conscience, and of verball confession, the Temple, and Church of God in Christianism, and the glory of him was greater then the _Jewish_ Law, which was but a dark shadow thereof. So that gold, designs the heart, that corresponds to the Sun, and to fire: and silver words, with Salt wherewith they must be seasoned; _The word is near unto thee even in thy mouth, and in thy heart that thou maist doe it_: which the Apostle appropriating, _If thou confesse the Lord Iesus with thy mouth, and dost beleeve in thy heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: for wee beleeve with the heart to Iustification, and confesse with the mouth to have Salvation_. It is gold and silver which hee would that wee should build on his foundation: the gold of _Havilah_, that groweth within the terrestriall Paradise, with the Carbuncle and the Emrauld which the Psalmist in the 67. _Psalm_ calleth the Greens of Gold. Behold here the depurements that fire operates where it passeth: and chiefly upon metals, which are of a most strong and persisting composition, as any other Elementary substance, therefore wee have therein a little insisted, because that the Prophets have therein founded the greatest part of their Allegories: where wee must note, that they have commonly put the imperfect, lead, tin, iron, and copper, in the bad part, and sometimes gold also: as in _Jer._ 51. 7. Babylon is a golden Cup: and in the 2. of _Dan._ 32. speaking of _Nebuchadnezar_, Thou art the Golden head, more in the 31. of _Eccles._ there are many chances in gold: _Zohar_ calls it Satans dung, following the Text of the 37. of _Job_: Gold comes from the North: for the North is alwayes taken by the _Cabalists_ in the evill part, because Sun never passeth thereby, and it relates to midnight, where the hurtfull powers are in their great reputation and vigour: as on the contrary, Noon in good part; Wee must not then understand, that _Job_ would say that gold came from the Northern parts, for it grows not there by reason of their continuall colds: but in some certain place, where it procreates; this is more ordinarily towards the North: against which the Sun, as against a But, darts its beams, being to the Meridion all part, as likewise all good wines. And to this purpose _Franciscus Oviedus_ in his 16. Book, Chap. 1. of his generall historie of the _Indies_, speaking of the Isle of _Borichen_, puts this, _Borichen_, otherwise called St. _Johns_ Island, is very rich in gold, and men draw it, in great quantity, even on the Northern side, as in the opposite part towards the South, it is very fruitfull of victualls: the same also is found even in _Spain_ it self. Gold then is sometimes taken in the worser part, as in the golden Calf which the _Israelites_ melted in _Moses_ his absence, from whence one of their _Rabbins_ said, there had never befallen them any calamity and misery, but there was an ounce of that Idol mingled therewith: Silver because of its whitenesse,