4 An Hiftorical Account for although but little Regard was given to inch Things by Perfons of Thought, yet Experience daily ftiewed, what Influ- ence they had- with the meaner Sort, whole Spirits being manifeftly funk by fuch Fears, rendered their Constitutions lefs able to refht the Contagion. Whofoever duly con- fiders it, can never- imagine that this Pefti- lence had its Origin from any Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter m Sagitariits on the Tenth of Offohef, or from a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in the fame Sign on the Twelfth of November, which was the com- mon Opinion 5 for all the Good that happens during the like Conjunctions is affrgnable to the lame Caufes. THE like Judgment is to be made of Comets, how terrible foever they may be 211 their Aipecls, and whether they are produced in the higher Regions from a Conglomeration of many Stars, and return- in^ at certain Periods : of whether they are lower, and the Production of fulphu- rebus Exhalations, kindled in our own Atmofphere For there is nothing flrange in the Accenfion of heterogeneous Particles into a Flame, upon their rapid Occurfions arid Collifions ae-ainft- each other, howfoever terrible
