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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93669	Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.	Spencer, John, 1601-1671.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4955A; ESTC R184528	61,579	125

to thrust in a reason among others why Almighty God sometimes forbad the eating hereof as also to speak of the circular motion how it resembles the fountains running to the sea and the sea supplying the fountains Of Phlegm Phlegm so called by contrariety because of its crudity and that not in respect of the first concoction but of the second is an humour cold and moist white and without tast or somewhat sweet It may be called imperfect blood for by further concoction it becometh reall blood therefore nature hath appointed no vessell to receive it intending it for alteration not evacuation this is the Alimentary phlegm that is the Phlegmatick blood That which is preternatnrall as are all the following kindes is avacuated with other excrements having no peculiar receptacle here note that the filth of the nose is not phlegm properly but the private excrement of the braine yet I deny not but that if the body be full of phlegmatick humours part of them may passe this way of this preternaturall phlegm be four kindes the first is called Nisipid not absolutely as the Alimentary but in respect of the other three kindes which follow This onely is properly termed a crude humour t is true every concoction may have its crudity but this concoction which attaines not its full perfection in the stomack by way of eminence is called crude and that body which aboundeth herewith is of the colour of lead such an humour also appears 1 in the sediment of some urines 2. Acid tasting like vineger which remaine thus for want of naturall heat and is caused by cold and moist diet especially if liberall large and out of due time as also by the constitutions which is colder in old men and women then others by a cold liver cold aire to much sleep and the want of the ordinary evacuation thereof thirdly Salt Avian thinks phegm becomes salt by adustion of bitter humours as we finde after combustion the fixed salt of any plant as wormwood c. Galen sayes t is either from putrefaction or from the mixture of a salt whaylike humour neither do oppose other if rightly understood for doubtlesse the true cause is a salt whaylike moysture which is nothing but the superfluous salt of those things which we eat and drink do we not finde tartar in wine casks and is not such a substance found in the earth wherewith plants are nourished do we not use salt with many meates that then hereof which nature cannot convert to nourishment is the matter of this preternaturall humour which is therefore hot because salt Fourthly glasse this bifference is not taken from the taste as the other but from the colour and consistence it represents melted or liquid glasse this is the coldest of these kindes yet not exactly cold for then it should be like ice nor exactly moist but thick and viscous pertaking of the two other qualities Of Choler Choler Alimentary is the hot and dry part of the blood and fit to nourish called colerik blood because blood thus qualified will easily degenerate unto choler Secondly Naturall this an excrement of the second concoction hot dry bitter and yellow separated from the blood in the liver conveighed to the gall hence it distills upon the first gut adhearing to the stomack and by its acrimony excits the slow expulsive faculty of the guts to excretion this is that which we meane when we say choler viz. Yellow not black choler this in cold bodyes is somewhat pale in hot bodies somewhat red Thirdly preternaturall which is not made after the law of nature of this be foure kinds first is in consistence and colour like the yolk of a raw egge this is hotter and thicker made of choler adust so Galen Second resembles the juce of leeks such are infants stools for milk in them is soon corrupted garlick and onions cause it in others third is of colour like verdigrease here the heate is more vehement fourth resembles the colour which the herb Woad maketh and is made by a further adustion The materiall cause is hot and dry diet sweet and fat meats The efficient cause hot and dry constitution of the body aire and age which is youth watching hunger anger vehement exercise and lastly the suppressiou of naturall evacuation Of Melancholy Melancholy 1. Alimentary is the fourth part of the blood cold and dry 2. Naturall this is a humour cold and dry thick black bitter and sowre made of the thick druggy part of nourishment and according to the vulgar opinion drawne from the liver to the spleen and transmitted from thence to the stomack to further the actions thereof Thirdly preternaturall which differs much from the former kind for that is a cold and dry iuce made naturally in a healthfull man this hot and dry tasting like the sharpest vineger this of the four humours is the worst this kinde of the foregoing kinds is the worst it wasts the body melts the flesh it works upon the earth like Ceaver upon meat and no beast will tast thereof But I cease to write more hereof under this head because it shall be the subject of the ensuing discourse unto which this which I have already penned is but an apparatus But having so much tired out my selfe with this sad Subject I will here give some ease to my pen and leave this to be supplyed by some learned Phisitian beseeching the great God of heaven and earth the great Phisition of soul and body to give this good blessing upon this weak means and if any poor afflicted soules receive any comfort by it to give the glorie and praise unto God unto whom it doth of all right belong Amen Lord Jesus Amen At my lodging in Black Fryers Aprill 19. 