great mens sins whilest you see and hear the glorious Name of God dishonoured and dare not or will not reprove for the same consider what the Psalmist saith 50.16 But unto the wicked said God what hast thou to do to declare mine ordinances that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behinde thee For when thou seest a thiefe thou runnest with him and thou art partakers with the adulterers vers 22. O consider ye that forget God least I teare you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Now therefore I beseech you observe that those that run with the wicked and are partakers with the ungodly in their wicked delights are those whom the Lord shall tear in pieces thus you see that not onely the wicked themselves but also their associates and partakers shall be torne in pieces in the day of Gods fearfull wrath O consider this sweet meat must have sower sawce and then I trust through the Lords great mercy you will utterly refuse it upon those tearmes for what were it to gaine the whole world and to loose our soules But to conclude if neither perswasions nor exhortations may prevaile with you to break the neck of your Cock-fighting pleasures consider wel with your self that the Lord hath put you as it were into the Cock-pit of the round world to fight his battel against the flesh the world and the divel the strongest striking the sorest hitting and the cunningest fighting Cock in the world who is onely to be wounded with the spurres of faith and piety and that all those that wil overcome in this battell must be thorowly fed with the word of God and dayly breath with prayer and meditation whereby they strengthen their faith and sharpen the spurres of their holy zeale and those that neglect this meanes let them brag never so much upon their own dunghill yet when it comes to a sound tryall they will prove themselves to be brand fallen Cravens and likewise consider that every houre idely spent and every vaine word that proceeds out of your mouth is as it were vain to your soule and all unlawfull pleasures like hovells upon the spurres of your devotion and then with wisdom consider what an unlikely or rather impossible a thing it is for a poor famisht Cock pitifully vained and thus hung and hovelled to overcome a Cock of that wonderfull strength and devilish spirit that you are matched withall Again suppose that those that sit in the lower ring of the Cock-pit are the Divells and wicked Spirits and those that sit in the upper ring of the Cock-pit are the glorious Angels and blessed Saints both behoulding this doubtfull battell though with contrary affections the angels reioycing when they see you fight this spirituall battell like a good souldier of Jesus Christ that wicked Spirits wohping and hallowing when they see you strike faint fight like a Craven and fall beastly and hear dear brother that we make our selves a laughing stock to this wicked spirits let us pray unto our Lord Jesus Christ to strengthen our faith and to assist us with his grace that we may resiist the devill and make him flie from us and in the end tread Sathan underfoot and give us a crown of immortall glorie Amen Lord Jesus From your truly loving brother though he deals thus plainly with you Iohn Spencer GOod Sir Robert Carr I have receaved your â—etter and do acknowledge my thankfullâ—e unto you that you are pleased to have so good opinion of me and my endeavoures to commit your brother unto my care and ordering and that all things accomodate unto my desire at Steeford but I must entreat you that I may be spared for my coming to undertake care of him so farre remoted from my family I have my hands full of such dangerous employments again I hear there are suits in law betwixt you his mother my Ladie Carr who should I think have the custodie of him and therefore matters standing upon those litigious termes I should be loath to meddle with him but if you would bring him into this country I should be glad to do you the best service I can and the rather because his mother is very willing to commit him to my care but if my directions may do you or him any pleasure I have sent them unto you and desire you to employ Master Dixie that hath lived with me and is acquainted with his courses and so I beseech the Lord to blesse these or any other good meanes to yeild him comfort I take my leave and rest Desirous to do you service JOHN SPENCER The direction for Master Rochester Carr. OVr help is in the Name of the Lord that made heaven and earth First therefore let that blessed Lord be humbly fought unto by fasting and prayer Secondly let the distressed gentleman be removed from his own house unto some other convenient place well situate for aire and spacious fields to walk in and to do other exercises Thirdly settle with him a religious discreet Divine that may constantly pray with him and read unto him evening and morning and upon all good occasions to keep him company Fourthly place about him six honest servants men of good discretion and resolution that may be ready upon all occasions to aid and assist in the well ordering of him according to the dirrections of him that shall undertake the government of him to watch with him to ride with him and to exercise with him in shooting or bowling or any other exercise that shall be thought fit for him Fiftly let them be very carefull and take heed that there be no knives nor swords nor any wounding instruments left in the roomes wherein he comes nor worn by others that he may suddenly snatch