Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	humour_n	2,342	5	7.9583	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52581	Sal, lumen, & spiritus mundi philosophici, or, The dawning of the day discovered by the beams of light shewing the true salt and secret of the philosophers, the first and universal spirit of the world / written originally in French, afterwards turned into Latin by the illustrious doctor, Lodovicus Combachius ... and now transplanted into Albyons Garden by R.T. ...; Traittez de l'harmonie et constitution généralle du vray sel, secret des philosophes, et de l'esprit universelle du monde. English	Nuisement, Clovis Hesteau, sieur de.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing N1469; ESTC R4890	78,186	256

as we may observe in all superiour things which are free from Excrements but inferiour Bodies are otherwise for they lie in the midst of the impure Excrements of this World which naturally destroy and mortifie their Guests whereas purity enlivens and conserves corruptions and mortifications surround men because of the multitude of Dregs and Excrements they are infested with which make them live a short and miserable life as loaden with Aerumnies and Diseases so that they are here detained as a guilty Malefactor in an obscure filthy Prison who being dubious betwixt death and hope of Life lies there obduced with moldiness infested with vermine and nourished with immund and corrupt meats for all Aliments are impure and carry with them an Executioner to wit hidden poyson whence we at length take our own death in our own hands and spontaneously kill our selves seeing our Aliments have so little of enlivening and nourishing vertue in them and that so closely enveloped with Excrements that the digestion of the stomack though strong can scarce attract it now we eating such meats do ingest poyson with the good substance which entring our Bodies ceases not to be augmented and accumulated till it obscure and extinguish the vital Light or rather Natures legitimate Action which is Vivification unless some Medicine or Separation retard or suspend it Corruption then is induced by Excrements and it may happen two ways either from the Parents Seed who being not well and by consequence corrupt produce corrupt Seed degenerating more from Generation to Generation but this is so far subject to Medicinal Corruption as that by help thereof the course of its activity towards Mortification may be stayed or retarded This Corruption may not improperly be called that Malevolent Satan who goes about continually seeking whom he may devour for which cause this wanders about the Terrestrial Globe or the Excrements of the World which have their principal seat on the Earth which also eructate their Corruption upon other Elements and thus Men living of them and in them are corrupted in them and by them and so they produce corrupt Seed which time renders more and more corrupt for our age being more vitious and dissolute then that of our Ancestors hath rendered us worse then they and the next its probable will be worse then us and the next more dissolute still The second rise of Corruption is from the continual use of too too excrementitious Aliments by which our Bodies are depraved so that this infection will pass from the Parent to the Son as we see in the Leprosie and other hereditary Diseases Now these Aliments deduce their Corruption from the place where they are generated for after the Almighty Creator had disposed the confus'd Chaos he so ordered that the superiour Bodies should remain pure and subtile but the inferiour gross and impure because it is the Nature of pure substances to ascend to the place of their origine but of Excrements to descend to the Centre And hence it is That that which is pure in Animals and Vegetables is elevated and ascends highest and makes them ascend increase with it till it be freed from the Excrementitious Mass which subjects it to mortal Corruption and that it may attain the place that is remotest from Excrements and live without alteration or spot for the same cause also more spiritual and subtile Creatures inhabit in higher places as being purer and finding their Aliments more convenient and like their natural substance but such as are coporal inhabit lower places where they are immerged in dregs and filth that have their place in lower parts whence they are corrupted by that of which they live which is mixed with mundane Dregs for whatever the Earth and other Elements which are the Receptacles of impurities can produce is corrupt and maculated and therefore induces corruption and defilement upon all Bodies that use it for Aliment And thus Blood acquires an ill disposition which afterwards beget ill humours but in some more in others less according to the inquinated state of the Parents and the abuse of the corruptive things which cause mortality and destruction for if the Earth and the Fruits thereof were as pure as the Heavens all Animals would live as long as the Celestial Incolists But Nature hath ordained this for a Law That that partakes more of corporeity should dwell about that that 's most corporeal and that which is more corruptible and inquinated about that that 's likest to it but the Earth is lowest of Bodies and therefore most gross and corruptible Nothing therefore can proceed from it but what is like it unless its corruption and impurity be stayed by the Art of Separation and all its pure substance extracted from its Body which a true Philosopher may by industry effect It never was nor yet is my intent to offend Physitians to whom I owe much honour yet I with many learned men admire they do not better instruct Apothecaries that they may be more curious in preparing Medicaments whilst themselves may observe how oft they have been frustrated in success when they proceed after the vulgar manner for they will cure and restore sick and weak Bodies by offering them a great deal of Pottage wherein there is yet so much impurities and gross dregs that very little pure substance wherein the curative faculty consists remains which is so immerged in their Poyson that they have no power against the Disease neither can Nature help their operation for she is subdued in this conflict by the impurity of the Remedy on the one side and the cause of the Disease on another which is all one as if a Man should drive away Corruption by corrupted corrupting means which is impossible for Rain never dries up Rivers nor Fire extinguish a Flame nor yet Corruption expel Corruption They also attempt the Restauration of their Patients debilitated strength by Aliments of easie digestion which they think partake of little impurity and so are not subject to Corruption never considering That this way cannot much profit them for though they use very choise Aliments yet are they not of much advantage because they are indued with no action or power that can either exterminate or lessen the morbifical causes but onely refulciate their miserable lives almost ruined by weakness never freeing them from death unless that Nature spontaneously arise and oppose the mortal Machinations of her Enemies or else the Patient seek help from some exquisite Medicament brought by some perite Artificers industry to supernatural purity and perfection which being free from Corruption may restore the pristine vigour and by this means eradicate the cause of the Disease for every true Medicament should effect two operations to wit purge from Corruption and restore lost Strength and in this the whole Basis and Art of Medicine consists though the lesser of the two parts is onely in use to wit Purgation the more excellent to wit Restauration being wholly abolished