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A50420	Moffet-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the minerall wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland translated, and much enlarged, by the author Matthew Mackaile ... ; as also, The oyly-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the oyly-well, at St. Catharines Chappel in the paroch of Libberton ; to these is subjoyned, A character of Mr. Culpeper and his writings, by the same author.; Fons Moffetensis. English	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1664 (1664)	Wing M148; ESTC R17306	83,120	201

62.4 Married Cephas John 1.42 A stone Dan Gen. 30.6 A judgment El-beth-el Gen. 35.7 Elymas Acts 13.8 A Sorcerer Ephraim Gen. 41.52 Fruitfull Gad Gen. 30.11 A troup or band Hephzibah Isaiah 62.4 My delight in her Ichabod 1 Sam. 4.21 Where is the glory Jedidiah 2 Sam. 12.24,25 Beloved of the Lord. Jerubbaal Judg. 6.32 Let Baal avenge Joseph Gen. 30.24 Increasing Issachar Gen. 30.18 An hire Ishmael Gen. 16.11 God hath beard Israel Gen. 32.28 A prevailing with God Levi Gen. 29.36 Joyned Loammi Hos 1.9 Not my people Loruhamah Hos 1.6 Not having obtained mercy Melchizedeck Gen. 14.18 and Heb. 7.2 King of righteousness and peace Moses Exod. 2.10 Drawn out Naphtali Gen. 30.8 Wrestling Seth Gen 24.25 Simeon Gen. 29.33 Hearing Zebulun Gen. 30.20 Dwelling Moreover the pious and learned Interpreters being most zealous to advance the knowledge of God and of the Scriptures did upon the margents of many Bibles set down the interpretations of the most part of the proper names I shall only add that Mr. Culpeper his censure of those Chapters in the Chronicles savoureth of no less presumptuous impiety than first the taxing of Almighty God His Wisdom and Will in not authorizing the holy Pen-men of the Scriptures to explicat all the proper names as they did the most considerable Secondly that he would have had the Interpreters to have added unto the Scriptures the explications of those proper names which are not explicat in the original text by doing of which they should have made themselves the object of that dreadfull threatning Revel 22.18 As for that expression of his Whole sentences in Scripture are so translated that it would make a man sick to see them I shall only say this of it that no ingenuous and rational man would have so impudently asserted so great a paradox and untruth without instancing some particular sentence for proving of his assertion It is one of Mr. Culpeper his own physical sentences that physick without a reason is like a pudding without fat the like whereof may very well be said of this his extravagant assertion destitute of probation It is admirable that Mr. Culpeper who in his Epistle prefixed to his Translation of the London Dispensatory assumeth unto himself fellowship with Christ and his Apostles and likeness to God did not take the pains to translate or correct some of those Scriptures which he reprehended But his surviving wife in her Epistle prefixed to his Treatise of Aurum potabile seemeth to give a sufficient reason for this omission in these words My husband left seventy nine books of his own making or translating in my hands Also my Husband left seventeen books compleatly perfected in the hands of Mr. Cole for which he payed my Husband in his life-time Let the sober and judicious Reader judge of the probability of this considering that he had not above nine years for this work and his astrological studies also for he began not to write till the year 1648. or 1649. and he died 1654. or 1655. and whether or not many books have been printed in his name since his death which were not written some years after the same particularly that book entituled Arts Master-piece or the beautifying part of physick whereby all defects of nature in both sexes are amended age renewed youth continued and all imperfections fairly remedied Never before extant though long since promised by Mr. Nic. Culpeper but now published by B. T. Doctor in physick London printed 1660. Concerning this book I have these six things to acquaint you with 1. That it is most probable Mr. Culpeper never wrote it else his Relict had published it as she hath done other books since his death 2. The publisher of it in the Title-page putteth B. T. for his name but at the end of his Epistle to all truly virtuous Ladies ●e setteth L. D. which discrepancy reflecteth not a little upon the Publisher as well as upon the Printer 3. In the Title-page he affirmeth these Experiments to be so far discovered that every man may be his own Apothecary but it is most probable that the Penner of them was as ignorant of the knowledge of that ingenious art as a Mole is destitute of the visible faculty for pag. 71. he ordereth the making of an Oyntment without Oyl or any unctuous liquid body 4. Many if not the most part of the prescriptions contain 