mankind art thou above all other and to thy further judgement know that when thy now rotting body is destroyed thou again shalt receive a spirituous body capable of bearing and receiving a flood of wrath and as then thou hast received a body spirituous that shall remain unto eternity so will the vengeance of God be powred out against all ungodliness now thou hast but a taste and yet O how thou roarest out as thy limbs rot but what is that to that ocean or expansion of wrath prepared let this awaken thee if thou be not past feeling to repentance to break off I say thy sins by true and timely repentance God Almighty open thy eyes to see thy redoubled misery that so thou maist inquire after mercy then the blood of Christ will be precious unto thee but wo is upon us who are born in a giddy drunken age drunk but not with wine and here also I cannot get forward but must crave leave to trace this a little and you will be sensible that it lies consentrick with the former and now I come to speak unto a second sort of people amongst whom I believe there are many that have received in their souls the power of endless life I speak of those that have shewed great zeal and forwardness in building Tabernacles for God to dwell in who have posted into Churches and rushed upon all Ordinances which things are good if performed with clean hands and pure hearts but wo is me when I consider the works of the unwary the headdiness and presumptions of many and in my time and observation within this twenty five years passed having been an eye witness of the beginning rise and fall of many I cannot but speak a word although Gently unto these and am forced to speak it aloud because I by woful experience have found them dull of hearing for many amongst them puffed up have miserably faln into this pit many of whom I fear have not yet repented or if they have yet bear with me it is not yet to me evident sure I am this Pit is not for Saints to fall into not many returns Although your way if returning is broad and easie yet I much fear not so with God it were well if justice in this case went hand in hand with mercy that those that sin not might he admonished and fear which is one principal end of rejection but these alas with ease find entrance but not so with others in other cases less material it were well if you were clean every whit notwithstanding the feet must be washed the iniquity of the heel strove against many lift their head on high and I pray God keep them from falling it is a dangerous thing for men to make idols of Ordinances to put more in the dipping of water then in the regenerating of the spirit there is a golden mine he is happy that finds it and walks therein there is a promised spirit to direct when we turn to the right hand and when we turn unto the left to too many neglect or dispise visible Ordinances and too many plant their Religion in them and in divers forms will prepare Tabernacles for the God of Israel but unto us there is but one God and one rule of righteousnesse men will at all rates have a covering but the wo belongs to them that cover not by and with his spirit let me in much sobernesse inquire of you and it would be a joyful tune if indeed you would consider whether your rash and hasty zeal running upon Ordinances not spirited from on high have not been an occasion of stumbling and of falling unto many for having no sealing presence but rather a barrennesse which from thence as in your hands may be called presumptious I say this discovers that men seeing no beauty to enliven them faint How many have you with sighs complaining that they are filled with deadnesse in your assembling but at home when they exercise their mediations on the riches of free mercy in Christ then filled with consolation You may note that at this time and in his place I would say no more then to awaken you to consider how you have been an occasion of stumbling to many from the aforesaid grounds I freely spare you coveting rather to cover then to discover neither would I charge all for the faults of some but this I must say it is like to go ill when the ruling spirit is the spirit of this world when the whole head is sick and the heart heavy what should I say to make you hear and yet cover you all over with love the most high cover you when he maketh inquisition for blood when his dead body shall live when his righteousnesse shall arise when he hath purged Jerusalem with the spirit of fire and with the spirit of burning then will he be a defence upon all your glory and not till then but evident it is your glory he stains neither is he any defence upon it an account must be given who required these things at your hands when many shall say we have done these and these things in thy name it will be said I know you not it will be then wo unto the sinners in Sion fear shall surprize the hypocritâ— that generation of men at this time will be to seek which say stand further of I am more holy then thou those I speak of which are pure in their own eyes and is not washed from their filthinesâ—â— those who separating themselves from those froâ— whom Jesus Christ doth not separate himself those which make dipping the ground of theâ— communion not union with Christ it is a woâ—der to look back and consider the firy zeal of â—â—ny and whereunto it hath tended God grant the rest may be admonished to pray and wait uâ—till the Temple be opened in heaven and a liveâ—â— Vision of the Ark of his Covenant the presumptions of men now in this dark and smoky dayâ— to be wondred at but it is evident no maâ— can enter till the appointed time and indeed it is evident that excepting those Ordinances which are granted in common whicâ— indeed are spirited the other whereby they will be known and distinguished art without life and is in their hands a carkass 〈◊〉 I have to say further is I beseech you in the bowels of Christ Jesus consider how far you have been an occasion of stumbling or woâ—â—â— unto the gender of this third generation of men wherof I come now to speak unto for when men as I may say have found little but pollotick workings as men and have not either discerned thaâ— beauty as doth of good right belong unto Gospel-Ordinances or when men dishonoring God use Gods Ordinances for earthly ends it is just with God to give them up unto a spirit of slumber to believe a lye because they did not receive the truth in the love of it nay too many designedly do get into Churches one purpose to
heal their gauled consciences little thinking what is required of them there and shrowd under a cloak of Religion gain being to them godliness Mark by how much these approach or do essay to come up unto the Primitive pattern assure thy self so much the more will the severity of the highest be revealed against thee whose fiery eyes of beauty and glory will not bare thy hypocrisie remember Ananias and Saphira therefore I have observed well what hath brought people to desire to get into this or that fellowship whether to serve as Christ did or to be served to perform their own duty in humility or onely clamor upon their priviledge for you shall perceive quickly who sent them thither O how forward these will be apt of tongue confident in opinion and fears sensorious and this lasteth a very little while and by and by he is beyond them and now he is beyond the Scripture it self and will have it no judge of his spirit but will judge it by his spirit have I not seen these fall off by companies what then think not thou that I speak against the commandments and Ordinances of the new testament I had rather my tongue should be for ever cut out of my mouth or against the Christian and conscionable administring the same but this is to shew how they have been and may be abused in doing of which a most accursed gender of hell is born into the world which otherwise could not be and I am constrained to unvail as wisely as God inables me this mistery of iniquity that you whom it concerns may beware and if the glory of God nor eternal salvation will not prevail yet that long life and health of body may prevail with thee thou maist know that