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An excellent oration of that late famously learned John Rainolds, D.D. and lecturer of…An excellent oration of that late famously learned Iohn Rainolds, D.D. and lecturer of…
An excellent oration of that late famously learned John Rainolds, D.D. and lecturer of the Greek tongue in Oxford Very useful for all such as affect the studies of logic and philosophy, and admire profane learning. Translated out of Latin into English by I.L. schoolmaster.An excellent oration of that late famously learned Iohn Rainolds, D.D. and lecturer of the Greek tongue in Oxford Very usefull for all such as affect the studies of logick and philosophie, and admire profane learning. Translated out of Latine into English by I.L. schoolmaster.
London: printed by Tho. Harper for Thomas Slater and William Aderton, 1638
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As if the Stygian Lake, or three chopped Cerberus, Had spued their monstrous ugly fil•h on us.
As if the Stygian Lake, or three chopt Cerberus, Had spued their monstrous ugly fil•h on us.
Pomponatius, and Cardanus spake as Philosophers, whereof the one wrote that cursed Treatise of the Souls mortality, the other broached many impious errors in ⟨p. 91⟩his subtleties. I deny not, but they are both confuted, Pomponatius slightly by Contarenus, & Cardane soundly and thoroughly by Scaliger. But how many in the mean time have they spoiled with their philosophical sentences? Poison hurteth moe, then the Medicine helpeth; neither are all cured, that are poisoned. And is any man so foolish to seek to be wounded, that he may be cured? What then will some say, do you forbid the reading of profane matters, l•st men be corrupted ⟨p. 92⟩thereby? Shall we not read Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Demosthenes? shall we not attain to the knowledge of History, Philosophy, Eloquence? And hereupon Philosophers w•ll amplify, that a thing is not to be rejected for the abuse of it. F•e•ds are drowned with waters; Houses are consumed with fire, the earth is scorched with the Sun, men are spoiled by buildings, and yet for all this water, fire, the Sun, houses and buildings are necessary. I would not have the thing it self, but the ⟨p. 93⟩abuse thereof abolished, and the proper use thereof restored again. I do not say, that he offendeth that reads profane Authors, so that he do but lightly pass them over; but this I take to be sinful, when profane things are believed; for then art thou foiled, when thou givest credit to them. And in that case. I hold it dangerous to defend them; for thereby perhaps thou hurtest others, or else art hurt thy self. Thou must also take heed not only what thou defendest, but also what, and in