1641. MAny times it fals out that a loving husband parting with his deare wife behaves himselfe like the child of some great man Whose Father hath given him a fine Toppe to play withall but afterwards perceiving his sonne to much carried away with that pleasure or too lusty in justling the Topp or else to try the boyes disposition takes up the topp and puts it up into his owne pocket whereat the boy puts finger in the eye pouts and cryes notwithstanding his father perswades him to be content tels him what fine Coates he hath given him what dainty things he hath for him and what goodly land and houses he will bestow on him but for all that the sulling boy sits pouting and lowring and will not so much as thanke his Father for all these because he hath taken away his top and yet when he had it the best use he made of it was to play with it In like manner the Lord of heaven and earth gives a man a deare wife adelightfull companion wherein a man takes great pleasure sometimes to make her goe sometimes to see her sleepe and some unkind wretches delight to scourg them with bitter words and to justle them by cursed usage the Lord of

added without necessity and therefore by some excluded without iniury The four humours blood phlegm choler an melaneholy be made in the liver all at one and the same time all by one and the same heat The difference of them is not to be imputed to this heat but to the condition and qualification of the subiect matter if they be mad when which is the Chylus that is the meat and drinke concocted in the stomack resembling perhaps no colour consistence Almond-butter now this though it seem to be one simple humour yet it never is no not in the greatest disease Fornelius if this Chylus be temporate in a temporate body then all these humours in that body are temporate in their kinde if all then choler does not alwayes proceed from an immoderate but sometimes from a temporate nay a weak heat For what mans liver how cold soever it be is altogether without it This Chylus is carried by the meseraick vains to the liver which encompasseth it with the same heat from all parts and penetrates it equally making of the temporate part thereof blood of the hot part choler of the crude phlegm of the terrene melancholy and all this at the same time Obiect But phlegm is cold and crude the rudiment and shadow of the blood and and may by further concoction be turned into blood Ans. T is true yet not therefore necessary that we should name all halfe-concocted-blood phlegm or think it proceedes therefrom For then we might call the Chylus our meat or whatsoever we are nourished withall phlegm which how dissonant from reason let the obiector iudge moreover if the whole masse of blood were made of phlegm and choler of that and melancholy of this and each thus of other successively there should be but one humour in us taking diverse names according to the degrees or continuence of heat working upon it as a river is called now thus now otherwise by the inhabitants of this or that towne as it passeth by it It may here seem to be required what phlegm is but of that hereafter Thus much of the Galenists opinions of the humours the Chynicks laugh at these and their defenders calling them Humorists c. And count it folly to fetch the common internall causes of diseases from these supposed humours but derive all from Suphur Salt and Mercury which three principles to speak properly are not bodyes but plainly spiritual as they say by reason of the influence from heaven with which they are filled nor are they spirits because corporall therefore of a mixed nature participating of both and do bear anallagey and allusion as followes viz. Salt Common Salt Acerbe and bitter The Body Matter Art Sulphur Salt peter Sweete The soul Forme Nature Mercury Salt Armoniack Acid The Spirit Idea Vnderstanding c. And as they extract these third principles out of naturall bodies so they resolve them into the same hence they argue that bodies are made of the same and therefore must be well or ill as these shall stand affected to say the truth doubtles that which being present in us makes us sicke and being expelled from us we are well was the cause of our sicknesse but common experience saies a body full of corrupted humours is sick and freed from them is well therefore here is no reason why we should