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Show Of the aduttncem.ent ofle~rning, . .tt~rallis, When the min de hat~ a prefent1on by an tlh n. all power wirhont,the tnducement .. of a fignee., tcr . , ' . h h h . cdttpcra!L is ?f two [~rcs,~lt er w en t e ~rg~~11en.t. i5 coupled wtth .a ?er.matton of cau(es, whtch ts: at~- 111atl· or wh~n lt lS one.ly grounded vpon a Cotnct .. den~e of the effeCt, which ~s experim~~tt:t!; w ber.eof the laterfonhe moll part:, •:s fupedhuon:: Sue~ as, were the Heathen obier.uauo~s,vpomhe mfpe.C.hon: of Sacrifices, the flights of b1rds, the l\varrn.Jng of;. Bees~ and fnch a.s was the cbaldean r._A jlrologte .,.and; the like. For Artiftcalt J?iuinatiun, t~e feuerall ktnds. thereofare diflriblite . d ~·mongfl.p.aruct~ICU: knowled~ . gcs. The 'Affronomtr hat~ hh -predtC\tO!ls, as of. C.oniunetions·, afpe8s, E~hpfes~ and the hke. The.Philitian hath his predi0ions, of ~~ath,. of recoue~ · tie of the accidents and tlliles Qf:D1feafes. 7 he Po~ litiqU,e hath his predi8ions; 0 vr~C711 v £?alem, & . citO perituram, fi empt11rem t~ucnertt ; whtch ftay~d riotlongto beepcrfo~rll_ledm s_yUa fir~, and~fr:r m c.efor.So asthefeprediCbonsare.no~ tmp.~run~t'. & .to be referred Qtter~ Bu~ the Drutnatton,whtch {prtn· geth fr~ih( internal ~amre of dte feul ,is th~t which: · we now fpeak o!JW htch hath ~en ~ad.e.to ~e of two, (orts; Pri"!!~tte and by Itfitexlon.~rlnl.tttue ts gro~t~· dedvp · thefuppol.iuon, t~au~emmdewhenn.ts · withdra~e and colleCled ·tnto tt felfe, and not d1f~ fufed into th.e Organes oft~e bodi~, hath [orne· e~· .tent.andlatitude of prenotton; W·h1ch therefore aP,· eareth moft in tleepe; in extafies, and· nere d~at_h~ ·-4!r,,.._o.t~ rartll in wJkjng apprehenfions; ~nd ts tn·;· · · · ~ · - · ' d.uc,ed~ . 9(he fecond 'Boo~. . f6 . duced·and ·fur.~hered by thofe abfiinences, antlob-f< r .. ua__nces, ":Vhlch tnake the m·inde moft to conl1fi1n ~ lelfe. By·tnfinxion;is grounded vpon the conceit, . h~t t~e lntnd,as a mirror or glaffe, lhoul.d take illn~ lnauon fro~l the fore,~nowledge of God ~and fpittts? vnto whtch the fame l{egiment doth likewife o~d1t~e~ For the retyring of the minde wirhin it . :l~Jie '· ~s th~ State which is mofi fufceptible of di~ · ~une t~fluxtons; !at~e that it is accompanied in this ~fewtth a feruenc.te.and eieuation, (which the an- . ; ~tents ~oted .'b.Y jurie) and not \Vith a tepofe and t~nd qtuer,.as 1t:1~1n the·other . ·. . -. Fifcin.ttion is the po~er ;nd aB:'<>Hmaginati~n, n.ten!tue vpon ot~er bodtes, ·than the.bodie of the agt~ant; for·of that we fpake in the proper place: ' heretn the Schoole~of ~aracelfus,and· the Difciples f pretended Natu~all Magi~ke, ·haue beene fo in- . . emp_era~e' .. as ·t.~ey haue exalted the power of the m~glnation,. to b~ much one \Vith the pow·er ol Mtratle·wo:~~~g fan~ : others that drawe neerer to Probab!hue, calling t? th~ir view-the fecret paC: . ag~s of thtngs, ~nd fpect~lly ·of t'he ContagiQn that ~atler? from bodleto bodte, doe cont-eiue it ihould ewtfe beagr~e~ble to Nature, that there·. iliould ~~orne _tranfm1fstons and operations ftorn fp'irit to It, wu~out the mediation of the fences ;whence . cconcet~s~auegr?yvne,(~owalmofi made cit:rile) he ~atflru~ SpJnte,&the·force of confidence., .;• IHII. e.hke. Inct~ent v~to th!s, ~~ the inquir.ie how .:~-.•.nc ·andfortdiethe tmagtnauon, for if the Itna .. M ·m 2 ginatio~ ' I |