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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50420	Moffet-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the minerall wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland translated, and much enlarged, by the author Matthew Mackaile ... ; as also, The oyly-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the oyly-well, at St. Catharines Chappel in the paroch of Libberton ; to these is subjoyned, A character of Mr. Culpeper and his writings, by the same author.; Fons Moffetensis. English	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1664 (1664)	Wing M148; ESTC R17306	83,120	201

62.4 Married Cephas John 1.42 A stone Dan Gen. 30.6 A judgment El-beth-el Gen. 35.7 Elymas Acts 13.8 A Sorcerer Ephraim Gen. 41.52 Fruitfull Gad Gen. 30.11 A troup or band Hephzibah Isaiah 62.4 My delight in her Ichabod 1 Sam. 4.21 Where is the glory Jedidiah 2 Sam. 12.24,25 Beloved of the Lord. Jerubbaal Judg. 6.32 Let Baal avenge Joseph Gen. 30.24 Increasing Issachar Gen. 30.18 An hire Ishmael Gen. 16.11 God hath beard Israel Gen. 32.28 A prevailing with God Levi Gen. 29.36 Joyned Loammi Hos 1.9 Not my people Loruhamah Hos 1.6 Not having obtained mercy Melchizedeck Gen. 14.18 and Heb. 7.2 King of righteousness and peace Moses Exod. 2.10 Drawn out Naphtali Gen. 30.8 Wrestling Seth Gen 24.25 Simeon Gen. 29.33 Hearing Zebulun Gen. 30.20 Dwelling Moreover the pious and learned Interpreters being most zealous to advance the knowledge of God and of the Scriptures did upon the margents of many Bibles set down the interpretations of the most part of the proper names I shall only add that Mr. Culpeper his censure of those Chapters in the Chronicles savoureth of no less presumptuous impiety than first the taxing of Almighty God His Wisdom and Will in not authorizing the holy Pen-men of the Scriptures to explicat all the proper names as they did the most considerable Secondly that he would have had the Interpreters to have added unto the Scriptures the explications of those proper names which are not explicat in the original text by doing of which they should have made themselves the object of that dreadfull threatning Revel 22.18 As for that expression of his Whole sentences in Scripture are so translated that it would make a man sick to see them I shall only say this of it that no ingenuous and rational man would have so impudently asserted so great a paradox and untruth without instancing some particular sentence for proving of his assertion It is one of Mr. Culpeper his own physical sentences that physick without a reason is like a pudding without fat the like whereof may very well be said of this his extravagant assertion destitute of probation It is admirable that Mr. Culpeper who in his Epistle prefixed to his Translation of the London Dispensatory assumeth unto himself fellowship with Christ and his Apostles and likeness to God did not take the pains to translate or correct some of those Scriptures which he reprehended But his surviving wife in her Epistle prefixed to his Treatise of Aurum potabile seemeth to give a sufficient reason for this omission in these words My husband left seventy nine books of his own making or translating in my hands Also my Husband left seventeen books compleatly perfected in the hands of Mr. Cole for which he payed my Husband in his life-time Let the sober and judicious Reader judge of the probability of this considering that he had not above nine years for this work and his astrological studies also for he began not to write till the year 1648. or 1649. and he died 1654. or 1655. and whether or not many books have been printed in his name since his death which were not written some years after the same particularly that book entituled Arts Master-piece or the beautifying part of physick whereby all defects of nature in both sexes are amended age renewed youth continued and all imperfections fairly remedied Never before extant though long since promised by Mr. Nic. Culpeper but now published by B. T. Doctor in physick London printed 1660. Concerning this book I have these six things to acquaint you with 1. That it is most probable Mr. Culpeper never wrote it else his Relict had published it as she hath done other books since his death 2. The publisher of it in the Title-page putteth B. T. for his name but at the end of his Epistle to all truly virtuous Ladies ●e setteth L. D. which discrepancy reflecteth not a little upon the Publisher as well as upon the Printer 3. In the Title-page he affirmeth these Experiments to be so far discovered that every man may be his own Apothecary but it is most probable that the Penner of them was as ignorant of the knowledge of that ingenious art as a Mole is destitute of the visible faculty for pag. 71. he ordereth the making of an Oyntment without Oyl or any unctuous liquid body 4. Many if not the most part of the prescriptions contain 1. either such things as are most costly as that Oyntment pag. 70. to cause a beard for the making of which he prescribeth three ounces of Musk. 2. Or such things as cannot easily be gotten as pag. 71. the blood of a Batt for making of an Oyntment for hindering the growth of hair And pag. 73. the turd of a Mole for making of another Oyntment to the same purpose And pag. 77. the blood of a Tortoise for making an Oyntment to take away the hair 3. Or else such things as are ridiculous because not seconded with reason As pag. 79. the Gall of a white Ox for making of a liniment to whiten the hair as if the Gall of a red or black Ox would not serve as well And pag. 100 Grass-plantane the rine taken off and washt nine dayes in spring water for making an oyntment for leprous faces Those nine dayes of purification might be sufficient for bleetching both the herb and the face into other colours 5. Frustra sit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora That is there might be from amongst the Tautological farrago of those prescriptions some few composed of the choicest simples for every several distemper there mentioned which would prove more usefull than any of these which are so confusedly set down 6. The book is no wayes answerable to its promising Title-page which may give just ground to suspect that the effects of those remedies will be as disproportionable to the expence that men must be at in trying of the experiments It is a most infallible token of ignorance cheating and foolish ostentation for a man to prefix a most flourishing Title-page to his book which doth scarcely deserve any at all such as is that book entituled A discovery of subterraneal treasure viz. of all manner of Mines and Minerals from the Gold to the Coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all Kingdoms and Countries And also the art of melting refining and essaying of them is plainly declared so that every man that is indifferently capacious may with small charge presently try the value of such eares as shall be found either by rule or by accident As also a way to try what colour any berry leaf flower stalk root fruit seed bark or wood will give with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours London Printed 1653. and are to be sold by Humphrey Mosley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard This book consisteth of nine sheets only and is so miserably defective in performing any

