CHAP. III.
Of Principles.
a 1.1 THe place concerning bodies is divided into two degrees, into those which produce, and those which are produced, the first Principles, the second Elements.
The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
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b 1.2 ••Principles and Elements differ: Principles are ingenerate, incorruptible: Elements shall perish by conflagration. Moreo∣ver, Principles are bodies, and void of form; Elements have forme.
c 1.3 There are two principles of all things, the Agent, and the Patient: The Patient is a substance void of quality, called Mat∣ter: the Agent is the reason which is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Matter, God.
d 1.4 Matter is sluggish, a thing ready for all things, but will cease if none move it. The Caus••, that is, the Reason, ••formeth m••t∣ter, and moldeth it which way he pleaseth, out of which he produceth various wo••ks. There must▪ therefore be something out of which a thing is made, and also by which it ••s made. This is the Cause, that Matter.c 1.5 The Cause or active Reason is God.
f 1.6 In the Agent there is power, in the Patient a certain matter [or capacity,] and in both, both; for matter it selfe could not 〈◊〉〈◊〉, if it were not kept together by a power, nor that power without some matter; for there is nothing, which is not com∣pelled to be somewhere.
g 1.7 Both 〈◊〉〈◊〉, God and the World, the Artist and his work, they comp••ehend within this terme, Nature, as if nature were▪ God mixed through the World.h 1.8 Sometimes they call that na∣tur•• which containeth the World, sometimes that which gene∣rateth and produceth things upon the earth.
The Agent is, as we said, called the Cause.i 1.9 A Cause, ac∣cording to Zeno, is that, by which there is an effect, which is not a Cause 30 or,) as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the reason of the effect; or, as P••ss••donius, the first Author of a thing. A Cause is a body, a not Cause a Categorem. It is impossible that the cause being assign∣ed, the effect should not be present, which is to be understood thus. The Soule is the ••ause through which we live, Prudence the Cause by which we are wise. It is impossible, that he who hath a Soule should not live, or he who hath Prudence should not be wise.
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a 1.1
S••nec▪ E••▪ 29.
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b 1.2
Laert.
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c 1.3
Laert.
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d 1.4
Sen. Ep. 65.
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c 1.5
Ibid.
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f 1.6
Cic.
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g 1.7
La••tant. 7. 3.
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h 1.8
〈◊〉〈◊〉
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i 1.9
St••b. Phys••. 1. 16.