TEXT 17.
* 1.1When all creatures thus returne their prede∣stinations, then there will be a mystery. Prede∣stinanion is the last matter, which will be with∣out
Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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- Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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- Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609.
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an Element, and without a present essence•• but the things that shall then abide will be more temperate and uncorrupt. This must not be un∣derstood of the spirit, but of nature, with this e∣vidence, that something eternall cometh in the room of that which is mortall.* 1.2 For if insen∣sible plant perish, its place is supplyed by that which is eternal. Nor is there any one frail or mortall thing in all the world which doth not substitute something that is eternall in its place. Nothing is empty or vaine, no corruptible thing was created without a succession of that which is eternall. When all creatures come to an end, then those things that are eternall shall meet and come together, not only as nourish∣ments, but rather to the office or chiefe rule of nature both in the mortall and eternall. Thus the eternall is a sign or token of the dissolution of nature, and not the beginning or principle of things created; it is in all things which no na∣ture is destitute of. And though the Fatalls also, as the Melosines and Nymphs shall leave the e∣ternall behind them; yet wee shall say nothing of their corruptions at this time.* 1.3 As there are four worlds. so we must know that there is a manifold putrefaction. There is an earthy, there is an airy, there is a fiery, and a watry pu∣trefaction. Every thing, and what was created with it, together with the eternall that remai∣neth, is brought and turned to destruction. Yet those four putrefactions shall bring back their eternall into one similitude with renown and glory, not with its works, but with its essence.
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A solitary habitation is a kind of eternity, but a∣bounding in many seperations or distinctions.
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* 1.1
What Prede∣st••nation is.
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* 1.2
Things mor∣tall leave be∣hind them that which is immortall.
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* 1.3
There is a fourfold pu∣trefaction of the creatures.