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hl/TH\ATES,

O R THE

WATERS

OF THE

EAST;

Bcingafhort Difcourfe of that Secret

Fount ah , whofc Water flows

from Fire ; and carries in it

the Beams of the Sun^

and Moon,

By Eugenius Fhilalethes.

Sadith ex Lib. Sacro. Et dixit Deus ^ cujus Nomen fanBifice- tur: Fecimus ex Aquaomnem Rcnn.

w •• — - ^ ■

London printed for Uumphrey Mofeley at the Princes Arms In St. Paul's Qhurch-yard 165J.

i1

ff^ JL^iCt9

To the

READER-

^-J^mHave Reader, (and I fuppofe

w£JP^ knowne to thee) within thefe few years^in feverall little Tra- dats delivered my Judge- ment oiPhilofophiey I fay of iPhilofofhie , for Jlchymie in the common acceptation, A 3 and

To the 'Redder.

and as it is a torturi of Me^ tails , I did never believe , much lefs did I iludy it. In this print , my Bookes being perufed will give thee Evidence i for there I referre thee to a fubjed that i% unherjall J that is the foundation of all N ati^r e^that is the matter whereof all thi'gs are made^ and where- with bems; made are 7wuri- (hed. This I prefume can be no met ill, and therefore as I ever difclamed J/cbimie in the vulgar fenfe , fo I thought fit to let the Al- chimifls know it, Icaft in

the

To the kectder. the perufall of my Wri- tings they fliould fix a con- jiruSiion to fome PafTages , which cannot fuit with the Judgment of their Au- thor. Hence thou maift fee what my Qnceptions jwere^ when I began to write^znd now I muft till : thee they are flill the fame^ nor hath my long expert- I ence weakened them at all^ 'but invincibly confirmed them. But to acquaint thee how ingenuous lam, I freely confefs 5 that in my fratiife I waved my own frin- ciples ^ for having mif-

carried

. Xethe Reader.

carried in my jirfi attempts^ 1 laid afide the true [uhje^ , and was contented to fol- low their Noife^who will hear of nothing but Me^ f^///. What a Drudge! have been in this/^//^ ^ndf^cum lent School^ for three years together, I will not here tell thee, it was well that I quitted it at laft^ and walk'd again into that clear light ^ which I had foo- liflily forfaken. I ever con* ceived that in metalls there were great fecrets , provi- ded they be firft reduc d by a proper Dijjohent; but to

feeke

To theReaier. fcek th^tPijfotperit^ or tLe^ waiter whereof it is madeSn MetaUs^ is not onely Er„ ygr but Madriefs. 1 have for the Truths fake, and to ju- ftifie my innocent and for- mer Difcourfes , added to them this little piece; which perhaps is fuch^ and hath in it fo much , as the World hath not yet feen publiflied. It is not indeed the tenth part of what I had firft defign'd^but fome fober Confiderations made me forbear, as my fuddaiti and abrupt Glofe will in- form thee, Howfoevcr ,

what

To the 'Reader]

what I now referve, as to Philojophicall Myjieries may be imparted hereafter in our Metearolo^ie ; & for the Theologicall ^ we fliall draw them up for our own pri- vat ufe in our ^hitofophia &fatU. I have little more to fay, but if it may adde any thing to thy content, \ I can affure thee here is no- \ thing ^j^V;^/'(^, but what IS the fruit of my own experi- ence^ I can truly fay of my own, for with much labour have I v/rung it out of the Earthy nor had 1 any to in-

ftrua

\

To the Reader.

flruiftme; for I was never "^ fo fortunate as to meet ^ with one man, who had the '^ abilities to contribute to me ' in this kind. I would not '^ have thee build mountains on ^ the Foundation I have here " laid^ not efpecially thofe of ^ G(?/^i But if thou doft build - Phyfck^ upon itjthen have I - ftiew'dtke the ^^k and - the Bajts of that famous Jrt^ which is fo much prcfeft , and fo little under ftcod; here thou flialt find the true fubjed of it demon-; (Irated, and if thou art riot

very

To the Reader. very dull, fuflficicntly dif- . covered ; Here God him- j felf and the Word of God leads thee to it; Here the Li^t fhews thee Li^t , and here haft thou that Tefti- monie oilamhlicus^ and the j^gyptian Records cleared ; oamely , that God fome- times delivered to the an«. tient ^riejls and Prophets a certain Matter 3 per heaia fpeSiacula^ and communi- cated it for the ufe of Man. I fliaU conclude with this Jdmonition'^ihhou would'ft know Nature^ take heed of

Jnti-

I so we^i^ader, Unt'mmie and the common netalls ; feek onely that fexyfrfi mixture of elements^ vhich Nature makes in the •,reat Worlds feek it I fay, vhil'ftitisfKyZ»and«fii^^ nd having found it , con. ealit. As for the k/> of it, :ck not that altogether in iookes , but rather beg it t the Hands of God. for is properly his Gift,'and ever man attain'd to iCy 'ithout a clear and fenjib^ finance ftom above; N^- ^ not mf Advice in this, lough it may feem ridicu^

1 ' lous

To the Reader.

louitothoCt that are oxtr wife , and have the Mercie^ of God irr dsrifion. Many men live in this World without God; they have no Vtfits from him ^ and therefore laugh at thofe that feek him , but much more at thofe that have found him. St faul glo- ried in his (^Velations^ but he that will do fo now 3^ fliall be numbered among/]:' ^nters and- Jnahaptijisj But let not thcfe things' divert thee ^ if thou fer^ vefl God a thou fervcft

a good Mafter, and he will not keep back thy Wages, Farewell in

Chrffi Jefus.

