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being in farre Distant Places, fhould pray one ior Another; Or fhould put 

 on zRinoox: Tablet, one for anothers Sake; Whether if one of them fhould 

 break their Vow and Prom.fi, the other {hould have any feeling of it , in 

 Ahfence. 



If there be any Force in Imaginations and AjjeBiohS of Singular Persons; It 

 is Probable the Force is much more m the Joynt Imaginations and AjjeBions 

 of Multitudes : As if a Victory fhould be won, or loft in flwwe /Vm, whe- 

 ther is there not fome Senfe thereof) in the People whom it concerned! ,be-- 

 caufe of the great Joy, or Grief, that many Men are poffeft with at once \ 

 Pius Quintus,&t the very time when that Memorable ViBory was won , by 

 the c few/fows againft the Turks, at the Naval Battel o£ Lepanto , being then 

 hearing of £K*J$i in the ConfiHory, brake off fuddenly, and faid to thofe a- 

 bout him, /£ is «cn> worc flpft fww HA* fhould give thanks to God , for the great Vi- 

 Bory he hath granted us again ft the Turks , It is true , that ViBory had a Sym- 

 pathy with his Spirit ; For it was meerly his. Work, to conclude that 

 League. It may be,that Revelation was Divine; But what fhall we fay then, 

 to a Number of Examples amongft the Grecians, and Romans ? Where the 

 People, being in T\.eaters,at Plaieshwe had New sot Victories, and Overthrows, 

 fome few daies, before any Mefjenger could come. 



It is true , that that may hold in thefe things , which is the 

 generall $%wt of Superftmon: Namely, that men obferve when 

 Things Hit, and not when they Mifs >' And commit to Memoty 

 the one , and forget and palTe over the other. But touching Di- 

 ruination, and the MifgiYtngot Minds , we fliall ipeak more when 

 we handle in generall the Nature of Mindes , and Souks 9 and 

 Spirits. 



VVe having given formerly fome Rules of Imagination ; and touching 

 the Fortifyingoi the fame. We have fet down alfo fome few Instances , 

 and Directions, of the Force of Imagination , upon Beafls, Birds, &c. upon 

 Plants , and upon Inanimate Bodies i Wherein you muft ft ill obferve, that 

 your Trials be upon Subtil and Light Motions, and not the contrary For 

 you will fooncr, by Imagination, bind a Bird from Singing , than from Eat- 

 ing,ot Elying'.kwd I leave it to every Man to chufc Experiments, which htm 

 felf thinketh moft commodious; Giving now buta few Examples of every ol 

 the Three Kinds. 



life fome Imaginant, (obferving the Rults formerly prefcribed} for Bind 

 ing of a Bird from singing-, And the like of a Dog from Barking. Try alfo 

 the Imagination of fome, whom you (hall accommodate with things to for- 

 tifieir,in Ccck-Figbts,to make one C«£ more Hardy, and the other more 

 Cowardly. It would be tried alfo in Flying of Hawks °, Or in Courfmg of a 

 Deer, or Hart, with Giej-Hounds Or in Hor/>- R ^s ; And the YikeCompa- 

 rathe Motions:Vor you may fconer by Imagination, quickcn,or flack a Mo 

 tion, than raife, or ceafe it 5 As it is eaficr to make a Dog goe flower , than 

 to make him (land ft ill that he may not run. 



In Plants alfo, you may try the force of Imagination, upon the Lighter fort 

 of Amotions : As upon the hidden Fading , or Lively Commirg upoi Herhs ; 

 Or upoo their Bending one way, or other; Or upon their Clofing, and Open- 

 ing, &c. 



For Inanimate Things, you may try the Force of Imagination, upon Stay- 

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