the Rational Corporeal Motions 82 XI Of the Knowledg between the Sensitive Organs of a human Creature 83 XII Of human perception or defects of a human Creature 84 XIII Of Natural Fools 85 The Seventh Part. I. Of the Sensitive actions of Sleeping and Waking 89 II. Of Sleeping 91 III. Of human Dreams 92 IV. Of the actions of Dreams 93 V. Whether the interior parts of a human Creature do sleep 94 VI. Whether all the Creatures in Nature have sleeping and waking-actions 95 VII Of human Death 97 VIII Of the Heat of human Life and the Cold of human Death 98 IX Of the last act of human Life ibid. X. Whether a human Creature hath knowledg in death or not 99 XI Whether a Creature may be new formed after a general dissolution 100 XII Of Foreknowledg 102 The Eighth Part. I. Of the irregularity of Nature's parts 105 II. Of the human parts of a human Creature 106 III. Of human Humors 107 IV. Of Blood ibid. V. Of the Radical humors or parts 109 VI. Of expelling malignant disorders in a human Creature 110 VII Of human Digestions and Evacuations 111 VIII Of Diseases in general 112 IX Of the Fundamental Diseases 113 The Ninth Part. I. Of Sickness 115 II. Of Pain 117 III. Of Dizziness 118 IV. Of the Brain seeming to turn round in the head 119 V. Of Weakness 120 VI. Of Swooning ibid. VII Of Numb and Dead Palsies or Gangren's 122 VIII Of Madness 124 IX The Sensitive and Rational parts may be distinctly mad 125 X. The parts of the head are not only subject to madness but also the other parts of the body 126 XI The Rational and Sensitive parts of a human Creature are apt to disturb each other 127 XII Of Diseases produced by conceit 130 The Tenth Part. I. Of Fevers 131 II. Of the Plague 132 III. Of the Small-Pox and Measles 134 IV. Of the intermission of Fevers or Agues 143 V. Of Consumptions 137 VI. of Dropsies ibid. VII Of Sweating 138 VIII Of Coughs 139 IX Of Gangren's 143 X. Of Cancers and Fistula's 144 XI Of the Gout ib. XII Of the Stone 145 XII Of Apoplexies and Lethargies 146 XIII Of Epilepsies 147 XIV Of Convulsions and Cramps 148 XV. Of Cholicks ibid. XVI Of Shaking-Palsies 150 XVII Of the Muther Spleen and Scurvy 151 XVIII Of Food or Digestions ibid. XIX Of Surfeits 153 XX. Of natural Evacuations and Purgings 154 XXI Of Purging-Drugs 155 XXII Of the various humors of Drugs 156 XXIII Of Cordials 157 XXIV Of the different actions of the several Sensitive Parts of a human Creature 158 XXV Of the Antipathy of some human Creatures to some Forrein Objects 159 XXVI Of the Effects of Forrein Objects on the human Mind ib. XXVII Of Contemplation 160 XXVIII Of injecting the Blood of one Animal into the Veins of ather Animal 161 The Eleventh Part. I. Of the different Knowledges in different kinds and sorts of Creatures 163 II. Of the variety of self-actions in particular Creatures 165 III. Of the variety of Corporeal Motions of one and the same sort and kind of Motion 166 IV. Of the variety of particular Creatures ibid. V. Of dividing and rejoyning or altering exterior figurative Motions 167 VI. Of different figurative Motions in particular Creatures 168 VII Of the alterations of exterior and innate figurative Motions of several sorts of Creatures 169 VIII Of Local Motion 171 IX Of several manners or ways of Advantages or Disadvantages 172 X. Of the actions of some sorts of Creatures over others 173 XI Of glassie-Glassie-Bodies 174 XII Of Metamorphoses or Transformations of Animals and Vegetables 175 XIII Of the Life and Death of several Creatures 176 XIV Of Circles 178 XV. Human Creatures cannot so probably treat of other sorts of Creatures as of their own 179 The Twelfth Part. I. Of the equality of Elements 181 II. Of several Tempers 182 III. Of the change and rechange and of dividing of the parts of the Elements 185 IV. Of the innate figurative Motions of Earth 186 V. Of the figurative Motions of Air ibid. VI. Of the innate figurative Motions of Fire 188 VII Of the productions of Elemental Fire 189 VIII Of Flame 190 IX Of the two sorts of Fire most different ibid. X. Of Dead or Dull Fires 191 XI Of the occasional Actions of Fire 192 XII Fire hath not the property to change and rechange 193 XIII Of the innate figurative Motions of Water 194 XIV The nature or property of Water 195 XV. Of the alteration of the exterior figurative motion of Water 197 XVI Of Oyl of Vitriol ibid. XVII Of Mineral and Sulphurous Waters 198 XVIII The cause of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea 199 XIX Of Overflows 201 XX. Of the Figure of Ice and Snow 203 XXI Of the change and rechange of Water 205 XXII Of Water quenching Fire and Fire evaporating Water 206 XXIII Of inflamable Liquors 207 XXIV Of Thunder 208 XXV Of Vapour Smoak Wind and Clouds 209 XXVI Of Wind 211 XXVII Of Light 212 XXVIII Of Darkness 213 XXIX Of Colours 214 XXX Of the Exterior Motions of the Planets 216 XXXI Of the Sun and Planets and Seasons 217 XXXII Of Air corrupting dead Bodies 218 The Thirteenth Part. I. Of the innate figurative Motions of Metal 221 II. Of the melting of Metals 222 III. Of Burning Melting Boyling and Evaporating 223 IV. Of Stone 224 V. Of the Loadstone 225 VI. Of Bodies apt to ascend or descend 226 VII Why heavy Bodies descend more forcibly than leight Bodies ascend 227 VIII Of several sorts of Densities and Rarities Gravities and Levities 228 IX Of Vegetables 229 X. Of the production of Vegetables 230 XI Of replanting Vegetables 232 APPENDIX The First Part. I. Whether there can be a Substance that is not a Body 237 II. Of an Immaterial 239 III. Whether an Immaterial be perceivable 240 IV. Of the Difference between GOD and Nature 241 V. All the Parts of Nature worship GOD ibid. VI. Whether GOD's Decrees are limited 242 VII Of GOD's Decrees concerning the particular Parts of Nature 243 VIII Of the Ten Commandments 244 IX Of several Religions 245 X. Of Rules and Prescriptions 246 XI Sins and Punishments are material 247 XII Of human Conscience 248 The Second Part. I. Whether it is possible there could be Worlds consisting only of the Rational parts and others only of the Sensitive parts 251 II. Of Irregular and Regular Worlds 254 III. Whether there be Egress and Regress between the Parts of several Worlds 255 IV. Whether the Parts of one and the same Society could after their dissolution meet and unite 256 V. Whether if a Creature being dissolved if it could unite again would be the same 257 VI. Of the Resurrection of Human-kind 259 VII Of the dissolution of a World 260 VIII Of a new Heaven and a new Earth 261 IX Whether there shall be a Material Heaven and Hell ibid. X. Concerning the Joys or Torments of the Blessed and Cursed after they are in Heaven or Hell 263
actions of rote and not such altering actions as digesting actions and nourishing actions which are uniting actions Besides that the reason why the Interior actions are not sleeping actions was That when the Exterior Parts move in the actions of Sleep the Interior Parts move when the Exterior are awake as may be observed by the Human Pulse and Human Respiration and by many other Observations which may be brought CHAP. VI. Whether all the Creatures in Nature have Sleeping and Waking Actions SOme may ask this Question Whether all Creatures have sleeping Actions I answer That though sleeping actions are proper to Human Creatures as also to most Animal Creatures yet such actions may not any ways be proper to other kinds and sorts of Creatures and if as in all probability it is that the Exterior Parts of a Human Creature have no such sleeping actions it is probable that other kinds and sorts of Creatures move not at any time in such sorts of actions But some may say That if Nature is poysed all Creatures must have sleeping actions as well as waking actions I answer That though Nature's actions are poysed yet that doth not hinder the variety of Nature's actions so as to tye Nature to particular actions As for example The Exterior Parts of Animals have both sleeping and waking actions yet that doth not prove that therefore all the Parts or Creatures in Nature must have sleeping and waking actions The same may be said of all the actions of an Animal Creature or of a Human Creature nay of all the Creatures of the World for several kinds and sorts of Creatures have several kinds and sorts of Properties Wherefore if there be other kinds and sorts of Worlds besides this 't is probable that those Worlds and all the Parts or several kinds and sorts of Creatures there have different properties and actions from those of this World so that though Nature's actions are poysed and balanced yet they are poysed and balanced after different manners and ways CHAP. VII Of Human Death DEATH is not only a general Alteration of the Sensitive and Rational Motions but a general Dissolution of their Society And as there are degrees of Time in Productions so in Dissolutions And as there are degrees to Perfection as from Infancy to Manhood so there are degrees from Manhood to Old Age. But as I said Death is a general Dissolution which makes a Human Creature to be no more yet some Parts do not dissolve so soon as others as for example Human Bones but though the Form or Frame of Bones is not dissolved yet the Properties of those Bones are altered The same when a Human Creature is kept by Art from dissolving so as the Form or Frame or Shape may continue but all the Properties are quite altered though the Exterior Shape of such Bodies doth appear somewhat like a Man yet that Shape is not a Man CHAP. VIII Of the Heat of Human Life and the Cold of Human Death THere are not only several sorts of Properties belonging to several sorts of Creatures but several sorts of Properties belonging to one and the same sort of Creature and amongst the several sorts of Human Properties Human Heat is one which Man names Natural Heat but when there is a general alteration of the Human Properties there is that alteration of the Property as well of his Natural as Human Heat but Natural Heat is not the cause of Human Life though Human Life is the cause of that Natural Heat so that when Human Life is altered or dissolved