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A35573 The wards of the key to Helmont proved unfit for the lock, or, The principles of Mr. William Bacon examined and refuted and the honour and value of true chymistry asserted / by John Case ... Case, John, fl. 1680-1700. 1682 (1682) Wing C821; ESTC R37527 17,474 27

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excepted are bred and born with Natural Defences against Injuries and Discommodities as the Tree is preserved by the Bark the Birds by their Feathers the Fish defended with his Scales the Sheep clad with his Wool and Man only is brought into the World naked and altogether unarmed For needful it was that Nature should take care of them who were not able to take care of themselves CHAP. II. A Consideration of the Action of the Vital Spirits IT is well observed that Angels were the first Creatures God made created pure as the Light ordained with the Light to serve God The same day was the Soul of Man created therefore it is said that Man is but little lower than the Angels if he lives after the Spirit I shall not trouble the Reader any more concerning the charge the Angels have over the Soul of Man but come to treat of the Archeos that is the Place Habitation c. wherein the Omnipotent Power hath lodged the Soul of Man viz. the Body of Man wherein the Soul the Image of God abideth for a time which is moveable and changeable and may be called a tottering Tabernacle These Earthly Bodies have their assistances and being from a Spirit in Latine called Vita or Life the Vital Spirit which hath its Nutriment from Blood and this Sanguine or Blood is maintained and preserved by Nourishment as Meat or Drink which we inwardly take It may be convenient to give you a word or two concerning the Blood how it comes to support the Body or Vital Spirits as I have told you before by Food and after it hath passed that place called the Ventricles or Stomach which is there concocted or digested it descends into the Hungry Gut called Jejunum it is drawn from the Jejunum by five of the Miseraical or Sucking Veins which chuse out the best for Blood it is drawn into the great hollow Vein called Vena porta it is drawn from Vena porta into the Liver and there 't is converted into Blood it is drawn from the Liver into the hollow Vein again the second time to be refined and separated it is from thence sent each to his natural place and receptacle as Choler to the Gall and Melancholy to the Spleen c. as the Principles of the Bodies so called of the Physitians Now the Living or Vital Spirits stand in need of two things that it may subsist convenient Motion and Aliment and so is the Body of Man preserved and kept alive CHAP. III. Where and how the Vitals do perform their chief Operation NOw these Spirits as Authors have observed are the Master-Workmen in the Body and as the upper Wheel which turneth about the lower Wheels in the Body therefore whatsoever is healthful and refreshing to the Spirits works powerfully good effects in the Body and that speedily and suddainly as the Author saith Vapours and Affections work compendiously upon the Spirits It is well known that the Almighty hath placed in the World all things for the use of Mankind and nothing in vain it was appointed by God that Mans Body should receive Nourishment by the Fruits of the Earth what is a greater Earthly Blessing than perfect Health of Body Some say Valetudo est summum Bonum Health is the chiefest Good First To shew you how this Wheel or Vital Spirit doth work for or against us first for us viz. for Health of Body First good Nourishment causeth Health Secondly good Air will revive the Vital Spirits But for fear this small Volume should be too big I will only give you two Reasons which will give light to the lowest Capacity viz. All Bodies are guided and governed by four Elements not only the Bodies of Men but all Vegetables Animals and Minerals An Element is a Body pure Simple and unmixt from which all Natural Things have their Original they are held to be in Number four viz. Fire Air Water Earth Since that there is none born into the World but their bodies do participate of all these four Elements and these cause all Alteration and Change by Reason of these four Elements because of their changing and shifting one with the other therefore no Man stands at one stay but he is either growing Rich or Poor in Health or Sickness Now when these four Elements can be weighed in the Balances of Uprightness there can be no Sickness viz. the Heat to oversway the Cold or the Cold to be prevalent or over-power the Heat The Cause of Sickness is when those four Elements are unequally balanced viz. if Heat be most prevalent then it causeth Choler and extream high Fevers if Cold be then Phlegmatick and Moist Humours This is the way that our Vital spirits strive for us and against us so they borrow one from the other and change this World of four Elements which is produced out of the two inward Worlds and is a Glass of them wherein Light and Darkness Good and Evil are mixt It is not Eternal but hath both a beginning and ending meant of Heaven which comes out of the midst of the Water viz. of Mercury whence ariseth the Male and Female Kind in the Spirit of the outward World that is the Male in the Fiery Mercury and the Female in the Watery This Separation was made all over in every thing to the end the Fiery should desire and long for the Watery and the Watery for the Fiery that so there might be a desire and love between them in the Light of Nature from which the Conjunction ariseth therefore the Fiery Mercury viz. The over-flowing Word Seperates it self according both to the Fire and Water-nature of the Light and thence comes both the Male and Female kind in all things both Animals and Vegetables In the third days Work the Fiery and Watery Mercury entred again into Composition or Mixture and Embraced one another wherein the Salnitre viz the Separator in the Earth brought forth Grass Plants and Trees and that of the first Generation and Production between Male and Female In the fourth days Work the Fiery Mercury brought forth his Fruit viz. the first Essence on Higher Powers or Vertue of Life then the four Elements and it is in the Elements of it the Stars were made In the Fifth days Work the spiritus Mundi viz. the Soul of rhe World opened it self in the first Essence it is here meant of the Life of the Fiery and Watery Mercury wherein God Created all Beasts Fishes Fowl and Worms every one from its own peculiar property of the Divine Mercury Here you see how the Eternal Principles have moved themselves according to Evil and Good for there are Evil and Good Creatures Created every thing as the Mercury viz. the Seperator and yet every kind of life hath its Original in this Light of Nature from which it is that all Creatures in their kind or property love one another In the sixth days Work God Created Man for in the sixth day the Understanding to the Life