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I. I John Pontanus have travelled through ma∣ny Countries, that I might know the certainty of the Philosophers Stone; and passing through the Uni∣verse, I found many De∣ceivers, but no true Philo∣sophers, which put me upon incessant Studying, and ma∣king many doubts, 'till at length I found out the Truth.
II. When I attained the knowledge of the Matter in general, yet I erred at least two hundred times, before I could attain to know the singular thing it self, with the work and practice there∣of.