E, T.

Euphrates

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Euphrates SCd

^-^"Vm T is written in ^^ ?^>y| thofc livhg 0- racles^ which we *^&i R.^ ^^^^^ received , mi^^m \"d believe, that ^^^^^^^^

there IS an Angel v,^^ f the Waters : and this feems

0 be fpoken in a general fenfe, :s if the Jngel there mentio- led , had been Prefident of all hat Element. Elfewhere we ^ ind an Angel limited to a more ^articular Charge ^ as that vhich defcended at a certain eafon, zndftirred the Waters ^'^^ ^'^*

1 the Pool ot Bethejda. Nor is ^* ^'

B it

i- Euphrates ^ or the

it indecd^ny thmg ftrangethat AngcUsihouldvifit and move that Elcmcnt,on which the Sp- rit oiGoi did move in the be- Gen, c.i. ginning. IcitenotthcfepIaceSj ^* *• as ifthey were pertinent to my purpofe y or made altogether for y. , though I know they make nothing againft it-, but I cite them as Generals ^ to flicw that God is converjant with Mat- ter^ though he be not tycd to it ^ and this is all my Dcfign. Not- • withftanding I know , that lib.deAn. Y^xmct A'vicen ^ hathnumbred ^. 5. dL^t, Sf, ^ohn the Evangetiji a- mongft-the Chjmifis : And cer- ta-inly, if fomc Parages in the Revelation were urged , and that no farther than their own fcnk would carry them , it would be fcmwhat difficult to refell hrs opinion. Surely I am one that tbinkes very honou- rably

Waters &fthe Eafi. j

rably of Nature^ and if I avoid (iichBiffutes d.sx.hck ^ it is be- caufe I would not offend weak Vonfciences, For there are a people, who though they dare lot think the Majefiy of God wasdimimjhed, in that he w^^i? :he Worlds yet they dare think, he Majejiy of his Word is much jilijied^ if it be applied to what le hath made. An Ofinion tru- y, that carries in it a moft dark- er ous Blafphemy 5 nanncly that rods Word and Gods Work lould be fuch difiPerent things, hat the OM muft needs difgrace 'le other, I muft confefle I am luch to feek , what Scripture lall be applied to , and whom was written for, if not for us, , "id for our infiruElion 5 for if v. 17, ^ej that are whole ( as our Sa- bur teftifies ) have no need of fhifitian^ then did God caufe B 2 fcripturc

Euphrates, erthe fc ripture to be written, neithc) for himfelf^ nor for his Angels but it was wrirten for thoft Creatwes^viho having lo/} ihch pfi Ejlate^ were fince fallcr into Corruftton^ Now then ij Icr'pture was written for us , ii concerns us much to know what uje we (hall make of />,anc this we may gather from the different conditions ok Manhc- fore and after his Fall. Before' bis fdll ^ Man was z Glorious Creature^ having received from' Co& Immortdlity ^ and ferfeH^ Knowledge ^ but in and after hi;' Fall, he exchanged immortality for death ^ and knowledge for ig- norance. Now as to our redemf- tion from this FalL we may not fin refped oi Death) expc(3 it in this world , God having decreed^ that all men jhoMcnct die : But for our Ignorance^ we

may

Waters of the Baft.

■Qiy and ought to put it off in his life, forafmuch as without :he Knowledge of God , no man :an be faved 5 for, it is both the Caufe and the Earneft of our future immortality. It remains :hen that our /g';?^r/t;;r^muft be put off in part, even in this life , before we can put oiFour mor- talityt, and certainly to this end was Serif ture written , namely chat by-it we might attain to the Knowledge of God^ and return to him from whom we were fallen. And here let no man be angry with me , if I aske how Serif ture teaeheth us to know God? Doth it onely tell us there is a God, and leave the reft to our difcretion ^ Doth it (that I may fpeak my mind ) teach us to know God by his Works , or without his Works? If by his Works ^ then by Natur all things^ B 3 for

6 Euphrates ^r^^^

for they are his Works^zvA none other 3 if without his Works ^ I defire to know what manner of teaching that is 5 for I cannot yet find it. If they fay k is by Iftjfiration^ I fay too that God can teach us fo, \mScrifture cannot 5 for certainly Serif ture never inffired any man, though it came it fdf by inffiration. But if it be replied , that in Scripture \vt have the teftimo- nies of men inffired^ I fay this Anfwer is bcfides my Quefli- on •, for I fpeak not here of the hare ^y^uthoritj or I'efiimony of Scripture^ but I fpeak of that Bo^frine^ by which it proves whatittcftifics , for with fuch Docirin the Scripture abounds. Sure I am 3 that Mofes proves G^od by his Creation , and God proves himfclf to Mofes by TrmfmHtatm of hi$ Rod into

a

waters of the EafiJ 7

a Serpent, and of the fciipfetiriri^ : ' to a Rod. And to the Egypti^' ans he gives more terrible Z)^- manftraMns of his P-fi^er and- SoveraigntjVLX Nature ^^ftav-^ ning their Rivers into Btood ^ and the Duft of their Landihto Lice, by 4 Murrain of Beaftsi by Blains and Boiles , and the death of their Firft born. By the feveral plagues of Froggs, Locufts, Hail, Fire , Thunder , and Darknefs ; all which were but great natural n>orks> by which he proved his God- head y as himfelf hath faid. j^ndthe Egyptians fhall kr^or^ that I amthe LordjvbenI firttch ^^f^-^'^' fortn my hand ufon ^t^gypt. When he reveals himfelf to Cyrus, he doih it not by a Ample affirmation ^1^4^*^ is G^d^. but he proves himfelf tobe fudi by the W0ytd that he hath made. B 4 /

