Part I.

MAGNETISM,
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by reafon of the flowers of the vine : of both the which latter, if there be a fore-touched conformity, confent, co-grieving, or congratulation ; at leaf, that cannot but be done by an adtion at a dillance : to wit, if the wine be troubled in a cellar under ground, whereunto no vine perhaps is near for fome miles, neither is there any difcourfe of the air under the earth, with the flower of the abfent vine ; but, if they will accufe a common caufe for fuch an effedl, they mull either run back to the liars, which cannot be controuled by our pleafures and liberties of boldnefs ; or, I fay, we return to a confef- lion of an addon at a dillance : to wit, that fome one and the fame, and as yet unknown Ipirit, the mover, doth govern the abfent wine, and the vine which is at a far dillance, and makes them to talk and fuffer together. But, as to what concerns the power of the liars, I am unwilling, as neither dare I, according to my own liberty, to extend the forces, powers, or bounds of the liars beyond or belides the authority of the facred text, which faith (it being pronounced from a divine tellimony) that the liars lhall be unto us for figns,- feafons, days, and years : by which rule, a power is never attributed to the liars, that wine bred in a foreign foil, and brought unto us from far, doth dillurb, move, or render itfelf confufed : for, the vine had at fome time received a power of encrealing and multiplying itfelf before the liars were born : and vegetables were before the liars, and the imagined influx of thefe : wherefore alfo, they cannot be things conjoined in elfence, one whereof could confill without the other. Yea, the vine in fome places flowereth more timely and, in rainy, or the more cold years, our vine flowereth more llowly, whofe flower and llages of flourilhing the wine doth, notwithftanding, imitate ; and fo neither doth it refped the liars, that it Ihould dillurb itfelf at their beck.
In the next place, neither doth the wine hearken unto the flourilhing or blof- foming of any kind of capers, but of the wine alone : and therefore we mull not flee unto an univerfal caufe, the general or univerfai ruling air of worldly fuc- ceffive change; to wit, -we may rather run back unto impoflibilities and ab- furdities, than unto the moll near commerces of.refemblance and unity, although hitherto unpalfable by the fchools.
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MAGNETISM.