Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	body_n	spirit_n	vital_a	3,629	5	10.6721	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50275	The unlearned alchymist his antidote, or, A more full and ample explanation of the use, virtue and benefit of my pill, entituled, An effectual diaphoretick, diuretick, purgeth by sweating, urin. Whereunto is added sundry cures and experiences, with particular direction unto particular diseases and distempers; with a catalogue of peoples names, with their dwelings which have used and known the use of the same: also sundry plain and easie receits which the ingenious may prepare for their own health. By Richard Matthew, and are to be had at his house by the Lyons Den at the Tower, next Gate to the By-Ward.	Mathews, Richard, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1290; ESTC R214133	88,234	176

Spirit of Life is the same in all things and separate by a natural process these three substances give them their due cleansing viz. for the Salt give a natural calcination then disolve filter coagulate and again calcin repeating these so long untill they will yeild unto thee no more fecis but be sure thy calcination do not excite too much for thy Salt doth consist also of three sorts a fixed Salt and a Nitrous and a Volitil and if thou stir him too much be sure thou wilt give wing unto the Vollotil this wisely prepared is a great treasure be as careful and as natural in the cleansing and rectifying of thy Sulphur and likewise of thy Mercury each one according unto his kind and being cleansed according to Art then conjoyn them according unto the poise of nature then feed them by Vulcans hand but let not his Bellows be to bigg untill all reunite again and do fix and make it lively this work being finished I do demand of all men what this wanteth of a universal Medicin or fifth essence Now that Salt Oyl and Water will really become a body is evident for the mediation of Oyl or Fat or Sulphur binds or brings together the two extreams viz. Salt and Water the one being fixed of kind and the other being Volitil the sweet Mediation of Sulphur brings these extreams into unity and this is apparently seen in a vulgar working of sope and although that working be violent and unnatural yet is there such a conjugal imbracing each other performed and that in few hours as would pusle a good Artist to undo truely for some moneths if it can ever be done at all it is not sables I speak of nor scraped out of books without reason but is the daily work and labor of my hand with reason upon experience that enforceth me to believe this matter and I have spoke the more unto it because many that want not ignorance do laugh at a universal Medicin but I am upon good grounds bound to believe that all and every thing in the world hath it yea the most dispised creature that the most high God hath created and made and further I freely grant the least or worst of things that have being doth carry so much of the Wisdom of its Creator in it that the more I have and do labor to know its extent the more I am at a loss yea indeed I become the more a fool confessing freely that I know nothing as I ought to know it and if of creatures thus to speak in general then what shall we say of the most choisest creature man this then I do certainly take also for granted that there is no sickness or Aile attends the body of man but his cure is of and from his one body he always hath it with him if he knew how and what and when to apply it to himself either of his substance or of his excrements From hence may the miserable estate of poor man be discerned who of all creatures when he is sick is the most helpless miserable full of tormenting pains and as ignorant of his one cure or what should cure him for men in health think not on sickness untill they be sick but spend their time in the beastiality and sordid covetings after the things and pleasures of this life blinded in sin and drenched with Surfeiting either abusing Gods creatures or themselves in inordinate desire after them so that they neither know God in his word nor in his works nor themselves or what is good to help them one word further which sets out mans misery and I hope may awaken some to amendment of life I would ask why is it a man suffers such intollerable pain in sickness and death more then a beast I will give two reasons for it first the intireness of natures composition together with the length of time in his maturation for things where in nature hath but a weak and short time of coction admits of a easie and suddain dissolution or separation every one in every thing discerneth this but man hath the most perfect composition of any thing that hath a animal life with sence and feeling and add to that the great time he requires before he come up unto his full strength this must needs require some hard knocks in the dissolving as well as it did receive time and strength in cocting Secondly that which is more then this is the force of his imagination and apprehension both of death and of Gods displeasure for sin all which doth make him so mightily sensible that the terrors of death is oft born before it come as in Agag King of the Amalekites a word to a wise man is sufficient because this is not my proper discourse intended in this place What hath been said let it admonish all men as they tender the wellfare of body or soul not to be unfurnished for either assuring that they will not be hurt by true knowledge and do therefore conclude that the Medicin that strengthens and comforts the Vital Spirits fortifies the heart and purgeth and cleanseth the blood is a Universal Medicin for what temper or quality aboundeth and exceeds the poise of nature that is he an enemy unto as if a man have a Feavor that I suppose will be granted to be too much fire he is a perfect enemy of that or if Wind drives away that these things are common with me performed with my Pill judge of it as you please I shall count it sufficient thorow Gods rich mercy and goodness frequently to cure and frequently to ease pains Ailes counted uncureable It being tak●● 〈◊〉 granted that all diseases for the most part proceed from a poisonous quality Hetrogenial to nature If any man list to deny or dispute this I would gladly he informed by him For Agues if this Pill be taken in reasonable doss two hours be ore the fit and a glass of Sack or Ale drank after it That is to say so much as the Patient finds by good experience that they can bare and observe this order two hours before the fit comes take two Pills in the intrim of fits take one Pill The Patient being put into a warm bed disposed for sweat at three tim●s taking it for the most part is absolute cure let it be never so malignant The Pill working by sweat principally in this disease requires a warm bed and that two hours before the fit because by that time the Pills will contribute their vertue all over the body so that instead of having a cold and shaking fit the patient will be a sleep and in a fine sweat provided that you have given a right doss that is so much as the strength of the patient can bare the disease doth require it hath fallen out oft that one Pill alone hath cured an Ague and it falls out that some that are compounded with other diseases will not be cured with twenty yet all

