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 distributione ex effectis, ubi de genere & specie. Distributio ex effectis, est quando partes sunt effecta.

THe original of a distribution is from firsts argu∣ments coming to have a generality, because they are common to many, distributio ex effectis est, &c. that is, when special causes may be given to one com∣mon effect, for as integrum though it be singular, yet is it totum, because it is made of the portions of the matter and form of the members: so here the effects are made of their genus.

Now he sayes distributio ex effectis, because it ari∣seth ex effectis, for there are the causes distributing, and the parts distributed: so that here we may see why these arguments are rightly called orta: quando partes sunt effecta: so as the whole doth symbolice contain the causes, so the parts do symbolice contain the effect: as if he should say, effecta we heard of in

the first invention, but effecta here sunt partes, this is the second invention. God as he made all things, so hath he ranged and ordered them one under ano∣ther: so that in this definition, this is all, the parts are the effects, and the cause is the whole. Marriners are general causes, but they have special effects, for some climbe the shroud, some run up and down, some pump, &c. here are the effects of the efficient cause: so we may distribute from the matter, as of wood is made a wooden chest, or table, or stool, &c. so from the form as we may from the genus, but this alwayes consider in general, that the parts be part of the whole, and that they be homogenie parts, for if we shall divide a whole into parts, and particles, there will be no distribution, as if a mans body be anato∣mized; because the particles will agree with the parts.