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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

strong like the Tortoyse within its selfe but if through abuse in time they wander out of themselves into other practises they become weake and obnoxious A State founded upon Principles proportioned and fitted for a Warre finds it selfe unsupported in a Peace and when that which was the ground of the others upholding is taken away it of it selfe vanishes It s a visuall delusion to thinke the Land goes from us when we put off from the Land the Shoare hath not left the Boat but the Boat the Shoare the Kingdome is founded in a Monarchie in the person of the King the supreme Authoritie Of Bookes and Learning THe Cabinet wherein the Pearle of Knowledge is contained receives ornament and augmentation the Pearle it selfe no inlargement or advantage but in the beautie is bestowed on its outward case Words and expressions conveigh Knowledge to us and the various compoundings of mens Conceits are infinite and men are glorious and splendid in the Arts of Speech but as words are multiplyed by the diverse setting and joyning of Letters so are Bookes growne numerous by the multiforme and different deliveries of the things understood in Nature that one may justly resume that ingenious Complaint That Bookes are encreased but not Learning The account of mens Travels into the remotest parts of Arts and Sciences are exact and full and for every one who have only by a Compendium viewed the Confines of some of them to write a Relation of his Journey is to fill the world with imperfect Diaries of their junior sallyes and excursions and if hee would avoid running upon things alreadie performed and gaine a glory Quâ se quoque possit tollere humo he must venture for a new Discoverie by which the conversation of the intellectuall world may be truly inlarged The most observing eye will hardly bring any thing from our neighbour Countries Spaine or France which hath escaped the industrious scrutinies of former Travellers but those who flye over the flowrie fields of Learning upon the wing of sublimer inquiries and returne well laden with the Nectar of true Knowledge and Science to the Hives of Learning make their Professions as much beholding to them as they are to their Professions live nobly of their own Labours not like Drones idly conversing still with the performances of others Error now covers the Presse with its sable wings and useth that priviledge onely to inlarge its commerce with the world being inabled with more celeritie to hold a speedier intelligence with the soules of men such a swarm of mis-shapen Pamphlets flying every where up and downe like Batts that loves the Night which upon the returne of the Sunne become condemned to ccrners And grant Lord that the Sunne of Majestie which thou hast set in the Spheare of our Government by his sudden appearing againe in our Horizon those Birds of the Night unto whose eyes those Royall Beames are mortall may goe to those places whereto Darknesse is banished The Schooles swell as if they had reacht the highest Linke of Knowledge contrarie to the opinion of those who thought that they were all placed above their too modest Reasons and that nothing was to bee knowne Some nobler wits have with the armes of their reason extended the Empire and command of mans understanding over Nature beyond the limits of any extant Authors using the Motto of that great Emperour Plus ultra while others have beene readie to apply to these as some did to the martiall expeditions of the other beyond Hercules Pillars presenting a Crab with the Motto of Plus citrà Certainely true Science is a solid thing and carries one rather to the bottome depth of things than lifts one up in ayrie estimations like that false Knowledge mentioned by Saint Paul accompanied with that flatuous qualitie Therefore a little to lay downe their Plumes and lay aside the swelling opinions of the compleat and full enjoyments of the meanes of Knowledge without provoking Academick rage they may cast their eye what esteeme one of their most Learned had of their auxiliarie instrumentall Arts in one of their Methods he takes Hooker That it will keep men from growing over-wise and that how-ever this Age carries the name of a Learned Age yet if men had the right helpe and aide of Arts added to their reasons wherewith their inquiries might be advantaged they should as farre goe beyond the learnedst man now as the learnedst man now doth a child One was handsomely commended for his conversing with the Lawes and Methods of Nature while others lost themselves in a wildernesse of notions and art of Methods Reliqui cum Vlysse promundum vagantur Tu cum Penelope domi moranis The Understanding is like a Looking-Glasse which represents the images of things set before it The wayes and Arts of Empire and Governments presented there Creates the intellectuall pictures of those things which begets that Science which is called Polities and when by the prerogative of mans Minde which can looke into it selfe and see its selfe all its passions affections and how these command each other and how Reason them then are the internall images of those things represented in that Chrystalline Glasse which notions constitute that Science named Ethicks man as it were by a reflexed beame of Reason made visible to himselfe When the Prospect is altered and the motions and course of the Heavens are contemplated the Lawes of Nature imposed upon those heavenly Bodies being understood frames there that knowledge of Astronomie and when the Minde descends and viewes the lower Globe there doth the description of the lower Globe lively made in the understanding become that Science of Geographie Truer knowledge is acquired by the inspection into the Booke of Nature and the things themselves than by the things themselves or the Booke of Nature can be knowne by looking onely into the understanding for the truth of those things are without the things themselves are truth which being understood become so too in the understanding Therefore many are ingenious in giving reasons of Natures workings framed onely by their active fancies and prescribe other imagined wayes and Lawes than really Nature is governed by who doe as it were in stead of relating a true Historie make a Romance and tell the adventures of some fabulous Hero it belonging to the Poets to mold the World over againe by fiction to the Philosopher to understand the true World All Learning is but Reason and it applyed to the Consideration of severall things beget several Names as the Sea saluting the coasts of Spaine is called the Spanish Sea and leaving that for Ireland begets the name of the Irish Sea though men have beene so desirous for ostentation of Art to set out each part and portion of Knowledge so admirable for curiositie of method and tearmes that it almost by the circumscription of the Rules set about it hath forgot its affinitie with the rest Knowledge got from the things rhemselves doe settle