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Art ; So not only the Solar Fire, every where diffusy m 
the rays of the Sun, but like wife the-Kitchiii Flame may 
be made Earth by Nature and the help of Art ^ this the 
burning ot Brick in a Brickill, and the Calcination of An- 
timony by the rays of the Sun, evidentiy (liew, (inceupon 
burning ( tho many parts fly away in fteams and fmoak) 
they get a confiderableincreafeand weight, the fiery parti« 
cles being detaind in the Burnt thing, and fo turn d into 
an Earthly Nature. Nor is the Converfion oi the Solar Fire 
into Earth unknown to skilful Chymifts, who fo prepare 
feveral dry things, that they magnetically attrad the moft 
fervent Rays of the Sun, and fo retain them, that they 
get an egregious and dry weight : and the Bermetick Sagcf 
ow:e a great part oi their Natural TinSure to the feme 
of Fire. Again, he tells us, the Earth itfelf fbut firft turned 
into Salt ) can be wholly turn'd into Water y and the 
moft pure Water, by a very ftrong and tedious didillati- 
tionj without any addition, or fcarce any diminution, 
may be made a white Earth. Nor does he doubt but the 
Air alfo, as well by other ways, as by a violent agitation 
and concuffion of its parts ffuch as is made by the Water, 
and a difcharging Guns, efpecially of thofe which are 
charg'd with Air alone vehemently comprefs'd) may be io 
broken and attenuated, that its broken fine Particles, hz- 
ing joyn^d and affixt anew afterward, either to theaifclves^ 
or to other particles, may make either Fiery, or Watery, 
or perhaps Earthly concretions, which being now become 
heavy, the Elaftick force of the Air drives to the Earih, 
Treating of the JEgfptran JfracHics^ to fhew that they 
were not fo ftupidly Ignorant, cs fcnie pretend they v.^er(:% 
and Incapable of a Philofophical Inftruftion from Mofcs^ 
he fays it's known, all the pofterity of Ifrael were call'd 
the Sons and Houfe of Ifrael ^ and fo the pofterity of 
Abraham were calFd his Houfe and Sons, whom he com- 
manded to keep the ways of Jehovah, v/hich vv'cre that 
.cret path of wifdom, Which is the knowledge of divine 
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