The Urim of conscience to which the author has had recourse for plain answers, in his own particular case (as every man living ought to do in his) to four questions of great weight and importance, viz. 1. who and what art thou? 2. where hast thous been? 3. where art thou now going? 4. whither art thou going? : together with three select prayers for private families / by Sir Samuel Morland.

THE First Question. (Book 1)

Q. Who, And what art thou? (Book 1)

Answer.

One, who deserves no Name: A poor and despicable Individual of the unhappy Species of Human Race, which in its Ori∣ginal was Excellent and Admirable, but is now become Wretched and Miserable.

Sometimes, in the Silence and Shades of Night, my roving Fancy gives me a tran∣sient view of Adam in his Innocency; as he was LORD and KING of this lower World, and sitting in State, with his Roy∣al Consort, in the Garden of EDEN, whither all the Creatures resorted to do him Homage, with all Respect and Sub∣mission, as to their Liege and rightful So∣veraign.

Again, sometimes it represents the dole∣ful Scene of his terrible Fall, by his fond

Compliance with his new Bride's desires, to disobey his Maker's Command, and thereby to expose himself, and her, and his whole Posterity, to Death and endless Misery.

That Angels were created before Man, and that one of their chief Order for his Pride and Ambition was cast out of Heaven, we need no better proof than the sad Rehear∣sal of Adam's Fall; for certainly no other Created Being would ever have attempted to deface God's own Image and Likeness, but the chief of Apostate Angels, and Prince of Devils.

Methinks I hear the Father of Lies, in the shape of a Serpent (which was proba∣bly at that time, the most Lovely and Beau∣tiful, as well as the most Crafty and Subtil of all the inferior Creatures) thus accosting the Mother of all Living,

Fair Queen of this Lower World! What great pitty it is, that such excellent Creatures as your Self, and your Royal Associate, should here feed on Herbs and courser Meats, whereas there is so noble a Plant in this your own Garden, the Fruit whereof is not only incomparably fair to the Eye, and ex∣treamly pleasant to the Tast, but has also a

secret Vertue to inspire the Eaters with Hea∣venly Wisdom and Knowledge. If your Ma∣ker has forbidden it you, it is only to raise and heighten the Desires of your Divine Souls, after their proper, Adcquate and Coelestial Objects. How should the LORD GOD take Offence at your doing that, which will most certainly make you so like to himself, and his own Divine Essence?

How far Eve might be surprized, to hear a Serpent speak in her own Language; Or, whether the Gift of Speaking might, in those Days, be sometimes given by God, to some of the chief of Inferior Creatures, upon some special occasion (as it was in af∣ter-times given to Balaam's Ass) And whe∣ther the Devil spoke to her through the mouth of a real Serpent, or in an assumed shape, I shall not go about to determine. Some learned Men believe that this Ser∣pent was a Dragon; because, say they, the Naturalists in their Writings describe the Dragon to be a Creature of wonderful Beauty, (and doubtless it was a much more beautiful Creature before its Curse, in case that were the very Animal that was made use off by the Devil) with a long golden Beard, bright and sparkling Eyes, Scales shining with glorious Colours, and

the like; insomuch that the Egyptians wor∣shipped a Dragon, as a Diety; and the Greeks borrowed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that Beautifull Crea∣tures Image, to represent their God AEscu∣lapius: But in how beautiful a shape soe∣ver the Devil appeared, it is evident that his Design was, to all intents and purpo∣ses, most spiteful and malicious.

O cruel Satan! Was there not room e∣nough for thee, and all thy Infernal Crew, to range up and down in the vast and wide Expanse, without intruding so rude∣ly and abruptly into Paradise?

O spiteful old Dragon! What Wrong, or Injury, did our first Parents do to thee, while they were dressing the Garden, which their MAKER had so lately pla∣ced them in, that thou shouldest invent so hellish a Stratagem, and in Masquerade make so fatal an Address, at once to rob them of their Innocence, disturb their present Peace, and disappoint them of their future Happiness?