Euphrates , cr the I dm the Lord ( faith he ) and there is none eljet^ there is no God hejidesme-j I girded thee^though thou hafi not known me, 1 formed the Light^ and create Darknefs^ Jmakefeace^and create EvilL J the Lord do all thefe things, ih Ave made the Earth y and cre- ated Man upon it, I^ even my hands have ftrctched out the Heavens y and all their Hojl have- I commanded. Let any man read thofcMajeftxk, and Philofo- phicall Expojlulations between God and ^ol^^ or in a word , let him read over both Teftaraents and he ihall find , if he reads attentively^ that Scripture, all the way, makes ufe of Nature, and hath indeed difcovered fuch natural Myfieries as are not to be found in any of the Phi- lofophers 5 and this fliall appear in the foUpwing Pifcourft. For

my

Waters of the Bafl. f

my own part, I fear not to fay, that Nature is fo much the bu- fines of Serif ture , that to mc^ the Spirit of Cod , in thofe fa- cred Oracles, fee ms not onely to mind the Refiitutiou of Man in f articular y but even the Re- demftion of Nature in generaH*^ We muft not therefore confine this Reftittitien to our own Sfe- ciesy unleft we cgn confine cor- ruption to,' it withaU 9 .-which doubtlefs w^e can not do ; for it is evident that Cp^ri^tion hath not onely -S'^i^sV upon Man^ but on theJfT^r/^alfo for man's fake. If it be true then thatf.T;*. ^ Ma» hath a Saviour^, it is alfo as true:, that the whc>lc "Creati- on hath the fame.-, Godifeaving reconciled all things johimfclf in Chrift Jefus. And if it be true, that we look for th^ Re- iemftUrr of our ^?//w,_and a

New

i^ Euphrates ^r the

Mm man : It is equally true that we look for a Nivs^ Hex xen^ and a Nei» Earth, where I in dwelleth Rightcoufnefs .• foi it is not Man alone, that is tc be Kem^d at the general Re- ft aur at im.^ but even the w$rU, as v/dl^ iMdn, ask is writ- nevei. 2 1 . ten : Beh&ld ! I make aU things **^' New. I fpcak not this to dif-j parage man, or to match any^ other G^:€ature with him : for I know he is frincifoll 'm the Reftanrathnj as he was in the Fall^ the Corrupien that fuc- ., ^ceeded in the Elements, being ' butaChainj that this pHfoner drags afiter him: but I fpeak this to flle#5 that God -minds the Re^ifutisnoi Ndfnre in ge- neral, and not of Man ahne^ who though he be the rtobJeft parr, yet certainly is but i fmall part of Nature, fe^ ft^ipfure

then

^then mifapplied^ muclikfsvi^ ^iificd, when it is applied to the >bje<ft of Salvmon\ oamely 0 Naturr^ for that ;is fc, wbicfa )|God would iave,: andaiedcemc Tom the prcfent 3!>eprs<vatil&fiSy 0 which kHs (abjcHtvcxily^^ yfacn I tczd Scnpt9rei:lxm ind nothing iaitjbuDiuhatioiin txncs NAtare^ ZJod^KdturaHl hingsi for whcce it itefttion|: legemrMtbn^ J^Hammtiv/r^ismd' jraccy or m^^ 6x}^vjpi:itmU' ift ^ i ,d0thik not2JpiJC<ilfd5?i Hit invxirdfc.io .Nature i,-ior vhat figniftes all chisi, vbiif a'

ccnding :ind)m Goi to* aiEft: slatur^^ ^dvfix frccj ais. f mniL hofe GotrtuptioDS, wScricivith )i a long time . wc h^lTO'/brenr jppreft? I fup^ofc it, wrihAoc •e denied-^ d&ur Godii^ kiOfC' ietafhyfiiiill^Khm apy^Scripi^

ture

l^^ Euphrates ^r f^tf

ture can be, and.yct in the work of Salvation, it were great itn- pictie to feparatc God and ^a- ture^ for then God would have nothing tafaye, nor indeed to work upon. How much more abfuif'd ii it in the Minifteric of? Salvation to feparate Scripture and Nature : for to whom I befeech . you doch Scripture fpcak^ Nay, to whom is Sal- vation minifter*d, ifMature be ■J — taken, aiv\ay^ l doubt not but man ftands in Nature , not a- bove it, : and let the School-men rcfolve him into what parts they pleafe, all thofe parts will beiound natural, fince God a- lonc. is trucly Metaphyficall. I would gladly learn of our Ad- verfaries, how they came firft to know, that Nature is Cor- rufted^ for if Scripture taught them this phy ficaU" trpth, w hy

may

Waters of the Eaft. x j

inay it not teach them more i but that Scripture taught them, is altogether undeniable: Lee us fanfie a Phyfician of fuch Abilities ^ as to ftate the true temperament of his patient, and wherein his Difeafe hath diforder'd it. Doth he not this to good purpofe i Qucftionks, he doth : and to no Jefs purpofe is it in my opinion, for the fpi- rit of God, whofe patient na- ture is, to give us in Scripture a Charadcr of nature, which certainly he hath done in all points, whether we look to the paft, prefent, or future Complexion of the World. For my own part, I have this Aflurance of Fhilofofhj , that all the Mjfteries of Nature con- fift in the knowledge of that Cor- ruftion, which is mention'd in Scripture^ and which fiicccedcd

the

14 feTphntrcs<?rrt<?

