Qentury X, 



For tne Caufe of this Succefje, is ( ofc ) to be truely afcribed, unto the Force 

 oiAjjeBion and Imagination, upon the Body Agent-, And then by a Seconda- 

 ry Msans, it may work upon a Divas Bod): As for example- If a Man car- 

 ry a W/wrfj 5<m/, or a Ring, or fome Part of a Bevi/fa belceving ftrongly, that 

 it will help him to obtain his Love;Or to keep him from danger of hurt in 

 Fight; Or to prevail in a Sute; &c. it may make him more ABive, and 

 dufirious ; And again , more Confident, and Per filing s than otherwife he 

 would be. Now the great EfjeBs that may come of Industry ^ai\A Perseve- 

 rance, (efpecially in Cm/7 Bufineff e,)who knoweth not? For we fee Audaci- 

 ty doth almoft bind and mate the maker Sort of Minds ; And the State of 

 Humane ABions is fo variable, that to try things oft, and never to give o- 

 ver, doth Wonders : Therefore it were a Meer Fallacy and Mistaking , to 

 afcribe that to the Force of Imagination , upon another Body, which is but 

 the Force of Imagination upon the Proper Body: For there is no doubt , but 

 that Imagination 3 and Vehement AffeBion, work greatly upon the Body of 

 the Imaginant : As we fhall i "hew in due place. 



Men are to be Admonifhed, that as they are not to miftake the Caufesoi 

 thefe Operations; So, much lclfc, they are to miftake the FaB, or BffeB; 

 And rafhly to take that for done, which is not done. And therefore, as di- 

 vers wife fudges have prefcribed, and cautioned, Men may not too rafhly 

 beleeve, the Confefsion of pitches, nor yet the Evidence againft them. For 

 the Witches themfelves are Imaginative, and beleeve oft-times, they doe 

 that, which they do not: And People are Credulous in that point, and ready 

 to impute Accidents, and Natural Operations, to witch-Craft. It is worthy 

 the Obferving, that both in Amient, and Late times; ( As in the TheJJalian 

 Witches , and the Meetings of witches that have been recorded by fo ma- 

 ny late Confessions , ) the great Wonders which they tell, of Carrying in the 

 J&% Transforming themfelves into other Bodies, &c. are ftill reported to 

 be wrought, not by Incantation or Ceremonies; but by Ointments , and An- 

 ointing themfelves all over. This may juftly move a Man to think , that 

 thefe Fables are the iff efts of Imagination : For it is certain, that Ointments 

 do all, ( if they be laid on any thing thick, )by Stoppingoi the Pow,fhut in 

 the Vapours, and fend them to the Head extremely. And for the Particular 

 Ingredients of thole Magical Oxntments, it is like they are Opiate , and Sopo- 

 riferous. For Anointing of the Fore-head , Ncek , Feet , Back-Bone, we know 

 isufedfbr Procuring Dead sleeps : And if any Man fay , that this EfjeB 

 would be better done by Inward Potions; A nlwer may be made, that the 

 Medicims, which go to the Ointments, are fo ftrong, that if they were ufed 

 inwards, they would kill thole that ufe them : And therefore they work 

 Potently, t ough Outwards. 



Wee will divide the Severall Kinds of the Operations \ by 

 Tranlmtjsionof Spirits , and Imagination; Which will give no 

 fmall Light to the Experiments that follow. All Operations by 

 Ti an/mij sion of Spirits , and Imagination have this • That they 

 VVork at Dittance, and not at Touch ; And they are thefe being 

 diftinguifhed- 



Tne Firft is the Tranfmifuon or Emission, of the Thinner and more Airy 

 Parts of Bodies; As in Odours, and InfeBions; And this is, of all the reft , the 

 moft Corporeal, But you muft remember vvithall,that there be a number of 

 ithofe£w/fsw/25,both Vnwholejome, and wholefome, that give no Smell at all; 

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