98 Tie Wisdom of GOD Part L 



as common and eafy to come by as Straw or Stub- 

 ble, Sand or Stones, they would be of no more 

 Ufe for Bartering and Commerce than they. 



And here he goes on to ihew the wonderful- 

 Providence of God, in keeping up the Value of 

 Gold and Silver, notwithftanding the vafh Quan- 

 tities which have been digg'd out of the Earth 

 in all Ages, an^ fo continuing them a fit Mate- 

 rial to make Money of For which I refer to the 

 Book. 



Of thefe, Gold is rerharkable for its admirable 

 Dudtility and Ponderofity, wherein it excels all 

 other Bodies hitherto known. I fhall only add,, 

 concerning Metals, that they do pertinacioufly 

 refift all Tranfmutation -, and tho' one would 

 fometimes think they were turn'd into a different 

 Subftance, yet do they but as it were lurk under 

 a Larva or Vizard, and may be reduced again 

 into their natural Form and Complexions, in 

 Dcfpite of all the Tortures of Vulcaji or corrofive 

 Waters. Note, "That this ivas written above T'hir^ 

 ty Tears fjice^ when I thought I had Reafon to dif- 

 trujl whatever had then been reported or written to 

 ajfirm the Transmutation of Metals one into ano- 

 ther, 



I fhall omit the Confideration of other Mi- 

 nerals, and of Salts and Earths, becaufe I have 

 nothing to fay of their Ufes, but only fuch as 

 refer to Man, which I cannot affirm to have 

 been the fole or primary End of the Formation 

 of them. Indeed, to fpeak in general of thefe 

 Terreftrial Inanimate Bodies, they having no 

 fuch Organization of Parts as the Bodies of Ani- 

 2 mals,. 