at them for their temptations are many times very violent and their resolution sudden and disperate Sixtly let his apparell be decent and comely of cloth or plaine stuffe without lace or any such curious trimming and let his attendants give him no titles of honour but in civillity call him Master Rotchester or Master Carr and when he doth any thing wel then to shew the more respect unto him but otherwise to slight him as those that are set over him to command him and not to be commanded by him Sevently let his diet be sparing and moderate rather to support nature then to pomper the flesh veale lambe pheasant larkes smelts troutes pike pearch also let him fast often and pray much let him refraine from all kinde of wines and strong drink if you can by any meanes let him sleep six or seven houres in the foure and twenty and not above Eightly let him be held constantly to prayer and reading an houre in the morning and an hour in the evening and if the weather be fitting and his strength answerable let him walke a mile out right in the morning and evening and if you finde him inclining to
God at all or else with Cain to thinke our punishment greater then we can beare but even from your weaknesse and from Sathans malice doth the Lord draw out that which may tend to his glory and to your great comfort and hereby I trust he hath broken up the fallow grounds of your heart and brought you to godly sorrow for your sins so that I do assure my selfe within this short time of your afflictions more repentant teares have been put up into the Lords bottle then in many yeers before account not this as a small blessing nor passe it over with a slight thankfulnesse but take speciall notice of it assure your selfe this faire will not last all the yeer and the time will come when you will desire to see these teares of contrition and shall not see them no though you seek them with fasting and prayer and that you may the better conceave how blessed their estate is that have a contrite heart and sorrowfull spirit I pray consider of that wonderfull comfortable promise of the Lord Isaiah 57.15 For thus saith he that is high and excellent that inhabiteth eternity whose name is the holy one I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life unto them that are of a contrite heart who would think themselves most happy that had a heart fit to entertaine that glorious guest thus likewise doth the holy prophet testifie Psal. 34.13 The Lord is near unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as are afflicted in spirit and our blessed Saviour in whose mouth was no guile he saith blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted and in the 16 of S. Iohn verse the 20 Verily verily I say unto you ye shall weepe and lament and the world shall reioyce and ye shall sorrow but your sorrow shall be turned into ioy a woman when she travelleth hath sorrow because her hower is come but assoone as she is delivered of the childe she remembreth no more the anguish for ioy a man is borne into the world and you now therefore are in sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall reioyce and your ioy shall no man take from you Thus you may see this godly sorrow is but as the throes of our spirituall birth in Christ which although it may be somewhat grievous for a time yet when we see our selves thereby borne againe of water and the spirit and so made able to enter into the Kingdome of heaven oh how ioyfull and comfortable should this make us to be many would with Zebedees sons sit one at the right hand the other at the left hand of our Saviour Christ in his kingdome but they are loth to tast of this cup but let us know assuredly that as he is entred into his Kingdome of glory through many tribulations so must we follow him thorow many tribulations if ever we will come there you are now in the way be not weary of well doing nor turn not backe till you come to that holy resting place and that you may finish your course with ioy and comfort be diligent in prayer and observe a constant course therein evening and morning and at noone dayes and as often as you finde your affliction to presse and oppresse your soule then make your mone unto your mercifull God and powre out your soules before him and especially bewaile wicked thoughts and vaine lusts where withall you heretofore so much delighted your selfe and labour to mourn in secret for them and likewise all other secret sins and that your prayers may be more fervent adde thereunto the holy use of moderate fasting and this I trust through the Lords mercy you shall finde an excellent meanes to recover your selfe unto your spirituall chearfulnesse again and be not discouraged from these holy exercises though Sathan strive never so much to vex and terrifie you nay though you feare the Lord is angry with you nay though you knew that assuredly yet pray with the Psasiuist Psal. 80.5 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people Secondly having in this holy manner recomended your soule and body unto God in prayer waite upon him with a quiet minde assuring your selfe that now the Lord is to take care of you and therefore cast your care upon him and so with a setled resolution dispose of your selfe unto some profitable imployments fitting for your calling and this course the Prophet David tooke Psal. the 5.3 Heare my voyce in the morning O Lord for in the morning wil I direct me unto thee and I will wait and what good successe those have that do thus attend we may read in the Psalm 147.11 But the Lord delighteth in them that fear him and attend upon his mercy Thirdly labour for meeknesse of heart and an humble spirit for where this grace is in some reasonable manner attayned there the heart of affliction doth breake away apace and the danger thereof is little to be feared for our blessed Saviour hath pronounced a double blessednesse unto such Matthew the 5. Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the earth And the want thereof hath driven many in their desperate fury to loose their inheritance both in heaven and earth Fourthly take heed of moderate greife and violent passions which at this time is very unseasonable though easily fallen into and therefore watch over your own heart diligently and doe not entertaine so much as a sorrowfull sigh into your heart except it be for your sin nor an impatient word into your lippes except it be when you see God dishonoured and then speake zealously and spare not and furthermore you must be contented to be admonished of these infirmities by your Christian friends with whom you do converse for it may be they may discerne these things amisse in you when you doe not discerne it in your selfe being overwhelmed with the pleasing humour of Sottish melancholy Lastly that you may well remember it you must by all meanes possible strive to serve the Lord with a cheerfull heart and a willing minde for the Lord loveth a chearfull giver and especially in matters of his holy worship therefore when you come to hear his holy word to fast to pray to religious conference or any other holy duty strive to doe it chearefully and to reioyce even in your very teares for I can tell you that is a good cause to make both you and others reioyce it may be you thinke it strange but read what Saint Paul saith to his intirely beloved Timotheus and then I hope you will say I am in the right desiring to see thee mindfull of thy teares that I might be filled with ioy 2. of Timothy the 1.6 And for neglect of this duty the Lord
battell grew very bloody and mortall on both sides and almost all the Peers of England and all the Nobilitie of Scotland lay slaine in the field and then the valiant King Charles seeing it grew to such extremity descended the hill and with great fury and resolution charged the scattered body of the Scottish Army and made a great slaughter of them and so obtained the victory and forc'd them to leave the field and then returned to mourn over his noble Peers that there lay slain upon the ground which put me into such a passion of weeping that meeting with Mr. Saul our Preacher and Mr. Bauldin and they seeing of me in such a passion of mourning and desirous to know the cause thereof I could not declare to them the cause of my great sorrow but went into the Church and prayed with a troubled spirit The Lord grant if it be thy blessed will that it may prove but a melancholy Conceit but oh that your Highnesse would be be graciously pleased to call a Parliament 〈◊〉 the faces of these brave Armies towards the Palatinate to settle your Royall Sister in her inheritance and set at liberty your capitive Nephew Prince Robert and soe you shall make all the Princes of Christendome stand amaz'd at your high prudence and great magnanimitie Consider what I say and doe it and the Lord will bring it to passe and then make you the most renouned King of the Christian world amen amen good King Charles send for Colonell Fleetwood hee is a valiant man and of great abilities and will doe you faithfull service in your war I heare he is lately married to a great mans daughter in those parts but if it please your Highnesse to command him he will leave his young Lady to doe you service And now seeing things through Gods gracious providence doe thus happily concur I beseech your highnesse give me leave to renue my former suit unto you and your honourable Court of Parliament for the happy and honourable uniting of these brave Armies make your Nephew the Prince Elector who was now so happily in your Court make him Generall to lead these brave Armies into the Palatinate to settle your Royall Sister in her inheritance and to set at liberty his brother Prince Robert for that is a shame to all the Princes of Christendome to see a distressed lady so long insulted over by such a bloody Tyrant and for the support and transporting of these Armies I would willingly give ten Subsedies besides those are already given and I hope every able and faithfull Subiect in the Land will doe the same that so this Royall Prince may beat out the proud Enemie out of the Palatinate and then settle the Emperiall Crowne of Germany upon his Royall head and lead his victoriors Army unto Romes gates sack the Citie and burn the Whore of Babylon with fire and so fulfill the Prophecie Revel. 