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P. V. ^ But the ffth Part is added only for a time, and paid 



as intercfi: until the Principal be raifed. For we are not fo 

 prccipirantly bent upon the end, as too flightly to pafs o- 

 ver what we cafually meet with by the way. Wherefore 

 the Fifth Part of the IFork^., iscompofed of fuch things as 

 we have, or found out, or experimented, or fuperadded i 

 nor yet do we perform this, by the reafon and rules of In- 

 terpretatiof3^hiLzbv the fame application of the underftand- 

 ing, which others in enquiry and invention ufc to pra6}ice. 

 For feeing from our perpetual converfe with nature, we 

 hope greater matters from our meditations, than we can 

 promife to our felvcs from the ftrengthof our own wit ; 

 thefe obfervations may be as tents pitched in the way, into 

 which the mind,in purfuit of more certain Colle£i:ions,may 

 turn in, and for a while repofe her felf. Yet in the mean, 

 we promife not to engage our felves upon the credit of 

 thofe Obfervations ; becaufe they are not found out, nor 

 tried by the right/<3r/« of Interpretation. ^ And there is 

 no caufe why any fhould diftaft or entertain a jealoufie, at 

 that fufpenfion of Judgement in J\noia>ledge^ la^hich ajferts not 

 abfolutely-, that nothingcan be h^otvn i hut that nothing^with- 

 eut a certain Order ^ and a certain Method^ canbekpoivn j and 

 yet n>ithal^ lays don>n for ufe and eafe^ certain Degrees of 

 certitude^ until the mind be fxt upon the explication of 

 caufes. For neither thofe very Schools of Philofophers, 

 who down right maintained Acatalepfie or Incongfrehenji- 

 bility, have been inferiour to thofe, who ufurp a liberty of 

 Dogmat. pronouncing fentence : but they provided not afllftances 

 to the fenfe and underftanding, as we have done , but ut- 

 terly took away all credit and authority^ which is a far dif- 

 ferent cafe and almoft oppofite. 

 P. VI. ^ "blorp the fixth Part of our IFork^^ whereto the ref 



are fubferi/ient and minijirant, doth altogether difclofe , 

 and propound that Philofophy , vohich is educed^ and 

 conjlitutedout of fuch a legitimate fincere andfe'vere enqui- 

 ry , as we hat/e already taught and prepared. But to 

 confummate and perfed this lafi Part, is a thing exalted 

 above our ftrength , and beyond our hopes. We have 

 given it, as we truft, not contemptible beginnings ; the 

 profperous fuccefs of mankind fhali give it iffuei and 



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 Vet. Nov. 



