Governed thereby Yet also as they are such proper Inferior Spirits Subordinate unto it and Conjunct with it in the same Compositum so there is as I said and shall now shew a very notable Combination between them which may plainly appear by many Extraordinary Effects and such as may strangely vary and alter them thus as I have formerly observed Mirth helps Digestion and is as it were the Nurs of Nutrition wheras the Sorrow of the World worketh Death and these Sensitive Affections not only caus several Motions of the Bloud and Alterations therin but also in the very Systole and Diastole and Palpitations of the Heart and which is yet more Notable in the very Generation of another Individuum and not only the Motive Power of the Appetite but also the Imagination itself doth strangely Operate heerin as we commonly say Conceit may do much that is concerning any thing which is Internal either in our Mind or Body yea in the very Foetus while it is in the Womb and Nourished by the Parent and is yet as it were some part of the Compositum therof especialy while it is more Young and Tender and more capable of such Impressions but chiefly in the very Act of Generation which Iacob knew or was Supernaturaly taught and assisted by the Angel who appeared to him for as it grows more Perfect in itself and is neerer to Exclusion it becomes more Separate from the Parent and another Compositum in itself and more firm and strong and so less capable of Impressions by another and thus I conceiv that the Imagination or Appetite of the Father doth not Operate upon the Foetus in the Womb of the Mother nor of an Hen upon an Egg Excluded whiles she Incubates and is hatching it But the most wonderfull thing is how the proper Vegetative Spirit of any Sensitive Animal by the Command or Intimation of the Sensitive Imagination and Appetite so Fansying and Affecting some other Vegetative thing should Actuate and produce in the Foetus not only Signatures therof but also somewhat of the same Vegetative Nature as I have been very credibly informed of a Person whom I well knew and have often seen the Mole on his Chin which was said to have been caused by a Cherry thrown at his Mother while she was Pregnant of him in a Frolike among Ladys who were then eating Cherries that every year in the Season when Cherry trees begin to budd the Mole began to budd as I may say and so ripen more and at last putt forth some little Tufts and be very angry and troublesome and then again as the Season of Cherâ—ys departed to decreas likewise and be less sensible whereby it did plainly discover something of the Cerasine Nature Inoculated as it were into the Body of a Man Wherof I know no other account to be given but only this Combination and Cooperation of the Sensitive and Vegetative Spirit and though as I have shewed there is no Universal Spirit or Anima Mundi from which such particular Spirits may be derived and produced in any Bodys whatsoever yet it is truly enough said Omnia Animarum sunt plena if it be rightly understood that is as in the first Chaos the Spirits were latent in their proper Elements out of which they were produced in the Six Days so still there are Aethereal and Aereal Spirits in Aether and Air out of which Comets and the like Aethereal or Aereal Meteors may be produced and so the Terraqueous Globe or the Cortex therof is Pregnant not only with the Elementary Spirits of Water and Earth but also of Vegetative and Sensitive Spirits which while they are therin as in their Chaos are dispersed and diffused and so Confounded as in a Coagulum Inane and Inform that is without any Oeconomy or Inviduality which is afterward Actuated and acquired by Successive Generation still producing them according to the Archetypes or Protoplasta of Original Generation Instituted in their first Improper Creations as I have often mentioned and though they cannot always attein their Regular Perfections according to the Law of Nature yet there may be several Degrees therof to which they may arrive and so their productions be more or less Anomalous or Monstrous by reason of many Obstructions and Defects wherof the greatest is the general Curs of Nature for the Sin of Man so that now indeed both he and all this Spectable World which was given unto him and all things therin have some Monstrosity in them and there is now none of them exactly Perfect according to the first Instituted Law of Nature but all are Heterocliticaly Redundant or Deficient and though we take less notice of others yet some are so mishapen that we Eminently term them Monsters and others such Imperfect Inceptions that we hardly discern any thing of the Specifike Nature therin and such I conceiv this Cerasine Meteor as I may so term it in the Body of Man to be whos 's Cerasine Spirit though the Compositum therof was Corrupted by Eating and Conversion into the Nutriment of the Mother and consequently of the Child in the Womb yet was latent in the new Compositum Generated by that Corruption and that by the Imperium and Impression of the Mothers Imagination and Appetite working on her proper Vegetative Spirit and that on its own Nutriment the Cerasine Spirit was Equivocaly and very Rudely and Imperfectly produced For thus as I have said the Vegetative Spirit doth Actuate and produce Elementary Mistion Qualitys and Species as Subordinate and Subservient to itself though Classicaly different and so it may also Imperfectly produce another Vegetative Spirit which is of the same Classis with itself as well as one Spirit of the same Classis may be Mist with another and thus I conceiv that as there apparently is an Individual Oeconomy in every particular Compositum so also a Specifical and Classical Polity Subordination and Combination of several Natures especialy in the same Compositum and that thus the Sensitive Spirit by its own Specifike Facultys doth Command and Govern its own proper Vegetative Spirit which also by its own Specifike Powers doth Serv and Obey it and likewise Order and Govern the proper Elementary Mistion that it requireth which accordingly doth Serv and Obey it Naturaly with all Suavity and Facility And thus as the Imagination doth more Spiritualy and Sensitively Irradiate the Species whereby it doth Perceptively Contemplate them so the Appetite doth also Sensitively enliven the Spirits whereby it doth Spontaneously Guide and Govern them without any Violence or Reluctance unless their happen some Dâ—stemper and Disorder among them and I suppose that as there are these Confederacys and Combinations between Spirits according to the Scale of Nature and Oeconomy therof so also there is a Subordinate Approximation though no Participation Communication or Confusion of their different Natures and that the proper Vegetative Spirit of any Sensitive Animal is farr more Excellent and Spiritual then of
without any Local Motion and when they are in Local Motion are Commonly rather Causes therof then Caused by it and so they Caus Motion in the very Matter which of it self would Perpetualy Rest in the Center and due Position of it Self as I have said and shall heerafter prove and is Disturbed and Moved by the Potentiae of Spirits which alter the Natural Position Figure Density and Gravity therof and Properly it hath no Natural Motion of it Self but only to restore it Self unto Rest. Nor can the Matter and Motion and any or all the other Accidents or Variations therof Formaly Caus the Spirits or Spiritual Qualitys but are only Instruments and fit Bodies therof which they form for themselves Take Wax and Move it this Way or that Way or Mold it into this or that Figure or Discind it into any Threads or Corpuscles or Mechanicaly Vary the Matter therof how you will yet it will still be Wax as well as every part of Water is Water Unless there be also some new Generation or Corruption therof by Spirits and Spiritual Qualitys as I shall shew heerafter Wherefore that which some call Texture whether Extrinsecal as Figure Porosity or plain Interweaving of Threads or Filaments and the like or Intrinsecal as Density and Rarity which indeed are the only true Intrinsecal Textures of Bodys and yet are wholy denied by our Textorian Philosophers as well as Local Motion is only Instrumental and no Formal Caus or Being of any Spirit or Spiritual Quality And so take Common Water and Spirit of Wine Vitriol or any stronger Spirits and setting them in their several Vessels one by another Inspect them with a Microscope and see if you can discern any such Proportionable and Consyderable Difference of their Extension Figure Density Gravity Local Motion or any Corporeal Texture whatsoever as there is of their Spirits and Spiritual Qualitys Or take any Aethereous Globules or Materia Subtilis Emittent Transmittent or Remittent if you can tell where to find it or the most Subtile and Pure Air which may be had on the Top of the highest Mountain and which is Common Matter as well as any other and putting this Matter into any Windgun Airpump or Expansor or any such Torcular or other Rack of Nature whatsoever or applying to it any Chymical Fire or Heat or Salt and Snow or what you will and vex it how you will and try if you can force it to Confess it Self to be any other thing