Be therefore for ever accursed, O Beel∣zebub, Thou Prince of Devils, and true Original of all Sin and Wickedness, for thy malicious Practises to deceive all the Nati∣ons

of the World, for so many Thousand Years; whenas thou canst not be ignorant, but that the Sins of every Soul that thou has tempted, (be it Saved, or be it Damned) shall one Day be set to thy Accompt, and add Degrees to thy Eternal Torment. (From all Evil and Mischief, and from all the Crafts and Assaults of the Devil, and all his Infernal Spirits, Good Lord deliver us.)

Now here, I doubt not, but that the in∣genious Reader will expect I should insert some short Discourse concerning Blessed and Apostate Spirits, and I could heartily wish I had a sufficient Knowledge of, and Insight into those Mysteries, to answer fully his desires.

But I am afraid on the one side, that he would be very little satisfied with my En∣deavours, in case I should, in imitation of a late learned Author, try to squeeze a plausible Description of LOST PARADISE, out of St. John's Vision in the Isle of Patmos, and fancy to my self a formal and pitcht Battle, upon a vast and wide Plain, in the North part of Heaven, fought between two mighty Hosts of Blessed and Revolted Spi∣rits, conducted and led up by mighty Arch-Angels, (for their Generals) riding in Bra∣zen

Chariots, drawn by foaming Steeds, and clad with Adamantine Coats, one of which was, by a massy Sword, cut down to the wast, and stain'd with Angelick blood: Where the one of these Armies dug up the Terrain of Heaven, and with the Materials they there found, made Pow∣der, Bullets and great Guns (it is pity that Bombs were not in use when he wrote that Treatise) and with them did great Ex∣ecution upon their Enemies, who in Re∣venge tore up great Mountains by the Roots, and hurl'd them at their Heads, with a great number of other Romantick Stories, which is Ludere cum Sacris, and much fitter for Poets and Painters, who when they are got to the top of their P••rnassus, frame to themselves Idea's of what Chime∣ra's or Goblins they please.

And on the other side, I judge it alto∣gether needless, to make use of the Dark-Lanterns of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, or any of the old Heathen Poets, or to borrow the dim Tapers and blinking Lights of Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, or any of those Half-Di∣vine Philosophers, or to be beholding to the School-men for their vain Distinctions, and splitting of Hairs, with their lame Definitions, and Explanations of Obscurum per Obscurius.

Neither am I willing to tire my Reader with endless Quotations out of the Anci∣ent, Pious and Learned Fathers, who were, for the most part, somewhat tender in de∣livering their Opinions about the Doctrin of Spirits, but wisely waved the positive Determination of Questions, relating to the Invisible World, and those deep Mysteries of Incorporeal Beings, as not to be fathom'd by the Line and Plummet of Human Under∣standing.

And therefore I shall content my self with what Light I can get from the Holy Scriptures, and where those are either ob∣scure, or silent, to be very cautious, sober and modest.

1. That there were, are, and ever shall be, true and real Subsistencies of Good and Evil Angels, the following Passages of Sa∣cred Writ do plainly inform us, viz.

—Before the Angels of God, 12 Luke 8.

—He shall come—with all his holy An∣gels, 25 Matth. 31.

—If God spared not the Angels that sinned, 2 Pet. 2. 4.

—The Angels that kept not their first Estate, Jud. 6.

—The Angels came, 4 Matth. 11.

—Out of whom went 7 Devils, 8 Luke 2.

—Everlasting Fire Prepared for the Devil and his Angels, 25 Matth. 41.

—But are as the Angels in Heaven, 22 Matth. 30.

2. As concerning the Time when the Angels were Created, it may be conjectu∣red, by comparing several Texts of Scripture, and making the following In∣ference, viz.

