8 OF THE ORIGIN OF CHEMISTRY. 



flones, and feveral kinds of wood *. They adduce 

 Enoch the patriarch, as a firfl evidence, who relates 

 that the Egrcgori (*>r/f- adminiftrcd antidotes a- 

 gainft poifons to men and women, and verfcs that 

 fhould preferve them from difeafes. And they 

 quote llexaele the tenth prince of the Egrcgori, 

 who taught the art of making fwords,breafi-plates, 

 and all warlike inilrumcnts, and the methods of 

 \vorking gold and lilver, to make them appear 

 beautiful to the women; and indruclcd them 

 in painting their faces, and in wearing precious 

 flones f . 



The fame thing ulmofl is advanced upon the 

 faith of ancient monuments by Clemens Alex- 

 andrinus J, Tcrtullian , and Eufcbius |{. u- 

 polcmus in Kufebius relates of Enoch himfelf, 

 that he was taught by angels, and transmitted 

 the fcience of allrology, through Mcthufalcia 

 and his podcrity, down to Abraham. Zofimus 

 of Panopolita aflcrts, th.it the works of nature 

 were revealed by demons unto the daughters of 

 men, in return for their love ; and he adds, 

 that the firfl account of thcfe arts was called 

 ,v/*. as well as the book itfclf; and hence the 



nrt 



* Exod.xxxi. 3. 



f- Frajjmcn apud Synctllum. 



t Strom. 5. 



$ DC iduKilria dc virgin, vchnd. ct cultu 



I! Prarp. cvantj. lib. 9* cap 17, 18. 



