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Show A DifcMtrfe, to Sir Henry Savill, or F urn ace, fo heated ; As · though0 c it did ~Mot fcal0, nodr burn· ; Yet it w..~s, m·1ny Degrees, roo hor, 10r any an, not ma_ e t? It, · B~ .... th or take in. And feme Impo 17o11~s,and C olmterfutJ, hkc- i to le.. ' d :1~ h . B d. . fl. · re have been able to wrenfJ an caH t etr o Je'", Into urange Wf lP n~ es an d Mott. o,n >s : Y. ea an' d others, to b r·m g t h emur : 1v es,t· n-too n'l ran~~e r, and Ajio11ijhment>s . All :Wh•t c h ~x·a mp l es, d o d emon-fhate, how varioufly, and how to H1gh, Pomts,and Degree~, the t Body of Ma1r., n1ay br, (as it wer~, ) moulded, and w~ought. And if 3 ny Mad conceive, than It IS fome ~ecret propr~ety of Nature that h~th been in thofe Perfons, wl11ch.have attatned to th(' fe P~int · And that it is not open, tor every Man, to doth: 1 ike,though he had been put to it;F_?r which Caufe,fuch Thing~, come but very ra rely to paiTe; It IS true, no doubt, but f01~e Perfons, ar.;: apter ,tqcn others; But fo, as the mo r ~ aptoefie, feth P erfect icn but the leffe Aptnefie, ~oth not dt[able: So ~h~t, for Ex am ~le,' the more apt Chi/ d, that IS _uken, t~ be made a FHnambulo, w1ll prove more excellent m h1s Fea~es; But the Jefie 3 pt will be Gregarius Fun~1mbu!o alfo. And there 1s fmall Q!Jeftion, but th:1 t thefe Abilities, would ha,,e been rn~re c?mmon; And others. oflike fort, not attempted, would, hkewtfe~ have been brought, upon the Stage, bu~ for. two Reafons: The_ o~~' becanfe of Mens Diffidence, 1ll preJudgm.g them,. as lmpofhbilt: ries; For it holdeth) in thofe thing~, w,htch the roet fa tth; roJ/ unt quia po!Je 11identm·: Forno Man 01al1Know,bow much may be done, except he Believe, much may be done. . The ~ther Rea-on is, becaufe they be, but Practifes, bafe, and mglorwus, ~ and of no great ufe; And therefore ~eq~eftred from Reward ot Va, lue ·; And on the other fide, p~1nfull ~ So as t~e Recompence ballanceth .'not with the Trava~le, _and Suffer:n~. And as to the 1-Vill of Man, it is that, whi.Ch 1s mofr Mamable, and Obedient; As that~ which admitteth I?ofi ~-~edicines- ~ to. cur~, and alter it.The mofr Soveraign, of all) IS Rebg10n; w~tch IS a~ . e to change, and transfi)rm it:> in the deepeft, .and _m_ofl: Inward Inclinations and Motions :And next to th~t _1s Opznron, an~ Apprehenflon; Whether i~ be in~tfed by TraditiOn, and Infiltutl~~; or wrought in, by D1f putatwn~and Per~ waGon: A?~ . the T~tr:f I is Example, which transformeth the Will ofMan_, ~ntt> the Sm~I-litude of that which is mofi obverf.1n~, and famthar towards It. ~ And the Fou:th is, when one Ajfcaion, IS l:ealed,and corrcfJed, ?Y I another: As when Cowardi!e, is remedted by £ha?1e)_and J?lf' honour; Or Sluggifhne-fie, __ :-rnd ~r< ckwardndfe, bymdtgnatwn, ! and Emulation; And foot the hke. And lafily, when all th~fe 1 Meanes:Jorany ofthem,have ~1ew framed=>or formed,Httmane W~ll; i Then doth Cuflome, and Habzte:~Corroborate~an~ confirm, all the 1 refl:.- Theretore, it is no marvaile, . tho?gh this f a~1tlty, of the \Mind, (of Will, and EleBion ;) which 1ncl~neth /.jfefJz~n, and Ap-petite, being but the Inception~, and Rudz':1ents, _of Wt!l; May be [o well governed,and manap:ed; B~caufe~ lt admttteth accdic.-, }~ ~------------------------------------------------------~· ~-~-~ touching Helps, for tbe In tellecruall Puwers. fo divers Remedies, to be applyed to it, and to work upon it. The Effect~ whereof are fo manyJ and fo ku_o~n, as requ:ire no EnumeratiOn; But , generz.lly, they do t.Gue, as Jlif'dlcinu do into two Kinds, of CJsrei; whereof the one, i~ a Jufl, or True c'ure; And the ~:Hher, is called Pal!iution. . For, either the Labou~, and Int~n_tioh is, t? reform the A!lections, 1eally, and truly; Re- \ firauuog them, 1fthey be too vto]~n_t; And raiflng them, if they be too Soft, and Weal'; Or elfe, 1t Is to cover them; Or, if occalion be, to pretend them, and reprefent them. Of the former Sort whereof, the Ex:unples, are plentifuiJ in the schoole1 of Philofophers, and in a] l other InjiitutionJ, of Moral! f/ert11e; And of the other fort~ t~e Example£> are, n;ore p1entifu1l, in rhc Co~trts of Princes, and tn all J>olitirft; Trajfique_: VV,here it is ordipary to find, not only profound Dlilirnulat1ons, and Suffocating the Affections? that ~o Not~, or Mark, appear<:£ them) outwardly; But alfo~ hvely Simul?tiOns, and AffeCtations, carrying the Tokens of Paffions,. w htch are not; As Rifo.r ]1{/iu, and Lachrymce co,~lfte· , and the l1ke. -----------4---~---~........___.__ __ Of H~lp:, of the lnteUeCluctll Powers. T He Intelltllual Powers,have fewru- means,to work upon them, then the JiVill, or Body ofMan; But r he one, th.1t prevaileth ~~~.is .Exercife, worketh t~ore forcibly in tl1em, then in th: The Ancient Hahite, of rhe Thilofi}phers 1 Si }HiJ quterat,i~ utramtjlle part em, de omni Scibili. The Exercife~ of Scholler.r, making ferfcs extempore; Stans pede in 11110. The Fxerci[e, ofLt~wyerr,in Memory Narrative; The Exercije, of Sophifls, and )o. ad Oppojitum, with manifefi effefr. Artificiallll1emory greatly holpen by Exercife. The Excercife, ofEujfonJ, to draw all things, to Conceits Ridiculous. The Meanu that heJ p the Vnderflandhtg, and F acultie.r thereof, are. , (No.t Example, as in-the 1ViU, by C.onverfation; And here, the C~nceu o~ Imitation, already difgefl:cd; with the Confutation, CJbTter,fl v~debitur, of Tulliu Opinion, advifing a Man, to take forne one to Im1tate. Similitude ofF aces analyfed.) Arts The[e that follow, are but indifgefied Notes. |
