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ATUR ALL 



HISTORY. 



I V. Cencury, 



CcELERATiONof Time, in Worksoi Na- 

 ture , may well be efteemed inter Magnolia 

 Natur*. And even in Divine Miracle j> Accele- 

 rating of theTime y is next to the Creating of the 

 Matter. We will now Therefore proceed to the 

 Enquiry of it.- And for Acceleration of Germi- 

 nation, we will teferre it over unto the place, where we (hall 

 handle the Subject of Plants, generally 5 And will now begin 

 with other Accelerations, 



Liquour s are (many of them,) at the firft, thick and troubled 5 As Mufl, 

 Wort, fayce of Fruits, or //frfo expreffed, &c. And by Time, they fettle, 

 and Clarifie/ But to make them clear, before the Time , is a great work 3 

 For it is a Spur to Nature, andputteth her out or her pace: Andbefides, 

 it is of good ufe, for making Drinks, and Sauces, Potable, and Servicea- 

 ble,fpeedily ; But to know the Meanes of Accelerating Clarification, we muft 

 firft know the Caujes of Clarification. The firft Cauje is, by "the Separation of 

 the Grower Parts of the Liquour -,from the Finer. The fecond, by the Equall 

 Difiribution of the Spirhsol the Liquour, with the T angible Parts : For that 

 ever reprefenteth Bodies Clear ana Untroubled. The third, by the Refi- 

 ning Spirit it f elf , which thereby giveth to the Liqueur more Splend- 

 our, and more Luftre. 



Firft,fbr Separation : It is wrought by Weight As in the ordinary Refi- 

 dence or Settlement ot Liquour s : By Heat : By Motion .-By Precipitation, or 

 Sublimation; (Thatis,a Calling of the feverall Parts, either up, or down, 

 which is a kind of Attraction:) By Adhefion 3 As when a Body more Fifcous 

 is mingled and agitated with the Liquour *, which Vifcous Body (afterwards 

 fevered) draweth with it the groffer Parts of the Liquour : And Laftly, By 

 Percolation or Pafjage, Secondly, 



Experiments 

 in Conforc 

 touching the 

 Glarijication of 

 Liquours, and 

 the Accelera- 

 ting thereof. 



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