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24 much of it at present, because it will enable me to add another Reason of the unfrequency of Apparitions and Compacts, viz. (3) Because 'tis very likely, that these Regions are very unsuitable, and disproportioned to the frame and temper of their Senses and Bodies; so that perhaps, the courser Spirits can no more bear the Air of our World, than Bats and Owls can the brightest Beams of Day. Nor can the pure and better any more endure the noysome steams, and poysonous reeks of this Dunghil Earth, than the Delicate can bear a confinement in nasty Dungeons, and the foul squalid Caverns of uncomfortable Darkness. So that 'tis no more wonder, that the better Spirits no oftner appear, than that Men are not more frequently in the dark Hollows under ground. Nor is it any more strange, that evil Spirits so rarely visit us, than that Fishes do not ordinarily fly in the Air, as 'tis said one sort of them doth; or that we see not the Bat daily fluttering in the Beams of the Sun. And now by the help of what I have spoken under this Head, I am provided with some things wherewith to disable another Objection, which I thus propose.

F there be such an intercourse between evil Spirits and the Wicked, How comes it about that there is no correspondence between good Angels and the Vertuous, since without doubt these are as desirous to propagate the Spirit and Designs of the upper and better World, as those are to promote the Interest of the Kingdom of Darkness. Hich way of Arguing is still from our Ignorance of the State and Government of the other World, which must be confest, and may without prejudice to the Proposition I defend. But particularly I say, (1) That we have ground enough to believe, that good Spirits do interpose in, yea, and govern our Affairs. For that there is a Providence reaching from Heaven to Earth, is generally acknowledged; but that this supposeth all things to be ordered by the immediate Influence and interposal of the Supream Deity, some think is