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mmh after death ; to which he joyneth his thoughts about the 
Refufcitationof Plants. 
Having finifli't this part concerning Generation^ he goes on to 
fliew, bow iV/^^m/(^;^is materially perform'd in all forts of Bo- 
dics,i//x. by water alone; which he endeavours to make out by 
reafon, and authority, particularly allcdging for his authority 
Van HelmontzxiAMx. Boyle '^thtlsxitv of which I much appre- 
hend to be mif-underftood by our Author in this particular ; as 
he isalfomiftaken by the fame, when he is introduced as a per* 
fon judging , that ^ Van Helmont ( for whom he hath yet a juft 
cfteem,)by rcafonof the incredible veracity of his Experiments 
isnoteafily to be disbelieved ; for which allegation, I think, no 
p ace of Mr.Bcjfle can b^ produced out of any of his works to 
run in that latitude. 
And as this Writer believesPFii/^r to be the Material principle 
of all things , fo he attempts to fl3ew,What that power and ver- 
tue is, which coagulateth the Water into folid Bodies, and appli- 
eth it to thefe Seminal charafters, which he had afore difcours*d 
of:^ and this he maketh to be the Igneous and Vivifying Spirit^ 
lodged by the Creator in the Sun , and convey'd to the feveral 
todies of the lln verfc by the Air and Wind, imbued with thofe 
viral and benign rayes of the Solar globe ; Which Spirit though 
it be, according to him, but one, and, before it be incorporated, 
indifferent to make faecund the bodies of all the three Kingdoms; 
yet it acquires itsfpecification, or is determined according to 
the determinate nature of the Seeds ; and the moft fubtile parts 
of that Spiritbeingacid, they do by this acid power coagulate 
the water into folid bodies. 
ERRATA in this Numb. 
Pag. 4 1. 1. 12. r. Mechanical y p. 47. 1, 2^. r. Vitrittate, 
LONDON, 
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