Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . the drown d light of her op prejfed fire. Why tbenjhe buidennotes cfithings to fiind^ Doth [hee with finch a lone of truth defirei Iffkeeknowes thatywhtch [he doth (o require. PVhy vttjocth free knowne thtnos to know avaine? if foe k^owes not whyftriucs foe with b/mdpaine ? Wko after things pnknowne will fir me to goc ? Or will fitch ignorant furfute maintains? How fhallfhefindthem hauingfo, How (hallfoe then their formes and natures knon J Becanfe thtsfoule the highefi mind dtd veiw, t^JMpifi we? ncedes fayjkatit all natures kvewi Now (he^thou
Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . the drown d light of her op prejfed fire. Why tbenjhe buidennotes cfithings to fiind^ Doth [hee with finch a lone of truth defirei Iffkeeknowes thatywhtch [he doth (o require. PVhy vttjocth free knowne thtnos to know avaine? if foe k^owes not whyftriucs foe with b/mdpaine ? Wko after things pnknowne will fir me to goc ? Or will fitch ignorant furfute maintains? How fhallfhefindthem hauingfo, How (hallfoe then their formes and natures knon J Becanfe thtsfoule the highefi mind dtd veiw, t^JMpifi we? ncedes fayjkatit all natures kvewi Now (he^though c loudes officfb doe her detarr?7 Forgets not allythat was her ancient due. But in her mind fome gen rail mottons are^ Though not the skill of things particular* He thatfeekes truth jn neithercourfisdothfail\ Not knowing all nor ignorant of ail. He mark?*h gen rail things which he retctinesy And matters feene en high doth backe recall. Andthmg*forgotten to his mindrtgamesy Andiojnes them to that pmy which there remaines* HF Boetius hh. The II1I. Prose. Vbylofophy begmneth to folue the diffi*cultiesy which <Boetlmpropofedt His (quoth fhee) is an anci-ent complaint of proui-dence, vehemently putfuedby MarcusTuUius ,in his distributi-on of diuination^and a thing whichthou thy felfe haft made great andlongfearchafter;Buthetherto noneof you haue vfed fufficient diligenceand vigour in theexplication there-of. The cauie of which obfeuritvis,forthat the motion of humanedilcourle cannot attaineto the fimplicity of the diuine knowledge,which if by any meanes wee couldconceiue there would not remain any doubt at all, which I will endc- uour TMo/opbtcaU Comfort. 150 our to make manifeft. and plainc ,when I hauc &$ explicated that,whichmoucth thee. Forldemand,why thou thinkeft their folutionvniufficienr, who thinke that free-will is not hindered by foreknow-ledge,becaufe they luppole that foreknowledge is not thecaufe of anynecc/sity in things to come. Forfetcheft thou any proofe for
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