Human Heat is altered or dissolved And as Death is opposite Actions to that Man names Life so Cold is opposite Actions to that Man names Heat CHAP. IX Of the Last Act of Human Life THE reason some Human Creatures dye in more pain than others is That the Motions of some Human Creatures are in strife because some would continue their accustomed Actions others would alter their accustomed Actions which Strife causes Irregularities and those Irregularities cause Differences or Difficulties which causes Pain but certainly the last Act of Human Life is easie not only that the Expulsive Actions of Human Respirations are more easie than the Attracting Actions but that in the last act of Human Life all the Motions do generally agree in one Action CHAP. X. Whether a Human Creature hath Knowledg in Death or not SOme may ask the Question Whether a dead Man hath any Knowledg or Perception I answer That a dead Man hath not a Human Knowledg or Perception yet all and every Part hath Knowledg and Perception But by reason there is a general alteration of the actions of the Parts of a Human Creature there cannot possibly be a Human Knowledg or Perception But some may say That a Man in a Swound hath a general alteration of Human actions and yet those Parts of a Human Creature do often repeat those former actions and then a Man is as he was before he was in that Swound I answer That the reason why a Man in a Swound hath not the same Knowledg as when he is not in a Swound is That the Human Motions are not generally altered but only are generally irregular which makes such a disturbance that no Part can move so regularly as to make proper Perceptions as in some sorts of Distempers a Man may be like a Natural Fool in others he may be Mad and is subject to many several Distempers which cause several Effects but a Human Swound is somewhat like Sleeping without Dreaming that is the Exterior Senses do not move to Human Exterior Perception CHAP. XI Whether a Creature may be new Formed after a general Dissolution SOme may ask the Question Whether a Human Creature or any other Creature after their Natural Properties are quite altered can be repeated and rechanged to those Properties that formerly were I answer Yes in case none of the Fundamental Figurative Parts be dissolved But some may ask That if those dissolved Parts were so inclosed in other Bodies that none of them could easily disperse or wander whether they might not joyn into the same Form and Figure again and have the same Properties I answer I cannot tell well how to judg but I am of the opinion they cannot for it is the property of all such Productions to be performed by degrees and that there should be a dividing and uniting of Parts as an intercourse of Home and Forrein Parts and so there is requir'd all the same Parts and every Part of the same Society or that had any adjoining actions with that particular Creature as all those Parts or Corporeal Motions that had been from the first time of Production to the last of the Dissolving and that could not be done without a Confusion in Nature But some may say That although the same Creature could not be produced after the same manner nor return to the degree of his Infancy and pass the degrees from his Infancy to some degree of Age yet
Man names Life or Lives so there are several sorts of those Corporeal Motions Man names Death but Dead Palsies of some Parts of a Man's Body are not like those of a Man when he is as we say quite dead for those are not only such sorts of Motions that are quite or absolutely different from the life of the Man or such like Creature but such as dissolve the whole Frame or Figure of the Creature But the Motions of a Dead Palsie are not dissolving Motions although they are different from the natural living Motions of a Man The same in some manner are Numb Palsies only the Motions of Numb Palsies are not so absolutely different from the Natural living Motions but have more Irregularities than perfect Alterations As for that sort of Numbness we name Sleepy Numbness it is occasioned through some obstruction that hinders and stops the Exterior Sensitive Perception As when the Eyes are shut or blinded or the Ears stopt or the Nostrils the Sensitive Figurative Motions of those Sensitive Organs cannot make Perceptions of Forrein Objects so when the Pores of the Flesh which are the perceptive Organs of Forrein Touches are stopt either by too heavy burthens or pressings or tying some Parts so hard as to close the Exterior Organs viz. the Pores they cannot make such Perceptions as belong to Touch but when those hinderances are removed then the Sensitive Perception of Touch is in a short time as perfect as before As for Gangren's although they are somewhat like Dead Palsies yet they are more like those sorts of dead Corporeal Motions that dissolve the Frame and Form of a Creature for Gangren's dissolve the Frame and Form of the Diseased Part and the like do all those Corporeal Motions that cause Rottenness or Parts to divide and separate after a rotten manner CHAP. VIII Of MADNESS THere are several sorts of that Distemper named Madness but they all proceed through the Irregularities either of the Rational or the Sensitive Parts and sometimes from the Irregularities both of Sense and Reason but these Irregularities are not such as are quite different from the Nature or Property of a Human Creature but are only such Irregularities as make false Perceptions of Forrein Objects or else make strange Conceptions or move after the manner of Dreams in waking-actions which is not according to the Perception of present Objects As for example The Sensitive Motions of the Exterior Parts make several Pictures on the outside of the Organs when as no such Object is present and that is the reason Mad-men see strange and unusual Sights hear strange and unusual Sounds have strange and unusual Tasts and Touch but when the Irregularities are only amongst the Rational Parts then those that are so diseased have violent Passions strange Conceptions wild Fancies various Opinions dangerous Designs strong Resolutions broken Memories imperfect Remembrances and the like But when both the Sensitive and Rational are sympathetically disorderly then the Mad-men will talk extravagantly or laugh sing sigh weep tremble complain c. without cause CHAP. IX The Sensitive and Rational Parts may be distinctly Mad. THE Senses may be irregularly Mad and not the Reason and the Reason may be irregularly mad and not the Sense and both Sense and Reason may be both sympathetically mad And an evident proof that there is a Rational and Sensitive Madness is That those whose Rational Parts are Regular and only some of the Sensitive Irregular will speak soberly and declare to their Friends how some of their Senses are distemper'd and how they see strange and unusual Sights hear unusual Sounds smell unusual Sents feel unusual Touches and desire some Remedy for their Distempers Also it may be observed That sometimes the Rational Parts are madly distemper'd and not the Sensitive as when the Sensitive Parts make no false Perceptions but only the Rational and then only the Mind is out of order and is extravagant and not the Senses but when the Senses and Reason are madly Irregular then the diseased Man is that we name Outragiously Mad. CHAP. X. The Parts of the Head are not only subject to Madness but also the other Parts of the Body MAdness is not only in the Head but in other Parts of the Body As for example Some will feel unusual Touches in their Hands and several other parts of their Body We may also observe by the several and strange Postures of Mad-men that the several Parts of the Body are madly distemper'd And it is to be noted That sometimes some Parts of the Body are mad and not the other as sometimes only the Eyes sometimes only the Ears and so of the rest of the Organs and of the rest of the Parts of the Body one Part only being mad and the rest in good order Moreover it is to be noted That some are not continually mad but only mad by fits or at certain times and those fits or certain times of disorders proceed from a custom or habit of the Rational or Sensitive Motions to move Irregularly at such times and a proof that all the Parts are subject to the Distemper of Madness is That every part of the Body of those sorts of Mad-men that believe their Bodies to be Glass moves in a careful and wary motion for fear of breaking in pieces Neither are the Exterior Parts only subject to the Distemper of Madness but the Interior Parts as may be observed when the whole Body will tremble through a mad fear and the Heart will beat disorderly and the Stomack will many times be sick CHAP. XI The Rational and Sensitive Parts of a Human Creature are apt to disturb each other ALthough the Rational and Sensitive Corporeal Motions may and do sometimes disagree yet for the most part there is such a sympathetical Agreement between the Sensitive and Rational Corporeal Motions of one Society viz. of one Creature as they often disturb each other As for example If the Rational Motions are so irregular as to make imaginary Fears or fearful Imaginations these fearful Imaginations cause the Sensitive Corporeal motions to move according to the Irregularities of the Rational which is the cause in such fears that a man seems to see strange and unusual Objects to hear strange and unusual Sounds to smell unusual Sents to feel unusual Touches and to be carried to unusual Places not that there are such Objects but the Irregular Senses make such Pictures in the Sensitive Organs and the whole Body may through the strength of the Irregular motions move strangely to unusual places As for example A Mad-man in a strong mad fit will be as strong as Ten men whereas when the mad Fit is over he seems weaker than usually or regularly he uses to be not that the Self-moving Parts of Nature are capable of being weaker or stronger than naturally they are but having liberty to move as they will they may move stronger or weaker swifter or slower regularly or irregularly as they please nor
