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THE SECOND PART OF THIS APPENDIX; BEING Some ANIMADVERSIONS On the foresaid Treatise De Veritate, Resolving several Questions there included or implied.

THE SECOND PART OF THIS APPENDIX; BEING Some ANIMADVERSIONS On the foresaid Treatise De Veritate, Resolving several Questions there included or implyed.

Having let fall the mention of that noble Authors Treatise, it came into my mind, that it having never been answered, might be thought unanswerable, and so the more considerable. Therefore I adjoin ⟨p. 80⟩so much of my Animadversion, as the cause in hand requireth.

HAving let fall the mention of that noble Authors Treatise, it came into my mind, that it having never been answered, might be thought unanswerable, and so the more considerable. Therefore I adjoin ⟨p. 80⟩so much of my Animadversion, as the cause in hand requireth.

And First, I must give the Author the Honour of his great Learning and strength of wit. Secondly, I must confess that the Teachers of the Church, have been too often such, as have given him the scandal which he so oft expresseth, as more regarding their Interest than Truth, and not making clear the truth which they have taught, and often wronging it by their omissions or additions, or unsound explications. Thirdly, I confess the body of his Treatise containeth many very considerable things, in order to the disquisition of truth; especially about the suitableness of the faculties to the object, the conditions requisite to a true apprehension, and somewhat about the nature of truth it self: Though that which he calleth Veritas apparentiae, I had rather call, Evidentia Veritatis rei. And I am not willing to think that I have as many different faculties as there are different plants in my Garden, or Books in my Study, or Sentences in those Books; And in several things I miss that accurateness