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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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.
And are there not as many controversies, varieties, and uncertainties in natural Philosophy, as in what I have already mentioned? are not all things variously argued there, and are not mens Judgments in those matters as multifarious as their Persons in them? Have not Descartes, and some other Philosophers of late overturned the whole System of the Aristotelian Philosophy, and may not others do the like by what they have established, and are there not as great objections lying against their Novel Systems, as against those that they have rejected? Or are the minds of ingenious, and inquisitive men any more satisfied in the one, than in the other?
And are there not as many controversies, varieties, and uncertainties in natural Philosophy, as in what I have already mentioned? are not all things variously argued there, and are not mens Judgments in those matters as multifarious as their Persons in them? Have not DesChartes, and some other Philosophers of late overturned the whole Systeme of the Aristotelian Philosophy, and may not others do the like by what they have established, and are there not as great objections lying against their Novel Systemes, as against those that they have rejected? Or are the minds of ingenious, and inquisitive men any more satisfied in the one, than in the other?
Are Physicians agreed in the nature of Simples, Drugs, and Minerals? have they any fixed Method for the Cure of Diseases? are they agreed in the Nature and Causes of them? Can they tell what causeth Convulsions, and Epilepsies? Are they agreed, or satisfied in what Dr. Willis hath discoursed concerning them? Do they know what causes an Ague, or in what part of the body, and in what ⟨p. 29⟩vessels thereof that Fomes lies, which at stated times ferments, and produces those various Symptoms? Are they agreed in their judgments about these things, or are they ever like to be? Do we not find new methods of Curing Diseases propounded every day, which after they have had their turn upon the Stage, they go off, and others succeed them.
Are Physicians agreed in the nature of Simples, Drugs, and Minerals? have they any fixed Method for the Cure of Diseases? are they agreed in the Nature and Causes of them? Can they tell what causeth Convulsions, and Epilepsies? Are they agreed, or satisfied in what Dr. Willis hath discoursed concerning them? Do they know what causes an Ague, or in what part of the body, and in what