Monstrous Creature as having more Parts than was agreeable to the nature of his Kind The Major Part 's Opinion was That though the Society viz. The MAN would be a Society of greater Magnitude yet not any ways different from the Nature of his Kind CHAP. VI. Of the Resurrection of Human Kind THE Seventh Argument was Whether all the particular Parts of every Human Creature at the time of the Resurrection be to meet and joyn as being of one and the same Society The Minor Part 's Opinion was They shall not for if all those Parts that had been of the same Body and Mind of one Man from his first Production to the last of his Dissolution or from his Birth to the time of his Death supposing him to have liv'd long should meet and joyn as one Society that is as one Man that Man at the time of his Resurrection would be a Gyant and if so then old Men would be Gyants and young Children Dwarfs The Major Part 's Opinion was That if it was not so then every particular Human Society would be imperfect at the time of their Resurrection for if they should only rise with some of their Parts as for example when they were in the strength of their Age then all those Parts that had been either before or after that time would be unjustly dealt with especially if Man be the best Product in Nature Besides if a dead Child did rise a Man as at his most perfect Age it could not be said He rises according to a Natural Man having more Parts than by Nature he ever had and an old Man fewer Parts than naturally he hath had so what by Adding and Diminishing the Parts of particular Men it would not cause only Injustice but not any particular Human Creature would be the same he was CHAP. VII Of the Dissolution of a World THE Eighth Argument was That when all Human Creatures that were dissolved should rise Whether the World they were of should not be dissolved All the Parts of my Mind agreed That when all the Human Creatures that had been dissolved should rise the whole World besides themselves must also dissolve by reason they were Parts of the World for when all those numerous dissolved and dispersed Parts did meet and joyn the World wanting those Parts could not subsist for the Frame Form and Uniformity of the World consisted of Parts and those Parts that have been of the Human Kind are at several times of other kinds and sorts of Creatures as other sorts and kinds are of Human Kind and all the Sorts and Kinds are Parts of the World so that the World cannot subsist if any kind or sort of Creatures that had been from the first time of the Creation should be united I mean into one and the same sort or kind of Creatures as it would be if all those that are Quick and those that have been Dissolved that is have been dead should be alive at one time CHAP. VIII Of a New Heaven and a New Earth THE Ninth Argument was That if a World could be dissolved and that the Human Creatures should rise and reunite what World should they reside in All the Parts of my Thoughts generally agreed That the Omnipotent GOD would command the Parts of His Servant NATURE to compose other Worlds for them into which Worlds they should be separated the Good should go into a Blessed World the Bad into a Cursed World and the Sacred Scripture declares That there shall be a New Heaven and a New Earth which in their opinion was a Heaven and a Hell for the Blessed and Cursed Human Kind of this VVorld CHAP. IX Whether there shall be a Material Heaven and Hell THE Tenth Argument was Whether the Heaven and Hell that are to be produced for the Blessed and Cursed shall be Material The Minor Part 's Opinion was That they shall not be Material The Major Parts were of opinion They shall be Material by reason all those Creatures that did rise were Material and being Material could not be sensible either of Immaterial Blessings or Punishments neither could an Immaterial World be a fit or proper Residence for Material Bodies were those Bodies of the purest Substance But whether this Material Heaven and Hell shall be like other Material Worlds the Parts of my Mind could not agree and so not give their Judgment But in this they all agreed That the Material Heaven and Hell shall not have any other Animal Creatures than those that were of Human kind and those not produced but raised from Death But when they came to argue Whether there might be Elements Minerals and Vegetables they could not agree but some did argue and offer to make proof That there might be Mynes of Gold and Rocks of Diamonds Rubies and the like all which were Minerals Also some were of opinion there were Elements for Darkness and Light are Elemental Effects and if Hell was a World of Darkness and Heaven a World of Light it was probable there were Elements CHAP. X. Concerning the Ioys or Torments of the Blessed and Cursed after they are in Heaven or Hell AS for the Ioys of Heaven and the Torments of Hell all the Parts of my Mind agreed they could not conceive any more probably than those they had formerly conceived which former Conceptions they had occasioned the Sensitive Parts to declare and having been formerly divulged in the Book of my Orations their Opinion was That it would be a superfluous Work to cause them to be repeated in this Book But the Ground or Foundation of those Conceptions is That God may decree That both the Sensitive and Rational Parts of those that are restored to Life should move in variety of Perceptions or Conceptions without variety of Objects and that those Creatures viz. Human Creatures that are raised from Death to Life should subsist without any Forrein Matter but should be always the same in Body and Mind without any Traffick Egress or Regress of Forrein Parts And the proof that the Sensitive and Rational Parts of Human Creatures may make Perceptions or rather Conceptions without Forrein Objects is That many men in this world have had Conceptions both amongst the Rational and Sensitive which Man names Visions or Imaginations whereof some have been Pleasing and Delightful others Displeasing and Dreadful The Third Part. The PREAMBLE THE Parts of my Mind after some time of respite from Philosophical Arguments delighting in such harmless Pastimes did begin to argue about a Regular and Irregular World having formerly agreed there might be such Worlds in Nature and that the Regular Worlds were Happy Worlds the Irregular Miserable Worlds But there was some division amongst the Parts of my Mind concerning the choice of their Arguments as Whether to argue first of the particular Parts of the Regular or of the Irregular World But at last they agreed to argue first of the Regular World But pray mistake not these Arguments for they are not
fellow-Creatures which general remembrance Man calls Fame for which Fame the Rational Parts are industrious to design the manner and way and the Sensitive Parts are industrious to put those Designs in execution as their Inventions into Arts or Sciences or to cause their Heroick or Prudent Generous or Pious Actions their Learning or witty Fancies or subtile Conceptions or their industrious Observations or their ingenious Inventions to be set in Print or their Exterior Effigies to be cast cut or engraven in Brass or Stone or to be painted or they endeavour to build Houses or cut Rivers to bear their Names and millions of other Marks for remembrance they are industrious to leave to the perception of after-Ages And many men are so desirous of this after-life that they would willingly quit their present life by reason of its shortness to gain this after-life because of the probability of a long continuance and not only to live so in many several Ages but in many several Nations And amongst the number of those that prefer a long after-life before a short present life I am one But some men dispute against these Desires saying That it doth a man no good to be remembred when he is dead I answer It is very pleasing whilst as man lives to have in his Mind or in his Sense the Effigies of the Person and of the good Actions of his Friend although he cannot have his present company Also it is very pleasant to any body to believe that the Effigies either of his own Person or Actions or both are in the Mind of his Friend when he is absent from him and in this case Absence and Death are much alike But in short God lives no other ways amongst his Creatures but in their Rational Thoughts and Sensitive Worship CHAP. VI. Of ACQVAINTANCE AS there are Perceptive Acquaintances amongst the Parts of a Human Creature so there is a Perceptive Acquaintance between or amongst the Human sorts of Creatures But mistake me not for I do not say Men only are acquainted with each other for there is not only an Acquaintance amongst every particular sort as between one and the same sort of Creatures but there are some Acquaintances between some sorts of different kinds as for example Between some sorts of Beasts and Men as also some sorts of Birds and Men which understand each other I will not say so well as Man and Man but so well as to understand each other's Passions but certainly every particular sort of Creatures of one and the same kind understand each other as well as Men understand one another and yet for all that they may be unacquainted for Acquaintance proceeds from Association so that some Men and some Beasts by Association may be acquainted with each other when as some Men not associating are meer strangers The truth is Acquaintance belongs rather to Particularities than Generalities CHAP. VII Of the Effects of Forrein Objects of the Sensitive Body and of the Rational Mind of a Human Creature ACCording as the Rational Parts are affected or disaffected with Forrein Objects the Sensitive is apt to express the like affections or disaffections for most Forrein Objects occasion either pleasure and delight or displeasure and dislike but the effects of Forrein Objects are very many and many times very different as some Objects of Devotion occasion a Fear or Superstition and Repentance in the Mind and the Mind occasions the Sensitive Parts to several actions as Praying