the higher thou arivest in the profession of Christ the fiercer wiâ—â— thy fall be when not supported if that lighâ— which is in thee prove darkness how great 〈◊〉 that darkness and if thou be a builder look 〈◊〉 thy self that thy foundation be the true Rock otherwise great will thy fall be and know the returning evil spirit doth bring with him seveâ— worse then himself and worse will be thy latteâ— end my heart bleeds within me when I call 〈◊〉 mind how many great lights or stars have beeâ— thrown from heaven saln from the pinacle of the Temple down to hell from most fiery rigidity unto all abominations think not that I am unfurnished of a catalogue measurable it is the reâ— are so blinded as not to lay it to heart so to heaâ—â— as again to take up their way and whole wall and that with trembling and set straight steps unto their feet least that that is halting be turnâ—â— out of the way also I will at this time abreviaâ—â— this discourse for the truths sake which you have yet a pretence unto I know there are a few naâ—â— amongst you which have not defiled their garments for their sakes I should count it a happiness to serve you I will conclude with relation of one of you which I know is remeâ—bred of many of you A fierce zealot which was very conformable as indeed did exceed and I must needs say from one word I once heart him speak I had good hope that the truth had 〈◊〉 some rooting in him viz. that he was so sensibâ—â— of the deceitfulness of his heart that he durst 〈◊〉 look upon a woman this man takes in thâ—â— general tenet of all destruction viz. that the Scripture was a dead letter this man with the rest of his accomplices was soon inspired from the King of pride that they had in themselves the spirit whereby they knew all things and judge all things and also the Scriptures themselves so that now their spirit shall not be judged by the text but shall judge the text this infallible man was restless and quickly threw of all duties both publike and private for a season they must not speak till their spirit moved them but their spirit soon moved them to make use of and abound in their pure or rather impure liberty that is to glut and satisfie themselves in uncleanness this wretch being strong held out sometime but abusing himself in all blaspheamies riot and excess in due time the rot or the Pox over-took them but I speak of this one man his torments grew strong upon him and to me of all men he would not come or send what he used as means was to weak and thus for a long time he lived blaspheaming God and roaring out of his torment at last he and his wife using the mediation of another sent to me I could not deny her things for her mony he was then past coming himself she said his heart was as whole and as sound as ever and that he would eat as good a meals meat as ever and digest it as well but except he had one of my Pills in his belly he did lie rocking his limbs and roaring out of his intollerable pain and the next week as she came to me this Strumpet with impudence said she should dye of no disease but the Pox and her friend that came with her told me that as this man was sitting by himself his nose fell of from his face with mear rottenness I conclude with most serious admiration of Gods righteous judgements upon these who in the prime of their days are taken a way and are gone unto their own place for ever to receive the fruit of their doings and that which doth much heighten my astonishment is that the highest doth to wonderfully punish this wickedness in this life that they live some years in bitter torment and yet hearty and stout while they rot away by pieces their vitals and senses quick as I may say as prepared of God to suffer abundance of pains while in this world and before I come to give you the way of cure of this ugly disease I must crave leave to speak this third sort of people commonly called Ranters for so they are and these are of two sorts the one like unto this that I have named and the other which is the worse and more dangerous hold yet in appearance somewhat of preaching and prayer and would be thought to excel all others in spirituals I say these are the worse for by how much the more any thing that indeed is evil and doth hide it self under the cloak or mantle of Religion it is so much the more dangerous and pernicious most apt to leaven and delude the simple minds till they also by a smoth Satanical subtilty are drawn in and become hardened and then the high Rant or black devil doth not all affright them being before hand prepared and spirited there unto for the high Rant counts all illegitimate that cannot range in the depth of all abomimation swear drunk whore out of measure yea study to excel in execrations and blasphâ—â—my and do all this without the least remorce or sign of remorce but this other sort for
their credit sake and also because of encrease of their advantage in their Callings and also preferments in the Commonwealth will not avow this plainness yet do account it their pure liberty and that is there pure liberty for all of them to live holding community of women and all to abide in their pure Adamical freedoms pleasing themselves in all things and some of these to my own knowledge who both speak hold practice except they belye themselves are of their forwardest and I think their eminentest Preachers which would seem to those that hear him as if he were caught up into the holy mount accounting themselves above all Ordinances these surely are the worst sort of men that ever breathed upon the face of the earth for these have not onely been hoised upon the highest pinacle of the Temple but are miserably thrown down unto hell in their own imaginary they are far higher then the highest pinacle conceiving themselves far above all instituted Ordinances and do bitterly hate dispise and persecute all those that do in the fear of God practice walk and live in them with a manifest wrath which is indeed a manifest token of their perdition for many of them have in their own guiddy headed and unstable minds run thorow all Religions that they might both hate and persecute all the God of mercy put into the hearts of our Rulers to preserve us from the rage and fury of these whom the Apostles of Christ Peter and Jude doth most lively set out in their proper collours and yet these would not be accounted to be Ranters although as is said seven fold worse I will hear give a true relation of some passages concerning one of their chief teachers A good woman whose husband is at Barbadoes having occasion of business concerning trade in behalf of her huâ—band was desired to except of half a pint of wine this good woman looking upon hum to be eminent in godliness and her self at that time stood need of refreshing went to the Tavern with him by and by he changed his behaviour and shewed himself what he was and by his light scurrilous language declared himself to be what he is and in plain words and deeds would needs have been abusing her body and many arguments he used to draw her thereunto as I have them from her mouth that she was sick for want of a man and why would she not use her liberty and for his part he knew 〈◊〉 his wife looked on she would not be offended with it nay further that it was his salvation that he had done it his wife looking on and that 〈◊〉 he had not used his liberty his purer liberty as he called it it had been dead long ago and named other persons some of great quality that husband and wife gave each other liberty and with his might invyed against Ordinances and refusing him in his filthiness he called her whore and much to that purpose for submitting her self to forms as he called them the relation of his beastilness expressed by him I was ashamed to hear and cannot write but he highly commended the beastly openness and nakedness of the Moors and Heathen in the Indies that they was without shame he esteemed it a high vertue which did excell us here and speaking of the Quakers he said that he knew them very well and that he did know that their principals and theirs were one and the same and that the most strictest