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THE 



Third Book 



OF 



FRANCIS L. V E RV L A M 



VicoumS'- ALBAN, 



OF THE 



Dignity and Advancement 



O F 



LEARNING. 



To the KING. 



Chap. L 



I. The Vdrtition of Scknces^'wito Theology and Philofbphy. If. Par' 

 tition of Philofophy into three Knowledges. Of God 5 of Nature 5 

 of Man. III. rAe C£?»^;7«^z<j« tf/ Philofophia Prima, of Summary 

 Philofophy 3 as the Commune Parent of alL 



*LL Hijlory f Excellent King) treads upon the Earthy and per-; 

 forms the ofBceof a Guide, rather than of a light 5 and 

 Poefie is , as it were, the dream of Knowledge ; a fweet 

 pleafing thing, full of variations ; and would be thought to 

 be fomewhat inlpired with Divine Rapture , which Dreams 

 likewife pretend : but now it is time for me to awake, and to raife 

 my felf from the Earth , cutting the liquid Air of Philofophy and 

 Sciences. 



I. Knowledge is like waters 3 fome waters dejcend from the Heavens , 

 fame fpring from the Earth , fo the Primary Partition of Sciences, is to be 

 derived from their fountains 5 fome are feated above 3 fome are here 

 beneath. For all knowledge proceeds from a twofold information 5 

 either from divine infpiration, or from external Senfe j As for that know- 

 ledge which infufed by inftrudtion j that is Cumulative, not Original 5 

 as it is in waters, which befides the Head-fprings, are encreafed by the 



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