Acknowledging Faults Begging pardon making Vows imploring Mercy and the like in words also the Body bows the Knees bend the Eyes weep the hands hold up and many the like devout actions Other sorts of Objects occasion pity and compassion in the Mind which occasions the Sensitive Parts to attend the sick relieve the poor help the distressed and many more actions of Compassion Other sorts of Forrein Objects occasion the Rational Mind to be dull and melancholy and then the Sensitive Parts are dull making no variety of Appetites or regard Forrein Objects Other sorts of Objects occasion the Mind to be vain and ambitious and often to be proud and those occasion the Sensitive Actions to be adventurous and bold the Countenance of the face scornful the Garb of the Body stately the Words vaunting boasting or bragging Other Objects occasion the Mind to be furious and then the Sensitive Actions are Cursing Words Frowning Countenances the Leggs stamping the Hands and Arms fighting and the whole Body in a furious posture Other sorts of Objects occasion the Mind to a passionate Love and then the Sensitive Actions are Flattering Professing Protesting in words the Countenance smiling the Eyes glancing also the Body bows the Leggs scrape the Mouth kisses also the Hands mend their Garments and do many of the like amorous actions Other Objects occasion the Mind to Valour and then the Sensitive Actions are Daring Encouraging or Animating Other Objects occasion the Mind to Mirth or Cheerfulness and they occasion the Sensitive Actions of the Voice to Sing or Laugh the Words to be jesting the Hands to be toying the Leggs to be dancing Other sorts of Objects occasion the Mind to be Prudent and then the Sensitive Actions are Sparing or Frugal Other sorts of Objects occasion the Mind to be Envious or Malicious and then the Sensitive Actions are Mischievous There are great numbers of Occasional Actions but these are sufficient to prove That Sense and Reason understand each other's Actions or Designs CHAP. VIII Of the Advantage and Disadvantage of the Encounters of several Creatures THere is a strong Sympathy between the Rational and Sensitive Parts in one and the same Society or Creature not only for their Consistency Subsistency Use Ease Pleasure and Delight but for their Safety Guard and Defence as for example When one Creature assaults another then all the Powers Faculties Properties Ingenuities Agilities Proportions and Shape of the Parts of the Assaulted unite against the Assaulter in the defence of every particular Part of their whole Society in which Encounter the Rational advises and the Sensitive labours But this is to be noted concerning advantage and disadvantage in such Encounters That some sorts of Creatures have their advantage in the Exterior Shape others meerly in the Number of Parts others in the agility of their Parts and some by the ingenuity of their parts but for the most part the greater Number have advantage over the less if the greater number of Parts be as regular and as ingenious as the less number but if the less number be more regular and more ingenious than the greater then 't is a hundred to one but the less number of Parts have the advantage CHAP. IX That All Human Creatures have the like Kinds and Sorts of Properties ALL Human Creatures have the like Kinds and Sorts of Properties Faculties Respirations and Perceptions unless some Irregularities in the Production occasion some Imperfections or some Misfortunes in some time of his Age yet no
or Shape of particular Creatures but also the Regularity or Irregularity of the Corporeal motions of particular Creatures doth cause that which Man names Strength or Weakness Obedience or Disobedience Advantages or Disadvantages of Power and Authority or the like As for example A greater Number will overpower a lesse for though there be no Differences as being no Degrees of Self-strength amongst the Self-moving Parts or Corporeal motions yet there may be stronger and weaker Compositions or Associations and a greater Number of Corporeal motions makes a stronger Party but if the greater Party be Irregular and the lesser Party be Regular a hundred to one but the weaker Party is victorious Also the manner of the Corporeal motions as a Diving-motion may get the better of a Swimming-motion and in some cases the Swimming the better of the Diving Jumping may have the advantage over Running and in other cases Running over Jumping Also Creeping may have the advantage over Flying and in other cases Flying over Creeping A Cross Motion may have the advantage over a Straight and in other cases a Straight over a Cross. So it may be said of Turning and Lifting of Contracting and Dilating Motions And many the like Examples may be had but as I have often said There is much Advantage and Disadvantage in the manner and way of the Composed Form and Figure of Creatures CHAP. X. Of the Actions of some sorts of Creatures over others SOME sorts of Creatures are more Exteriorly active than other sorts and some more Interiorly active some more rare some more dense and the like also some dense Creatures are more active than the rare and some rare are more active than other sorts that are dense Also some Creatures that are rare have advantage of some that are dense and some that are dense over some sorts that are rare some leight Bodies over some heavy Bodies and some heavy Bodies over some sorts of leight Bodies Also several sorts of Exterior Motions of several sorts of Creatures have advantage and disadvantage of each other as for example Springs of Water and Air will make Passages and so divide hard strong Rocks And on the other side a Straw will divide Parts of Water and a small Flye will divide Parts of the Air but mistake me not I mean that they occasion the Airy or Watry Parts to divide CHAP. XI Of GLASSIE BODIES T IS impossible as I have said to describe the Infinite Corporeal Figurative Motions but amongst those Creatures that are subject to Human Perception there are some that resemble each other and yet are of different Natures as for example Black Ebony and Black Marble they are both Glassie smooth and black yet one is Stone the other Wood. Also there be many light and shining Bodies that are of different Natures as for example Metal is a bright shining Body and divers sorts of Stones are bright shining Bodies also clear Water is a bright shining Body yet the Metal and Stones are Minerals and Water is an Element Indeed Most Bodies are of a Glassie Hue or as I may say Complexion as may be observed in most Vegetables as also Skins Feathers Scales and the like But some may say That Glassiness is made by the Brightness of the Light that shines upon them I answer If so then the ordinary Earth would have the like Glassiness but we perceive the Earth to appear dull in the clearest Sun-shining Day wherefore it is not the Light but the nature of their own Bodies Besides every Body hath not one and the same sort of Glassiness but some are very different 'T is true some sorts of Bodies do not appear Glassie or shining until they be polished but as for such sorts of shining Bodies that appear in the dark there is not many of them perceiv'd by us besides the Moon and Starrs but yet some there are as Fire but that is an Element There are also Glow-worms Tayles Cats Eyes Rotten Wood and such like shining-Bodies CHAP. XII Of Metamorphoses or Transformations of Animals and Vegetables THere are some Creatures that cannot be Metamorphosed as for example Animals and Vegetables at least most of those sorts by reason they are composed of many several and different Figurative Motions and I understand Metamorphose to be a change and alteration of the Exterior Form but not any change or alteration of the Interior or Intellectual Nature and how can there be a general change of the Exterior Form or Shape of a Human Creature or such like Animal when the different Figurative Motions of his different Compositions are for the most part ignorant of each others particular Actions Besides as Animals and Vegetables require degrees of time for their Productions as also for their Perfections so some Time is requir'd for their Alterations but a sudden alteration amongst different Figurative Motions would cause such a Confusion that it would cause a Dissolution of the whole Creature especially in actions that are not natural as being improper to their kind or sort The same of Vegetables which have many different Figurative Motions This considered I cannot chuse but wonder that wise men should believe as some do the Change or Transformation of Witches into many sorts of Creatures CHAP. XIII Of the Life and Death of several Creatures THAT which Man names Life and Death which are some sorts of Compositions and Divisions of Parts of Creatures is very different in different kinds and sorts of Creatures as also in one and the same sort As for example Some Vegetables are old and decrepit in a Day others are not in Perfection or in their Prime in less than a hundred years The same may be said of Animal kinds A Silk-worm is no sooner born but dyes when as other Animals may live a hundred years As for Minerals Tinn and Lead seem but of a short Life to Gold as a Worm to an Elephant or a Tulip to an Oak for lasting and 't is probable the several Productions of the Planets and Fixed Starrs may be as far more lasting than the parts of Gold more lasting than a Flye for if a Composed Creature were a Million of years producing or Millions of years dissolving it were nothing to Eternity but those produced Motions that make Vegetables Minerals Elements and the like the subtilest Philosopher or Chymist in Nature can never perceive or find out because Human Perception is not so subtile as to perceive that which Man names Natural Productions for though all the Corporeal Motions in Nature are perceptive yet every Perceptive Part doth not perceive all the actions in Nature for though every different Corporeal Motion is a different Perception yet there are more Objects than any one Creature can perceive also every particular kind or sort of Creatures have different Perceptions occasioned by the Frame and Form of their Compositions or unities of their Parts So as the Perceptions of Animals are not like the Perceptions of Vegetables nor Vegetables like the Perceptions of
