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A74670	Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates. The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.	Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Three books of philosophy written to the Athenians.; Pinnell, Henry.	1657 (1657)	Thomason E1589_1; ESTC R208771	181,834	311

filthy mixture of superficiall and externall Elements that that pure and Christiline matter may be administred to our bodies But to deliver this from prison and captivity Hoc opus hic labor est is a hard task to performe It is an honorable Calling when the Physitians live long and are not idle in it for without this Chymicall Phylosophy all Physick is but livelesse Without Alchymicall skill there can be no Speculative or Practick Physick He that rejecteth that knowledge being disheartned by the difficulty thereof shall never find where the disease lyeth In this therefore our common sort of Physitians are not to be followed who patronize their sloth under other mens paines and study and use to leave the preparation of their medicines most commonly to some carelesse and covetous Apothecary to the great dammage of their Patients I speake not against the conscientious Apothecaries who by their trusty diligence serve the Common Wealth as the Alchymy of Vulcan By this artificall resolution of bodyes the propertyes which before layd in the compositions of them are now brought to light By it also as by a certaine kinde of artificiall Tynosure or figures of stars the Chymists have not only made curtaines extending to all the borders of Nature but also to the very admiration contemplation and perseption of the whole Creature and of every obstruce vertue thereof and have attained to a noble knowledge in most things and not without cause Therefore a Physitian should be exercised much in this true Analysis and vitall Anatomy of bodies as hath been said because there is no constant quality of any body which is not to be found either in the Salt or Mercury or Sulphur of the same body Vegetables comprehend plants trees Zoophyts Animalls are the beasts in their order creeping swimming flying four footed creatures But first all compound bodies of the inferiour Globe are to be distributed into three orders or companies into Animalls Vegetables and Mineralls the individualls of all these and the parts of the individualls are diligently to be examined and so we shall find out the notable differences of the three First things viz. Salt Sulphur and Mercury in every particular order For in the shop of Nature there is Animall Vegetable Minerall Salt Animall vegetable minerall Sulphur vegetable animall minerall Mercury The first face of Things was pure sound perfect without corruption and death For the great and all working God for his infinite glory sake created all things good by his Will that all things might glorifie him and live holily and incorruptably according to the prescribed order Man at first was created healthy sicknesse entred by the Woman not by the Man but when he came into the world he found out an entrance unto death because there appeared two contraries the externall corruptable and the internall compleat which could not long continue in one without unavoydable corruption Therefore after the transgression and fall from unity to alterity by the curse of God new Tinctures came in even infinite evills by whose mixture with the miserable state of our life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 together with that troublesome companion the world the beauty of the whole Creature was transplanted The transplantation of the Creature is by the calamity and coming in of sicknesse upon it since the Fall me carry in their own bosome their enemy both of creation and propagation which causeth sicknesse and death by inbred contrariety and corruption Impurity was joyned to the pure roots which was the predestination of diseases For the roots of sicknesses in certaine individuall or species doe not consist apart by themselves but are implanted and mixt in the pure and first seeds of things but the nourishments of Naturall things are the fruits of those seeds which spring up in the foure wombs or Elements Nature therefore as it is now gives us nothing that is pure in the world but hath mixed all things with many impurities that as by the spur of necessity it might often put us in mind that we should begin to learn the knowledge of Chymistry from our cradles that so long as we are shut out of Paradice into the subburbs of this world we ought to till and manure the EARTH to wit the whole frame of the world by admiration searching into and knowledge of both the Visible and Invisible Limus Earth and that we should labour to get our bread and other necessary things for this present life as Natures Labourers not lazily but in the sweat of our browes that by this means by laying the Crosse upon us which we should bear with patience it might stir up our industry in this LAND of LABOUR to attain the fruits of Terrene and Caelestiall Wisdome least base and sluggish idlenesse make us wax leane and pine away or because we are more prone to all kind of sin and vice by doing nothing we should learn to doe naughtily He that hath learned to know God himselfe hath ordered the Earth with good husbandry by ●oo much licentiousnesse men grow worse become like bruite beasts but idlenesse the pillow cushion of the Devill is removed by labour and diligence And this is the true end of Mans Creation that in the fear of God and love of his neighbor he should manage the Earth recovering what he hath lost and not be idle but walking i● the Light of Nature not after his own but according to the will of his Creator he should continue the Instrument Habitation and Tabernacle of God and that he should walk in the Wayes of the Lord for avoyding evill and idle thoughts that he should through Nature search out the wonderfull works of God by consideration of Temporall and Caelestiall observations thereby to make known the invisible works of God celebrating the infinite Wisdome Power and perpetuall Goodnesse of the Creator in admiration of his marvellous works wonders and mysteries which he hath revealed But to passe from Food let us come to Physick concerning which there is no man so sottish or stubborn unlesse he had rather eate the husk and shells with the kernell as the former and more rugged generations have done who will dislike this Separatory art which teacheth rightly to discerne and seperate the Good from the Bad the Profitable from the Unprofitable the Stupefactive from Fire the minerall Spirit from the Anthos or blossome the Homogeneans from the Heterogeneans Poyson from healing Medicines and Balsoms Light from Darknesse Life from Death Day from Night Visible from Invisible Putrefications onely are the true Correctives of all Physick As Death separateth eternall and perishing things so doth Fire the good from the bad the Quint-Essence from the body that which is pure Celestiall the kernall and Marrow from that which is Terrestrial Impure the Rinds and Membranes the Covers Shells Husks and dreggs the Coate aed Cottage of Physick which are enemyes to mans body from the Soul the Inhabitant thereof the Super-elementall