of them would soon come up and live in the pure liberty as well as they I think what he saith in this may well be granted as was most evidently seen in James Nailoâ— and the pack of whores that always hung on him I my self being at Nottingham did sit almost a Summer afternoon hearing some of their own company relate the vicious and filthy life and unclean coversation of George Fox whose whoredoms and filthy life is notoriously known in the North of England but to return unto this praying or prating Rantor this filthy man or man of filthiness without shame after God had delivered this woman out of his hand was set on again and again by him and when he saw that he could not draw her unto his filthy lust then inquired if she had told any body but if she had yet it was not matter of shame unto him and indeed I think I should have done good service to the Commonwealth if I had here named him its pitty all such hath not a brand on their forehead that they may be known who they belong unto I speak with grief of heart I have known this Varlet the worst of men I say I have known him a giddy professor of Religion above this twenty years and I have heard him my self when we have been speaking of the Scripture for he asked me seriously if I did use tâ— read them I told him yea with joy and gladness and they were to me more then my life he replied so could not he neither did he read any book he hearkened onely to the voice of the spirit within him and that while he made conscience of reading and expounding of Scripture and of family duty and going to hear Sermons and repeat them he all that time was without peace but now he had not for some years done any of those things and that he was at rest in himself I have in all this spoke the least of this vile person and you may by him truely take a view of the rest that fraternity what they are and where they will Center and in what I hope this relation will he matter of caution to many not always to credit or be too apt to give heed unto the smoth delusive tongues of men these study to obtain hardness of heart impudency of face that they might commit wickedness with greediness and therefore do deride at the torments of hell nay one of this company hath put out a book in print wherein he doth a vow there is no hell but what is in a mans self so that indeed by their doctrines if they can but stifle their own consciences they have freedom and sin is no sin for so they affirm my soul is pained within me when I think of these and of the just vengeance prepared of God for these which doth withhold the truth by their unrighteousness O wretched and most miserable of mankind How is it that Satan hath thus filled your hearts and the filth of your flesh thus deluded you you begun well who hath hurt you what hath Jesus Christ and his Gospel of peace done unto you How is it that you will be made perfect in the flesh What good things have you found in your selves that comparing your selves with your selves you now worship your selves nay your accursed lusts and beastliness how imaginable is it that man indued with common reason should thus be seduced I know there is not one of you but do feel the flashings of fire in your consciences
what will you do when you shalt appear with your works following after you when God that cannot lye will set your sins in order before your face I know you labor to stiflle such thoughts as these O beast of men O most devilish whilst men How is your vengeance hightening have you professed the fear of God many of you to end in this accursed Apostacy for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever O that there were thoughts of returning in you hell beneath hath enlarged her self to receive and meet you at your coming O miscreant of man how long dost thou think to wallow in thy lusts serving evil concupisence drinking iniquity like water made fat for slaughter I aske whether these be not they for whom supplication is not to be made Alas alas my heart bleedeth within me when I confider that some of you have not onely professed the name of Christ long but also suffered both imprisonment and fled into far Countries out of a zeal for his name and now have spewd up all at once and returned unto your old lusts from which you were purged as a dogg unto his vomit or a sow that was washed unto her wallowing in the mire receiving the just recompence of your error viz. seven hellish spirits far more worse then the first that you might fall into the damnation of hell and be damned together even the condemnation of the devil be not deceived God is not mocked as a man soweth so shall he reap and of these I speak aloud expecting nothing but plague and pox to follow them the reward of their labor I know it boiles amongst them already I know some will wonder why I have spoken so much of these and of this disease and why I have spoken unto good people with these therefore this thou maist know First I speak unto all men and all sorts and ranks of men to admonish them all Secondly a clean heart is not hurt nor will be offended at any thing I have said And thirdly I could not break this order with the discharge of my conscience And fourthly without this that I have said both in whole and in part I darst not give thee the true and clear way of cure of this detestable disease and all roots from this ground the difference twixt this disease and most other this with abundance of wickedness and sin first against God secondly against thy one body which ought to be the Temple of God preserved in holiness unto him and not given to a harlot thirdly against thy relations who hath power over thy body but other diseases which are common to man proceed from sundry other causes which is not in themselves sinful and for these causes I have thus spoken and hope thereby to be an instrument in the hand of God to pull some poor soul or other out of the fire and indeed as I said at first had it not been for the sakes of some who are clean but bestowed with some such beast or bruit of mankind which hath polluted them I should have said nothing of this disease at all but I do judge it much better that many of the worst partake of the blessing with the best then that one of the best should languish in the torture of the first and therefore I do set down the most safest way speediest cheapest and freest of pain and torture I verily believe that is in the world Rec. Take two ounce of my Pill and lay it thin upon a well glazed dish set it out of the Sun and it will quickly be fit to bring to powder drive it thorow a Lawn or Hair five put this powder into one quart of White-wine or that which is better viz. make a Lixivium or stronge lye of Chalkes Vive or White wine for this is most slately and operates very potently both by sweat and Urin as is much proved everyday and is although dispised a great blessing and moreover I assure thee from knowledge is chief with some as universal who have a vulgar same in Physick use which thou wilt I do by experience commend this last to excel let this be done in a glass bottle shake it oft and in twenty four hours it will be fit to use but longer is better dispose thy self a part if thou wouldst suddainly be well and thy illness require thee and have warm accomodation and a good tender and careful Nurse eat and drink the bed that can be got for mony and always have ready good wine and Strong-water by thee because of a suddain will a windy fainting come upon thee and of a suddain gone at such a time a spoonful of a good cordial water is necessary for thee see that thou sweat by day and not in the night when thou maist have good tendance sweat not with this extract but every other day and then do it to purpose as thou finds thy strength if thou beest of a middle strength the first time begin with six spoonful in six spoonful of White-wine and then observe by that how thou dost bare it and increase accordingly so also in all cases begin with little enough and come on with discretion but know in this disease thou must charge home to the end it may accomplish thy desire and at once as it were it will whirle all