then Air or Extort from it all or any of these Spiritual Diversifications or such as may be Effected by the like Experiments made of Vapor Water or Earth or any parcel or part of the Terraqueous Globe and Cortex therof Which God having made to be the Native Countrey and Region of Animals hath also Impregnated with such Material Spirits and their Spiritual Qualitys which he did first Produce and still may be Produced ouâ— of them Wherefore since Matter and Spirits do thus Differ not only in our Mind and Reason but in their own Natures I Conclude them both Realy to Be and Realy to Differ one from the other and not to be only Matter and the Motions therof VIII Accidents are either Common or Proper Common Accidents are such as were Concreated and Actualy Existed together with the Substances in the Begining and without which no Substances or any Created Entity whatsoever can Actualy Exist as all Quantitys whether discrete as Number for every Creature that is whatsoever it be must also be Numerable Or Successive as Duration for every Creature that is whatsoever must also be Durable or Temporary Or Consistent as Extension which though is be in it Self Proper to Matter yet as the Matter of the whole World is a Common Matter so as I have shewed it doth Coextend or Contein all Spirits and every Creature that is in Heaven or Earth must necessarily be Localy therin that is in the Universal Body of the Matter or Vbi therof and in some Part or Place therof that is it must be there where it is and no where els at the same Time Proper Accidents are such as Originaly Flow from and Subsist in their Proper Substances as Consistent Quantity Extension Figure Density and the rest in Matter and Spiritual Qualitys in Spirits Again these Simple Accidents may be either Compounded together or Several and yet mutualy Relating one to another and Such Relations may also be Real as First and Last in Successive Quantity or Time for they Realy are Such in the Successive Nature therof which otherwise should not be Successive and are not only Notional such as First or Last in Consistent Quantity or Extension for they are not Realy such in the Consistent Nature therof becaus it is Consistent altogether and so the First may be Last or the Last First according to our Notion and Institution therof Also there are other more Complex Relations which may likewise be Real either Mathematical as a Triangle and three several Lines are different things or Physical as Beauty which is a Relative Conformity of severall Lineaments and Colors to the Physical Law therof Or Moral as Virtue which is a Relative Conformity of Actions Modes and Circumstances to the Moral Law therof Or Theological as Piety which is a Relative Conformity of Actions Modes and Circumstances to the Theological Law therof and the like which being more Complex are also more Curious and Excellent and the Relative Conformitys therof are Not only Real but also the Excellencys and Perfections of those Realitys wherin they Relatively and Realy Subsist And this Relative Reality though iâ— doth Subsist in the particular Entitys wherof they are the Relations yet doth Consist in the very Relative Conformity therof for their particular Entitys being Inverted will vary them as a Triangle may so be made a Zeta or Pi or render that which was Beautiful Deformed and that which was Virtuous Vitious and that which was Pious Impious And heer I shall Conclude with this general Observation That though Substances Excell in Entity becaus they Subsist in themselvs yet Accidents Excell in Bonity becaus they Perfect their Substances For such indeed was that great Difference between the first Chaos and the six Days Works Perfected therin SECTION V. And the Earth was without form and void And Darknes was upon the face of the Deep EXPLICATION The Elementary Globe of Earth Water Air and Aether was first Created Inform and Inane without any of those Actual Compositions Mistions Figures and Virtues which were afterward Produced in the Six Days ILLUSTRATION 1. Of the fower Elements 2. Of the Chaos 3. Of Quantity 4. Of Number 5. Of Time 6. Of Extension 7. Of Figure 8. Of Porosity 9. Of Density and Rarity 10. Of Gravity and Levity 11. Of Rest and Motion 12. Of Place Space and Vacuity I. WE have heer a farther Explication in the Text itself of the Heaven and Earth Created in the Begining Wherof it is again said
be both from the same Principle of Motion to prevent Vacuity and tend to the same Union of the Matter though they may Vary the Station therof becaus the Station which is of Convenience is also Subordinate to the Union which is of Necessity But to affirm that Bodys of Matter are in themselvs Indifferent to Motion or Rest and so being once put into Motion would Move alway if there were no Obex or Impediment is most contrary to the very Nature of Matter which would never Move itself if it were not first Removed by others and of Motion itself which is only to reduce it to Rest and to all Sens for we feel our own Bodys and so do all other Bodys as they are Bodys to affect Rest and return unto it assoon as they may though while they are Moved by the Active Spirits they can not Rest in themselvs but Distinctly consydered in themselvs as Bodys they are only Passive and so indeed Naturaly apt to be Moved by the Spirits but not to Move themselvs and Torpid having no Activity in themselvs whereby to resist the Spirits or Potentiae therof but only a Dull Pondus or Heavines And that Natural Affection of Union or Station which is in themselvs is not any such Power or Strength as the Consistence of the Earth wherof I shall discours heerafter but only a Stupid Acquiescence in itself And that very Motion whereby they preserv their Union or recover their Station is only an Infirmity that is an Inclination unto and Recumbence of one Body upon another for a mutual Support or a Succumbence or Sinking and Falling Downward for want of such Support which are all Symptoms of Weaknes and not of any Strength And all the Motion of Matter is only Local and not Active or Operative in itself like the Motions of Spirits but as an Instrument of their Spiritual Qualitys as I have said Nor is Local Motion strictly consydered as such in itself either the Action of the Mover or Passion of the Moved nor both the Action and Passion of any Automatous Mover and Moved but the very Moving or Transition from one Place to another And thus Eo Curro Fugio Volo and the like Words of Local Motion are all of a Neutral Signification neither Active nor Passive And though therupon doth ensue a Variation of the Distance of the Body Moving from or toward all other Bodys in the World yet it s own Motion consydered in itself is only a Variation of its own Locality and that Body itself only so Moveth and none other Body is thereby Moved besides itself unles it be also Impelled or Attracted by it otherwise but Resteth in its own former Locality which it had in the great Body of the World Otherwise when any one particular Body Moveth all other particular Bodys in the whole World and all Parts of Bodys which are thereby Distanced more or less from it or toward it or this way or that way according to the Motion of that one Body Moved should likewise be Moved thereby And so if Matter and Motion were the Natural Principles of Generation and Corruption as some affirm then by such Motion of any particular Body which is a Part of the Matter and of all the Parts and Particles therin and consequently the Generation and Corruption therof by such Motion all other particular Bodys and all the Parts and Particles therof should be conformably Moved and consequently so Generated and Corrupted which doth confound their own Principles Oportet esse memorem But I do acknowledg that as the Body is the Subject Matter so also that the Local Motion of the Parts and Particles therof is very Instrumental in Generation and Corruption by Spirits which are the Movers Operators and Architects therof whereby they make fitt Seat and Officines for themselves wheras otherwise the Body or Matter hath in itself only that Principle of Local Motion which is to Union and Station as I have shewed and though Spirits may Vary the Station yet they can never Vary the Union of Bodys becaus they are also within the same Vbi of the Circumference of the Universal Body of the World and the whole Extension therof which therefore they may not break or transgress and they Inhabit in several Stations therof according to the Nature of those Bodys which they require or if they require no Body as Angels they may indeed pass through the whole Globe but can not go beyond it as I have shewed But Rest and Motion to this Union and Station are as I have said Affections of the Matter Subsisting in it Mediately but Immediately in the other Proper Affections therof that is Rest is the Acquiescence of Matter in that Union and Station and Motion the Tendence of it therunto Now from this Union or Unition is the Adhesion of Matter which is more Naturaly and Necessarily effected thereby then by or with any Adamantine Chains or Ligaments whatsoever for so Nature alway worketh her own Works by her own Natural and Internal Principles and needeth no such Artificial or Mechanical