inanitione because until there be a peccant matter as there can be no inequality so no pain It being a maxime in medicine that Dolorisica actio fit à proportione majoris inaequalitatis a There do also belong to this declension all words ending in um and ir and likewise some flourishing Masculine in er Others so terminating being rationally transfer'd to the third rule as in the next Chapter shall be shewed But as for our Author 's Satur I cannot finde it substantially posited by any Latine writer neither any word so terminating declinable after this rule The third claiming both that and all other not forementioned terminations whatsoever having of late left none declinable after the fifth Save only the monosyllable Res and such as terminate in ies A fraus bonesta which I suppose committed in meer order to the quadrupedation of Heroick verse Plebs after the old way of declining Being when obliquely casual thereby comprehensible no otherwise than as the myrabolan nut of the Apothecarie's Quod nec Virgilius nec carmine dixit Homerus Hoc ex unguento constat ex balano CHAP. 4. Of the sensuality of the casual word therefore in this Tract called a word of sence Also of the declension of the word of Quality HAving in the first Chapter of the first part of this Tract shewed that the word of Being becomes sensual by mediation of Quality And in the third that the signification of this Quality can be sensually fashion'd no otherwise than as either joyned or inserted to a Being It remains that the manner of this union be yet further examined The Angel in the Text as checking the over-curious enquiry of Esdras is said to have bid him measure an handful of wind Esdr 2 4. and weigh an ounce of fire A curiosity which the sons of Hermes yet cease not to pursue By an unwearied attempt to losen the fire from its entitative fixation that so incorporating it self with the volateeles it may by their rule of rotation so defaecated entice those spirits with it inseparably to cohabit Ad perpetrandum miracula unius rei In Tab. Saith that Father However this be not commonly known to succeed in the practice The possibility of the work may happily appear less worthily ridiculous If the forecited process be but compar'd with what we may hourly observe in common converse viz. How that by declining a word of Being from its denominative state or condition the hinges of its otherwise immoveable essence are so shaken that it becomes thereby fitted for such a coition with incorporeal quality as doth rationally advance it to an excellency enabling its reception or all the emanations of Beings whatsoever Insomuch that the numberless notions of man are thereby made communicative although the quality of the word have no outward appearance therein at all As to reinstance when I say JOHN LOVETH JOAN the very Grammatically casual position of Joan as the formal cause of Johns love sheweth in her some perfection wanted by John Whether qua animal for the perpetuation of his entity or also qua rationale in order to future conveniency of living And so John loveth Joan either so fair young rich c. as his opinion shall adjudge most for his own felicity Which to understand is the summe of all Grammer Syntax The question and its answer being alike modable and all definitive sentences either resolving a question already propounded or expecting their answer by confirmation contradiction or desired illustration from the confabulant So that whatever else can be expressed is but ad voluptatem linguae and on this depending Therefore I shall endeavour to render it yet more plain and perspicuous Even by a Fable read of old by Diotima to Socrates Where she feigneth how that as the Gods were celebrating the birth-day of Venus Porus the son of Providence and God of Wealth should be there amongst them and got drunk should as he went forth to case him fall asleep at the Gate where Poenia or â—overty waited for an Alms Which she observing That the indigency of her condition overcoming the modesty of her sex should prompt her to allure Porus to a congress whereby she conceived and brought forth Love who ever since hath been a close companion of Venus because begotten on her birth-feast as aforesaid By the same reason is the word of Sense as inseparable from its invisible quality And is the visible I mean worded Quality or Adjective ever declined according to the substantial naturality of that word as by our Authors three first rules for declension of nouâ—es appeareth Bonus dominus Bona musa Bonum regnum Tristis Pareus Triste Cadaver Faelix natalis liber Magister libera Magistra liberum Magisterium few or no Adjectives terminating in er being otherwise declinable Acer Pauper Degener and Uber so mentioned by our Author being as often read The first Acris and the second in no meaner Author than Plautus Paupera So that these are little better than Hetroclites as the third is than a degenerate substantive viz. a Substantive foyld with a preposition