Lea. L atF Del Naiwe of Misaivs, i 

CHRP Eth 
Of the NATURE of Mixture. 
ND firft of all, from the Premiffés, we arrive at this 
Conclufion 5 fe. That the Formationand Transformati- 
ox Of all Bodies, can be nothing elfe,but the Mixture 
have above proved: and therefore not geverable, 
formable, or transformable. And the Forms of Prin- 

So that the whole Bufine/s of the Material World, is nothing elf, but 
Mixture, 
2. §. Again, as Nature worketh every where only by Mixtire ; 
fo is this Mixture every where but ove thing, and can be but ove. For 
whether it be the A¢ixture of great Bodies, or of fall; of Compounds, 
or of Atomes 5 it is every where Mixture, and the Mixture of Bodies. Ch, 
Wherefore, Mixture is either an intelligible Affection of all Bodies, or 
of wove ; which later, no man will fay. As many ways therefore, as 
wecan fee, or conceive the Mixture of any grofs Bodies, which we 
holdin ourhand; {o many ways, we may, of the fubiilef? Mixtures 
which Nature maketh, or of Atomes themfelves 5 and no other ways. 
3.-§. Now allthe ways we can diftinguith sfixture by, are, in ge- 
neral, thefe Two 5 either in refpect of the Bodies Mixed, or elfe of the 
Modes of the Mixture it felf. 
4. §. In refpett of the Bodies Mixed, Mixture is diftinguifhed al- 
fo two ways 5 viz. by Conjugation, and by Proportion. 
5. -§. By Conjugation, 1 mean, a Mixture of fome certain Princi- 
ples, and not of others. Which is threefold. Firs, As to Number: 
as when one Body may be compounded of two Principles, another of 
three, a third of four, a fourth of fve, and fo on. Secondly, As to 
Kind: where, though there be a conjunction of the fame Number, 
yet not of the fame Kind. Thirdly, When they differ from one ano- 
ther both in Number and Kind, So many ways the Principles of 
Bodies may be conceived to be Conjugated; and therefore are: 
for here, that which may be, 7s. The Confequence is clear. For 
of Bodies. For all Principles are immutable as we Ch, 
ciples, being but their Modes; are allo imautable, Ch» 
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jirft, Nature hath various Materials wherewith to make thefe Mix- cp, », §. 5 
tures; aswe have fhewed. Secondly, By thefe Mixtures {he may, and 
without the concurrence of any imaginary Forms, muf? produce all the 
varieties in the material World 5 as \ikewife hath been {aid. Where- “! 
fore, fince all imaginable Mixtures may be made, and that to fame pur- 
pofes if they fhould not be fo, Nature would be Imperfect: becaufe 
we our felves can think, how fhe might put ‘her Materials to farther 
ufe, then 2 fhe woulddo. To think therefore, that all Kixzds of Priz- 
ciples, or all Elements go to make up every Compounded Body, as by the 
Peripatetick, Philofophy we are taught 5 is a conceit, no more to be 
credited, than one that fhould tell us, all Kivd of Wheels and other 
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