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come very little, but extreme liuely : Forthe^zVv'r of Nitre is Cold. And 
though-it be an Excellent Medicine, in S trength of ycares 3 for Prolon¬ 
gation off ife ; yet it is, in Children and young Creatures, an Enemy to 
Growth : And all for the lame Reafon • For Heat isrequiiite to Growth: 
But after a Man is come toh'is Middle Age, Heat confumeth the Spirits } 
which the ColdnefTe of the Spirit of Nitre doth helpe to condenfe, and 
corred. 
1 
There be two Great Families of Things: You may cerme 
them by feuerall Names ; Sulphureous and Mercurial , which 
1 are the Chymifls Words : (For as for their Sal, which is their 
Third Principle, it is a Compound of the other t wo j) Inflam- 
1 mable and Not Inflammable j Mature and Crude j Oily and Wa- 
\ try. For weefee that in Subterranies there are, as the Fathers of 
! their Tribes , Brimflone and Mercury : In Vegetables , and Li- 
uingCreatures , there is Water and Oyle : In the Injeriour Order 
j of PneumaticaEs there is Aire and Flame : And in the Super tour, 
] there is the Body of the Starr.e, and the Pure Sky. And thele 
| Paires, though they bee vnlikein the Primitiue Differences of 
Experiments 
in Contort, 
touching Sul- 1 
phur and Mer- i 
cury } t\io of Pa- j 
racelfm Trinci- | 
pies 
' Matter,yet they feeme tohauemany Contents : For Mercury 
and Sulphure are principal! Materialls of MetaUs ; Water and 
Oyk are principall Materials of Vegetables and Animals \ And 
feeme to differ but in Maturation,, or ConcoBion : Flame (in 
Vulgar Opinion) is but Aire Incenfed ; And they both h'aue | 
Quickneffc of Motion, and Facility of Ceffion, much alike : 
And the InterfieEarSkie , (though the Opinion be vaiuc, that j 
the Starve is the Denfer Part o( hi sOrbe) hath notwichftand-1 
ingfo much Affinity with the Starve, that there is a Rotation 
of tha?,3swellasoftheSta/r<?. Therefore, it is one ofthegrea- 
reft Magnalia Nature, to turn c Water, or Watry luyce, into Oyle 
or Oyly luyce: Greater in Nature,than to rurne Siluer, or §}uyck- 
Siluer , into Gold. 
The Inftances wehaue, wherein Crude and watt) Subftance turneth ih* 355 
to Fat and Oyly, are of foure kinds,F irft in th e Mixture of Earth and Water, 
which mingled by the helpe of the Sun, gather a N itrous Fatndfe, more 
than either of them haue feuerally • As wee fee, in that they put forth 
Plants , which need both Iuyces. 
The Second is in the Affmilation of Nourifhmcnt, made in the Bo- 356 
j dies of Plants, and Lining Creatures - 5 Whereof Plants tume the luyce of 
* meere water and Earth, into a great deale of Oyly Matter : Lining Crea- 
I ' I 2 ttires, 