not thinke those ill humours the causes of our malady on the otherside I thinke Bertinus was deceived when he said that not a crum of salt lay hid in the body which if any deny I thinke he deserves to be served as Lots wife Concerning the temper of the body and every part how the elements concur to their constitution over ruling qualities result how there is one equall temper where the qualities of the elements do not exceed each other in quality nor their substance in quantity how this is the rule of all the other eight to speak of these things is too large a discourse let it therfore suffice to know that when a man aboundeth with blood he is not therfore to be called of a sanguine complection if with melancholy humors of a melancholy tēper c. For the abundance of this or that excrement does not instantly alter a mans perticular temper doubtles choler phlegm melancholy may abound in any nature if in the liver be cold and dry blood a long time together it may encline the body to coldnes drines which is a melancholy temper Astrologers refer the vari●ty of the constitutions to the severall natures of the seven Planets and hereupon call some Ioviall some Martiall some venereall c. And from each Planet draw two constitutions as it shall be found well or ill disposed as from Mars well disposed they conclude a man valiant courragious fit to be an Emperour If ill they argue a man rash and foolhardy no better then a Tyrant He that desires to know more of this may have recourse to the learned treatise of M. Perkins stiled a resolution to a country man in the third volume of his works Of the Blood Blood is a humour hot yet temperate sweet and red prepared in the meseraick veines made in the liver of the temperate fat and aieriall parts of the Chylus and flowes from hence to all parts of the body Phylosophers affirme that we are nourished with his humour only Phisicians say with all four The seeming contrariety may be composed by the distinguishing thus blood is often taken for the whole masse conteined in the veines appointed to nourish the body now this masse is not homogenerall but of a diverse nature For the best and most temperate part of the blood is properly and in specie called blood the hot and dry part of it is called colerick blood the cold and moist part phlegmatick blood the cold and dry melancholick blood this diversity is answerable to the qualities of the Chylus whereof it is made therefore when Phylosophers say we are nourished with blood alone they understand the whole masse contained in the veines which neither Aristotle nor any other Phylosopher will deny to have parts of the foresaid qualities these parts of the blood thus qualified must not be taken for excrementitious but for alimentary humours since they all nourish the body here two things are questioned first whether there be any pure blood in the veins without the 3. humors 2. Whether the blood be only a mixrure of the third sincere humors so that choler or rather colerick blood in the veins should be the same with that wch is in the Gall I conclude negatively to both and think that the blood is alwayes accompanied with the rest of the humours which only resemble those which be separated and received into their proper vessells this of humours is the best the treasure of life many excellent things are spoken hereof insomuch that Empedocles and Critius say it is the soul Chrysippus Zeno say it nourisheth the soul It is needles here

of our life that so it may be well with us at our last breathing and in the dreadfull day of judgement and in this confidence we do not only pray for our selves but also for all our christian brethren upon the face of the Earth those especially that are wounded in their soules and consciences and those that sufferd for the truth sake and those that are visited with mortall disstresse and tormenting crosses and weare new the point of death and prepare them for thy glorious Kingdome good Lord blesse our gracious King Charles and his great Court of Parliament worke graciously in the heart of the King and all his Subjects and in the heart of the Prince and all his people godly sorrow for all our sinnes and give us grace to weepe and mourne night and day for the sinnes and abominations of these sinfull times and cry mightily unto the Lord to turne away those heavie judgements we have justly deserved and continue his great mercy towards us and inflame their hearts with all holy zeale and devotion to advance the glory of God and doe good unto thy faithfull ones and on the other side to raise up their hearts with an everlasting hatred of all sinnes and utterly to abolish that and to roote that out and make them zealous to execute justice upon the malefactors that have so dishonoured God and labour to bring in Idolatry Popery and shed innocent blood and persecute thy faithfull ones that there may be that due execution of justice upon them as may most tend to thy glory the peace of the Church and comfort of thy faithfull ones and to the terrour of all wicked and prophane men blesse our