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 To the Reader. opher hath the life to come o cleerly et before his eyes, as thy face is een in a glae. Thus much by way of reply to the frivolous objections of thoe that beleeve not the verity of this Art, and not onely o, but wil not beleeve it. If you hould dicover to them the procee of the philoophers tone, they would laugh at your implicity, and I wil warrant you never make ue of it. Nay if you hould make projection before them, they would think that even in that there were a fallacy, o unbeleeving are they: o I finde them, and o I leave them, and hal for ever finde them the ame. There is another ort of men by whom this Art hath been much candalized, and they indeed have brought a great Odium upon it by carrying about, and vending their whites, and reds, their ophiticated oils, & alts, their dangerous and ill prepared Turbithes and Aurum vitæ's. And indeed it were worth while, and I might doe good ervice for the Nation, to dicover their cheats, as their ophiticating of Chymical oils with pirit of Turpentine, and alts with alt extracted out of any wood ahes andand