the F^/f : Hgmdy to knowjwliat ins, -ahd;wSefc it icf^^ prin^

cipajly .• 'a-^l'J^Ifo to Jkriqw whatL, SubflaHcd that is^ ^hLcJLieijAs jt m^' afld^etatds rtj as be- ing taift^free from it> for m thefT twe^' confift the Advan- tagcs of life and death. To be ihort.* Experiences and Reafen grounded thereupon , have taught me, that Fhilofophie and Divvnty are but one, and the fame fcietice .* but Man hath dealt With knowledge , as he doth with Rivers , and Wells^ which being drawn into feve- rall pipes arc made to run feve- rall wayes , and by this Acci- dent eome at laft to have feve- rall naitre's: We fee that God ,^ in his \v6rk, hath united ffirit ' ^ni matter^ vifiblesixrt6. invi* fihles^ ahfd out of tht union of fftritHdly and nainralljuh fian- ces

Waters ef the JEaJ}. ij

es rifetha perfed Compeurj/,^ vhofcvery Nature, zndBewg^ onfifts in that umo^Mow then it poflible to demonftratc the Mature of that Compound by a ividcd Theory of Spirit by it :lf, and matter by it felf ^ for - * " the nature of a Compound onfifts in the Compoficion of firit and matter ythcn muft not re feek that Nature in their fe- ^ration^ but in their mixture id Temperature^ and in their lutuall w/^^ K^6lions\ and 4///^;;^. Befides* who hath e- :r feen a fpirit without matter, r matter without fpirit, that he tould be able to give us a true heory oHoth principles in their ^plicitie 't Certainly, no man zing. It is juft fo m Divimjy )V if Ity evafion we confine ivinity to God in the ab- raftj who ( fay I ) hath ever known

Euphrates or the

known him io^ Or, who hath received iuch a Theologie from him, and hach not all this while delivered it unto us -f Verily, if we confider God in the ab- ftracl, and as he is in himfelfji we can fay nothing of him fo fitruelj 5 but we may fay fome- thing Negatively^ as Dionyfius hath done, that is to fay, wc may aflfirme, what he is not, but we cannot affirme, what he is. But if by Divinity, we underftand the Doctrine of Sal- vation , as it is laid down in Scripture , then verily it is a Mixt Do£irine^ involving both God and Nature. And here I doubt nottoaffirme. That the Myfierie of Salvation can never be fully underftood without Fhilojofhie , not in its juft la- titude, as it is an Application o^ il&d to Nature ^znd a Cor^verfion

of

1

5 'Nature to Gody in which tm^

H 'o(Uf$s and their Mcunes , all

carituall and nacurall know-

, dgc is comprehended.

Tofpeakthcn of God with*

\t Nature > is more than wc

xi do, for wc have not known

m fo: and to fpeak of Nature

ithout Cody is more than wc

ay do, for we (hould rob God

.^his glorie, and attribute thofe

ffcfts to Nature, which be-

ng properly to God, and to

;c fpirit of God, which works

nature. We (hall therefore"

e a mean form of fpeech, be-

ireenthefe extremes, and this

>rm the Scriptures have

lught us, for the Prophets and

poftlcs, have ufcd no other^

et not any man therefore be

fended , if in this Difcourfc

e fhall ufe Scripture to prove

hilofofhie^ and Fhilofifhie to

C prove

'i8 Euphrates ^ arthe

^rovc Divinity , for of a trliti

om k^ervledgc isfuch, thatou

Divinity is not without Natun

aor oqr Philofophie withou

(7<?^. Notwithftanding, I dar

not thipk but mod men will re

pine at this courfc 3 though '

cannot think , wherefore the]

fliouldjforwhenl joyne Scrip

iure' and Phihjephie^ I do bui

joync C7(^^and Nature^ an unii

on certainly approved of b]|

God, though it be condemnec

ofmen. But ihls perverfeigno

rance^ how bold foevcr it be

I (hall not quarrell with , foi

befidcs Scripture, I have othcj

grounds, that have broughi

me very fairely , and fobcrlji

to this Difiourfe.