as it were was ill of many diseases and now you are so well of a suddain you have got one good Medicin or other I pray you let me have some of it she replied that she had a Country man at the Tower gave Pills and that they had cured her but they liked to have killed her and that she had the rest of them at home but durst not take any more of them come said Mistris Tuching give them me I will take them which she did and when she had spent them she calls to her and told her that she must bring her to the man for she must have more of those Pills and this was near three months before either I or the woman did know what it was that did hurt her this ancient Gentlewoman with my Country woman comes to my house I not being at home this woman asked for the Oyl I sent her to take by spoonfuls my maid told her that I had no Oyl that I gave by spoonfuls I had indeed an Antidote which I did give in spoonfuls to be short this woman soon found the Bottle by its scent and so she and we came to know how she came well as God hath ordered it and she hath remained well for this two years if not more and hath born a child or two since this is a true and faithful relation to the best of my remembrance as I have it from their own mouths and thanks be to God who hath kept me and will keep me in his way notwithstanding the envy and rage of my enemies so that thorow mercy I care not for it yet notwithstanding this Doctor in the fury of his malice hath took off those good we men and not a few more from the use of my Pill which I know well will all turn to his perpetual shame I pray God forgive him with my whole heart I am taught by him to take heed of making men idols In fine I know no disease that it doth not either perfectly ease or perfectly cure Although this Bill hath now been made publike above this four years and I had both reason and experience then enough to avouch it in my conscience before Almighty God and experience enough to avouch it before men there hath been added every since a daily load of experiences which as a cloud of witnesses confirm what I have published for such are indeed the wonders of God daily brought to our ears some of which I have related unto you and indeed as I may say the happyreturns of prayer in the administring of this Pill doth abundantly ballance the bitterness of envy and the false lies and forgeries of the wilful ignorant and by the constant meetings together of a catologue of mercies upon mercies all of them pleading my just cause against the proudest contemner I do therefore with joy submit to reproach knowing that reproach shall be the portion of the happy in this life and if the Lord whom I serve did not by his constant presence and blessing upon my labor give vigor and life unto my just and honest indeavor for the good of mankind I should have been charmed and frighted off from this my imployment the highest hath called me unto but putting my trust in him shall proceed in his name with joy fear love and trembling not doubting but he that is able to keep that which in his name I have committed unto him who hath and doth keep me in all my ways will never fail me of his blessed protection and assistance in well-doing and such hath been my care and indulgence towards all always that except people desperately presumptious both to abuse themselves and me they cannot lightly hurt themselves and while I am now writing I will give an instance or two which comes into my mind which will make good what I now drive at A woman a Nurse keeper comes to us for one quarter of an ounce of my Pills which my wife weighed her another staying for another she having her own catcht up the other out of the scale and popt it into her mouth and swallowed it all at once and away she goes I had a friend with me by the fire-side my wife being frighted cried out the woman would kill her self we wondred to see her skip away so fast but did not well conceive the matter about fourteen days after my maid met her in Tower-street asked her how she did with that quantity of Pill at once in her belly she told her that she was well and that she sat up all that night with her child which she did Nurse onely it did make her head-ach a little this relation is true but not to be followed without danger I neither knew her name nor her dwelling to administred any thing to have over-ruled it I do think this propostorus act of this woman may shew unto all men its safty if there be any reason used in the administring of it and whereas I say I have taken it my self twelve months it is true that I have taken it now almost five yeers and have not I am sure missed it in all the time from first till this present it me not twenty nights neither shall I miss it except it should please God to grant me a better of which I now have little hope and the effects thorow divine goodness are with me blessed I always have need of it as of a stronge cordial although I do not alwayes use the same quantity for I never weighed one for my self in all my life but I make them bigger or lesser as I find my self to have more or less need of them and when I am as well as I could wish I do take a little one to keep me so but if I get cold or ought else that troubles me I do then take one bigger and this I find by constant experience and I do assure you it is no more then what is true that it never failed me but always comes with fresh strength and reviving as truely and effectually as when I took it at first and not like other things which with much use will loose their vertue power and effect but my Pill is ever the same working higher or lower as it finds cause and according unto the quantity that is taken so that what change is is not in it but in me and I do further confirm what I formerly said as to the in joying of my health and chearfulness thorow many weaknesses for such is the clearness of my body and freeness from any obstructions that I have run from the first step of my house unto the highest step upon the leads on the house top and never draw my breath also such ease and chearfulness of heart that as I go along the street it is as if I did not tread on the ground and as I have oft said so I do say again that to my thinking I do not weigh one ounce upon my shoo-heels Now my sleeve for