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3\[aturall Hiflory : 



Emious Eye is caft upon Performs in Glory , and Triumph , and Joy. The Rea[on 

 whereof is, for that, at fuch times, the Spirits come forth moft , into the 

 Outward Parts j and To meet the Percufion of the Envious Eye, more at Hand: 

 And therefore it hath been noted , that after great Triumphs , Men have 

 been ill diipofed for fome dayes following • We fee the Opinion of Fa- 

 ftir.atian is Ancient^ for both EffeSs; Of Procuring Love-, And Sicknefl cant- 

 ed by Entie : And F afci nation is ever by the Eye. But yet if there be any 

 fuch InfeBion from Spirit to Spirit, there is no doubt,but that it workethby 

 Prefefice, and not by the Eye alone ; Yet moft forcibly by the Eye. 



Fear, and s\ume-> are like wife Infective ; for we fee that the Starting of 

 one will make another ready to Start : And when one Man is out of Coun- 

 tenance in a Cimpany, others doe likewife Blufb in his behalf. 



Now we will fpeak of the Force of Imagination upon other 

 (Bodies ; and of the Means to Exalt and Strengthen it; Imagi- 

 nation^ in this Place, I underiland to be , the %epre[entatim of an 

 Individual Thought. Imagination is of three Kinds: The Firft 

 jfoyned with r Belief of that which is to Come > The Second Joy~ 

 ned with Memcrieof that which is "Pdfl • And the Third is 

 callings Tnfent , or as if they were frefent ; For I compre- 

 hend in this, Imagination Feigned , and at Tleafttre-y As if one 

 fliculd Imagine fuch a A/d« to be in the Vejlments of a "Pope j 

 Or to have Jf/wgj. I Tingle out , for this time 3 that which is , 

 \vit\\ Faith, or Belief of that which is to Come. The Inquifiti- 

 on of this SubjeB, in our way , (which is by Induction, ) is won- 

 der lull hard • For the Things z\\zz are reported , are full of Fa- 

 bles j And New Experiments can hardly bee made , but with 

 Extreme Caution. For the Reafon which wee will after de- 

 clare. 



The fower of Imagination is in three Kinds'; The Firft, upon 

 thcBodyoi the Imagmmt > 9 Including likewife the Child in the 

 Miiheis Wimb • T he Second is, the Tower of it upon Dead 'Bodies s 

 as Wants, Wood, Stone, Metal , &c. The Third is ? ene fo^er of it, 

 upon ihe Spiths of Men, and Living Creatures ; And with this laft 

 i we will onely meddle. 

 | The Trobleme therefore is, whether a Man Conftantly , and 

 [Strongly BtleeYmg , that fiich iThing fhall be ^ ( As that fuch an 

 One will LoVeEim • Or , that fuch an One will Grant Eim his 

 Fc quell; Or, that fuch an One (hall Recover a Sicknejfe ; Or the 

 like ■ ) It doth help any thing to the Effetling of the Thing it 

 felf- And here again we mull warily diftinguifh ; For it is not 

 meant ( as hath been partly faid before ) that it fhould help, by 

 Making a Man More Stent, cr more hduflriom • (in which kinde 

 Conftant Belief doth much \ ) But mecrly by a Secret Ope 



ration, 