I have fojourn'd now foi fome years, in this great Fa- brick, which the fortunate caU their Wfirld : and certainly 1

havcl

Waters iftheEaft. if

ve fpent my time like a Tra- 'jler, not to purchafe it, but obferve it. There is fcarcc — y thing in it, but hath given - an occafion of fomc - oughts ; but that which took : up much, and pm^ was the ntinuull action of fire upon wa* - *. This Speculation ( I know )t how J furpris'a my firft uth, long before I (aw the niverfity, and certainly Na- Y, whole pupill I was, had en then awakcn'd many No- ns in me, which I met with :erwards,in thcPlatonick Phi- "ophie. I will not forbear to ire, how I had then fanfied :ertain pra^jcc on water, out which,evenin thofe childilh ycs^ I expeded wonders : but rtainly neither gold, norfii- r, for I did not fo much as nk of them, nor ofanyfuch

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20 Euphrates, irfhe

covetous artifice. ThisCortfide ration of my felf^whcnl was Child, hath made me fince ej amine Children, namely, wh thoughts they had of thefe El mcnts^ we fee ab mt us, and found thus much by them, th Nature in her limplicity , much motf wife , than fon men are with their acquire part?, and Sofhiftriex, of a trut I thought my fclf bound \ prove all things, that I migl attain to my lawfull dcfires, bi leaft you think , I have on! convers'd with Children T (ha confefs, I have conversed wit children 2j\<ii Fools too : thatii as 1 interpret it, with Childn and Men^ for thefe laft arc nc in all things, as wife as the firf A Child I fuppofe , in fur NaturalihSf Before cducatio alters, and ferments him, is

Subje^

Waters ofth Baft. 1 1

ubjeft hath not been much )nfidcr'd,for men refped him Dt, till he is companic for lem, and then indeed they K)ile him. NotwithftandingI ould think, by what I have .■ad, that the naturall difpofi- on of Children, before it is srrupted with Cufiomes and 'anntti^ isone of thofe things, )out which the Antttni Philo- -phers have bufied themfelves fen to fome curiofity. Khali )t here cxpreffe what I have und by my own experience, r this is a point of forefight^ id a ground by which wife en have attained to z certain nowledge oiMoralls^ as well Naturalls.

But to return from this Dh ejfion^ to the Frincifks firft lOpofed, namely J/r^ and 1^4- . I ihaU borrow my ^ntrancc C 3 into

2% Euphrates or the

into this difcourfe , from m; famous Countrey mmRhc o

[ Chefler , who fpeaking of thi ^rf, delivers himfelf thus. Ar hac ( faith he ) de Philofophi ' cccttlta eft 5 & eft de ilia part fhilofofhta qu£ Meteor a tra6ta] Loquitur emm h^c Ars , non fi turn de elevatione & deprejfioi Blemeniorum ^ fed etiam Elt ment at bruin. Ssiaf H QC ^ c^m magnum fecretum eft.

Tfacfe words, itthc Myfti rics they involve and telate i were diftin(5ily laid dowr would mate zn er^dteffe Bl ceurfi'j for they contain all th Nature doth: and all that >^ can do. ^ But that we may Jome Order ^ and as f aras Cd^fc ence W\\\ permit , cxprelTc wh they figniiic : We do firft faj That God is the principal ar ic!kAi^hor of all thihgsM^o 1 '■'^^' '. 1

■^

WMers of the Eafi, 23.

is W^rd and Spirit,b2X\i formed nd manife^edihoic things wc f 3 and even thofc things hich at prefcnt we .'cannot fee. is for the matter whereof hc^ iww^^^cm^bclng zjuijtanccr fdexj^eni^ot onely to /^/^ but l^WorUit jelf^ moft men lay think tlie Knowledge of it mpoflible •, for how fhall wc [now a thing that was fo long cfore u$» and which is not now xtant with us, nor ever was (in ^eir opinion ) fince the Creati- w^ To this objeciian , which t firft fight may fecm invinci- le, we (hall return aii , Anfrver lall break it*. For we will (hew ow 5 and bj vphat means , wc ^ame to know^ this Matter , and iipt onely to know it , but after - png laboui;ito/^^ it^handle ity^-^ ^ndtaje it. It is tvidfnc c-: - loughy'that every IndividijalJL. ^ . ./ (iuppofc

J4 Eupht2Ltc% fCrthe

(fuppofc Man himfclf ) i$ madcjl 6f a Seed J and this feed when! the Body is perfcfted , appears no more , for it is altered and transformed to a 5tf<a?)f : Howe- ver that felf- fame Wjf doth af- terwards yield a/^^rf, which is the very fame in Nature with that original firft feed whereof the Body was made. I prefume then, that he that would know the Generation of Mm^^ needs not look back fo far zsAdam to know the firft/e^^^for \i Nature ftill affords the like, what needs xhoxfrnitlejje Retrogradationi It is even fo with the World^ for it was originally made oizfeedfii a femihaU vifcuous Humidity or Water ^\xt that Seed^^s we have faid in our Jphorifnts) difap- peared in the Creation^ for the) Spirit of God that rtfoved up-^ enk^iMt^ f rtmsforrfrd it, and

made

- /

WaUrs dfthe Eafi. 2 y

ladc the World of it. iiowfo;:^ -^\ ycr that very World doth _^^ \ o^Lyiddand bring forth our

yhichi£,the very fame in Ef._z \ tncc znd jtul fiance^ with that-- / jtmkivc ^Z^nerall feed whctc- \Tx^WorU was maderAr^ilf iiy matTniall ask, what «r/i ^Mture makes of this generall ted^ and wherefore ftic yields ;i lanfwer, that it is not to nake another World oi it , but 0 maintain that W^^vW^withit vhiclj is made already -^ For jod-Allmighty hath fo Dc- reed, that his Creatures arc louriflicd with the very fame ^/i//fr whereof they were for^ fed', and in this is verified that i4axim,which otherwife would »c moft falfe : Ex itfdem nutri- nufy ex quihus confiamus. Wc eek not much whence^^r own

Nuiri*

26 Euphrates ^ /^^

Nutriment comes , nor that of|^ Beafts, for both frovifiom are s ohvious^'^ But what is that which I feeds Grafs i Herts, C(^n^ and all forts of 7rees with theirl Fruits? What is ir that r^/^r^/,1 and (uf flies the Earth, when thefc copious and innumerous| TrodttBs have for the greatcft

Rare of the year lived fucking on cr Breafts , and almoft exhau- fled herf I am affraid theywill fpeak as they think, and affirm rSiisWiiUr ^ but what ski: full Jff'ertors they are, fhall appear hereafter. .

