. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. To the prefent Age and Pofterity, Greeting. Lthough 1 had ranked the Hiftory ofLife and Death as the laft amongft mySix Monethly Defignations; yet Ihave thought fit, in refpeS of the prime ufethereof, [in which the leaf loft of time ouohtto he efleemed precious) to invert that order, and to fend itforth in the fecondplace. For I have hope, andwifh, that itmay conduce to a common good ; and that the 3\(j)blerfort ofPhy fician

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. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. To the prefent Age and Pofterity, Greeting. Lthough 1 had ranked the Hiftory ofLife and Death as the laft amongft mySix Monethly Defignations; yet Ihave thought fit, in refpeS of the prime ufethereof, [in which the leaf loft of time ouohtto he efleemed precious) to invert that order, and to fend itforth in the fecondplace. For I have hope, andwifh, that itmay conduce to a common good ; and that the 3\(j)blerfort ofPhy ficians will advance their thoughts, and not employ theirtimes wholly in the fordidnefi of C u r es , neither be honored/orNeceffity onely, hut that theywill become Coadju-tors andln&mments of the Divine Omnipotenceand Clemency in Prolonging WRenewing theLife of Man; efyecially feeing I prefcribe it to be done byJafe, and convenient, and civil ways, though hitherto though we Chriftians dp continually hfyire and pantafter the Land of Promife > yet it will be a token ofGods favor towards usy in our journey ings through thisWorlds Wildernefs, tohave our

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