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CHAP. 3. That all things which have Essence and Life, are made by the Spirit of the World, and of the first Matter.
ALL things are nourished by the same, by which they were pro∣duced. Now that all things breathe, live, augment and grow by this Mundane Spirit, resolve and die without it, is plain. Whatsoever therefore subsists, is made by it: and this Spirit is nothing else but a simple and subtile essence, which the Philosophers call a Quintessence, be∣cause it may be separated from gross corporeity, and the superfluities of the four Elements, and so made of wonder∣ful activity in its operations; and it is now diffused over all the parts of the World; and through it, the Soul is dilated with all its vertues; which vertues are communicated most to such