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 fine.

Finis est causa cujus gratia res est.

VVE have gone through the esse of a thing, we have but heard of three, when the fourth comes, that makes up the perfection of the thing, namely finis.

Finis, for the name, it is borrowed from Geome∣try; for that that is terminus there, is here called fi∣nis, and it is brought hither to signifie that final cause that serveth to make up the effect: so that it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, if we keep the proportion of the esses, but it is not

the last part and member thereof, as they make 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the last member of some whole, as Method is the last member of Logick. Finis is the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the esse of a thing, not of the members of it. Now it is called finis, because it limits the thing for his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and for his essence, and it is the last thing that limits it, er∣go it is called finis.