may inspire whom he will and deny it to whom he please Neverthelesse religously affirming that none can attaine the desired end though they sleight all particulars which naturally doe altogether want the virtue of tincturing unlesse they proceed from the first fountaine before the fat or blood of the Sun and the Dew of the Lunary be joyned into one body by the circular wheel of the Elements with the help of Art and Nature in the form of an Hexagon Read Gen. 1.27 28. Hermes his Table Morienes Alan Rodargir Monad T●evisan Lull which can never be done except the most High God please who alone of his speciall mercy graciously bestoweth this singular gift of the Holy Spirit and impreciable price both to whom and when he seeth good And to whom he will not bestow any of his Treasures let that man use what Arts soever he can yet shall he never get any thing against the Will of God for the Spirit proceedeth from Grace who inspireth whom he will Seeing therefore all mans endeavor is but vaine except God prosper it unlesse any with the losse of this most undoubted Truth Levit. 26.20 will deny that God is the moderator of the universe and will set himselfe in opposition to the Will of his gain-saying Creator with a rash gigantick sacrilegious boldnesse and with manifest danger incur the indignation of the Divine Majesty I cannot wonder enough that in our age many great men Great men commit great errours Psal 25.14 Prov. 3.32 Wisd 1.4 Eccl. 43.32 33. wasting their time and estates should suffer themselves to be cheated and deceived with the greedy world by the golden promises of circumforaneous vitious and most lying Impostors against their own conscience not considering that without the liberall and right noble arts of which those Phylosophists and Imposters are altogether destitute having not tasted so much as a drop of the Springs of Nature no perfect perception of Mysteries can be attained to Those Gymnosophists with their Fantasticall and Frantick inventions inrich the eares of credulous men that they may make their pockets poor they promise great matters and faine that they can doe all things but their unwary disciples get nothing from them but after three or four cheats to be againe deceived by fresh and most subtile juggling deceit and fraud whose company we should avoyd even as the most raging torments of hell And that which is the chiefest thing of all the Wisdome of the Lord whose mysterie is onely with them that Fear him Great gaine is the scope of sophisticall craft because Dust Ashes is the end of such smock-sellers entreth not into such wicked and unworthy souls who have spent the whole course of their life in searching out Vanities and Deceits and of set purpose maliciously have deceived almost all the world with their guilfull devices of painting white and red and pargetting womens faces Thus these men playing away and losing the story of Pandora at length nothing else falls to their share but what Alphidius foretold should happen to them that when their braines grow giddy instead of the Tincture they should find only the colour instead of the Hermetick Stone a pibble or glasse and instead of great Treasure and riches nothing but coals and ashes Piety is the most necessary key to the knowledge of all Secrets See Rodargirus BRITTO SARMATUS his verse in Zodi●co Pisciū● against those sacrilegious souldiers who threatningly and malepertly rush into the Vestry of Phylosophy It is not expedient to reveal it to any carnall man because thou wilt be accuised for making known so great a Secret He that publisheth this Art let him die an evill death saith Lully because it is a secret to be given and revealed by God alone who hath created Nature and no other for he will reveal it to whom he will and to whom it doth belong to be revealed and not to others because it is the Gift of God and not of any mortal Man Job 34.11 Prov. 24.12 Apoc. 2.23 22.12 Es 3.10 11 Jer. 17.10 32.19 Ezek. 33.20 And who would not admire this efficacious transmutatory virtue of these Impostors which makes wise men fools strong men weak rich men poor and poor bankrupt men desperate and vagabond beggers But as the envy of Phylosophers is not against the Children of Art and Science who seek not their own but Gods glory and who have lived to the praise and honor of GOD the good of their Neighbour and the Salvation of their own soule so he that is an Adept and compleat Phylosopher a keeper of Gods Secrets and is conformed to the dignification of his work after he by the Blessing of God hath happily labored like Hermes more then twenty years fearing to offend the Divine Majesty will be lesse afraid to die an hundred most cruell deaths and indure all manner of miseries and punishment rather then by any means whether through wrath or what force soever shall be used to publish to the wicked enemies of the Children of Art and Science or to such as are unworthy of it this greatest and richest Terrene Treasure the Perfect Benefit or good gift of GOD descending from the Father of Lights as a Kingdom that will suffer no Com-peer from the King of Kings and Lord of Lords that terrible and fearfull avenger of every unrighteous person who hath intrusted him onely to keep it which Secret would by evill men with the ruine of the whole world be abused to judgement or condemnation of an Eternal curse because he knoweth most certainly that he shall be most grievously punished with the damnation of his soul and losse of eternall salvation by the Holy Trinity and Christ the just and severe Judge of quick and dead except he can give a good account of his Stewardship and the Talent committed to him at the formidable and terrible Tribunal before which we shall all stand even of that Greatest and Eternall Judge whose Terrible and Ineffable Majesty all mortall men ought to stand in fear of who at the great Judgement day will examine our deserts who will justifie the works of none that hath done evill and deprive none that hath done well of his reward When I say in that Terrible day he shall hold the exeltrees of the poles from turning about any longer and the motion of the Elements shall cease then all things shall run to ruine and the heat of the Centre united to the heat of Sun shall set all corruption of the Elements on fire when every evill and impure thing shall be cast like lead with the damned into Hell Apoc. 20.10 The end of the world is by fire There is a Sea of glass mingled with fire Apoc. 15.2 The property of fire is to seperate the impurity of the Elements Read Isa Holand in opere minerali Rom. 8.19 23. where all things shall be tormented for ever yet not consumed with unquenchable brimston like molten glasse