Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              (t) Quod ſi &
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              aliud potuiſſe inve­
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              nerimus, incertum
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              erit; quidnam eo­
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              rum ille voluerit:
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              aut utrumque vo­
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              luiſſe non inconve­
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              nienter creditur, ſi
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              utriuſque ſententiæ
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              certa circumſt an­
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              tia ſufragatur.
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              (u) Plerumque
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              enim accidit, at a­
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              liquid de Terra, de
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              Celo, de ceter is hu­
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              jus mundi elemen­
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              tis, de motu, con­
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              verſione, vel ctiam
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              magnitudine &
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              intervallis Syde­
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              rum, de certis de­
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              fectibus Solis, &
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              Lunæ, de eircuiti­
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              bus annorum &
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              temporum; de Na­
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              turis animalium,
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              fruticum, lapidum,
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              atque bujuſmodi
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              ceter is, etiam non
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              Chriſtianus ita no­
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              verit, ut cirtiſſima
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              ratione vel experi­
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              entiâ teneat. </s>
              <s>Tur­
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              pe autem eſt nimis
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              & pernicioſum, ae
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              maxime caven­
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              dum, at Chriſtia­
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              num de his rebus
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              quaſi ſecundum
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              Chriſtianaslitter as
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              loquentem, ita de­
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              lirare quilibet in­
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              fiàelis audiat, ut,
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              quemadmodum di­
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              citur, toto Cælo er­
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              ræreconſpiciens,
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                ſuntenere</expan>
              vix poſſit:
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              & non tam mole­
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              ſtum eſt, quod er­
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              rans homo deride­
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              retur, ſed quod au­
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              ctores noſtri, ab tis
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              qui foris ſunt, ta­
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              lia ſenſiſſe credun­
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              tur, & cum magno exitio eorum, de quorum ſalute ſatagimus, tanquam indocti reprehenduntur atque reſpuuntur.
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              <s>Cum enim quemquam de numero Chriſtiano um eainre, quam ip ſi optime norunt, deprehenderint, & venam ſenten­
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              tiam ſuam de noſtris libris aſſerent; quo pacto illis Libris credituri ſunt, de Reſurrectione Mortuorum, & de ſpe
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              vit æ eternæ, Regnoque Celorum; quando de his rebus quas jam experiri, vel indubitatis rationibus percipere potuerunt
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              fallaciter putaverint eſſe conſcriptos.
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              <s>And how much the truly Wiſe and Prudent Fathers are diſ­
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              pleaſed with theſe men, who in defence of Propoſitions which
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              they do not underſtand, do apply, and in a certain ſenſe pawn
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              Texts of Scripture, and afterwards go on to encreaſe their firſt
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              Errour, by producing other places leſs underſtood than the for­
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              mer. </s>
              <s>The ſame Saint declareth in the expreſſions following:
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              (x) What trouble and ſorrow weak undertakers bring upon
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              their knowing Brethren, is not to be expreſſed; ſince when they
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              begin to be told and convinced of their falſe and unſound Opinion,
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              by thoſe who have no reſpect for the Authority of our Scriptures,
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              in defence of what through a fond Temerity, and moſt manifeſt fal­
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              ſity, they have urged; they fall to citing the ſaid Sacred Books
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              for proof of it, or elſe repeat many words by heart out of them,
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              which they conceive to make for their purpoſe; not knowing
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              either what they ſay, or whereof they affirm.
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              (y) Quid enim
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              moleſtiæ, triſtiæque
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              ingerant prudenti­
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              bus fratribus, te­
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              nerarij præſumpto­
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              res, ſatis dici non
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              poteſt, cum, ſi
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              quando de falſa &
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              prava opinione ſua
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              reprehendi & con­
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              vinci cæperint, ab
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              iis qui noſtrorum
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              librorum auctori­
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              tate, & aperliſſima
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              falfitate dixerunt,
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              eoſdnm libros San­
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              ctos, unde id pro­
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              bent, proferre co­
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              nantur; vel etiam
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              memoriter, quæ ad
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              teſtimonium vale­
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              re arbitrantur,
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              multa inde verba
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              pronunciant, non
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              intelligentes, neque
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              quæ loquuntur, ne­
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              que de quibus af­
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              firmant.
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              <s>In the number of theſe we may, as I conceive, account thoſe,
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              who, being either unwilling or unable to underſtand the De­
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              monſtrations and Experiments, wherewith the Author and fol­
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              lowers of this Opinion do confirm it, run upon all occaſions to
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              the Scriptures, not conſidering that the more they cite them, and
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              the more they perſiſt in affirming that they are very clear, and
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              do admit no other ſenſes, ſave thoſe which they force upon
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              them, the greater injury they do to the Dignity of them (if we
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              allowed that their judgments were of any great Authority) in
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              caſe that the Truth coming to be manifeſtly known to the con­
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              trary, ſhould occaſion any confuſion, at leaſt to thoſe who are
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              ſeparated from the Holy Church; of whom yet ſhe is very ſolici­
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              tous, and like a tender Mother, deſirous to recover them again
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              into her Lap. </s>
              <s>Your Highneſs therefore may ſee how præpoſterouſ­
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              ly thoſe Perſons proceed, who in Natural Diſputations do range
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              Texts of Scripture in the Front for their Arguments; and ſuch
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              Texts too many times, as are but ſuperficially underſtood by them.</s>
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              <s>But if theſe men do verily think, & abſolutely believe that they
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              have the true ſence of Such a particular place of Scripture, it muſt
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              needs follow of conſequence, that they do likewiſe hold for certain,
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              that they have found the abſolute truth of that Natural Concluſi­
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              on, which they intend to diſpute:</s>
              <s> And that withall, they do know
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              that they have a great advantage of their Adverſary, whoſe Lot it
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              is to defend the part that is falſe; in regard that he who maintain­
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              eth the Truth, may have many ſenſible experiments, and many ne­
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              ceſſary Demonſtrations on his ſide; whereas his Antagoniſt can
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              make uſe of no other than deceitful appearances,
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              Paralogiſms
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              and
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              Sophiſms.
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              Now if they keeping within natural bounds, & produ­
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              cing no other Weapons but thoſe of Philoſophy, pretend however,
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              to have ſo much advantage of their Enemy; why do they </s>
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