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exprefsly faid) by burning 5 and that it*s not probable Mofes 
knew that Art, of which no mention is made in Sacred or 
Prophane Writersjt being a new Invention which no man 
mentioned before Jnlius Flrmkm^ who writ about the 
time of the Emperor Conjla.nUnQ, To this he aalwerSj He 
owns no exprefs mention, is made oi it in the Scriptures^ 
but he thinks they enforce us by a necelfity of Confe- 
quence to beheve that Mojes fometimes did fomething 
great by that Science, And he fays its clearly provVi, the 
Science of Chjmiflry was much more ancient than Mofes^ 
by thofe many things which are faid oiTiibd Cam ox Vul- 
can 5 fince when lAofesSm^. he was a Mafter of every Ar- 
tifice in iron and Brafs, all the ancient Sage- underitood it 
of his Skill in Chyraiftry. Hence the JEgjptia/fs, in that 
Temple whicli at Memphis was dedicated ro Vulcan, ereft- 
ed a School ot Chymiftry^ which there long flonrifli'd, as 
we are told by Zozimus, Panopolites, Enjehhs^ Synefus, 
and others* And Abulphariigius tells us, he found in an- 
cient Records, that in Mgypt, after the Deluge, they were 
Learned in many Sciences, and efpecially in the Sciences 
of Chjmftrjy Talifma7fs^ and BHrning-glaffes , He adds one 
argument for the Antiquity of Chymljlry, from Gzn. 6. 
where Jthovak commands Noah to make a clear light for 
the ufe of the Ark, which he defires leave of the Learned 
to believe, was a fplendour of a Fiery and Sulphureous 
Liquor prepared by the Artifice of Ni?<:^^, and pat in Vef- 
fels of the Lapk Specularky or of Crjdal, or, iiaply, of 
GUJs, and hung in fuch places of the Arl{^ to enlighten 
all the Cells ot the Animals : The^fubtle e^./?;/^ ot the 
Liquor alfo fupported and kept in health the Animals 
without that grofs food, which might otherwife have 
been neceflary for them, and would have required more 
room for ftowage than may well be accounted for, accord- 
ing to rliofe dimenfious we have of the Ark : And this he 
endenvoi rs to make oar bv m-^nv fja^reffions. _____ 
the Princes Anus in St /'^^//i (IhurchyarJ, 1702. 