17.16.17 verses And the ten hornes which thou sawest upon the Beast are they that shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and burne her with fire for God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will Amen Lord Jesus amen The humble Petition of your loyall sinfull Subiect Iohn Spencer A Coppie of a Letter to a great Peer of this Land upon a strange discontentment betwixt him and his beautifull Lady about the passing of two Manners unto his onely Sonne as brave and as noble a gentleman as this Kingdome afforded the Letter I delivered unto his owne hand he read it and retired himselfe into an inward Chamber wept much and came out againe unto me gave me thanks and said never man desired more to gaine a woman than he did to gaine her to this effect never did I in al my time know such great dislike about such a slight occasion betwixt two so vertuous so noble so beautifull and amiable and so long reioycing in happy enioying one another as will appeare in this dolorous discovrse IT may seem strange unto your Lordship that a stranger should write unto you in this strange fashion but then I beseech you in the feare of God consider the strange course that you have taken that forceth me thereunto for is it not strange yet most strange that so noble grave and religious a man should forsake his wife being a vertuous beautifull and religious Lady make it not your owne case and would you thinke it possible a wise man should be so transported but beleeve it my Lord such a thing may be such a thing is and as the Prophet Nathan said unto King David Thou art the man that have behaved your selfe so undiscreely and forwardly for have not you forsaken the wife of your youth that vertuous and beautifull Lady with whom you have lived with great happinesse these twenty yeares who hath approved her faithfull love and constancie unto you in so many strange and forraigne Countries and adventured her selfe in so many dangerous passages both by sea and land to yeeld you comfort and contentment now to forsake her when you are gray headed and stand more in need of your mutuall societie and comfort but now to forsake her to grieve your friends and make your enemies reioice to forsake her to vex your selves and to ruinate your estate and to endanger the losse of your soules and everlasting happinesse what greater want of wisdome can be shewed you carry your selfe exceeding forwardly herein that neither the perswasions of friends nor the intreating of those that love you nor so many pitifull teares from the faire eies of your Lady can move a reconciliation but you fly from a distressed Ladie as if you were pursued by an armed enemie was your noble blood ever stained with such cowardlinesse how may those renouned Princes of the united Provinces who held and approved you so noble and valarous in Heroick Atchivements both in Germany and when you were Lord Deputie of Ireland be grieved to heare of this strange alteration in you but this is not the worst disgrace for herein you have dealt very unwisely for you have reiected the counsel of the Prophets of the Apostles and of our Saviour Christ himself and have followed the course of your violent passions or else the shallow device of some giddie heads as Rehoboam did to his owne confusion for Solomon the Mirrour of wisdome advises you thus Reioyce with the wife of thy youth let her be as the loving Hinde and the pleasant Roe let her brests satisfie thee at all times and delight in her love continually Prov. 5.18 19. but you are so far from reioicing with her and yeelding those comforts unto her that you seek to reioice your selfe in hanking and hunting and in the meane time to vex her with your tedious absence and froward messages call you this wisdome nay my Lord account it no better than Machavilian policie Againe St. Peter adviseth you thus Husbands dwell with your Wives as men of knowledge Pet. 37. but
unto me for the wisest and greatest in this world have their frailties and infirmities David a man after Gods owne heart yet erred in numbring the people and confessed he had done very foolishly And Salomon his son the wisest and the greatest statesman that ever was upon the earth yet erred greatly and although he provided men-singers and women-singers and the delights of the sons of men yet he doth acknowledge all was but vanitie and vexation of spiritâ— And so I trust your noble and religious heart will tell you though you did provide you such excellent singers such rare conceits and curious Actors and numbred the people to behold it yet all is but vanitie and vexation of Spirit and the more vanitie and vexation of spirit because it was on the Lords day which should have been taken up with better meditations and the contemplation of Heaven and heavenly things and therefore that God might not be heareafter so dishonored nor your everlasting happinesse thereby endangered I beseech you in the tender mercie of our Saviour Christ give ear to the Counsell of your servant and be you pleased to submit your self to the censure of your own Court that so it may appeare to the world that you will not stand out in any thing that is ill but will give glorie to God and yeeld obedience to all good Lawes and so ye may stoppe the mouths and stay the fury of many prophane people which proclaime such libertie from this example to follow their vaine delights upon the Sabbath day But I hope when they shall heare that such is the justice of the Court and faithfulnesse of your Officers they will execute justice without respect of persons and therefore in this case will spare neither Lord Bishop nor Knights nor Ladies I trust I say when they shall heare of this it will be a great dancing and discouragement to them and also through the Lords mercie a means to repair again the breach whereat otherwise whole troops of prophane wretches will enter to lay violent hands upon the Lords Day and so beseeching the Lord God of Sabbath that my counsell might be as wholsome and as acceptable unto you as the Counsell of Abigal was to David that you might with that holy man say Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath sent thee to meet me and blessed bee thou that hast kept mee from giving any countenance or encouragement to any man that dares presume to prophane the Sabbath of the great God of heaven Amen Lord Jesus Amen Haughton More November 4. 