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A70182	Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both.	Rust, George, d. 1670. Discourse of truth.; More, Henry, 1614-1687. Annotations upon the two foregoing treatises.; Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Lux orientalis.	1682 (1682)	Wing G815; Wing G833; Wing M2638; ESTC R12277	226,950	535

place of light and blessedness by Principle 3d. But particularly to describe and point at this paradisaical residence can be done only by those that live in those serene regions of lightsome glory Some Philosophers indeed have adventured * to pronounce the place to be the Sun that vast Orb of splendor and brightness though it may be 't is more probable that those immense tracts of pure and quiet aether that are above Saturn are the joyous place of our ancient celestial abode But there is no determination in matters of such lubricous uncertainty where ever it is 't is doubtless a place and state of wonderful bliss and happiness and the highest that our natures had fitted us to In this state we may be supposed to have lived in the blissful exercise of vertue divine love and contemplation through very long tracts of duration But though we were thus unconceivably happy * yet were we not immutably so for our highest perfections and noblest faculties being but finite may after long and vigorous exercise somewhat abate and remit in their sublimest operations and Adam may fall asleep In which time of remission of the higher powers the lower may advance and more livelily display themselves than they could before by Axiom 7 for the soul being a little slackt in its pursuits of immaterial objects the lower powers which before were almost wholly taken up and imployed in those high services are somewhat more releast to follow a little the tendencies of their proper natures And now they begin to convert towards the body and warmly to resent the delights and pleasures thereof Thus is Eve brought forth while Adam sleepeth The lower life that of the body is now considerably awakened and the operations of the higher proportionably abated However there is yet no anomy or disobedience for all this is but an innocent exercise of those faculties which God hath given us to imploy and as far as is consistent with the divine laws to gratifie For it was no fault of ours that we did not uncessantly keep our spiritual powers upon the most intense exercises that they were capable of exerting * we were made on set purpose defatigable that so all degrees of life might have their exercise and our Maker designed that we should feel and taste the joys of our congenite bodies as well as the pleasures of those seraphick aspires and injoyments And me thinks it adds to the felicity of that state that our happiness was not one uniform piece or continual repetition of the same but consisted in a most grateful variety viz. in the pleasure of all our faculties the lower as well as the higher for those are as much gratified by suitable exercises and enjoyments as these and consequently according to their proportion capable of as great an happiness Nor is it any more derogation from the divine goodness that the noblest and highest life was not always exercised to the height of its capacity than that we were not made all Angels all the Planets so many Suns and all the variety of the Creatures formed into one Species Yea as was intimated above 't is an instance of the divine benignity that he produced things into being according to the vast plenitude of Forms that were in his all-knowing mind and gave them operations suitable to their respective natures so that it had rather seemed a defect in the divine dispensations if we had not had the pleasure of the proper exercise of the lower faculties as well as of the higher * Yea me thinks 't is but a reasonable reward to the body that it should have its delights and gratifications also whereby it will be fitted for further serviceableness For doubtless it would be in time spent and exhausted were it continually imployed in those high and less proportioned operations Wherefore God himself having so order'd the matter that the inferiour life should have its turn of invigoration it can be no evil in us * that that is executed which he hath so determined as long as we pass not the bounds that he hath set us Adam therefore was yet innocent though he joyed in his beloved Spouse yea and was permitted to feed upon all the fruits of this Paradise the various results of corporeal pleasure as long as he followed not his own will and appetites contrarily to the divine commands and appointments But at length unhappily the delights of the body betray us through our over indulgence to them and lead us captive to anomy and disobedience The sense of what is grateful and pleasant by insensible degrees g●ts head over the apprehension of what is just and good the Serpent and Eve prove successful tempters * Adam cannot withstand the inordinate appetite but feeds on the forbidden fruit viz. the dictates of his debauched will and sensual pleasure And thus now the body is gotten uppermost the lower faculties have greater exercise and command than the higher those being very vigorously awakened and these proportionably shrunk up and consopited wherefore by Axiom 3. and 5. the soul contracts a less pure body which may be more accommodate to sensitive operations and thus we fall from the highest Paradise the blissful regions of life and glory and become Inhabitants of the Air. Not that we are presently quite divested of our Aethereal state as soon as we descend into this less perfect condition of life for retaining still considerable exercises of the higher life though not so ruling and vigorous ones as before the soul must retain part of its former vehicle to serve it as its instrument in those its operations For the aethereal body contracts crasness and impurity by the same degrees as the immaterial faculties abate in their exercise so that we are not immediately upon the