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death_n	body_n	life_n	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38619	Enchyridion physicæ restitutæ, or, The summary of physicks recovered wherein the true harmony of nature is explained, and many errours of the ancient philosophers, by canons and certain demonstrations, are clearly evidenced and evinced.	Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing E3276A; ESTC R36574	64,719	190

their predestinations The vital endowments of Vegetables are an endeavour of generating the like the multiplying virtues nutritive augmenting motive and sensitive and the like But their knowledge is experienced by their wise fore-knowledge of times their strict observation of change as of the orders of Nature in a variety agreeable to the motion of the Sun and Heaven in the fastening the Roots the erecting the Stalk spreading the Branches in the opening the Leaves and the Flowers in the forming the Fruit in their beautifying in their ripening in the transmutations of Elements into aliments in the inspiring of a vivifical virtue into the Seeds lastly in constituting a various difference of Nature and parts according to the benign or malign concurrence of the Sun or Soil 180 That the souls of Bruits are endowed with knowledge is sufficiently by their copulations and generations upon set times their just distributions in the forming and nourishing of the parts of the individual Beings the distinct offices of those parts free from any confusion the various motions of their souls the nimble faculties of their senses the secret spirits harmoniously moving the members as organs their proneness to discipline their obsequious reverence to their Masters the presaging instinct of things to come in most a devout worship an art in getting their provision in choice of their raunges providing their fence their prudence in the avoiding dangers and the rest actions so agreeable to knowledge and reason bestowed upon them by Nature But Nature in every individual is nothing else but the form it self which is the principle of motion and rest of action and life to it in which it is to which is committed the charge direction and conservation of its body as a Ship to a Pilot. 181 But who will deny the certain predestination of Times for the birth of things unless he fancy a confusion and disorder in the Nature of the Universe for she draws forth all those things out of her bosom according to setled and fore-appointed order for she had a prescript from her Maker for the Law of Order and the times of production their quickening birth life and death have their set times and do fulfil their designed seasons those things that either this or that year receive their Being or return to darkness are pre-ordained to it which pre ordination Nature Gods Vicegerent in the rule of the Universe doth fore-know by the suggestion of the Divine Spirit that she might be ministerial to the compassing of it neither do those things casually fall out but they have a necessary though unknown cause yet the Grand Ruler of all is not comprized within the Law of Necessity but appoints all things and changeth them according to his own will He it is that decrees concerning all even the least things whose Decrees want neither certainty nor order Therefore that Order that runs through the series and succession of things times hath the law of its necessity from the divine Decrees 182 As all things which afterwards were actually produced and separated in respect of their matter were potentially in the Chaos so all individuals before they come to light are in the World in their matter and potentiality and will in their time and order come forth and break into act but when they fail and die they return as Rivers into the Sea into that general Mass from whence they came every Nature recovering its proper Region and being to be brought again and again into Natures shop are wrought into new Beings upon her Anvile It may be this was that opinion of the Pythagoreans therefore exploded because not comprehended concerning their Tenet of Transanimation 183 When the mixt body is dissolved and the corruption of the frail Elements come to a loss the Aetherial nature returns to its native home and there is nothing left in the carkass but a perturbation and confusion of the Elements having lost their Governour then there reigns nothing but corruption death and darkness in the widowed matter untill she through corruption be made fit for generation and the virtue of Heaven do again flow down into the matter thus disposed and gathering and mingling the wandering Elements do re-kindle the weak light of a new form which at length breaks forth the forces of the Elements being corroborated and so compleats the new mixture 184 In that corruption which tends to generation which is a corruption in the mean and is done with the conservation of the specifical form potentially inherent in the seed or matter that sublime spirit departs not but being weak and impotent is excited by external heat and begins to move and withal give motion to the matter till at length it works more vigorously and gives information to the perfectly mixed body 185 The Elements as well as the Aliments of Nature do begin their generation and nutrition which are in most respects the same from Corruption For both must necessarily be putrified and by putrefaction be resolved into a moist and as it were a first matter then is there made a Chaos in which are all things necessary for generation and nutrition So doth the birth and repair of every Microcosm bear with an Analogical resemblance with the creation and conservation of the Macrocosm 186 The insensible seeds of things and those mixed bodies which are begot from them do consist of a threefold Nature of a Celestial Elementary and Mixt Nature The Celestial is a ray of the Light of the Sun endued with all heavenly vigour the principle of action motion generation and life by whose help the seeds by their renewed vigour do resemble the constant permanency of the Stars and being in a manner as so many immortal grafts of celestial plants ingrafted upon corruptible nature as upon a strange stock do by a kind of an eternal succession vindicate it from death The Elementary corporeal and sensible portion which in creatures is called the Sperm is the Case and keeper of the seed which putrifies and is corrupted and generates an invisible seed The Radical Moisture or the Ferment of Nature in which lyes the spirit is a middle substance coupling the Celestial and Elementary in the material part answering the Elements in the spiritual the Form Like the Day-break whose cheek being covered with a duskie light doth knit together the two extreams of Light and Darkness and being neither doth hold forth a mixture of both 187 Life is an harmonical act proceeding from the copulation of the Matter and the Form constituting the perfect Being of an individual nature Death is the term or end of this act the separation of the matter and form and a resolution of the mixt body 188 These mixt bodies have the roots of their generation and life in Heaven from whence springs their Causes and Principles whence also as inverted Trees they do suck their juice and aliment Neither is it suitable for the Understanding to be envassaled to the Rule of the Senses which

