A new light of alchymy : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience : to which is added a treatise of sulphur . nd inthem U a great vanity ) hut to let theefee the Light of T^ture , hy vphich thotimaifl judg of Truths , and the better con-ceive of the God of Nature, of vphom allnatural things are full, and whofe goingsforth in the way of Nature are mo ft won-derful^ even to the conviction of the greatejiAtheifls. Courteous Reader, Thou mufl excufe me for not affectingElegancies in thefe Translations; for if Iwere skilled in them, yet the Matter ofthe Books would not bear them* i
A new light of alchymy : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience : to which is added a treatise of sulphur . nd inthem U a great vanity ) hut to let theefee the Light of T^ture , hy vphich thotimaifl judg of Truths , and the better con-ceive of the God of Nature, of vphom allnatural things are full, and whofe goingsforth in the way of Nature are mo ft won-derful^ even to the conviction of the greatejiAtheifls. Courteous Reader, Thou mufl excufe me for not affectingElegancies in thefe Translations; for if Iwere skilled in them, yet the Matter ofthe Books would not bear them* if I havefometimes ufed uncouth fVords, // was be^caufe the Senfe, to which I kept me clofe,would not properly bear any other, or atlea(l better came not at the prefent intomy Mind, if any Erratas have pajjedthrough thejlips of my Pen , or the Prin-ters mijlake, be thou candtd , and mendthemy If thou Jhalt not approve of what I The Epiftle, <^c. I have done, convince me of my err our bydoing better 5 for thereby thou (halt obligethe Lovers of Truth, and, amongji therejl^ thy Friend 7F. A 2rr-f (I) A NEW LIGHT, C5e firfl Creatiff; of 7s[dture , vphat Jhe u, a»d rvhat herSearchers ought to he. Any wife and very lezrn&d men manyAges fince, yea (Hermes ceftifylngthe fame) before the Flcud, wrotemany things concerning the ma-king the Philofophers Scone j andhave bequeathed fo many writings unto us, thatnnlefs Nature fhould dayly work things cre-dible to us, fcarce any one would believe ic as atruth that there were any Nature at all: becaufcin former Ages there were not fo many devifers ofthings, neither did our Anceftors regard any thingbe/idcs Nature it felf,and the pofTibilicy of although they were contented with the plainway alone of Nature, ycc thcyfouod out thofcthings which we now imployed about divers thingscould not with all our wits conceive. This is be-B cauft a netj Jiigljt of Wpm?; caafe Nature and the Generation ut things in theworld is efteemed
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