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his Preface, 



cleave to the individual iiitrin/icks of things. § Bnt 

 touching the form it j elf of IndnSiion and Judgement made 

 by it, we undertake a mighty work. For the Form, rvhere- 

 of Logicians fpeak^, iphich proceeds by fwtple enmnerationy 

 it a childijh thifig, and concludes upon admittance j iscx- 

 pofed to peril from a contradi6i:ory inftance ; looks only 

 upon common operations ^ and is in the iifae endlefs. 

 But to the knowledges of InduSlion, fuch a Form is re- 

 quired, as may folve and feparate experience ', and by due 

 exclufion and reje£iion neceflarily conclude. And if that 

 publick and popular Judgement of DialeStick^ , be fo la- 

 borious, and hath exercifedfo many and fo great Wits , 

 how much greater pains ought we to take in this others 

 which not only out of the fecret clofcts of the mind, but 

 out of the very entrails of Nature is extra^led > Nor is 

 this all ", for we more firmly fettle, and folidate the foun- 

 dation of Sciences, and take the firft rife of our inquiry 

 deeper than hitherto hath been attempted ; fubmitting to 

 examinations thofe Principles, which ifulaar Logic\t3Lkcs 

 up on the credit of another. For the PialeitjcJ^s bor- 

 row, asit were, from all other Sciences, the Principles of 

 Sciences *, again, adore the prime Notions of the mind : 

 Laftly> rcftfacisfied with the immediate informations of 

 fenfe rightly difpofited. But our judgement is this, that 

 true Logick/hould vifit every particular Province of Sci- 

 ences, with greater command than their principles pofl'efsi 

 and that thofe {sLvae putativs Principles be enforced to give 

 an account, and be liable to examination, until fuch time 

 as their validity and tenure clearly appeared. And as 

 touching the Prime Notions of the InteUeSi , there is no- 

 thing of thofe , Cthe underftanding left at liberty to ic 

 felf) hath congefted, but matter to be fuipedcd ; nor any, 

 way warrantable, unlefs it be fummon'd, and fubmit it felf 

 to a new Court of Judicature *, and that fentence pafs 

 according thereto. Moreover we many ways (Tft and found 

 the information of fenfe it felf i for the Senfes deceive j 

 yet withall they indicate their Errors : but Errors are 

 at hand. Indications to be fought for a far off. § The guilt 

 of Senfeis of two forts, either it dejiitutes tit , or elfe de' 

 ceives ns. For firil , thei*e are many things which 



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