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A65379	Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.; De secretis adeptorum. English	Weidenfeld, Johann Seger.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1253; ESTC R12745	271,134	404

C. R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas JOHANNES SEGERVS WEIDENFELD Gent. hath by his humble Petition represented unto us That with much Study and great Expence he hath composed a Tract De Secretis Adepto●um which he is desirous to Print in Our Dominions and hath therefore humbly besought us to grant unto him Our Royal Licence and Priviledge for the sole Printing and Publishing thereof We have received good Testimony of the Usefulness of the said Tract and being willing to give all fitting Encouragement to such commendable Works have thought fit to condescend to that his Request and We do accordingly hereby grant Our Royal Licence and Priviledge unto him the said JOHANNES SEGERVS WEIDENFELD his Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during the space of fourteen Years to be computed from the day of the first setting forth of the same And Our Royal Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Require and Command That during the said Term of Fourteen Years no Printer Publisher or other Person whatsoever being our Subjects do presume to Imprint or cause to be Imprinted without the Knowledge and Consent of him the said JOHANNES SEGERVS WEIDENFELD his Executors Administrators or Assigns the aforesaid Tract or any Part thereof or to sell the same or to import into our Kingdom of England any Copies thereof Imprinted in any Parts beyond the Seas upon pain of the Loss and Forfeiture of all Copies so Imprinted Sold or Imported contrary to the Tenor of this Our Royal Licence and of such other Penalties as the Laws and Statutes of this Our Realm will inflict And of this Our Pleasure the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Company of Stationers are to take Notice that the same may be Entred in their Register and due Obedience be yielded thereunto Given at Our Court at Windsor the 18th Day of August 1684. in the Six and Thirtieth Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command SUNDERLAND FOUR BOOKS OF JOHANNES SEGERVS WEIDENFELD Concerning the SECRETS of the ADEPTS OR Of the Use of Lully's Spirit of VVine A PRACTICAL WORK With very great Study Collected out of the Ancient as well as Modern FATHERS of ADEPT PHILOSOPHY Reconciled together BY Comparing them one with another otherwise disagreeing and in the newest Method so aptly digested that even young Practitioners may be able to discern the Counterfeit or Sophistical Preparations of Animals Vegetables and Minerals whether for Medicines or Metals from True and so avoid Vagabond Impostors and Imaginary Processes together with the Ruine of Estates ISAACUS HOLLANDUS 2. Oper. Miner Cap. 3. Pag. 420. Vol. 3. Theatr. Chym. I discours'd you plainly using no Allegories should I tell you of Selbach Kalcabria Manessi and of a red Matter or of the Sky-coloured Muerach Illabar and Calfaria or the like you would not easily apprehend me but I have opened you the way and removed every Obstacle that you may not err London Printed by Will. Bonny for Tho. Howkins in George-Yard in Lombard-Street MDCLXXXV Authori Sacrum QUod nemo est ausus citior quod nemo Sophorum Praestitit in calamo claret in orbe tuo Hactenus in sophicis sparsim tumulata tenebris Ars jacuit dubiis inveterata strophis Fabula nasutis avidisque Tarantula stultis Oedipus ignaris Labyrinthus avis Hic asinum fingebat equum mox certior alter Pone aures leporem se tenuisse putat Sic inhians Lapidi Lapidis vice volvere saxum Conatur chymici nescia turba gregis Hoc quantum tua nunc removendo industria saxo Contribuat sophiae judicat ipse tyro Semisophique tuos psallent sine fraude labores Veri candoris propria signa tui Et ciniflona cohors exspes prostrata resumptis Viribus antiquum macte subibit onus Ne vero sine re sis infelicior ipsis Perge laborantem continuare manum Participesque Sacro digitos carbone notare Ut videant sibi Te reddere nolle parem Quo tua sedulitas tibi nomen omen Adepti Aspirante Dei conciliabit ope Posteraque emeritas cantabit natio laudes Et referet grates ubere dote pias Sic Amico suo cecinit ALBERTVS OTHO FABER Reg. Maj. Britannicae Med. Ordinar To the Right Honourable ROBERT BOYLE A CHIEF MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY Long Life and Health THE Arcanums of Paracelsus being applauded by many men with so many and such ample Encomiums yet not enough incited me Ten Years since first to undertake the consulting of Paracelsus himself about his Medicines Two Years thereof had elapsed in which I turned over his Books day and night with an indefatigable and invincible Mind yet with unequal Success and scarce any Benefit at all For in the Books of Paracelsus besides the usual way of concealing Secrets common to the Adepts I found another much greater difficulty withal yet less frequented by the Adepts Paracelsus as Corrector of the Adepts having propos'd to himself therein the instructing of not only raw initiated Scholars but even expert Masters of the more secret Chymy and for this reason he abbreviates his Receipts with wonderful Accurtations Learned indeed to the Learned but to us seem as lame and impe●fect and besides they are so disguised with most intricate Terms of the true Philosophical Chymy as to illude not only shallow but profound Capacities Which Impossibility I had almost said of understanding Paracelsus aggravates by intermixing Common with Secret Receipts which is not for a Scholar but a most experienced Master to distinguish But of these Difficulties the first and greatest Obstacle withal was my own unhappy Preconception of some Alkahest For being now out of the hope of attaining to the preparation of this Liquor by other mens Books as well as Paracelsus his own De Viribus Membrorum I betook my self to other places treating of the Circulatum minus and Specificum corrosivum as synonimous Terms of the Alkahest with some men to which I added the Aqua or Oleum Salis Aqua Comedens Aqua Regis Circulatum majus and one after another being perswaded that some one only universal Menstruum was intended by all that I might find the Method of preparing this Liquor in all places compared together which I could not in each severally but at length despairing and being overcome by the manifold and almost incredible yet unsuccessful pains I took I resolved to decline Chymy and Medicine as Arts too deep for my understanding When behold on a sudden the Eyes of my Mind were opened and I saw all these things differ not in name only but also in matter preparation and use so instead of one Liquor Alkahest which I sought for I found in Paracelsus many Menstruums with the several Uses of them all in Medicine now knew I how to prepare and according to Paracelsus distinguish things into Essences Magisteries Astrums Arcanums and those