'^Trettlfe of BO DIES. Chap. 15. 



of number and velocity of motion, fupplying what they want of 

 them in bulk; do carry them away with them. And thus thefe 

 phlegmatick parts flic up with the fire ami are afterwards con- 

 gealed into an mfipide water: which if it have any favour, is bc- 

 caufethe fidr. ardent fpirits are not totally fe para ted from it, but 

 fome few of them remain in it, and give fome little life to the 

 whole body of that otherwifeflat Iiquour. 



Now thofe parts which the fire feparateth next from the re- 

 maining body, after the fiery and watry ones are carried away, 

 rnuft be fuch as it can work upon: and therefore murt abound in 

 humidity. But fince they flir not till the watry ones aregone.it 

 h evident that they are competed of many dry parts ftrongly in - 

 corporated,and very fubtilly mixed with the moiltoncs;& that 

 both of them are exceeding fmall, and are fo clofely and finely 

 knit together, that the fire hath much ado to get between them, 

 and cut the thrids that tie them together: and therefore they re- 

 quire a very great force of fire to carry them up. Now the com- 

 pofition ofthcfe fheweth them tobeaeriall: and (together with 

 the fire that Is mingled with them ) they congeal into that con- 

 fidence which we call oyl. 



Lnftly,it cannot be othcrwife but that the firejn all this while 

 of continual! application to the body it thus anatomifeth, hath 

 hardened,and as it were rotted fome parts into fuch greatnefle 

 and drineflc as they will not flic,nor can be carried up with any 

 moderate heat. But great quantity^ of fire being mingled with 

 theilibtilcr parts of his baked earth maketh them very pungent 

 and acrimonious in taftrfo that they are of the nature ofordina- 

 .ry filt.and a re fo called; and by the help of water may eafily be 

 fcparated from the more grofle parts which then remain a dead 

 and uftlefle earth. 



By this difcourle it is apparent, that fire hath been the inftru- 

 rr.cnt which hath wrought all thefe parts of an entire body into 

 the forms they are in; for whiles it carried away the fiery parts, 

 it fv\ ellcd the wacty oncs;and whiles it lifted up them it digcflcd 

 the aeriall parts , and whiles it drove up the oyls, it baked the 

 catch and fair. Again, all thefe retaining for the moit parr, the 

 proper nature of the fubilancc fiom whence they arc extra&cdjit 

 is evident that the iubttance is hot diflblved; (for Co the nature of 

 the whole would be diflblyed and quite destroyed & extingifhed 



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