occasion those Parts to place themselves into their proper Order and Form VI. AFter the former Discourse some of the Parts of my Mind were sad to think that those that had been embowelled were made incapable of ever being restored and that it was a greater cruelty to murder a dead man and to rob him of his Interior Parts than to murder a living man and yet suffer his whole Body to lye peaceably in the Urn or Grave But the other Parts endeavouring to comfort those sad Parts made this Argument viz. Whether it might not probably be that the Bones or Carcase of a Human Creature were the Root of Human Life and if so then if all the Parts were dissolved and none were left undissolved but the bare Carcase they might be restored to life The sad Part 's Opinion was That it was impossible they could be restored by reason the Roots of Human Life were those we name the Vital Parts and those being divided from the Carcase and dispersed and united unto other Societies could not meet and joyn into their former state of Life or Society so as to be the same Man The Comforting Parts were of opinion It was not probable that the Fleshy and Spungy Parts being the Branches of Human Life could also be the Roots Wherefore in all probability the Bones were the Roots and the Bones being the Roots if the bare Carcase of a Man should be put into a Restoring Bed all the Fleshy and Spungy Parts both those that were the Exterior and those that were Interior would spring and encrease to their full Maturity The sad Part 's Opinion was That if the Bones were the Roots and that from the Roots all the Exterior and Interior Parts belonging to a Human Creature should spring and so encrease to full Maturity yet those Branches would not be the same they were viz. the same Parts of the same Man and besides those Branches would rather be new Productions than Restorations The Comforting Part 's Opinion was That though the Branches were new the Carcase as the Root being the same the Man would be the same for though the Spungy and Fleshy Parts divide and unite from Home and to Forrein Parts yet the Man is the same and to prove that the Bony Parts are the Roots of Human Life doth it not happen That if the Flesh be cut from the Bone and the Bone be left bare yet in time the bone produces new flesh but if any bone be separated from the Body that Bone cannot be restored nor can a new bone spring forth nor can the divided bone be joyned or knit to the body as it was before for although a broken bone may be set yet a divided bone cannot be rejoyned All which Arguments were a sufficient proof That the Bones were the Roots of Life The Sad Part 's Argument was That it was well known that if any of the Vital Parts of a Human Creature as the Liver Lungs Heart Kidneys and the like were decayed pierced or wounded the Human Creature dyed by reason those Parts are incurable The Comforting Parts were of opinion That there were many less Causes which did often occasion Human Death yet those Causes were not the Roots of Life nor were those Parts the Roots of Life although those Parts which we name Vital were the chief Branches of Human Life But at last they all agreed in this opinion That the Bones were the Roots the Marrow the Sapp and the Vitals the chief branches of Life Also they agreed That when an Human Life was restored the bones did first fill with some Oylie Juyces and from the bones and the sap or juyce of the bones did all the Parts belonging to a Human Creature spring forth and grow up to Maturity and certainly Not to disturb the Bones of the dead was a Holy and Religious Charge to Human Creatures VII AFter the pacifying the Sad Parts of my Mind their Argument was That supposing Creatures could be restored whether they should be restored as when they were first produced or as when they were at the perfection of their Age or as when they were at old Age But after many Disputes they all agreed That those that should be restored should be restored to that degree of Age and Strength which is the most perfect and as all Productions arrived towards Perfection by degrees so those that were restored should return to Perfection by degrees if they were past the perfect time of their age and those that were not arrived to their Perfection before they dyed should arrive to it however as those that had it so that both Youth and Age shall meet in Perfection for as the one encreases as it were forward so the other return to their Strength and Perfection of their past Age. VIII AFter the former Opinions the Parts of my Mind were somewhat puzled in their Arguments concerning the degrees of the Restoring Times as Whether Restoration was done by a General Act or by Degrees The most Doubting Part 's Opinion was That it was not natural to Restore although it was natural to Produce and that all Natural Productions were by degrees but for Restorations being not Natural Productions they could not be done by degrees and therefore the Action of Restoration was but as one Action although of many Parts The Believing Parts of my Mind were of opinion That all Nature's Actions being by degrees all Restorations were also by degrees The Doubting Part 's Opinion was That there were some actions that had no degrees for One action might signifie a Thousand The other Part 's Opinion was That a Thousand actions or degrees were in the figure of One. The Doubting Parts were of opinion That it was impossible But at last they agreed That the Restoring actions were by degrees IX THE Parts of my Mind were divided into Minor and Major Parts about the Time or Degrees of Restoration of Human Creatures The Minor's Opinion was That the Restoring actions of Nature were so much quicker than the Producing actions that a Human Creature might be restored in a Months time whereas the production of a Human Creature was in ten Months for though a Human Creature may Quicken at Three Months time yet it was not fully Ripe for Birth before the time of Ten Months The Major Part 's Opinion was That Restoration was according as the Creature was Dissolved for a Man that was newly dead or not so long dead that his Parts were not yet divided that Man might be restored to Life in an Hour's time or less but if all the Parts excepting the bare Carcase were dissolved there would require as long a time in Restoring as in Producing The Minor's Opinion was That the Restoring-time was no longer than the time of Quickning The Major Part 's Opinion was That though the Exterior Form or Frame of a Child might be before the Quickning yet it was not a perfect Animal until it was Quick and although it might be a
be an upright and just Judg of her self and so not of any of her Parts because every particular part is a part of her self Besides as she is Self-moving she is Self-changeing and so she is alterable Wherefore nothing can be a perfect and a just Judg but something that is Individable and Unalterable which is the Infinite GOD who is Unmoving Immutable and so Unalterable who is the Judg of the Infinite Corporeal Actions of his Servant Nature And this is the reason that all Nature's Parts appeal to God as being the only Judg. CHAP. XIV Nature Poyses or Balances her Actions ALthough Nature be Infinite yet all her Actions seem to be poysed or balanced by Opposition as for example As Nature hath dividing so composing actions Also as Nature hath regular so irregular actions as Nature hath dilating so contracting actions In short we may perceive amongst the Creatures or Parts of this World slow swift thick thin heavy leight rare dense little big low high broad narrow light dark hot cold productions dissolutions peace warr mirth sadness and that we name Life and Death and infinite the like as also infinite varieties in every several kind and sort of actions but the infinite varieties are made by the Self-moving parts of Nature which are the Corporeal Figurative Motions of Nature CHAP. XV. Whether there be Degrees of Corporeal Strength AS I have declared there are in my Opinion Two sorts of Self-moving Parts the one Sensitive the other Rational The Rational parts of my Mind moving in the manner of Conception or Inspection did occasion some Disputes or Arguments amongst those parts of my Mind The Arguments were these Whether there were degrees of Strength as there was of Purity between their own sort as the Rational and the Sensitive The Major part of the Argument was That Self-motion could be but Self-motion for not any part of Nature could move beyond its power of Self-motion But the Minor part argued That the Self-motion of the Rational might be stronger than the Self-motion of the Sensitive But the Major part was of the opinion That there could be no degrees of the Power of Nature or the Nature of Nature for Matter which was Nature could be but Self-moving or not Self-moving or partly Self-moving or not Self-moving But the Minor argued That it was not against the nature of Matter to have degrees of Corporeal Strength as well as degrees of Purity for though there could not be degrees of Purity amongst the Parts of the same sort as amongst the Parts of the Rational or amongst the Parts of the Sensitive yet if there were degrees of the Rational and Sensitive Parts there might be degrees of Strength The Major part said That if there were degrees of Strength it would make a Confusion by reason there would be no Agreement for the Strongest would be Tyrants to the Weakest in so much as they would never suffer those Parts to act methodically or regularly But the Minor part said that they had observed That there was degrees of Strength amongst the Sensitive Parts The Major part argued That they had not degrees of Strength by Nature but that the greater Number of Parts were stronger than a less Number of Parts Also there were some sorts of Actions that had advantage of other