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And then secondly it may be disproportioned to the Conceits of the Mind in proposing them otherwise than they are inwardly […], and this is properly a Lye. Which I therefore call the principal Corruption of Speech, not (as I said) because I conceive in it a greater measure of heinousness and Guilt, than in any other Speeches (because all Guilt follows the Inconformity and Remotion from the Law of God and Reason; and therein other Speeches, as Blasphemy, and Sedition, may have a greater measure of wickedness) but because in a Lye I find both the forenamed Irregularities, it being a Speech not only uneven to the Conceits of the Mind; but repugnant also to the Will of God, and the Law of Nature.

And then secondly it may be disproportioned to the Conceipts of the Mind in proposing them otherwise than they are inwardly 〈…〉, and this is properly a Lye. Which I therefore call the principall Corruption of Speech, not (as I said) because I conceive in it a greater measure of heinousnesse and Guilt, than in any other Speeches (because all Guilt followes the Incomformity and Remotion from the Law of God and Reason; and therein other Speeches, as Blasphemy, and Sedition, may have a greater measure of wickednes) but because in a Lye I finde both the forenamed Irregularities, it being a Speech not only uneven to the Conceipts of the Mind; but repugnant also to the Will of God, and the Law of Na ture.

The next kind of Active Operations were those of Wit. The use whereof is so much the more Excellent, by how much the Wrestings and ⟨p. 514⟩Abuse of it is the more dangerous▪ I shall sufficiently declare the worth of it, by showing what it is: For I take not Wit in that common Acceptation, whereby men understand some sudden flashes of Conceit, whether in Stile or Conference, which like •otten wood in the dark, have more Shine than Substance; whose Use and Ornament are like themselves Swift and Vanishing; at once both Admired and Forgotten: but I understand a settled, constant, habitual sufficiency of the Understanding, whereby it is enabled in any kind of Learning, Theory, or Practise, both to sharpness in Search, subtlety in Expression, and dispatch in Execution. As for that other kind seen in Panegyrics, Declamatory Discourses, Epigrams, and other the like sudden issues of the brain, they are feats only and sleights, not Duties and Ministries of the Wit, which serve rather for Ostentation than Use: and are only the Remission of the Mind and Unbending of the thoughts from more severe Knowledge: as walking for recreation is rather Exercise than Travel, although by the violence of the motion, or length of the way there may ensue Sweat and Weariness.