The Preface.
deliteſcunt: videlicet, Angeli omnium Generum, Formæ rerum inferiorum Eſſentiſicæ, Humidum radicale cujuſque Viventis, Ignis ſpiſſi Nutrimentum, Admirabiles Meteororum apparitiones, ventorum cujuſque Anguli violentæ Irruptiones, & infinita alia Myſteria. And now perhaps thou doſt begin to bleſs thy ſelf: fo is it poſſible (ſayſt thou) that any bodily ſubſtance ſhould incloſe ſuch Myſteries as theſe? In this, my Friend, thou haſt thy Liberty: trouble not thy ſelf about it, for thy faith will add nothing to it, and thy Incredulity cannot take any Thing from it. This onely thou ſhalt do, be pleaſed to give way to my ſaucineſs: for I muſt tell thee, I do not know that Thing, which I may call Impoſſible. I am ſure there are in Nature powers of all ſorts, and anſwerable to all Deſires: and even thoſe very powers are ſubject to Us. Behold, I will declare unto thee their Generation, and their ſecret Deſcents even to this Earth. It is moſt certain that God works by the Ideas of his own minde, and the Ideas diſpence their Seals, and communicate them dayly to