and so turn'd Adjective de genere and the fourth being a meer derivative Ube ab Ubere So also proving first that those Substantives in er which be declined after our Author's second rule are naturally excelling those that be transfer'd to the third a which are either Feminine as Mater or dividing from their unity as frater or else in the declination of the vigour of their Masculine perfection as Pater Secondly it proveth that our Author 's two last rules for declension of Substantives were by the refiners of the Latine added B The one to distinguish such words terminating in us as they were pleased by the assistance of their Tropes to advance either from their naturali neutrality to the Feminine gender as Domus or from their muliebrity to the Masculine as Potus which as it is water should be declin'd Femininely but in regard of its nourishing use shall be declin'd Masculinely yet after the fourth rule In order first to a distinction between it and an Identical Masculine and secondly for manifestation of its advancing trope As for words ending in U their Heteroclity pronounceth them but vulgarly regular and somewhat of a less esteem than the former in regard they are all Neuters The fist of our Authors rules as it was added so was it repeal'd The celebration of Heroick verse having for the most part rendred it impertinent if not offensive as in the foregoing Chapter hath been foreshewed Therefore have these rules no Adjective declinable after their terminations The Latine Quality as well in its declensions as gradual ascentions being strictly worded after the forecited Phylosophie of * Excellentia Ternarii largè videri est apud Gerard. Dorn in Philosophiâ Chem. Trithem in Ep. ad Gnaum German aliosque Philosophorum passim Viz. in the uses Vertue though â—ll three sound alike from vulgar tongues Which
I love and the Relative in rehearsing as I who love Ille ego qui quondam Which also is the office of its Verb And that either in order to its own being or Passions as I am or I am called upon or else in order to its personal posture as I sit or sleep All which must have the casual word nominatively placed because the motion terminates in it self And so remain's a monument of the primitive unity I THOU and HE living as one until they came to distinguish MINE THINE and HIS These introduc'd Trade and that the multiplicity of clinshing words and tropical sentences in order to perswasion Insomuch that such is the present excellency of that Art as it might be taken for no Paradox saving the gravity of a * Qui ratio naliterutitur argumentis ad persuadendum Oratoris nomen meruit etiamsi non persuaserit Quint. Qu ntilianist from the young Oâ—ator while he maintained the moneys he had promised his Tutor for teaching him the whole Art of Rhetorick were not due until he could by that Art perswade him to part with the summe he neither yet had nor intended for him when he had it And that he must expect would create a dispute Mercurie not recovering his altitude until he doth Iater duos loquentes media currere ut Logicè reciprocetur oratio * N. Comes An Art whose Circumstantials the experience of my short step of travel could not observe so long dâ—elt upon beyond the Seas as in the English Universities is usual And therefore cannot sufficiently applaud the Epitome given it by my most worthily honoured friend Sir Kâ—nelme Digbie * In Treat of Bodies part 2. c. 3. â—n argument saith he The assumed Term unto which the other two are enterchangeably joyn'd is either said of them or they are said of it And from hence do spring three different kinds of Syllogism For either the assumed or middle term is said of both the other two or both they are said of it or it is said of one of them and the other is said of it And this is the mysteric of the three Figures our Clerks so much talk of Which having elsewhere occasionally cleared the Mathematical Spring of Aâ—â— I here mention to manifest how that those seven that the civilized part of the world do honour with the Epithite of Gent or Liberal be no other than Grammer expanded And so proceed to the use of this its present Reduction The Use of the whole TREATISE THe Text saith There are three that bear witness in heaven The Father the Word Joh. Ep. I. 5.7 and the Holy Ghost and these three are one There are three that bear witness in earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood and these three agree in one As I am no quarreller at Scripture so am I not certain whether the Original sounds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 However both coming from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spiro had the more strict present occasion of the Evangelist permitted the Translators to have expressed the Blood by name of Winde they had thereby saved me the use of faith sithence I should then have understood the assertion Philosophically as knowing the water wind and Spirit to be one viz. Submisâ—â— Religioni Philosophâ—â— clavibus