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d Country Coat; also he opened his Bosom, and under his Shirt he wore in green Silk, five great Golden Pendants, round, filling up the magnitude of the Interior Space of an Orb of Tin. Where, in comparing these, in respect of Colour and Flexibility, the difference between his Gold, and mine, was exceeding great. On these Pendants he had inscribed with an Iron Instrument, the following Words, which, at my request, he gave leave I should coppy out. The form of the Pendants, and words engraven thereon, are as follows. I. AMEN Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord our GOD, for all things are full of his Power. Leo: Libra. II. The wonderfull wonder-working wisdome of JEHOVAH in the Catholick Book of Nature. Made the 26. day Aug. 1666. [Alchemical symbols: Gold, Mercury, Silver] The wonderfull GOD, Nature and he Spagyrick Art, make nothing in vain. Sacred, Holy Spirit Hallelujha Hallelujha Away Devil, Speak not of GOD without Light, Amen. The Eternal Invisible, only wise, Best of all and omnipotent GOD of Gods; Holy, Holy, Holy, Governour & Conserver deservedly ought to be praysed. Moreover, when I, affected with admiration said to him; My Master, I pray tell me, where had you this greatest Science of the whole World? He answered, I received such Magnalia from the Communication of a certain Extraneous Friend, who for certain dayes lodged in my House, professing, that, he was a Lover of Art, and came to teach me various Arts; viz. how, besides the aforesaid, of Stones and Crystal, most beautiful precious Stones are made much more fair than Rubies, Chrysolites, Saphires, and others of that kind. Also how to prepare a Crocus Martis in a quarter of an hour of which one only Dose infallibly heals a Pestilential Dysentery Likewise a Metallic Liquor, by the help of which, every species of the Dropsy may be cured certainly in four dayes space Also a certain Limpid Water, more sweet, than Hony, by the help of which, I can extract the Tincture of Granates, Corals, and of all Glasses blown by Artificers, in the space of two hours in hot sand only. Many other things like to these he told me, which I neither well observed, nor committed to memory; because my
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