1. either such things as are most costly as that Oyntment pag. 70. to cause a beard for the making of which he prescribeth three ounces of Musk. 2. Or such things as cannot easily be gotten as pag. 71. the blood of a Batt for making of an Oyntment for hindering the growth of hair And pag. 73. the turd of a Mole for making of another Oyntment to the same purpose And pag. 77. the blood of a Tortoise for making an Oyntment to take away the hair 3. Or else such things as are ridiculous because not seconded with reason As pag. 79. the Gall of a white Ox for making of a liniment to whiten the hair as if the Gall of a red or black Ox would not serve as well And pag. 100 Grass-plantane the rine taken off and washt nine dayes in spring water for making an oyntment for leprous faces Those nine dayes of purification might be sufficient for bleetching both the herb and the face into other colours 5. Frustra sit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora That is there might be from amongst the Tautological farrago of those prescriptions some few composed of the choicest simples for every several distemper there mentioned which would prove more usefull than any of these which are so confusedly set down 6. The book is no wayes answerable to its promising Title-page which may give just ground to suspect that the effects of those remedies will be as disproportionable to the expence that men must be at in trying of the experiments It is a most infallible token of ignorance cheating and foolish ostentation for a man to prefix a most flourishing Title-page to his book which doth scarcely deserve any at all such as is that book entituled A discovery of subterraneal treasure viz. of all manner of Mines and Minerals from the Gold to the Coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all Kingdoms and Countries And also the art of melting refining and essaying of them is plainly declared so that every man that is indifferently capacious may with small charge presently try the value of such eares as shall be found either by rule or by accident As also a way to try what colour any berry leaf flower stalk root fruit seed bark or wood will give with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours London Printed 1653. and are to be sold by Humphrey Mosley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard This book consisteth of nine sheets only and is so miserably defective in performing any

shall most wilingly acknowledge an errour in the interim In magnis voluisse sat est That is In things of great excellency Let the endeavour satisfie And upon this account we will plead for pardon for there is no man ΑΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΟΦΟΣ I. E. Omniscient AN APPENDIX Concerning the saltness of the SEA c. THat the truth of what hath been said may shine more clearly we must refull some opinions of D. John French who in the 2. Chapter and 22. page of his Book entituled the Yorkshire Spau asserteth That there can no other reason be given for h●t springs than the fire which burns in the very cavities and caverns of them the cavities themselves consisting of or rather being replenished with a Bituminous matter For Bitumen and these things which are made of it being kindled burn in water as Camphire also doth a very long time which could not be unless it were fed by the moisture of the water which it did attract and convert into its own nature And in the 14. Chapter concerning the putid● Sulpher-well about the middle of page 107. The stinking odour thereof I suppose is caused from the vapor● of the burning Bitumen and adust terreness mixt therewith which lye nor far from the head of the Will And page 106. the ●aliness of the Sea proceedeth from the Salt of the burnt Bitumen which is dissolved in the water that ran̄ through these veins of the earth wherein it was which page 106. and 107. he confirmeth by the example of the Lake called Asphaltites And in the beginning of the 108. page he asserteth That it cannot be rationally conceived that the whole Sea received all its salt into its self at one time after a natural way and therefore being such a great body must become sultish by little and little even insensibly The falsehood of these opinions will manifestly appear by considering 1. That it is more like an untruth than a truth● that there is a perpetual subterraneal fire of burning Bitumen which doth naturally heat the wawater 1. Because it is not probable that there was ever so much Bitumen in any subterraneal place as would by it● flame have heated the waters which do every where spring out of hot fountains 2. Neither is it probable that there is so much air in any cavity of the earth as would necessarily for to avoid the penetration of dimensions give place to so much flame as would hear so much water 3. If the inflamed Bitumen did produc● the foresaid heat then the fire would