1631. From him that hath so great cause and is so much bound to your Lordship Iohn Spencer YOu may bee pleased that my Lord Bishop had lately made me Comissarie Generall upon this occasion the Earle of Cleaveland had built a sumptuous Chappell and intreated the Bishop to consecrate the same and it pleased their Lordships to give me notice of the day so I did attend the Bishop and the next day he did it with great state and solemnitie accompanied with the Earle and Knights and Ladies and a multitude of his Clergie there was a learned Sermon and the holy Sacrament administred and other rites and Ceremonies performed so that it was three a clock before they came out of the Chappell and then my Lord Bishop was pleased to question me before the Earle of Cleveland in this manner Master Spencer what will they say to you now that have been at the consecration of a Chappell received the Sacrament at the hands of a Bishop in his Babylonish garment I answered If they have nothing else to say to me this may very well be answered But he said unto me Master Spencer what shall I do for you now I know if I should make you my Vicar-Generall you will dislike of that because it is a Popish title but I le tell you what I will do for you I will make you my Commissarie-Generall and that he thought would please me better for I had prosecuted his Comissarie Smith and charged him with suspition of Treason against the Kings royall person well I thanked his Lord shortly after made more use of my Office then he would have had me for one Mr. wilson a cunning Musition having contrived a curious Comodie and plotted it so that he must needs have it acted upon the Sunday night for he was to go the next day toward the Court the Bishop put it off till nine of the clock at night a while after the Commissarie Doctor Morrison kept a Court at Huntington and I came thither and went into the seat with the Commissarie and put on my hat the Doctors and Divines stood with hats off and gave their attendance then some offered their presentment but I told Master Commissarie that I had a presentment and that must be the first and so he took it and read it the tennour was thus We do here present Iohn Lord Bishop of Lincolne for having a Comedie acted in his house upon the Sunday it began about nine of the clock at night and continued till two or three of the clock the next morning We do present also Sir Sidney Mountacute and his Lady for leaving their Parish Church to come to hear this Comedie We here present Sir Thomas Headly and his Lady for the like We do present Master Wilson and other Acters of the same So when Master Commissarie had read it he was somewhat amazed at it and asked of me who was the Commissarie Generall I bad him ask my Lord of Lincolne who was Commissary Generall And this presentment we do make Ex officio Commissarie Generall Iohn Spencer So when this was registered I took my leave of Master Commissarie and came away for feare I should hear something else And afterwards because the Bishop did not appear I censured him for his fault to build a Schole-house at Eaton and to endue it with twenty pounds a yeer for the maintenance of the Schole-Master Sir Sidney Mountacute to give five pounds and five coats to five poor women and his Lady five gowns and five pounds for five poor widdows and this censure stands still unrepealed A Letter to Sir William Litton Knight concerning Master Spencer that famous learned man committed to prison for the refusing to stand to the hard-award of Mr. Noades but was upon this letter speedily released and Sir William Litton tooke him againe into his favour and was a noble friend unto him during his life GOod Sir William Litton I have visited Mr. Spencer your famous prisoner whom it pleaseth you to call my Rabbi I finde him so willing to referre himselfe unto you and Sir Oliver Luke to mitigate his hard-award that Mr. Noades hath made that I need not any further perswasions to effect the same onely give me leave to make this request unto you that as humility is an excellent vertue in any man much more in a man of eminent parts that you would vouchsafe to be such a Patron
the mad dogs teeth made and this I saw in experience by one Richard Haines a tall young man pursued a mad dog a mastie neer the place where I dwell and standing at the gap the mad dog would come thorow clasped him in his armes intending to hold him tell his fellows came but the dog bit him very grievously in his side and about his belly they gat the mad dogs liver and made poridge and stuffed the wounds with the hair and so through Gods blessing the mad man did very well Crabs clawes and lobsters claws beaten to pouder and put into butter-milk or drinke is very good It is for the zeal of Gods glorie the desire to yeeld comfort unto poore afflicted soules and love of my country which moves me to write upon this subject Samuel 16.23 And so when the evill spirit sent of God came upon Saul David took an harpe and played with his hand and Saul was refreshed and was eased for the evill spirit departed from him NOw the question is wether this distemper and distraction grew out of some inordinate affection which proud ambitious covetous and amorous men are subiect to fall into the only help in this case is to pray unto God to give them humilitie and patience to submit themselves unto Gods will