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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	7,308	5	10.1853	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

others whose Judgments have been opposed by better experienced Sophisters as by Pythagoras Samius Melissus Zeno and as is more expressed by Aristotle the Prince of Philosophers above the rest concludes upon one World namely this we live in The World saith he is that in which all things are contained and without which there is nothing that is or can be found So by consequence if there were any thing without the World then the World could not contain all things therefore no World but this Question may be more fully determined There is but one World and that perfect as there is but one most perfect Creator the absolute Prince and Governour thereof without this World there is neither Place nor Time Place there is not because there can be no Place without a Body if no Body then no Motion if no Motion all Time is excluded Nam Tempus est mensura Motus For Time is the measure of all Motion I shall conclude with that which was spoken by the mouth of Moses In principio creavit Deus Coelum Terram In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth Manifest it is then that there is but one World for some have strove to maintain the Permanency as that it was without beginning and shall always continue without end The Foundatirn being laid I come now to prove what the Principles of Natural Bodies are whether unalterable or not and also the opinion of some learned Men in these things now I joyn my opinion with that of Hipparehis Heraclitus and Ephesius who give the sole Pre-eminence to Fire as the beginning of all things the Reason thus That Fire condensed or moistned is made Air but a degree more thicker than gross Water and at length made more constrict turned to Earth so bring them retrograde Earth Rarified Converted to Water by Evaporation into Air and being purified transmigrateth into the Nature of Fire and by reason of the perpetual shifting of this one Element the order of the Birth and Breedeing of all things do consist and hence new work to arise Now give me leave to lay down some Opinions of Philosophers concerning the beginning of the World as Thales Milesius counted to be the wisest Man in that Age that lived in Greece held opinion that Water was the beginning and breeding of all things so Aristotle and Plutarch report of him The weak Foundation he builded upon was because he saw and found by experience that there was a Moisture in the seed of all things and as well in the Elements This cannot be for Water is soon drank up by Air neither can that Argument hold good that a Child not Born to turn to Water but Corruption Anaximenes the Auditor of Anaximander reasoned that all things were begot or procreated from Air by those reasons that Air was capable of all Impression Action and Quality and naturally apt to be transchanged from one Form to another a property which the rest of the Elements cannot challenge Some say the Creation proceedeth from two namely Calor Frigus Heat and Cold the Fire which gives the Motion and the Earth which supplyeth it with Form I shall not trouble the Reader any more with Opinions but conclude with these words Compescat se humana temeritas id quod non est non querat ne illud quod est non inveniat Let Mens rashness bridle it self and that which is not let him by no means seek lest that which is he can no ways find Concerning the Elements Aristotle saith That the Beginning of them are Heat Cold Moisture and Drought Likewise that they have a repugnancy among themselves and therefore cannot be lasting Ignis in Aethereas volucer se sustulit Aras Summaque Complexus Stellantis Culmina Coeli The swift Fire lifts it self above the Air And mounts aloft to embrace round the fair And bright Roofs of the Starry Heavens it claims Prime place and girts them with a Wall of Flames Air next with subtile breath it self extends Both through the middle part and spacious Ends Of th' empty World with gentle breathings feeding The Fire next to the Stars The third succeeding Is that moist Element which fills the Ocean Ebbing and flowing with continual Motion The moving Waves a gentle Stem do breed Which so exhal'd from them the Air doth feed The Earth remotest from the former height Sits lowest as supprest with its own weight Drought or Dryness is proper to the Earth which challengeth it to it self Cold is inherent to the Earth but not peculiarly because it hath that Quality common with the Water and as Water challengeth Coldness so it hath humidity common with the Air and as the Air claims Humidity so by a kind of fellowship it draweth a Heat from the Fire and as the Fire doth vindicate Heat as proper to it self so it participateth of Dryness with the Earth which claims that quality to it self Thus it is manifested what is proper to every Element distinctly and what is common among them which they borrow one from another by which they are connext and knit one to another it was necessary that they should be first distinct and separate that each of them might preserve its own nature Needful it was also that they should be connext thence might grow the Composition of Bodies so that one might adhere to another according to their common Qualities The Bodily matter and the matter of the four Elements were created with the Spiritual Creatures that is to say with the Soul and the Angels who were created together which is proved by the testimony of Saint Augustine saying That by Heaven and Earth ought to be understood the Spiritual and Corporeal Creatures created in the beginning of Times From these moveable and changeable Elements all things in the World have their beginning and ending It is likewise observed that God in the Creation of the World began above to work downwards for in the first three days he laid the Foundation of the World and in the other three days he furnished and adorned those parts The first day he made all the Heavens and matter of the Earth and came down as low as the Light The second day he descended lower and made the Firmament or Air The third day lowest and made a distinction betwixt the Earth and Water Thus in three days the three Parts or Body of the World was laid and in three days more and in the same order they were furnished For on the fourth day the Heavens which were made the first day were deckt and stuck with Stars and Lights The fifth day the Firmament which was made the second day was filled with Birds and Fowls The sixth day the Earth was replenished with Beasts and lastly with Men. And thus did the Almighty accomplish and finish the marvelous work of the Creation I shall not enlarge upon Beasts Vegetables nor Minerals here but come to treat on Men which is my intended business only this all Creatures whatsoever Man

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