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do uſe great villanies, and cozen and abuſe the credit which is given them: yea, now a-days men of diſcretion do hold the tranſmutation of Mettals to be the higheſt point, and faſtigium in Philoſophy, this is all their intent, and deſire, and that God would be moſt eſteemed by them, and honored, which could make great ſtore of Gold, and in abundance, the which with unpremeditate prayers, they hope to attain of the alknowing God, and ſearcher of all hearts: we therefore do by theſe preſents publickly teſtifie. That the true Philoſophers are far of another minde, eſteeming little the making of Gold, which is but a parergon; for beſides that they have a thouſand better things.
And we ſay with our loving Father R. C. C. Phy. aurum niſi quantum aurum, for unto them the whole nature is detected: he doth not rejoyce, that he can make Gold. and that, as ſaith Chriſt, the devils are obedient unto him, but is glad that he ſeeth the Heavens open, and the Angels of God aſcending and deſcending, and his name written in the book of life. Alſo we de teſtifie that under the name of Chy-
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