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_. Next,how the corruption of each of thofe exceedingly differing bodies 
fhould all. confpire to the topes of the fame Plant, that is,that Stones, 
Bricks, Wood, or vegetable fubftanctes, and Bones, Leather, Horns, or 
animate fubftances, unlefs we may with fome plaufiblenefs fay, that Air 
and Water are the coad jutors, or #enfraums.in all. kinds of putrifacTions; 
and that thereby the bodies (though whil'ft they retain'd their {ubftan- 
tial forms,were of exdceeing differing natures,yet)fince they are difloly'’d 
and mixt into another, they may be very Homogencons, they being almoft 
refolv d again into Air, Water,and Earth; retaining,perhaps, one part of 
their vegetative faculty yet entire, which miecting with congruous af 
fiftants, fach as the heat of the Air, and the fluidity.of the Water, and 
fuch like coad jutors and conveniences, acquires a certain vegetation for 
{fame wholly differing perhaps from ‘that kind, of vegetation it had 
before, | | ae 
Toexplain my meaning a little better by a groG Similitude : 
_, Suppofe-a curious piece of Clock-work, that had had fevera] motions 
and contrivances in it, which, when in order, would all have mov'd in 
their defign’d methods and Periods. We will further fuppofe, by fome 
means, that this Clock comes to be broken, brufed,. or otherwife difor- 
dered, {0 that feveral pasts of it being diflocated, are impeded, and fo 
ftand {till, and not onely hinder its own progrefliye motion, and produce 
not the effe& which they were defign'd for, but becaufe the other parts 
alfo havea dependence upon them, put.a ftop to their motion likewifes 
and fo the whole Inftrument becomes unferviceable,, and not fit for any 
ule, This Inftrument afterwards, by fome fhaking and tumbling, and 
throwing up and down, comes to have feveral of its parts thaken out, and 
fevera] of its curious motions, and contrivances, and particles all fallen 
afunder ; here a Pin falls out, and there a Pillar, and here a Wheel, and 
there a Hammer, and a Spring, and the like, and among the reft, away 
fallsthofe parts alfo which were brufed and diforder'd, and had all this 
while impeded the motion ofall the reft; hereupon feveral of thofe other 
Motions that yet remain, whofe {prings were not quite run down, : 
now at liberty, begin each of es to move,thus or thus, but quite after 
another method then before, there being many regulating parts and the 
like.fallen away and loft, Upon this, the Owner, who chances to hear 
_ and obferve fome of thefe ofotte, being ignorant of the Watch-makers 
_ Art, wonders what is betid his Clock, and pecicnsly imagines that 
fome Artift has been at work, and hasfet his Clock in order, and madea 
new kind of Inftrument of it, but upon examining circumftances,he finds 
there was no fach matter, but that the cafual flipping out of a Pin had 
made feveral parts of his Clock fall to pieces, and that thereby the ob- 
ftacle that all this while hindred his Clock, together with other ufefull 
parts were fallen out, and.fo his Clock was fet at liberty. And upom 
Seeaahen nem tnereemcesin ae 
alter another manner then it waswont heretotore, 
_. And thus may it be clings in the bufinels of Mofs and Mould, and 
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Mulhroms, and feveral other fpontaneovs kinds of vegetations, = . 
