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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47242	An appendix to The unlearned alchimist wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent diaphoretick and diuretick pill, purging by sweat and urine, commonly known by the name of Matthew's pill : with the exact manner of preparing and making of it, and the particular nature and virtue of the several ingredients, as also of the pill / by G. Kendall ...	Kendall, George, 1610-1663.; Mathews, Richard, d. 1661. Unlearned alchymist.	1664 (1664)	Wing K283; ESTC R8493	25,129	66

instruments for the advancing his kingdome Yea such is that inbred corruption that is adhaerent to the best of natures that as Christ saith except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God This is a received truth in the Theory but how a verse are we generally from embracing it in the practical part of it Paul tells us Gal. 2.20 that he is crucified with Christ and that he lives not but Christ liveth in him he was taken off from the activity of his own naturall principles and now solely caried forth and acted by the Spirit of Christ do not our actions declare the contrary of us there is none I suppose so void of reason as to affirm that their earthly sensuall earnall actings are the product of that pure and imaculate Spirit of the Lord Jesus On that all that challenge the name of Christian would seriously confider this he is a true Christian indeed that can say with Paul the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world I am no more enamoured with or have my affections set upon the world or the things of it than they would be upon a dead carkass yea such a contemptible carkass as hath been executed on a Crosse or Gallows and I am crucified to the world A man that is dead can feel no injury that is done to him strip him cut him mangle him dispose of his body at your pleasure he is not sensible of it This is the happy condition of a true Christian his delight is not in the things of this world and makes it not his business to scrape them together and grow great here neither is he affected with the affronts and injuries that are inflicted by the world he is above the rage and malice thereof and he is made thus free by true mortification It is a hard thing to be breif in this subject I hope it will not be taken amisse being I conceive a seasonable word In the like though far inferior manner is it with medicinall simples the most truculent of them when once there is true mortification and destruction of their virulency are made not only safe but admirably efficacious yea the best of them have their crudities and noxious qualities which by decoctions digestions or some other previous preparations are to be destroyed before they can be made wholly safe and Salutiferous This work is fully done in this Pill by them that rightly prepare it The rose is gathered to your hand the sting is taken from the Bee and you may suck the hony without danger And now at the last I desire you to remember that I said this is not an universal medicin some diseases are so fixt and radicated that they require that which is more powerful of which sort are some medicaments prepared from minerall Sulphurs of which the author of this Pil is seldom unfurnished But though it be not universal yet it is of a very large extent and he that shall with a patient waiting for a blessing upon it continue the use of it wil not have need to seek for other in the diseases to which the particular ingredients are appropriated or that arise from the distempers that they are powerful in the removing of And now for the help of weak memories I shal adjoin at the end the copy of a Bill given ordinarily out with them wherin you have a catalogue of diseases not at an adventure heaped together but such as by certain experience this Pill hath been found helpfull in POSTSCRIPT Courteous friend and friendly Reader HAving now for a years time compleat been acquainted with Mr. George Kendall the Author of this foregoing Treatise and being informed by him of the instructions he received from the Unlearned Alchymist as to the preparing of that Diaphoretick and Diuretick Pill I had occasion to acquaint my self with his preparation as to the Encheiretical part and in some particulars did inform him how by no great pains and with a little cost he might better that preparation tenfold and moreover how to exalt that very process onely by a secret in operation beyond what Mr. Mathews ever wrought or knew according to which he hath made his Pills to my knowledge as far exceeding the Unlearned Alchymists which I fear will grow each day worse in his Widows hand and is no more then himself feared in his life time of which I am witness as a pebble is exceeded in worth and value by a Diamond as those who desire may experiment in both I may judge my self able to discern and determine as to this particular being the first Author of the Process that ever was known by effect or writing in Europe or the World and from whom he received what he had for other ends and on other terms then he practised after he knew it Several hundreds among whom are many of Honor and Learning know that the secret was known and used by me in the year 1651 five years before his name on this score was known in the world they therefore who will may believe my testimony or else may by proof be convinced How far yet this preparation hath by me been advanced I shall declare at large in a Tractate speedily intended to be made publick in which I shall give a large account and make a desirable discovery of such medicinal secrets in comparison of which this will be accounted trivial although really excelling all Galenical Compositions This for the honor and justification of this learned and truly ingenous Author I thought good to add as a testimony and vindication of him from that fogg which hath endeavored to choak his credit raised by an envious Muck-fork raking in a Dunghil in hopes to find a precious Pearle which is challenged by GEORGE STARKEY who is a Philosopher by the Fire St. Thomas Apostles next door to black Lyon Court at the Coffee-sign Octob. 19. 1663. THough by reason of my living at a distance from London I could not appear at the beginning of this work yet I conceive it concerns me to give my testimony to what hath been in this Book affirmed How our friend Mr. Mathews communicated the receit to me and Jonathan Loddington you have it faithfully related by Jonathan Loddington when it was given to George Kendal I was present and can testifie that Mr. Mathews did affirm that what alteration he had made in his Pill after he had given the receipt to us was wholly contained in this latter and this he then gave him upon this condition waving all former proposals that had past between them that he should promise to perform such Articles as he himself should when he had convenient leisure draw up But it pleased God suddenly after this to visit him with sickness and in that sickness he did charge us all as you have heard to make it publick if he lived not to do it which we had done before this had we not been prevented by that engagement being made known to