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Principle, it is a Compound of the other two-, ) inflammable^ and 

 Not Inflammable, Mature and Cruder Oily and Watry< For wee 

 fee that in Subterraniss there are, as the Fathers of their rfe-, 

 Brimftone and Mercury , In Vegetables , and Li<ving Creatures 

 there is IVacerand Oikx In the inferiourOrder of Pneumaticals there 

 is^/n? and F/.irw* : And in the 6topm0«r, there is the/W}' of the 

 Starrcy and the Pure Sky. Andthcfe Paires, though they bee 

 unlike in the Primitive Differences o Matter * yet they feem 

 to have many ConfentstFor Mercury and Sulphur e are principall 

 Materials of Metals s Water andOyfc, are principal! Materials 

 oiVegetablssy and Ammah ; And feem to differ but in Maturation, 

 or ConcoBion / F/<« ^ in Vulgar Opinion ) hbutAire Incenfedy 

 And they both have QuickneiTe of Motion, and Facilitie of 

 CefTion, mach alike : And the Inter ft eUar Sky , though the Opi- 

 nion be vain, that the s&r^ is the D«/«r P^f of his Orfo,) hath 

 notwithftanding fo much Affiaiiy with the Starre, that there is a 

 Rotation of that, as well as oitbcStarre. Therefore, it is one of 

 greateft Magnolia NtawajLQ turne Water or Watry luyceimo Oile or 

 Oily Iuyce.- Greater in Nature, than to turn Siher^or Quick-Sil'per, 

 into Gold* 



The Inftances w e have, wherein Crude and Watery Subftance turneth into 

 Fat and Oily? are of four kindes. Firft in the Mixture ox Earth and Water? 

 which mingled by the help of the Sunne, gathered a Nitrous Fatnefle, more 

 than either of them have feverally^ As we fee, in that they put forth Plants? 

 which need both Juyces. 



The Second is in the Aftimilation of Nourifrment, made in the Bodies of 

 Plants, and Living Creatures-? Whereof Plants turn the Juyce of meer Wa- 

 ter tund Earth, into a great deal of Oily Matter : Livtng Creatures, though 

 much of their Fat, and Flejb,wz out of Oily Aliments? (as Meat, and Bread,) 

 yet they Aflimilate alio in a Meafure their Drink ofj^^&c.But thefe two 

 Wayes of Ferfion of Water into Oile? ( namely by Mixture and by Afpmila- 

 tion ) are by many Pail ages, and Percolations, and by long Continuance of 

 foft Pica's, and by Circuits of Time. 



The third is in the Inception of Putrefaction-? As in Water Corrupted? And 

 the Mothers of Waters Diflilled-?Y>ot\\ which have a kindeof Fatne^j^t Oyle. 



The fourth is in the Dulcoration of foaie Metals?as SacctiatuA iatnrni, 

 Sec. v 



The Intcnfion of Ferfion of Water into a more Oily Subftance, is by Difgc- 

 ftion? For oile is almoft Nothing elfe but Water Digcftcd-? And this Dige- 

 stion is principally by Heal? Which Beat muftbe either Outrvard? or inward: 

 Again, it may he by Provocation, or Excitation Which is caufed by 

 the Mingling of Bodies already oily , or Difgejled ■? For they will iomewhat 

 Communicate their Nature with the reft. Di^cftion alio is ftrongly effected 

 by direct Affimilat ion t ot' Bodies Crude into Bodies Digefted-?/\s in Plants? and 

 Living Creatures? whofe Nourishment is iarre more Crude than their Bo- 

 dies: 