sorts Also some sorts of Compositions are stronger than other not through the degrees of innate Strength nor through the number of Parts but through the manner and form of their Compositions or Productions Thus my Thoughts argued but after many Debates and Disputes at last my Rational Parts agreed That If there were degrees of Strength it could not be between the Parts of the same degree or sort but between the Rational and Sensitive and if so the Sensitive was Stronger being less pure and the Rational was more Agil being more pure CHAP. XVI Of Effects and Cause TO treat of Infinite Effects produced from an an Infinite Cause is an endless Work and impossible to be performed or effected only this may be said That the Effects though Infinite are so united to the material Cause as that not any single effect can be nor no Effect can be annihilated by reason all Effects are in the power of the Cause But this is to be noted That some Effects producing other Effects are in some sort or manner a Cause CHAP. XVII Of INFLVENCE AN Influence is this When as the Corporeal Figurative Motions in different kinds and sorts of Creatures or in one and the same sorts or kinds move sympathetically And though there be antipathetical Motions as well as sympathetical yet all the Infinite parts of Matter are agreeable in their nature as being all Material and Self-moving and by reason there is no Vacuum there must of necessity be an Influence amongst all the Parts of Nature CHAP. XVIII Of FORTVNE and CHANCE FOrtune is only various Corporeal Motions of several Creatures design'd to one Creature or more Creatures either to that Creature or those Creatures Advantage or Disadvantage If Advantage Man names it Good Fortune if Disadvantage Man names it Ill Fortune As for Chance it is the visible Effects of some hidden Cause and Fortune a sufficient Cause to produce such Effects for the conjunction of sufficient Causes doth produce such or such Effects which Effects could not be produced if any of those Causes were wanting So that Chances are but the Effects of Fortune CHAP. XIX Of TIME and ETERNITY TIME is not a Thing by it self nor is Time Immaterial for Time is only the variations of Corporeal Motions but Eternity depends not on Motion but of a Being without Beginning or Ending The Second Part. CHAP. I. Of CREATVRES ALL Creatures are Composed-Figures by the consent of Associating Parts by which Association they joyn into such or such a figured Creature And though every Corporeal Motion or Self-moving Part hath its own motion yet by their Association they all agree in proper actions as actions proper to their Compositions and if every particular Part hath not a perception of all the Parts of their Association yet every Part knows its own Work CHAP. II. Of Knowledg and Perception of different kinds and sorts of Creatures THere is not any Creature in Nature that is not composed of Self-moving Parts viz. both of Rational and Sensitive as also of the Inanimate Parts which are Self-knowing so that all Creatures being composed of these sorts of Parts must have a Sensitive and Rational Knowledg and Perception as Animals Vegetables Minerals Elements or what else there is in Nature But several kinds and several sorts in these kinds of Creatures being composed after different manners and ways must needs have different Lives Knowledges and Perceptions and not only every several kind and sort have such differences but every particular Creature through the variations of their Self-moving Parts have varieties of Lives Knowledges Perceptions Conceptions and the like and not only so but every particular part of one and
continue although the Innate Nature be altered But Air is as all other Creatures are both Beneficial and Hurtful to each other for Nature is poysed with Opposites for we may perceive that several Creatures are both Beneficial and Hurtful to each other as for example A Bear kills a Man and on the other side a Bear 's Skin will cure a Man of some Disease Also a Wild-Boar will kill a Man and the Boar's Flesh will nourish a Man Fire will burn a Man and preserve a Man and Millions of such Examples may be proposed The same may be said of Air which may occasion Good or Evil to other Creatures as the Amber may occasion the death of a Fly and on the other side may occasion the Preservation or Continuation of the Fly 's Exterior Figure or Form but Nature being without Vacuum all her Parts must be be joined and her Actions being poysed there must be both Sympathetical and Antipathetical actions amongst all Creatures The Thirteenth Part. CHAP. I. Of the Innate Figurative Motions of Metals ALL sorts of Metals in my opinion are of some sorts of Circular Motions but not like that sort that is Water for the Water-Circle doth extend outward from the Center whereas in my opinion the Circular Motion of Metal draws inward from the Circumference Also in my opinion the Circular Motions are dense flat edged even and smooth for all Bright and Glassie Bodies are smooth and though Edges are wounding Figures yet Edges are rather of the Nature of a Line than of a Point Again all Motions that tend to a Center are more fixt than those that extend to a Circumference but it is according to the degree of their Extensions that those Creatures are more or less fixt which is the cause that some sorts of Metals are more fixt than others and that causes Gold to be the most fixt of all other sorts of Metals and seems to be too strong for the Effects of Fire But this is to be noted That some Metals are more near related to some sort than other as for example There is no Lead without some Silver so that Silver seems to be but a well-digested Lead And certainly Copper hath some near relation to Gold although not so near related as Lead is to Silver CHAP. II. Of the Melting of Metals METALS may be occasioned by Fire to slack their Retentive Motions by which they become fluid and as soon as they are quit of their Enemy Fire the Figurative Motions of Metal return to their proper Order and this is the reason that occasions Metal to melt which is to flow but yet the Flowing Motion is but like the Exterior and not the Innate actions of 〈◊〉 for the Melting actions do not alter the Innate actions that is they do not alter from the Nature of being Metal but if the Exterior Nature be occasioned by the Excess of those Exterior actions to alter their Retentive actions then Metal turns to that we name Dross and as much as Metal loses of its weight so much of the Metal dissolves that is so much of those Innate motions are quite altered but Gold hath such an Innate Retentiveness that though Fire may cause an extream alteration of the Exterior actions yet it cannot alter the Interior motions The like is of Quick-silver And yet Gold is not a God to be Unalterable though man knows not the way and Fire has not the power to alter the Innate Nature of Gold CHAP. III. Of Burning Melting Boyling and Evaporating BVrning Melting Boyling and Evaporating are for the most part occasioned by Fire or somewhat that is in effect Hot I say occasioned by reason they are not the actions of Fire but the actions of those Bodies that melts boyls evaporates or burns which being near or joyned to Fire are occasioned so to do as for example Put several sorts of Creatures or Things into a Fire and they shall not burn alike for Leather and Metal do not burn alike for Metal flows and Leather shrinks up and Water evaporates and Wood converts it self as it were into Fire which other things do not which proves That all Parts act their own actions For though some Corporeal motions may occasion other Corporeal motions to act after such or such a manner yet one Part cannot have another Part 's motion because Matter can neither give nor take motion CHAP. IV. Of STONE ALL Minerals seem to be some kinds of Dense and Retentive motions but yet those kinds of Dense and Retentive motions seem to be of several sorts which is the cause of several sorts of Minerals and of several sorts of Stones and Metals Also every several sort hath several sorts of Properties but in my opinion some sorts are caused by Hot Contractions and Retentions others by Cold Contractions and Retentions as also by Hot or Cold Densations and the reason why I believe so is That I observe that many Artificial Stones are produced by Heat but Ice which is but in the first Degree of a Cold Density seems somewhat like transparent Stones so that several sorts of Stones are produced by several sorts of Cold and Hot Contractions and Densations CHAP. V. Of the LOADSTONE AS for the Loadstone it is not more wonderful in attracting Iron than 〈◊〉 Beauty which admirably attracts the Optick Perception of Human Creatures and who knows but the North and South Air may be the most proper Air for the Respiration of the Loadstone and that Iron may be the most proper Food for it But by reason there hath been so many Learned Men puzled in their Opinions concerning the several Effects of the Loadstone I dare not venture to treat of the Nature and Natural Effects of that Mineral neither have I had much experience of it but I observe That Iron and some sorts of Stone are nearly allied for there is not any Iron but what is growing or is intermixt and united in some sorts of Stone as that which we call Iron-stone Wherefore it is no wonder if the Loadstone and Iron should be apt to embrace one another CHAP. VI. Of Bodies apt to ascend or descend THERE are so many several Causes that occasion some sorts of Creatures to be apt to ascend and others to descend as they are neither known or can be conceived by one finite Creature for it is not Rarity or Density that causes Levity and Gravity but the Frame or Form of a Creature 's Exterior Shape or Parts As for example A Flake of Snow is as Rare as a Downy Feather yet the Feather is apt to ascend and the Flake of Snow to descend Also Dust that is hard and dense is apt to ascend and Water that is soft and rare is more apt to descend Again a Bird that is both a bigger and a more dense Creature by much than a small Worm yet a Bird can flye up into the air when as a leight Worm cannot ascend or flye having not such a sort of Shape Also a
