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have but undertaken to write the true and infallible Axiomata, out of all Faculties, Sciences, and Arts, and whole Nature, as that which he knew would direct them, like a Globe, or Circle, to the onely middle Point, and Centrum, and (as it is uſual among the Arabians) it ſhould onely ſerve to the wiſe and learned, for a Rule, that alſo there might be a Society in Europe, which might have Gold, Silver, and precious Stones, ſufficient for to beſtow them on Kings, for their neceſſary uſes, and lawful purpoſes: with which ſuch as be Governors might be brought up, for to learn all that which God hath ſuffered Man to know, and hereby to be enabled in all times of need to give their counſel unto thoſe that ſeek it, like the Heathen Oracles: Verily we muſt confeſs that the world, in thoſe days was already big with thoſe great Commotions, laboring to be delivered of them; and did bring forth painful, worthy men, who brake with all force through Darkneſs and Barbariſm, and left us who ſucceeded to follow them: and aſſuredly they have been the upper-
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