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had any allusion unto the impostor Barchochebas or 

 Stellae Filius, who afterward appeared, and wandered 

 about in the time of Adrianus, they leave unto 

 conjecture. 



Chirurgeons may find their whole art in that one 

 passage, concerning the rib which God took out of 

 Adam ; that is, their 8icup<ris in opening the flesh, 

 e^atpccts in taking out the rib ; and avvOecris in closing 

 and healing the part again. 



Rhetoricians and orators take singular notice of very 

 many excellent passages, stately metaphors, noble 

 tropes, and elegant expressions, not to be found or 

 paralleled in any other author. 



Mineralists look earnestly into the twenty-eighth of 

 Job ; take special notice of the early artifice in brass 

 and iron, under Tubal Cain[; and find also mention of 

 gold, silver, brass, tin, lead, iron ; beside refining, 

 soldering, dross, nitre, salt-pits, and in some manner 

 also of antimony. 



Gemmary naturalists read diligently the precious 

 stones in the holy city of the Apocalypse ; examine 

 the breast -plate of Aaron, and various gems upon it ; 

 and think the second row the nobler of the four. 

 They wonder to find the art of engravery so ancient 

 upon precious stones and signets ; together with the 