The Sons of God, and the Morning-Stars are put together, and the Morning-Stars were made before the Earth, Job 38. And the Earth was made three Days before the Stars in the Firmament, Gen. 1. (And consequent∣ly Morning Stars cannot be meant Stars of the Firmament.)

Again, by Stars, are meant Angels, 12 Rev. 4.

And by the Heavenly Host, are meant An∣gels, 2 Luke 13. and 1 Kings 19. 21.

And the Heavens and Heavenly Hosts are joined together, 2 Gen. And the Heavens said to be Created the First Day.

Therefore it seems probable, that the Sons of God, otherwise the Morning-Stars, (or which is the same thing) Angels, or the Host of Heaven, were created on the first of the Six Days in the Morning.

3. That there were great Numbers of both Blessed and Apostate Angels, we are assured from several Passages in the Old and New Testament.

—More than 12 Legions (or, as some compute it) 79992) Angels, 26 Matth. 23.

—Thousand Thousands ministred unto him, and Ten Thousand times Ten Thousand stood before him, 7 Dan. 10. and 5 Rev. 11.

—An innumerable Company of Angels, 12. Heb. 22.

—A multitude of the Heavenly Host, 2▪ Luke 13.

—His Tail drew a Third part of the Stars of Heaven, 12 Rev. 4.

—My Name is Legion, for we are many, 5 Mark 9.

Now, if Solomon, who was LORD but of a very small Spot of the Terrestrial Globe, (which Globe is by us thought to be lit∣tle more than a Point, if compared with the Starry Firmament) had so many Atten∣dants

What Number should we think a fit Retinue for the KING of KINGS, and LORD of LORDS? Myriades My∣riadum, will be too small a Summ: And so will our ordinary Terms of Arithmetick, and we must be forced to borrow some of the learned Commentator upon Archimedes his Arenarius, and say, Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions, &c. of blessed Angels to at∣tend his Throne, and to make up the Court of Heaven.

4. That there were different Orders and Degrees of Good and Evil Spirits, we have reason to believe, from the following Texts, viz.

—The great Prince Michael, 12 Dan. 1.

—Beelzebub the Prince of Devils, 11 Luke 15.

—The Prince of the Power of the Air, 2 Ephes. 2.

—The Voice of the Arch-Angel, 2 Thess. 4. 16.

—Thrones or Dominions, Principalities or Powers, 1 Coloss. 16.

—Michael and his Angels, and the Devil and his Angels, 12 Rev. 3. 9.

5. That all the blessed Angels which at∣tend God's Throne, are Ministring Spirits, and sometimes appeared in Humane shapes, we find in the following Texts, viz.

—Three Men stood by him, 18 Gen. 2.

—Behold two Men stood by them in shining Garments, 24 Luke 4.

—And there came two Angels to Sodom, and Lot went out to meet them, 19 Gen. 1.

—And the Angel of the Lord found her by a Fountain of water, 16 Gen. 7.

—And the Angel of the Lord called unto him, (viz. Abraham) 22 Gen. 11.

—And Jacob went on his way, and the Angel of the Lord met him, 32 Gen. 1.

—The Angel of the Lord went out, &c. and smote in the Camp of the Assyrians 185 Thou∣sand, 2 Kings 19. 31.

—And there died, &c. 70 Thousand. And when the Angel of the Lord stretched forth his hand upon Jerusalem, the Lord said to the An∣gel, Hold now thine hand, 2 Sam. 24. 15, 16.

—You shall see the Heavens opened, and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, 1 John 51.

—I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speak to thee, 1 Luke 19.

—And the Angel ministred unto him, 1 Luke 13.

—And the Angel of the Lord came down from Heaven, and rolled away the Stone, &c. 28 Matth. 2.

—He knew of a surety, that God had sent his Angel, Acts 12▪ 11.

—Who received the ▪Law by the Disposition of Angels, 7 Acts 53.

—Are they not ministring Spirits, for the good of, &c. 11 Hebrews.

Ejaculation.

