary three- 

 fold variety, is another of greater extent, growing ont of the di- 

 vers conapefition of the three termes, as they are qualify ed by af- 

 firmttien or negation, and by univerftlity or particul*ritj:tor that 

 unity, which the two termes , whofe identification is enquired 

 after, muft hare by being joyned with the third, becomincth 

 much varied by (uch divers application: and from hence fhoot- . 

 ethup that multitude of kinds of fyllogifmes , which our Logiti- 

 anscall Meeds. All which 1 have thus particularly exprtffcd, 

 to the end we may obfcrve how this great variety hangeth upon 

 the fole firing of identity. 



Now thefe Sy llogifmcs,being as it were interlaced and woven 3 . 

 one within another, (fo fhat many of them do make a long chain, That the life'of 

 whereof each of them is a'lizak) doe brced,or rather are all the va-" la " 3S man 

 riety tf mans life : they are the fteps by which we walk in all S~jf f n j n 

 our conventions and in all our bttfineflcs : manasheisman,doth f t ^ eva ^ ex _ 

 nothing elfebut weave fuch chaines : whatfoever he doth,! war- cent of :t. 

 ving from this woMte , he doth as deficient from the nature of 

 man : and if he doe ought beyond this, by breaking out into divers 

 fbrtfrofexteriour actions, he fmdcth nevertheleffe in this linked 

 fcquel of fimpk diicour&s,the art, the caufe, the rule } the bounds, 

 and the model! of it. 



Let us take a fummary view of the vaft extent of it, & in what 

 an immenfc Ocean one may fccurely faile,by that never varying 

 Com pafle, when the needle is rightly touched, and fitted to a 

 Well moulded boxe; making ftillnew difcoveries of regions,far 

 out of the fight and beliefe of them, who (land upon the hither 

 {here. Humane operations are conrpriled under jhc two gene- 

 ral! heads of Knowledge and tfAftion : if we looke but in grofle, 

 upon what an infinity of divHions thefe branch themfelves into, 

 we fliU become giddy, our braines willturne, our eyes will 

 grew weary and dimme, withaymingondy ataiuddame and 

 roving meafurc of the naoft confpicuous among them, in ths 

 way of knowledge. 



We fee what mighty works men have extended their labours 



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