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Lin. 1. This is the way I would have thee walk in &c. viz. In Majestick Groves, and Woods, and by River sides. You are not then I perceive, an Anti-Peripatetick, Philalethes! though you bee so violent an Anti-Aristotelean. But with such pompous gravity to give such slight Precepts as of walking by Rivers sides and in Groves,
&c. argues more then enough of moping distempered Melancholy in you, and that it may, if you take not heed, make you in∣dulge so much to delusive phansie, that you will be never able to set your eye again upon solid Reason, but range and ramble like one lost in a Wood.
Lin. 9. To trust no Moderns but Mich Sendivow, and Physica Restituta. How mightily are these two beholden to you, Philalethes! if you had but so many grains of judgement and discretion as to make you able to passe sentence upon any considera ble Authour. But what doe you mean by trusting? To give faith and credence to them as to Holy Writ? If so, I perceive you have also a Triplicity of Bibles, viz. the usuall one, Mich. Sendivow, and Physica Restituta. But we ordinary Mortalls hope to be as wise and as happy with our single one, as you with your advantage of three.
Lin. 13. With the Whymzies of Des-Cartes. This young man, has as little manners as wit, to speak thus reproachfully of the most admirable Philosophy, that ever yet appeared in these European parts since Noahs floud. Certainly, Anthroposophus! you are set upon it to demonstrate your self a pure pitifull Novice in Knowledge, whom on∣ly
Ignorance makes so magisterially confi∣dent. But for thy want of due sagacity, I will take thee by the Nose, O Philale∣thes! with this one Dilemma, which shall pinch thee as hard, as St. Dunstan did the roaring Fiend with a red-hot pair of tongs. Thus; Either thou hast read Des Cartes his naturall Philosophy, or thou hast not. If thou hast read it, thus to contemn it and term it a Whymzie, (whereas there was never any thing proposed to the World, in which there is more wary, sub∣till, and close contexture of reason, more coherent uniformity of all parts with themselves, or more happy conformity of the whole with the Phaenomena of Nature) is to proclaim to all that understand Des∣Carte's Philosophy, that thou hast a very broken, impatient, and unsteddy Appre∣hension, or a very dull and slow wit, and such as cannot discern when it lighteth upon what is most exactly rationall, and when not. But what is most exactly rati∣onall, as his Philosophy indeed is to any competent Judge of Reason, is least of all whymzicall; but whymzies more natu∣rally lodge in their brains that are loosly phansifull, not in theirs that are Mathema∣tically and severely wise. So that this re∣proach
returnes upon thine own addle pate, O inconsiderate Philalethes! But if thou didst never read his Philosophy, and yet pronouncest thus boldly of it; that is not only impudently uncivill, but extream∣ly and insufferably unjust.