Chap. 23. **Tre4!Jfe*f BODIES. 



qualities; whereof no more reafbn could be given, then if the c- 

 fci^s were infufed by ^Angelical! hands without afli(tance of in- 

 feriour bodies,which ufeth to be the laft refuge of ignorant men, 

 who not knowing what to fay, and yet preluming to fay fbme- 

 thing, do fall often upon fuch cxpreflions, as neither themfelvcs 

 nor their hearers underftand; and that if they be well /canned, 

 do imply contradi-ftions. Therefore we deemed it a kind ofne- 

 ceflity to ftrain our felves to profecute moft of fuch effcfls, even 

 to their notionall connexions with rarity and denfity. And the 

 rather, becaufe it hath not been our luck yet to meet wkli any 

 that hath had the like dcfigne, or hath done any confiderable 

 matter to cafe our pains. Which cannot but make the readers 

 journey fbmewhat tedious unto him to follow all our fteps , by 

 reafbn of the ruggednefle, and untrodeneile of the paths we have 

 walked in. 



But now the effects we fhall henceforward meddle withall,do 

 grow fo particular, and do fwarm into fuch a vaft multitude of 

 feverall little joynts, and wreathy labyrinths of nature, as were 

 impoflibJc in fo fummary a treatife , as we intend, to deliver the 

 eaufes of every one of them exactly; which would require both 

 , large difcourfes and abundance of experiences to acquit our 

 felves as we ought of fuch a task. Nor is there a like need of 

 doing it as formerly, forasmuch as concerneth our defigne; 

 fincc the caufes ofthcm are palpably material!, and the admira- 

 ble artifice of them confifteth onely in the Dedalean and won- 

 derfull ingenious ordering and ranging them one with another. 

 We fhaJl therefore intreat our Reader from this time for- 

 wards to expect onely the common fcquelc of thofe particular 

 effects, out of the principles already l.iid. And when foaie l*hall 

 occurrc, that may peradventure feem at the firft fight to be ena- 

 cted immediately by a virtue fpirituall., and that proceedeth in- 

 divifibly, in a different ftrain from the ordinary proccfles which 

 we (ee in bodies and in bodily things ( that is., by the virtues of 

 rarity and denfity, working by Iccall motion ) we hope he will 

 befatisfied at our hands, if we lay down a mechode, and trace 

 out a courfe, whereby fuch events and operations may follow 

 out of the principles we have laid. Though peadvencurc we (hall 

 not abfolutely convince that every effect is done jurt as we fee it 

 clown in every particular,and thatit may noc as well. be done by 



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