King of Kings, and Lord of Lords! a∣bout whose Throne are always attending, Thousands of Thousands, and ten Thousand times ten Thousand blessed Angels, be graciously pleased to give Charge to some of those ministring Spirits, to guide and conduct me throughout my whole Pilgri∣mage in this Val••y of Tears, and at last, to convey my departing Soul to the place of Everlasting Rest and Happiness.

What were, and are the fatal Conse∣quences of the Disobedience of our First Parents, we too well know, and find by woful Experience. (And had not their heavy Sentence been allayed with a happy Promise of a Messias, both their, and our

Condition had been altogether hopeless.) But what had been the Consequences, in case they had remain'd in that purity in which they were created: As namely, to what Numbers they had increased and multiplied? in what parts of the World they had inhabited? And if in colder Cli∣mates, their Bodies had required Cover∣ing and Vestments? Whether Flesh had been allowed them for Food, as well as Fruits and Herbs? And the Earth brought forth its Encrease without any Labour or Tillage? And lastly, if they had never died, but after a certain Term of Years, had been Translated from Earth to Hea∣ven, as Righteous Enoch was, and af∣terwards Elias? Are all Questions more cu∣rious than necessary, (as the Case now stands with us.) And such, as I believe, the wisest Man living, had he all imaginable Helps of Humane Learning, and acquired Knowledge, would never be able, with any certainty, to determine.

Thus much we may reasonably believe, and safely conclude, That as they were at first created by the wonderful Contrivance and Mechany of the blessed Trinity, and made after G O D's own Image and Like∣ness, they were truly Noble and Excellent Creatures.

Of their Bodies we have a Specimen, by the Dissection of one of our own, they be∣ing undoubtedly the same with ours, as to the Figure, Number and Uses, as well of their Exterior, as their Interior parts, though extreamly different in Perfection and Duraho•• those lasting more than twice as many Hundreds, as ours do now Scores of Years, even after they were mortified by their Fall, and were Condemned by G O D himself, the one, to daily Labour and Tillage, and to eat his Bread by the sweat of his Brows; and the other, to be subject to the Laws and Will of a Hus∣band, to struggle with the sharp Pains and Throws of Child-bed, and to have her Griefs and Sorrows greatly multiplied.

In the Dissection of Humane Bodies, what thinking Men can take a serious view of the Skin, the Membranes, the Flesh, the Fibers, the Veins, the Arteries, the Nerves, the Ligaments, the Cartilages, and the Bones; as likewise of the three Cavities (or Venters) of the Trunk, namely the Abdo∣men, the Chest, and the Head, with all things therein contained; as also the Arms, Thighs and Legs, with their different Po∣sitions, Compositions, and admirable Use, without being struck with great Wonder

and Astonishment, and crying out with good King David, Behold, I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

When he considers how closely the Sto∣mach, with the help of its Fibers, embra∣ces the Meat that is chewed in the Mouth, and the Drink that is received in, and swal∣lowed down, and mixeth therewith speci∣fick fermentatious Juices, bred in its inner Coat, and impregnated by the Saliva, till the finer parts, by a convenient heat, be∣come a white milky Cream; after which, together with the thicker Mass, (with which they are as yet involved by the Constriction of the Stomach,) they pass down to the Guts, where by the mixture of the Bile, and the pancreatick Juice, they are by another manner of Fermenta∣tion, quite separated from the thicker Mass, and so received of the Lacteal Vessels, as the thicker is ejected by the Stool.

