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Acquaintance 5 ^vhatthofe that 
are skilful and Judicious enough 
to defer ve to be much confide- 
red in fuch an affair, will think 
of our Mercury , and whether, 
in cafe they have an efreem of it 
approaching to that of divers 
eminent Chymijls (fome of which 
imponuneme to impart it;) 
they judge the good , that the 
preparations of it (fuch as 
precipitats and turbiths of di- 
vers kinds, Mercurius dulcis ^ 
Cinaher made of the fulphur 
of Antimony, and with Gold, 
&€♦) may do in Phyfick, is like- 
ly much to exceed the political 
inconveniences that niay enfue, 
if it fliould prove to be of the 
beft kind, and fall into ill hands. 
The knowledge of the opinions 
of the wife and skilful about 
this cafe, will be requifite to 
affift me to take righc meafures 
in an affair of this nature. And 
till I receive this information, 
I am obliged to filence- 
i4»0nly in the mean while,! fiiall 
for the fake of the Inquirers 10:0 
Mercurial arcam make bold to 
add a Secret, which,I think, will 
to divers Ph 'tUlethifts and other 
ftudents of the Chymical Phi- 
lofopers books fcem a Paradox, 
if not an untruth ^ nameIy,That 
a Mercury , qualified to heat 
with Gold , and perhaps with 
other Powders, may be made by 
more waies than one or two; 
ex- 
9) 
hoc negotio magm fieri mere- 
dntur^ de Mercuyio noflro fen* 
ti^nt \ adhac utrum , fi ^fiima. - 
tionem de eo fovemt illi [up- 
fArem, quam frscellerdtiumChys 
micoruo) cmpkres ( quorum- 
rjonnulUme urgent ad eum com- 
mumcmdum^ pr£ fe fermt \ 
vertfrntle cenfeant ^ utilitatem^ 
quam PrdparAtiane^ip^m [cujuf- 
modi [unt Prspcipitata Iiir^ 
bithi diver forum gene rum , 
Mercurius dulcis5Cinnabaris ex 
anttmonio ^ auro cum p drat a , 
C^r, ) afferrefoffnt ret Medic£^ 
lo^ge fuperaturam e ffe income 
mo da ilU politic n , qus nafcitura 
for em , fi fcrtc de fr^ftmtilji" 
ma ejfet indole , atque in wAle- 
feriatas mmus inctderet. Sa- 
pientum feritorum hoc in 
cafu Opiniones cognofcere , ne^ 
ceffarmm mihi fuerit ^ ut reCto 
tramite in iftiufmodi negotio 
incedere mihi d.etur, Jltque^ 
donee edoUf^ id fuero , filmiii 
facta cokre teneor. 
Interim in eorum gratiamy qui 
Arcana Mercurialia , 
fulpjungere aufim fecrcttm all-* 
quod^ quod Philalethis complu- 
rihus , aliifqug , qui Chymicorum 
Fhilofofhorum Itbrls meMtandis 
incumhunty Faradoxum , quin 
(jr fatfum fort); vidtbitur : 
<^lercurium fcil, ad incalefcen- 
dum cum Juro aliifve puheyi^ 
bu4 idoneum , modU uno bino ve 
flurilms parari pojfe 5 c/m per 
