ICO Tie Wisdom of GOD Part L 



Parts to cut and divide other Bodies (as Wedges 

 cleave Wood) v^hen actuated by Fire or its Heat> 

 which elfe would have no Efficacy at all (as 

 Wedges have not, unlefs driven by a Beetle:) 

 The Reafon, I fliy, I have already given ; I fhall 

 now inftance in a Body whofe minute. Parts ap- 

 pear to be indiffoluble by the Force of Fire, and 

 that is comnQon Water, which diftil, boil, cir- 

 culate, work upon how you will by Fire, you 

 can only diflblve it into Vapour, which when 

 the Motion ceafes, eafily returns into Water a- 

 gain ; Vapour being nothing elfe but the minute 

 Parts thereof, by Heat agitated and feparated 

 one from another. For another inftance, fome 

 of the moft learned and experienced Chymifts do 

 affirm Quickfilver to be intranfmutable, and 

 therefore call it Liquor at emus. And I am of 

 Opinion, that the fame holds of all fimple Bo- 

 dies, that their component Particles are indiffo- 

 luble by any natural Agent. 



We may here note the Order and Method that 

 Metals and Minerals obferve in their Growth, 

 how regularly they ftioot, ferment, and as it were 

 vegetate and regenerate; Salts in their proper 

 and conftant Figures, as our ingenious Country- 

 man Dr. Jordan obferves at large in his Difcourfe 

 of Baths and Mineral Waters. 



Of Vegetables or Plants, 



I have how done with inanimate Bodies both 

 fimple and mix'd. The Animate are, 



Firft, 