Hooks and Clasps and I know not what Intangling rather then Uniting Figures which some have vainly Excogitated Wheras the very Homogeneity of the Matter Inclineth it of itself to Union with itself and Discontinuity is only from Heterogeneous Spirits as I have shewed which make several Heterogeneous Composita that are therefore Spiritualy Continuous only in themselvs and Contiguous one with another and yet even in them all the Matter is still Continuous to and with itself as it was before and so continues to be one Universal Body of the whole World Nor is this Motion to Union so Powerful in Spirits as it is in Matter becaus it is not so Necessary in them yet any Homogeneous Composita are not so easily Discontinued or Severed as Heterogeneous and therefore have also their Motions of Restitution and some as Magnets do not only Incline but notably attein this Unition of their Spiritual Homogeneity wherof I shall Discours heerafter And now will proceed farther to inquire into the Degrees of the Motion of Matter and of the Velocity therof I have said before that more Matter of less Extension or any Dens Body Moves more swiftly which is one Internal Cause of the Velocity therof And so also the more or longer it Moves it Moves more Swiftly which is another Internal Cause therof and it is not only from the External Motion of Restitution in the Air above or behind the Bullet or other Body falling through it which did Impell and Violently Dimove it and so when the Bullet is past through that Part of the Air which was so Impelled and Dimoved it returns smartly again by that Motion of Restitution behind and upon the Bullet which may give the Bullet some small Impuls and so caus it to Move somewhat faster and then the Bullet Moving faster Impells and Dimoves the next part of the Air more forcibly which accordingly increaseth the
Motion of the Restitution therof and so causeth the Increments of the Velocity of the Motion of the Bullet And the Bullet in Descending also Impells and summoves that part of the Air which is beneath and before it and that part the next and so prepares a way or Vortex for itself whereby it may more easily and consequently more swiftly Descend But though it be true that either Addition of Force or Subtraction of Impediment may Accelerate Motion and heer perhaps both together do concurr and may somewhat conduce therunto yet I am not so Curious as others to apprehend either or both of these to be sufficient and the only Causes of so consyderable an Effect as the notable Increas of Velocity of Motion in such Descending Bodyâ— but rather ascribe it to the Internal and Proper Nature of the Motion itself which being capable of such Degrees in itself as well as Density in which it doth Subsist and while the Body was in Rest was only in Potentiality and no Actual Motion till it began to Move and as it then begins to Actuate itself so the longer it continues it doth still Actuate itself more and more by Degrees in the Natural Motion therof to the Center And there is no such Increment of Velocity in the Weighâ— of a Clock moving Sensim Nor is there any Attractive Virtue in the Center itself as I have said becaus that is only a Point wherin such Virtue can not Subsist and only a Term of Locality Downward which God hath Immovably fixed and ordeined so to be as the Circumference is Upward and it doth no more Attract Downward then the other doth Upward And any Equal Weight in the same Medium whether it be placed in a higher or a lower part therof Weighs and Moves Equaly first and according to the continuance of the Motion so are the Degrees of Velocity Nor is it from the Magnetike Virtue of the Earth for such Motions are Proportionably Equal as I suppose throughout and not Per Graduâ— but Per Saltum as I shall shew heerafter and I know no Difference heerin between a Bâ—llet of Lead and a Bullet of Steel or Magnet so Descending And the common Observation that Natural Motions are Swifter and Vâ—olent Slower toward their End is not generaly true of all but only of the Matter for the Planetary Motions are Natural but Equal Which Instance may well prove what I said formerly That Spiritual Motions are for Motion and Action but Motion of the Matter is only to Rest and therefore Slow when the Body is first Removed from its Rest any Remotion from which it Disaffecteth and Swifter as it draweth neerer to the next place of Rest which it Affecteth Also this plainly sheweth that Motion of Descâ—nt is Realy Different from all the former Affections of the Matter becaus it so Varieth itself though they continue the same Now it is also observable that according to the Increas of the Swiftness of the Motion so is also the Strength of Percussion for Swiftnes is a Conspissation or as I may so say Condensation of the Motion and all Condeâ—sation being an Union doth fortifie Again as Motion is an Advantage of Percussion so it is also of Penetration becaus Penetration is by Percussion and a Swifter and Stronger Percussion maketh a Swifter and Stronger Penetration which is observable in Bows Balists Catapults and the like wherin the quick and smart Delivery maketh the great Percussion and Penetration and Time is very consyderable heerin for if the Percussion be so Strong and Swift that the Body Percussed hath not requisite Time to Resist it pierceth through it as if iâ— were only a Medium as a Bullet shot Directly through a Bord or Glass maketh only a round Hole in it wheras the same Strength not so Swift would make it first Bend and Cleav or Break which shew a Partial Resistance And so if the Percussion be more Swift then Strong whereby it hath not requisite Time to Penetrate it will be more Resisted as a Bullet shot Obliquely will Reflect from Water or as they say Graze as also Oister-shells wherwith Boys use to make Ducks and Drakes as they call them wheras in more time they would Sink into the Water Also all Motions of Percussion or Penetration are Violent as to the Body Percussed or Penetrated though the other may Move Naturaly as a Bullet falling through Air or Water Naturaly Downward doth Violently Percuss and Penetrate the Air or Water which is thereby Dislocated and Violently Elevated as I have said and it seems to me that even that Motion of the Bullet is also as it were Violent in respect of the Place of Rest from which the Bullet first Moveth which maketh it to be so Slow at first and only Nâ—tural in respect to the next Place of Rest to which it Moveth which maketh it so Swift at last as I have said but the Bullet shot is first put into Motion by the External Impression and that Motion being wholy Violent is Swiftest at first and Slowest at last And yet the Motion continueth Proportionably according to the Impression though that last no longer then the very Contact and is Discontinued with it Nor can I conceiv that that there is any Continuation therof or Magical Line of Motion between such a Mover and Moved as some have fansied for the Impression being an Accident must necessarily Subsist in its own Substance and can not Migrate into another nor is the Potentia which maketh the Impression Emanant but Inherent Certeinly this is a Mystery in Nature and I know no Instance which doth more seemingly prove a Migration of Accidents and I suppose the disproving heerof will very much confirm the contrary Truth Now as I have said before the Matter having Naturaly in itself Motion is putt into it and the Motion Actuated by any Violent Impression as well as by Natural Tendence to Union or Station and that which is most wonderful heerin is that the External Impression doth not only Actuate the Motion at first but Divert the Natural Tendence therof Downward and Direct it another way But as I have said there is in Matter not only a Motion to Station which is Downward but also to Union which is generaly Directed by the other Downward but may be any way as sometimes it is Upward and this Motion which is most Natural and Principal is also the Universal Motion of Matter and being Diverted and Directed Violently by the External Impression doth carry the Body that way yet so as it doth only Divert and not destroy it or the other Notion of Descent which more Particylarly is to Station and that is Particularly also Natural whereby the Body hath still a Nisus and Inclination that way And the Diversion of the Motion being Violent is as I have also said Strongest at first and the Natural Weakest and so the Violent Diversion doth overcome the Natural Motion of Descent and Proportionably Divert it as in
