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earneftly feeking after its fource, it may at length enjoy 

 an union therewith, in filent acquiefcence and fupreme 

 delight. 



4. Hence the bond of flefli muft be thrown off, and in- 

 dulgence denied to corporal inclinations ; nor ought the 

 foul to be detained by or attached to the ideal difquifitions 

 of REASON, but rejefting her delufive inquiries, to be 

 cleanfed and purified by penitence and refigned fubmiffion, 

 in prayer and interceflion, pioufly expelling the divine 

 illumination, and abforbed in anxious defire for its ap- 

 proach. That in this confills true wifdom, not to be learnt 

 from the writings of Ariftotle, or the philofophy of the Gen- 

 tiles, but from the internal and immediate illumination of 

 the Holy Spirit ; which muil be waited for in the fabbath 

 of the foul, freed from the clog of all internal or external 

 exertion. 



5. This may be regarded as the more certainly true, 

 fince God, the fountain of all things, hath not only fo im- 

 prefled the likenefs of his efience upon the human race, 

 that man refembles it in all its attributes, and (when duly 

 cultivated and difpofed), in the inmofl recefs of his foul 

 can behold and contemplate it; but he hath moreover fo 

 communicated that likenefs to every fubftance and creature, 

 that when once we have attained to a knowledge of the 

 Deity by an inward contemplation of his image, we may 

 look downward from thence to the types and fignatures of 

 created beings and comprehend the wonderful bond of 

 union, and mutually-communicated operation and influx 

 by which all orders of exiftence are conneded. 



6. In the knowledge of this connexion and divine influx 

 upon inferior beings, and of the rank and power of the 

 divine emanations, confifts natural magic ; which whoever 

 hath learnt, is able to exercife authority, not only on the 

 elements, but on the mundane fpirits which prefide over 

 them; to produce wonderful effefts ; to difcover hidden 

 Bivfteries, and to penetrate into the very abyfs of nature. 



-. Since 



