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fhould pray One for another, or fhould put'on a Ring or Tablet one foran- 
Butter or Cheefe, afterthe Churning, orthe Rennetbe putin, 
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others fake; whether, if Oneof them fhould break their Vow and Promif 
the other fhould have any feeling of it in abfence. | oe 
lf there be any force in Imaginations and AffeGions of fingu Pp ah 
fons, it is probable the force is much more inthe Joyne-Imaginations and 
Affections of Multitudes ; as if a vi€tory fhould.be won or loft in remote 
parts, Whether isthere not fome fenfe thereof in the people whom itcons 
cerneth, becaufe of the great joy or grief that many men arc poflefled wit 
atonce? Pius Quintw, atthe very time when that memorable vi@ory was 
won by the Chriftians againft the Turks, atthe Naval Battel of Lepanto; be a 
then hearing of Caufes in the Confiftory, brake off fuddenly, and faid to 
thofe about him, Ie isnow more then time ‘we fhould give thanks to. God for the greag 
Victory be hathavanted ws againft the Turks. cis true, that Vi@ory hada Sympa- | 
thy with his Spirit, for itwas meerly his workto conclude the League: Ie] 
may be that Revelation wat Divine. But what thall we fay then toa number | 
of Examples amongft the Grecians and Remans, where the People being in} 
Theatres at Plays, have had news of Victories and Overthrows fome few] 
days, before any Meflenger could come ? i gains, 
~ Te istrue, that that may hold in thefe things which is the general Root} 
of Superftition ; namely, that men obferve when things hit.and not when] - 
they mifs, and commit to Memory the one, and forget and pafs over the | 
other. But touching. Divination and the mifgiving of Mindes; we thall]| 
{peak more when we handle in general the Nature of Adindes, and Souls, and} 
Spirits. a nay . ; : id ok 
We having given formerly fome Rules of Imagination, and touching} 
the fortifying of the fame 5 .we have fet down alfo fome few Inftances and | 
DireAions of the force of Imagination upon Beats, Birds, Gc. upon Plants, | 
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and upon Inanimare Bodies :. Wherein youmuft till obferve, that your Tryals|_ 
be upon Subtil and; Light Mevions. and not the contrary; for you will] 
fooner by Imagination binda Bird from Singing then from Eating or Flying ;}_ 
and I leave it to every man to chufe Experiments which himfelf thinketh | 
moft commodious, giving now but afew Examples of every of the three} 
kindes., |.) +01 ese 
Ufe fome Imaginant ( obferving the Rules formerly prefcribed) for) 
binding of a Bird from finging, and the like of a Dog from barking. Try} 
alfo the |maginationof fome, whom you fhall accommodate with things to 
fortific it in Cock-fights, to make one Cock more hardy, and the other} 
morecowardly... It would betricdalfoin flying of Hawks, or in courfing te. 
of a Decror Hart,with Grey-hounds, or in Horfe-races, and the like com=} 
parative Motions; for you may fooner byImagination, quicken or flack a} 
motion, then raifeorceafeit; as. itis eafier tomake a Doggo flower, then } 
to make him ftand till, thathe may notrun....:. brodiht aaa 
In Plants alfo you may try the force of Imagination upon the lighter | 
fort of Motions; as upon the fudden fading or lively coming up of Herbs ; 
or upon their bending one way or other, orupon their clofingandopen- | 
ing, &c. Halerrted F433 hx Miiog wiliougOjid ae 3] 
ss “For Inanimate things, you may try the force of Imagination upor 
ing the working of Beer, whenthe Barm is put.in; or upon the com 
{vo Atisan ancient Tradition, every where alleaged, for example ° 
Propricties and Influxes, That the Torpedo Af.rina, if itbe touched 
long ftick, doth ftupefie the hand of him that touchethic. It isone de: | 
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