Flying or Swimming and while it doth Totaly prevail against the Motion of Descent carrieth the Body in a Direct Line and Level any other way though with some Decrement of the force so that a Bullet shot out of a Gun doth not Move with an Equal Force so long as it flys Levell as may appear by the Unequal Execution that it doth at a neerer or farther Distance within that Levell and so doth Decreas by Proportionable Degrees or if it be short Perpendicularly Upward it will Decreas in Swiftnes and Strength till it return again Downward which is the very Difference between such Violent and Natural Motions heerin And as Rest and Motion are seemingly Contrary and yet Motion is indeed Subordinate and Subservient to Rest so is the Natural Motion to this Violent Diversion so long as it is Predominant over it All which I shall manifestly approve by the common Experiment of a Ball Rebounding from a Paviment of Stone Certeinly the Ball first falls Perpendicularly upon the Paviment by its own Natural Motion of Descent which being greater then is sufficient to carry it to its next Place of Rest and being stop'd by the Stone is Reflected Upward and that is a Motion Diametricaly Opposite to the former and is by reason of that Diversion and Direction which it receiveth from the Paviment Externaly and yet not by any Continued Impression therof but only from its own Natural Motion Actuated in itself and so Diverted and Directed thereby For the Paviment of Stone being Consistent and Quiescent can add nothing to it nor make any such Impression upon the Ball as an Hand may by throwing or beating it back or a Racket by the Springines of the Strings first yielding and then Repercussing it nor is there any such Springines in the Ball which falleth upon the Paviment and there is the same Motion of a Marble or the like most Consistent and not Springy or yielding Globules But both the Direct and Reflex Motion are from the Ball or Marble themselvs and the Motion therof as the Emanation of Rays which are Naturaly Reflexive aswell as Emanant And as the Bullet â—o also the Ball or Marble by their own Natural Motion so Dâ—verted do by Degrees prevail against that Violent Diversion and at last attein their Natural Rest. And I suppose that if an Hole were made through the Body and Center of the Earth and a Bullet drop'd in it the Bullet would pass beyond the Center forward and backward like a Pendulum or Needle by its own Motion Actuated in itself and so by Degrees return to it Now if the Ball or Marble fall by a Diagonial Declivity as from a Penthous Roof or Hill or the like then becaus it half Resteth and half Moveth that Motion acquireth only half the Increments or Degrees of Velocity and may describe a Quadrant of a Proportionable Cycloid in the Descent afterward upon the Paviment and as I suppose a Granado shot from a Mortarpiece Diagonialy doth from the Angle of Inclination or Zenith describe such a Quadrant between the Perpendicular and Arch of the Circle which I leav to the Curious more Exactly to determin And there is the like Reason of the Semicircular Vibrations of the Pendulum wherof the Center of Extension is the Point where the Line hangs and whereby the Pendulum is Produced to the Extremity of the Semidiametrical Plane where the Arch therof begineth Downward and then is let go but cannot Descend Perpendicularly Downward becaus the Line which is suspended at the Center doth stop it and so Divert and Direct its own Motion of Descent accordingly to describe almost a Semicircle half about that Center which it plainly doth without any External Impression or Reflexion from any other Body but only by its own Natural Motion so Diverted and Directed and by Proportionable Decrements as is aforesaid as the Needle of the Compass doth also so Move Horizontaly by a greater Motion of Verticity then is sufficient to reduce it to the Pole and so at last the Natural Motion prevailing against the Violent Diversion it Resteth Perpendicularly upon the Nadir of the Arch which it describeth and is Correspondent to the Center of the Perpendicular Line And probably such Decrements of Violently Diverted Motions are Proportionable to the Increments of Natural Motion And perhaps Motions of Restitution which are Spiritual and from the Potentia of Spirits are heerin Analogous to the Natural Motion of Matter and so a Spring of Steel beat one way seems to make one Vibration almost as much the other way and the many Vâ—brations in the Torricellian Experiment are from such Causes It may be also inquired whether there are such Increments of the Natural Motion to Union Upward aswell as to Station Downward as whether a Bullet which is suck'd up by a mans Breath through a longer Musket barrel doth Ascend more Swiftly and more Strongly then if it were shorter or Per Saltum like the Motion of Magnets for it is by the Sucking and Expanding of the Included Air thereby which when it is so far Expanded that the Retractive Potentia therof is more Praepotent then the Pondus of the Bullet and the Air being still suck'd the Bullet doth by the other Motion of Matter to Union as Naturaly follow it to prevent Vacuity which I shall shew heerafter as if it did Descend by the Motion to Station or at least equaly as swiftly at last as at first like Aether And I shall now observ one thing more in such Diverted Motions which I have before intimated that if the Impetus or Force therof which is so Actuated be greater then can be spent in carrying the Body Moved forward by reason of the Resistance of the Medium or otherwise then it not only so carry's it Directly but the Excess therof doth also Move the Body Circularly Thus a Bullet or Arrow discharged Violently from a Gun or Bow besides the Direct Motion therof Moves also Circularly And so in a Whirlpitt which hath a Vent at the Botâ—om whereby all the Parts of the Water above it are putt in Motion as I have shewed and yet can not all Descend and issue out together therefore they Move Round as also Water in a Boiling Pott and so in the common Experiment of Water Ascending from a Basin wherin a Flaming Candle or Charcoal kindled at one end is Perpendicularly fixed above the Water and then an Urinal or the like Vessel Inverted over it into the Water in the Basin the Water will Move Round in the Basin when it begins to Ascend into the Urinal as may appear by any Motes swimming in the Superficies of the Water And so I conceiv it to be a general Rule That if a Body in Actual Motion so farr as it can not according to the Actual Motion therof Move Directly the Parts therof will Move Circularly Now becaus all Circular Motion of the same Body and in the same Place hath to some seemed so very Wonderful and
Inexplicable I shall heer endeavor to explain it and grant that which is the very caus of their Wonderment that is that all Local Motion is and necessarily must be Progressive becaus it is from Place to Place but we must also consyder that such a Circular Motion is Immediately of the Parts as of the aforesaid Motes in the Water and accordingly of all the Parts of the Water Circularly and consequently of the Whole Mediately thereby and so the Parts Move Progressively and Successively from their several Positions and Places in the Whole which they have in their own Body as well as their own Body hath in the Body of the whole World East West North and South which is the very Nature of Place as I shall shew heerafter and consequently by them the Whole Moves Circularly also in its Place wherin it was and still is but only is Localy Varied or Moved according to that Variation and Motion of the Parts being itself in the whoâ—e where it was before and certeinly all the Parts may aswell Move so Simultaneously in Time and Successively and Orderly in Place as the Motes and the Motion of the Whole doth thereupon as Naturaly and Necessarily ensue And so a Planet Moves about its own Axis Immediately by the Parts therof and it Moves about the Sun Immediately by the Whole as a Part of that Circle which it describes Progressively though in a Line Perpetualy Curv And in such Motion of a Fluid Body any way the Parts therof do so farr forth Weigh Press or Move one another as a Diver shall find in any Vortex or Stream if he oppose himself against the Current therof but not in any Progressive Motion of the Whole as when he swims along with it which is a Sensible Difference And this may help also to salv another Difficulty which hath been esteemed Incomprehensible How a Body Moving Circularly should Move Round in the Circumferential Parts therof in the same Space of Time as in the Centrical since the Circumferential describe larger Circles and Move through a greater Space or Distance of Place then the Centrical and yet both by the same Pondus or Potentia Wherin we must consyder that the Pondus or Potentia being Equaly applied to the whole Consistent Body Moved is distributed Equaly to all the Parts but doth Unequaly Move them according to their Unequal Distances from the Center whereby the Circumferential being Proportionably more Moved by their Equal share therof according to those Distances do Move Swifter or through Proportionably larger Circumferences though Simultaneously in the same Space of Tâ—me which is an Equality in Inequality and both are Proportionable to the Nature of the Consistent Body so Moved thereby and the Distance of the Circumferences therof from the Center Also there is a Motion of the Whole partly Progressive and partly Circular As when a Coach or Cartwheel in going forward Moveth Round And hence hath arose another Problem How such a larger and a less Wheel being both fixed upon the same Axis should Move upon lower and higher Planes with Equal Circumvolutions Which needeth no such Solution as the former becaus it is a plain Fallacy for in such a Position and Motion the larger Wheel Moves Round by Perfect Circumvolutions and the less Wheel partly Slides along as