Certainly , even that which, we eat our fclves , and Beafts alfo , proceeds all of it from, the fame Fountain • but before it comes to us it is altered , for t^nimalls {ccd^^n particulars y

I Sftrme iramf^diatty in its-Hea- L'' ; venly

Waters of the Baft, :

rcnly univerfd Term, Not- vithftanding I would not have hisfo imdcfftood 5 as if this 'eeddid fcrve onely to nonrifh^ or mahy things arc made of it, md efpecially that fuhte&ane- ms Family of Mintr'dltA and Metalls/Vot this thih^'is tiot Water^ othcrwife than to the Ight y but a cadguUhU fdrHt^- j mditji 6r a mixture of Fire \ \ Aire, and pure Earth ^ dVcfcaft 4 ndced mihWater , and there- j Fore not fecn of afiy , nor I known but to few. Iti Vegeia- \ hies it oftentimes appears, for-^ they feed not as fome think,- on Wat er^ but on i\{^sfeminall 'vifcoi^tte that is hid in the Wa- - ter. This indeed they attrad at the RveteSj and from thence it afcendstothe Brarjches-y hut Ifomtimes it happens , by the I way to break out at the iarke^

where

t% Euphrates ^r/)&^

uy.*^t>*^v/^^ where meeting with the coldL

V>^ A?^aire , it fubfifts and congeals toL, ^ JL/f^^'^^'^^' ^^^^ congelation is j/j,

Uor not ftiddah, but requires fonnic ^jjj j57f4fl fi^ff^, for if you. find itj' whiles it isfre(h, it is an excee- ding fttbtillmojfliire ^ but^i« finous, (ox it will fpin mtoj; firings as ifmall as any hair, and had it paft up to the Branches , it had. b?exi formed, in time, to zPhntmot Cherry. This hap- pens to it by cold 5 and above T, groundybut in the Bo wells oflj the Earth it is cangealed by a gi fftlfhuriotts heat into Metalls^ j, and if the place of its congelati- ^ 0n be fure , then into a bright p (JHetall 5 for this Sperme is im- pregnated with lighty and is full of the Star-fre , from whence allMetalls have their Luftre. The fame might be faid of F carles and Freci^s Stones ,

this

Waters of the £4/. t^

his ftarrie feed being the M0^ her cf them aU^ for when it is Miner allifedhy it fclf, and with- out any f esculent mixture , then ^omit igniculos fuvs^ it flieds ;nd (hoots its -F/r^/ 5 and hath o much of Heaven^ that if wc Jid not know the Conffiracj ^ vc (hould wonder how it could ove the Earth^ Let us now in

few words 5 re fume what wc iavefaid5'and the rather, bc- aufe we would explain our vlahod, for we intend to fol- ow Rajmond Lullie , who in he Fifth Chapter of his Tefta- nent hath laid down a certain

igure^ which fully anfwers to hofe words we have formerly itcd out of Rh^f^ Ceftrenfis. c/^t c^ ^'^ ' We have already men tion'd ^ wo Principles , God and iV4- ure^ or Cod and the created Vorld : For that third Princifli

or

5P Euphrates or the •

or Ci^^i^s that was pr^eexifie^^t to the Worlds we fliall Ipcak of no more , but ia iieti ot' it we fhall have reciDurfe to the fecondarj Sfermc or Chaes that now is r and comes out of the *vifible World '^ for we will ground our Difcourfe upon no- thing but what is vifiblc , and in the Front of It we place the Divine Majejlie^ who is the fole Centrall EterriAll Princifle and Architect of all*

$1 Euphrates ^r /^^

This Figure is RAjmondLui lies^ and in the Center of ic you fee the/r/ Hjle or Matte whereof the World was madt In this Hjle (faith Raymond) z\ the Elements and all natura, Principles , afwcll Means a Extreams , were mingled po tenrially In forma confufa A qua •, and this Primitive fpef matic Ocean filled all that fpacj which we now attribute to tij K^ir^ for ( (aith he ) Attingf, bat upjue ad circdum LunArem Out of this centrali My lei wit which we'have now done ) di rife all thofc Principles an ( Bodies , which you find wril I ten In^t Circumference of th i, Figure, ^ndi here begiruis ou ' Thilofofhie,

In the firft place over th Hjle^ you fee the Elements, o the Vifiblc created World

who!

