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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07219	Reasons academie. Set foorth by Robert Mason of Lincolnes Inne, Gent	Mason, Robert, 1571-1635.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1605 (1605)	STC 17619; ESTC S109937	40,563	119

REASONS Academie Set foorth by Robert Mason of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Vitet censura furorem LONDON Imprinted by Th. Creede for Iohn Browne and are to be solde at his shop in S. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleet-streete 1605. To the right Honourable sir Iohn Popham knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England one of this Maiesties most honorable priute Counsell and to the rest of the Iustices of Ass●se RIght honourable seeing it pleased you to patronise my fo●mer paines entituled Reasons Monarchie wherin is declared that reason is an essensial quality of the immortall soule with a descriptiō of certain faculties qualities belonging to so noble a Creature and other circumstances in that small tract handled to vpholde ttue sincere reason discouering the mischiefes inconueniencies that haue followed by corrupt abuse of reasō with the designes of some office as wel for particular as general gouernmēr aduancing right reasons aboue all affectiōs passions and perturbatiōs as the great Queene to raigne gouern ouer them al. I am bold againe to become an humble Suter vnto your Lordships that you wil protect and further reasons true title or rather true Reasons title for the dispearsing of her Rudiments precepts and directions amongst her Schollers for their better gouernmēt and order To the kings great maiesty as the founder of her vniuersitie in the time of his admirable vniō peace she appealeth To his maiesties great coūsel of state she appointeth the office of visitors And your LL. she chuseth to be Presedēts Prouosts Wardens heads of her Colledges acknowledging your intollerable paines taken continually in her behalfe And me the vnworthiest of al her poore schollers she hath enioyned to present this her sute to your Lordships knowing that you wil not account the lesse of her high worthines by the meannesse or insufficiencie of the messenger Who in all humblenes beseecheth your Lordships to take his dutie in good part And so with his praier for your happy estates he leaueth further to trouble you Your Lordships humbly to cōmand Robert Mason To the Reader SEeing all men take most comfort and pleasure in the things wherin themselues haue title interest or propriete Therefore gentle Reader I yeelde and render to thee such place in this most famous Vniuersitie or S●hoole as appertaineth to thy qualitie or degree for it cannot be but thou oughtest to haue an office or exercise there if not of command gouernment or teaching then at the least of being taught learned and instructed which may moue thy consideration the more to peruse the points herein handled which although it be but as an Acaden●e or introduction in respect of deepe learning yet herein is something to be seene which will be worth the consideration and may moue further progession to higher vnderstanding Let it not seeme straunge that I handle number place and time in the frunt of this worke as instruments moulds and frames to fashion set downe and worke the substances and stuffes that serue to make vp the worke it selfe Then will ensue a discovery of the worthinesse of man and his reasonable soule within which ranke thou slandest and of the innumerable blessings made for thy vse and the wrong done to thy genus or kind by corrupt false vsages Out of these thou must discerne that the greatest good that Reason hath by the looking into Nature is to grow to the vnderstanding of the price and value of the soule and the employment of the faculties of the soule is to search out the greatnesse of the Creator comforts or benefits that belong to her selfe which doth manifestly shewe that the worthyest operation of the soule is contemplation and contemplation is properly knowing of the best things now the best things are such as concerne the knowledge of God the vnderstanding of the worthinesse of the immortāll and reasonable soule all which I leaue to thy due consideration And thy selfe to the fauour of God with increase of learning in this most famous Vniuersitie Vale. REASONS Academie Of Nomber AS I purpose not to discourse of al the deepe points therof for that wold require a large treatise yet because it is a needefull part to be known in the vnderstanding of Reasons exercise I will make bold briefly to touch the same Nomber doth cōsist of diuerse things either of one or seuerall denominations and without nomber there can bee no true definition demonstration manifestation nor vnderstanding of any thing for if all things were but one then were there no nomber or order wherefore one is said to be no nomber Sed scala devni●●●e the beginning of nomber In the God-head being before all time the maker of time and all things that increase in time there is number The Trinity of persons and vnity of God-head do declare as much For although god be a most singular Diuine essense in himselfe yet hath he proportioned number in himselfe vnseperably vnited in his God-head which the diuines call the Father Son and holy Ghost And the ancient Philosophers cal three inbeings The Father the actiue or inworking vertue power nature The Son they cal the word speech or reason The holy Ghost Loue. These Philosophers haue striued wonderfully in this labor wherin they haue waded exceding deep Amelius the disciple of Plotin is said to name the trinity three things or three vnderstandings The Beer the Hauer and the Seer The Trinity is expressed in these words Power vnderstanding wil which Trinity maketh a full number of things belonging to a mind which the Philosophers esteeme to be the Godhead But to leaue off this kind of descriptiō I cōclude with Plotinus There are saith he three chiefe Inbeings The one or the God 2. The vnderstāding or wit 3. The soule of the world And of these three saith he it is not for any man to speake without praying vnto god And without setling his mind afore vnto quietnes And if it be demanded saith he how one of them begetteth an other it is to be considered that we speak of euerlasting things therefore we must not imagine any temporall begetting for this begetting which we speake of saith he betokeneth but onely cause and order This Trinitie and first and euerlasting number hath proportioned appointed other numbers in them a miraculous order If any aslee a reason hereof I answere It was the power the wisdome vnderstanding wil of God to expresse himselfe in this compleat number of persōs in one vnity of godhead By this nūber three was the whole world created al things innumerable whose mouers are only known to the creator himself In that number three is expressed the wōder of the world the taking vp of Henock Elias the Ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ. Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly and Christ three dayes in the grave So that in the nomber of three is manifested the eternall Trinitie of the God-head the creation of the world and of