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 26.

To say nothing at thy fond cavil at words in the former Observation•• and thy false accusation that I called thee dog (for I would not dishonour Diogenes ••o much as to call thee so) and leaving it to the cen∣sure of the world, how plain and reall thy principles are, I am come now to my 26 Observation on the 23 page of thy Anthroposophia, where thou tellest us, That there is a threefold Earth, viz. Elementary, Celestiall, Spirituall. Now let us see what an ex∣cellent layer of the fundamentalls of Science thou wil•• prove thy self. And here he begins to divide be∣fore he defines. Thou shouldest fi••st have told us what Earth is in generall before thou divide it. This is like a creature with a cloven foot, and never a head. But when thou didst venture to define these Mem∣bers, where was thy Logick? Ought not every defi∣nition, nay, ought not every Precept of Art to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉? but I will not vex thy head with

these severities. The Magnet is the second member, the object of this 26 Observation. Here you say, I condemn this Magnet, but I do not offer to confute it. But I answer, I have as substantially confuted it as merrily; but thou dost not take notice of it. I have intimated that this precept of art is not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, nay, that it is plainly false: For it affirms that which hath no discovery by reason or experience, viz. That there is a certain earth which you call the Magnet, that will draw all things to it at what distance so ever.

Quodcunque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi.

So farre am I from approving thy Magnet, O Magi∣cus. Nor do the pages thou here citest, of which I give a favourable censure, prove any such thing. Let the Reader peruse them, and judge. Indeed certain operations of the Soul are highly and Hyperbolical∣ly there set out by thee; but the Magnet came drop∣ping in at the latter end of the story. I gave no al∣lowance to that. I will not have my soul so ill taught, as to attract metall out of mens purses at any di∣stance whatsoever.

Page 64. line 12. Didst thou ever hear or know that I was a pick-pocket? If I had had the least suspicion of thee that thou wer•• so, I would not have called thee so, for it had been an unmercifull jest. But if thou wert as full of candour and urbanity, as I deem thee clear of that crime, thou wouldst not have interpreted it malice but mirth. For such jests as these are not uncivill nor abusive to the person, when the materiality of them are plainly and confessed∣ly incompatible to the party on whom they are ••ast.