filthy excrements Therefore that radical Moisture is the nearest and never-ceasing subject of generation and life in which is first kindled the fire of Nature and the formal act in a well disposed and prepared matter But in a confused and ill ordered matter where that humour doth act the part of the male it begets spurious and bastard births of Nature for that generation which is made without specifical seed seems to be made rather by chance and default than by the intention of Nature although in it seems to be a dark and confused kind of copulation of actives with passives which is required also to the production of every though imperfect Being 223 That radical Ferment constantly abiding in the depth of mixt Bodies seem to be the Band Seat and Tye of that matrimony contracted between Light and Darkness between the first Matter and the universal Form finally of all the Contraries otherwise the Matter and Form by reason of their repugnant natures would not be knit together But that dark unbridledness of the first matter and its averseness from light was tamed and its hatred turned into love by the good office of that lightsom tincture which doth reconcile things repugnant 224 The inbred Heat and the radical Moisture are of a divers kind for that is wholly spiritual and of the Sun this of a middle nature betwixt a spiritual and a corporeal both participating of an aethereal and elementary Nature that is of the degree of things above this of things below in which was celebrated the first marriage of Heaven Earth by which also Heaven hath its abode in the very Centre of the Earth They are therefore deceived that do confound the inbred heat and the radical Moisture for they differ no less than smoke and flame the light of the Sun and the Air Sulphur and Mercury In mixt Beings the radical Moisture is the seat and food of the inbred and celestial Fire its bond with the Elementary body but that power of Fire is the Form and Soul of mixt Beings In seeds that moisture is the immediate Keeper and Case of that Spirit of Fire inclosed in the seed till it be set on to generation in a disposed Matrix by an adventitious heat Finally that radical Substance is Vulcan's Shop in every mixt Being the Chimney in which is kept that immortal Fire which is the first mover of all the faculties in an individual nature 225 That radical Moisture is the Catholical Balsam the most precious Elixar of Nature the Mercury of Life having a perfect sublimation by Nature a dose of which is administered to every individual of her family weighed to a just quantity by plenteous Nature They that have attained the happiness to fetch out this hidden Treasure of Nature wrapt up close in the heart and in the closets of Natures birth and can get it out of those close coverts of the Elements let him boast that he hath attained the chiefest staff and help of life and a most precious Treasure 226 The order of Reason and of Creation doth require that the first Copies of things being first of all concealed in the celestial Natures were transmitted into inferiour Beings but in the first they are of a far greater perfection both because of their greater tenuity and dignity as also because of their neighbouring seats to the Eternal Being but with us they are much meaner because carved in a grosser and less valuable matter and more distant from their eternal Principle There is nothing therefore printed in this lower Margin of the World which was not at first copied in the heavenly Being neither is there any particular kind of Being of the inferiour natures which doth not acknowledge the dominion of one Superiour agreeable to it and which it hath not the secret seal and signature of it So do things below depend on things above 227 The World is a creature of an ambiguous nature for it is of both Sexes the higher part to wit the celestial is active and masculine the lower Elementary nature is the passive and feminine nature The Globe of the Earth is the womb in which the engendering seed of Heaven is received and kept From the masculine part proceed life and strength from the female part corruption and death do issue 228 Since superiour and inferiour bodies have their original from the same Principles as from their parts yet are they not such as have their equal lot it is equal that those things that have the honour of being nobler substances and advanced to higher offices should distribute to their brethren of a lower degree being poor and in want some of their wealth and so provide for their life and conversation For it was provided by the foresight of the Deity that since there was a necessity that the World should be made up of unequal natures the more powerfull Natures should aid the weaker hand help to the fainting Natures So Love is the indissoluble knot of the parts of the Universe 229 In this sublunary Region diseased Nature sickens out of a defect of the proportion and temperament of the Elements either by reason of the quantity or of the qualities either out of a too great intension or remission and so is there a dissonancy in Natures musick and a distemper in her bodies Therefore the consonancy of the Elements which riseth from a proportion and constitutes their temperament being gone the matter and form of the whole mixt Being hath a bad coherence Nature is troubled and staggers with a perplexed confusion and hence do first diseases and then death assault disordering and falling Nature 230 That discord of those Principles have either an intrinsecal and radical cause as from a vicious seed an evil generation or age or an intrinsecal and accidental as from a too great repletion or emptiness from whence either an excess or defect in humours and spirits or from putrefaction mortal poison infection grief hurt or some other impediment brought upon the Organs of life with the like which do hurt Nature 231 The four radical Qualities of the Elements are as so many harmonious Tones of Nature not contrary but divers and distant each from other by certain pauses from whose rational difference intension and remission is made a perfect consent of Nature perceivable by the understanding bearing an Analogy to that vocal Musick which is heard by the Senses Sharp and Flat in Musick though they are extreams yet are not Contraries in Musick they are the terms of those means which lye betwixt them and are composed and tempered after a divers manner by these two extreams So Heat and Cold Driness and Moisture are the extream Qualities in Nature yet not therefore contrary but onely the bounds of the middle and interjacent Qualities from whose mixture and temperament do the middle proceed 232 The motion of Nature is continual and not tyred no less in every part than in the whole For she always acts never idle so that