thy disease into thy in skin the superfices or most extream parts and in the other night the day that thou dost not sweat thy greatest sweat take at night a good Pill of 16 or 20 grains if thou findest thou art able to bear it and that wil maintain and keep what the other hath gotten for thou must know that thou dost take the strength of at least eight or ten Pills when thou dost take the extract thereof for thou art not not able to bear this earthly body it would suffocate the but being onely his more subtile and spirituous part it works safe and miraculous not onely in this disease but in many or all other diseases and when thou hast it all in thy skin fear not but go on the same way and if any part break and run fear it not it will not fail thee if thou do not neglect thy self but it will both throw all out and heal it when it is out as thou maist perceive by the instances set down in this book onely use thy self to great carefulness in the time of thy cure and always sweat and be hot till thou art well for there is no danger but in taking cold which thou maist easily prevent if thou be careful of thy self and follow while thou art in the way and all will be done at an easie rate for I have deserved twenty pounds when l have not had twenty shillings I never undertook any cure in my life nor never mean to do yet have helped many at small rates at ten shillings at five shillings the most that ever I had of any was three pounds five shillings for my
powder if the bottom be read hot it will burn put in one spoonful after another till all be burned it is then for this work prepared if thou hast wrought well thou wilt have of a white Salt but yellowish seventeen ounces again of thy two pounds Take half a bushel of White-lime put it in a clean tubb and put on it fair water that the water may cover it four inches let if stand all night take two gallons of this water and put in it thy salt and it is prepared for thy work then take one pound weight of Poppe-leaves good and red newly gathered as near as thou canst stamp them and put them into thy prepared water take also one pound of Juniper berries and do likewise also take one pound of black Hellebor which thou maist buy at the Druggist for a small matter beat it grosly and put it into the rest stir all very well let them simper upon a fire twenty four hours in a glass-body or in a Tin vessel or Pewter but let it be close covered then drive all through a Hipocris bagg and its prepared for thy use drink of this three or four spoonful in White-wine and Sugar but give more or less as the patient is strong or weak to weak children half a spoonful or a spoonful with Wine or Sugar note thou maist do what thou wilt with this if thou knowest how to apply it for thy health I desire thee whatever thou art to praise God for this the like I believe is not made manifest for the preserving of thy health against all diseases infections Feavors Surfeits this will not fail thee of relief let thy pains be what they will nor of cure if God permit if thou hast patience and will give it time I have from my conscience spoke my belief grounded upon reason and experience and freely give it thee beseeching God to bless it to thee and inlarge thy heart as mine is inlarged that is that thou maist do for thy neighbor as I now do for thee presenting nothing in this or any thing about it but the labor of my hand and what I daily put into my own belly and let me further tell thee I had much wrestling with my self as in the presence of God before I could prevail upon the gain-saying that was in me to draw so nigh thee for thy unvaluable benefit for if thou considerest the things are easie attained every ditch offering the some of them and the preparation so trinial that there is as much art to make a mess of pottage in this above all other I have deserved well at thy hand if thou hast a heart to improve it neither do I doubt although many will be angry and snatter at it but this entrance which I have given in this receipt will stand while the world indures and get strength and my memory held in honor for so good service in it This book hath swelled beyond my intention yet I am constrained to give thee one receipt or two more in few words and so I for this time shall rest praising God who helped me before I go out of this world to perform some real service for the good of mankind in general To make the drink that is now much used called Coffee The Coffee Berries is to be bought at any Drugist about three shillings the pound take what quantity you please and over a Charcole-fire in a old pudding-pan or frying-pan keep them always stirring untill they be quite black and when you crack one with your teeth that it is as black within as it is without yet if you exceed then do you wast the oyl which onely makes the drink and if less then will it not deliver his Oyl which must make the drink and if you should continue fire till it be white it will then make no Coffee but onely give you its salt the Berry prepared as above beaten and serced thorow a Lawn Sive is then fit for use Take clean water and boil one third of it away what quantity soever it be and it is fit for use Take one quart of this prepared water put in it one ounce of your prepared Coffee and boil it gently one quarter of an hour and it is fit for your use drink one quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it note that instead of Coffee take English Wheat and thou wilt find it in all points as good and as profitable for thee as I have wrought and proved it and speak it from knowledge and I do from my heart bear witness to this drink as the best and safest for the health of mans body and further I do know that it doth abate the fury or sharpness of the Accrimony which is the gender of those diseases called Cronical and although it doth want fermentation yet hath it the true strength of the grain if be well prepared and doth in no wife sume to intoxication for that it is unfermented and undoubtedly those which loves health will love this drink and is an absolute enemy unto natures enemies I had thought to have spoken much and from good grounds of the worth and benefit of this drink but being already inlarged beyond intention I am constrained to leave it for this time I have wrote many things which will have an ungrateful taste yet of mighty force for thy health I cannot conclude this book but I must give thee one receipt more which will be acceptable unto thy foolish fancy that in truth thy appetite never tasted a more stately thing or higher cordial for health and yet cheap and of very easie and vulgar preparation as followeth Take twelve pound of Black-Cherries that is full grown and sweet break all their stones in a morter put them in a Limbeck or in a small common Stillers Still put to them one gallon of fair Spring water distill off again one Gallon or on gallon within a point this water doth far exceed that which is commonly sold for black-Cherry water take all out and run it throw a Pulpring sive and wash with clean water the still or the Limbeck and what runs thorow the Sive of it self keep to make thy Surrup of the rest drive thorow the Sive by force that nothing be lest but skin and stones and that keep by it self for thy Surrop take the first that is thin and run thorow the Sive of it self put unto it for each pint two pound of sweet sented Lisborn Sugar and put into one quart of Rose water and one quart of Sparmint water boyl all at least eight hours Note that if from first to â—â—st the matter be not boiled twelve or fourteen hours it will not answer thy intention but if thou wilt feed it with fire twenty four hours thou therewith may do wonders I have so wrought it and baked it over and over several times and thou maist know that a Black Cherry is a substance unknown and cannot by fire be made dry but as soon as it is cold it will draw to it self a moist air and will relent do what thou canst yet I have so fired him or fed him with fire that I could not touch it with my teeth such hath been its mighty force and for obstructions all have flown before it and when I would taking but a little more then ordinary it would loose my belly and give a stool or two but if thou wilt make a Surrup of it without this extream firing it will not then be worth an half penny but will be only toothsome as other ordinary Sirrops is I leave thee to judge of it as thou wilt I know for my self many years ago it was precious in its effects unto me and from that experience I had of it I now moved with good-will commit it unto thee FINIS
