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eluded therein, (he would have nopower nor venue in generation and pro-duction ; seeing (he is properly no morethen the common vessel or matrix ofthese many and different generations:for the general matter or C Mercury ofthem, being, as Philosophers denote,invisible, and almost incorporeal,cannotbe made visible and corporeal, but bysome subtile artifice; which matter, ifit can be extracted out of the Arms ofits Nurse,and purged from all accidentalsuperfluities, may (notwithstanding anyReason I can see to the contrary) in thethings whereto it is applied , separatethings corruptive and heterogeneous,and conserve and multiply things homo-geneous and conformable to it.

It is without doubt, Thar, Authorsare misunderstood, when they seem toassert, that Metals bnely should beusurped to the production of Metals,saying, That the Seeds of ©old are in©old : for besides that which we havespoken of common Metals, and of thosewhich Philosophers assume to the con-fection of their Magistery, we dare yetaffirm, That without this general Spirir,

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