change 〈◊〉 place when it followeth its aliment and so the water of the fountains would not be alwaies impregnat with the same degree of heat because the fire which heateth them would not alwaies be equidistant from the fountains In the 25. page of the forementioned Book the Author answereth to this argument saying that flame is nourished two wayes 1. When it followeth its food as in the burning of wood 2. When the food followeth the flame as doth Oyl in a Lamp and thus saith he is the flame of the Bitumen nourished neither is this falsified by the flame of Brimstone which followeth the mater For saith he the Bitumen is melted by the great heat and so it followeth the flame and continueth the flame in the same place But I reply 1. That flame doth alwaies follow its food neither doth Oyl follow the flame in a Lamp but one part of the Oyl being continuous to another doth follow it whilst it is a consuming by the flame That you may the better understand this you would take notice of the reason why some sulphureous bodies as Camphire Turpentine c. do of themselves take and conserve flame when others as Tallow Bees-wax Oyl of Olives c. do neither take nor conserve it but by the help of others as of Linnen cloath Paper Rushes c. The cause of these things we conceive yea affirm to be this that the first sort are bodies which contain much Salt for they are very sapide which doth still detain the Sulphur even when it is converted into flame and the last sort are bodies almost void of Salt because insipide almost which do not take flame because they cannot conserve it unless they be associat to the Sulphur of another body containing much Salt which detaineth its proper Sulphur and so take flame with it From these things it doth appear that flame doth alwaies follow its food especially seing the threeds of the Candle and Lamp do wast and consume by the flame whilst it followeth the Sulphur of the threeds which is its food whose consumption is retarded by the Tallow in the Candle and Oyl in the Lamp which do nourish it 2. It is not probable that all the Bitumen is liquified 1. Because the flame of the kindled Bitumen liquifieth only the parts which are nearest to its self as happeneth in a Candle Brimstone red Wax c. 2. Whosoever will say that the Bitumen followeth the flame because it is melted he must also confess that there is some other sire beneath or above the Bitumen which melteth it and this would infer the absurd progress in infinitum 3. Nor can the flame of the kindled Bitumen by heating the caverns of the earth liquifie the rest of the Bitumen because as was said it is not probable that there is a place in the bowels of the earth which would contain so much flame as would by its heat liquifie all the Bitumen which is within four five or six miles unto it the contrary whereof must of necessity be confessed by him who will assert that the flame of the kind led Bitumen changeth not its place by following its food 2. It is most fal●… that Bitumen Camphire and such like which burn in water do retain their flame longer than if they were out of the water because they convert it into their own nature by which means it becometh food to the flame but the cause of their longer burning in the water is rather because their external supersices the uppermost only excepted are humected by the water which prohibiteth the flame to seize upon all their external parts as happeneth when they are inflamed out of the water and so they burn longer because a few only of their parts are inflamed No man who will be at the pains to put a little inflamed Camphire into water will question the truth of this For he will see the flame excavat the Camphire and at length extinguished when it penetrateth unto the external parts into which the water hath insinuat it self 3. Although the flame of Bitumen were in the veins of the earth yet its vapors could not communicat any putide smell unto the water 1. Because of the fore-mentioned reasons when we wrote of inflamed Brimstone 2. Because they contain no terrestrial adust matter For 1. no such matter capable to communicat such a smell doth ascend from any body whilst it is a destilling and far less therefore

