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Apologeticall.

ſtian ſtudents, ex valle hac miſeriæ, & miſeria iſiius vallis: & tenebrarum Regno; & tenebris iftius Regni, ad montem ſanctum Syon & ad cœleſtia tabernacula. All thanks are moſt due, therefore, unto the Almighty. Seeing, it o pleaſed him, (even from my youth, by his divine favour, grace, and help) to inſinuate into my heart, an inſatiable zeal, and deſire, to know his truth: And in him, and by him, inceſſantly to ſeek, and liſten after the ſame; by the true Philoſophical method and harmony proceeding and aſcending, (as it were) gradatim, from things viſible, to conſider of things inviſible from things bodily, to conceive of things ſpirituall from things tranſitory, and momentary, to mediate of things permanent: by things mortall (viſible and inviſible) to have ſome perſeverance of immortality. And to conclude, moſt briefly, by the moſt mervailous frame of the whole World, philoſophically viewed, and circumſpectly weighed, numbred, and meaſured (according to the talent, and gift of GOD, from above alotted, for his divine purpoſes effecting) moſt faithfully to love, honor, and glorifie alwaies, the Framer, and Creator thereof. In whoſe workmanſhip, his infinite goodness, unſearchable ⟨wiſdome⟩, and Almighty power, yea, his everlafting power, and divinity, may (by innumerable means) be manifeſted, and demonſtrated. The truth of which my zealous, carefull, and conſtant intent, and endeavour pecified, may (I hope) eaſily appear by the whole, full and due ſurvey, and confideration of all the Books, Treatiſes, and Diſcourſes, whoſe Titles onely, are, at this time, here annexed, and expreſſed: As they are ſet down in the ſixth Chapter, of another little Rhapſodicall Treatiſe, intituled, the Compendious Rehearſall, &c. written abo e two years ſince: for thoſe her Majeſties two honorable Comiſſioners; which her moſt excellent Majeſty had moſt graciouſly ſent to my poor Cottage in Mortclacke: to underſtand the matters, and cauſes at full; through which, I was ſo extreamly urged to procure at her Majeſties hands ſuch Honorable Surveyors and witneſſes to be aſſigned, for the due proof of the contents, of my moſt humble and pitifull ſupplicat on, exhibited unto her moſt Excellent Majeſty, at Hampton Court, An 1592. Novemb. 9. Thus there ore (as followeth) is the ſaid 6. Chapter there, recorded.

My labours and pains beſtowed at divers times, to pleaſure my native Countrey: by writing of ſundry Books, and Treatiſes: ſome in Latine ſome in Engliſh, and ſome of them, written, at her Majeſties commandement.

Of which Books, and Treatiſes, ſome are printed, and ſome unprinted. The printed Books and Treatiſes are theſe following:

  1. PRopæadeumata Aphoristica, De præsiantioribus quibuſdam Naturæ virs tutibus. Aphoriſmi. 120. Anno.155.
  2. Monas Hieroglyphica, Mathematicè, Anagogicéque explicata; ad Maximilianum (Dei gratia) Romanorum, Bohemiæ, & Hungariæ, Regem ſapientiſſimum, Anno 1564.
  3. Epiſtola ad eximium Ducis Urbini Mathematicum (Fredericum Commandinum) præfixa libello Machometi Bagdedini, Deſuperficierum Diviſionibus, edito in lucem, opera mea, & ejuſdem Comnandini Urbinatis; Impreſſa Piſauri. Anno 1570.4. The
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