Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	old_a	year_n	4,796	5	5.3056	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44608	Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury which many have studiously endeavoured to hide, but these to make manifest for the benefit of mankind in general.	Houpreght, John Frederick.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418.; Ripley, George, d. 1490?	1680 (1680)	Wing H2941; ESTC R31127	85,086	301

Glass in an Athanor in a gentle heat and the Matter shall dissolve putrifie and perform all the Work by vertue of Count Trevisan's Fire which is the Spirit ever working within the Glass beginning visibly before the Matter begins to putrifie for then it continually ascends and descends until Congelation Be not too curious only pray to God and he will direct your Work and bring it to a period which I judge to be sixteen months a bloud-red Powder impalpable in the conclusion of the Work be patient and you cannot erre Note I was never taught to multiply but by increasing with his own Oyl and Salt that is with ten parts of Oyl and one of Salt depurated and so increasing the Medicine you shall bring it as high as you will I know not any more than this neither can any more large or more plainly Serve God and you cannot erre Know also that you may with this Fire-Stone which is the red Oyl and this Salt prepared from the white Water increase Precipitate of Sol and Mercury elevated together and then mixed or upon a subtle Calx of Sol alone but not so suddenly The manner is to pour on the Calx the red Oyl till it be like pap then lute it and ●●t it in Ashes to circulate in a Circulatory that if any Mercurial Spirit should remain it may still arise and not hinder the fixation of the Matter continue the Fire till it be a dry Powder then increase more and more till it be in an Oylie substance fixt which turns Luna into perfect Sol with great profit And thus you may increase with the Oyl of Antimony as I have shewed you FINIS A LETTER Communicated by the most Serene Prince FREDERICK Duke of Holsatia and Sleswick Concerning an Adept AND Relates things strange and unheard-of The following Letter was communicated by the most Serene Prince Frederick Duke of Holsatia and Sleswick and relates things strange and unheard-of My Friend YOU have desired of me an account of the Life and Death Inheritance and Heirs of my Master B. J. of happy memory I return you this Answer in Latine as yours to me was though I be not exactly skill'd in it He was by Nation a Jew by Religion a Christian for he believed in Christ the Saviour and openly made profession of the same He was a man of great Honesty and gave great Alms in secret He lived chastly a Batchelor and took me when I was about twenty years of Age out of the House where Orphans are maintained by the Publick and caused me to be instructed in the Latine French and Italian Tongues to which I afterwards by use added the Jewish or Hebrew He made use of me so far as I was capable in his Laboratory for he had great skill in Physick and cured most desperate Diseases When I was twenty five years of Age he called me into his Parlour and made me swear to him that I would never marry without his consent and knowledge which I promised and have religiously kept When I was thirty years of Age on a morning he sends for me into his Parlour and said very lovingly to me My Son I perceive that the Balsom of my Life by reason of extreme old Age coming on for he was eighty eight years of Age is well-nigh wasted and that consequently my Death is at the door wherefore I have writ my last Will and Testament for the use and benefit of my Brothers Sons and of you and have laid it upon the Table of my Closet whither neither you nor any mortal ever entred for you durst not so much as knock at the door during the hours set apart for my Devotion Having said this he went to the double door of his Closet and daubed over the joynings thereof with a certain transparent and Crystalline Matter which he wrought with his fingers till it became soft and yielding like Wax and imprinted his Golden Seal upon it the said Matter was immediately hardned by the cold Air so that without defacing the Seal the door could no way be opened Then he took the Keys of the Closet and shut them up in a small Cabinet and sealed the same as before with the said Crystalline Matter and delivered the said Cabinet after he had sealed it into my hands and charged me to deliver the same to none but his Brothers Sons Mr. Jesse Abrah and Solomon Joelha who at that time lived in Switzerland the eldest of them being a Batchelor After this he returned with me into the Parlour and in my presence dropped the Golden Seal he had made use of into a Glass of clear Water in which the said Seal was immediately dissolved like Ice in hot Water a white Powder settling to the bottom and the Liquor was ting'd with the pale red of a Provence Rose Then he closed the said Glass Vial with the above-mentioned transparent Matter and charged me to deliver the said Vial together with the Keys to Mr. Jesse This being done he repeated upon his bended knees some of Davids Psalms in Hebrew and betook himself to his Couch where he was used to sleep after Dinner and commanded me to bring him a Glass of Malaga which now and then he sparingly made use of As soon as he had drank off his Wine he bid me come to him and leaning his head upon my shoulders he fell into a quiet sleep and after half an hours time fetched a very deep sigh and so yielded his Soul to God to my great astonishment Upon this I according to my promise writ into Switzerland to give notice of his death to his Nephews and to my great wonder the very day after my blessed Master died I received a Letter from Mr. Jesse wherein he enquired whether my Master were dead or alive as if he had known every thing that had passed as indeed he did by means of a certain Instrument of which hereafter I shall make mention A little after his Nephews came to whom I gave an account of what had passed all which Mr. Jesse heard with a smile but the other Brother not without astonishment and wonder I gave him the Keys together with the Glass in which was the aforesaid Golden Solution but they refused then to meddle with any thing that day being tired with their Journey but on the morrow after I had carefully shut all the doors of the house and none but they and I being present Mr. Jesse took the Glass Vial and broke it over a China-dish which might receive the inclosed Liquor and took some of the said Liquor and put it upon the transparent Matter with which the Cabinet was sealed and immediately the Matter which before was hard as Chrystal was resolved into a thickish Water so he opened the Cabinet and took thence the Keys of the Closet Then we came to the door of the Closet where Mr. Jesse having seen the Seal he wetted it as formerly with the forementioned Liquor which immediately gave way