Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	word_n	4,456	5	5.3399	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28790	The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon... ; translated out of Latin, with annotations and an account of his life and writings / by Richard Browne. Also, a physical account of the tree of life / by Edw. Madeira Arrais ; translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.	Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Arrais, Duarte Madeira, d. 1652.; Browne, Richard, fl. 1674-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing B372; ESTC R30749	117,539	326

and expose to open View the most curious Workmanship of the greatest Artist which perhaps hath been before or since Himself g g Take of Rosemary four Drachms of Xyloaloes two Drachms a little Musk and Saffron h h By Amber here our Author intends Amber Gryse For he calls it Ambra and not Succinum which is solid Amber Besides Succinum was never reckoned a Spice as Amber is here And though both Ambra and Succinum be great Restorers of the Animal Spirits yet the former is more efficacious i i Amber Gryse a Bituminous Body found floating on the Sea k k See Chap. XIII l l Take of Gold artificially prepared so that it may easily be powdered four Drachms of Coral two Drachms of the Bone of Stag's Heart one Drachm m m Here is meant Gold calcined or Bezoardicum Solare many Processes whereof are in Chymical Authors n n See Chap. XII FINIS ARBOR VITAE OR A Physical Account OF THE TREE of LIFE In the Garden of Eden BY EDWARD MADEIRA ARRAIS M. D. Physician to IOHN the IV. King of Portugal Translated out of the Latine A Piece useful for Divines as well as Physicians LONDON Printed for Tho. Flesher at the Angel and Crown in S t Pauls Church-yard M DC LXXXIII TO THE READER READER THE Author of this following Treatise is Edward Madeira Arrais of Lisbon Doctor in Physick and Physician to John IV. King of Portugal that King who recovered his Crown out of the Hands of Spain and was Father to her present Majesty of Great Britain This his Physician wrote a Book of Occult Qualities wherein he has explained their Nature so fully that he hath almost altered it for they very far cease to be such and hath taken away from Philosophers the Reproach of Occult Qualities being their Subterfuge He writes in a Philosophical and Scholastick Style You will find in him more Sense than Words more Argument than Rhetorick Before this his Work he hath these Words Disputationem construo de Qualitatibus illius Ligni sive Arboris Vitae Paradisi Terreni ad Vitam aeternam aut saltem diuturnissimè prorogandam quarum Qualitatum nullus Authorum in particulari meminit aut verbum ullum protulit de quibus novam ac nunquam antea auditam Philosophiam proferimus I compose a Discourse concerning the Qualities of that Wood or Tree of Life in the Earthly Paradise which either prolonged Life to Eternity or at least a very long Time of which Qualities no Author hath made mention in particular or spoke one Word About which we produce a Philosophy new and never heard of before And he hath made good his Promise For in declaring the Nature of the Tree of Life beside many excellent things in Physick he also shews the Nature of that Spiritual Body wherewithall we shall be raised at the last Day and makes it appear what we shall be when we shall eat of the Tree of Life in the Midst of the Paradise of GOD by Reason as well as Scripture in the Course of Nature without a Miracle And it is such a Piece of Natural Theology or Scriptural Philosophy that you will be forced to acknowledge there is a Religio Medici without either Atheism or Heresie But to expatiate with me no further enter this Learned Paradise and taste the Tree of Life Richard Browne The Preface § 1. EXpositors of Holy Writ have made the Tree of Life very famous by which our first Parents and all their Posterity had been priviledged against Death and might have spun their Thread of Life to Eternity had they obeyed the Divine Precept Moses mentions this Gen. 2. and 3. And though Divines dispute many things about it yet since it is necessary in many things to have Recourse to the Principles of Physick and also to our Doctrine of Occult Qualities seeing such a Propagation of Life could never be obtain'd but by some Occult Virtues as shall be made evident in the process of this Treatise I cannot be thought to put my Sickle into another Man's Harvest if concerning the Qualities of this Wood or Tree I shall at this time discourse what is worthy a Philosophical Man and his Knowledge especially since never any Philosopher yet disputed of it in Particular nay nor spake one Word about it § 2. Eight Doubts therefore may be moved about this Tree or Wood. First Whether it was proper and true Wood or Metaphorical Secondly Whether the Vertue it had to perpetuate Life was Natural or Supernatural Thirdly Whether its Vertue were such as to preserve Life Time without end Fourthly Whether it sufficed to give Life eternal if it were but once taken Fifthly Whether this Wood of Life were a Cause adaequate to the