Waters efthe lajt. .j2

/fiofG parts are commonly cal- ^^ :d. Elements , namely Earth, / ^Ater 5 Air and Heavers 5 for lere is no other Fire but that •• ^«^ fatuus 5 which AriftotU indled under the Moon. From lie Elements on the right hand, y raref Action and refolution of leir fubjlance you fee deri- rd another Principle , namely jc Vapours of the Elements or le Clouds i in which Vapours t^/'^'* ■ le inferiour and Juperiour Nat ^j^i^uH^' r^j meet and are there marjri- >yi-^^i^h L and out of their mixture ie*J^;£^!i:!:l^ Its th2Xlecondai^^ ^AoTpBUJophfCAli y which w? oTfor. Nextto uie Clouds ^ , .

Vapours of the Elements ^^^^^^ ^u will find in the Figure a "IL^il- ^ rW Principle^ n3:rtic\y 3. deAr-'^ofhf^p' ^/^r, which proceeds immedir ^^^.'^^'t, i:ly from the Clouds: £M'/7^ V'%r

Re% ( faith Z»iZ/e ; Argents '^^^^\

err Q<'^o^^<i ^ur OL^Crmn

^^nmyr^r*^

/

j4 Euphrates , &r the

njlvomAgisfrofinqua^ qu£ qui '' r- dem referttur fufra terram cur *

^ rens 9 & fluens. The fourd^

1^^ (^^f<^;^ Principle, which Nature immt ^* "9 ^ diatly generates hy congeUtidt^ \ht^ /ns-^ out of the fuhfiance or vijcofit "^ ^-^^^^ of the Aqu€9us univerfal Mer^' ^^^ r ,^^ ^«r<e i$ the glaflie Az^th^ whici ^■ ^* j^y^f^'^^is a certain /ew fulfhuriou'*' iffx^oi o^^mAJculine Miner a • and thij^ >c^U^^^,]s Gold Philofophicall , th^ Jfa^ ',- SulfhuryKhc Edrt^h^^^ and thf U/ /la^^ Ude 5 as the Vtjcueus VFater i ^ L, . ^ -U^ j},g ^^^^^^'^ 3nd the Femali^

- /^^^g«^The reft of the Principle? pfk i^^' ^ w^ich are ranged in the Figure f k^ '^^'^^arc arttfcidll Princifles , an) :^ 'Uuuu^^y (C^aiinot be known or manifefto ^ fe*^A^^fi<^ without y#r^5 excepting th<*' |,^.j.^/u;:a>^ feventh and laft Principle^' ^^/??^e Miwbich is either G^U or Silver "^^ \^ •^/^ for thefe are perfed Metalls ^' ^r ^ and Fermertts that fpccifie tb"^^

'^"^"^^medidnc. which of it felf is«'^!

Wdters$fmEap. 351

4<vir[all 5 and reduce it to a articular difpoficion and ef- zSt. Thus far we thought fit Ddcale plainly with you, and orthcpradic part of this Fi- (ure, we /hall wave it , for we ad rather fpeak nothing , than Dfpcak that we cannot \k un- cr flood. I dare fay, there arc pme Writers, who rcjoycc in ^irown Riddles, and rake a peciall pleafurc to multiply fiofe Difficulties , which arc umerous enough already. For ly part I ihall not put you to a •yallof Wit, you may take ic reft from their Author, and lus cxpofe you to no other azard^but what I have been )rmerly expofed to my felf. fVe (hall now again return to ur Theories and to make our itranccj we fay, that Fire be- | imicvtxymoMn^znd motion \ t^ 2i begins '

Euphrates, ^r^^f , . begins Generation : For if tfi ,u ^ / . ' Elecnents^ or pans of this mate '^ ^ 'I riall World did all of then ^^^ '^ i.<jfUeyh ^^x\di in fuis terminis , fuch |^^ [.c.^^i^n£^CefjAtim would f reduce no r ^ thing. To prevent this, thi' "^ Alnnighty God placed in th« > Heart ot the Worlds namely ir : the Barih ( as he did in th( i . heart of every other Creature j O a Fire life J which_P4r4££//^. dlls thc^Anh^us ^ andjjnjdi von^ the Centrall Sunn. Thi! ■^Tire , leaft it fliould confumc jits own ^^^/ the Earth, hzh^t\\ ovcrc^'ft withj f^/Viir» oiliey jdt- ' ( \^Wat_ef , which we call tjic . y^ a»(f^ijSeai For Searvater( as we have ,' "\^ tticd ) not to (peak of its Sah^ . I is full of a ftdfhureous volatili fatnef^ which doth not quench fire like the conoinion water, but ^' feeds it. The like Providence we fee in the bodies oiAnimalsy

whofe

Waters of tht Eaft. 57

;hofe heat or life is tempered nth a falphureouSi falr.Jh mci- «r^,naraclY with^/W,and the ^ lood wjth the breathy as tne Sea

with Wirid and yiire. Over ^ lis K^rchaus^ or centrall fre^ --^ Jod hath placed his Heaven , ^ le 5«;? and Starrs ^ as he hath laccd the Head and the E)es o-^^^^-*^ cr the //e4r^ .• For between -' f4^and the ^(?r/^there is no tiall accord 5 and he that nows not the one ^ can never now the other. We may ob- :rvc alfoj that the mnd pafTeth tween the inferiour and jufe- 'our fires ^xhdX is between the ntr all and ca^lejiiall Sun*, and Man the Breath hath all its - xrty and motion between the ^eart and the Ejes , that is be- ^^ecn the fire and the light that in us. We fee moreover in 'an and the JVorld^ a moft even D 3 cor-