sonâ— sus legitimâ— utamini Verul ad Acad. Cantabrig The wind a rarified water and the Spirit a rarified wind And consequently the wind to be a coagulated spirit and the water a coagulated winde So bearing their witness of the infiniteness of the opening and the shutting Mens agitans molem coeco se corpore miscens As the Maronian in the fourth of his Georgicks hath it See the last Embleme probably out of Thales Milesius whose sense Cicero in his books De Natnrâ Deorum so much depends on and we find abundantly confirmed in the twelfth chapter of that admirable Book of Job and elsewhere throughout the Text. My intent hence is not with * In Relig. med Dr. Brown to maintain a multiplicity of worlds But to induce first how Aristotles principles of the world do bear the same witness Form being no other then a vivified matter as proportionated Beings be the auâ—optic gallantry of that Form formed and wherein the respective decay of heat is the recess of the life towards its abscondity So secondly the excellency of the microcosme consisting in its discursive faculty Plato in Timan. as the manifested expansion of the unity of mans soul to its trine How it must also in its Philosophie bear a like testimony The word of motion being a word of Being actuated as amare is a word essentially declaring the action of Amor and modable according to the temporal inclination of the lover towards whatever Being he therein can fansie perfection Whence the Ancients fained Cupid in as many shapes as they do Venus See the Embleme or as Pausanias latinized hath it Tot amores quot Veneres Yet they comprized all under Greatness and Goodness which as saith the same Author are but one Quia identidem appetitum alliciunt And its observable that the perfection towards which a motion is thus directed or attracted is often invisible even as is the fire in water yet known to be there by reason of its flowing For when the ambient cold sorceth the fire to its center the water as it ceaseth its flowing is no more water but ice until the fire be invited to its pristine expansion by exterior warmth Even so in what ever whether visible or invisible quality of a Being my opinion fanfieth perfection this perfection but so thence vanishing the motion of my love immediately retires to its first essentiality And thus as John loveth or not loveth Joan be the cogitations of man expressible by the said * Intelligete movere generare essentialiter idem sunt See D. Davison in Currie Chymic part 2. TRINE-U NE words occasionally varyed and attended as in this Treatise I have assayed to manifest So that I can at present think of no remaining intricacie saving when in order to a more copious or concise delivery I am induced to compound the termini of a sentence some or one of them which conjoyned branches although they contain a Verb respectively in themselves do yet amount to no more than either a Supposition Declaration Relation or Reason 1. Whereof the first is known by its preposited note of doubt as when with our Author I say Si cupis placere magistro utere diligentiâ 2. The second by its subjoyning office as to say ut placeas 3. The third by the Relative as Qui cupis placere 4. And the fourth by the absence of a Verb otherwise than infinitively posited As if I were to say Cupiens placere magistro utere diligentiâ In all which the understood Noun Personal or Pronoun Tu must be the Being whence the Verb utere moveth towards diligentia as the word
terminating the sentence And the governance is lateral in regard the Verb mâ—veth not as attracted by it but as a mode of pleasing the Master See Part. 2. c. 2. Yet that what hath been said may be made more supplemental to our Author I shall further partize his Example after the usual Pedagogick manner supposing my self a Pupil questioned by my Tutor what part of Speech is supplyed by the word Cupis Answ The Verbial part Quest How know you it to be a Verb A. In that it is a word of motion that is moving between the desiring and the desired Being Q. What kind of Verb is it A. In that it moveth from the said understood Pronoun which is its material cause simply towards its formal It is a Verb Active But that I offend not my more curious Grammarian I must also call it a Verb Neuter in regard forsooth we do not read Cupior Although the English love as well to be desired Q. After what Conjugation do you decline it A. The fourth And the reason therefore see in Part. 3. c. 2. Q. What part of speech is Magistro A. A Noun Substantive Q. How know you it to be a Noun Substantive A. In that it manifests a Being see Part. 1. c. 1. Q. How do you articulate it A. In the Masculine Gender Q. Why so A. In regard it denotes Rule which necessarily implyeth Action See Part. 2. c. 1. Q. Aster which of our Authors rules is it declined A. The second Q. Why so A. Because that whether I take the word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which jumps with the French Idiome thrice more or from magis