resent my writing against a dead Man who is unable to answer for himself and so challenge me of baseness To this I answer that it appeareth Mr. Culpeper having astrologically foreseen that some would write against him after his death did pen that Pamphlet entituled Culpepers Ghost generously to excuse any that intended to do it and to excite others who inclined not to it and that he might not come short of them in the like work For it is impossible to exult so much over him after his death as he doth in that Pamphlet and others of his writings over others who were gone hence before his own birth Others will possibly condemn my noticeing and answering such scurrilous profane and unchristian expressions as are found in his writings and which no sober or wise man will care-for To these I answer that though it be impossible that he by being answered according to his folly can be rendered capable of being impeded from becoming wise in his own conceit yet such as survive him and are daily in his name printing books stuffed with such expressions as were familiar unto him may be taught this lesson It ought to be the lamentation of all who have any knowledge of the mysterious operations of sagacious Nature that there are so few who make it their study to discover more of her mysteries and that such as have made some progress in this work are so sparing in communicating their knowledge unto others especially in this age wherein there are so many who as Mr. Culpeper ever did offer nothing to the most delicat pallats but crambe recocta that is ov'r-nights Keal It is most probable that if Mr. Culpeper had been so far favoured by the heavenly powers as to have been made the first discoverer of the circulation of the blood as was the most learned and famous Dr. Harvey he would have made Aurum Potabile of it that is written of it to no purpose I am confident that the learned Dr. Thomas Willis considering the most laudable practices of Dr. Harvey in writing de Generatione Animalium Circulatione sanguinis and of Dr. Glisson in writing de Rachitide and that there are too many books already in the world writen concerning all subjects as they are already known did defer to employ the Press untill he had prepared something which would as all intelligent persons will acknowledge merit no small acceptation viz. his Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae de fermentatione febribus and his dissertatio epistolica de urinis which do demonstrat that he is one who maketh it his great study ingeniously to discover and candidely to communicat the knowledge of the mysteries of Art and Nature because à vulgari sententiâ tanquam via maximè trita paulisper recedens minus calcato insistens tramiti as he writeth in his Preface to his Diatriba de febribus But least this Epistle should become disproportionat to that to which it is presixed I will sum up all that I have to say in this request that you would put a favourable construction upon this attempt in doing of which you shall obliege Your cordial Well-wisher M. M. CULPEPER'S CHARACTER OR A CHARACTER of Mr. Culpeper and his Writings IT was by some reported of Cato that he never spake a word of which he had cause to repent and there are no doubt not a few who will say little less concerning what Mr. Culpeper hath wrote But such as believe what Solomon said Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin will easily be convinced that he who made so many motions in so many volumns which he wrote could not but make some trippings If Bishop Latimer was more cautious of what he said before his examiners when he heard the pen of another writing behind the hangings because literascripta manet and nescit vox missa reverti how much more cautious should Mr. Culpeper have been in writing with his own hand and thereafter publishing in print such things as were most reprehendible by any sober man as you will annon be convinced I will first mention such of his expressions as are most derogatory to the glory of God and prejudicial to his servants In the Epistle to the Reader prefixed to his book entituled A directory for Mid-wives he writeth thus In this world the devil hath his agents and their actions are to keep you in darkness Who are our jaylors I say Scholars and thus I begin to prove it in divinity they have given us a translation of the Bible such a one as it is all the proper names in Scripture they have given you in pure Hebrew names in an English character Pray do so much as read the four or five first Chapters of the first book of Chronicles and see what instruction you can find there And a little after he writeth of the Scripture thus When you want knowledge you know whether to go for it not to an idle Priest but to one that will not upbraid you far your labour Besides all this whole sentences in Scripture are so translated that ●t would make a man sick to see them Had not the Priests formerly absconded the mysteries of the truth from us Sermons would have been cryed about the streets for three halfpence a dozen By these expressions you may know how the pulse of his soul did beat at the writing of them For Solomon hath said Prov. 21.23 Who so keepeth his tongue keepeth his soul Surely then when the tongue raileth against God himself and his servants it argueth the soul at that time to be in a lamentable estate by reason of most depraved principles Without transgressing against the rules of charity Mr. Culpeper no doubt may be called the most audacious Momus of this our age wherein he lived in daring to vilisie that most exact translation of the holy Scriptures in such a parenthized expression and also to speak the worst of evils concerning Dignities as you shall hear hereafter I am confident that if he had been more diligent in searching the Scriptures like the Bereans Act. 17.11 for edification he would have found more instruction from these Chapters in the first book of Chronicles for by comparing them and the like places with Matth. 1. and Luke 3. he might according to the judgment of all Divines have understood that they were penned by the Holy Ghost chiefly for this end that it might appear to the Church in after-ages that Jesus Christ our Saviour was lineally descended of Abraham and David and not only that we might be instructed by the etymological interpretations of the names else the Spirit of God would have set down the interpretations of them all in the Text as He did for reasons known to Himself of many in several places some whereof we will here insert Araham Gen. 17.5 A father of a great multitude or many nations Asher Gen. 30.13 Blessedness Babell Gen. 19.9 Confusion Ben-oni Gen. 35.18 Son of sorrow Beaula Isaiah