When he rightly considers the Figure and Motion of that admirable Machine, (the Heart) and how it is suspended in the Body, by the Vessels that go in and out of it, and that as an ordinary Forcing-En∣gine, being placed in the middle of a Ci∣ty, or Town, draws the Water of an ad∣joining

Source, or Fountain, into its own Bowels by one Motion, or stroak of the hand, and the help of a Valve, to keep it from returning back again, and then thrusts, or forces out the same Water by another stroke of that hand, and the help of another Valve, into another Pipe, which is afterwards distributed into smaller Bran∣ches, to supply the Uses of the several and respective Houses: So the Heart receives the Blood out of the Vena Cava into its Ventricles by a Djastole, (or Dilatation) and then thrusts, or forces it out again by a Systole (or Contraction) into the Arte∣ries, and out of these, into the parts that are to be nourished, from whence it is to be resolved by the Capillary Veins, which conduct it back through the larger Veins into the Vena Cava again, and this by the help of divers Semi-lunar or Semi-circular Valves, curiously and conveniently placed in the aforementioned Vessels and Passa∣ges, and thus is made the admirable Circu∣lation of the Blood: But how, or by what secret Power the Heart receives its Motion, and makes its constant pulses, is known to God alone, the Maker and Searcher of all Hearts.

We are apt to admire the Skill of an Ar∣tist, who can make us a Pendulum-Clock,

of the choicest Brass and Iron, to vibrate with a just and equal Motion, for the space but of one Year, and that with the help of a suspended Weight: What shall we then think of a Movement, composed of fleshy Muscles and Fibers suspended in Me∣thusalem's body, and continuing its Pulses, without the help of either Weight or Springs, for the space of Nine Hundred, sixty and nine Years, which time would cer∣tainly wear out the Wheels and Pinions of a great many Brass and Iron Clocks.

If there were but room enough in so small a Treatise, there are yet behind ma∣ny and great Wonders of the Almighty Maker's Mechany and Contrivance, rela∣ting to Motion and Sense.

According to that small Skill I formerly had in Opticks, it was my Opinion, (with submission to better Judgments,) that the Figure and Colour, or Colours of a visible Object (however situated, or in what po∣sture soever it be placed) make the Base of an imaginary Cone, composed of infi∣nite visical Rays, which is conveyed in an instant through a Lucid Medium, to the Su∣perficies of every Beholders Eye, where a small section of the Apex of that Cone, is

refracted by the several Waters and Tu∣nicks, and then the Figure of the said Ob∣ject being inverted by the Humor Chrystal∣linus, is, in the same posture, lodged in the Tunica Retina, from whence it is conveyed into the common Sensory.

Again, by those Experiments I have here∣tofore made in Acousticks, I then judged, that different Percussions of the Air, do be∣get infinite spherical Figures of Aereal Mo∣tions, (as a Stone thrown into the midst of a Pool of standing Water, or (which is much more curious) a stroak with a Pin's head upon the supersicies of a long Vessel of Quick-silver, begets in the first infinite numbers of Circles, or in the last infinite Arches) which spread themselves every way, till they meet with some harder Body that makes resistance; which let us sup∣pose to be a Man's Ear, in the Cavity of which the aforesaid Figures of Aereal Mo∣tions suffer several Reverberations, and then make a Percussion upon the Tympanum, or Drum, (which is a Nervous, and almost pellucid Membrane, and of most exquisite Sense) and from thence are conveyed into the Brain.

And by the help of these, and other Ex∣periments, I then made (which were ma∣ny

Years since) and the Blessing of God up∣on my Endeavours, I found out the Tuba¦stentero-phonica, or Speaking-Trumpet, and im∣proved that Invention so far, as to make humane Voice both audible and intelligible, either in plain Words and Sentences, or else in Cypher, for conveighing Secrets in∣to, or out of besieged Places, (over the heads of their Enemies) or for one Ship to speak to another, at the distance of three English Miles, or thereabouts; and had I not received some Discouragement (which then I did not think I deserved) I did not doubt but to have improved it to the di∣stance of eight, nine or ten Miles.

