3 lo Of l^egetatton. 
vifcid dudile ftate, whence the feveral pans 
of vegetables are formed 5 and are at length 
firmly compaded into hard fubftances, by 
the flying off of the watry diluting vehicle ; 
fooner or later, according to the different 
degrees of cohefion of thefc thus compaded 
principles. 
But when the watry particles do again 
foak into and dif-unite them, and their rcpel- 
lingpower is thereby become fuperior to their 
attrading power 5 then is the union of the 
parts of vegetables thereby fo throughly dif- * 
folved, that this Bate of putrefadion does 
by a wife order of Providence fit them to 
refufcitateagain,in new vegetable produdionsj 
whereby the nutritive fund of nature can 
never be exhaufted : Which being the fame 
both in animals and vegetables, it is thereby 
admirably fitted by a little alteration of its 
texture to nourifh either. 
Now, tho’ all the principles of vegeta- 
bles are in their due proportion neceflary 
to the produdion and perfedion cf them ; 
yet we generally find greater proportions 
of Oil in the more elaborate and exalted 
parts of vegetables : And thus Seeds are found 
to abound with Oil, and confequcntly with 
fulphur 