well as Moves Round so farr as to equal the Circumvolutions of the larger Wheel for indeed otherwise it were Impossible that one Circumvolution of a less Wheel should Equaly run over so much of the Planes being both of the same Longitude as of a larger becaus their Circumferences are not Equal And this Fallacy may sensibly appear by not fixing but putting both the Wheels loos upon the same Axis and then you may plainly perceiv the Exact Difference of the Circumvolutions Proportionably according to the Difference of the Circumferences XII Local Motion as I have said is Transition from Place to Place and doth therefore import Place which is Relative and not only the Position of a Body in its own Extension otherwise then as the Parts therof are in their Respective Places in the Whole And therefore no Body is said to be Localy in itself or in its own Whole Positively but only Relatively as we do not say England is in England Wherefore also the whole Body of the World is not Properly in a Place but in its own Position and Extension which is not Properly a Place Positively in itself but only Relatively to all the Parts therof and without it there is no other Body in respect wherof it may be said to be in such a Place Nor is Place the Superficies of other Bodys Ambient for not only the whole Body but every Part within the Superficies of itself is also in a Place which as I have said it Varieth in a Circular Motion of the Whole and yet the Whole is in the same Place and Vicinity of Bodys and so is also every Point therof in a Place according to its own Proper Nature that is as it doth Coexist with others and so Commove with them so it is also Collocated with them though not severaly by itself alone wherefore also the Superficies of its own Body is not the Place therof nor indeed can it be so many several Places but as Extension hath Part beyond Part which therefore is not one and the same Position of every one Part severaly in itself becaus every one hath a several Position in itself so the Place therof is the Relation of one to the other in the Whole or as it is Beyond farther or neerer heer there and the like which is not only a Notional Relation as First and Last in Extension but Real becaus Extension hath Realy Part beyond Part as well as Time hath Realy Part after Part as I have formerly shewed And so Circumference and Center are Real Relations of Extension and there are Real Advantages of more or less Distance of any Parts from the Center as I have said Now according to this Real Relation a Body is said to be in such a Place or Part of the whole Body of the World and not in another And if the whole Globe of the World were a Magnet it should have a North and South Pole in respect of its own Parts and so all the other Points of the Utmost or any other Inner Circumference therof though there be no Body beyond it to which they may so Point And so England is said to be in such a Part of the World and not in another and London in such a Part of England and not in another and so of any less Bodys as the Parts therof are Relatively Distant more or less from the other Parts of that Body or of the whole Body of the World or their Situation any way Varied Again as there are such Real Places so also certein Real Stages and Posts which God hath Realy fixed in the World as the Circumference and Center of the whole Body of the
Meridional Lines or the like which yet must Intersect and thereby also the Moving Parts must stay and stop one another and I suppose if Mathematical Philosophers would pleas to reconsyder Local Motion according to Mathematical Rules they would easily discover the Vanity of any such Hypotheses But as Heat doth thus Caus Motion by Rarefaction Segregation Corrosion and Comminution of some Parts so consequently by Condensation and Congregation of others and so it is said to Segregate Heterogeneous and Congregate Homogeneous Parts becaus when the whole Body is Rarefied and in Fusion the Homogeneous Parts Naturaly Congregate themselvs and the Heterogeneous are thereby Segregated And so in making of Salt the Vapors go one way and fly Upward and thereby the Salt goeth together another way and Sinks Downward Also thus though Heat doth Immediately Rarefy it may Mediately Condensate and as it doth Immediately Melt so also Mediately Constipate as by Rarefying the Water and Melting it more into Vapor it Condensates and Constipates the Salt and more notably in Syrups Tarr and the like which will be boiled into a Gumm or Pitch or into a Consistence beyond them And so it may have many other such Collateral and Consequential Operations and Effects But there is not only Heat Inherent in the Igneous Body for plainly it heats at a very great distance which must be by Heat Emanant becaus all Operation is by Contact for as there is no Vacuity between Entitys so neither in Operations between the Operator and Operated and that there is such Emanation both of Heat and Light I shall plainly shew heerafter and also now observ that there is another wonderfull Property of Emanant Heat which is Attraction and this is indeed the chief End of the Emanation therof by which it doth not only heat at a distance but also draw other Bodys to it whereby it may more neerly and more strongly Operate upon them by its Inherent Quality from which the Emanant floweth forth as I shall also plainly shew heerafter concerning Electricity And such an Attractive Heat is that which is called Vital whereby Animals Nourish themselvs Attracting their Fomes or Materia Nutritiva by this Heat and then Firmenting Concocting Congregating Segregating and Exercising all the other Properties therof in order to their Nutrition Also to this purpose there is a double Power or rather several Degrees of Heat wherof one is Calefactive and more Moderate and Temperate which Generates Nourishes and Fosters as the Teâ—â—â— of the Spring Incubation of Fowls and the like and the other Caustike and more Intens and Torrid which Corrupts Destroys and Burns as in all Incendia But certeinly Heat itself is Generated only by Production out of Potentiality into Actuality as I have said either Univocaly by Fire alone as when Wood burns in the Fire and the like or Equivocaly which may be by many other Equivocal Causes whereby the Potential Heat may be freed and delivered out of its Chaos and Prison of Potentiality And so it is Generated by Motion as by Collision of a Flint and Steel or by rubbing of Firecanes wherin one may smell the Fire before any such Collision or rubbing which was ready to break forth and is freed by such Commotion and the Fiery Vapors or Corpuscles thereby discharged and so by Contrition as Coachwheels will sometimes be fired and generaly all Terrene Bodies Rubbed do heat becaus as Earth hath the greatest and grossest Mistion with all the other Elements so it hath commonly a notable Portion of Fire in it And it plainly appears that the Motion is only Instrumental heerin becaus other things do thus also Equivocaly Generate Heat as Water cast upon Quick-lime and Vapor in Thunder-clouds Hay-stacks and the like and it likewise appears that they do only thus Equivocaly and Instrumentaly Generate or Produce it because the Flame therof afterward will be Extinguished by Water or blown out by Motion like any other Fire Nor may we wonder much at the large quantity of Fiery Flame which is thus Produced out of a little Wood or Gunpowder or the like when we consyder â—he great Rarefaction of Water into Vapor and the Vapor of Fume which Incensed is Flame is yet more Rarefied as may appear by the very quick and direct Ascent therof while it is in Flame through the Ambient Air wheras afterwards it Ascends more slowly and in rowling Volumes or Cincinni of Smoak And indeed we hardly perceiv or can conceiv how suddenly the Individual Flame passeth away and is Altered and Reâ—novated Certeinly Ignes Fatui Stellae Cadentes and the like Continue much longer in their Individualitys which is through their more Temperate and Generative Heat wheras the Fire of Flame is more Caustike and Corruptive and both Generates and Corrupts so suddenly But Fire in Iron Candent which is not Iron and Fire Individualy several nor Fire only in the Pores of the Iron as hath been supposed any more then in Fume for so Glass which is Imporous will also be Candent but as I have said the Fire wherewith the Earth of the Iron is Mist and which was before in it Potentialy being now Actuated doth Appear and Operate in it and becaus it doth Emitt none or very little of the Fiery Vapor or Fume therefore doth not Flame or very little and so reteineth the same Individual Fire Actualy in itself much longer which may be so Actuated in it again and again becaus the Fire therof is more fixed in the Mistion and less Volatile wheras if a very strong Coal as of the best Oak or Birch or the like be Incensed and Inflamed very long in a Furnace which it will endure and yet come out Whole and Firm though it may be made Candent again yet it will not so kindle nor burn afterward as it did before the Fiery Vapor therof was Emitted and Volatilised And wheras some have Projected to make Fire Perpetual I esteem it Possible if the same Individual Fire could alway be continued in Aâ—tuality in the same Body as in Iron or Gold or the like as it is in the Sun and Aethereal Bodys but not Practicable otherwise then as in our new Iron Harths which do not only Reflect but also add the Actual Heat of the Iron becaus the other Elements which are Predominant in the Mistion therof and Ambient about it do always Oppugn it aâ—â— though while it is in Act it doth notably prevail against them all yet at length they Overcome and Extinguish it by their Density or Cold and if Nature had not armed them all against it there would be a present Conflagration of them And so Perpetual Fire would make a Perpetual Motion which is Possible and not only Actual in Aether but also in Water and yet not found to be Practicable by Art Also Fire is Corrupted by its own Vehemence for by Rarefying the Body wherin it is it Dilates and weakens itself and lieth more open to the Air which thereby
