_All things are artificial, for Nature is the Art of God._] So Mr. _Hobbes_ in his _Leviathan_ (_in initio_) Nature is the Art whereby God governs the world. _Sect. 17. Pag. 27._ _Directing the operations of single and individual Essences_, etc.] Things singular or individuals, are in the opinion of Philosophers not to be known, but by the way of sense, or by that which knows by its Essence, and that is onely God. The Devils have no such knowledge, because whatsoever knows so, is either the cause or effect of the thing known; whereupon _Averroes_ concluded that God was the cause of all things, because he understands all things by his Essence; and _Albertus Magnus_ concluded, That the inferiour intelligence understands the superiour, because it is an effect of the superiour: but neither of these can be said of the _Devil_; for it appears he is not the effect of any of these inferiour things, much less is he the cause, for the power of Creation onely belongs to God. _All cannot be happy at once, because the Glory of one State depends upon the ruine of another._] This Theme is ingeniously handled by Mr. _Montaigne livr. 1. des Ess._ cap. 22. the title whereof is, _Le profit de l'un est dommage de l'autre_. _Sect. 18. Pag. 29._ _'Tis the common fate of men of singular gifts of mind, to be destitute of those of Fortune._] So _Petron. Arbiter. Amor ingenii neminem unquum divitem fecit_, in _Satyric_. And _Apuleius_ in Apolog. _Idem mihi etiam_ (saith he) _paupertatem opprobravit acceptum Philosopho crimen et ultro profitendum_; and then a little afterwards, he sheweth that it was the common fate of those that had singular gifts of mind: _Eadem enim est paupertas apud Græcos in Aristide justa, in Phocyone benigna, in Epaminonde strenua, in Socrate sapiens, in Homero diserta._ _We need not labour with so many arguments to confute judicial_ Astrology.] There is nothing in judicial _Astrology_ that may render it impious; but the exception against it is, that it is vain and fallible; of which any man will be convinced, that has read _Tully de Divinat._ and St. _Aug._ book 5. _de Civ. dei_. _Sect. 19. Pag. 31._ _There is in our soul a kind of Triumvirate----that distracts the peace of our Commonwealth, not less than did that other the State of_ Rome.] There were two _Triumvirates_, by which the peace of _Rome_ was distracted; that of _Crassus_, _Cæsar_ and _Pompey_, of which _Lucan_, _l._ 1. _----Tu causam aliorum---- Facta tribus Dominis communis Roma, nec unquam In turbam missi feralia fœdera Regni._ And that other of _Augustus_, _Antonius_ and _Lepidus_, by whom, saith _Florus_, _Respublica convulsa est lacerataque_, which comes somewhat near the Author's words, and therefore I take it that he means this last Triumvirate. _Sect. 19. Pag. 32._ _Would disswade my belief from the miracle of the brazen Serpent._] Vid. _Coqueum in_, _l. 10._ _Aug._ _de Civ. Dei_, c. 8.