I did likewise, at the same time, con∣trive, and cause to be made by my Dire∣ctions, a very large Otocoustacon, one end whereof being laid to my Ear in a still Evening, in the middle of St. Jame's Park, brought into it (as I thought) innumera∣ble Sounds of Coach and Cart-wheels, and humane Voices, in, and throughout all the Streets, as well those of Westminster, St. James's and Pickadilly, as the others between White-hall and London-Bridge; but those Sounds being often confused, and those that were nearer, drowning those which were more remote, and sometimes offen∣ding

the Ear by the sharpness of the noise, (not to mention the large Dimensions, and great Weight of such Instruments.) I then desisted from my making any further Experiments: However, some years since, having received several Visits, in the be∣half of several deaf Persons, and believing that it might be an acceptable Service to all Mankind, I determined to proceed, not doubting to contrive such a Machine, as would have taken a just Gage, or Measure, of the Degrees of any Persons deafness, and likewise to invent another small Instru∣ment, to hang upon the Ear as an Orna∣ment, whereby those Degrees of Deafness should have been in a great measure, or altogether restored; had it not pleased Al∣mighty GOD, in the interim, to visit me with Blindness.

But now, in all the aforementioned O∣perations, how the Soul of Man, by the help of the Brain, (which is the general Organ of Sense) perceives and judges Sen∣sations of all sentient parts, and out of it, as out of a Fountain, by the help of eight or ten pair of Nerves (whose Origin is derived from the Medulla-substance of the Brain) it communicateth the Animal Spi∣rits (being first elaborated) to all the sen∣tient

parts of the Body, and thereby en∣dows them with the faculty of performing Animal Actions: For example, how, and in what mysterious manner, the Soul sends out the Animal Spirits, so many several ways, to receive in, and judge of the Fi∣gures and Colours of so many hundred Objects in one Minutes space, and so many different Sounds of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, within the compass and measure of a Semibref, and that without confoun∣ding visual Rays, or Aereal Percussions, which must of necessity very often inter∣fere with each other, or what manner of Creatures those Animal Spirits are, which have never yet been discerned by the shar∣pest Eye, or best Glasses?

Let the ablest Philosopher in the World tell me, otherwise than by the empty Terms of Anatomy.—Et erit mihi mag∣nus Apollo.

And this is all I have here room to treat of, relating to Sense. There is yet some∣thing that very well deserves to be taken notice of, concerning The Motion of the Limbs, and their great force, in lifting up, thrusting from them, or pulling to them great weights with the nimble Motion of all the Parts, some of those Operations a∣greeing

with, and others confounding our ordinary Doctrine of Staticks.

I know very well, That a pound weight, suspended at one end of an iron Rod pla∣ced horizontally, at six foot distance from its Fulcrum, or perpendicular Axis, equi∣ponderates a Weight of six pounds suspen∣ded at the other end of the said iron Rod, at one foot distance from the said Fulcrum, or Axis, (the length of one foot of that Rod, on the one side of the Axis being first made equal in Weight, to the aforesaid length of six foot of the same Rod, on the other side of the Axis) And if the afore∣said Weight of six pound, be raised two Inches in perpendicular height▪ by the force of the said one pound, (with some small addition) that one pound weight must of necessity descend Twelve Inches, or one Foot.

Likewise I am not ignorant, that if a Globular weight of six pound, be suspen∣ded at one end of an Iron Rod of six foot in length, hanging perpendicularly upon a small Pin, or Joint, the force of two pound weight being fastned by a Pack-thread, to the Center of Gravity of that Globular weight, and conveniently placed, so as to

move up and down over a Pulley, will heave up that Globular weight, (a propor∣tional part of the said Rod being first equi∣ponderated) to the perpendicular height of two foot. Again, the weight of four pound applied in the same manner, will heave up the said Globular weight, to the perpendicular height of four foot, and the force of six pound Weight, will heave it up to the Horizontal Line, (or 90 Degrees) which Experiment, being exactly perform∣ed, gives great light to young Practitioners in the Mechanicks.

Lastly, I know by Experience, that an Engineer standing on the top of a Tower, may by the help of Ropes and Pullies, with a small force, heave up a Tun weight, or more, to the perpendicular height of 10 or 20 Foot, provided there be proportion∣able time given him for that Operation; and also, that he has a sufficient Fulcrum, or place, to which he may fasten one of his Blocks.

