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![well; but yet it must as well be affirmed^ that liis Practice hath run counter to his Theory, to use the Author's phrase. The Scepticks that affirmed they knew nothing.] The ancient Philosophers are divided into three sorts, Dopnatici, Acudemici, Sceptici; the first were those that delivered their opinions positively ; the second left a liberty of disputing pro et coiitrti; the third declared that there was no knowledge of any thing, no not of this very proposition, that there is no knowledge, accord- ing to that, Nihil sciri siquis putat, id quoq; nescit An, sciri possit, quod se nil scire fatetur. The Duke of Venice that weds himself to the Sea by a Ring of Gold, etc.] The Duke and Senate yearly on Ascension-day use to go in their best attire to the Haven of Lido, and there by throwing a Ring into the water, jdo take the Sea as their spouse. Vid. Hist. Ital, by Will Thomas Cambrohrit. Bushequius reports that there is a custom amongst the Turks, which they took from the Greek Priests, not much unlike unto this. Cum Grcecorum lacerdotibus mos sit certo veris tempore aquas consecrando mare clausum veluti reserare, ante quod tempus non facile se committunt fluctibus; ah ea Ceremonia nec TurccB absunt. Bush. Ep. 3. legal. Tursic. But the Philosopher that threw his money into the Sea, to avoid avarice, etc.] This was Apollonius Thyaneus, who threw a great quantity of Gold into the Sea with these words, Pessundo divitias, ne pessundarem ab illis. Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos cast the best Jewel he had into the Sea, that thereby he might learn to compose himself against the vicissitude of Fortune. There go so many circuTustances to piece up one good action.] To make an action to be good, all the causes that concur must be good; but one bad amongst many good ones, is enough to make it vitious, according to the rule, Bonuni ex causa integra, malum ex partiali. Sect. $6. The vulgarity of those Judgements that wrap the Church of God Pae.jS. in Strabo's Cloak, and restrain it nnto Europe.] 'Tis Strabonis tunica in the translation, but Chlamydi would do better, which is the proper expression of the word that Strabo useth : it is not Europe, but the known part of the world that Strabo resembleth to a Cloak, and that is it the Author here alludeth to ; but we have no reason to think that the resemblance of Strabo is very proper. Vid. Sir Hen. Savil. in not. ad Tac. in vita Agricolce. Sect. 57. Those who upon a rigid Application of the Law, sentence 79- Solomon unto damnation, etc.] St. Aug. upon Psal. 126. and in many other places, holds that Solomon is damned. Of the same opinion is Lyra, in 2 Reg. c. 7. and Bellarm. 1 Tom. lib. 1. Gontrov. c. 5. PART I. Sect. 55-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
