The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.

De diversis. Argumentum primum consentaneum expo∣situm est, &c.

VVE have heard of consentaneum, and why he should put in primum rather than simplex I see not, for if he meant to have repeated them, he should have put in all, ergo primum would be put out, now the use of a transition is to hang things toge∣ther, when the one part is newly gone before, as it were half forgotten, then we must have an imperfect tran∣sition, otherwise a perfect one: this method obser∣ved for memories sake: now it remains that we con∣sider what the thing is not, and thus we go orderly to work. Before, we saw what went to a thing, for the making of it up: now we cannot well see what a thing is not, till we see what it is, for nonens is seen gratiaentis: now this respect ariseth not by way of argument: but by seeing what it was.