... Hanc syllogen generalem materiae probatoriae (1618) - Page 4

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A decorative woodcut drop cap 'B' set within a square frame with floral motifs.A certain good and proper foundation is laid, and all things are conducted competently, if the beginning of the matter is made pleasing to God, the Lord of all, our common father, and our beginning, and middle, and end. Nov. 5, cap. 1. Novell. 6, in the end of the preface. Nov. 14, in the end. Nov. 98, cap. 2, in the end, and Nov. 109, in the beginning. Nicol. Reusnerus, lib. 1, decis. 1, n. 1, and 4 seqq. Fulvius Pacianus, lib. 1, de Probat. cap. 5, n. 1. Heigius, p. 1, q. 22, n. 25. Jacobus Alemannus, palaest. 1, consult. Jurid. 5, in the beginning and fol. (my copy) 378, with the following.

POSITION I.

AS I am about to wander into the broadest and most joyful fields of civil wisdom, my conceived desire seems capable of being fulfilled by the plainest and most direct path, if I should labor in moderation to weigh the industrious, diffuse, fruitful, and taken-from-the-midst-of-daily-life subject matter of PROOFS upon a more exact scale of truth, and, by a summary method of instruction, to interpret it while enclosed within certain boundaries and limits.

a) Not toward a shameful shortcut and a deformed pittance, and the protection of futile and captious syllogisms, but striving for the quest for increased praise. l. 6, q. 5, C. de postul. D. Ilico, Vmmius, disp. 2, process. judic. n. 34, 41, and seqq. Pacianus, lib. 1, de Probat. cap. 21, num. 4, 5, and 6. Donellus, l. 18, comm. 3, lit. V, passim. Hillig. Ventura de Valentiis in Parth. litig. lib. 1, cap. 10, n. 31, and 3 seqq. Wesenb. in π. C. de advoc. divers. judicior. n. 2, before the end. Anton. Heringius in tr. de fidejuss. cap. 19, n. 36, with 2 seqq. Hieron. Treutlerus, vol. 1, disput. 8, th. 3, lit. A, in the end. Quirinus Cubach, decur. 1, quaest. Illust. 5. For this, indeed, bestows security equally upon all men, l. 28, § 7, ff. de poen. It procures the favor and gracious benevolence of magnates, l. 17, ff. de jur. patr. l. 4, C. de contrah. stipul. Schneidvvin. ad § cum q; hoc. 3, in the proem. Instit. and ibid. Heigius n. 13. Rulandus in tract. de Commissar.