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 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 preternaturall 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 difference 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 sâ—parated 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 suppression 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 blâ—ck 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
blood and phlegm the cast excrementitious viz. Choller melancholy and why the matter of urine as also those which be expelled from the third and private concoction viz. Teares and swet secondarily such as proceed from the manifold concoction of the blood till it come to the most perfect degree of assimilation viz. Ros Gluten Humour Innoninatus Caubis The two last are added without necessity and therefore by some excluded without iniury The four humours blood phlegm choler and melancholy 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 sicknessâ— but common experience saies a body full of corrupted humours is sick and freed from them is wâ—ll 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 teÌ„per 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 driues which is a melancholy temper Astrologers refer the variety 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 fool hardy 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 Arisâ—otle 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 mixture 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
you flie from Chifwick to London from London to Hitchin from Hitchin to Bletfoe as though some fearfull Dragon did haunt your owne habitation or the aire was infected where your faire Ladie breathed Lastly our Saviour Christ being demanded by the proud Pharises whether it was lawfull for a man to put away his wife upon every occasion makes this most holy answer Matt. 19.4 And he answered and said unto them have you not read that he that made them at the beginning made them male and female and said for this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his wife and they twaine shall be one flesh wherefore they are no more twaine but one flesh Let therefore no man part asunder whom God hath coupled together Now that you have been thus ioined you dare not deny or if you should the solemn vow you made in the presence of Almightie God and before those honourable Personages in Cashawberry parlour shall witnesse against you therfore how dare you make this fearfull separation except you will proclaime your selfe a truce-breaker to man and a traitor to God the first too scandalous and the other too dangerous for a man of wisdome to undergo I beseech you in the tender mercies of Iesus Christ enter into a serious consideration with your selfe in what a desperate estate you are in and heartily repent of the evill you have committed and earnestly crave pardon of God and then with all speed make a holy reconciliation betwixt you and your fair Lady that so the scandall of your holy profession may be removed and the mouths of insulting Papists may be stopped and your distressed Lady comforted and your consciences quieted but if you wil be stil wilful and obstinate then assure yourself these lines shall rise up in condemnation against you at the dreadfull day of Judgement before that glorious God of heaven and earth who shall iudge all men according to their works they have done in the flesh whether they have been good or evill and that without respect of persons where your greatnesse shall no wise privilege you nor my meanenesse not preiudice the cause of that mighty God who hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the mightie things unto that all-powrefull God do I humbly pray that for his deare Son Jesus Christ his sake he will vouchsafe his great power may be seen in my weaknesse and his infinit wisdome in my foolishnesse so that this weak means may be made powerfull to make you wise to salvation and produce that holy reformation as may bee to the glorie of God and the everlasting happinesse of your owne soule Amen Lord Jesus Amen From him that will honour you according to your noble qualitie if you do not dishonour that God that advanced you to this high dignitie JOHN SPENCER A Postscript You are now conversant with a noble and religious Friend whose zealouse heart I doe assure my selfe will easily be perswaded to take any paines in this charitable busines consult with him and then appoint the time and place where you and your Lady may happily meet together to epaire the ruines that sad absence hath made and beautifie your faces with those amiable looks and your lips with those sweet discourses wherewith you in happier times did solace your selves with unspeakable contentment That so you may make the Proverb true Amantium ira amoris redintigratio est After this some great Lords undertooke to bring them together but it was too late but better late than never for the Lady was very weake in her bed so they lamented their fatall errour and tooke their last farwell for she dyed within few dayes and he lived not long time after A Coppy of a Letter sent to the Earle of Cleveland and Tho. Lo. Oliver St. Iohn for ending of a long suit betwixt Iustice Fish and Mr. Mordant concerning a seat in the Church at Northill Right Honourable WHen Ioab the Generall of King Davids Army besieged Rabba and fought against it and took the cities of waters and thereby weakned them so that they could hold out no longer then he sent unto his Lord the King to come up with his Army to take the Citie lest if he took it he should have the honour and the City should be called after his name So I having fought with these two Gentlemen with many arguments perswasions and earnest intreaties and so thorow the blessing of the God of peace have qualified the bitter waters of strife and weakned the strong hold of their violent passion and contentious humour that now they can hold out no longer with any Christian resolution doe now send and sue unto your Honours to come up with your commanding power to take the honour of the day and the renown to be the noble Peace-makers I have viewed the seat in the Church which is large and spacious for both Parties to sit in like good Christians and loving Friends and therefore if it will please your Lordships now to lay your Command upon them to confirme that which I have so earnestly intreated that thus and thus it shall be for their sitting in the seat and thus and thus it shall be for the ending of all suits and controversies betwixt them then they have both of them faithfully promised before sufficient witnesse that they will submit themselves thereunto and so humbly beseeching that blessed Lord the great Peace-maker who hath pronounced Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God To blesse your Honours with the continuance of many happy days to make you zealous for his glorie and to see like good Maiestrates under so gracious a King the peace and welfare of your Countrey I humbly take my leave If it please your Lordships to appoint these Gentlemen a day and place where they may attend to receive your Commands under your hands August 12 1631. Desirous that there was in me any abilitie to do you service Iohn Spencer Right Honourable IT is the Rule of the Apostle and of our Saviour Christ Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a Father Oh therefore that it would please that blessed Lord even the God of wisdome that I might performe this dutie to your Lordship with such regard of your noble qualities and tender care of your precious soule as I ought but however I may faile in point of discretion yet I hope your Lordship will beare with me since it doth proceed from a heart that doth unfainedly desire your everlasting happinesse I know it is a hard taske and many times a thanklesse office to admonish men of mean qualitie of their faults and to bring them to acknowledge their errours much more then those that are so farre our Superiours yet where grace and true nobilitie is it will teach men with meeknesse to suffer the words of exhortation and with the kingly Prophet to say Let the righteous smite me for that shall be as precious Balme