Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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ſhewed the way how to make the Powers of the Soul to command
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one another, and the inferior the Superior; ſo that the imaginati
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on and will might, and ſhould believe contrary to what the Intel
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lect underſtands: I ſtill mean in Propoſitions purely Natural, and
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which are not
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de Fide,
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and not in the Supernatural, which are
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de Fide.
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>I would entreat theſe Wiſe and Prudent Fathers, that they
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would withal diligence conſider the difference that is between
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Opinable and Demonſtrative Doctrines: To the end, that well
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weighing in their minds with what force Neceſſary Illations ob
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lige, they might the better aſcertain themſelves, that it is not in
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the Power of the Profeſſors of Demonſtrative Sciences to change
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their Opinions at pleaſure, and apply themſelves one while to
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one ſide, and another while to another; and that there is a great
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difference between commanding a Methametitian or a Philoſo
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pher, and the diſpoſing of a Lawyer or a Merchant; and that the
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demonſtrated Concluſions touching the things of Nature and of
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the Heavens cannot be changed with the ſame facility, as the
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Opinions are touching what is lawful or not in a Contract, Bar
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by the Learned and Holy Fathers, as their having been at great
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pains to confute many Arguments, or to ſay better, many Phi
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loſophical Fallacies, doth prove unto us; and as may expreſly be
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read in ſome of them, and particularly we have in S.
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Auguſtine
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the following words:
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(g) This is to be held for an undoubt
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ed Truth, That we may be confident, that whatever the Sages of
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this World have demonſtrated touching Natural Points, is no waies
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contrary to our Bibles: And in caſe they teach any thing in their
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Books that is contrary to the Holy Scriptures, we may without any
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ſcruple conclude it to be moſt falſe; And aceording to our ability
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let us make the ſame appear: And let us ſo keep the Faith of our
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Lord, in whom are hidden all the Treaſures of Wiſdom; that we
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be neither ſeduced with the Loquacity of falſe Philoſophy, nor
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ſcared by the ſuperſtition of a counterfeit Religion.
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(g) Hoc indu
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bitanter tenendum
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eſt, ut quicquid
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Sapientes hujus
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Mundi, de Natu
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ra rerum veraci
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ter demonſtrare
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potuerint, oſtenda
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mus, noſtris libris
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non eſſe contrari
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um: quicquid au
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tem illi, in ſuis vo
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lumintbus, contra
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rium Sacris Lit
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teris docent, ſine
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ulla dubitatione
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credamus, id falſiſ
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ſimum eſſe, & quo
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quo modo poſſu
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mus, etiam oſten
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damus; atque it a
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teneamus Fidem
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Domini noſtri, in
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quaſunt abſconditi
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omnes theſauri
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Sapientiæ, ut ne
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que falſæ Philoſo
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phiæ loquacitate
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ſeducamur, neque
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ſimulata Religio
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nis ſuperſtitione
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terreamur.
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ctrine, namely, That in the Books of the Wiſe of this World,
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there are contained ſome Natural truths that are ſolidly demon
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ſtrated, and others again that are barely taught; and that as to
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the firſt ſort, it is the Office of wiſe Divines to ſhew that they
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are not contrary to the Sacred Scriptures; As to the reſt, taught,
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but not neceſſarily demonſtrated, if they ſhall contain any thing
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contrary to the Sacred Leaves, it ought to be held undoubtedly
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falſe, and ſuch it ought by all poſſible waies to be demon
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I. Cap. 25.</
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