The second is, _A dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter_, when from that which is but true in a qualified sense, an inconditional and absolute verity is inferred; transferring the special consideration of things unto their general acceptions, or concluding from their strict acception, unto that without all limitation. This fallacy men commit when they argue from a particular to a general; as when we conclude the vices or qualities of a few, upon a whole Nation. Or from a part unto the whole. Thus the Devil argues with our Saviour: and by this, he would perswade Him he might be secure, if he cast himself from the Pinnacle: For, said he, it is written, _He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone._ [SN: Psal. 91.] But this illation was fallacious, leaving one part of the Text, _He shall keep thee in all thy wayes_; that is, in the wayes of righteousness, and not of rash attempts: so he urged a part for the whole, and inferred more in the conclusion, than was contained in the premises. By the same fallacy we proceed, when we conclude from the sign unto the thing signified. By this incroachment, Idolatry first crept in, men converting the symbolical use of Idols into their proper Worship, and receiving the representation of things as the substance and thing it self. So the Statue of _Belus_ at first erected in his memory, was in after-times adored as a Divinity. [SN: _The Original of Idolatry._] And so also in the Sacrament of the _Eucharist_, the Bread and Wine which were but the signals or visible signs, were made the things signified, and worshipped as the Body of Christ. And hereby generally men are deceived that take things spoken in some Latitude without any at all. Hereby the _Jews_ were deceived concerning the commandment of the Sabbath, accusing our Saviour _for healing the sick_, and his Disciples _for plucking the ears of Corn upon that day_. And by this deplorable mistake they were deceived unto destruction, upon the assault of _Pompey_ the great, made upon that day; by whose superstitious observation they could not defend themselves, or perform any labour whatever. [Sidenote: _The_ Alcoran _endures neither Wine nor Universities._]