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.

Ʋbertas tamen per magna, &c.

There is great and plentiful use of the efficient, and as it is first of all, so is it most general of all, for mat∣ter cannot be a matter, till the efficient move it, and so of all other arguments: now these make cause the efficient to be commended, or discommended, and according to these modi is the effect more or less ar∣gued: as if a child kill his father, it is parricide: so if it be a good thing that is wrought by one alone, he is more to be commended than if he had done it, cum aliis, aut contra. Again, if a thing be done well na∣tura, it is better than if it had been done necessitate; and more commendable when a thing is done by counsel than fortuna: now because these modi doe urge and press the effect more or less, ergo there is reason in them, and therefore they belong to Logick: modi, that is, adjuncts not making these effects species, but onely distinguished by accidents: that fallaci∣an, non causa pro causa, is general to causa: and it is also particular to efficiens, making that causa efficiens which is not: as the Hereticks in Divinity were deceived, which said that the Angels did make the world.