I can likewise imagine the Soul of a Man, whilst his Body stands bolt up right, to be a spiritual Engineer, and to be sea∣ted in the Brain, as in its Watch-Tower, and there to make use of each hand and

arm to lift up a ponderous Weight, to the perpendicular height of 6 or 12 Inches: But I must, at the same time, ingeniously acknowledge, that I do not at all appre∣hend, neither have I any Idea, or Imagina∣tion, by what secret power the Soul con∣tracts or dilates the Muscles, how it ela∣borates, and sends forth the Animal Spirits, or how it makes use of any of the ten pair of Nerves, whose Origin is derived from the Medulla substance of the Brain, which is, in a manner, as soft as Butter: And I leave, to the Contemplation of the most skilful and subtil Mechanick, or Philosopher, in the World, the innumerable Difficulties that will arise from all the following In∣stances.

1. Of a Porter, taking up great and pon∣derous Burthens from off the ground, and heaving them on his shoulders.

2. Of a Waterman, who, upon a Wa∣ger, pulls in his Oars with both his Arms towards his body, and, at the same time, thrusts from him with his Thighs and Legs, in which Motion, viz. that of his Arms and Hands, he works with a Quintiple dis∣advantage, according to the Doctrine of Staticks; because the Muscle of the Hume∣rus,

is fastned but to a 6th. part of the Cubi∣tus, or Radius, as I my self have measured upon a dead Man's bones.

3. Of a Seaman, working at a Drum-Capstan (a Contrivance I presented to the late King Charles the Second, many years ago) to weight up the ponderous Anchors of great Ships, which has since saved great Numbers of English Sea-men's lives.

4. Of one, who distorts all the Parts, Members and Joints of his Body, so as to make it appear in many different Figures, and strange Shapes: Such a one I have seen at Paris, and such a one there was, not long since, in the City of London, who went by the Name of Posture John.

5. Of one, who jumps, wrestles, throws the Bar, runs a Race, or fights a Prize.

6. Of one, who performs strange Feats of Activity, Vaults and cuts Capers in the Air to a great height, as he is dancing on the Stage, or on the Ropes.

7. A skilful and active Musician, the dif∣ferent Motions of whose Fingers, are of in∣credible swiftness.

Ejaculation.

O Almighty GOD, Maker of all things Visible and Invisible, How wonderful and unsearchable are all thy Works? How deep are all thy Thoughts, and thy Ways past finding out, by us poor Mortals, or indeed, by any finite Creatures.

All that I shall add to what has been al∣ready mentioned upon this Subject, shall be only this: That if there are so many insuperable Difficulties, about Bodily Opera∣tions, as to Motion and Sense; how much greater must of necessity be the Difficulties of the Souls Operations, which are wholly abstracted from, and have no Correspon∣dence at all with Bodies or Sense.

Of this Sort, as I think, is a late learned Philosopher's (Cogito) though I understand not at all his Inference of (Ergo sum.)

But whatever he intends, my meaning is, the Soul's drawing necessary Conclusi∣ons from undoubted Premises, and so forming within it self Syllogisms: As like∣wise its Apprehensions of a Supreme Diety,

or an Almighty MAKER of all Things, who is from Everlasting to Everlasting, and depends upon none.

And its Reflections of Conscience, either Accusing, or Excusing Moral Actions.

Forgive me, Courteous Reader, I am already lost in a Labyrinth of Thoughts, and my Soul is over-whelmed with a De∣luge of Imaginations, and can make no further progress: At the Resurrection, you and I shall know more, and be much wi∣ser than we now are, When this Mortal shall put on Immortality; When our Un∣derstandings shall be more illuminated, and when the Eyes of our Souls shall be no longer forced to look, or peep through such thick Humors, muddy Waters, dull Tunicks, and horny Spectacles.

The Second Question.