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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

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 hypocrit● 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 filthines●● those who separating themselves from those fro● whom Jesus Christ doth not separate himself those which make dipping the ground of the● communion not union with Christ it is a wo●der to look back and consider the firy zeal of ●●ny and whereunto it hath tended God grant the rest may be admonished to pray and wait u●till the Temple be opened in heaven and a live●● Vision of the Ark of his Covenant the presumptions of men now in this dark and smoky day● to be wondred at but it is evident no ma● can enter till the appointed time and indeed it is evident that excepting those Ordinances which are granted in common whic● 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 wo●●● 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 tha● 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

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

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

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 wi●● thy fall be when not supported if that ligh● 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 seve● worse then himself and worse will be thy latte● end my heart bleeds within me when I call 〈◊〉 mind how many great lights or stars have bee● 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 re● are so blinded as not to lay it to heart so to hea●● 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 turn●● out of the way also I will at this time abrevia●● this discourse for the truths sake which you have yet a pretence unto I know there are a few na●● 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 reme●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 sensib●● of the deceitfulness of his heart that he durst 〈◊〉 look upon a woman this man takes in th●● 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 blasph●●my and do all this without the least remorce or sign of remorce but this other sort for

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

on of water till it be no more sharp let all be clean filtred and vapor away the half or above and it will shoot into transparant green Chrystals very fair Vitriol vapor yet again and it will shoot again if thou hast vapored enough of it away take all the Chrystals or Vitriol and lay it abroad on a well glazed dish and set it in a stove or in the Sun in his strength and it will break into white powder then put it into a clean distilled water and it will dissolve filter it again coagulate it into Chrystals it will shoot into far more fairer Vitriol then the ●irst this ought to be repeated so oft till it will ●et no more fecis but at this twice it will be in a very honorable condition and so far I have gon● dry it well it will be a white yellow powder and keep it close ●●opt in a glass for thy use of this powder ten or twelve grains in the morning and so for a week toge●he● ●is profitable to bring the Flowers if drunk in good white wine and stirring upon it it sometimes causeth vomiting sometimes purging and sometimes neither it easeth the breast of stopping helps Rickits and killeth worms give to children three or four grains according to their strength it is a choice Medicin as I have proved If thou would draw the Oyl of Vitriol thy self take good Copperas and in a new earthen pan boyl it dry beat it to powder put it in long necks lute fast draw it with judgement as much as the Oyle of Amber is some calcine it red first as I have done my self but for this work it need not so be done A true Receit of the powder of Sympathy or the Sumpathetical powder made of Roman Vitriol lately commended by Sir Kenelme Digby but no plain Receit given which I here perform and freely give thee knowing that there is none better Take what quantity of Roman Vitriol thou wilt dissolve it in rain water but put no more water then will dissolve it always leaving some undissolved in the bottom filter it as clean as possible let thy water be milk warm in thy dissolution put it in a clean glass-body set in sifted ashes and give it gentle heat so that it never exceed the heat of thy belly and in that heat let it vapor away till thou see it covered with a Catecula or thin scum or cream then withdraw thy fire let it sland unmolested for three days covering it well that nothing fall into it then with a glass spoon or wooden spoon take out the coagulated Vitriol which is shot into fair green Chrystals then kindle thy fire again and with like degree continue till it be covered with a scum withdraw thy fire again let it stand other three days take up again with a wooden spoon the coagulation this you must repeat untill thou hast the substance of thy Vitriol again but freed from much of its filth take all thy Vitriol which thou hast gathered spread it on a glass or well glazed dish in the heat of the Sun or in defect thereof a clean stone of equal heat with the scum and take heed thou dost not exceed for then wilt thou leese its vital parts which are quickly volatil and subtil neither wilt thou attain any more greenness on thy Vitriol which when thou perceivest begin again all is lost understand thy degrees of fire better but if you give it its dew heat then will it break into a white powder and the greenness which is its life will obscure and hide it self then take it again and in rain water distilled twice dissolve it as at first Now mark I bring thee again to thy beginning and there I leave thee for this work thou shouldst repeat so oft and so long till it set no more fecis to thee but conclude when thou wilt thou seest what Sir Kenelum Digby doth write viz. The Antients did use this Vitriol in its grosse body beat to powder I have here given thee so true away as I know none better for in this thou bringst it beyond what is fit to be written and doth hold preserve and keep all its power both spiritual sympathetical fixt and Volatil If thou hast ears I have said much what is wanting unto thee consult with Van Helmount Aswall Groby Mr. Boulton and Sir Kenelme Digby Being moved fully with good will I will here give thee one receit more the like I confidently affirm never saw the light for the good of mankind and whosoever will be perswaded upon my faith and credit always to have it truely and faithfully prepared may with much confidence cease from all other things in the world quietly commit themselves and relations into the hands of Almighty God in the use of this with quietness and rest and I speak boldly if this prove short to correct thy Feavor and heal thy disease and hath not power to purge thy blood and throw all out that is noxtious unto thy vital Spirit let thy ailes be what they will look not for it to be done in this world I pitty thy fugitive mind and pray for thee when I see thee hunt from one man to another and from one Medicine unto another which is indeed the harbinger of death but if thou art admonished from thy vain worshipping of men to fall off and with a quiet mind pray and use this and therein rest waiting upon God I am sully possest and perswaded in my conscience it is sufficient for thee and if thou as blind as Bayard cry out of the strong poison of the subjects viz. Poppey and black Hellebor thou snarling fool cease and first learn the power of Salt of Tartar and do not bewray thy folly and ignorance till thou hast proved its power least thou give just occasion of perpetual laughter unto those whom experience hath taught informed I do confess I can exempt no Medicin in the world but my Pill and Antidote whose receits I may not at present here give thee and this I protest unto thee that if thou hast made a right use of this that I have here in full and plain words taught I should have small hope with any thing I am made Master of to help and cure where this cannot and therefore as thou hast respect unto thy life consider what I now teach thee I say I teach thee under God for I have not had the least light or guide from any breathing or from any book but God Almighty my Lord and good Master hath been my guide and therefore I with joy do ascribe unto him all praise and thansgiving for ever Rec. Take one pound of the best White Rhennish Tartar and one pound of India Salt-peeter bring them to powder in a stone Morter serce them thorow a Hair Sive take a Pipkin that was never used set it upon Charcole let the bottom heat as the coals do kindle put in a spoonful of this