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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

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

into such a passion of weeping that meeting with Mr. Saul our Preacher and Mr. Bauldin and they seeing of me in such a passion of mourning and desirous to know the cause thereof I could not declare to them the cause of my great sorrow but went into the Church and prayed with a troubled spirit The Lord grant if it be thy blessed will that it may prove but a melancholy Conceit but oh that your Highnesse would be be graciously pleased to call a Parliament turne the faces of these brave Armies towards the Palatinate to settle your Royall Sister in her inheritance and set at liberty your capitive Nephew Prince Robert and soe you shall make all the Princes of Christendome stand amaz'd at your high prudence and great magnanimitie Consider what I say and doe it and the Lord will bring it to passe and then make you the most renouned King of the Christian world amen amen good King Charles send for Colonell Fleetwood hee is a valiant man and of great abilities and will doe you faithfull service in your war I heare he is lately married to a great mans daughter in those parts but if it please your Highnesse to command him he will leave his young Lady to doe you service And now seeing things through Gods gracious providence doe thus happily concur I beseech your highnesse give me leave to renue my former suit unto you and your houourable Court of Parliament for the happy and honourable uniting of these brave Armies make your Nephew the Prince Elector who was now so happily in your Court make him Generall to lead these brave Armies into the Palatinate to settle your Royall Sister in her inheritance and to set at liberty his brother Prince Robert for that is a shame to all the Princes of Christendome to see a distressed lady so long insulted over by such a bloody Tyrant and for the support and transporting of these Armies I would willingly give ten Subsedies besides those are already given and I hope every able and faithfull Subiect in the Land will doe the same that so this Royall Prince may beat out the proud Enemie out of the Palatinate and then settle the Emperiall Crowne of Germany upon his Royall head and lead his victoriors Army unto Romes gates sack the Citie and burn the Whore of Babylon with fire and so fulfill the Prophecie Revel. 17. 16. 17. verses And the ten hornes which thou sawest upon the Beast are they that shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and burne her with fire for God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will Amen Lord Jesus amen The humble Petition of your loyall sinfull Subiect Iohn Spencer A Coppie of a Letter to a great Peer of this Land upon a strange discontentment betwixt him and his beautifull Lady about the passing of two Manners unto his onely Sonne as brave and as noble a gentleman as this Kingdome afforded the Letter I delivered unto his owne hand he read it and retired himselfe into an inward Chamber wept much and came out againe unto me gave me thanks and said never man desired more to gaine awoman than he did to gaine her to this effect never did I in al my time know such great dislike about such a slight occasion betwixt two so vertuous so noble so beautifull and amiable and so long reioycing in happy enioying one another as will appeare in this dolorous discovrse IT may seem strange unto your Lordship that a stranger should write unto you in this strange fashion but then I beseech you in the feare of God consider the strange course that you have taken that forceth me thereunto for is it not strange yet most strange that so noble grave and religious a man should forsake his wise being a vertuous beautifull and religious Lady make it not your owne case and would you thinke it possible a wise man should be so transported but beleeve it my Lord such a thing may be such a thing is and as the Ptophet Nathan said unto King David Thou art the man that have behaved your selfe so undiscreetly and frowardly for have not you forsaken the wife of your youth that vertuous and beautifull Lady with whom you have lived with great happinesse these twenty yeares who hath approved her faithfull love and constancie unto you in so many strange and forraigne Countries and adventured her selfe in so many dangerous passages both by sea and land to yeeld you comfort and contentment now to forsake her when you are gray headed and stand more in need of your mutuall societie and comfort but now to forsake her to grieve your friends and make your enemies reioice to forsake her to vex your selves and to ruinate your estate and to endanger the losse of your soules and everlasting happinesse what greater want of wisdome can be shewed you carry your selfe exceeding forwardly herein that neither the perswasions of friends nor the intreating of those that love you nor so many pitifull teares from the faire eies of your Lady can move a reconciliation but you fly from a distressed Ladie as if you were pursued by an armed enemie was your noble blood ever stained with such cowardlinesse how may those renouned Princes of the united Provinces who held and approved you so noble and valarous in Heroick Atchivements both in Germany and when you were Lord Deputie of Ireland be grieved to heare of this strange alteration in you but this is not the worst disgrace for herein you have dealt very unwisely for you have reiected the counsel of the Prophets of the Apostles and of our Saviour Christ himself and have followed the course of your violent passions or else the shallow device of some giddie heads as Rehoboam did to his owne confusion for Solomon the Mirrour of wisdome advises you thus Reioyee with the wife of thy youth let her be as the loving Hinde and the pleasant Roe let her brests satisfie thee at all times and delight in her love continually Prov. 5. 18 19. but you are so far from reioicing with her and yeelding those comforts unto her that you seek to reioice your selfe in hauking and hunting and in the meane time to vex her with your tedious absence and froward messages call you this wisdome nay my Lord account it no better than Machavilian policie Againe St. Peter adviseth you thus Husbands dwell with your Wives as men of knowledge Pet. 3 7. but you flie from Chiswick 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