Moreover, in Distillation many bitter, harsh, and sharp things become as sweet as Honey, Sugar, or Manna; and on the contrary, many sweet things, as Sugar, Honey, or Manna, may bee made as harsh as Oyle of Vitriall, or Vineger, or as bitter as Gall, or Gentian, as Eager, as a Corrosive. Many Excrementitious things lose their great stink in Distillation, which indeed goeth forth in the water. Many Aromaticall things lose their good savour. And as Sublimation alters things in their Quality, and Nature, so also doth Distillation. [Sidenote: What Coagulation is, and its kinds.] Coagulation is the sixt degree: Now there is a twofold Coagulation, the one by Cold, the other by Heat, _i.e._ one of the Aire, the other of the Fire: and each of these again is twofold, so that there are foure sorts of Coagulations, two of Cold, and two of Fire. The Coagulations of Fire are fixed, the other of Cold are not. The one is done only by common Aire, or without Fire. The other by the superiour Firmament of Winter starres, all which coagulate Waters into snow, and ice. But the Coagulation of Fire, which alone is here to bee taken notice of, is made by an Artificiall, and Graduall Fire of the Alchymists, and it is fixed, and permanent. For whatsoever such a Fire doth coagulate, the same abides so. The other Coagulation is done by the Ætnean, and Minerall Fire in Mountains, which indeed the Archeius of the Earth governs, and graduates not unlike to the Alchymists, and whatsoever is coagulated by such a Fire, is also fixed, and constant; as you see in Mineralls, and Metalls, which indeed at the beginning are a mucilaginous matter, and are coagulated into Metalls, Stones, Flints, Salts, and other bodies, by the Ætnean fire in Mountaines, through the Archeius of Earth, and operator of Nature. [Sidenote: What things cannot be Coagulated.] Also wee must know that Fire can coagulate no water, or moisture, but only the Liquors and Juices of all Naturall things. Besides also there can no flegm bee coagulated, unlesse in the beginning it was a corporeall matter, into which by the industry of a skilfull Alchymist it may return. So also any mucilaginous, matter, or spermaticke slimynesse may by the heat of Fire be coagulated into a body and corporeall matter, but never bee resolved into water again. And as you have heard of Coagulation, so also know concerning Solution, _viz._ that no corporeall matter can bee dissolved into Water, unlesse at the beginning it was water: and so it is in all Mineralls. [Sidenote: What Tincture is, and its kinds.] Tincture is the seventh, and last degree, which concludes the whole worke of our mystery for Transmutation, making all imperfect things perfect, and transmuting them into a most excellent essence, and into a most perfect soundnesse, and alters them into another colour.