and faithfully beleeve that God will turn all crosses and losses to the best Rom. 8.28 Againe consider what thy sinnes have deserved and thine own unworthinesse of the least of Gods mercies despise the world and prise heaven this is the only musick to cheat the heart Secondly if it were some naturall in disposition or distemper Pheniticall timpheticall then materiall drugges might rectifie the humour so a sensible musick might recreate the spirits so a man preferre the spirituall and inward remedies but the corporall and outward also are not to be neglected as mirth good company or any comendable recreation is not to be refused but undoubtedly it was an absolute madnesse or melancholy fury with some intermission in which time he could hear advice and do mischief those mischeivous actes of mad men are both guilty before God and punishable also before men when the force of reason is not totally transported and extinquisht Again if it were a meer obsession that daibolicall spirit troubled and vexed him and because the divell is Gods creature and at Gods comand he may be said to be an evil spirit sent from God now in case of demonaicall obsession and affliction I cannot conceave what naturall power musick or melodie sick can have for the profligation or repulsion of devils and seeing a created Art hath properly not farre upon any proternaturall habit unlesse musick doth delight the sence and so draw attention and so alter the passion but I resolve it thus this musick cured Saul not as musick but as Davids musick no musick but Davids musick could do it otherwise seeing Saul so much hated him he would not have been so much behoulding unto David having many other cunning Musicians in the temple but their musick made him more mad God was pleased to work such an effect to bring him into favour with the king A TRACTATE OF MELANCHOLIE IT is my love to my Country which incites me to write upon this subject And since Almighty God hath been pleased to make my studies and labours fortunate in this kinde I have here presented them to the publike view hoping that some may receive good by my directions as many have done by practice I do not promise an addition to learning in this respect nor do I doubt but my long experience may adde somewhat to others readings however this good the understanding reader shall receive when as he shall by my faithfull relation know the effects of those means which I have used he shall either be emboldned to use the like or inabled by judgeing them to find out a more exellent way although I goe not accuratly to work because I intend to be short and only positive avoiding the more questions yet to avoide confusion I will observe this order First I will speak somewhat of the humours in general secondly somewhat of the four chief in particular Thirdly will set down a method 1. For knowledge of those things that any wise concerne the melancholy humour 1. Of the humours in generall MAns body may be divided into such parts as are contained or such as do containe them those which be contained are of a fluid and liquid substance the other may be called the subject or vessels wherein these are kept and do cohere which otherwise would be as water spilt upon the ground To omit the parts containing those which be contained are humours and spirits Concerning spirits let it suffice to know that they are a thin aieriall vapours substance the chief instruments which our soul worketh withall those which be inplanted and fixed in our solid partes from our first generation be the seat of our native heat and the bond of soul and body those which be after added to the former are first naturall in the liver conveied in the vains to the habit of the body secondly vital made in the lest cavity of the heart partly of the naturall spirit and partly of the air which we suck in and runneth by the Arteryes through the whole body Thirdly Animal made of the vitals in the braine thence diffused by the sinewes into the body stirring up sense and motion therein A humour is either Radicall or adventitious that is necessary to the constitution of a thing this to the preservation thereof Here is a fat aieriall oyly substance inplanted inbred an inherent in the body from the conformation thereof this we call Radicall moisture or naturall Balsome and compare it to a candle there is likewise an inbred and innate heate which word does not signifie a naked quality but a substance indued with this quality which our most wise Creatour hath made sensible to our touch so long as the life lasteth this heat is the instrument of the soul and is likened to the flame wasting the candle the coexistence of these two in the heart chiefly is the beginning and continuation of life this is that perpetuall fire that continuall light although it never flame which hitherto the Chymicks have in vain laboured to imitate and blow up or kindle when nature saw this heat ever feeding upon consuming that moisture she thought good to adde oyl to the lamp and provided wayes to repaire what was spent this she appointed should be done by the use of meat drinke c. The humour thus generated is called Adventitious because it is added to the former now whether the faculties flow with this humor or no I will not here determine All those humours which are continually made to renew so much of the Radicall moisture as is dayly spent are first primairly such as proceed from the second publique concoction the liver of these to be accounted alimentary or fit to nourish viz.