seem to be enriched by reason of the acrimony of their taste resembling that of the Balsam of Brimstone which is esteemed one of the best Ant-asthmatick medicines which we have and is best known unto our Aesculapian sons and servants by the name of Dr. Macullochs Balsam because that learned and expert Physician to his Majesty King James the sixth of glorious memory was the inventer of its more terss preparation whereof the antients were ignorant and which he left behind him unto us his Country-men 7. We shall propose and answer three questions one whereof is concerning Coals and the rest are concerning Oyls Quest 1. Why do not Coals yield a sixed salt when exposed to spagyrical resolution seing they are one of the kinds of minerals which do most abound in salt It is answered 1. that because they do not render this kind of salt it is not to be supposed that therefore they contain none of it for the whiteness of their ashes and their intense corrosive quality when converted into Lime by calcination with stones of their own nature as was said do sufficiently demonstrat the contrary ● They do not yield any fixed-salt because when they are calcined their fixed-salt doth so corrode the metallick earth which they contain that it converteth the same with its self into a magisterial pouder from which as from the magisterial pouders of Pearls Corall Lead c. experience teacheth the impossibility of separating the corrosive salt 3. They afford no fixed-salt because they are of the nature of Lime-stones from which when converted into the most corrosive Lime it is impossible to extract any fixed-salt Teste Zuelfero Chymico expertissimo in Animaadversionibus suis in Appendice in Antidotorum Classem de salibus Theriacalibus Pharmacopoeiae Augustanae ab ipso ingeniosissimè reformatae pag. 276. colum 2. Quest 2. Why do some oyls perpetually descend unto the bottom of the water as some oyls which ar destilled by descension Ans These oyls being more crass than others are also more ponderous and therefore cannot be supported by water which is endued with more tenuity of parts but when these oyls are by reiterated destillations rectified and so deprived of these craster parts the water will support them Quest 3. Why do the most part of if not all oyls descend unto the lowest parts of sulphureous spirits as of Wine Barley c of an aqueous consistence Ans The tenuity of the spirit is the undeniable cause why it cannot support the more crass oyl unless it be in a most exile quantity which is most participant of its nature and properties For if you will mix some crass water with such a spirit it will then support the oyl to which it formerly denied that service Seing the curious Former of all things hath much embellished the superfice of our Scottish ground with so many mineral springs of different natures and richly enambled its bowels with such a variety of metallick markasites as is well known it is much to be regrated that so few have attempted the discovering of their natures or having made some progress in that adventured to expose their conceptions concerning either of them unto Fames fingering I know not if any of our Country-men have published any thing concerning our Mettals and it is to be feared that there will be little or nothing done to this purpose in haste seing it hath pleased the Almighty to put an end unto the dayes of that most learned and ingenious Mineralogist the Lord Hopton who died Dec. 1662. And according to my best knowledge there are only three who have written concerning our Mineral Springs The first is Dr. Moor present Professor of Medicine in the Vniversity of Aberdeen who published a little book concerning the Well of Peterhead in the year 1636. from which it is manifest that then though a student only of Medicine he was privy to many of the most excellent actions of Art and Nature The second is Dr. Anderson who wrote most learnedly upon the Cold-spring of King-horn in anno 1618. and in that his book mentioneth many rare springs wherewith Scotland is replenished and which we will here insert because that book is rare to be found The first is the spring which issueth from the top of Rattray-cave in the Barony of Slains whose water doth in a short time congele into a hard stone as saith our forecited Author also in his memorial of the most rare and wonderfull things of Scotland Our learned and ingenious Country-man Dr. Sylvester Rattray doth also make mention of this water in his book entituled Aditus novus ad occult as sympathiae Antipathiae causas inveniendaes Here you would take cotice of a story which will convince you of the possibility of this A Scottish Gentleman having been in France and there acquainted with another of that Country who it seemeth was curious to know the various and almost miraculous operations of Nature did inform him by writing concerning this Well and its water The French man returned him this answer I am sorry that you should think me such a fool as to believe such a Paradox as this is that water should in a short time be converted into a stone Whereupon our Country-man fearing least the other should think this a meer fiction he took the pains to set a glass under the droping water untill it became full and then he sent the glass unto him the water therein contained being converted into a stone A very ingenious argument for convincing so confident a Gain-sayer Secondly a spring of the same nature which himself did see in one of the vaults which were most curiously hewed out of a solide rock of Roslain-castle Thirdly two Wells in the Castle of Dumbarton