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after the manner of Compound Bodies, votimav bee fure that there isa 
great Worke wrought in Nature, and a notable Entrance made into 
hrange Changes of Bodies- and produdions: Andalfoa Way made to 
doc that by Fire* in fmall time, which the Sim and Agedoe in long time. 
But of the Admirable Effeds of this DifttUatieu in Clofa (for fo wee will 
call it) which is like the Wombs and Malices of lining creatures, where 
nothing Expireth,nor Separateth 5 We will fpeake fully*in the due place* 
Not that we Aime at the making of Paraceifw Pigmejs • Oranv fuch Pro¬ 
digious Follies; But that we know the Etfeds of Heat will be fuch,as will 
fcarce fallvnder the Conceit of Man • If the force of it bee altogether 
kept in. ° 
r Here is nothing more Ccrtaine in Nature, than that it isimpoflible 
for any Body, to be vtrerly Annihilated 5 But that, as it was the worke 
of the Omnipotency of God, to make Somewhat of Nothing . So it reoui- 
reth the like Omnipotencv, toturne Somewhat into Nothing. And there¬ 
fore it is well fa id, by an Obfcure Writer ofthe Seel of the Chymifls . 
That there is no fuch way toeffed the Strange Tranfmutations of Bodies 
as to endevourand vrgebyall meanes, theof them to Nothing,\ 
And herein is contained alfo a great Secret of Preferuarion of Bodies 
from Change, For if you can prohibited at theyneirher turne into Aire 
becaufeno Aire commerh to them ; Norgoe into the Bodies Adiacent 
becaufetheyV vtrerly Heterogeneall • Nor make a Round and Circu¬ 
lation within themfelues * they will neuer Change, though thev bee in 
their Nature fleucr fo Pcrifhable, or Mutable. Wee fee, how Flies and 
Spiders, and the like, get a Sepulcher in Amber, more Durable, than the 
Monument , and Embalmingoi the Body of any King. And I conceiue the 
like will be of Bodies put inro Quick-filuer.But then they muff be but thin- 
As a leafe, or a Peece of Paper, or Parchment ^ For if the v haue a * 
greater Craffitude, they will alterin their owne Bo¬ 
dy, though they fpend not. But of this 
we fhall fpeake more, when 
we handle the Title of 
Confer nation of 
Bodies. I 
Experiment I 
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thing the lm- > 
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