Arguments of such Worlds as are for the reception of the Blessed and Cursed Humans after their Resurrections but such as these Worlds we are of only freely Regular or Irregular Also though I treat but only of one Regular World and one Irregular World yet my opinion is there may be a great many Irregular Worlds and a great many Regular Worlds of several kinds and sorts but these I shall treat of are such as are somewhat like this World we are of CHAP. I. Of the Happy and Miserable Worlds THE First Argument was Whether there might not be such Worlds in Nature as were in no kind or sort like this World we are of They all agreed That it was probable there was The Second Argument was Whether it was probable that the Happy and Miserable Worlds were in any kind like this we are of They all agreed It was probable that this World was somewhat like both one and the other and so both those were somewhat like this for as the Happy World was no ways Irregular and the Miserable World no ways Regular so this World we are of was partly Irregular and partly Regular and so it was a Purgatory World CHAP. II. Whether there be such kinds and sorts of Creatures in the Happy and Blessed World as in this World THE Third Argument was Whether it was probable the Happy and Miserable Worlds had Animal Vegetable Mineral and Elemental Kinds They agreed It was probable there were such Kinds but yet those Kinds and particular sorts of those Kinds might be different from those of this World The Fourth Argument was Whether there was Human sorts of Creatures in those Worlds They all agreed There was CHAP. III. Of the Births and Deaths of the Heavenly World THE Fifth Argument was Whether there could be Births and Deaths in the Happy World Some Parts of my Mind were of opinion That if there was so Regular a World as that there were no Irregularities in it there could not be Deaths for Death was a Dissolution and if there was no Death there could be no Birth or Production for if any particular sort of Creatures should Encrease and never dissolve they would become Infinite which every particular kind or sort of Creatures may be for time and be Eternal as also be Infinite for Number because as some dissolve others are produced And so if particular sorts or kinds of Creatures be Eternal the particular Production and Dissolution is Infinite but if any Sort or Kind should encrease without decrease not any particular World could contain them As for example If all the Human Creatures that have been produced from our Father Adam which hath not been above Six thousand years should be alive this World could not contain them much less if this World and the Human sorts of Creatures had been of a longer date And besides if there should be a greater Encrease by the Number of Human Creatures in truth the numerous Encrease would have caused Mankind in the space of Six thousand years to be almost Infinite But the Minor Parts of my Mind was of opinion That then the Happy World could not be so perfectly Regular if there was Death The Major Part 's opinion was That some sorts of Deaths were as regular as the most Regular Births for though Diseases were caused by Irregular Actions yet Death was not for as it is not Irregular to be old so it is not Irregular to dye But this Argument broke off for that time CHAP. IV. Whether those Creatures could be named Blessed that are subject to dye THE Sixth Argument was VVhether those Creatures could be called Blessed or Happy that are subject to dye The Major Parts of my Mind was of opinion That if Death was as free from Irregularities as Birth then it was as happy to Dye as to be Born The Minor Parts were of opinion That though Dissolution might be as Regular as Composition yet it was an Unhappiness for every particular Society to be dissolved The Major Part 's Opinion was That though the particular Societies were dissolved yet by reason the general Society of the Kind did continue it was not so much Unhappiness considering particular Parts or Creatures did make the General Society and not the General the Particular Societies so that the Parts of the Particulars remained in the General as in the Kind of Sort. The Minor Parts were of opinion That the Particulars of the same Kind or Sort as Mankind did contribute but little to the General for other sorts of Creatures did contribute more than they only Mankind was the Occasion or Contributor of the First Foundation but no more but the other Parts or Creatures of the World did contribute more to their Kind than the Creatures of the same Kind did and as other Kinds and Sorts did contribute to Mankind so Mankind to other Kinds or Sorts for all Kinds and Sorts did contribute to the Subsistance and Assistance of each other The Major Part 's Opinion was That if all the Parts of a World did assist each other then Death could be no Unhappiness especially in the Regular World by reason all Creatures in that World of what Kind or Sort soever was Perfect and Regular so that though the particular Human Creatures did dissolve from being Humans yet their Parts could not be Unhappy when they did unite into other Kinds and Sorts or particular Societies for those other sorts and kinds of Creatures might be as happy as Human Creatures CHAP. V. Of the Productions of the Creatures of the Regular World THE Seventh Argument was of Productions of the Creatures of the Regular World viz. Whether their Productions were frequent or not The Minor Part 's Opinion was That they were frequent The Major Part 's Opinion was That they were not frequent or numerous by reason the World was Regular and so all the Productions or Generations were Regular but could not exceed such a Number as was regularly sufficient for a World of such a Dimension as the Regular World and according to the Dimensions must the Society or Creatures be let them be large or little CHAP. VI. Whether the Creatures in the Blessed VVorld do Feed and Evacuate THE Eighth Argument was Whether the Blessed Humans in the Happy VVorld did Eat and Evacuate They agreed That if they did feed they must evacuate Then there was a Dispute VVhether those Happy Creatures did eat They all agreed That if they were Natural Human Creatures they had Natural Appetites but by reason there were no Irregularities in this World the Human Creatures had not any Irregular Appetites nor Irregular Digestions Irregular Passions or Irregular Pastimes Then there arose a Dispute VVhether those Blessed Creatures did sleep Some were of opinion They did not sleep for Sleep was occasioned through a weariness of the Sensitive Organs making perceptions of Forrein Objects and all Weariness or Tiredness was Irregular The Major part of my Mind was of a contrary Opinion because the delight
of Nature is in Variety and therefore Regular Sleeps were delightful The Minor was of opinion That Sleep was like Death and therefore it could not be Happy But at last they did conclude That Sleep being a soft and quiet Repose as being retired from all Actions concerning Forrein Parts and had only Actions at Home and of private Affairs and that all the Parts of Body and Mind were then most sociable amongst themselves that the Blessed Humans did sleep CHAP. VII Of the Animals and of the Food of the Humans of the Happy VVorld THE Ninth Argument was VVhether there were all sorts of Animals in the Regular VVorld All the Parts of my Mind agreed That if there were such Creatures as Human Creatures it was probable there was other Animal Creatures but by reason there was no Irregularities there could not be Cruel or Ravenous Animal Creatures for a Lyon Leopard or Wolf in that World would be as harmless as a Sheep in this and all Kites Hawks and the like ravenous Birds would be as harmless as those Birds that only feed on the Berries and Fruit of the Earth CHAP. VII Whether it is not Irregular for one Creature to feed on another THE Tenth Argument was Whether it was not Irregular for one Creature to feed on another Some were of opinion That it was natural for one Creature to subsist by another and to assist each other but not cruelly to destroy each other Upon this Argument the Parts of my Mind divided into a Minor and a Major part The Minor Part 's opinion was That since all the Creatures in Nature had Life then all Creatures that did feed did destroy each other's Life The Major Part 's Opinion was That they might be assisted by the Lives of other Creatures and not destroy their Lives for Life could not be destroyed though Lives might be occasionally alter'd but some Creatures may assist other Creatures without destruction or dissolution of their Society as for example The Fruits and Leaves of Vegetables are but the Humorous Parts of Vegetables because they are divisible and can encrease and decrease without any dissolution of their Society that is without the dissolution of the Plant. Also Milk of Animals is a superfluous Humor of Animals and to prove it to be a superfluous Humor I alledg That much of it oppresses an Animal The same I say of the Fruits and Leaves of many sorts of Vegetable Creatures Besides it is natural for such sorts of Creatures to have their Fruits and Leaves to divide from the Stock The Minor Part 's Opinion was That the Milk of Animals and the Fruits of Vegetables and the Herbs of the Earth had as much Life as their Producers The Major Part 's Opinion was That though they had as much Life as their Producers yet it was natural for such off-springs to change and alter their Lives by being united to other sorts of Creatures as for example An Animal eats Fruit and Herbs and those Fruits and Herbs convert themselves into the nature of those Animals that feed of them The same is of Milk Eggs and the like out of which a condition of Life is endeavoured for and for proof such sorts of Creatures account an Animal Life the best and therefore all such superfluous Parts of Creatures endeavour to unite into an Animal Society as we may perceive that Fruits and