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the fantafie and as little can I tell how goe about to feeke any 



experience of it. 



7. But what Rctfon may doe in this particular, we fhall hereafter 



How reafon enquire : and end this Chapter, with collecting out of what is 

 is fcmctimcs f a j j j low i t f arct fj w j t h U s,when we doe any thin[ againft Rea- 



overcome by r n i j -,L i ' - i_ L r 



fenfc and paf-/**' 01 a g>inftour ownc knowledge. If this happen byfurpnfe, 

 Hon. it is plaine that the watch of Reafen was not fo ftrong as it 



fhould have been, to prevent the admittance or continuance ef 

 thofe thoughts, which worke that tranfgreffion. Againe, if it be 

 occasioned by Pajfiott, it is evident that in this cafe,the multitude 

 and violence of thofe fpirits which Pajfion fendeth boyling up 

 to the fantafie, is fo great, as the other fpirics, which are in the 

 jutifdiction and government of Reafon, are not able for the pre- 

 fent to ballance them and (lay their impeuiofity , whiles fhc raa- 

 keth truth appeare. Sometimes wee may obferve, that Reafen 

 hath warning enough, to nuifter together all tar forces, to en- 

 counter, as it were in fct battaile, the affault of fome concupi*- 

 fcence, that fendeth his unruly bands to takepofle/fion of the 

 fanfie, and conftraine it to ferve their defircs, and by it to 

 bring Reafon to their bent. Now if in this pitched field fhee 

 loofe the bridle, and be carryed away againft her owne rcfo- 

 lutions , and be forced like a captive to obey the others lawes, 

 it is cleare that her ftrength was not fo great as the contrary 

 factions. 



The caufe of which is evident ; for we know that (he can 

 doe nothing, but by theaffiftance of the fpirits which inhabit 

 the braine: now then it followeth, that if flic have not the 

 command of thofe fpirits which flock thither, (he muftof ne- 

 ccfllty be carryed along by the ftrcarne of the greater and ftronger 

 multitude ; which in our cafe, is the throng of thofe that are fent 

 up into the braine by the dcfired object ; and they come thither 

 fo thick and fo forcibly, that they difplace the others which 

 fought under Reafons Standard : whichif they doe tetally, and 

 excluding Reafons party, doe entirely poffefle the fanfie with 

 their troupes , (as in madnefle and in extremity of fudden pafiion 

 it happencth^ then muft Retfon wholly fellow their fway , with- 

 out any ftrugling at all againft it ; for whatibever beateth on the 

 fanfie, occafioneth her to worke I and therefore when nothing 

 beateth there but the meffcngers of fome ienfuall object, {he can 



make 



