Fortunae autem nomen ignorantia causarum confinxit, &c.
Here Ramus doth commorari in the name, lest he should be mistaken, it is an unchristian word, it is ignorance not onely as it is opposed to counsel, but as it is unknown to the thing that worketh by for∣tune. Many other modi there are among other Lo∣gicians, all which may be brought hither, as causa 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is either causa necessitate, or efficiens in ge∣nere, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is causa per se, if he shall say, anger did it, then there is a trope in it, as when I say, he writes, I mean his pen writes: if I say he writes with his pen, then I make him causa cum aliis: if I say he writes, he is efficiens. Now for the order of causes, one effi∣cient may be cause of another efficient, &c. and so causa causae be causa causati, but this will fail, as when I look at a child, and commend him from his grand∣father, not respecting the mean causes, there is not causa causae, but causa causati So when I say he came of Scipio, &c. Hactenus de efficiente, and this we must alwayes look at first in artificio rei: moreover ob∣serve here in every thing the manner of working: for so God is said to do some thing necessitate, as when we say he doth that he would not, though he would it in another sense, and fortuna, as mans fall was praeter sc••pum Legis.