escaping all Occasions of Death Sixthly By what Qualities in particular it performed this Seventhly After what manner the Resistence of those Qualities might defend that Man's Body who eat of the Tree of Life from all external Causes that could hurt it Eighthly Whether the Cause of the very long Life of the first Men were some other Trees of Paradise or the Tree of Life § 3. And although only the Sixth and Seventh which were never disputed upon or so much as hinted at by any one yet do truly fall under our Cognisance Nevertheless that they may the more clearly be decided it is necessary to resolve the other according to the probable Opinions of Divines most of which notwithstanding the Reader may find adorned and amplified from the Philosophy of Physicians especially from this of ours of Occult Qualities DOUBT I. Whether the Wood of Life were a proper and true Tree or only Metaphorical COncerning this first Doubt it is the common Opinion nay even Matter of Faith as Suarez a asserts that the Wood of Life was a corporeal and true Tree which in Paradise yielded Fruit fit for Food as other Trees that were made to grow there This is manifestly proved from Scripture b And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every Tree that is pleasant to the Sight and good for food the Tree of Life also in the midst of the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Where the Word made to grow refers to this Wood as well as other Trees which were truly such And the contrary Opinion is ascribed to Origen's Error who makes the History of Paradise Metaphorical And because this Point is sufficiently cleared by Sacred Writers I need not stay longer upon it a Suar. l. 3. De Opere sex Dierum c. 15. b Gen. 2. 9. DOUBT II. Whether the Vertue of the Tree of Life to perpetuate Life were Natural or Supernatural § 1. AS to this second Doubt it is the more common Opinion that the Vertue of this Wood to perpetuate Life was not Supernatural but Natural So think Thomas a Cajetan b Gabriel c Rupertus d Hugo de Sancto Victore e Strabus f Durandus and Scotus g and many others § 2. Some would prove this Opinion from

which is nourished by the Juice of a dunged Earth For that sort of Wine sooner decays than any other and becomes dreggy Whence it fell out that a certain King drunk heartily of the Wine of a certain Husbandman's Vineyard and when this Husbandman heard that the King was delighted with the Pleasantness of his Wine he bethought him of husbanding his Vineyard more wisely and he dunged it After some space of Time the Wine began to be worse and to decay and to have a worse flavor For a good Tast is the truest Mark of good Meat and Drink that breed a natural Moisture as Isaac speaks in his Book Of Diet in the Fifth Tract Of Fish saying That all Meat by how much the more savoury it is by so much the better it nourisheth And things growing in a Soil not dunged do not so easily putrefie as those do which grow in a dunged Soil For which makes for this Purpose I saw a certain Mountain in some part of France where Corn was kept without Damage in Granaries for six or eight Years For that the Nature of the Earth alone is much better than when forced with Dung for bringing forth Fruits I have also seen in some Vineyards propagated as it were of the same Seed and Original and planted but a few Paces Distance this to happen that one produced Wine twice as strong and heady as the other which was from the natural Vertue of the Ground from whence the Vineyard had its nourishment For there was white Marle which is said to be better than any other for to yield good Nourishment by reason it is always fruitful A good Air is also to be observed For Herbs and Trees which grow in a good Air are more remote from Corruption and always are of a more vehement and stronger Vertue And this therefore comes to pass by reason of the Wind that does there more freely pass and blow upon all things drying up Putrefaction Whence it is that Avicenna in his first Canon affirms that Plants growing in Windy and Mountainous Places are of a stronger and more unshaken Vertue I saw a Mountain in the Province of the Romans wherein the Air was so pure and the Plants of so great Goodness that diseased and infected Cattel were in a small space of Time cured by them And the same may be said likewise of Animals living in Mountainous Places Thirdly The Distance of the Sun doth concur in the Generation of Plants For Plants that grow in Places remote from the Sun have their Fruit more crude neither continuing so long without rotting nor growing so hard as to be defended from Putrefaction Therefore they breed a Humour more obnoxious to Corruption As is manifest in Vineyards that are found in some part of the Kingdom of France and in some parts of Germany whose Grapes being laid on the Ground especially in Summer Time are corrupted The Reason is because the Water being made sowre is not all turned into Wine And therefore Isaac lays down this as a Property of Wine namely That mere Wine mixt with Spring-Water which hath no external Vapour any way mixt with it is more powerful and