Enthusiasmus triumphatus, or, A discourse of the nature, causes, kinds, and cure, of enthusiasme; written by Philophilus Parresiastes, and prefixed to Alazonomastix his observations and reply: whereunto is added a letter of his to a private friend, wherein certain passages in his reply are vindicated, and severall matters relating to enthusiasme more fully cleared.

Observation 8.

Lin. 15. This Anima retain'd in the Matter and missing a vent, &c. A similitude, I suppose, taken from the bung-hole of a barrell; or more compendi∣ously from bottled bear; or it may be from the cork∣ing up close the urine of a bewitched party, and set∣ting it to the fire. For Anthroposophus will not be lesse then a Magician in all things, nor seem lesse wise then or witch or devil. But me thinks, Anthroposo∣phus! your expression of the nature of this Anima, that must do such fine feats in the world, by the ef∣formation of things and organizing the matter into such usefull figuration and proportion in living crea∣tures, had been as fitly and as much to your purpose expressed; if you had fancied her tied up like a pig in

poke, that grunting and nudling to get out, drove the yielding bag out at this corner and that corner, and so gave it due order and disposition of parts. But, O thou man of mysteries! tell me I pray thee, how so so subtil a thing as this Anima is, can be either bar∣rel'd up, or bottled up, or tied up in a bag, as a pig in a poke! when as the first materiall rudiments of life be so lax and so fluid, how can they possibly hopple or incarcerate so thin and agil a substance as a Soul? so that the union betwixt them is of some other nature, then what such grosse expressions can represent, and more Theomagicall then our Theomagician himself is aware of.