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 the ame according to Moes, and Pauls tetimony, A conuming Fire? That Elements therefore are to be found everywhere, and in all things after their manner, no man can deny : Firt in thee inferiour bodies feculent, and gros, and in Celetials more pure, and clear ; but in uperceletials living, and in all repects bleed. Elements therefore in the exemplary world are Idea's of things to be produced, in Intelligencies are ditributed powers, in Heavens are vertues, and in inferiour bodies gros forms.  

F the naturall vertues of things, ome are Elementary, as to heat, to cool, to moiten, to dry; and they are called operations, or firt qualities, and the econd act : for thee qualities only do wholly change the whole ubtance, which none of the other qualities can do. And ome are in things compounded of Elements, and thee are more then firt qualities, and uch are thoe that are maturating, digeting, reolving, mollifying, hardening, retringing, abterging, corroding, burning, opening, evaporating, trengthening, mitigating, conglutinating, obtructing, expelling, retaining, attracting, repercusing, tupifying, betowing, lubrifying, and many more. Elementary qualities do many things in a mixt body, which they cannot do in the Elements themelves. And thee operations are called econdary qualities, becaue they follow the nature, and proportion of the mixtion of the firt vertues, as largely it is treated of in Phyick Books. As maturation, which is the operation of naturall heat, according to a certain proportion in the ubtance of the matter. Induration is the operation of cold; o alo is congelation, and o of the ret. And thee operations ometimes act upon a certain member, as uch which provoke Urine, Milk, the Mentrua, and