THE Vnlearned Alchymist HIS ANTIDOTE OR A more full and ample Explanation of the use Vertue and benefit of my PILL Entituled An effectual Diaphoretick Diuretick purgeth by Sweating Vrin Whereunto is added Sundry Cures and Experiences with particular direction unto particular diseases and Distempers with a Catalogue of peoples Names with their dwellings 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 Mathew and are to be had at his house by the Lyons Den at the Tower next Gate to the By-Ward London Printed for Joseph Leigh at the upper end of Bazing-hall street near the Naggs-head Tavern and are to be sold together with this Pill by Giles Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls And Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head-alley 1660. To all that are sick under Pains Aches Gripings divers diseases Surfeitings Obstructions Consumptions of what kind soever and whosoever but more especially unto all such of them that fear the Lord in truth and â—â—rightness and of these especially such as are poor and have no money Ric. Mathew your brother and companion in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ humbly Dedicates this his little book together with his work and labor with what is his devoted to your service IT is meet of good right that this my Book should be Dedicated unto you who daily finds the power and vertue of my Pill whereof I have spoken let all the world set themselves against it as they please I know your experience will vindicate it and verily if my Pill have not deserved it from your hands I will speak not a word for it but what ever in this book hath past me let it for ever stand for nothing and I do attest not onely to you all but all the world that if I he deceived concerning the true worth and power of my Pills verily it is you that hath deceived me my conscience bearing me witness I have not added unto these reports which you have brought me but have with much sobriety left out much which would have heightned the power worth of my Pill but I am assured from my own knowledge and daily sight and hearing that things of like nature are done by it daily blessed be God and therefore I know there is no deceit in the matter Receive then I pray you this little book into your protection and speak as you have found and speak that which is true I desire no more I know that is sufficient for the trueth is strong and no force can keep him in bonds whom truth acquits it were better I were not then it were not my portion It is neither power nor greatness nor humane Art nor Learning that I fly unto for Patronage only the clear and unbyased witness of truth which can be in no other mouths then such of you the authors of all those several reports cures and wonders I have set down in this book most of which my own eys were spectators consequently witnesses of their verity and truth neither am I unfurnished of as many more which here is not set down but these have spent much paper for me to write and much of your patience to read and he that will not believe at the sound of this Trumpet but shuts his ears resolved not to hear this man will not hear if I had set down five times as many But unto the two second sort unto whom I tender this dedication viz. the faithful that are yet on earth but their treasure in heaven and their hearts where their treasure is that at the present if need be are in heaviness thorow many fold temptations sicknesses pains aches and weaknesses of body I do in a more especial manner dedicate my book self work and labor of love unto you who is your brother and companion and with you have born the chastening of the Lord I know your happiness and feel it and am made and infranchized a Citizen and fellow servant with you and have labored thorow Christ and have not fainted and now knowing your happiness do ranke my self with you as being made partaker of like pretious faith and indeed desire above all other to be made manifest and known unto you I know although I am a stranger unto you as to this body and this world yet I have spiritual feeling and feasting with you in and from that abundance of endless joys freely bestowed in the blood of Christ and truely our fellowship is with the Father and with that Son of his love whose blood cleanseth us from all our iniquities and blessed be God who hath helped me thorow all kind of snares and temptations to the end I might by experience know his salvation his power and goodness and this is my triumphing joy that my father is pleased to let me live to comfort and help many and thanks be given unto him there is but few days pass me without the happy tidings of saving the life of one poor creature or other I speak as a man and in this judge by mans reason And now my beloved brethren as I have freely received so I freely give you above all other I thirst to serve both in body and spirit my master hath returned upon my head the fruit of my labor which indeed hath been much and long and wherefore have I been always beaten down by sickness and weakness of body but that I might be improved as I have been improved for your service and advantages of which indeed you may make a bold challenge and require the same as your just right and propriety But unto the third sort now I speak viz. you which fear the Lord in truth of heart and are under his fatherly chastening of pains sicknesses and bodily pressures and are poor as to the things of this world and wherefore is it but that in being here you might not be to your selves as men or to this world as this world you are not poor but you are rich riches that faideth not away made rich thorow him that became poor that he might make many rich my brethren be without carefulness or fear because t is your fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdom a Kingdom that remains to eternity eternally in the heavens you will possess it at that his appearing when you shall appear with him in heaven glory that cannot be shaken and if your earthly tabernacle perish daily is it not the Minister of joy forasmuch as it tends to no other end but to hast you to rest now is the time of your labor labor in fruit-bearing herein is your Father glorified that in and against the strongest wrestlings of this world and of your own corruptions and Satanical tentations and delusion that you bring forth much fruit to the end his fruit may remain in you and his power rest upon you you know in all your griefs