more then formerly it being in itself only the utmost Extent of a Weather-glass and Epitome of a Pump III. The First or Principal Quality of Air is Cold as Heat is of Aether which being Contrary do Mutualy Temper one another and thereby also preserve the Body of Water that it should not be wholy Resolved into Vapors by the Emanant Heat of Aether nor Congeled into Ice by the Contact of the Cold Air and both of them do extend the benefits of that Temperature to the Earth and all the Vegetatives and Animals therin But becaus some deny Air to be Cold before I proceed any farther I shall prove it I know not that ever any denied or doubted Heat to be the Proper Quality of Aether or Fire which also tâ—e Text doth imply becaus it is Synonymous and Connatural to Light and belongs to the same Element though Light be only mentioned for all the other Qualitys of Aether from another special Reason which I have already declared And expressly Drines is the Proper Quality of Earth which is therefore in the Text Emâ—nently called the Arida and so also our Saviour calls it in the Gospell that is the Primum Aridum Wherefore either Air or Water must be the Primum Frigidum but Water is apparently most Moist and so is every where termed in Scripture and by all Mankind except some Philosophers And that Air is most Cold was the antient Opinion of Pythagoraâ— and afterward of the Stoikes and may be proved by that very Argument whereby the Peripatetikes would establish the contrary Opinion which is their Syzygy of the Elements and their Fower First Qualitys for they say Air is most Moist and therefore Water is most Cold and so prove one Error by another wheras by the very same Induction I prove Air to be most Cold becaus that which themselvs assigne to be most Moist that is Vapor is plainly Water Rarefied and not Air nor like it in any thing but only in Corporeal Rarity which is very different from all Spiritual Qualitys and that Vapor is Water and not Air I shall evidently prove heerafter Also it doth very Sensibly appear by Wind or the Motion of Air which Cooleth and if it be not Vaporous but Pure and Clear Air though most Cold it drieth rather then Moistneth though as I have said before of Heat Drines or Moisture are not Congenerous with either but Indifferent between both it and Cold and may accompany one or other according to Circumstantial Causalytys But when Air is most Vaporous it is commonly most Tepid as appears by South Winds and the Surface of Water which is next to the Air and is soonest and most Congeled wheras Subterraneous Springs are never Congeled like Subaâ—reous Rivers but are rather observed to be Warmer in Winter and Cooler in Summer though perhaps not Positively but Comparatively and probably Earth hath more Misture of Aether and Water of Air and so Ice which is Congeled and Actualy most Cold is Actualy most Aereous whereby as they say it is more Expanded but Properly Rarefied Yet Water hath generaly some Actual Cold in it as may appear by Washing and especialy by Laving or Waving the Hand in it which Motion doth more Actuate the Cold of Water as Winds do Actuate the Cold of Air though as Heat in a Burning Glass doth not Instantly Burn so Cold which is less Active may not suddenly Cool and being Mingled with Vapor in all the Atmosphere the Air is thereby Tempered and doth Cool less and from many such Circumstantial Causalitys the Activity therof may be much abated And though it be generaly Actuated by Motion yet it is not therefore Motion as I have said of Heat and therin also proved Cold not to be either Rest or Motion formaly in itself and though Heat generaly caus some Motion yet Cold may be without any Sensible Motion as in Ice wherof the whole Body and all the Parts therof per omnia are Consistent and Immote And there may be a very notable Motion and Commotion without any notable Variation of Heat or Cold as if the Torricellian Tube be filled almost with Mercury or Water and some Air left in it and then stop'd with your finger and suddenly Inverted as I before mentioned you shall observ a very notable Commotion in the Ascent of the Included Air through the Body of the Water or Mercury almost like the Commotion that appears in the Dissolution of Metalls by Aqua fortis and yet no notable Variation of Heat or Cold which plainly shews that the notable Heat in the other is not from the Motion but rather the Motion from the Heat as heer it is from the Weight and so Motion being a Common Instrument both of Bodys and Spirits is Caused by any of them and sometimes doth Caus them Equivocaly but is not Univocaly in itself any other thing then Motion as I have shewed before generaly and shall still proceed to shew particularly in every thing which may Colorably be suspected to be only Motion Now though Aether and Air be the more Active Eâ—ements and Water and Earth less Active and consequently the Proper Qualitys of Aether and Air which are Heat and Cold more Operative and of Water and Earth which are Moisture and Drines less Operative yet they also again Differ among themselvs and so Cold is less Operative then Heat and Drines then Moisture Thus Heat by Contact or otherwise so Intens as to prevail against Cold doth sooner overcome it then Cold Heat as Fire Warms the Ambient Air almost Instantly but the Ambient Air doth not so suddenly Extinguish Fire in Iron Candent and though it prevail so farr against Flame as to to destroy the Individuality yet it can not prevent the Successive Generation therof Nor did the English or Dutch who Winter'd in Groenland or Nova Zembla find their Fires or Lights to go out in the Coldest Seasons And in their Antiperistâ—sis and Conflict Cold doth more Excite and Provoke the Potential Heat then Heat doth Cold for so it makes Flesh to Burn and Blister and Nive perustus is no such Improper Phrase but when the Cold overcomes the Heat it Mortifys and causeth Gangrenation which is sometimes prevented by applying a more Moderate Cold as of Snow or the like which doth not Profligate but rather Excite and Recover the Internal Heat again Thus though the Proper Effects of Heat be to heat and of Cold to cool yet by Antiperistasis they may Produce Contrary Effects which pilanly shews that there is such Antiperistasâ—s in Nature and not only in Notion Also from other Circumstantial Causalitys they may Produce other Collateral and Consequential Effects as I have already observed of Heat But wheras Heat first Rarefieth and then Condensateth contrarily Cold first Condensateth as Water in the Sealed VVeather-glass by the Frigefactive Power therof and so also in any Open Water and then Rarefieth by the Congelative Power therof as in Ice And as Metalls
outward Superficies therof may so caus the Sound to be heard without the Body as is reported of the Aetites and of a Bell of Gold being Closed round with a Stone or Clapper within it and so Commotion under Water which makes a Tremor also in the Superficies therof may caus a Sound to be heard in the Air though also Water and Ice Glass and the like Terraqueous Composita have much Air as well as Earth in their Mistions and so may be Proportionably capable of Sound which is Mist of the two Simple Qualitys Proper to Air and Earth And though this Tremor is the most Notable and Immediate Instrument of Sound yet the Multiplication of the Sound in the Air is as I have said only of the Spiritual Quality itself so first Actuated thereby without any more Commotion And indeed Sound doth not caus any such Undulation or Waveing therof up and down like Circles in a Pond as hath been supposed Much less is Sound or Voice though Articulate any figuration of the Air or Carving therof into Characters like written Letters for then we could not hear two several Sounds together as we may if they be very Dissonant as of a Voice and of a Musical Instrument or any one Sound of one of the Voices in Consort by attending more to it then to others and certeinly several Auditors may so attend to and hear several Voices for the Figure of the one Intersecting the other would thereby Disfigure and Deface one another Nor could an Echo then return any Articulate Voice when the Figured Air is dashed against a Concave Bank or Wall unless the Bank or Wall had also such Organical Parts whereby to Figurate it again and so Return it but only the