Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	let_v	young_a	youth_n	28	3	8.0417	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07920	Pidax Petreia, or, The disc[ov]erie of S. Peters well, [a]t Peter-head, in Scotland being in latitude 57.d.43.m. and in longitude 22.d.40.m. : shewing the admirable vertues thereof, against many deplorable diseases / by A.M. student in medicine.	Mure, Andrew.	1636 (1636)	STC 18290; ESTC S918	14,332	40

the concavities of the earth appears evidently but be artificiall projection many imaginations are not strong enough to conceave though some too strongly conceave them by thus conceaving have deceaved many of the world and themselves and it is thought be many that gold is not so dissolved bee any preparation as yet found out that it renders any tincture worthy of the least and smalest part of the praises it receives For in auro potabili essentia auri sale auri there are other excellent things of more worth nor the gold lurking in another forme reducible to the metallick substance neither perchance is it to bee denyed but there is in gold excellent vertues and specifick remedies for all kinde of diseases yea more then in any other thing else if the right and true preparation thereof were known as it may bee future ages more happy then wee shall finde and I pray GOD they that spend their spirit and expence herein may better themselves and the world And it may be thought if the ancients or moderns had known that the tinctures of minerals were carryed from the concavities of the earth with water as in our Petrean fountain they had never so perplexed themselves to have tryed so many solutions calcinations coagulations fixations sublimations c. As they have done evaporating their spirits and exhausting the humiàum radicale of their substance Within the earth from whence our Petrean water flows is a concavitie a great vessel ampullare matratium capacissimum wherein is contained materia proxima metallorum which sends forth its tincture with our water In this natural operation there is no need of calcination solution reduction to its prima materia and separation of the foure elements which are the most difficile operations in the composition of the stone And where many may erre for here as yet the matter is not coagulate neither is mercurie vnited to its salt and sulfur but nature finding the salt sulphur and mercurie of minerals as yet not vnited conjoyns them by digestion and cohobation sublimating and subtilizing the earthly part rēdring the mercurial fixed going on naturally with all the operations requisite to the perfection of the work as coagulation cibation sublimation fermentation exaltation augmentation as certainly it would increase grow and fill up the whole concavities where our water is contained if there were not a continuall projection of this naturall elixir this magisterium this quintessence of all mettals in our water dissolving it self therein the water being impregnate with this admirable yet naturall medicine bursts out dauncing bringing with it the cure of all diseases crying and calling all those who are troubled and loadned with infirmities to come and buy without money what may restore them to their health And truely I may speak of this source what sweetly the prince of French Poets did sing of the tree of life neither let divins take exception that we symbolize from one earthly thing to another from the tree of life to the water of life for what is called the tree of life in the old testament is called the water of life in the new both pointing out the lively vertue of our life which is hid in Christ yet from the tree of life to the water of life let mee subsultim passe as birds doe from sprayes to brayes and from mountains to fountaines saying of this water what hee spoke of that tree Du Bartas pag. 174. O holy peerlesse rich preservative Whether wert thou the strange restorative That suddenly did age with youth repaire And made old A Eson younger then his heir Or holy Nectar that in heavenly bowrs Eternally self-pouring Hebe pours Or blest Ambrosia gods immortall fare Or else the rich fruit of the garden rare Whereof three Ladies as assured guard A fire arm'd dragon day and night did ward Or pretious Moly which Ioves pursuivan Wing footed Hermes brought to th' Ithacan Or else Nepenthe enemie to sadnes Repelling sorrows and repealing gladnesse Or Mumie or elixir that excels Save men and angels every creature else And it may be thought that a more ancient I will not say a better Poet when he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comparing water with the rest of the elements meant of this and such other medicinall waters and not of common rivers fountains which have no taste not being impregnate with barley or beef or some such like good commendable ingredients Nature hath here prepared an vniversall medicine by many divers long and naturall preparations which for its perfect temperament and puritie is able governe conserve and increase the radicall humor and enliving nectar sympathizing be its spiritall nature with our spirits Hee that useth this water aright and in season shall be restored corroborate and so armed with strength that he may afterwards more easilie and readily shake of diseases of whose comforting help nature being destitute may sooner succumbe For if our naturall balsame the shining torch and lampe of our life faile either through defect of proper aliment or bee confined and retrenched by dregs and ashes obstructing or impeded be any other cause from exercing its livelie flame for the conservation of our life then and in that case it must be restored fortified inlarged with this balsamick medicine the true and naturall tincture of such wholesome minerals that it may afterwards absolutely exerce its functions which come from a friendly harmonie which this balsamick medicine hath with our naturall balsame And from this sympathie and similitude of nature this our water is indued with great activity spirituall and penetrative for it attenuats digests dissolves and evacuats these feculent oppilations which threaten danger to our health and life If there bee any impuritie or corruption offending nature by what better and more safe way can it be extirped then be so excellent and pure a thing as this If any ardent fever invade us with what sharp julep with what more convenient and efficacious syrup of limons shal you extinguish it then with the balsamick aciditie of our medicinall water is their pain to quench let this be your Anodyn this your only and safe Nepenthes this your safest Triacle your wholesome Alexipharmacum and Antidote to abolish and extirpate poysonable pestilent and maligne qualities no Bezoar naturall nor artificiall animall minerall or metallick no Alkermes comparable to this for corroborating the heart that our bodies may by its comforting help continue in lively strength and vigour these and many more vertues are proper to this Panacea and universall medicine these are the vertues of our medicinall balsamick water working together with our naturall balsame which naturall balsame is the only governer and conserver of life the only preserver of health and expeller of diseases for if morbus be affect us contra naturam actiones laedens altogether contrary to our naturall balsams and nectar of life which is nothing but nature or an assisting instrument so conjoyneds that without its help nature can perfect