strong than Watrish Wine without Mixture Because in Watrish Wine there is a sowre Water in a Strong and as they call it Vino● Wine the Sowreness is expell'd by the Heat of the Sun But a high and frequen● Boyling of Wine while it is new will take away that Defect as also hot Earth or Gravel will help the Heat of the Sun deficient through its great Distance Whence it easily appears that the Presence of the Sun operates much and that its Distance effects much in many things For those Countries that are farther from the Heat and Circumgiration of the Sun want many sorts of Plants as Olives Figs Pomegranates and their Wines also are not so permanent as in hot Countries where sometimes they are kept for ten Years Fourthly We must consider what Kind the Plant is of Because although the three foresaid things concur if the Plant be of a bad Kind they effect or avail nothing Which is made manifest in some Kind of Grapes that seem fairer to the Eye than others yet Wine made thereof is corrupted in a shorter Time nor is it of the like Relish nor of so much Goodness in Breeding good Humours And thus we see the Native Moisture may be restored and when almost lost may be renewed by good Juices produced of Animals and Plants But some among the Chaldean Wise Men have believed that all the Moisture of the whole Body the Old being purged out might easily be changed and a new one be made When to wit The inner Moisture is purged by Medicines The outer in the Skin and Flesh by Sweat Unction and Scarification This Moisture also is restored by things of a good Juice artificially prepared for eating wherewithal Medicines may be likewise mixt that are not subject to Putrefaction And the exteriour Moisture being thus evacuated by Sweat and the interior by Medicines it is requisite that this other Moisture sprung of the aforesaid Meats be long preserved from Corruption And so the Old Moisture being subtracted which was as it were all consumed a new Moisture will be bred the Man renewed and his Life be made the longer Which thing the Ancients did and which even at this Time some Wise Men among the Chaldees know how to do Of whose Way and Wisdom I am not altogether ignorant And this was said to be done to a eertain d German Captive by some Wise Men in Arabia But e Ovid saith that he did this by one Medicine made up of many Medicines although some are of the opinion it is fabulously reported From these and from other things most Excellent Prince it may easily appear to Your Clemency by what means Men of former Time were long-lived namely Because their Way of Living was more temperate Because their Food and Nourishment augmented the Natural Moisture and preserved it long from Corruption And then because there was a greater Purity of Air. Moreover because they better knew the Properties of Things which guarded the State of the Body that it was not presently dissolved The Knowledge of which things came imperfect to the Greeks and so to us After we have seen what Meats and Drink restore the Native Moisture we ought to consider what things they are that defend that Moisture and protect it from Dissolution NOTES on CHAP. VII a The Reasonableness of the due Observance of Diet is most argumentatively inculcated by our Author in his Book Of the Wonderful Power of Art and Nature in words to this purpose The Possibility of Prolongation of Life is confirmed by this that Man is naturally immortal that is able not to dye And even after he had sinned he could live near a Thousand Years afterwards by little and little the Length of his Life was abbreviated Therefore it must needs be that this Abbreviation is Accidental therefore it

Holy Writ h Lest he put forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life and eat and live for ever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden Because if that Vertue as they say were only supernatural that namely they should live that were obedient there had been no need to have turned Adam out of Paradise but as soon as he had sinned God was not bound to keep his Covenant or to make good that Law of conferring Life and Immortality by eating of this Tree § 3. Nevertheless a Man can scarce conclude on this Ground because two ways the Fruit of that Tree might have a supernatural Vertue to prolong Life to Eternity and yet sin might be no impediment of it First If in the aforesaid Tree there were some Supernatural Quality inherent made good by God himself whereby it should prolong Life to Eternity In which Case Sin could not hinder the Activity and Efficacy of that Quality Secondly If God had made a Covenant to give Life Eternal to them that should eat of this Fruit although they should sin § 4. But upon another Ground it may sufficiently be proved that the Virtue of this Tree to give Eternal Life is Natural Namely Because it is not repugnant that in Nature such a Virtue should be found Because the Effect of this Tree of it self is of a natural Order and finite Perfection For it should have preserved Life to Eternity because it would have strengthened all the Faculties of Man's Body restored and preserved its natural Temperament and have kept off all Morbifick Causes as we shall hereafter shew But what may be done by a Power Natural that ought not to be referred to one Supernatural Therefore not this of the Tree of Life a D. Thom. 1 part qu. 97. art 4. b ibique Cajetanus c Gab. in 2 Dist. d Rup l. 3. in Gen. c. 3. e Hug. de Sanct. Vict. in Annot. Gen. cap. 7. Gen. c. 2. f Strab. in Gen. g Durand Scot. in 2 Dist. 19. h Gen. 3. 