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in three years, he thought it a happy work. George Ripley labour’d for new Inventions, to putrifie this red Salt, which he enviouſly cals his gold: and his knack is, to expoſe it to alternat fits of cold and heat, but in this he is ſingular, and Faber is ſo wiſe he will not underſtand him. And now that I have mention’d Faber, I muſt needs ſay that Tubal-Cain himſelf is ſhort of the right Solution, for the Proceſs he deſcribes hath not any thing of Nature in it. Let us return then to Raymund Lullie, for he was ſo great a Maſter, that he perform’d the Solution, intra novem Dies, and this Secret he had from God himſelf; for this is his Confeſsion. Nos (ſaith he) de primâ illâ nigredine à paucis cognitâ, benignum Spiritum extrahere affectantes, pugnam ignis vincentem, & non victum, licet ſenſibus corporis multoties palpavimus, & oculis propriis illum vidimus, Extractionis tamen ipſius motitiam non habuimus quacunque Scientiarum, vel arte: ideoque ſentie bamus nos adhuc aliqua ruſticitate excæcatos, quia nullo modo eam comprehendere valuimus, donec alius Spiritus prophetiæ, ſpirans a patre Luminum
