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A51660	Malebranch's Search after the truth, or, A treatise of the nature of the humane mind. Vol. II and of its management, for avoiding error in the sciences : to which is added, the authors defence against the accusations of Monsieur de la Ville : also, the life of Father Malebranch, of the oratory of Paris, with an account of his works, and several particulars of his controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne, and Monsieur Regis, professor in philosophy at Paris, written by Monsieur Le Vasseur, lately come over from Paris / done out of French from the last edition.; Recherche de la vérité. English	Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.; Sault, Richard, d. 1702.	1695 (1695)	Wing M316; ESTC R39697	381,206	555

MALEBRANCH's Search after Truth OR A TREATISE OF THE NATURE OF THE Humane Mind AND Of its Management for avoiding Error in the SCIENCES To which is Added The Authors Defence against the Accusations of Monsieur de la Ville ALSO The LIFE of Father Malebranch of the Oratory at Paris With an Account of his Works and several particulars of his controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne and Monsieur Regis Professor in Philosophy at Paris Written by Monsieur Le Vasseur lately come over from Paris VOL. II. Done out of French from the Last Edition LONDON Printed for S. Manship at the Ship in Cornhil 1695. TO THE Marquess of Normanby My Lord THis Translation of the Second Volume of Father Malebranch's Recherche de la Verite Humbly begs the same Favourable Acceptance and Protection as Your Lordship was pleased to grant the First Nor could I have any Temptation to seek another Patron for it either in respect of the Author or my Self Every one that has had the Honour to know Your Lordship is very Sensible that You have Successfully Studied Mankind in General and are therefore a very good Judge of this Subject As for my Self Your Lordships preventing Goodness and extream readiness to serve me has already outdone the utmost Ambition of My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and most Obedient Servant Richard Sault The Life of Father Malebranch of the Oratory at Paris With an Account of his Works and several Particulars of his Controversie with Monsieur Arnaud Dr. of Sorbonne and Monsieur Regis Professor in Philosophy at Paris Written by Monsieur Le Vasseur lately come over from Paris Done into English by R. S. FAther Nicholas Malebranch was Born at Paris of a considerable Family in the Year 1638. His Eldest Brother is now one of the Counsellors in the first Chamber of the Parliament at Paris where he is disinguisht by his Integrity and other Qualifications that are proper to make a good Magistrate When Father Malebranch became of Age to choose an Imployment suitable to his Birth and Inclination his Parents proposed to him to make him a Member of that August Body but he generously refused so handsome an Establishment and thought rather of retiring from the World and devoting himself to the Church To this End he chose the Congregation of the Priests of the Oratory which continually supplies France with Learned Divines Excellent Preachers and Men capable of filing the most Eminent Dignities of the Church Father Malebranch spent the first Years of his retreat in studying Divinity and Languages necessary for the understanding of Holy Scripture and other Ecclesiastic Authors But as he felt a greater Pleasure and Inclination for those Sciences that are acquired by Reasoning and Meditation than for those which depended only on Memory and were founded upon Historical Facts or the Writings of Antient Authors he resolved to content himself with reading the Holy Scripture attentively and imploying the rest of his Time in the Study of Metaphysics and the knowledge of himself The Book intituled A Search after Truth was the first Fruit of his Meditations Never was there any Book received with so great an Applause in France nor in other Countries where they are curious in matters of Reason and good Sense All the World was surprized to see a Young Philosopher who knew Man better than the Celebrated Monsieur Des Cartes his Master did at the end of his dayes and who had found the secret of writing upon abstracted things after so noble and polite a manner The Able Men of France Italy Germany England and Holland earnestly sought his Acquaintance and gave him particular Marks of the Esteem which they had conceived for him Madam the Princess Elizabeth Palatine that Illustrious Scholar of Monsieur Des Cartes was so charmed with his Search after Truth that she resolved to make it her Manual and to have it alwayes with her Notwithstanding the Esteem her most Serene Highness had for the Memory of Monsieur Des Cartes she easily confessed that Father Malebranch had out-done that great Philosopher as to what regarded the knowledge of the Humane Mind and the Consequences of the Vnion of the Soul and Body She wrote to her Sister Madam the Princess Louise Abbess of Maubuisson in France that she was surprized that having near her Abbey a Man of such merit so rare and so distinguisht that she had not sought his Acquaintance What was most great and extraordinary in Malebranch was that he alwayes preserved a Humility and Modesty that was truly Christian in the midst of all the Praises and Applauses that he had received in his own Country and elsewhere He was alwayes watchful over himself and would not so much as hearken to so refin'd a Temptation as the greatest Philosophers of Antiquity have not been able to withstand It was with extream Displeasure that Father Malebranch observed afterwards that certain Persons otherwise perswaded of the solidity of the Principles of the Cartesian Philosophy which he had so happily explained were not yet sufficiently convinced of the Truth of the Christian Religion and of the Morals of Jesus Christ Being troubled at the fatal blindness of these Philosophers he resolved to make use of the Principles in which they agreed with him to prove to them the Corruption of Mans Heart and the necessity of such a Mediator as Jesus Christ To this end he Publish'd a little Book of Christian Conversations and from that time he only applyed himself to make use of the Truths which he had discovered to prove the beauty and solidity of that Divine Philosophy which Jesus Christ teaches us in the Gospel What Glory what Honour is it for a Christian Philosopher to have set in so full and so clear a light the Reasons which we can now so advantageously use against Atheists and the Enemies of the Gospel With the Principles of Father Malebranch we may boldly defie the Atheists to explain to us how the Blood circulates in their Veins how they feel Pleasure and Pain by means of certain Motions which are excited in their Body without supposing the Existence and Action of an Infinite Perfect Being who is only capable of punishing and rewarding us And if this pretended strength of Mind of which our Atheists so much boast is baffled when they consider but a Bowl that is in motion an agreeable titillation or Pain which they feed before the Fire what if we should desire them to explain the formation and increase of an almost infinite number of Organized Bodies to tell us bow this vast Machine of the Vniverse could be formed and move of it self after so just and regulated a manner in every thing that is necessary for its Conservation What Comfort is it for us to learn that even the irregularities which appear in the World and concerning which the Enemies of our Religion reproach us with an insulting Air are certain marks of the infinite Perfection of the Author of Nature