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The tiittory of Life and Death. 



(hall find only three Set Diets * The Opiate Diet, the Diet Malaciffant, or S^ppling-^nd 

 the Diet Emaciant, and Renewing .But amongft chofe which we preicribed for Familiar 

 Diet t 8c to be ufed daily, the molt efficacious are tbefe that follow; which alfo come not 

 far fhort of the vertue of Set D cts. ?Jttre,8c the Subordinates to Nitre;Tbe Regiment 

 of the Afft'Qiens % and CW/<r of our Life;Rsfrigerato-irs which pafs not by the Stomach; 

 Drives Rofcidzting, or engendringOjly Jptycti ; befprinkling of the blood with fome 

 Firmer Mattery Pearls, certain Woods, competent fnSiions to keep out the Air,and to 

 keep in the Spirit; Heaters from without, during the Affimilatien after deep; avoiding 

 ofthofe things which inflame the Spirit and put it into an eager heat, as Wine and 

 Spices. Laftly, a moderate and feafonable ufe of thofe thing? which endue the Spirits 

 with a Rohft hea:- t as Saffron, Creffes,Garl;ck_, Elecampane, and Compound Opiates. 



CancwiXXXI. 



TP* He Living Spirit is inftantly extinguished , if it be deprived either of Motion, or of 

 1 Refrigeration, or of Aliment. 



The Explication* 



NAmely, thefe are thofe three which before we called the Porches of Death - and 

 they are the proper and immediate paffions of the Spirit. For all the Organs of 

 the principal parts, (erve hereunto ; That thefe three Offices be performed and again 

 all deffrudion of the Organs, which is deadly , brings the Matter to this point, that') 

 one or more of thele three fail. Therefore all other things are the divers wayesto ! 

 D-ath, but they end in thefe three. Now the whole Fabrick^ot the Parts is the Organ of j 

 the Spirit, as the Spirit is the Organ of the Rrifonable Soul ; which is Incorporeous and ' 

 Divine. Canon XXXU. 



FL-ime is a Momentany Subfhnce, Air a F.xed; The Living Spirit in Creatures, is of 

 a Middle Nature. 



The Explication* 



THi? Matter fhnds in need both of an higher Indagatlon, and of a longer Explica* 

 tion, than is pertinent to the present J nquifition. Mean while, we muft know 

 this j That Flame is afmofrev?ry moment generated and exunguifhed ; fo that it is 

 continued only by Succeffion : But Air is a Fixed R >dy , and is nor diffolved ; For 

 though Air begets new Air out of watry moifture, yet notwithstanding the old Air 

 frill remains; whence comme^h that Super-Oneranon of the Air whereof we have 

 fpoken in the Title, D? Vent is • But Spirit is participmt or both Natures ; both of 

 Flameand Air; even as the Niurifhm nts thereof are; Afwdl Oyl which is Homo- 

 geneous to Flama ; As Water whehis Homogeneous to 4ir : For the fpirit is not 

 ncurifhfd either of Oyly alone, or of W.ary alon?, bur o both together; And though 

 Air doth not agree wdl with Flame ^novOjl wic'i Water , yet in a m xt Body they a* 

 gree well enough. Alfo the fpirit hath fr^m'the Air, his eafk ar I delicate Imprtflions 

 and yeeldmgs; And from the Flaw his Noble an J Potent motions and activities. In 

 like manner the Duration of Spirit i s a Mixed thing ; Bc-ing neither to Momentary as 

 chat of Flame ; Nor fo fixed as that of Air. And fo much the rather it followeth not 

 the condition of Flame ; For that Flame it felf is extinguifhe<d by Accident-, namely, 

 by Contraries and Enemies environ'ng it ; But fpirit is not fuHjed to the like Condi- 

 tions and Neccffi ties. Now the fpirit is repaired from the lively and floridebloud of 

 the fmall Arteries, which are infetted into the Rram; But this Reparation is done by 

 a peculiar manner, of which we fpeak not now. 



FINIS, 



