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

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

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 ●●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

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