expiring of the highest congruity wholly stript of all remains of our celestial bodies but still hold some portion of them within the grosser vehicle while the spirit or higher life is in any degree of actuation Nor are we to suppose that every slip or indulgence to the body can detrude us from our aethereal happiness but such a change must be wrought in the soul as may spoil its congruity to a celestial body which in time by degrees is effected Thus we may probably be supposed to have fallen from our supream felicity But others of our order have made better use of their injoyments and the indulgences of their Maker and though they have had their Perigae's as well as their Apogae's I mean their Verges towards the body and its joys as well as their Aspires to nobler and sublimer objects yet they kept the station of their Natures and made their orderly returns without so remarkable a defection And though possibly some of them may sometimes have had their slips and have waded further into the pleasures of the body than they ought to have done yet partly by their own timely care and consideration and partly by the divine assistance they recover themselves

alone doth all imply 12. Here 's Rest here 's Peace here 's Joy and holy Love The Heaven 's here of true Content For those that hither sincerely move Here 's the true Light Of Wisdom bright And Prudence pure with no self-seeking mient 13. Here Spirit Soul and cleansed Body may Bathe in this Fountain of true Bliss Of Pleasures that will ne're decay All joyful Sights And hid Delights The sense of these renew'd here daily is 14. Come therefore come and take an higher flight Things perishing leave here below Mount up with winged Soul and Spright Quick let 's be gone To him that 's One But in this One to us can all things show 15. Thus shall you be united with that ONE That ONE where 's no Duality For from this perfect GOOD alone Ever doth spring Each pleasant thing The hungry Soul to feed and satisfie 16. Wherefore O man consider well what 's said To what is best thy Soul incline And leave off every evil trade Do not despise What I advise Finish thy Work before the Sun decline FINIS Books Printed for or Sold by Samuel Lownds over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand PArthenissa that Fam'd Romance Written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery Clelia an Excellent new Romance the whole Work in Five Books Written in French by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery The Holy Court Written by N. Causinus Bishop Saundersons Sermons Herberts Travels with large Additions The Compleat Horseman and Expert Farrier in Two Books 1. Shewing the best manner of breeding good Horses with their Choice Nature Riding and Dieting as well for Running as Hunting as also Teaching the Groom and Keeper his true Office 2. Directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and Cure all Diseases in Horses a Work containing the Secrets and best Skill belonging either to Farrier or Horse-Leach the Cures placed Alphabetically with Hundreds of Medicines never before imprinted in any Author By Thomas de Grey Claudius Mauger's French and English Letters upon all Subjects enlarged with Fifty new Letters many of which are on the late great Occurrences and Revolutions of Europe all much Amended and Refined according to the most quaint and Courtly Mode wherein yet the Idiom and Elegancy of both Tongues are far more exactly suited than formerly Very useful to those who aspire to good Language and would know what Addresses become them to all sorts of persons Besides many Notes in the end of the Book which are very necessary for Commerce Paul Festeau's French Grammar being the newest and exactest Method now extant for the attaining to the Elegancy and Purity of the French Tongue The Great Law of Consideration a Discourse shewing the Nature Usefulness and absolute necessity of Consideration in order to a truly serious and Religious Life The Third Edition Corrected and much Enlarged by Anthony Horneck D. D. The Mirror of Fortune or the true Characters of Fate and Destiny Treating of the Growth and Fall of Empires the Misfortunes of Kings and Great Men and the ill fate of Virtuous and handsome Ladies Saducismus Triumphatus or full plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions in Two parts the first Treating of their Possibility the second of their Real Existence by Joseph Glanvil late Chaplain to His Majesty and Fellow of the Royal Society The Second Edition The advantages whereof above the former the Reader may understand out of Dr. Henry More 's Account prefixt thereunto With two Authentick but wonderful stories of Swedish Witches done into English by Anthony Horneck D. D. French Rogue being a pleasant History of his Life and Fortune adorned with variety of other Adventures of no less rarity Of Credulity and Incredulity in things Divine and Spiritual wherein among other things a true and faithful account is given of Platonick Philosophy as it hath reference to Christianity As also the business of Witches and Witchcraft against a late Writer fully argued and disputed By Merick Causabon D. D. one of the Prebends of Canterhury Cicero against Catiline in Four Invective Orations containing the whole manner of discovering that notorious Conspiracy By Christopher Wase Cambridge Jests being Witty Alarms for Melancholy Spirits By a Lover of Ha Ha He. FINIS

