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S as Introduction to the Study of Natural Magic, we have thought fit to premie a hort dicoure on the Influence of the Stars, and on Natural Magic in general, hewing how far the influences of the heavenly bodies are ueful to our purpoes, and wikewie to what extent we may admit thoe influences; rejecting ome peculations concerning the planetary inclinations, as far as they appertain to quetionary abues, that eem to us idle, and of no validity, or yet founded on any principles of found philoophy, or correponding to the word of God in the Scriptures. In which dicoure we have fully et down our reaons for rejecting ome parts of atrology, and admitting others which are founded on good principles, and coinciding with the Scriptures and Natural Philoophy; our purpoe being to clear the undertanding of errors, and not to enforce any thing but what appear to be ubtantiaged by nature, truth, and experiment. Rh