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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33604	Philosophia maturata an exact piece of philosophy containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone : with the wayes how to make the mineral stone and the calcinations of mettals : whereunto is added a work compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the philosophers stone : and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time / published by Lancelot Colson.	Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.; Dunstan, Saint, 924-988.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4883; ESTC R29967	27,856	153

Philosophia Maturata AN Exact Piece of Philosophy Containing The Practick and Operative part thereof in gaining the Philosophers Stone With the wayes how to make the Mineral Stone and the Calcination of Mettals Whereunto is added A Work Compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the Philosophers Stone And the experiments of Rumelius and Preparations of Angelo Sala all most famous Chymists in their time Published by Lancelot Colson Dr. in Phys and Chym. London Printed for G. Sawbridge and are to be sold at his house upon Clerken-well-Green 1668. A Preface relating to the life of St. Dunstan the Author HOw reverent an esteem Antiquity hath had of this holy man wil appear in that so many famous Authors have written concerning him to wit the Author of the Brittish Antiquities History of Great Brittain Malmsbury and Mat. Westminster He lived about the year of our Lord 946. having been at first a Monk after that Abbot of Glastonbury then Bishop of Worcester next of London and finally Archbishop of Canterbury As to the Religious part of his life it was so exemplary that after ages even to this time have esteemed it miraculous He flourished in the Reigns of Edred or Eldred Edwin and Edgar three Kings of England In Edwins Reign he was Banished during which time the King by the Rebellion of his Subjects was deprived both of his life and Kingdom whom Edgar succeeding highly favoured and promoted He Crown'd Edw. King at Kingston this Edward was surnamed the Martyr being murthered by the procurement of Queen Elfrida After whose death Etheldred was Crowned King by Dunstan with whom also he was so much in favour that he preferred him before all his Nobles and laid up all his richest royal Housholdstuff Charters and Records with all his Wealth and Treasure in his Monastery so that all things were in his power the King without his advice doing nothing either in the publick affairs of the Kingdom or in his own private negotiations And as he stood thus in his Royal Masters favour with all fidelity to that great esteem he employed his endeavours to enrich religious places either by the Danes wasted or by bimself founded in this manner did our Author by the favour of his Prince attain the highest honors and surely not without great merit his extraordinary acquired parts and learning deserving greater Eulogyes then this narrow scantling of Paper can allow room for At last full of honour and dayes and replete with the grace and affection of his Prince be received his Quietus est from the cares of this world to enjoy the happiness of a better leaving behind him the pattern of his Religion vertue and learning for the world to imitate a tast whereof you have in the ensuing discourses Et sic Vive Vale Lector To the Understanding Reader THou art here presented with an ingenious peice of curious Art which may well be entituled An exact Piece of Philosophy for its subject is of such a nature as none but such as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lovers of Wisdom are able to comprehend and that hath made some even pretenders to Learning cry out That the Philosophers Stone is indeed an invaluable Gemme but such as deserves only to pass among nominal not real Jewels but it would be a toylsom work and to as little purpose as certare de lana caprina to give an answer to such Anomalus Caprichio's The following tract there is no doubt will yeild great satisfaction to all such as knowingly pursue this kind of Philosophy especially when they shall consider the eminency of its Author for it bears in front the Reverend Character of Learned Dunstan of whom the present world at least those therein that have conversed in this Science cannot but know that he was as exact as diligent and so diligent that none before nor hardly any since did ever arrive herein to equal perfections with him But why should we waste time in making Eulogyes of him of whom not only antiquity but even the wickedness of the present age speak both great and honourable things to give them no greater a Title Let the Work it self advance as no doubt it will its own praise for its Author needed not the stilts of a vain-glorious sustentation Farewell AN Exact Piece of PHYLOSOPHY Touching the Stone of Phylosophers IT is chiefly to be understood That the Ancient Phylosophers did often endeavour to compose in a most short time above the Earth those things which by Nature in many years were perfected under the Earth viz. To make most perfect and most pretious Sol and Lune wherein they imitated the foresteps of Nature choosing to themselves most pure Earths white and Red which they named their Sol and Lune joyning them together as Nature doth without repugnance untill at length they were brought to a fixation and subtilty This thing also is needfull for you to perform if you desire to obtain the desired end in this Science For Sol and Lune is nothing else but Red and White Earth to which Nature hath perfectly joyned Argent vive pure subtile white and Red and so of them hath produced Sol and Lune It is therefore needfull for thee seeking this Science That first thou get these Earths White and Red subtile pure and fixed and in these two Earths to fix two Mercuries white in the white and red in the red without division and by their least parts so as they may endure the greatest examen of the fire and may have such fusion that as we see a great quantity of Water coloured with a little Saffron so they may in the least quantity abundantly tinge every mettall and all metalline spirits whatsoever so as they be of the same Kind and Nature and may altogether and fully bring them to their own quality And moreover that in themselves they may be infinitely multiplied and able to free the body of Man from the worst and most deadly Diseases which Properties truly are not found in common Sol and Lune without great Labour and yet but onely in part because that the Vegetative power the Mother of all increase for the most part is long since extinct in them If thou know how to perform this and to imitate the condition of the inferiour nature in making Mettals thou mayst worthily rejoyce in the name of a Phylosopher as being not meanly expert in natural things It is to be noted That the more Antient Phylosophers used not common Sol and Lune in this Work and therefore they said That their work needed not great Cost and Charges but that it might be as well performed by the Poor as the Rich Which were altogether different from the truth if it could not be performed without Common Sol and Lune For they are very pretious and rare and hardly to be gotten of poor men without great labour Indeed many have brought great quantities of Sol and Lune to nothing by this Art and have unprofitably spent and wasted