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clear light, they would more roughly have handled the Pope, Mahomet, Scribes, Artiſts, and Sophiſters, and had ſhewed themſelves more helpful, not ſimply with ſighs, and wiſhing of their end and conſummation.
When now theſe eight Brethren had diſpoſed and ordered all things in ſuch manner, as there was not now need of any great labour, and alſo that every one was ſufficiently inſtructed, and able perfectly to diſcourſe of ſecret and manifeſt Philoſophy, they would not remain any longer together, but as in the beginning they had agreed, they ſeparated themſelves into ſeveral Countries, becauſe that not only their Axiomata might in ſecret be more profoundly examined by the learned, but that they themſelves, if in ſome Country or other they obſerved anything, or perceived ſome Error, they might inform one another of it.
Their Agreement was this; Firſt, That none of them ſhould profeſs any other thing, then to cure the ſick, and that gratis. 2. None of the Poſterity ſhould be conſtrained to wear one certain kind of
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