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The Epiſstle Dedicatory.

for it, both they and divers more were accounted Philoſophers, and wiſe men, which ſounds more honourably in my eares then all the ratling and empty titles of honour whatſoever beſides. In the perfection of this Art, I mean the accompliſhing of the Elixir, is the Sulphur of philoſophers ſet at liberty, which gratifies the releaſers thereof with three kingdomes, viz. Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral, and what cannot they do, and how honourble are they, that have the command of theſe ? They may command Lead into Gold, dying plants into fruitfulneſſe, the ſick into health, old age into youth, darkneſs into light, and what not? A month would faile to give you an account of their power and dominations. Now for the effecting of this I ſhall beſides what I have adviſed in the Epiſtle to the Reader, ſay onely this;

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