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A28604 Medicina instaurata, or, A brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of physick with the insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing medicines, and the excellency of such as are made by chymical operation : whereto is added a short but plain discourse as a light to the true preparation of animal and vegetable arcana's : together with a discovery of the true subject of the philosophick mineral mercury ... as also some small light to the preparation of and use of the said mercury ... / by Edward Bolnest ... ; also an epistolary discourse upon the whole by the author of Medela medicinæ. Bolnest, Edward. 1665 (1665) Wing B3498; ESTC R33237 68,087 202

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Obstructed and so hinder rather than farther her Restauration However knowing sufficiently the dulness and inefficacy of their own Medicines they must still be nibling at ours and yet revile them when they have answered their desires and if at any time they are too Keen for their Skill and Knowledge they are then most Damnable and presently to be Cursed with Bell Book and Candle and not one of them to be left in their Galenical Antidotaries I would they would turn them quite out or else acknowledge them as indeed they are the best Flowers in their Garden Let them not use ours and we will faithfully promise them never to make use of theirs Ours decay not by length of time theirs putrifie and corrupt even in a Years time Ours safely pleasantly and quickly Cure theirs do rather hinder than farther Nature in her own Operation and can only when Nature hath Cured her self rob her of the praise and glory of a Cure which she her self hath performed But I hope the time is now coming when Ingenuity shall flourish seeing many of those that not long since opposed this so noble a Science do now at last begin to appear its real Friends Defenders and Propagators and when declaredly such I shall wish them their utmost due with a continued remembrance of their Names unto succeeding Generations as the worthy Promoters of so publick and great a Good A POSCRIPT To the Ingenious and Physically Studious READER I Intend also how soon I cannot yet say to present unto the Ingenious Industrious and Knowledge-Seeking-English whose sullen Fate slender and mean Education affords them only the benefit of what is published in their own Mother-tongue a small but very plain and Methodical Treatise in English as the smaller Radii glimmering Beams or Aurora to a greater approaching Light teaching a Spagirical or Chymical preparation of Animals Vegetables Minerals and Metals to a Physical use viz. the Separation of their Quintessential Medicinal Fix'd and Volatile parts the Purification Reunition or Conjunction and Coction of the said parts into most noble efficacious and powerful Medicines Arcanaes and Physical Elixirs and this in a higher or lower degree according to the Subtile Genius Industry and Prudence of the Artist Most useful and beneficial for the Preservation of the present and Restauration or Recovery of the decayed or lost Health of Man The improvement and farther consideration may haply prove a Gate to other Secrets Yet if any One in the mean time either diligently Studious of Physick or otherways curious in the search of the secrets of Nature and Art be desirous to be instructed in the Grounds of Chymistry or the Spagirick Art and shall in a reasonable and modest way request my instruction and assistance in it I do hereby promise him a faithful Manuduction and Introduction and that by plain Demonstration and Practice to the true and full grounds intent and scope of Chymistry and this either as to Physical preparations or other Nature-searching delightful and pleasant Operations Chymistry being the most noble and transcendent of Arts and by which only and not otherways and this in a more sublime or mean degree according to the Acute Ingeny Patience Prudence and Neatness of the Operator whether in Medicinal preparations or other choice Arcanaes may something of excellency be expected and produced and perhaps the wished perfection utmost aim and end of our desires at last be obtained My earnest desire of advancing improving and promoting more for a general Good than my own private Benefit this so noble a Science and opening a Gate for entrance into the infinite Treasures of Nature both for Health and other Happiness closely shut up and contained in the Creature is the chief inducement to this Additional proffer and the publick Notice of E. Bolnest Med. Lond. From my House in Jewen-street near Cripplegate April 14th 1665. Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford and Sold by Peter Parker at the Leg and Star right against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil viz. A Fair Printed Bible with Bishop Ushers Chronology with the Common Prayer and Apocripha or without them in 4to 1. The third part of the Bible viz. Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes and Canticles of a fair Print to which may be added the Common-Prayer New Testament and Singing-Psalms in Octavo 2. An English New Testament with a Fair large Print for weak eyes in Octavo 3. Another Testament in Quarto 4. Another Testament in Twelves of a fair Print for Children to learn by 5. A very curious Church Bible with the Chronologie of a fair large Print in Foiio 6. A Latin Testament of a fair Print in Twelves for the use of Schools 7. Senecae Tragaediae in Twelves 8. Elegantiae Poeticae in Twelves 9. Cornelius Nepos in Twelves 10. Justini Historici in Twelves 11. Homeri Illias notis Didymi in Octavo 12. Plinii Epistolae in Octavo 13. Quintiliani Declamationes in Octavo 14. Theocritus in Greek in Octavo 15. Maximus Tyrius in Twelves 16. A Greek Testament with Curcelleus's and others Notes in Twelves 17. Salustius cum notis in Twelves There is now in the Press at the Theater a large Quarto Bible of a fairer Character than ever yet was extant with Chronological Notes and other useful tables Books of Divinity Printed at London The Key of the Bible unlocking the richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures whereby the Order Names Times Penmen Occasion Scope and principal Parts containing the Subject matter of the Books of the Old and New Testament are familiarly and briefly opened for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible A Book singularly useful for private Families By Francis Roberts D. D. Rector of Wrington in Somersetshire in Folio Nineteen Sermons being the first Legitimate Essay of the Pious Labours of that Learned Orthodox and indefatigable Preacher of the Gospel Mr. Josiah Shute Published by Dr. Edward Spark in Folio Sions prospect in its first View presented in a Summary of Divine Truths consenting with the Faith professed by the Church of England confirmed from Scripture and Reason illustrated by Instance and Allusion Composed and Published to be an help for the prevention of Apostacy Conviction of Heresie Confutation of Error and Establishing in the Truth By Robert Mossom Dr. in Divinity in 4to Index Biblicus or an exact Concordance to the holy Bible according to the last translation whereunto are added the marginal readings with the acceptations and various significations of the principal words contained in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament composed in a new and most comprehensive Method and adorned with divers significant and and pregnant Scripture phrases By John Jackson Minister of the Gospel at Mulsea in Surrey in Quarto The works of Mr. Richard Allen Late Minister of Batcomb in Somersetshire in four parts viz. Vindiciae Pietatis or a Vindication of Godliness in the greatest Strictnes and Spirituality of it from the imputations of Folly and