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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01091	Hoplocrisma-spongus: or, A sponge to vvipe avvay the weapon-salve A treatise, wherein is proved, that the cure late-taken up amongst us, by applying the salve to the weapon, is magicall and unlawfull By William Foster Mr. of Arts, and parson of Hedgley in the county of Buckingham.; Hoplocrisma-spongus.	Foster, William, 1591-1643.	1631 (1631)	STC 11203; ESTC S102476	41,047	74

it is disposed some other way spilt or lost when the body is put off and so there is no participation of the blood with the Divels body nor of the Witches separated blood with that in her bodie Besides if there were any heate or spirit residing in the blood sucked from the Witch the coldnesse of the Divels assumed body is such it would streight chill and extinguish it This Alexander ab Alexandro relateth to be true by the experience of an acquaintance of his who touched the heele of a Divell that assumed the shape of a man and found it so could that no Ice could be compared to it And Cardanus a man conversant with spirits affirmeth the like of his owne experience that he being touched with the hand of a Divell found it so cold that it was not at any hand to be endured And other examples are recited by Lavater in his booke of walking spirits by all which it is apparant that there can be no sympathy betwixt blood separated and the fountaine be it the blood of Witches or of any other person whatsoever The Divell indeed may by compact of Witches which shall serve him and so endevour to be like him as the fervant endevours to be like his Master or by the permission of God stirre and excite the humours of mans body be he Witch or not inflaming his blood kindling his choller disturbing his phantasie cause a malignity of Nature in him But to doe it by a sympathy of the blood remaining with him with that which remaines in the body is altogether a thing impossible And so Master Doctors argument of sympathy and his sympathizing Salve cannot be salved to be naturall and sympathize with reason though he hath fetched an argument from Dyers and Lyers from the Divell the father of Lyers to maintaine it Articulus tertius Wherein the operations and effects of this Vnguent brought by the Vnguentaries to prove the sympathy and to approve the Cure are alleadged and confuted THose which deny a sympathy betwixt the annointed Weapon and the wounded party may easily be convinced by the strange operations and effects of this oyntment For if the cold ayre come to the Weapon the wounded party will incurre an Ague or if the Weapon be bound hard with a coard the party feeles it in his joynts and limbes And the Weapon being put into the fire the wounded parties body will be blistered What is the reason of this but the sympathy betwixt the Wound and the Weapon caused by emission of the spirit of the blood what greater and more demonstrative evidence can be of a sympathie To which I answer This reason is no reason Therefore I will say of it as Tully did of an unreasonable reason Cujus rationis non est ratio ci rationi non est ratio fidem adhibere Where the reason hath no reason there a man hath no reason to give credit to the reason For there 's no sympathy betwixt the Wound and the Weapon as hath already been declared For another substitute weapon if the very weapon which inflicted the wound cannot be had will doe the feat as well as that so it be drawn through the wound Where then is the sympathy betwixt the Weapon and the hurt when another Weapon will doe the feat which never caused the hurt Nay a Sallow sticke will doe it say these Vnguentaries if some blood of the wound bee but sprinkled on the sticke and then the sticke be left sticking in the Vnguent pot Nay some have cured the wound by applying the Salve to the Hose Doublet or Shooe of the wounded party nay to a stoole which hath hurt a man nay to a stoole which never hurt him Where is then the sympathy betweene the Wound and Weapon when it may as well be applyed to any thing as to the Weapon Besides this Salve is not made alike by all men Reade Paracelsus Cardanus Crollius Baptista Porta Goclinius D. Flud so many severall Authors so many severall Receits of this Vnguent Some put in Mosse growne on the Scull of a Theefe hanged Others say it may be of any man taken away by any kind of violent death Others prescribe Mosse growne upon the Scull of any dead man whether he came by his death violently or naturally Some prescribe blood warme as it comes from mans body Others blood indefinitely whether warme or not Some put in Oyle of Line-seeds Turbinthine and Roses others none Some blood-stones beaten to powder others none Some put in Hoggesbraines others none Some wormes washed in Wine and burnt in a pot in a Bakers Oven others none Some Bole Armenicke others none Some Muske bdelium storax and other Gummes others none Some appoint the Fat of a Bore and the Fat of a Beare others none Some say the fat of the Bore and the fat of the Beare must be the fat of a Bore and Beare killed in the act of generation others however killed Some allot Buls fat to the making of this Salve others none Some Honey others none at all I thinke it is no matter what the Salve be of For when men goe about such unlawfull Cures the Divell delighted therewith is ready to helpe them so they put beleefe in the Salve whatsoever the Salve be For some saith Doctor Ioannes Roberti have performed the Cure onely with Auxungia porcina Hogges-fat Nay the same Doctor tels us that he knew a Nobleman which having entred into a perswasion of this Cure made his Salve of such ordinary herbes as grew in his Garden and it performed it as well as all the mosse mans-fat warme blood and Mummy in the world and indeed Cardanus reckons nine herbes said to goe to the composition of this Salve Where is then the sympathy where 's the Balsame residing in the Mosse Mummy and Mans fat Where is the Magneticall operation Where 's the spirit of the blood where the occult qualities where 's the invisible line carryed in the ayre Surely all in the Divell Hee is all in all in the businesse and for my part to him I leave it all Articulus quartus Wherein the Author or first Inventor commending it is shewed not to be worthy of commendations nor in this to be followed THe Author or first Inventor of this rare Vnguent was either Paracelsus or Anselmus Both these were famous in their time especially Paracelsus who is an Author of such allowed authority that he is followed almost by all Physitians Some doe as the Poet speaketh Iurare in verba magistri and following him solely are called Paracelsians Therefore it is lawfull to vse his Medicines and this amongst the rest To which I answer That both these were famous indeed They were both of them infamously famous For what both these were is already related Surely they are gone when they went hence to the graund master of such Impostures if they did not before they went hence earnestly repent