Air as I have said having the sound Actuated in it and being Reverberated doth Return it with the Sound in it which is by a Stop therof as it may also be Diverted by Wind. And in an Echo we only Hear the last Word Because it is last for the precedent Words by that Stop being overtaken by the following are somwhat drowned as the last is not Nor do great Winds or Wafts of the Air caus Proportionable Sounds unles they Collide the Air against Trees or Houses or the like whereby they caus such a Tremor in it wheras the Motion or Undulation of the Air in itself causeth neither Tremor nor Sound And the Sound or Voice is Continualy Propagated in the Air by the first Sound or Voice Actuated in it and so doth pass away continualy and as it iâ— said Nescit Vox missa reverti nor can the same Voice otherwise then by an Echo be heard twice by one man unles he could fly away Faster then it and hear it again as another man doth at a farther Distance which is Impossible for it is very swift though not like Emanant Light of Lightning which is seen before we hear the Thunder-clap and if we estimate the distance of the Thunder cloud and different Space of Time between the first Sight of the Flash and Hearing of the Clap we may partly judg of their different Velocitys Also Sound is very Longinquous though not so farr as Light Emanant Broad sides in a late Naval Batell have been heard an hundred Miles from the Place Nor is Sound Emanant but always Inherent though never Immanent but Transient and therefore hath no Refraction nor Reflection of itself but as the Air in which it is Inherent is only Moved by the Wind which yet doth not wholy Divert it becaus it is so suddenly Propagated in the Air and Penetrateth and passeth away more swiftly then the Body of the Air can Move in itself by any Corporeal Motion and it is Reflected in an Echo only by the Reverberation of the Air itself otherwise it terminateth and abateth itself by less and less Degrees And yet while it continues it is not Spent or Exhausted by Hearing as Odors and Sapors which are more Gross and more Immersed in the Vapors and Liquors therof but a whole Army of Soldiers may all Hear the Oration of their General which also plainly sheweth it not to be any Figurative or Corporeal thing but a most wonderfull Spiritual Quality which successively and by Innumerable Propagated Individualitys so conveys itself to the very Organ of Hearing yet not corporealy striking upon the Tympanum therof as Anatomists generaly suppose and so also call some Internal Parts of the Ear by such Significant Names Incus and Malleus for plainly in Hearing we do not Perceiv any the least Commotion or Tremor but only the Spiritual Quality itself which is the Proper Sensible and Object of the Sens and if we feel any Commotion as in discharging a Gun neer to the Ear that is only the Waft of Air which the Ear feels as any other Part of the Body also may by the Sens of Feeling but doth Hear only the Vehement Sensible of Sound by the Sens of Hearing Nor yet are there any Rays of Sound as of Light so to convey unto the Sense the Image therof and so several Images to several mens Senses but only the same Spiritual Quality is so propagated per omnia which is very Admirable and Curious and deserving more Notice and Consyderation then Philosophy hath hitherto bestowed upon it Also several Sounds do Penetrate one another per omnia so as to Convey the whole Sound in every Point of the Air and to every Ear within the Sphere therof and not Confound any of them so being Inherent in the Air which yet is not only Directed by the Breath of the Speaker and the like but also Diverted by Winds and Reflected by Echo's and several Sounds seem somwhat to hinder and Interrupt one another if that be not rather an Infirmity of the Sens then any Confusion of the Sensible Qualitys as the Ey can not so distinctly See several Visibles though certeinly the Images therof do not Confound one another And as Spiritual Magnitude or Ampliation by Multiplication of several Parts into one Total doth as I have observed Augment the whole beyond the Proportions of the Particulars so many Sounds together are Heard farther then any one of them Singly as a whole Broadside or Cry of Hounds like a great Mountain which is farther Visible in the Whole then any Part alone could be Seen And Sound reflected at a great Distance is heard better then Directly but best neer to the Reflection like Reflected Rays of Heat or Light becaus though the Reflection doth not make any new figuration of the Sound or Voice yet it doth Return and Reduplicate it so Generating itself Successively in the Air as I have shewed But the greatest Mystery and Incognitum is how the Air which plainly is not Configurated or Effigiated by Sound or Voice but only putt into such or such a Tremor by the first Collision therof whereby the Sound or Voice is first Actuated and Specificated Equivocaly should afterward Univocaly Generate it in itself
Potentia of the Spirit which by its Qualitys doth so Intrinsecaly Distend and Contract its own Body is properly Active as well as when it doth Extrinsecaly Expand or Compress another Body which it may do consequentialy by Rarefying or Condensating its own Body for so Fire by Rarefying the Powder into Flame and Fume doth explode a Bullet and though when it Densefieth its own Body the next commonly succeeds by Motion of the Matter to prevent Vacuity yet this notable Instance of Electricity and all other Attractions by Heat shew also how it may attract another Body not only by Concursion as two Magnets mutualy meet one another but by plain drawing without any Corporeal Instruments and Immâ—diately by its own Spiritual Power which Spirits have in themselvs as plainly appears by the Motive Power of Angels who are purely Immaterial and yet most swiftly Move themselvs and most strongly other Bodys as our Saviors Body was so carried up to the Pinnacle of the Temple and yeâ— according to that Universal Oeconomy of Nature and Combination of all the Scale therof as Angels cannot Move so soon through a greater Space as a less so I suppose also that they cannot Move so easily through a more Dens Body as a more Rare as I have also observed of the Magnetike Virtue nor Move a more Heavy Body as easily as a more Lâ—ght and though they are the most Excellent and Potent Spirits and so among other Titles called Powers yet their Motive Power plainly declares how a Spirit may Immediately Move a Body of Matter and that Materialists strangely err who suppose that Matter can only be Moved by Matter or Bodys by Bodys for indeed Spirits which are Substantial Activitys are made purposely to Act and Move the Matter and so all other Inferior Spirits though less Potent may Move it less Powerfully according to their several Natures and Orders that is Material Spirits Move it more Materialy and one by another as Sensitive by the mediation of Vegetative and Vegetative by the mediation of Elementary according to the Scale of Nature as I shall shew heerafter but Elementary which immediately Consubstantiate the Matter may Immediately Move it as I have before shewed both Intrinsecaly and Extrinsecaly with very forcible and violent Motions as in Thunder Shooting in a Gun and Rarefaction of Water into Vapors whereby very great Execution may be done yea as great as by firing of Gunpowder which indeed is only Rarefaction by Incension and yet without Incension if the Rarefaction be as much and as sudden it hath the same Effect becaus there is one and the same Caus of both that is the Rarefaction itself whether it be one way or other and yet it is very consyderable wherefore since the Vaporous Body is also capable of Compression as well as Rarefaction the Bullet in the Gun should not again Compress the Flame into its former Extension rather then be itself exploded by the Rarefaction or if it cannot be clearly expelled why the very Gun itself should rather be broken since Air is strangely Comprest in a Wind-gun by less Strength but I conceiv the reason therof to be both the greatness of the Dilatation which certeinly is more proportionably then the Compression for the Air is never Comprest so much in the Windgun as to break it and also the suddennes whereby the force therof coming all at once like the delivery of weighty Stones Arrows or the like out of Catapults and Balists doth all together prevail over the resistance which in longer time and by degrees might prevail against it and thus if the Rarefaction of Vapor be very great and very sudden the Execution will be very forcible and quick and if less less proportionably nor can I conceiv any other caus of those vast Eruptions and Ejaculations of whole Torrents of such massy Matter from Mount Aetna to so great a distance but only the great sudden and continual Rarefaction of Vapors happening in some fitt Caverns therof Also the Planetary Motions of those vast Orbs in such rapid and perpetual courses is very wonderful which yet are only Elementary Thus Magnetical Electrical and Planetary Motions are indeed by such Natural Magike as I have described and though I also acknowledg that Emanations may be at the greatest distances and Effluvia may pass very farr yet I cannot conceiv