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the caufe why fomethings we fee take fire^ and once throughly heated^caft forth a light ; others not , Iron^ Mettd$, Stones^ Glafs^ fFood^ Ojk^ 1 allow hy Fire^ ei- ther caft forth a flame, or at leaft grow red : But JVater and Aire heated with the fury of the hottefl flames to the higheft degree they are capable of, acquire no fuch light^ norcaft forth any fplendor, if any man think it thus comes to pafs, becaufe it is the property of (ire to give light j but Water and Aire are utter enemies to Fire, fiire he never travel- led by Sea, or was rowed with Oares in a dark night upon Saltwater, and in a hoc (eafoUj efpecially in hot Couiitries,where he might have (eew fmal drops of water rebounding from the clothing of the OareSy to fparkleand caft forth a light, which 1 have by the Shipfide^ when all Sailes have been full of a frcrfi Galeo^ ffindy Fome^ and fhinc with great fervency, which they call thtSea longs.
What affinity with flame and fired matter have the CicinduUy the LucioU the Helen£y and the Indi- an ^y,which caft a light over a whole arched Rome j or the Eyes of certaine living Creatures in the dark, and the Glow-worme-. Sugar zs it is grated or broken, or the fweat of a Horfe hard ridden^ in a Souhry nighty andmanymorcj nay many undsrftand fo little of thefe matters, that they have thought the fpark* from a flint to be attrited Aire.
But when the Aire is not fitted with heat, and ap- parently conceives Light ; how comes it to pafle 5 that Owtsznd Cats and many other creatures fee in the night ; So that it muft needs be (feeing Vifion cannot be conceived without light J that there is a Native and inbred light in Aire^ although very feeble and weak; yetfuchas maybe proportioned to the Opick^Beam of fuch Creatures^ and may M-
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ficc them for yzgR But the caufeof thisevill, is that men are carelefs and ignonnt, and know not how to draw out the common forms of things^natu- ral from particular inftances: And thus much con- cerning the Soul Kationaly and fenfible with their faculties, but ftay I will give you a LeflTon to Learn againft you come again; 8: Ihadan intent to handle but I have CKceeded my bounds, I would have you td\ roe, why fome things are and may be fo nume- rous and large^others fo few and little > As why may not there be ^sgreatfiore of Goldy as Iron^ as great plenty of Rofes as of grafle, as great variety of de- termined and fpecifique natures, as of imperfcfts and non fpecificates i no man hath as yet difcover- edthccaufe, why betwixt divers fpecies there (hould, as it were perpetually be interpofcd, Parti- ciples of nature, which are of a doubtfully kind and reference; as Mofe betwixt putrefa£icion and a fUnt, Fijhes which adhear and move not , betwixt a plant and a living Creature, Rats and Mice and other ver- mine between living creatures, generated of putri- faftion and of feed : Bats betvyeen Birds and Eeaflsi flying Fijhes^ between Foule and Fijh : Sea Calfs be- tween Fijhes and four footed Eeafts-, If you know not, iwili tell you, as my time (hall admit, do you not know the rcafon, how it (hould come topafle, be- ing like delights to unite to like, that IrcH draws mt Jro« as the Load- (tone doth, nor Gold allures, and attracts unto it Gold,as it doth §uick:fjver. Con- cerning thcfe and the like adjunfts of things, there is in the common difceptation about Tranfcendents a deep (ilencc, for men have purfued niceties of tcrmes as Doftor Culpeper and his man called Hari}i(rtony buttery impertinently and not fubtel- ties of things infpired Chriftians abhoi: 3 I woulcj . ' have.