distant two or three foots the one from the other the uppermost whereof springing from north to south yieldeth a very salt water the other running from south to north exhibiteth fresh water Fourthly the Mud-earth wells of Menteith Fifthly the Lady-well of Strathearn Sixthly the Lady-well of Ruthven-Seventhly this Oyly-well at St. Catharines Chappel The third is Mr. William Barclay whom Dr. Anderson stileth his very learned friend and old Parisien acquaintance and of whom he writeth that he would have all the effects of the Cold-spring of King-horn to proceed from Tinn c. So it is very probable that that Gentleman hath written something concerning that or some other spring And seing there are very many rare and admirable springs in several places of this Kingdom far distant from one another concerning which none hath as yet put pen to paper such as live near to any one of them would do well to attempt the discovering of their natures and virtues and then publish them for the good of others by the doing of which they would purchase unto themselves further access into natures Cabin where they would find greater discoveries of her manifold and great mysteries with the knowledge of which Providence hath decreed to inrich

resent my writing against a dead Man who is unable to answer for himself and so challenge me of baseness To this I answer that it appeareth Mr. Culpeper having astrologically foreseen that some would write against him after his death did pen that Pamphlet entituled Culpepers Ghost generously to excuse any that intended to do it and to excite others who inclined not to it and that he might not come short of them in the like work For it is impossible to exult so much over him after his death as he doth in that Pamphlet and others of his writings over others who were gone hence before his own birth Others will possibly condemn my noticeing and answering such scurrilous profane and unchristian expressions as are found in his writings and which no sober or wise man will care-for To these I answer that though it be impossible that he by being answered according to his folly can be rendered capable of being impeded from becoming wise in his own conceit yet such as survive him and are daily in his name printing books stuffed with such expressions as were familiar unto him may be taught this lesson It ought to be the lamentation of all who have any knowledge of the mysterious operations of sagacious Nature that there are so few who make it their study to discover more of her mysteries and that such as have made some progress in this work are so sparing in communicating their knowledge unto others especially in this age wherein there are so many who as Mr. Culpeper ever did offer nothing to the most delicat pallats but crambe recocta that is ov'r-nights Keal It is most probable that if Mr. Culpeper had been so far favoured by the heavenly powers as to have been made the first discoverer of the circulation of the blood as was the most learned and famous Dr. Harvey he would have made Aurum Potabile of it that is written of it to no purpose I am confident that the learned Dr. Thomas Willis considering the most laudable practices of Dr. Harvey in writing de Generatione Animalium Circulatione sanguinis and of Dr. Glisson in writing de Rachitide and that there are too many books already in the world writen concerning all subjects as they are already known did defer to employ the Press untill he had prepared something which would as all intelligent persons will acknowledge merit no small acceptation viz. his Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae de fermentatione febribus and his dissertatio epistolica de urinis which do demonstrat that he is one who maketh it his great study ingeniously to discover and candidely to communicat the knowledge of the mysteries of Art and Nature because à vulgari sententiâ tanquam via maximè trita paulisper recedens minus calcato insistens tramiti as he writeth in his Preface to his Diatriba de febribus But least this Epistle should become disproportionat to that to which it is presixed I will sum up all that I have to say in this request that you would put a favourable construction upon this attempt in doing of which you shall obliege Your cordial Well-wisher M. M. CULPEPER'S CHARACTER OR A CHARACTER of Mr. Culpeper and his Writings IT was by some reported of Cato that he never spake a word of which he had cause to repent and there are no doubt not a few who will say little less concerning what Mr. Culpeper hath wrote But such as believe what Solomon said Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin will easily be convinced that he who made so many motions in so many volumns which he wrote could not but make some trippings If Bishop Latimer was more cautious of what he said before his examiners when he heard the pen of another writing behind the hangings