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which is corporeal to preserve itself alive, to wit, wood. Likewise all invisible things
must be sustained, nourished and increased by something visible. With which also at
last they shall perish and come to an end all alike: yet nevertheless still keeping their
operation and activity in them, without loss or damage of other things; except there be
an effusion of those corporeal and visible things. Although that be done by the
invisible, and found out or known in the visible, etc.
The rest (for doubtless the Author wrote more) are not to be found.
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