how any Sympathetical Operations can Naturaly have an equal Effect at the farthest distance as at the neerest since no Emanations Effluvia nor Angels themselvs do or can so Operate Now Effluvia as I have said are of Inherent Qualitys as odorous or others in and with their Vaporous Bodys and not like Emanations which are only of Emanant Qualitys and which though weaker then Inherent yet are more Spiritual and Separate from the Matter and may be easily distinguished from the others for they penetrate the very Bodys wheras Effluvia only pierce and enter into the Pores therof also Emanant Qualitys are never Exhausted but always while they are in Act and not obstructed fill their whole Sphere nor do they weigh or by their Emanation make their Substantial Bodys to be Lighter wheras Effluvia though they may be very Rare and Subtile yet do proportionably diminish their Bodys and accordingly make them to weigh somwhat less unless they be also continualy renewed There is also a great Cohesion and Continuation of Homogeneous Bodys which I have formerly observed though few of them do so attract or concurr as Magnets It is said that Gold doth attract the Fume of Mercury and workmen use to hold a piece of Gold in their mouths to receiv it which will be notably silver'd thereby but that may be only by so much of the Fume as doth happen to fall upon the Gold as Dew upon leavs of Trees or Herbs yet certeinly when the Mercury doth so fall upon the Gold it doth notably retein it being as I suppose very Homogeneous with it and that there is much Mercury in the Composition of Gold and so fixed in it as that no Fume therof will again be emitted by any Operation of the most Intens Fire though never so long continued but there is also some other predominant Principle in the Composition therof which apparently renders it heavier then Mercury though probably Mercury be one Principle in the Composition of all Metalls except perhaps of Iron which is Magnetical and will not be Corroded by it There is also a Fume emitted in melting Lead somwhat like that of Mercury very hurtfull to workmen and which doth strangely allure Cats as a sweet Poison and thereby kill them But I shall not proceed to discours of Metalls and Minerals and the like which I conceiv to be Composita and the Spirits therof no Simple Substances Created in the Begining but that they are Mist of such several Simple and Created Principles and therefore not mentioned in all the Six Days works though they and all other perfect Mista were then also Improperly
be felt at a very great distance without Corporeal Contact as well as Light or Color may be so seen and yet it is also true that as no other Operation so also no Sensation can be without Contact Corporeal or Spiritual Now wheras all Sensation is performed in the Brain it is somwhat strange to conceiv how any Sensible Object yea the most Pure and Spiritual should arrive thither through all the Body and the Nerval Succus and all the Maeandrous Passages therof which certeinly is not by the Bodys therof that can not so penetrate and pass and if they should would rather disturb and confound the Brain nor by any Effluvia therof which are also Bodys though more Rare and Subtile nor only by their Emanations for not only Sapors and Oâ—ors which are Effluent and Light and Heat which are Emanant but Cold and Drines which are not Effluent nor yet discovered to be Emanant or very litle are Sensed and so also Sound which certeinly is neither Effluent nor Emanant but Transient but the Sensible Objects caus Sensation by Actuating their like Qualitys in the Body or some fitâ— and Immediate Standard therin as I shall now shew and not by Motion and Puls of the Brain as I shall shew heerafter nor by any such Gross and Corporeal Contact or less Spiritual way but such as is the most Pure and Spiritual wherof any Elementary Nature is capable that is by those very wonderfull Animal Spirits in the Nervs as most Similar and fitt Instruments of the Sensitive Spirit and which as I conceiv are severaly prepared in the several Nervs by the Vegetative Spirit that doth so Effigiate and Qualify the External Organs and also these Internal Instrumentalitys whereby all the Nervs are furnished and instructed with their proper Spirits and then the External Object or Species therof Operating upon the Standard by Univocal Generation of like Qualitys and they touching upon the Nervs do Irradiate Excite and Actuate them whereby they having the Types therof alway Potentialy in themselvs like a Needle touched with a Magnet are suddenly but not Instantaneously as is supposed quickned and enlivened as it were from that very Contact to the Brain And this is evidently seen in Juglers Feats of Activity as they are called being so very quick and nimble that they will throw a small black Ball out of one hand into another before your Eys and yet you shall not see it and so in the common Experiment of a Firestick moved swiftly round which seems to make a Firewheel or whole Circle therof though certeinly the Stick be only in one and the same Point in the same Instant wherefore as the Emanation of Light and Color though it be most swift and Momentaneous yet is not Instantaneous so much less the Sensation of Sight which requires some time for the Species not only to pass from the Contact to the Nerv but also to Irradiate and Excite the Animal Spirits therin which plainly are so Excited and Actuated thereby in the Nervs becaus when the Firestick passeth away from one Point to another yet the Ey seeth it in that Point from which it hath passed untill it return thither again through the whole Circle wheras the Emanant Ray of the Light of the Fire always is and passeth away Simultaneously with the Inherent Light in the Body of the Firestick and therefore the Species in the Nervs while it is newly Irradiated and Actuated is more strong and vivid then afterward but the Ray being past and gone the Vision cannot be Immediately by that but must be by something more Immediate which as I suppose can be none other then what I have assigned that is the Irradiating Actuacting and Evoking of the Viâ—ive Animal Spirit and the like Species therin by the Sensible Species as the Sun by Illustrating the Moon doth Actuate and Evoke the Native Light which is Potentialy in the Moon itself as I have shewed and this Sensation of the Senses which is by the Instrumentality of the Sensorious Nervs is that first Sensation wherof I discoursed before whereby a Man seeth another Man Directly or his own Face in a Glass Reflexively and which is therefore so Bright and Vivid becaus the Irradiation and Actuation is Immediately by the Contact of the Real Sensible itself wheras the other that is by Imagination or Contemplation of Phantasms in the Animal Spirits in the Brain is but as a Spectre or Apparition in respect therof becaus it hath no such Irradiation by the Object itself but is only Actuated by the Vegetative Spirit and then Irradiated by the Imagination as I conceiv becaus as the Sensitive Spirit cannot Immediately Consubstantiate the Elements without the Mediation of the Vegetative Spirit so neither can it Operate without the Mediation therof for as things are in Being so they are in Operation as plainly the Intellective Spirit of Man in this Conjunct State cannot Operate without the Mediation of the Sensitive Spirit and so of the rest according to the Scale of Nature Also I conceiv that wheras this Operation of the Senses which is by Elementary upon Elementary that is of Sensibles upon the Animal Spirits is by Immediate Contact of the Sensibles and so Light enters into the Ey and Sound into the Tympanum of the Ear and Odors into the Nares and Sapors into the Substance of the Spongy Tong and the Flesh and whole Temper of the Body is the Standard of Feeling for unless we do admitt Emanations of Cold Moisture and Drines also as well as of Heat I cannot conceiv how the Object itself and the Tactive Nervs can come together whereby there may be any Contact between them without which certeinly there can be no Operation for when I touch a Cold Sâ—one with my Fingers ends or other part of my Body there are some Cuticles if not Flesh between it and the Tactive Nervs so that there cannot possibly be any Contact nor can the Inherent Cold in the Stone pass through the Pores unto the Nervs any more then the Stone itself in which it is Inherent and though it is true that if a very fine Linen Cloth be girt hard and smooth about a polished Agat haft of a Knife and a live Coal laid upon the Linen Cloath it will not easily burn it being defended by the Cold Agat and so there may be some such short Emanations of those Qualitys which are therefore less noted then of Heat and Light and the like which are so longinquous and thereby more notable yet I conceiv that the Immediate Contact is between the Flesh and Nervs And it is to be observed and well examined what others affirm that there may be Motive Animal Spirits and yet no Tactive Spirits in the same Nervs and there are Historical Instances of some such men who could work with their hands as well as ever and yet not feel though they were pinched pricked or cutt which I cannot deny according to my former