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Atque haec de communibus axiomatis affectionibus, spe∣cies sequuntur.
VVE have hitherto heard of whatsoever is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to an axiom in general: for though 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 belong
onely to the rules of Art, yet because they may be sim∣ple or composite axioms, ergo, they are generally to be taught to them both: the judgment moreover of such axioms was prima verissimaque scientia. Prima, because that was first, and per se true, and most true, because all other deducts do so far forth approve themselves true, as they agree to the first, and these first rules are few, therefore they come nearest to God who is but one, and are next to his wisdom: o∣thers, which are deducts, may be many, and they come next to the first rules: we have among us a distin∣ction of doctrine and use, doctrina is properly the first rule of Art, and use is the application thereof, or the special deducts gathered from the first. Others I find take doctrina for the first part of Divinity, and Use for the special practice of a rule of Art, but they are deceived, and speak improperly: and all the rules that Kickerman saith are wanting in Ramus, are no∣thing but the practice of a rule, that is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and they are infinite. As posita causa ponitur effectum, this ariseth from the definition of causa, and it is onely true, where the cause is brought as a third ar∣gument in a syllogism, and otherwise we have no use of it, and having handled all that is general to an axiom, now we come to the species, Atque haec de com∣munibus, &c. This is a transition not from one part of an axiom to another, for those things that we heard of before touching an axiom, are but adjuncts to an axiom, therefore must not be severed from their subject: but because these have taken up two Chap∣ters, and so continued the doctrine of axioma long, why we may have forgotten our selves, thinking we have heard of the species already? no, saith Ramus, we come but now to the species.