. Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life . Hiftory ofLife^Death, asthe/afi, amongfimy fix Monethly Defignati- om; yet I have thought fit, mrefpettof the prime ufe thereof; (In which theleafi Lop of Time wgbt to heefleemdprecious; to invert that Order, and to find it forth in the fe~condplace^ For Ihave hope, andwifb, that it my conduce to aCommonGood; And that the Nobler fort ^/PhyficiansWill advance their thoughts; And not employ their limes Ml)intheSordidneffe


. Sylva sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries; whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life . Hiftory ofLife^Death, asthe/afi, amongfimy fix Monethly Defignati- om; yet I have thought fit, mrefpettof the prime ufe thereof; (In which theleafi Lop of Time wgbt to heefleemdprecious; to invert that Order, and to find it forth in the fe~condplace^ For Ihave hope, andwifb, that it my conduce to aCommonGood; And that the Nobler fort ^/PhyficiansWill advance their thoughts; And not employ their limes Ml)intheSordidneffe of Cures; Neither be Honoured forNeceffity only; But that they will become Coadjutors andInflruments of the Divine omnipotence and Cle-mencie, in Prolqnging^Renewing the Life ofMan efpecially feeing I prefinbeit to be done by Safe, andConvenient, and Civil wayej* though hitherto im-ajjayed. Forthough we Chriftians doe continually afpvre, and pant afterfkLand ofPromife let it milk a Token of Godsfavour tawards us, in our lourneyings throw this Worldswildernefle, to have our Shoots and Garments,{Imeane, thofe of our Fraile Bodies) tittle worm, ormt-pared. Fr. St. THE HISTORY OF Life and Death Ibe Preface,


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