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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	government_n	language_n	manner_n	40,315	5	10.7927	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59238	Non vltra, or, A letter to a learned Cartesian settling the rule of truth, and first principles, upon their deepest grounds / by J.S.	Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.	1698 (1698)	Wing S2585; ESTC R33865	51,607	144

of theirs which they judge to be the Strongest and most Evident of any they have and which they will vouch to be Influential upon the Cartesian Doctrine and I will undertake to Demonstrate that either it is no Principle or that it has no Force to prove any Point of their Doctrine nor has any Influence upon it at all In case this Rational Proposal which if both Parties do candidly seek Truth ought rather to be call'd an Overture of Peace than a Challenge be as friendly Accepted as it is meant it must needs draw upon us both the Eyes of all Learned Men who are Lovers of Truth and are Weary of Long Disputes especially if they be concern'd to know whether the so much fam'd Philosophy of Cartesius be Solidly Principl'd or only Extravagantly Witty And their Expectation will be strangely rais'd to see what will be the Issue of a Controversie thus closely manag'd our Philosophical Combat being by this means brought to the Last Trial and a Final Decision by Principles which are the Arma Decretoria or Truth For if it shall hap to appear that Cartesius's Doctrine has not so much as any One Principle which is truly such their Cause will be quite lost past hopes of Recovery But if it subsists by Principles then I must make them Satisfaction by acknowledging publickly that I have foolishly over-ween'd and take the Shame to my self for my Rash Presumption We may confine our selves as I said to half a Sheet of Paper All shall be transacted by pure Dint of Reason and he that uses the least Uncivil Word to his Adversary and falls into Passion shall be held to have lost his Cause and to be reduc'd to a Nonplus Every Man acquainted with Humane Affairs knows that in some Cases Responsum non dictum may be a sufficient Plea to justifie one who is to vindicate his Christian Credit unjustly attack'd without any Provocation given to his Opposer It happens too often times that a Man cannot clear himself fully of those Blemishes with which he is aspers'd but by laying them at the Door of the Injurious Affronter whose Faults if they be Great ones cannot be so much as Nam'd but the Words which express them must needs sound harshly Retorted Language in such a Case is only the Rebound of the Aggressor's Violent Strokes upon Himself and are not thrown at him but only Reverberated from an Object incapable to receive their Impression But especially such a Replier is excusable when he observes such a Temper and Measure that he imputes no Impiety or Irreligion to his Adversary but rather charitably excuses him from any such high Crimes even tho' he had causlesly and uncharitably imputed the same to himself which as I hope every Man will observe is the distinguishing Character between Mr. Le Grand's Aggressive and my Defensive Notwithstanding however such a Carriage against an Assaulter may in Prudence seem sometimes unavoidable yet certainly it is in it self neither Edifying to good Christians Instructive to the Learned nor Profitable to the Readers Therefore to avoid it for the future and to clear Truth which ought to be our only Care I have thought fit to make this Fairest and Civillest Overture If it be accepted neither Party in case they do seek Truth can be justly displeas'd But if it be refus'd and that my Opposers resolve to pursue their former Rude Method I shall hope that all Wise and Good Men will hold me Excus'd I dare say your self will if I decline the Ungrateful Task of Reciprocating the Saw of Contention but let them still wrangle on contentedly to themselves and apply my Thoughts to better Things 55. It remains Worthy Sir that I beg your Pardon for Publishing this Paper without acquainting you first with my Design But since you are not nam'd in it it need not concern you in the least unless you please your self Besides I have discours'd with other Cartesians of your Profession upon the same Subject and added for their sakes some Passages which otherwise had not needed So that it cannot particularize you in the least And since this Paper has no other Tendency but to clear Truth I have reason to presume that your Candour would not have been displeas'd at it I intreat you to do me that Justice in your Thoughts as not to interpret this Address by way of Letter to be a kind of Challenge or Provocation I am too well acquainted with the Study and Practise in which you are so Laudably and Successfully employ'd to think it can allow you any Leasure for an Avocation so Impertinent to your Proper and Precise Business I hope my Ideae Cartesianae Expensae may give you Satisfaction in divers other Points But I must bespeak your Pardon while you peruse it for the many Errata It happen'd that the Compositor understood no Latin and besides other Faults in two or three places he hapt to put in what I had blotted out in amending my Copy and my Circumstances were such that I could not always be in Town to correct the Press I am Honoured SIR Your Sincere Friend and Humble Servant J. S. FINIS Some Books Printed for and Sold by Abel Roper at the Black-Boy over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street SOlid Philosophy Asserted against the Fancies of the Ideists Or The Method to Science farther Illustrated With Reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Humane Understanding By I. S. The History of Poland in several Letters to Persons of Quality in Two Volumes Comprehending an Account of the Form of Government in that Kingdom King 's Power Court and Revenues the Senate Senators and all other Officers Of the Religion Dyet and Little Dyets with other Assemblies and Courts Of the Inter-regnum and Election and Coronation of the King and Queen with all the Ceremonies Of the present Condition of the Gentry and Commonalty as likewise of the Genius Characters Languages Customs and Manners Military Affairs Trades and Riches of the Poles Together with an Account of the City of Dantzic's Origin Progress and Present State of the Teutonick Order and the Succession of all its Great Masters Of the present State of Learning Natural Knowledge Practice of Physick and Diseases in Poland And Lastly A Succinct Description of the Dutchy of Curland and the Livonian Order with a Series of the several Dukes and Provincial Masters With a Table for both Volumes and a Sculpture of the Dyet in their Session By Bernard Connor M. D. c. Compos'd and Publish'd by Mr. Savage Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in reference to Civil Society Written by Samuel Pussendorff Counsellor of State to the late King of Sweden Translated from the Original Marriage-Ceremonies Or The Ceremonies used in Marriage in all Parts of the World Very diverting especially to Ladies By Seignior Gaya Translated from the Italian The Second Edition With an Addition of Remarks on Marriage by Mr. Brown A Defence of Dramatick Poetry Being a Re-view of Mr. Collier ' s View of the Stage In Two Parts A Voyage to the East-Indies Giving an Account of the Isles of Madagascar and Mascareigne of Suratte the Coast of Malabar of Goa Cameron Ormus and the Coast of Brasil with the Rellgion Customs Trade c. of the Inhabitants As also A Treatise of the Distempers peculiar to the Eastern Countries To which is annex'd An Abstract of Mr. de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies With his Propositions of the Improvement of the East-India Company The New Atlas or Travels and Voyages in Europe Asia Africa and America thro' the most Renowned Parts of the World viz. From England to the Dardanelles thence to Constantinople Egypt Palestine or The Holy Land Syria Mesopotamia Choldea Persia East-India China Tartary Moscovy and Poland the German Empire Flanders and Holland to Spain and the West-Indies With a brief Account of Ethiopia and the Pilgrimages to Mecha and Medina in Arabia containing what is Rare and worthy of Remarks in those vast Countries relating to Building Antiquities Religion Manners Customs Princes Courts Affairs Military and Civil or whatever else is worthy of Note Perform'd by an English Gentleman in 9 Years Travels more Exact than ever