Herbs are apt to turn into Worms and Flies and some Parts of Milk as Cheese will turn into Maggots so that when Animals feed of such Meats they occasion those Parts they feed on to a more easie Transformation and not only such Creatures but Humans also desire a better Change for what Human would not be a glorious Sun or Starr After which Discourse all the Parts of my Mind agreed unanimously That Animals and so Human Creatures might feed on such sorts of Food as aforesaid but not on such Food as is an united Society for the Root and Foundation of any kind and sort of Creature ought not to be destroyed CHAP. IX Of the Continuance of Life in the Regular World THE Opinion of the Parts of my Mind was That it was probable that all Societies in the Regular World that is all such Parts of Nature as are united into particular Creatures are of long life by reason there are no Irregularities to destroy them before their natural time But then a Dispute was raised amongst the Parts of my Mind concerning the natural time that is the proper time of the Lives of those Creatures for all Creatures were not of the same time of Production nor after their Production of the same time of Continuance But the Parts of my Mind concluded That though they could not judg by observation of any Creature no not of their own Sort yet they did believe they could judg better of Human Creatures as being at that time of a Human Society than of any other but by reason they were of this World that is Irregular in part they did believe they might very much err in their Judgment concerning the continuance of Human Lives in the Happy World But after much debate they concluded That a Human Creature in the Regular World might last as long as the Productions did not oppress or burden that World for that would be irregular but how long a time that might be they could not possibly conceive or imagine CHAP. IX Of the Excellency and Happiness of the Creatures of the Regular World THE Parts of my Mind could not possibly being Parts of a Purgatory VVorld conceive the happy condition of all Creatures in the Regular VVorld but only conceiving there was no Irregularities they did also conceive that all Creatures there must be in perfection and that the Elemental Creatures were purer without drossie mixtures so that their Earth must needs be so fruitful that it produces all sorts of excellent Vegetables without the help of Art and their Minerals as pure as all sorts of Stone that are transparent and as hard as Diamonds the Gold and Silver more pure than that which is refined in our VVorld The truth is that in their Opinions the meanest sorts of Metal in the Regular VVorld were more pure than the richest sort in this VVorld so that then their richest Metal must be as far beyond ours as our Gold is beyond our Iron or Lead As for the Elemental VVaters in the Regular VVorld they must be extraordinary smooth clear flowing fresh and sweet and the Elemental Air only a most pure clear and glorious Light so that there could be no need of a Sun and by reason all the Air was a Light there could be no Darkness and so no need of a Moon or Starrs The Elemental Fire although it was Hot yet it was not Burning Also there could neither be scorching Heats nor freezing Colds Storms nor Tempest for all Excess is irregular Neither could there be Clouds because no Vapours But not to be tedious it was my Mind's Opinion That
rarifying after a breathing manner also expelling of those rarified parts through the pores Other sorts of Motions of the Humours are like Boyling motions viz. Bubling motions which occasion steaming or watry vapours to ascend to the Head which vapours are apt to cloud the perception of Sight Other sorts of sick Motions are Circular and those cause a swimming or a dizzie motion in the Head and sometimes a staggering motion in the Leggs Other sorts of sick Motions are occasioned through tough and clammy Humours the motion of which Humours is a winding or turning in such a manner that it removes not from its Center and until such time as that Turning or Winding Motions alter or the Humour is cast out of the Stomack the Patient finds little or no ease CHAP. II. Of PAIN AS I said No Part is subject to be sick but the Stomack but every several Part of a Human Creature is subject to Pain and not only so but every particular Part is subject to several sorts of Pain and every several sort of Pain hath a several Figurative Motion but to know the different Figurative Motions will require a subtile Observation for though those painful Parts know their own Figurarative Motions yet the whole Creature suppose Man doth not know them But it may be observed Whether they are caused by Irregular Contractions or Attractions Dilatations or Retentions Expulsions or Irregular Pressures and Re-actions or Irregular Transformations or the like and by those Observations one may apply or endeavour to apply proper Remedies but all Pain proceeds from Irregular and perturbed Motions CHAP. III. Of DIZZINESS I Cannot say Dizziness belongs only to the Head of an Animal Creature because we may observe by irregular Drinkers that sometimes the Leggs will seem more drunk than their Heads and sometimes all the Parts of their Body will seem to be temperate as being Regular but only the Tongue seems to be drunk for staggering of the Leggs and a staggering of the Tongue or the like in a drunken Distemper is a sort of Dizziness although not such a sort as that which belongs to the Head so that when a man is dead-drunk we may say that every part of the Body is Dizzily drunk But mistake me not for I do not mean that all sorts of dizzinesses proceed from drinking I only bring Drunkenness for an Example but the Effects of dizziness of the Head and other parts of the Body proceed from different Causes for some proceed from Wind not Wine others from Vapour some from the perception of some Forrein Object and numbers of the like Examples may be found But this is to be noted That all such sorts of Swimming and Dizziness in the Head are produced from Circular Figurative Motions Also it is to be noted That many times the Rational Corporeal Motions are Irregular with the Sensitive but not always for sometimes in these and the like Distempers the Sensitive will be Irregular and the Rational Regular but for the most part the Rational is so compliant with the Sensitive as to be Regular or Irregular as the Sensitive is CHAP. IV. Of the Brain seeming to turn round in the Head WHen the Human Brain seems to turn round the cause is that some Vapours do move in a Circular Figure which causes the Head to be dizzy as when a man turns round not only his Head will be dizzy but all the Exterior Parts of his Body insomuch that some by often turning round will fall down but if before they fall they turn the contrary way they will be free from that dizziness The reason of which is That by turning the contrary way the Body is brought to the same posture it was before as when a man hath travell'd some way and returns the same way back he returns to the place where first he began his Journey CHAP. V. Of WEAKNESS THere are many sorts of Weakness some Weakness proceeds from Age others through want of Food others are occasioned by Oppression others by Disorders and Irregularities and so many other sorts that it would be too tedious to repeat them could I know them But such sorts of Weakness as Human Creatures are subject to after some Disease or Sickness are somewhat like Weariness after a Laborious or over-hard Action as when a Man hath run fast or laboured hard he fetches his breath short and thick and as most of the Sensitive Actions are by degrees so is a Returning to Health after Sickness but all Irregularities are Laborious CHAP. VI. Of SWOVNDING THE cause why a Man in Swound is for a time as if he were dead is an Irregularity amongst some of the Interior Corporeal Motions which causes an Irregularity of the Exterior Corporeal Motions and so a general Irregularity which is the cause that a Man appears as if he were dead But some may say A Man in a Swound is void of all Motion I answer That cannot be for if the Man was really dead yet his Parts are moving though they move not according to the property or nature of a living Man but if the Body had not consistent Motions and the Parts did not hold together it would be dissolved in a moment and when the Parts do divide they must divide by Self-motion but in a Man in a Swound some of his Corporeal Motions are only altered from the property and nature of a living Man I say some of his Corporeal Motions not all Neither do those Motions quite alter from the nature of a living Man so as the alterations of the Fundamental Motions do but they are so alter'd as Language may be alter'd viz. From Hebrew to Greek Latin French Spanish English and many others and although they are all but Languages yet they are several Languages or Speeches so the alteration of the Corporeal Motions of a Man in a Swound is but as the altering of one sort of Language to another as put the case English were the Natural Language or Speech then all other Languages were unknown to him that knows no other than his Natural So a Man in a Swound is ignorant of those Motions in the Swound but when those Motions return to the Nature of a living Man he hath the same knowledg he had before Thus Human Ignorance and Human Knowledg may be occasioned by the alterations of the Corporeal Motions The truth is that Swounding and Reviving is like Forgetfulness and Remembrance that is Alteration and Repetition or Exchange of the same Actions CHAP. VII Of Numb and Dead Palsies or Gangren's AS for Numb and Dead Palsies they proceed not only from disordered and Irregular Motions but from such Figurative Motions as are quite different from the nature of the Creature for though it be natural for a Man to dye yet the Figurative Motions of Death are quite different from the Figurative Motions of Life so in respect to that which Man names Life that which Man names Death is unnatural but as there are several sorts of that