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A Logician is a Reasonable Man, he is skilled in the Art of reasoning; He with Phaeton rides upon the Sun of Reason, which is the eye of the Soul, which Sol with his bright rayes shines gloriously in the Firmament of mans Soul; But when our Great Sier Adam fell, then the Sun of mans Reason was Eclipsed, and then this Lucifer had its fall too; But this Logician he strives to
dissipate the clouds of ignorance, that bemists mans reason, so that men by this means recovers the sight of this eye of the Soul; But yet he hides this Gem, this Pearle in such a Trophonious Den of Obscurities, that men need have Tiberius his eyes to discover it, and Lynx its sight to perceive it; A Logician when he can∣not unloose knots of difficulties, more harder to unloose then that Gardian knot, then with Alexander he cuts them with the sword of distinctions; A Logi∣cian is an Aedipus, to unriddle those rid∣dles of that Sphinx Phylosophia, or Sphinx Phylosophica, which if a man cannot un∣doe, it kills him with Grief, Care and Study; yea and of Nature too; Another Sphinx which drowned our chiefest Phi∣losopher Aristotle in Euripus, and smo∣thered or Martyred, that great yea greatest Naturalist Pliny in Vesuvias flames; Logick is Philosophy, or Phy∣losophies Mechanick, that makes all its Instruments; A Logician distinguishes of all things, divides all things, rea∣sons and disputes of all things, and de∣fines all things; he disputes pro and con, he refutes errours stifly, answers Obje∣ctions throughly, distinguishes rightly,
explains things throughly, defends his opinions against gainsayers; A Logician is a very understanding man, and his art is to bring a reformation to reform the understanding, though this Art will puzzle Intellects; he is a cunning Sophi∣ster, who by his Sophistry can circum∣vent; yea he can sometimes delude by his fallacies, but to say truth of him, he has his veritas logica; he is not Thema Simplex, but singulare, a singular man; he is ens completum, he is homo omnium hora∣rum; But now I come to a Conclusion, which is Finis.