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IARTICLES of INQUISITION 
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LIFE and DEATH. 
@Irft, inquire of DN ature ditrablesatid Not durable, in Bodies Inani- 
#| mate or without Life, asalfo in Vegetables ; but that not in a 
large or juft Treatife, but asin a Brief or Summary onely. . 
Alfo inguire diligently of Deficcation, Arefaction, and Con- 
fumption ot Bodies Inanimate, and of Vegetables ; and of the 
ways and procefles, by which they are done ; and further, of 
By US SeNGie Inhibiting and Delaying of Deficcation, Arefathion, and Con- 
pa ae aes) fy77ption, and of the Confer vation of Bodies, in their proper ftate ; 
andagain, of the [nteneration, Emollition, and Recovery of Bodies to their former frefh- 
efs; after they be once dryed and withered. 
-Neither'need the Zzqaifition touching thefe things, to be full ot exad, {eeing they 
pertain rather to their proper Title of Nature durable ;. feeing alfo, they are not Princi- 
pals in this /nquzfitcon, but ferve onely to give light to the Prolongation and Inftauration | 
of Life in Living creatures, In which (as was {aid before) the fame things come to pals, 
| butina particular manner. So from the Legurfitron touching Bodses Inanimate and Vege- 
tables, \ctthe Jequifition palson to othet Leving (reatures befides Man: 
Inquire touching the dength and fhortnefs of Life in Living Creatures, with the due | 
citcumftances whichmake moft for theirlong or fhortlives, 
-., But becaufethe Duration of Bodies is twofold, One in /dentity, or-the felf. fame 
fabftance, the other by a Rezovation or Reparation; whereof the former hath place onely 
[in Bodies tnanimate; the latter in Vegetables and Living Creatures, and is perfected by 
edlimentation ot Nouri/hment ; therefore it will be fitto inquireof Alimentation, and 
of the ways and progreffes thereof; yet this not exactly;- (becaufe it pertains properly. | 
‘tothe Titles of -Afimilationand Alimentation) but, asthe reft;in progrefs onely. 
From the izguifiteon touching Living Creatures, and Bodies repaired by Nours{h- 
at, pals onto the 7quifttion touching Adan, And now beingcome to the principal 
ubjec of Inqusfiteon, the Jaquifition ought to be in all points more precife and accu- 
rates ; 
‘Inquire touching the length and fhortnefi of Lifein Men; according to the ges of 
le #7 orld, the feveral R ggtons, (mates, and Places of their Nativity and Habitation. 
|) “Inquire touching thelengel and Jhortne/s of Life ineMen, according to their R 
and Families, asif itwerea thing hereditary ; alfo according to their Corgplexzons, Com= 4 
| the making and compofition of their Atembers.. ; . . 
} Inquire touching the length and jhortnefsof Life in Aden, accotding to the timesof} 
}their Nativity; butfo, as you omit for the prefentall «4/frological obfervations; andthe 
| Figures of Heaven, under whichthey were born; onely infift upon the vulgar and 
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tutions, and Habits of Body, their Statures, the manner and time of theirgtowth, and} 
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