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Show 0 j the AtlttAiiCCment of Learning, · w.rm fortified baue power, then it is materiall .. ~know how tO furtifie and exalt it. •An~ hcreia comes in crooked! y anddangc~Ottil y, a .Pa.lhauon of a great part of ceremo1Jiaf! Maguke. For Jt may be~ pretended, that c eremontes, c_harafl er s, and c httrFJm p.oe worke, not. by any T acrte or S~lcr,1»Je1J.tali con- . trarf with.euill ipirits; butferue on.eLy to.flr.engthea the i.magination of bhn that vfeth tt; as. Im.ages are faid by the ~Of!Jttne cb"rch, to. fix the cog nat tons, and -raifctbc,deugtions of them· that pray b.eforeth.em, Bwfor mineowneiudgmenr, . .if it be admitted that lmagi~ation. ha~h po\ver ; and that CerernonttJ fortifie lmagtnauon, & that they be vfed fincerely &· intentionally for tha~ purpofe:;ret I ili~uld ho.ld them ynlawfull, as oppofing to tbat firfi edtet> w htch God.· .gaue·vnte man. In judort vult as come des P anem !11· , · um~ . ·For thev propound thofe noble effeas whtch G'odhath fetfoortb .vnto man, to bee bought at the price of Laboute, ro bee attained by ':l,.fewe. eafie andilothfiu obferuances.Deficiences in thefe know .. ·Jedges I wilreport'none,other than the·generall de~ ficience, that it is nof knowne, how much of them, • < is veritie; and ·how· much vanitie. , THE KNOVVLEDGE WHICH RESPECTETH·THE FA~VLTmS OF TI-lE MINDE OF MAN, is of two· kinds: The. one ·refpeaing his VNDERSTAi~DING d·RH.&SON)and the o~her, his WILL) APP~TITE,& AFFECTION, whe~of the former produceth Posi· ~ION · or DECREE, the later. AcTION or ExEcVTI" ~QN.l · uuc thatth~lflh£inati"n is an . Agen.t)orNa~ .. . . trfiJ· · fi'he[econd'Boo~. 4 7 llllliOt~~~oulnces, both the Iudici~,ll; and . the ...,.,z.llll. For Sence fendeth ouer tG> Imalt'ina1ion ~ ..... "' .. rfon baue iudged: and Rea jon fend~th oue: · .. ,4rJ.alton, before th.e Decree can be att.ett For lll&J~ton ~uer pr~cedeth Voiu~tary Motiof!. Sa~ ~ this lznu s of lm11grnatton hat~ differing· the face towards Reafon, hath the print But the face towards .Allion,hath the print w hie h. neuertbeleffe are faces , : decet epe .for or urn. Neither is the· •iutJn fi.mply and on ely a:Melfengcr; but is-in-. , or ar leafi wife vfurpethnofmallautho- _.. ........ th~riti~ in it felfe; betides the duty of the: fo~ tt was well fayd .by Arijlotle ; That the outr the Bodie that com:J'J'J(tupdement which hat.h out1'·a Bofld-man ; But·, that· Reafon h,tt.h· - ... F .... ._ ..• . ....- ... • that Commandement, which a "Va: j outr ~freeCitii~n; who ·may come alfo· his turn e. For we fee, that in matters of ~'Alf.eu'rpr'on, we raife our:IwJttginationaboue ou£ •~fbi.(. :his the caufe\vhy Retgion fought euer· o. the J'd in de by SimilitNdes, T 1pes, P.a,. . Yifion.r, ~r~ames. And againe: in all pe.r• at are wrought b.y ei0quen,e, · and oa -~r...-1-c:t-n· n of like Nature, which doe paint r~~~~~une the true appearance of thinges·, the IMCQ~ntllHendation vnto Reajon, is from the Neuerthele[e, bec·aufe I finde not .. , that doth ·.property or fitly perIMAGINA'JION, .I fce·no:caufc . M: ~. 3 t&~-- |