Royall Queen convert her heart more more glorious to the love of the Gospell that shee may renounce all popery and Idolatry and wholly rest upon our Lord Iesus Christ to be her onely Saviour and her everlasting Redeemer that so the Angels in Heaven might rejoyce to see her true conversion unto Thee and blesse all good meanes that may effect the same in thy due and appointed time and make all faithfull Bishops and ministers of thy sacred word take all opportunities to effect the same as they will answere that in the dreadfull day of judgement good Lord blesse the Prince and the Princesse and all those of the Royall posterity and the Prince of Orringe and his Royall Consort sanctifie their hearts now in their tender yeares with the truth of thy holy religion and work in their hearts an everlasting hatred against all Popery Idolatry and prophanesse Good Lord blesse the Prince Elector worke graciously in his Royall heart godly sorrow for all his sinnes and let oh let wee humbly beseech thee the precious blood of our Saviour Christ cleanse him from all his sinnes and make him as pure both in soule and body as if he never had sinned but continued in the first state of innocency and cloath him with the holynesse and righteousnesse of our Lord Iesus Christ that hee may stand ever acceptable in thy fight and enabled to performe that great service unto thee to burne the Whore of Babylon with fire and revenge the blood of thy Saints to that end put it into the hearts of all the Kinges and Princes of the Earth to fulfill thy will to hate the Whore make her desolate and naked and burne her with fire Good Lord for the Lord Iesus sake blesse the Queene of Bohemiah and the Queene of Swedon those of that Royall issue that hath pleased the a long time to humble them with a dejected state and to suffer the enemies of thy truth greatly to insult over them to spoile their goodly Cities to burne downe their houses with fire and carry so many of our Christian brethren and sisters into a miserable captivitie and to shed so much innocent blood but thou doest all things with infinite wisedome thou knowest the fittest meanes to humble thy children and thou knowest the fittest time to make them glorious in their deliverance good Lord in thy blessed time revenge their cause and setle them againe in the inheritance of their Fathers and set them up to sit with the Princes of thy people in the meane time give unto thy servants faith and patience a godly sorrow for all their sinnes and holy zeale and wisedome to make their inheritance sure in heaven and lay up their treasure where that is not subject to these alterations and changes and confound the power of Ante-Christ that man of sinne and his adherentes that they may not to much insult ovet thy Children nor to much disturbe the peace of thy faithfull ones but in thy blessed time make it appeare how precious the blood of thy Saints is in thy sight and what a fearefull accompt they shall make for the same at the day of judgement before the great God of Heaven and Earth that art no respector of persons Blesse the good Bishops and faithfull Ministers of thy sacred word especially those that thou hast placed over us give them wisedome and grace to preach thy heavenly word powerfully and profitablely to our soule and consciences and blesse them in their lives and conversations that ye may be pure and peaceable that so they may be a a blessed meanes to convert many soules unto thee Root out those that are so scandolous and ignious and labour to bring in Idolatry and prophanes and make them evermore to finde by experience that thou that fittest in the heavens will laugh them to scorne and have them in dirision Be mercifull unto our Christian brethren in the Palatinate in Germany other places of Christendom which suffer for the truth and the profession of the glorious Gospell and deliver them from blood thirstie men and gratiously supply all their wants both soule and body in thy appointed time Blesse our Christian bretheren in Virgenia and new England those remoted places of the world keepe them from secret schismes herisies and set their feete into the way of peace and deliver them from their enemies Blesse our Nobles Peares Iudges of the land and Councellers of state blefle them and their councell that tend to thy glory the peace of the Church and the good of the commonwealth that their councels may evermore bee happely established to the confusion of the wicked devises of ungodly men and women that labour to bring in Idollatry popery and prophannesse oh blesse we beseech thee our afflicted brethren sisters that are humbled with the sight of their sinnes and the terror of thy judgements due unto them for the same make clearely appeare unto them thy everlasting mercy towards them in our Lord Iesus Christ their blessed Saviour and Redeemer and that his precious blood doth cleanse them from all their sins and make them as pure in thy sight as if they continued in their happie estate of innocency and let thy grace bee sufficient for them to support them in all their