140 The prognoftkh^ Signs that fome general Calamity is at Hand? AND certainly this will not appear! a very difficult Conjecture, and remote from Reafbn, when we duly confider the ftrange Intercourfe and Familiarity which the Spi- rits maintain with Things very occult) 2nd at a Diftance } for whofoever rightly weighs this Matter, will perceive the Spi- rits capable of very fubtile ImpreiHons, hy Means of their Intercourfes with the Imagination, whereby they are capable of perceiving, tho 5 obfcurely, any approach^ ing Evil, and confequently of exciting a- mongft the Populace a general Apprehenfion concerning Futurity, without any miraculous Influence. LASTLY, All fore-bodings of any Kind denote the Malignancy of the ap- proaching Evil, becaufe they are manifeft- ly from the Influence of the pestilential Mtafmata^ and the further oif fuch Impref? lions are made, the greater do they prc- gnofHcate the future Calamity will be •, becaufe fuch Irradiations at a Diftance, and propagated through a long Traft of Air, denote the great Energy and Virulence of their Origin , when therefore the Peiiilence, feldom
