Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	divine_a	life_n	soul_n	5,625	5	5.0009	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30806	Horæ subsecivæ, or, Some long-vacation hours redeem'd for the discovery of the true sal volatile oleosum of the ancient philosophers now happily regain'd to the materia medica : and distinguish'd from all other preparations, partly by the senses, but more effectually by its medicinal performances, totally extirpating the saline stem of acids (the root of most diseases) and inferring the volatile oleose temper, the standard of health in humane bodies / by T. Byfield ...	Byfield, T. (Timothy); Byfield, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing B6397; ESTC R36317	13,427	33

Horae Subsecivae OR Some Long-Vacation Hours Redeem'd For the Discovery of the True SAL VOLATILE OLEOSUM OF THE Ancient Philosophers Now happily regain'd to the MATERIA MEDICA AND Distinguish'd from all other Preparations partly by the Senses but more effectually by its Medicinal Performances totally extirpating the Saline Stem of Acids the Root of most Diseases and inferring the Volatile Oleose Temper The Standard of Health in Humane Bodies By T. Bysield M. D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians in DVBLIN LONDON Printed And are to be Sold by J. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall M DC XC V. THE VOLATILE OLEOSE TEMPER THE Standard of Health IN HUMANE BODIES MAN the accomplish'd Draught of the Universe Prince of all Creatures and of the Lower World for his super-celestial and divine Soul has an immortal Ray of the Divine Light reflected to the same by the sharp Sight and soaring Contemplations of his Mind which shew he is a dependent Spirit on the Father of the Spirits of all Flesh And for his Body he has a beautified Composure of the Elements a perfect mixture in Life illuminated with an undiscernable Spark of Celestial Fire the Form of a mixt Body first surrounded with a Radical Moisture then bound to an Elementary Body by the Mediation of the Spirit giving it individual Being And Life thus deriv'd is the most supream and compleat Act of Nature For the Souls of Living Creatures are vastly distant from the dark and earthy Matter of their Bodies till by this subtile mean of an Aetherial Spirit they are fastned to 'em by the strictest Tye in Nature The former of these two Souls I leave to the Conduct of Divines the latter falling within my Sphere I 'll endeavour to direct into an harmonious Union with the Body by the help of the Spirit which is a small portion of the purest Air a middle Nature betwixt the Body and Soul light and invisible temper'd with Fire Volatile and a most pure Substance begetting Vital Spirits Its first Cloathing is with an Universal Sperm begot on Sulphureo-Saline Exhalations drawn up into the Air rowling up and down in the Belly of the Wind till it takes up its proper Residence in the Seeds of Things And thus descending to the Lower Region it assumes the Moisture of a watery Vapour and by degrees the Element of Water which is a mean betwixt the Air and Earth a passive yielding Nature assuming multiplied Shapes apt to mix with things delighted much in motion fit to receive and preserve every thing that 's subtile capable of the heavenly Influences and to convey 'em thro' the Pores of our Earth which is an empty place into which all the other Elements project their Virtues a proper Receptacle for the Spiritual Elements a convenient hiding place to conceal the Principles and Operations of Nature Here I may take notice how the four Elements which upholds the Fabrick of the World continually acting one upon the other beget and bring to light the fundamental Principles of Nature and Philosophy The Fire acting on the Air produces Sulphur The Air acting on the Water brings forth Mercury The Water acting on the Earth brings forth Salt The Earth having nothing to work upon brings forth nothing So that we must take up with three Principles out of the four Elements But I must not enter into so large a Field since I design but a short Lecture not so much for Theory as to demonstrate a rational Practice from my Sal Volatile sulphureum which is the most sensible and beneficial Performance I shall therefore consider that the joyning of the Principles well or ill together makes up a perfect or imperfect Body And that the prime Agent is the Fire that is plac'd in mixt Bodies and hath chosen the Radical Moisture as its proper seat the principal residence of which in Man is in the Heart the Centre of the little World the prime Organ of Life altho' it be diffus'd thro' all the parts of the Body But there commanding from its Castle doth move concordantly all the Faculties and Organs and breath Life into the Spirits Humours and the whole elementary Mass It s Food is a vivi●ical Spirit flowing down from the Superiour Natures thro' the Air which becomes a natural oleose ferment and food of Life without which neither Man nor any living Creature cou'd subsist for Man lives not by Bread alone but by the heavenly Food of Air. Yet the Lamp must be fed with the nutritious Juices of corruptible Bodies which have in 'em a fixt Fire But the less we partake of those Meats and Drinks which have lost their supple nourishing Particles the more evenly we feed our vital flame For salt Meats sour Drinks firy Wines and strong Drams are like so many fire-works thrown into the Magazeen of the Heart which will blow up the Man 'T is of dangerous consequence to enrage our Calidum innatum making flushings of Wild-fire to run about our Bodies like flashes of Lightning from the Heavens As the Sun is the Centre amongst the Spheres of the Planets and scatters its beams downward by its motion so is the Heart the Centre of the Body which by its perpetual Motion in Conjunction with the Air in circulating the Blood sends heat to the Superficies of the Body which we allay from day to day with Liquids that penetrate our Pores and cool it In imitation of the Air and Clouds which flying round the World temper and mitigate the heat of the heavenly Sun For as the heat of the Sun would destroy all things and nothing produc'd in Nature if the Air and Clouds did not intervene so wou'd the invisible central fire of Bodies consume 'em if balmy Sulphurs and watery Vapours coming betwixt did not prevent it 'T is the universal Fire thro' the medium of the Air that governs all the subordinate sixt Fires of Bodies for Air hath ingress into Air and they join themselves together Nature being delighted in Nature And by how much the greater are the Pores by so much the better the Body may be purify'd Thus beams of Light incircled with radical moisture are our spiritual Nourishment But that will not support us without corporeal Nutriment the former will avail but little without the latter We stand in need therefore of Food that the natural Spirits may be recruited which do continually slide forth thro' the Pores for thus we must maintain a successive repair of the loss of Nature Our nourishing Juices are made by the more succulent substance of our Meat whereby the Parts and Humours of the Body are reinforc'd The radical Moisture is renewed out of the purer Particles of Blood with the celestial Influences intermingling with 'em by Respiration Thus the natural Ferment of Man's Body as well from his spiritual as his corporeal Diet seems to consist in a Sulphureo-Saline Temperament which Vital Union becomes more inbodied in oleose Salts and then assumes a greater Corporeity The spiritual Sulphurs are