Philadelphia, or brotherly love to the studious in the hermetick art (1694) - Page 23

...to vary in many ways, as seems most proper to everyone’s thoughts original: "Cogitations".

We may find an example in this: Art Art: human skill or craft, specifically the practice of alchemy, in its assistance to Nature in the production of a herb, tree, or flower, is obliged to follow Nature’s pace and method. It does so without direct intervention original: "laying on of hands", only preventing accidents and extremes of heat and cold. But Art, in the manual or mechanical separation and union of the natural principles—namely original: "viz." (abbreviation for the Latin "videlicet") spirit, oil, and salt—(which indeed are in...