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ANEXPOSITIONUPON THESixth Gate,Which isCONGELATION.The Sixth Gate Opened,Which isCONGELATIONCongelatio, &c.It is of soft things in duration of colour white, &c.How to congeal he needeth not much to care for Elements:But Congelations be made in divers wise of Spirits, &c.Of Salts dissolved, &c. and the congeal’d,And some dissolveth congealing manually, &c.But such congealing is not, &c.Having largely run through the first five Gates, in which is all thedifficulty, re-supposing now tat you have passed the shades of the night,and are now come to the approaching of the Day, whose dawning is to beseen soon after the darkness of the Night, and is discovered by variety ofgay Clouds, which run before the Sun in its up-rising.The first remarkable way mark that you are to meet with, is the whitenessof the Compound, for the Peacocks tail though with its gayness it refreshethand delights the beholder, and it is thy first Harvest, in which the moistureis vanquished, and volatile Natures are fixed.The Work as it is the long-wished Haven, so it is performed without anyhelp of the Artist, any more then to continue a due degree of outward heat;for now that thou hast not so great a desire after this sight, but Nature hathas great an appetite to obtain it, for it the end of all her former Operations,174