unsatisfiedly dry his drinking was out of measure but still inwardly burned worse and worse and being spent grew very weak and feeble in so much that his wife and friends did dispair of life and I being locked up in the Tower could not be spoke with till betwixt six and seven in the morning being sent for I hasted and took with me one gill of my Antidote for Pills I knew they had in the house and when I came to him he was so weak he could not speak unto me his face and nose his hands and feet was all as cold as earth I had little hopes of his life for contrary unto these his stomach did burn like fire which indeed caused him to pour into his belly so much small Beer and by this time had no strength to evacuate it again that his Surfeit now was double as well from unreasonable drinking of small Beer as of Respass wine and Venison with his wives good liking I gave him three spoonfuls of my Antidote in four spoonful of Treacle water praying for a blessing yet much feared his life it gave him a little ease as we conceived by his quiet lying I hoped all vomiting had been staid thinking that to have been the best for him he lay still while one might tell treatably half a thousand or thereabout then he began to stretch out himself and turned up the white of his eyes we all that were spectators was sorely distressed for him expecting nothing but that his last breath was going from him but contrary unto our expectation he gathered up his seet and twisted himself about and start up a great Bason much like a Barbars bason being ready which he had used in the night and there at once comes up such a full torrent as his mouth could admit which quickly filled the great Bason such a vomit as I never beheld in all my life and am perswaded never shall again and in the end of it comes his Respass wine and his Venison unwrought on by nature for it is evident that all the former vomitting did not reach the root of the matter this vomit being over and another Bason ready he gave again another easie strain and brought up again my Antidote just as he put it into his belly both for quantity and collour as neer as we could guess look you said his wife unto me here is your stuff again well said I blessed be God for this stuff he hath done well for this time the Lord make us thankful I would not for more then I will speak of your husband had dyed you would have thought ill of me and my Antidote thorow the goodness of God this man was about his business in two dayes time this my friend with all the rest present are ready to witness what I have said and more touching this matter unto God eternal immortal Lord of life and death be praise and honnor and glory for ever Amen for he taketh the strong and hardy and casteth them unto the dust of death according to his will and again he taketh that which is ready to dye and restores it to life at his good will and pleasure and who is he of the hardiest of men that can withstand God It removes pains of the Breast trembling of the Heart cleanseth the Blood I have not known any pains stand before it but in Feavors or any other grief wherein is great crying out of pains and oppressions of the Breast but the first Pill gives relief there is a very aged woman by me on Tower-hill hard by the Scaffold who was almost off of her leggs with extream trembling and aching of her Heart which was occasioned thorow a fright and much grief and she took this Pill for almost or altogether this three years and thanks be to God is now lusty and for stronger and better then when she began to take it at first that it is a forcible cleanser of the blood it is evident by its universal sweating and purging by Urin. It helpeth suddain fits of Sounding and Convulsions A young man much troubled with fits and oft would fall down and foam in his fits I do not know what to determine them to be and with the use of this Pill and my Oyl of Amber found present relief which he thankfully acknowledged beyond expectation and very many of each Sex and Ages frequently have received the like benefit It drunk with whit-wine cleanseth the Reins and Kidnies of Gravel openeth the Vrany passages driveâ— out the stone if it be not coagulated and oft times at Vrine sends forth like jaggs of cloth of paper of sundry collours Of its power in cleansing the Reins Kidnies and Bladder many hath plentifully found by good experience to their exceeding joy and comfort A good friend of mine going to Colchester finds a kinswoman very sick and near death of the stone and Gravel he gave her two or three I am not certain but he brought me home five or six stones of considerable bigness full of sharp spikes as pin points and three square which I have reserved they also seemed as if they had been hung upon a string many more there were which we have not but thorow the goodness of God this woman although near eighty at once recovered hereon praised be God A man that came from Ireland who had married a Irish whore who had a husband of her own Countrymen did poison this English man three times the last time wrought so strongly that it took him off his business his hair and nails came off this man very weak came to England in hope of relief this man had a perpetual thirst and did drink without measure but could not Urin it out so that he was swelled ready to burst and all means which could be gotten could not help him until God so ordered it that I heard of him for a very good friend of his did desire my charitable assistance I sent him six Pills which wrought such happy effects that after one of them given him he fell a making of water so out of measure that he filled what was by him for that service and then had no retention but let all go in his bed his friend had for him one quarter of an ounce more I never saw the man nor never heard more of him but what I have said is the true and faithful relation of his friend as near as I am able to give it you A very old man in Ducksfild-lanâ— lay at the point of death with the Stone and could make no water for many dayes and nights together so that in the judgement of his neighbors there was no hope of his life one of his neighbors which did know the worth of my Pills came unto me and desired me to administer unto him I told her that she knew well enough that I never did undertake any thing and that she knew well enough the power and force of my Pills and if she should venter to
also sends forth by vomit or otherwise clods of blood breaks inward Imposthums to astonishment and effectually easeth pains got by Surfeits cold or bruises whereby many secret and hidden griefs are cured which otherwise could not be discovered A Plummers wife in Bishopsgate-street having five years before received some wrong in her delivery of two children in which time of five years she was sorely afflicted with sundry griefs and pains and fits of falling and swounding in so much that this woman was very weary of her life and whatsoever means she used it proved uneffectual to her but her pains and griefs did still increase upon her and by accident I met with her husband at a friends house who speaking of his wives misery withal said as poor as he was he would give ten pounds for his wifes help I replied and asked him if he would give ten groats I gave him six Pills with him and before they was spent she sent me word she was in a new world and that she for ought she knew was as well as ever she was in all her life time that the Pills thorow Gods blessing had sully freed her from her griefs and that they did so handle her that by vomit she did bring up such clods of blood congealed matter that she was fain with her thumb and fingers to pull it out of her mouth and further that they did send forth by Urin as strange matter to great ease and comfort although to her great wonder and astonishment this woman remains in health to this day and will not spare to give testimony hereunto thanks be given to God Another woman being left for a dead woman took one of my Pills which caused her to vomit up a pint of matter as if it came out of a sore which no doubt but it did she sent for an able Chyrurgeon to see it who said it was better in her bason then in her breast she kept it two dayes for me to see it but I saw it not it pleaseth God thus wonderfully to bless its use for many grieved some years together and cannot tell what they ail and all that they do advise with are in several tales concerning what they ail this Pill when taken assaults it and by the grace of God continuing with it and if curable doth cure it A very old man upward of fourscore being very weak with loosing his blood at Urin for above three years together meets with my Pills presently found ease in a little time quite stopt his Urin of blood but brought way by Urin abundance of Gravel and Skins like jaggs of paper for sometime this man hath used my Pill for this three years unto his great comfort and at this day is very hearty chearful and in health and his Urin clear as any other bodies blessed be God which takes away youth and reneweth old age at his good pleasure and indeed it is wonderful to hear the happy tidings which people do bring us every day and many who have affirmed to us that they sold and pawned what they had and spent it in seeking for help but in vain have here either for nothing or for a small