In our times this would be pedantic wit: in the days of James I, and in the mouth of Archbishop Williams it was witty pedantry.
Ib.
s. 89.
He that doth much in a short life products his mortality.
'Products' for 'produces;' that is, lengthens out,
ut apud geometros
. But why Hacket did not say 'prolongs,' I know not.
Ib.
See what a globe of light there is in natural reason, which is the same in every man: but when it takes well, and riseth to perfection, it is called wisdom in a few.
The good affirming itself — (the will, I am) — begetteth the true, and wisdom is the spirit proceeding. But in the popular acceptation, common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.