their superficies, concave, and co•…•…vexe, their triangles, ambligone, and oxygone, their cones, cubes, cylinders, their parallells and parallelo∣grammes, their proportions, superpartinent, and superbipartinent, &c. their rules of Algebra and Helcataim, their Integers, and Numerators, and Divisors, and Denominators, and fabricall figures, their proportionality Arithmeticall and Geometricall, continuall and discontinuall, direct, conversed, alternative, inversed, compounded, parted. Geometry hath its words of Art and proper expressions, as well as all other Arts and Sciences. So hath Physick, Chirurgery, Law. So have Souldiers, Mariners, Hawkers, Hunters.
But of all others he hath the least favour for the Divine, whom he will not permit to use a word in preaching, but such as his Auditours, nor in writing, but such as his common Readers may understand. I do not like it any more than he, that a Divine should affect uncouth words, to make his ignorant Auditours to gape, I had rather speak five words in the Church with understanding, &c. than ten thousand in an unknown tongue. But doth he make no disticti∣an between the Church and the Schools? Doth he think that Theology, which hath the sublimest subject, doth not require as high, as learned, and as distinct expressions, as any Art or Science whatsoever? All hear∣ers and readers are not novices, nor of the vulgar or common sort. There are those who