matter found cure and doth fill our ears with the large acknowledgements of Gods good hand in blessing this Pill and truely my spirit is much more refresht to hear such returns although it be not a penny advantage unto me more then the receiving of mony where I have truely deserved it unto God alone I desire with my whole heart may be ascribed all praise and thansgiving for all his wonderful mercies which he is pleased to shew unto the poor and needy who put their trust in him Further more this Pill helpeth the French diseases commonly called the Pox or French Pox if it be efectually used Before I come to shew its effectual use as to this disease I must crave leave to speak a little but tenderly to two or three sorts of people for ordinarily this disease comes not without abundance of wickedness and I tremble to think of it much less to set down his cure without protesting one Gods behalf against those accursed ways that brings men into it and indeed were it not for the sakes of many good men and women whom I do judge in my conscience to be chast and are infected thorow the wickedness and unfaithfulness of their yoak fellows I durst have said nothing of it at all and although these are but few in number comparatively yet far be it from any honest mind to deny them help Solomon in his Proverbs saith Stolen water is sweet and bread in secret is pleasant but they consider not that death is there and that those steps lead down to hell and such is the ahborring of my soul against this wickedness whereby this disease is for the most part gotten and come by that it is a sore fear least I should be a means to help any miscreant to suddain cure that is resolved to persevere in this abomination and double his sins against the God of mercies and forasmuch as the righetous judgements of God overtake the wicked plaguing them even in the force of their lusts shall I be an instrument of their relief yet to sin God forbid it but for those that truely repent and shew it by a chast conversation I should think it a happiness to be a healer an easer of the pains and sores of all such yea I profess my self the servant of all such but as I said Gods just severity is most conspicuous upon these who sport and as they imagin pleasure themselves striving to satisfie and fullfil but in vain their beastiality and were they not left and given up of God unto a sordid slavery unto the fullfilling the desires and Iusts of their concupisence bond slaves to hell and the devil they would easily discern they labor altogether in vain for can the ocean the gulf or grave say it is enough or what man laboring to fulfil his desire is not ten times further off by being vassallaged more thereunto can desire be ever satisfied or filled and so always is the quiver of a Whore always open and cannot be filled but like the grave ever craves give give and he that is appointed to perdition is taken by her the wise King tells that a Whore is a deep pit and the abhorrd of God do fall therein a dreadful precipe God grant ears to hear it while the day of hope lasteth and it is my hope to admonish by this unto the preservation of many and how light soever this unclean wickedness is accounted yet let all the guilty know their names are accounted amongst those that shall not inherit eternal life but for ever receiving their portion in the blackness of darkness from the presence of the Lord for ever O thou adultrer and adultress would God thou couldst hear but thou O thou who already hast received the beginning of torment how miserable of
whose advice she was forced to follow such was her weakness of a suddain but so it was that this lusty young Gentlewoman in a matter of six or seven days was brought home in a Hors-litter hard put to it for life this Gentlewoman lay under the Doctors hands for two months and was brought unto such extream weakness as is not fit for me to relate nothing but death expected all this while my Pills was too low for them and the Gentlewoman had abundance of other things forced on her but in vain at last she beseeched her husband if he loved her to fend for me otherwise she was a dead woman pleading her conformity to him in using all the while what means lie and their friends thought good this Gentleman being touched with pitty to her at her request sends a letter to the Tower but I was in the Country and he straight sends a letter unto Wansor where I was and I not hearing any thing from the time her messenger came unto me from Barnet much wondered that she should suffer so long sickness and I not hear thereof at my coming she was glad and I was much surprised to see so stout and lusty a woman so strangely reduced to nothing in so much as had it not been that I was sent for in her name I could not have known her I took with me Pills and Antidote I gave her two spoonfuls of my Antidote which did answer my expectation for it put her into a breathing sweat and also she slept a matter of four hours I stirred not my foot till thorow the blessing of God I had very good signs of her recovery but when I saw the surly behaviour of all as well the servants as kindred thorow the whole family I did not wonder I was not called sooner the Gentleman himself I never saw all the time of the cure the gentlewoman could trust no creature with my things I was fain to give with my own hands as much as possibly my business would permit till the Gentlewoman got strength and kept the Pills alwayes about her and and had regard to her self it was an unusal time before this Gentlewoman could get abroad the reason all may discern was the withholding from her that which did her good and in stead of it give her that which did no good and being of a good nature in this case proved to her great hurt but blessed be God she soon did attain health and so remains using my Pills now and then to keep her in health as she has occasion For Small Pox which generally doth light on children and young people this I say upon good experience that my Pill is always good and profitable whensoever it is taken at any time of the disease either in the beginning of them or the middle of them or the latter end of them it can never be taken a miss except you give such a dosse as is not proper for them that take it for it always strengthens the vital spirits cleanseth the blood and fortifies the heart and if the small Pox be struck in again this Pill doth forthwith throw them out again with great safety as we have much experience hereof but if it be taken before they appear that nature be able it will relieve them by working the Surfeit out by vomit or by siege or sweat or Urin all the ways that nature hath to friend but if the Surfeit have got strength enough that they cannot be prevented then doth it throw them out in a most gallant easie manner so that the patient being freed of all Feavorish symptomes and alwayes lying in a breathing sweat is so sweetly disposed as he doth hardly fail of a meals meat all the time he hath them upon him but suddainly will recover with great strength and freedom A lusty young man having got many Surfeits one upon another felt himself not well for two or three dayes together but not knowing what sicknes was would not yield unto it while he was able to hold up his head and being in my company much complained how ill he was and that he doubted he should be able to hold up his head no longer I gave him presently a little Pill about four grains which now he is well one six fold so big would hardly fur him but as soon as it was well down his throat he fell into a vomiting with extream violence I could tell him his breast was full of poison but what was the matter further with him I did not know for the present he had some ease after his vomiting I gave him a Pill at least 18 grains to take when he went to bed which he did and that in like sort set him a vomiting most of that night and most of the next day it also purged his gall of divers collours but the woman where he lay would let him take no more the two that I lest for him she threw them in the fire and cries out against my Pills for making him sick but that