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The last vvill and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the order of St. Bennet : which, being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behind the high-altar of the cathedral church, in the imperial city of Erford : leaving it there to be found by him, whom Gods providence should make worthy of it : to which is added two treatises, the first declaring his manual operations, the second shewing things natural and supernatural (1671)

Basilius Valentinus · London : Printed by S.G. and B.G. for Edward Brewster ... · leaf 280

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N Atural heat preferveth the Life of Man, forif that be gone, Life ceafet.-i.Natural lire, if it be moderately ufed, deferi^cth againft cold, but too much is deflru^bive. Itis not of neceifity that the Sun do corporallytou-li the Earth, it is luilicient that the Si.n dothmanifelt its power at a… … by cottcodion \ for by the clifrcn the Sun-bcain5 are tempera ted , fo nicans of the Air the fire operat- means of the Fire the Air opcrat- The Earth -witheut the Water can producenothing, and again, the Water withc.ut theEarth exciteth rothing*:* as the Earth and theWater need each othersalliAance…

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