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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79445	Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses: made to Samuel Hartlib, Esquire. Viz. 1. Whether the Vrim and Thummim were given in the Mount, or perfected by art. 2. Sir George Ripley's epistle, to King Edward unfolded. 3. Gabriel Plats caveat for alchymists. 4. A conference concerning the phylosophers stone. 5. An invitation to a free and generous communication of secrets and receits in physick. 6 Whether or no, each several disease hath a particular remedy? 7. A new and easie method of chirurgery, for the curing of all fresh wounds or other hurts. 8. A discourse about the essence or existence of metals. 9. The new postilions, pretended prophetical prognostication, of what whall happen to physitians, chyrurgeons, apothecaries, alchymists, and miners.		1655 (1655)	Wing C3779; Thomason E1509_2; ESTC R209495	57,805	193

pedegree from the same father we are descended from and are equal partakers with us of the Image of that God whose stamp we glory in And can we fancy that all the duties of charity are fulfilled with the emptying the refuse of our servants tables into the poor mans basket and flinging a piece of market money to a shivering Beggar though we deny not those acts their just commendation no as our neighbour so far forth as he is afflicted is the object of our charity so all that we are to do either to remove or sweeten that misery is to be comprehended within the Acts of our charity which doth therefore not confine us to any particular kinde of assistance to our neighbour that we may know it to be our duty to assist him in all kinds Therefore doth the Scripture reckon the visiting of the afflicted and the prisoners and the comforting of the sick amongst the prime and most eminent productions of that vertue and therefore our Saviour himself the exactest President sure of what his whole life was a continued practice of did for seldomer employ his omnipotence to feed the hungry then he wrought miracles to heal the diseased Certainly the almes of curing is it piece of charity much more extensie than that other of relieving since onely beggars are necessitous of the last but Princes themselves do often need the former Why should we think it a greater charity or more our duty to give a distressed wretch shelter from the natural cold of the air than to protect him from the aguish icyness of the blood or to shade him from the outward salutes of the hot Sun then free him from the inward dog-dayes of a burning Feaver Sure this is not a charity much inferiour to the preserving of mens lives to restore them that good without which life it self is but a misery How greatly and how justly do we detest those Usurers that hoard up all their bags from all those uses that onely can give riches the Title of a good And yet the avarice of profitable secrets is by so much worse than that of money by how much the buried Treasure is most excellent How universally should he be execrated that in a scarcity would keep his B●rns cram'd whiles he beholds his pining neighbours starving for want of bread And yet the censured Miser cannot bestow his corn without losing it whereas receipts like Torches that in the lighting of others do not wast themselves may be imparted without the least diminution Certainly if as a wise man allegorically said he is as much guilty of the extinction of a lamp that denieth it necessary oyle as he that actually bloweth it out they will not have a little to answer for that by a cruel refusal of Soverain receipts permit the torments and the death of thousands they might without their own least prejudice have prevented that had rather manifest a bad nature than reveal a good secret and hazard the lose of an eternal life to themselves rather than either prolong or sweeten a temporal life unto others Lastly had all men been of this Retentive humor how many excellent receipts must they themselves have wanted for which they must acknowledge themselves beholding unto others Had all men been so covetous of and in that particular their possessions would be perhaps as narrow as their charity that costive humor being not more fit to bury than unapt to acquire So that a kind of interest and justice as well as charity seemeth to oblige us to make those goods communicable that became ours but upon that score Let us not then be less civil to our Posterity than our Predecessors have been to us but conveying to our Succeeders at least those benefits we derive from our Ancestors let us not refuse our imitation to what we think worthy of our applause And now Sir having thus presented you with such thoughts of mine upon this Subject as its Nature did readly suggest I shall take the liberty succinctly to discuss their evasions that are of a contrary sense And in the first place I find some Physitians objecting that having laid outmuch of their mony and more of their time in the search of such and such a secret that discovery is now become either their Fortune or their Subsistence and by consequent the divulging it to others would prove destructive to themselves In this case I must ingeniously confess that all I can require is that they deny not those that want it the benefit of the Composition whilst that bewrays not the receipt and refuse not to impart the Secret it self to those that need it upon reasonable terms for they that will not assent to this must flie for shelter to some other excuse In the next place it is objected by divers that their receipts are of more curiosity or at least have no relation to the cure of our Diseases In which case though I will not precisely exact their publication yet let those whose secrets may any other way advantage the publick since 't is not the kinde so much as the utility of our knowledge that obliges us to dedicate it to the publick service Remember his fault that folded up his Talent in a Napkin and fear to feel his doom whose fault they commit Another thing must require both of these and of the Antecedent secretists is that they take a special care to have their receipts survive their persons consigning them into the hands of some confident or other that they may not follow their owners to the grave where next a bad conscience the worst companion is a good secret and give men occasion to resemble them to Toads who if we may credit the vulgars uncontro led report when they feel themselves upon the point of dying destroy that Antidotal stone in their heads which is all that is worth any thing in them lest men should have cause to vaunt themselves of being the better for them such people are in this worse than very Usurers and Hogs themselves that these do some kinde of good after their decease but they take a great deal of pains to be as little guilty of that humanity after they have left the world as they were whilst they lived in it Others there are that to excuse themselves will tell us that they received their receipts but upon condition and that ratified perhaps with an oath never to disclose them or to give it you in a Periphrasis that never any body should be the better for them To which all that I can justly answer is that if this promise have indeed been seriously made it is a greater fault to violate it than it was to make it Though I am apt to believe that if all men declined the taking of receipts upon these terms they might have themupon better But by the way I must take leave to wonder at their niggard humour that will thus stint their own charity and in the presenting us a good