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andblufhj and bend ihe brow much after the fame manner^ and fo for 

 moft part itis in other more fubtile motions. As for Chiromancy it is a 

 raeer impofture. 



fj And astoHchiHgthe'cxpofition of Dreams ••) itis a (ubjed handled iit 

 fome mens writings, but! 6i!d with many idle vanities 5 only thus much 

 for the prefent I do Infinuate that thb knowledge odntcrpreting Dreams^ 

 wants the fupport of a-folijd Bafe , andthat foundation is this, -cohere the 

 fame ejfe£fjs wroHght^ byanirirvardcajife^ that ufeth to be wrought by an 

 cutward j that extern AU /J trafisfoi-med into a Dream. The Ihrcharge 

 of the ftomack from a gro^ vapour^ and from the poife of fome out- 

 ward weight, are alike j wherefore they that labour of the N/g/jr-i(«4re 

 do dream, that a weight is put upon them, with a great preparation of 

 circumftances. The fluiSuation or penfility of the Bowels, from the a- 

 gitation of the waves in the fea, and from the wind gathered about the 

 Diaphragma, are alike : therefore fuch as are troubled with the Hypo- 

 condriack wind, do often dream of Navigations, and Agitations upon 

 the waters. There are an infinite number of fuch like inftances. 



§ The other branch of the knowledge of the league (which we have cal- ' ''"'•''•^•^ 

 led Imprefjron') hath not as yet been collefted into Art, but hath (brae- 

 times intervened among other Treatifes fparfedly, and as in paflage on- 

 ly. It hath the lame Antiftrophe with the former .• for the confiderati- 

 on is double , either how^ and how far tbe humour t and temper apient of 

 the body^ do alter or ivorkjtpon the mind : Or again. How and hew far^ 

 thePajfions and Apprehenflons of the mind do alter or tpork^ upon the Body. 

 The former of thefe we fee fometimes. handled in the Art ofPhyfick 5 

 but the fame hath by ftrange ways infifttjated it felfinto Religion. For 

 the Phy fician prefcribes Remedies to cure the Maladies of the mind 5 as 

 in the cures of Frenzies and Melancholy: they do alfo admiuifter Phy* 

 Gck to exhilerate the Mind ; to raunite and ftrengthen the heart, and 

 {q to increafe the courage, to fharpen and clarifie the wits, to carrobo- ;'''' 

 rate the Memory, andthelike. ButDiets, and choice of Meat?^ and 

 Drinks, and other obfervances touching the Body, in the feft of the 

 Pythagoreans '-i in theHerefie of the ^/4«?cAcc/, and in the law of M,i' 

 hornet do exceed all meafure. So likewife the ordinances of the Ceremo- 

 nialLaw^ interdiSing the eating of the bloudj and the Fat: and diji in- j. 

 guijljing between beajis clean and unclean, fo far as they are for meat, are 

 many and ftridt. Nay the Chriftian faith it (elf, though clear and fin- 

 cere from all clouds of ceremonies, yet retains the u(e of Fafcings; Ab- 

 ftinences 5 and other obfervances, which tend to the maceration and 

 humiliation of the Body 5 as things not meerly Figurative, but alfo 

 Fruitful. The root and life of all (uch prefcripts asthele, (befides the 

 Ceremony it felf, and the pra(3:ice of Canonical obedience,) conliftsin 

 this whereof we fpeak, namely, that there may be a mutual fuffirance and 

 humiliation of the Soul with the Body. And if any man of weaker judge- 

 ment do conceive, that thefe impreffions of the Body upon the Mind, 

 do either queftion the immortality, or derogate from the foveraignty 

 of the (bul over the Body 5 to aneafie doubt, an eafie anfwer is fuifici- 

 ent. Let him take thefe inftances ^ either from an Infant in the Mother} 

 wombe, which if compatible with the Accidents and S^mptomes^ ef the mo- 

 ther, andyetfcparable in its feafon,from the Body of the mother : Or from 

 Monarchsj who though they have abfolutc power, are foraetifnes ini 



dined- 