because literascripta manet and nescit vox missa reverti how much more cautious should Mr. Culpeper have been in writing with his own hand and thereafter publishing in print such things as were most reprehendible by any sober man as you will annon be convinced I will first mention such of his expressions as are most derogatory to the glory of God and prejudicial to his servants In the Epistle to the Reader prefixed to his book entituled A directory for Mid-wives he writeth thus In this world the devil hath his agents and their actions are to keep you in darkness Who are our jaylors I say Scholars and thus I begin to prove it in divinity they have given us a translation of the Bible such a one as it is all the proper names in Scripture they have given you in pure Hebrew names in an English character Pray do so much as read the four or five first Chapters of the first book of Chronicles and see what instruction you can find there And a little after he writeth of the Scripture thus When you want knowledge you know whether to go for it not to an idle Priest but to one that will not upbraid you far your labour Besides all this whole sentences in Scripture are so translated that ●t would make a man sick to see them Had not the Priests formerly absconded the mysteries of the truth from us Sermons would have been cryed about the streets for three halfpence a dozen By these expressions you may know how the pulse of his soul did beat at the writing of them For Solomon hath said Prov. 21.23 Who so keepeth his tongue keepeth his soul Surely then when the tongue raileth against God himself and his servants it argueth the soul at that time to be in a lamentable estate by reason of most depraved principles Without transgressing against the rules of charity Mr. Culpeper no doubt may be called the most audacious Momus of this our age wherein he lived in daring to vilisie that most exact translation of the holy Scriptures in such a parenthized expression and also to speak the worst of evils concerning Dignities as you shall hear hereafter I am confident that if he had been more diligent in searching the Scriptures like the Bereans Act. 17.11 for edification he would have found more instruction from these Chapters in the first book of Chronicles for by comparing them and the like places with Matth. 1. and Luke 3. he might according to the judgment of all Divines have understood that they were penned by the Holy Ghost chiefly for this end that it might appear to the Church in after-ages that Jesus Christ our Saviour was lineally descended of Abraham and David and not only that we might be instructed by the etymological interpretations of the names else the Spirit of God would have set down the interpretations of them all in the Text as He did for reasons known to Himself of many in several places some whereof we will here insert Araham Gen. 17.5 A father of a great multitude or many nations Asher Gen. 30.13 Blessedness Babell Gen. 19.9 Confusion Ben-oni Gen. 35.18 Son of sorrow Beaula Isaiah

from the ambient earth Hence it appeareth that the most convenient season for collecting of roots is the Spring-time immediatly before they put forth new leaves or stems And I am confident that Mr. Culpeper never eated Parsneeps but in winter though he did it not for this reason Let the judicious Reader consider if this be not a very clear hinting at the reason of that assertion of Mr. Culpepers chap. 1. of leaves of herbs or trees which he who wrote as before in the Epistle doth most impudently set down without any reason subjoyned unto it in these words The leaves of such herbs as run up to seed are not so good when they are in slower as before some few excepted the leaves of which are seldom or never used But here Mr. Culpeper seemeth to answer for such omissions in that learned and compleat Method of Physick by these words concerning the book in his Epistle to the Reader In mine if you view it with the eye of reason you shall see a reason for every thing that is written But these words do rather pre-require more reason in the Reader than is in the book In the second place take notice how he commendeth this his book You read before that in the Title-page he calleth it A compleat method of physick and in the Epistle to the Reader he writeth thus The prosit and benefits arising from it or that may accreu unto a wise man from it are many so many that should I sum up all the particulars the Epistle would be a● big a● the Book and then he reduceth all to three general heads which no man but he who hath the forementioned eye of reason and can bring-but that which is not there-benn will be able to discover Mr. Culpeper his sounding forth his own praises after this manner and his frequent satyrical reflections upon others doth directly transgress that excellent precept which Dionysius Cate gave to his Son Officium alterius multis narrare