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teil che weather > It is nothing eile, but that the wind rifmg by 

 decrees, the fmoorh Sea is capable of a change by it, before \ve 

 can feele it : and that the Aire , being changed by the forerun- 

 ners of worle weather, worketh upon tlie crafiel* parts of out 

 body^when tfie others feeie not fo imall a change : 16 bcafts are 

 more fenfible then we (for they have leffe to difiraft them ) of 

 the fir/t degrees of a changing weather: and that mutation of 

 t!ie Aire v\ it ,out them,maketh fbme change within them ,which 

 they exprefle^by lome outward actions or geltures. 



N, ow they who bierve, how fuch mutation? and a-ftions are . 

 conflantly in them, before fuch or iiich weather, do think they 

 know beforehand,that raine(for example,) or wind, or drought 

 is comming, according to the feverall fignes they have marked 

 in them : wiiidi proceedeth out of the narrowncfle of their dil- 

 courie , that makech them refort to the fame caufes, whenfo- 

 ever they meet with Iikeeife<s:and fo they conceive,that things 

 mult needs pafie in beafts , after the fame tenour, as they do in 

 men. And this is a genera II, and maine errour, running through 

 all the conceptions of mankind, unlefle great heed be taken to 

 prevent it, that what (ubjecl foever they fpeculate upon , whe- 

 ther it be of fubftances , that have a (uperiour nature to theirs, 

 or whether it be of creatures inferiour to them, they areftilapc 

 to bring them to their own ftandard, and to frame iuch concep- 

 tions of them , as they would do of themfelves : as when they 

 will have Angels difcourfe, and move,, and be in a place, in fuch 

 fort as is naturall to men j or when they will have beafts rati- 

 onate and underftand, upon their obferving feme orderly afti- 

 ons performed by them, which in men would proceed from dif- 

 courfe and reafon. And this dangerous Rock (againft which 

 many fine conceptions do fuffer fhipvrrackjwhofbever ftudietfa, 

 iruth,muft have a maine caution to a-voyde. 



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