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.

SECT. 8.

The third Respect, for the Vsefulnesse. Of the great use Metaphysick is towards the furthering of all Divines, in Controversies, and other things: A Conclusion.

THirdly and lastly, this Science exceedeth all the rest indignity, in respect of the great use it hath in all other Sciences and Arts, espe∣cially in Theology it selfe; I neede not to insist in the confirmation of this: for it is very well known, that by the grounds of Metaphysick,* 1.1 wee may de∣monstrate against Atheists, that there is a God; a∣gainst Pagans, that this God is one; against Cerdon, Marcion, and the Manichaean Hereticks, that there are not duo principia, but unum summum & primum principium; against the Stoickes, that there is not such a fatall necessity in all events as they dreamed of, against that damnable and detestable Heretick Conradus Vorstius that Deus est infinitus,* 1.2 immensus, indivisibilis, simplex, totus in qualibet re in qua est; aeternus, & quoad substantiam suam, & quoad ejus decret a immutabilis, & omnium accidentium expers; for that wretched and madde Doctor denied all these things. In many other Questions and Contro∣versies, which the Church hath against Hereticks ancient and moderne, there is great use of Meta∣physick.

But I feare to weary the Reader with these Ge∣neralls, For I intend hereafter (God willing) to put forth a small Treatise of Metaphysicks, where∣in you shall finde that noble Science more perspicuously delineated.

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Notes

• * 1.1

  The benefit of the know∣le••ge of the Metaphy∣sick••.
• * 1.2

  Controver∣sies.