memento Atque aliis cum tu beneseceris ipse siteto As also the more considerable sentences of the holy Ghost Prov. 27.2 Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth 2 Cor. 10.18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved If he had remembred that the coats and garments which Dorcas made in her life-time did commend her frugality most after her death Acts 9.39 he would have been more sparing in penning and causing print such commendations of his own writings in his life-time and rather have reserved them for to have been enlargements or flesh and sinews to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like Ghost which was printed after his death In the third place take notice that though Mr. Culpeper in his Epistle to the Reader did reprehend Gerard Perkinson c. for never giving one wise reason for what they wrote c. yet all along through the book he doth most confidently take upon him to determine the degrees of heat and coldness or driness and moistness of herbs according as did the most fabulous writers who were the first authors of such like traditions Take this one instance as the most considerable because a part of that discourse which in the Epistle he calleth the Key of the whole book which savoureth of most presumptuous considence and reasonless tradition and it is concerning Worm-wood of which he writeth thus it is hot and dry in the first degree viz. just as hot as your blood and no hotter Should such a Critick have so peremptorily asserted without giving any reason for it at least should he not have prefixed to his book a rational rule for discovering the temperaments of herbs in general seing all others who wrote before him concerning herbs did assert the like and never gave the least shadow of reason for it Surely he had a good opportunity for the doing of this in his Key to Galens method of physick subjoyned to his Translation of the London Dispensatory sect 1. where he writeth of the temperature of Medicines in general and where he hath a discourse not exceeding eight lines in 8 vo neither assording two grains of instruction to the Reader Fourthly let the judicious Reader consider what he hath written at large concerning Wormwood which discourse he called the Key of the whole book and in the close of it he calleth it a Jewel more worth than a Diamond and asserteth that in the words of it lies a Key which will unlock the cabinet of Physick for as Mr. Culpeper wrote concerning some places of Scripture translated into English It would make a man sick to see it being a discourse stuffed with variety of most ridiculous impertinencies particularly where he saith that where Dr. Reason dwells not Dr. Madness dwelleth and Dr. Madness bringeth in Dr. Ignorance Dr. Felly Dr. Sickness and Dr. Death You must excuse my not meddling with any thing in his writings which is astrological For I acknowledge my self not to be sufficiently acquainted with the principles of that Art and therefore do refer him unto others Only I will say this that if his Astrology in Medicinals be no better than it and the Astrology of others more famous than he was in Politicks in the time of the Commonwealth when Monarchy was said to be eternally exiled from Great Britain by all the powers of the heavens they will mis-spend their time who will take the pains to read Concerning his great skill in the Pharmacopoetical art which he endeavoureth to manifest in his Translation of the London Dispensatory and Chapters subjoyned unto his English Physician I will only say this that whosoever shall compare those his writings with the ingenious and learned Animadversions of Dr. John Zuelfer upon the Augustan Dispensatory will be soon convinced that an Apprentice of one years standing would have written as well if not better than he did Take now a demonstration of his matchless impudence which is this in his Translation of the London Dispensatory when he describeth the virtues of the Vinegar of Squills prefixing his own name to them he doth it according to Galen his words which he had stollen either out of Galens own works or else from the Augustan Dispensatory Yet notwithstanding of this he had so much impudent confidence as a little after to challenge the learned Physicians of London for stealing the prescript of the Lochoch of Purslain from Ausberg and then addeth these ridiculous and scurrilous words you shall shortly hear the Augustan Physicians come with how and cry after the Colledge and cry stop theeves Let others remember this proverb which he forgot Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum Before I conclude I will acquaint you with this true story An able Physician of our Nation being demanded by one of Mr. Culpepers disciples if he had read any of Mr. Culpepers works answered I tha●k God I never had so much leisure as to do it It having been my misfortune to have some leisure for that end I