A new light of alchymy : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience : to which is added a treatise of sulphur . not let it go out of your family atany time^ and be made publique, faas to come to the hands of Sophifters^and footer s^ who contemn all things^which are not agreeable to them^ andindeed detraH from them: thefe are pleafed Dedicatory. f leafed only with what is their own^ asindeed all fools are wont to be^ whomtheir own toyes only pleafe, not anything which is anothers^ hating allkindpf wifdom. Wherefore they ac-count wifdom as folly : becaufe no-thing doth them any go
A new light of alchymy : taken out of the fountain of nature and manual experience : to which is added a treatise of sulphur . not let it go out of your family atany time^ and be made publique, faas to come to the hands of Sophifters^and footer s^ who contemn all things^which are not agreeable to them^ andindeed detraH from them: thefe are pleafed Dedicatory. f leafed only with what is their own^ asindeed all fools are wont to be^ whomtheir own toyes only pleafe, not anything which is anothers^ hating allkindpf wifdom. Wherefore they ac-count wifdom as folly : becaufe no-thing doth them any good^ they knowtheufe of nothing. As one work/nancannot ufe the infiruments of another^fo a fool can ufe no weapons betterthen his own Jiicky or boughs; andthere is no found pleafanter to himthen the ringing of his own belLWherefore moji dear Brother be youfaithfully admonijhed^ as I have en-treated you , and do what I have en-joined you^ which Ihopeyou will^andyou Jhall do what is right and with the prote^ion of God. Dated at vilUcumy In the Year, i J J7. Lib. I, l6i OF THE NATURE OF THINGS- Clie firft of the generations of Natural Things^ He generation of all NaturalThings is twofold: Natural, andwithout Art; and Artificial, Alchimy. Although in gene-ral it may be faid that all thingsare naturally generated of theEarth by means of Putrefaction. jFor Putrefadionis the chief degree, and firft ftep to Putrefaction isoccafioned by a moift a d)ntinual moift heat caufeth Putrefaction,and changeth all natural things from their firftform and cflence, as alfo their vertucs, and effica-cy into another thing. For as putrefaction in theStomach changeth, and reduceth all meats intoM dungi The genera*tion of na-tural thingsis twofold* All thingsproceedfrom putr?-faftion- $a nio:ft The powsrand natureof putrrfa-*6iicn. i6z m t})t mmxt of ctiittsg; Lib.*. ycliing s ^0 alfo putrefadtion our ot the Stomach ina Glais, ch
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