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and no doubt it of great advantage. Though the difference was elegant- 

 ly made by one betwixt an Orator, and a Sophiti, 'That the one is as the 

 Crey-honnd^ which hath his advanttige in the race , the other as the Hare 

 which hath her advantage in the trim. 



§ Now follow El.nchi Hermeni^, forfo we will call them, borrow- 

 ing the Word, rather than the Sencc, from Arijiotlc. And here let us 

 call to mens memory what we have laid before 5 (when we handled 

 Frifftitive Fhilojophy) of tranfcendent, and adventitious Conditions^ or 

 AdjunQs of Entity^ they he Majority^ Minority '^ Much, Little -^ Trio- 

 rity^ Vojieriorityi, identity^ Diverjity j Vorver^ A&^ Habit, Privation 5 

 Totality , Partiality ; ACiivity, Pajjivity j Motion, ^ietude 5 Entity, 

 Non-Entity, and the like. But fpecially let men remember, and ob- 

 ierve the different Contemplations of thefe Properties, which is, that 

 they may be enquired, either Phyfically, or Logically. The Phyficai 

 handling of thefe adherent Qiialities we have afligned to Primitive 

 rhilofophy. The L(?^/V4/ remaineth, andthatisthe very thing which 

 we here iHilcDocirinani de Elenchis Hermeni<e, the Knowledge of the E- 

 lenchf ef Interpretation. This indeed is a found and material Portion 

 of Knowledge : For thefe Commune and general Notions have this Na- 

 ture, that in all difputations they every where intervene, foas,ifthey be 

 not by a careful Judgment accurately dijiinguijljt at firji , they may won- 

 derfully overcloud the whole light of Difputations ^ and even bring the cafe 

 to that pafs, that the Difputations f)all be refolvedinto a skjrmifj of words. 

 For Equivocations, and erronious acception of words (fpecially ofthis 

 Nature) are the Sophifm, of Sophifms. Wherefore it feeraeth better to 

 conftitutea Treatife of them apart, than to receive them into Prime 

 Vhilofophy, I mean Mctaphyfck^-^ or to annex them as a part ofAnaly- 

 tickj, which An{\^ot\e very confufedly hath done. And we have given it AuR.Ar.a.' 

 a name from the Nature and Ufe^ for the right ufe is plainly Redarguti- '>'• 

 on, and Caution about the acception of words. Nay that Part of Predi- 

 caments touching Cautions, of not confounding, aud tranfpofing th& 

 terms of Definitions, and Divijions, if it were rightly inftituted, would 

 beof lingular ufe, in our judgment, and might fitly be referred hither. ^ 

 And thus much of the Elenchs of Interpretation. elenchi 



III yisfor the Elenchs of Images or idolaes , certainly idolaes are the idolo- 

 profvHfjdeJi Fallacies of the mind of man. Nor do they deceive in P^r/i- 

 culars, as the reft do 5 caftinga Cloud, and fpreading fnares over the 

 Judgment^ but apertly from a corrupt, and crookedly-fetpredifpofi- 

 tion ofthemind , which doth, as it were, wreft andinfeft all the an- 

 ticipations of the underftanding. For the mind of man ('drawn over, 

 and clouded with the fable Pavillion of the BodyJ is fb far from being 

 like a iraooth, equal, and clear Glafs, which might fincerely take and 

 refleft the beams of things, according to their true incidence 5 that it iis 

 rather like an inchanted GlafsXuU of Superftitionsj ApparitionSjand Im- 

 poftjres. 



^ Idolaes are impofed upon the underjianding, either by the univerfal Na^ 

 ture of man in general '-i or from the individual Nature of Particulars ^ or 

 bywords, or nature Communicative. The firft fort of Images we wont 

 toc3i\\ldo!a Trihus--, the fecond, idola SpecHs; the third, Idola Fori: '^^^■°^- 

 There is alfo a fourth kind, which we call, Idola 1 heal ri--, andis intro' aph.lxi. 

 ducedby depraved Theories or Philojophies, andperverfe Laws of Demonjira- ^"^ ^^^^' 



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