22 23. DOUBT III. Whether the Virtue of this Tree were such as to keep a Man alive Time without end § 1. THere are two extreme Opinions about this Question The first is theirs who say That by eating of such a Tree a Man would not have been eternal but would only have endured a very long time and he should therefore have been eternal in the State of Innocence because after one or more Eatings before the Virtue of the Tree were spent he should have been translated from the State of Grace to Glory and Immortality as Scotus a thinks § 2. They prove this Opinion First The Virtue of that Tree would have been finite in that it was created Therefore it could not produce an infinite Effect Secondly If that Tree had had a Virtue to preserve Men to Eternity that Virtue would have been useless because no Man in the State of Innocence should have lived for ever in this World but after an appointed Time all Men should have been translated when to wit the Number of the Predestinate was full as these Men hold For at that Time the just should be translated to Glory and the unjust to eternal Punishment Wherefore when this Time were finished the Virtue of the Tree that preserves Men to Eternity would have been superfluous § 3. Thirdly Because the Apple of that Tree taken for Nourishment would have rëacted upon the Body Therefore it could never restore the Radical Moisture and the wasted Substance entire and by consequence could not preserve Life to Eternity § 4. Fourthly Though the Tree of Life might for the most part take away inward Morbifick Causes by restoring intire the natural Heat and Moisture and the decayed Substance so that it should not wax old Yet it could not take away external Causes nor by consequence prevent a Man's being hurt by Wounds or perishing by Hunger or being choak'd for want of Breath Therefore from thence eternal Life could not of necessity follow § 5. Fifthly Because in the State of lapsed Nature at least Man would have been much more obnoxious to morbid Causes whereas in the State of Innocence he lived more temperately without any Trouble and in all Tranquillity all which things after Sin proved deficient But the Tree of Life could not avoid so many Causes of Diseases in the state of lapsed Nature Therefore it could not make Man immortal § 6. Augustine b seems of this Opinion Thomas c holds it Cajetan d Gabriel e Durandus f and others § 7. The other Opinion is That the said Tree had such a Virtue that being tasted by Man it would carry him to perfect Immortality Of this Opinion is Augustine g the Interlineary Gloss h Rupertus i Tostatus k the Author l of the Questions of the Old and New Testament which Author is thought to be Augustine and is quoted under his Name by Thomas m Bonaventure n And the Antient Fathers held it before who affirm that God therefore drove Adam out of Paradise lest he should eat of that Tree and for ever live miserable rather pitying than punishing him For it had been too great a punishment to endure an interminable Evil. § 8. So Irenaeus o Hilarius p Gregory Nazianzen q Hierome r Cyril s Chrysostom t Theodoret u Eucherius w Bede x Strabus y Damascene z Dionysius Carthusianus a● § 9. And all these Authors agree in this That the Tree of Life was able of it self to give eternal Life both in the State of Innocence and in the State of lapsed Nature if Men had eaten thereof The difference among them only is That some affirm it was necessary to eat often of it others that once to have eaten was sufficient And then some thought it an adaequate Cause of Immortality others thought it only kept out the internal Causes of Death Which Questions we shall discuss hereafter § 10. This said Opinion is sufficiently proved from these Words of Holy Writ Lest he put forth his Hand and take also of the Tree of Life and live for ever Therefore for that reason was Adam driven out of Paradise lest he should live for ever as he should have lived in the state of Innocence had he eaten of the Tree of Life Therefore the eating of that Tree must have preserved a Man for ever by reason of the Virtue it had to this end and not only for a long Time § 11. Some make answer to this Argument that God spake Ironically But they give not Satisfaction First because this Solution contradicts the Testimony of the aforesaid Fathers Secondly because Adam's ejection out of Paradise and the Angel with the flaming Sword placed to keep the way of the Tree of Life sufficiently declare that God spake not by way of Irony but properly and in good earnest § 12. Secondly others answer the foresaid Argument thus That the Words for ever ought not to be taken for true Eternity but for a very long Time Which Answer