Scrinia Ceciliana, mysteries of state & government in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand ministers of state, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James, being a further additional supplement of the Cabala.

Of Helps of the Intellectual Powers.

The Intellectual Powers have fewer means to work upon them, than the Will, or Body of Man; but the one that prevaileth, that is Exer∣cise, worketh more forcibly in them than in the rest.

The ancient Habit of the Philosophers; Si quis quaerat, in utramque partem, de omni Scibili.

The Exercise of Scholars, making Verses ex tempore.

Stans pede in uno.

The Exercise of Lawyers, in Memory Narrative.

The Exercise of Sophists, and Io, ad oppositum, with manifest effect.

Artificial Memory greatly holpen by Exercise.

The Exercise of Buffons, to draw all things to Conceits Ri∣diculous.

The Means that help the Understanding, and faculties thereof, are not Example, (as in the Will, by conversation; and here, the conceit of Imitation, already digested; with the consutation, Obiter, si videbi∣tur, of Tullies Opinion, advising a man to take some one to imitate. Similitude of faces analalysed.)

Arts, Logick, Rhetorick; The Ancients, Aristotle, Plato, Thaestetus, Gorgias, Litigiosus, vel Sophista, Protagoras, Aristotle, Schola sua. Topicks, Elenchs, Rhetoricks, Organon, Cicero, Her∣mogenes.

The Neotericks, Ramus, Agricola, Nil sacri Lullius. His Typocosmia, studying Coopers Dictionary; Matthaeus Collections of proper Words for Metaphors. Agrippa, de Vanitate, &c.

Quaer. If not here, of Imitation.

Collections preparative. Aristotles similitude of a Shooe-makers Shop full of Shooes of all sorts: Demosthenes Exordia Concionum: Tul∣lies Precept of Theses of all sorts preparative.

The relying upon Exercise, with the difference of using and temper∣ing the Instrument: And the similitude of prescribing against the Laws of Nature, and of Estate.

Notes

• These that follow. are but indi∣gested Notes.