Corruption is contrary to Generation, and is the de∣struction of the thing engendred, and the thing destroyed is said to be corrupted.
Thus: To execute theeues and murtherers, is profitable to the Common-wealth: Ergo, theeues and murtherers are hurt∣full to the Common-wealth. The death of Uirgil was a great losse to learning: Ergo, Vir. was a great furtherance to learning.
Affirmatiuely thus: Uirgil was a great furtherance to lear∣ning: Ergo, the death of Virgil was a great losse to learning.
Those things whereof the end and destruction is laudable, must needs of themselues be pernitious and hurtfull. And con∣trariwise, those things whose ende and destruction is hurtfull, must needs of themselues be good and profitable. Againe, of good things, the losse is euill, and of euill things, the losse is good: but in reasoning from these places, you must take heede that as well the Corruption, as the thing corrupted, bee abso∣lutely good, or euill of it selfe, and not by Accident: for it were no good argument to reason thus; The death of Christ was good: Ergo, Christ was euill: for his death was good by acci∣dent for our saluation, and not for any crime that was in him. Moreouer, you must beware that you vse not one self predicate both in your antecedent, & in your consequent: for if good be the predicate in the antecedēt, euill must be the predicate in the consequent, and if euil be the predicate in the antecedent, good