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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_v	write_v	wrought_v	16	3	6.9061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41373	The golden age, or, The reign of Saturn review'd tending to set forth a true and natural way to prepare and fix common mercury into silver and gold : intermix'd with a discourse vindicating and explaining that famous universal medicine of the ancients, vulgarly called the philosophers stone, built upon four natural principles / an essay written by Hortolanus, junr. ; preserved and published by R.G.	Hortolanus, junior.; R. G.	1698 (1698)	Wing G1011; ESTC R30416	83,091	240

Athanor or true digesting Furnace Besides I am allotted to serve others and in Publishing this I hope I shall serve and satisfy all Ingenuous Men after which I may endeavour to serve my self yet remembring that tho' many are called a few only may be chosen He that shall attain this gift will take care enough to keep it Secret Furthermore you may take Notice that this is only an Essay I have told you before I will not swear to make you give Credence neither will I further perswade any man about the Work Let every man use his own discretion Capiat qui capere vult et potest but to return again to the pains attending this Art But if your mind be verteously sett Mr. Norton p. 30. Then the Devil will labour you to lett And that in three manners viz. with Haste Despair and Deceipt against which he sets down some Remedies Afterwards he adviseth to consider the Vertues of the Teacher and for what Reasons he Pretends to teach you c. I presume he means such who voluntarily for reward sake offer their service to instruct others and by the way he shews the Deceits of some of these pretenders as that of the Deceitful Monk of Normandy who proposed to build fifteen Abbies on Salisbury Plain and thereupon applies himself to Norton Norton examines his Cunning and rejects his Proposals soon after the Monk's Craft was clean overcast after which having cheated many he goes into France c. Another Story he tells of Saunce Peere the Parson who had a conceit by means of this Art to make a Bridge over the Thames and to deck it with Carbuncles to shine by Night but that his Work also came nothing Ripley also cautions you against Deluders and Cheating Multipliers pretending to this Art Pag. 154. Theat Chym. To se theyr howsys it ys a noble sport What Fornaces what Glassys there be of divers shape What Salts what Powders what Oyles and Waters for t How Eloquently de Materia prima they clape And yet to fynde the trewth they have no hap Of our Mercury they meddle and our Sulphur Vive Wherein they dote and more and more Unthryve Then he shews their great boastings and how they in those days haunted about Westminster-Abby borrowed Money almost of every one and for a Peny promised to pay them a Pound but Shame and the Prison was their last Portion Pag. 158. He adviseth to meddle with nothing of great Cost and lays it down for a Rule that like must bring forth like c. And concludes thus pag. 159. Spend not thy Mony away in waste Geve not to every Speche credence But first examyn grope and taste And as thou provyst so put thy confidence And ever beware of great expence But yf thy Phylosopher lyve vertuosely Trust the better to his Phylosophy Prove hym fyrst and hym oppose Of all the Secretts of our Stone Whych yf he know not thou nedyth not to lose Medyll thou not ferther but let hym gone Make he never so pytyose a mone For then the Fox can fagg and fayne When he wold faynest hys Prey attayne If he can answer as ought a Clarke How behyt he hath not provyd indede And yf thou wylt helpe hym to hys Warke If he be Vertuose I hold hyt mede For he wyll the quyte yf ever he Spede And thou shalt weete by a lytyll anon If he have knowledge of our Stone One thyng One Glasse One Furnace and no mo Behold thys pryncypyll yf he take And yf he do not then lat hym go For he shall never thee rych man make Trewly yt ys better thou hym forsake Then after wyth losse and varyaunce And other manner of Dysplesounce c. We will next consider some of the chief qualifications which are altogether convenient for a Studient and Workman in this Art as they are recommended to us by the Adepts and so conclude Mr. Norton in the Preface to his Ordinal tells us That upon Inquiry many People were found to Address themselves to Alchimy only for Lucre sake and for Covetousness of Riches as Popes Cardinals Archbishops Abbots Priors with Fryars Hermets pag. 6. Priests c. And Merchants also with common Workmen Goldsmiths Weavers pag. 7. Free Masons Tanners Parish Clerks Taylers Glasiers and Tinkers he says have desired and endeavoured for this Noble Craft and that with great Presumption though he allows that some colour there was for all such Men as give Tincture to Glass but he says it had been better for many Artificers to have left oft in time before they wasted their Estates It had byne good for them to have left off In season for nought they founde but a Scoff For trewly he that is not a great Clerke Is nice and lewde to medle with this warke c. For it is most profound Philosophie The subtill Science of Holy Alkimy c. Then he shews how all Masters of pag. 8. this solemn Work writ very darkly c. as Hermes Rasis Geler Avicen Merlin Hortolan Democrit Morien Bacon Raimond and Aristotle Anaxagoras he says wrote the plainest and was therefore rebuked by Aristotle thro' Envy He proceeds to shew the Malice of a Monk who writ a Thousand false Receipts for despight He cautions to avoid Receipts and Deceipts pag. 9. and not to attempt to Work any thing unless you know how and wherefore for nothing is wrought but by its proper Cause That truth is to be followed Falshood and Counterfeits to be eschew'd That Grace is necessary also Riches sufficient and says he had this Art by Grace from Heaven yet he was taught it by a Master Pag. 11. Adviseth to read his Book often and also other Books Pag. 13. He tells us Holy Alchimy is not found out by Labour nor sold for Money but given by Grace and Answers some Mens Allegations that this Art is not Holy 14. That it was taught only to the Vertuous c. by a Master with an Oath of Secrecy to teach it to one man that is Vertuous without any regard to Blood or Kindred For this Science must ever Secret be The Cause whereof is this as ye may see If one evil Man had hereof all his Will All Christian Pease he might hastilie spill And with his Pride he might pull downe Rightful Kings and Princes of renowne Wherefore the Sentence of Perill and Jeopardy Upon the Teacher resteth dreadfully Pag. 15. He again tells us that 't is found only by Grace and is Donum Dei not to be unadvisedly cast away that it is granted only to few for great Doctors have not been able to find it p. 16. who through despair have denied the Art but the Wise know it to be true tho' it is not for blind Men to paint or to pretend to take down St. Paul's Steeple lest it might hap to break their Crown c. And pag. 17. concludes That true Searchers must know the Principles of Philosophy and patiently trust