Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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London :: Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon,
1635.
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Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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"Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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A generall Introduction and incite∣ment
to the study of the
METAPHYSICKS.
Sect. 1.
OF the severall titles and appellations that have beene
given by Heathnick and Christian Philosophers to
Metaphysick; the reasons wherefore every of those names
were attributed unto it; and finally whereof it principally
treateth. 91
Sect. 2.
The Reasons why Aristotle added Metaphysick to the
other parts of Phylosophie; and how it is distinguished
from the other Sciences. 93
Sect. 3.
Three Reasons conducing to the praise of Metaphy∣sick,
inducing all men to the study of it; and setting
downe some principall ends and uses thereof. 95
Sect. 4.
The excellencie and dignity of the knowledge of Meta∣physick;
that onely free and sublime mindes, not distracted
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Sect. 5.
For three respects the Metaphysick is called the most
excellent Science, and the most necessary to be understood
by Christians. 99
Sect. 6.
The first respect, for the universality. 101
Sect. 7.
The second Respect, for the dignity. That the conside∣ration
of the soule of man belongeth to the Metaphysicks,
with severall Reasons for the proofe thereof. 102
Sect. 8.
The third Respect, for the Vsefulnesse. Of the great
use of Metaphysick is towards the furthering of all Di∣vines,
in Controversies, and other things: A Conclu∣sion. 104
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