Scalar all Htjlory: 
only the Soule, or Ejfentiall Forme ofch tVniuerfe. This Foun¬ 
dation being Iaid,they mought build vpon i^what they would-, 
For in a Lining Creature, though neuer fo great, ( As for Exam¬ 
ple, in a great Whale, ) the Sen/e, and the Affetts of an one Fart 
of the Body , inftantly make a Tran/curflon throwout the 
whole Body: So that by this they did inflnuate, that no Di- 
ftance of Place , nor Want or Indifpofltion of Matter, could hin* 
dcr Magical Operations ;But that, ( for Example ,) we mought 
here in Europe, hzucSenfe and Feeling of that, which was done 
in China: Andlikewife, we mought worke an yEffeft, ypith - 
out, and againfl Matter : And this, notHolpen by the (Coopera¬ 
tion of Angels, or Spirits , but only by the Vnity and Harmony 
of feature. There were fome alfo, that ftaid not here j but 
went further, and held; That if the Spirit of Man. (whom 
they call the Microcofme,) doe giue a fit touch to the Spirit of 
the World, by ftrong Imaginations, and Beleefes, it might com¬ 
mand Nature; For Paracelfus, andlome darkefome Authors of 
Magic ke, doeaferibe to Imagination Exalted: the Power of Mi¬ 
racle-Working Faith. With thefe vafi: and BottomlcfTe Follies, 
Men hauebcene (in part) entertained. 
Butwc, that hold firme to the WorkesofGod ; And to.the ; 
Senfe, whichds GodsLmpe ; ( Lucerna Dei Spiraculum Homi~ 
nisi ) will enquire with all Sobriety, and Seueritie, whether 
there be to befound, in the Foot-Steps of Nature , any fuch 
Tranfmiflion and Influx of Immateriate Vertues \ And what the \ 
Force of Imagination is j Either vpon the Body lmaginant , or 
vpon another Body /Wherein it will be likethat Labour of Her* 
cules, in Purging the Stable of Augecu, to feparate from Super- 
flit iout, and Magic all Arts, and Obfemations, any thing that is 
I cleane, and pure Naturally And not to be either Contemned, 
or Condemned. And although wee Qiall haue occafion to 
fpcakeofthis in more places than One, yet we will now make . 
fome Entrance thereinto. 
M En are to be Admonifhed, that they doe not withdraw Credit, 
from thcOperationsbyTranfmiflion of Spirits,md Force of Imagina¬ 
tion, becaufe the EjfeBsfailefometimesFot as in InfeBion, and Contagion 
from Body to Body, (as the Plague , and the like,) it is moft certaine,that 
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