1 40 Of the Advancement of Learning, Lib. IV. 



gate. Logick, intreateth of the VnderiianditJg and Reafon 5 Ethic^ of 

 the if^iU^ Jppetite and affe& ions '■, the one produceth Decrees , the other 

 Aciiovs. It is true that the Imagination in both Provinces, Judicial 

 and Miniflerial, performs the Office of an Agent or Nuncius,or common 

 Atturney. For >S't'»ye fends over all forts of Ideas unto the Imaginati- 

 on^ upon which, Reafon afterwards fits in Judgement : And /lf^« in- 

 terchangeably fends over feiected and approved tdeas to the Imaginati- 

 on, before the Decree can be afted. For Imagination ever precedes 

 voluntary motion and incites it ^ fo that Imagination is a common re- 

 ciprocal Inftrument to both: Saving that this Jamtsh bifronted, and 

 turns faces: For the face towards /ieaytf/z hath the print oi Truth :, but 

 the face towards AClion hath the print of Goodncjs : which neverthe- 

 lc(s are facts, ^ 



Ovid. - ' ' -^taks decet ejfe fororum, 



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Neither is the Imagination ^LX^ztx "^ndi fimpleMeflenger, but is inverted 

 with, or at leaft wife ufurpeth no fmall Authority, belides the duty of 

 the mcflage : For it is well (aid by Arijiotlc, That the Mind hath over the 

 Polit. I ^^^ that command which the Lord hath over a bond-man 5 but the Rea- 

 ffja hath over the Imagination that commandvchich a Mag/Jirate hath over 

 a free Citizen, who may come alfo to rule in his turn. For we fee that 

 in matters of Faith and Religion, xh^ Imagination mourns, and is ele- 

 vated above Reafon , not that Divine Illumination refideth in the Ima- 

 gination 5 (nay, rather ia the high Tower of the mind, and underftand- 

 ing) hut, as in virtues Divine, grace mah^s ufe of the motion of the wiU ^ 

 jo' in Illuminations Divine, grace makes ufe of the Imagination : Which is 

 the Caulethat Religion fought ever an accels, and way to the Mind, by 

 Similitudes, Types^Parables, Vtf.ons, Dreams. Again, it is no fmall Do- 

 minion the Imagination hath in perfwafions, infinuated by the power of 

 Eloquence: for where the minds of men are gently intre'atedjnflamed, 

 and any way forcibly won by thefmooth Artifice of fpeech, all this is 

 done by exalting the Imaginat ion,\\'hich growing hot and impatient, not 

 only triumphs over Reafon 5 but in a fort offers violence unto it ; part- 

 ly by blinding, partly by extimulating it. Neverthelefs I fee no rea* 

 fon why we fhould depart from the former Divifion : For the Imaginati' 

 <?« commonly doth not produce Sciences, for P<7e/;e which hath ever 

 been attributed to the /«/^^(^/»^//ow, is to be efteemed rather a play of 

 the witjthan a knowledge. As for the power of the Imagination tn things 

 Natural, we have aifigned that, a little before , to the Do&rine de Ani' 

 ma. And for the affinity it hath with Rhetorick^, we think it fit to refer 

 it to the Art it (elf, whereof we (hall intreat hereafter. 



§ This Tart of Humane rhilojophy which is Rational or refpe&ing Lo- 

 gick,, is to the Tafte and Palate of many Wits, not fb delightful 5 and 

 feemeth nothing el(e but a net and fnare of thorny fubtilty. For as it 

 s-n.alicii- is truly laid.//i.j/ knowledge is ani mi Pabulum'fQ in the nature of mens ap- 

 '*^' petites, and election of t)ri\^ food, moft men are of the tafte and ftoraach 



of the Ifraelities in the Dcferr, that would fain have turned adollas Car- 

 nium, and were weary of Manna 5 which though it were Celeftial, yet 

 Teemed it lefs nutritiveaiKi comfortable. So generally thofeK/zoir/c^/gej- 

 rdilli bcft, that have an infulion fomcwhat more efculent of flelh in them, 



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