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praifes of Chymical CUedicines, firft puft up with vain hopes, and then f ail ie 
their admirers. | 
And as for that Dearh which is caufed by Suffocation, Putrefacion, 
feveral Difeafes, wefpeak notof itnow, for that <Mains 16 an Hiffory 0! 
| Phyfick; but onely of that Death which comes rs total decay o 
, Body , and the Inconco@ion of old Age. Neverthelefs thi Jatt a of | 
| Death, and the very extinguifhing of Zife it felf , which may’ fo mahy } 
| ways be wrought outwardly and inwardly (which notwithftanding have, | — 
as it were, onecommon Porch beforeit comes tothe pointof death) will 
bepertinent to beinquired of inthis Treatife; but we referve that for the} © 
lait place. | | a 
i fad which may be repaired by degrees, without a tctal wafte of the 
firft tock, is potentially eternal, as the Veftal Fire. Therefore when Ply-] 
ficians and Philofophers faw that living Creatures werenourifhed and their | 
1 Bodies repaired, but that this did laft onely fora time, and afte yards 
| came oldage, and in the enddiffolution ; they fought Death infomewhat 
| which could not properly be repaired, fuppofing a Radical Hata in- | 
| capable of folid reparation, and which, from the firft infancy, received | 
‘a {purious addition, but no true reparation, whereby it grew caily worfe | 
and worfe, and, in the end, brought the bad tonone at all. This con-} 
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years, eafily repaired ; but the drier and more Lage parts Cas the}: 
cMembranes, all the Tunicles, the Sivews, Arteries, 
thofe very parts which in their own nature are with much eafe repair- 
able, yet through the decay of the Organs of reparation can no more re- iq 
her about? > Ogd aoe Aatordis 
Therefore the Tnquifition ought to be twofold ; the one, touching. th eA 
Confumption or Depredation of the Body of Man;,the other. touching the |) 
Reparation and: Renovation of the lame :.To the end, that the former may; ye 
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