Chap.IX. OF MAMS SOVLE. 



bee drawne, an j forced out of thole knowJedges, vvhich fliec had 

 in her body, How much this isjand how farre it will retch, I am 

 tfraid to fpeake : only I entreate Mathematicians, and fuch as arc 

 acquainted with the manner how fcicnces proceed j to confider 

 how feme of their definitions are made : to wit by compofing 

 together fundry knowne termes, and giving a new name to the 

 compound that refulteth out of them :. wherefore clear e it i\that 

 out of reiver notions had at the firrr/hc foul can make many more 

 and the more fhee hath, or maketh, the more fliec can multiply. 

 Againe, themaximies, which are neceflary to be added unto the 

 definitions for gaining of knowledge, wee iee are alfo compoun- 

 ded of ordinary and knowne termes ; fo that a feparated foulc, 

 can wane neither the Definitions, nor the Maximies,out ofwhich 

 the bookes offciences arecompofed: and there/ore, neither can 

 the fc'tenccs themfel^es be wanting unto her. Now if wee confi- 

 dcr, that in the fame fafhion as demonttrat ions are made, and 

 knowledge is acquired in one fcience, by the fame meanes, there 

 is a transcendence from fcience to fcience: and that there is a con- 

 nexion among, all the fciences, which fall into the consideration 

 of man, and indeed among all, at the leaft corporall things ; (for 

 of ipirituall things, wee can not io afiuredly affirme it ; although 

 iheir perfection i-nay perfwadeus, that there is rather a greater 

 connexion among them, then among corporall things) it wiJtiol- 

 low, that afoule vvhich hath but any indifferent knowledge in 

 this world, fhall be replenifhed with all knowledge in the next. 

 But how tnuch is this indifferent knowledge that for this pur- 

 poie is required in this world.? Vpon mature confideration of 

 ihis point, it is true, I finde it absolutely necefTary, 4:hat the foule 

 muft have here fo much knovvledge, as to bee able to determine 

 that forne one thing, vvhich hath connexion with all the reft, is 

 in fuch atime : but then, why out of this very conception, (he 

 {hould not bee able to clymhe .up by degrees, to the knowledge of 

 all other thUigsvvhatfoever (fince there is a connexion bet ween 



that, and all rhe reft, and no untranfible gappe, or Chaos to fever 

 them) I profeflel doe not f.-e. Wnich if'it be: fb, then thefbule 

 of an abortive in his mothers Wombe, if hee once arrive to have 

 ^arja ftornitj to receive any impreflion in his foule, may for 



