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| : - The Explication. 
Tre Abtions or Funtlions which are in the feveral A¢embers follow the nature of 
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the Adembers themfelyes, ( Attrattion, R etention, Digeftion, Affimilation,Separation, | 
/ Excretion, Peripiration, even Senfe it {elf ) ascording to the propriety of the feyeral | 
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Organs, (the Stomach, Liver, Heart, Spleen, Gall, Brain, Eye, Ear, and the reft :) 
yet none of thefe AGions would ever have been actuated but by thevigour and pre- 
fence of the Vital spirit and heat thereof : as one /ron would not have drawn another | 
won, unlefsit had been excitedby the Load fone, nor an Egge would ever have brought 
forth a Bird, uniefs the fubftance of the kien had been actuated by the treading of the | 
Cock. 
ack, Canon VI. 
He livelefs Spirits are next Confubftantial to Air ; the vital Spirits approack more to the 
fabftance of Flame. 
ia The Explication,  _ } 
TR: Explication of the precedent fourth (anen is alfo a declaration of this prefent 
* Canon : but yet further, from hence it is that all fat and oily things continue | 
long in their Being; For neither doth the 4ér much pluck them , neither do they 
much defire to joyn themfelves with 4ér. As for that conceit it is altogether vain, 
| That Flame fhould be Air fet on fire, feeing Flame and 4ir are no lels heterogeneal | 
‘than oi and water. But whereas it is faid in the Cavon, that the wtal firsts approach | 
| more to the fubftance of Flame; it mult be underftood, that they do this more than | 
the bvele/s Spsrsts, not that they are more Flamsy than 4¢ry. - 
Canon VIE. 
Y a Spirit bath two Defires; one of multiplying z# elf, the other of flying forth and | 
" gongregating it felf with the Connaturals. j 
The Explication. on 
Tie Canon is underftood of the /vele/s Spersts; for as for the fecand Defire, the 
vital sperie doth moft of all-abhor flying forth of the body, for it finds no Con- 
natural here below to joyn withal: Perhaps it may fometimes flie to the outward 
parts of the body, to meet that which itloveth; but the flying forth, as Ifaid, it ab- 
horreth. But in the Lvelefs {percts cach of thefe two Defres holdeth. For to the for- 
mer this belongeth, Every (pirit feated among? the groffer parts dwelleth wnbappily; and 
‘therefore when it finds not a “ke unto tt felf, it doth fo much the more labour to cre- 
ate and make a like, as being in a great folitude, and endeavour earncftly to multiply it 
felf, arid to prey upon the volascle of the ue parts, that it may be encreafed in quan- 
tity. As for the fecond Defire of flying torth,and betaking it felf to the e4ir, it is cer- 
tain that alilight things ( which are ever moyable) do willingly go unto their kes near 
uato them, as a Drip of water js carried to a ‘Drop, Flame to Flame: but much more 
this is done inthe Aying forth of /psri into the e4ér ambient, becaufe it is not carried 
to a particle like unto it felf,but alfo as unto the Globe of the Cawnaturals, Mean-while 
this isto be noted, That the going forth and fight of the fpirit into air is a redoubled 
action, partly out of the apie of the /psrst, party out of the apperste of the air; for 
the commen air is ancedy thing,andreceiveth all things {peedily,as Spirits, Odowrs,Beams, 
Sounds, and the like. ety 
Ss Canon VIII. : 
GPitit detained, sf i have no poffibslity of begetting new Spirits, itenerateth the grofer 
arts. 
4 The Explicatzez. 
Eneration of new Spirit is not accomplifhed but upon thofe things which are in 
fome degree near to fpirit, fuchas are humid bodies. And therefore if the groffer 
{ parts (amongit which theSpiritconverfeth ) be ina remote degree, although the {pirit 
cannot convert them, yet (as muchasitcan) it weakneth, and foftneth, and fubdueth 
them, that fecing it cannot increafe in quantity, yet it willdwell more at large, and live 
amongit good neighbours and friends: Now this -Aphori/m is moft ufetul to our 
socal agma ittendeth to the Inteneration of the obftinate parts by the detentiomof the 
irit. 
i ; Canon 1X, 
| J He lntencration of the harder parts cometh to good effeét, when the Spirit wessber fiy- 
(> -eth forth, wer begerteth new Spirit. 
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