only an aereal body And there being no other more congruous ready and at hand for it to enter it must needs step back into its former state of insensibility and there wait its turn till befitting matter call it forth again into life and action This is a conjecture that Philosophy dictates which I vouch not for a truth * but only follow the clue of this Hypothesis Nor can there any danger be hence conceived that those whose congruities orderly expire should fall back again into a state of ●ilence and inertness * since by long and hard exercises in this body the plastick life is well tamed and debilitated so that now its activity is proportioned to a more tenuious and passive vehicle which it cannot fail to meet with in its next condition For 't is only the terrestrial body is so long a preparing But to The next step of Descent or After-state TO give an Account of the After-state of the more degenerate and yet descending souls some fancy a very odd Hypothesis imagining that they pass hence into some other more course and inferior Planet in which they are provided with bodies suitable to their so depraved natures But I shall be thought extravagant for the mention of such a supposition Wherefore I come to what is less obnoxious When our souls go out of these bodies therefore they are not presently discharged of all the matter that belonged to this condition but carry away their inward and aereal state to be partakers with them of their after fortunes only leaving the useless earth behind them For they have a congruity to their aery bodies though that which they had to a terrestrial is worn out and defaced Nor need we to wonder how it can now have an aereal aptitude when as that congruity expired before we descended hither If we consider the reason of the expiration of its former vital aptitude which was not so much through any defect of power to actuate such a body but through the excess of invigoration of the Plastick which was then grown so strong * that an aereal body was not enough for it to display its force upon But now the case is altered these lower powers are worn and wearied out by the toylsome exercise of dragging about and managing such a load of flesh wherefore being so castigated they are duly attemper'd to the more easie body of air again as was intimated before to which they being already united they cannot miss of a proper habitation But considering the stupor dulness and inactivity of our declining age it may seem unlikely to some that after death we should immediately be resuscitated into so lively and vigorous a condition as is the aereal especially since all the faculties of sense and action are observed gradually to fail and abate as we draw nearer to our exit from this Stage which seems to threaten that we shall next descend into a state of more stupor and inertness But this is a groundless jealousie for the weakness and lethargick inactivity of old age ariseth from a defect of those Spirits that are the instruments of all our operations which by long exercise are at last spent and scattered So that the remains can scarce any longer stand under their unweildy burthen much less can they perform all functions of life so vigorously as they were wont to do when they were in their due temper strength and plenty However notwithstanding this inability to manage a sluggish stubborn and exhausted terrestrial body there is no doubt but the Soul can with great ●ase when it is discharged of its former load actuate its thin aery vehicle and that with a brisk vigour and activity As a man that is overladen may be ready to faint and sink till he be relieved of his burthen and then he can run away with a cheerful vivacity So that this decrepit condition of our decayed natures cannot justly prejudice our belief that we shall be erected again into a state of life and action in aereal bodies after this congruity is expired But if all alike live in bodies of air in the next condition * where is then the difference between the just and the wicked in state place and body For the just we have said already that some of them are reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity and others are in a middle state within the confines of the Air perfecting the inchoations of a better life which commenc'd in this As for the state and place of those that have lived in a continual course of sensuality and forgetfulness of God I come now to declare what we may fancy of it by the help of natural light and the conduct of Philosophy And in order to this discovery I must premise somewhat concerning the Earth this Globe we live upon which is that we are not to conceive it to be a full bulky mass to the center but rather that 't is somewhat like a suckt Egg in great part an hollow sphere so that what we tread upon is but as it were an Arch or Bridge to divide between the upper and the lower regions Not that this inward hollowness is a meer void capacity for there are no such chasms in nature but doubtless replenisht it is with some fluid bodies or other and it may be a kind of air fire and water Now this Hypothesis will help us easily to imagin how the earth may move notwithstanding the pretended indisposition of its Bulk and on that account I believe it will be somewhat the more acceptable with the free and ingenious Those that understand the Cartesian Philosophy will readily admit the Hypothesis at least as much of it as I shall have need of But for others I have little hopes of perswading them to any thing and therefore I 'le spare my labour of going about to prove what they are either uncapable of or at first dash judge ridiculous And it may be most will grant as much as is requisite for my purpose which is That there are huge vast cavities within the body of the Earth and it were as needless as presumptuous for me to go about to determinemore Only I shall mention a probability that this gross crust which we call earth is not of so vast a profundity as is supposed and so come more press to my business 'T is an ordinary observation among them that are imployed in Mines and subterraneous vaults of any depth that heavy bodies lose much of their gravity in those hollow caverns So that what the strength of several men cannot stir above ground is easily moved by the single force of one under it Now to improve this experiment 't is very likely that gravity proceeds from a kind of magnetism and attractive vertue in the earth which is by so much the more strong and vigorous by how much more of the attrahent contributes to the action and proportionably weaker where less of the magnetick Element exerts its operation so that supposing