and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. greater in station It followeth that it be declined after the most honourable way incident to its termination Q. Would you hence infer that such words terminating in er as carry the more honourableâ— signification should be declin'd after this second Rule and the less worthy after the third A. I thought you had been thereof already so satisfied in Part. 2. c. 4. that to urge me here to reaffirm it were impertinent Q. But how comes it then to pass that Puer is declined after this and Pater after that sithence it 's pass'd question but the last is more honourable A. I confess it quoad hominem but not quoad naturam For Propagation being the eternizor of nature Naturalists do deservedly state it as the chief of mans life Therefore doth love follow the off-spring and are the steps from the womb to the wedding more honorable than those between it and the reduction of the Creature and that by so much as life is more desirable then death Whence I conclude that such Masculines terminating in er as on the wheel of life be placed between the state and the end are naturally declinable rather after the third rule I will not say alwayes declined for that as one notes Sermo Inter agrestiaing ma primum ortus doctiorum legibus aliquandâ— refragatur Q. What case conceive you Magistro there to stand in A. The Dative Q. Why so A. Because it stands governed by the acquisitively posited Verb Placere See part 2. c. 2. Q. How cometh Magistro to be goverâ—â—d by the Infinitive Mood placere it to me seeming but us only joyned with it by way of apposition to make up the word of sense This answering the whom as the other doth the what A. Our Author doth not tell us that the casual word must answer the questions whom and what but whom or what and that the word that cometh next the Verb as answering to either of those is saving his exceptions the casual which therefore is here due to Placere as so answering the question Desire what To please To please whom The Master So that Magistro comes hither not by apposition but as a word governed of placere The Infinitive Mood when so serving no way quitting its governing prerogative more than doth a Participle or Gerund I say so serving for that as To please by answering the question whom becomes as a casual word and a word of sense as it denotes a perfection wanted by the placitor * Part. 2. c. 4. THOV COVETEST TO PLEASE so making up a compleat sentence Even so when I thus particularlize this pleasing doth the sense amount to a Reason as hath been fore-proved by our Authors Ovidian Authority cited Part. 1. c. 1. where the first and third words add nothing to the Reason only encomiate the quality of Arts and express a necessity of fixation in the learner So that it were the same if I said Placere magistro requirit diligentiam Q. Suppose you were to express placere by an essâ—ntial word of Sense as to say If thou covet the pleasure or delight of the Master How would you latinize it A. Si cupis delectamentum Magistri Q. In what case woud you conceive the word Delectamentum so placed to stand in A. The Accusative Q. And why A. As governed by the Verb Transitive Cupis Q. How know you Cupis to be a Verb Transitive A. Because it answereth all the expectations of that Verb manifested Part. 2. c. 2. It being none of those motions of design but a down right natural one as Amo whether we take the word from Capâ—o or à cupidine amoris as Mr. Holyoake Q. Admit you were to define this supposition by one word as of the Reason hath been fore-noted in Part. 1. c. 1. How would you express your self A. Obsequens utitur or to continue the first hortative mode of speech Tu obsequens utere diligentiâ Q. By name of what part of speech would you call Obsequens so placed A. Properly by neither of our Authors eight It there being only a participial voice or as Mr. Hoole would have it Noun 〈◊〉 A Participle signifying no time and therefore governing no otherwise than as a Noun Adjective As in Part 3. c. 4. hath been foreshewed Q. Proâ—eeding with our Authors example where he adds Nec sis tantus cessator ut calcaribus indigeas I would in the first place know wâ—at part of speech is Nec A. A Conjunction coupling the foregoing and following clauses Q. What part of speech is Cessator A. A Noun Substantive or word of Being Q. How is it declined A. Masculinely aster our Authors third rule Q. Why Masculinely A. In regard the very being Slugge denotes action as we use to say It s better be idle then do nothing See Part. 2. c 1. Q. Why is it declined after the third rule A. By reason of its termination as hath been shewed Part. 2. c. 3. Q. what condition or case doth it here stand in A. The Nominative Q. Doth it so govern the Verb Sis or is it governed by it A. It is governed by it and yet cannot properly be called a word of Sense in regard of its foregoing Conjunction Q. From what being then doth Sis move towards Cessator A. From the Pronoun Tu which