agree on one generall appellation of them, DÆMONS. As if the
Dead of whom they Dreamed, were not Inhabitants of their
own Brain, but of the Air, or of Heaven, or Hell; not
Phantasmes, but Ghosts; with just as much reason, as if one
should say, he saw his own Ghost in a Looking-Glasse, or the
Ghosts of the Stars in a River; or call the ordinary apparition
of the Sun, of the quantity of about a foot, the Dæmon, or
Ghost of that great Sun that enlighteneth the whole visible
world: And by that means have feared them, as things of an
unknown, that is, of an unlimited power to doe them good, or
[353] harme; and consequently, given occasion to the Gover-
nours of the Heathen Common-wealths to regulate this their
fear, by establishing that DÆMONOLOGY (in which the Poets, as
Principall Priests of the Heathen Religion, were specially
employed, or reverenced) to the Publique Peace, and to the
Obedience of Subjects necessary thereunto; and to make some
of them Good Dæmons, and others Evill; the one as a Spurre
to the Observance, the other, as Reines to withhold them from
Violation of the Laws.

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