Abstract

|-10R WHAT we obtain of Nature, we must not do it by commanding \/ but by courting of Her. Those that woo Her, may possibly have her for their Wife: but She is not so common, as to prostitute her self to the best behaved Wit, which only practiseth upon it self, and is not applied to her. I mean, that wherever Men will go beyond Phansie and Imagination, depending upon the Conduct of Divine Wisdom, they must Labour, Hope and Persevere. And as the Means propounded, are all necessary, so they may, in some measure, prove effectual. How far, I promise not; the way is long and dark; and as Travellers sometimes among Mountains, by gaining the top of one, are so far from their journey's end; that they only come to see that another lies before them: so the way of Nature, is so impervious, and, as I may say, down Hill and Up Hill, that how far soever we go, yet the surmounting of one difficulty, is wont still to give us the prospect of another.