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AND This holy Jacob^[46] was not ignorant of, when he used that ingenious subtile Stratagem of placing white-streaked Rods before Laban’s Flocks; which also answer’d effectually, in the Cattle’s producing their speckled and white spotted Young. In like manner by the same Experiment, the curious Admirers may be supply’d with Variety of spotted Birds, speckled Horses, Dogs, &c.

THE Mind also being inflam’d with a vehement IMAGINATION, may affect both the Soul and Body of Another: Which we need not wonder at, considering how much more powerful, fervent, and prevalent the Mind is in its Motion, than any exhaling Vapours; and that it does not want its proper and peculiar Mediums by which it may operate.

THIS (I think) is also evidently shewn from the many Miracles, which we find have been done by Prophets, Apostles, and other Holy Men; (not to mention those Wonders of Pythagoras, Apollonius, Empedocles, &c. which cannot come in Competition with the Others, being ascrib’d to Natural Causes): Whose Minds being firmly fix’d upon God, with full Intent for Good, affected both the Souls and Bodies of others, as well as Themselves, with what Divine Gifts, or other Blessings, they wanted.