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Our Congelation dreadeth not the Fir••, For it must ever in it stand unctuous; And it is also a Tincture so bounteous, Which in the Air, &c. Moreover congeal not, &c. But that like Wax it will melt anon with∣outen blast, For such congealing accordeth not, &c. Which Congelation availeth us not.
FOr as in our Solution we do not make our Gold volatile as to shew, as Fools may do, but actually it is made fugitive, so as that by no Art of man it can ever be fixt again, but only by that Nature which made it volatile; so also our Fixa∣tion doth make our flying Spirits so Fire-abiding, that they by no Art of man can ever be burnt away, yet it will flow like Wax.
Nor is it fixed in manner of flying Spirits in Vegetables, which are fixed by burning into an Al••ali, for it will never relent neither in the Air nor Water, like to a congealed Salt.
Nor yet is our Congelation a formal