how gentle and noble mture foever. 



But laftly, If all thefe Confederations be too trou- 

 blefome, I can help a lazy Naturalitt to an admira- 

 ble expedient for the refolving this appearance; let 

 him be content to believe, that when the Sap, ga- 

 ther'd in the Root, comes to the place of conjuncture, 

 it is there fore'd to undergoe a.total corruption and 

 lapfe into the Bed of its firft matter, from whence, 

 by a new generation, there arifes a new fap, begot in 

 the Tree by a fpecifick faculty, which in a Pear 

 graff may be call'd aPear-fap-making-power, and fo 

 in all the reft : And for the commendation of this 

 laft way of Refolution, I mutt exprefs this its ex- 

 cellency, that it is equally applyable to all things in 

 the world, each thing being made (and the caufe as 

 eaiily believed) by fome fuch thing-making power. 



Or in might not be amifs to entitle Diva Colcbodea y 

 the grand-general form-making-intelligence, to the 

 production of all thefe effects, and in Romantick 

 guife, to place her, as it were, in a non-erring chair, 

 fitting in the very place of conjuncture of Cyon and 

 Stock, and working by ways and arts belonging to her 

 own Trade ( and therefore, as her proper mytteries, 

 not to be revealed) to the forming in moft occult and 

 admirable maner of the appearing effeft. 



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