night the Small Pox appeared all over his skin and being over-ruled was not so happy as to continue with my Pills which had drove them from his heart into his skin and for want of more the disease grew extream upon him and he all over covered with them and in flux extreamly and was for a time stark distracted and talked idle of he knew not what they imployed two called Doctors but to no purpose indeed it was beyond all mens judgement that he did escape withlise but as soon as he was master of himself he called for mare of my Pills which he had but did not vomit any more he saith and I believe will say while he liveth that nothing that ever he took did him any good but my Pills which did free his heart of them and as means did save his life which is undoubtedly true and I am confident if they had been given to seconded that which I did give him his sickness would not have been above the tenth of what it was for such is our experience that if it cannot altogether prevent them yet it doth so dispose them that they are not like the disease for some that in reason would have been as bad as any yet by their constant and thorow use of my Pills all the time of their being ill have hardly missed one meals meat but quickly with strength and vigor have been restored It helpeth the shaking and trembling of the joynts strengtheneth the brains and increaseth memory I have already spoke enough of the Palsie or shaking of the joynts for strengthening of the brain and memory I say I am thorow Gods rich mercy and goodness a living monument and testimony of its true vertue power and effect for they are at this day far better then when I was but seventeen yeers old and my sight as good as ever since I had them for any thing I can perceive and that is as good as any
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
have said but will grant that which hath power thus to work can also go further when a wise man hath it in hand above this Balsom thou wilt receive a sour Flegm I do not know â—ny thing it is good for and above that thou wilt receive a deep red Oyl which separate from this Balsom and Flegm and that rectified once in ashes and a second time in Balneo Maria thus far I went with it and no further for my own use and I found it precious above gold There came a fat man to me once that was troubled with strange fits and would beat himself and foam at mouth and when any thing did over charge his spirits he would fall into those fits I gave him some of this spirit of Pine and willed him to drink four five or eight drops and more as he found it work and that he could bear it in a weeks time or a little more he sent me word he was cured I willed him to proceed for sometime however and one morning after he had drunk this Oyl going among his neighbors they smelt a strong smell at last they said it was like Tar he fancied I had given him somewhat made of Tar was angry with me choosing rather to have his fits still rather then take any thing of Tar I think it is very fit this man should keep his fits still onely I am afraid he hath some fits more then doth him good the abundant mercy from heaven is manifest in the freedom of nature to all men which offers her treasures free without price and God gives wisdom to men to search it out and happy is that man whose heart is set open and free to do good imitating God and nature in their bountuous gifts and as palpable is that mans folly who deprives himself of those blessings freely offered unto him and thrice more wretched is that man who withholds those mercies from mankind unto whom the highest hath freely granted them for what have I or another that we have not received and wherefore have we received but to fullfill the ends of the giver miserable is that man that wants that witness in heaven and in his own conscience the blessing that I have received in the taking of my Pill and in the giving it to others hath hindred me from making thorow proof of this Oyl and Balsom I have given thee a plain receipt and leave thee to Almighty God in the use of it I know no more but to drink it in the morning two hours before meat it break wind upward all day and causeth appetite digesteth meat and where these are there will not want strength so I write because so I have found by good experience note drop it upon a spoonful of Ale or Beer handsomely throw it down that thou touch it not nor let the spoon touch it so will you smell of it either not at all or very little and the like for oyl of Amber but when you belch you will taste it hardly else I know the scornful will not touch it but the pained will be glad to use those things that doth them ease Now I will plainly give thee a plain receit which hath been kept up as a great treasure and so indeed it is as I thing no man of any judgement but will so judg it I cannot speak of my own knowledge much of it but my good friend from whom I have it hath been for many years relieved by it when other means failed him and he being satisfied with my pressing desires to do good freely gave it me to that end and I freely give it you it will speak for it self it is of very inconsiderable preparation and yet of great effect and thou maist prepare as much in few hours as will contain one thousand dosses I know there are many good Gentlemen and Gentlewomen which desire to do good unto their poor neighbor I intreat them attend to this I have done it it is so easily done as it deserves not the name of a Chymical preparation I also have known it safe and profitable and worketh so sweetly as indeed it is a Medicin to be desired To prepare Antimony Take one part of Antimony and six parts of the best India Salt-peeter pound them together and serce them thorow a hair sive take a strong crusible three square and let it stand clean in a strong sire of Charcole have a spoon tied unto a stick put in a spoonful and it will burn but in more and more as it burneth till the crusible is full take a clean Tobaco pipe with the little end stir it well let it boil and stir that till you are sure it will sparkle no more have a Brasse or Iron Morter clean stand by you and with your Tonges take up your crusible empty it into the Morter set it again in the fire and go on as at first untill you have done all that you intend to do for that time have a care to keep strong fire it should be upon a grate that it may be strong bring this unto sine powder and sear it thorow a Lawn five and it is prepared for your use Note that if it do not fire as you do expect touch it with a live coal and set it on fire Antimony thus prepared is depurated of all its fecis and poisonous qualities loosing utterly its maligne heat it purgeth copiously without trouble and molestation all grosse cold and Tartarous humors and openeth all stopped passages To prepare Scamony Take of the best Scamony what quantity you please and beat it to powder and serce it have ready a Tobacco drier and put upon it a spungy thin brown paper take your Embers and strow in Brimstome into the fire hold over the Scamony so that the fumes of the Brimstone may take thorow the paper and when you perceive that it sticks unto the Paper but as thick as a half crown or shilling cast off the rest upon a clean Paper with a spoon scrape off what sticks upon the paper for it is prepared then put on again the powder of Scamony and cast into your fire more powder of Brimstone till you perceive that some doth stick unto your paper then cast off the loose powder and scrape off with a spoon as formerly and this work you must repeat untill all your Scamony have been scrapt off in like manner then is it all prepared but you must be sure to take it off as soon as your can least your Scamony quite loose all its vertue as it will if you sume it too much with the Brimstone Scamony thus prepared is good against chollar and all thin hot humors having in it neither savor nor smell purgeth very easily without pain which is corrary unto all other preparations The preparation of the cream of Tartar is ordinary or the Crystals of Tartar to be had at any Drugist used in this Portion Note that all these three is