5$ Euphrates er the

CQtrc fpondency of effeSis 5 foi^

__ I as the Blo(^^ even fo the ^e^^ I hatha conftant Fulfe or y^^i/^- ! tion 5 both fpirits ftirring and working alike in their Bodies, f Nor ought we to negUiS ano-^ thcr Conftderation % That the Light of the World is in the fu- J^ pc) tour parts of it , namely Ivt the 5/#;? and Starrs: But the orif "

final firc^ from whence thcff^ parks fly upwafds^appears nd:^^ -but lives imprijojied in th( ^'^ "Marth, even fo certainly, all th^"- brightnefs of CUa^ is in hP^\ JFace,(ot there he (beds his %y5 ""J ^t the £yes , but the firft fiurg "'^* of it 5 namely thatjfre which i '^" at the Heart , is no more fcei ^^ than that which is in the Earth ^°i Onely this we may fay , thii!f^^' boththcfe imfrijoned fires at "^'^ manifefted to 72e4^;« by ih'^S fame efeifi 5 namely by th'^N

vulj

WdUrs $fthe Baft. |^

ulfe , that the one caufctb m he ^/W, and the other in the ea • to which may be added izttranffiration or e^uafonr^^ ion of Humours^ which both iefc fpirits produce alike in heirfcverall Bodies. And that re may further prove that thefe rroes of i^nh^us and Sol entralis are noi vam words, t us but confidcr what a ftrong leat \% required to x\{\%[Mima* on of Vapours and ExhaUti^ )is 5 for it is not fimplc ^ater \ lac is driven upwards^ but a- undanceof^y^/^and Oile y to* ether with the water. If any lan thinks the Suncdin dothisj muft tell him heknowes not ^e operations of the Sun , nor )r what ufe it fervcs in Nature* he Sun ferves onely to dry up je fuperfluous humidity ,whi€h le Night leavs behind her on D 4 the

•J

^if Euphrates , er the I

"^theoutfidc of things 5 for thil irJi^es all Vegetables celd anc flaccid •, hinders their DigeJUen arid Maturity t,hut thx Sun with i cleare heat, taking off that ex^ iraneous Moifture , forward] their ancociiony and helps tc ripen that which is raw. Thij muft be done with a mod gentk heat^not with fuch as (hall mak( the Earth to (hioak and ex-

^ tra(5h Clouds from it , for thij would not bririg things to s maturity , but rather burn and calcine them. We know, that if we ftand long in the Sun ^ wc fhall grow hintie ,and com- mon fire will not burn in the light of it 5 for the Sun , whicfi isthe true Element of Fire , at- trads it 5 fo that by degrees it

^ goes offand forfakes his FucU^

^ but if you convey the fire out of the Suny'^QTi it will more

^y^cT'yf^^ vC^t/>»/^^ Itrongly

WdUrs of the Eafi. ^j

crongly app^ to the Fue/J, and ni^e it fcif to It aric b'rn ic. Ic ; juft fo \T th the Earthy for ;hilcs xh^heat of the Sun is prc- :nr, the hear of the Earth is oore bufie with the Sun rf an /ith its own Body. For dL%i:>eridf' k-^n;hath well written, !n fa-- \erfick Terrs. Radii r adits ju.^- m?itur. In the F..ce of the Earth be Beapis of both LtiminAries neetj and there is fuch a Con- piracy between Fire and Fire, [hat the centra!! breaking forth Qmcctthc cceie/liaU, fuffers a iind of Extafie and dqth not auch mind his own Body. Give qe leave to fpeak thus , for here is fuch an affinity bctweert ..^ hefe /ir^5 'that they ha'cfratlicr pin with one another,than with my third Nature i, butthut is it vhich cannot be but in part^and y way of influence ^ God ha- ving

42 Euphrates or the

vtng confined the one to thj Center and the othtr to the Cir \ cumference* I could demonij i!iX2xcxii\^ SjmfAthiehy a motf noble CUagnetifm , which i|| have fcen to my admiration.; between the Sun and Jtveet oilt. ^^ or rather the fire xxnd fouL oi Nitre •, and here I (ball tell yoi^ / ^hanjie Earth is full of Nitre \ ' \y> 1 tiay ,1 muil: affirm that fure eartl r/^i^/U!^ is nothing ellc but Nitre, Yvho(c ^ Belly is full of IVind^ Air^ and W^- f ftrc'^ and which d iffers no more from Heaven, than the /?(?^foji a Tree^ tfiat lodgeth in the dtrt^ doth horn the Branches of to that grow in the :^un fhme^ 'This attraction oi Fire by Fire^ is the true caufc why the heat of the Earth is fo weak in Sum- mer, and foftrong in Winter, for in^ the VVmter when the Sun is abfent , ihccentrall fire

keeps

WdUnoftheJEAjt, 4j

:p5 altogether within thc^^r^A 1 being irritate<i by an ho- e invafian oiCald^ heats the Mers much more vigoroufly 5 that Exhalations and Cleuds : far more copious in the »/>- • , than they are in the fum- ^r, which could not be if the ^n were the caufe of thentr. d tothis, that an oucward dry iat ^ as that of the Sun is, fal- ig immediatly on the earthy lift needs hum the earth Se- re it can make it fmoak-^ but 1 i/marJfire ^ that is mingled ith the moifiure of the earth ^ innot burn^ be it never fo ir^- nfe 5 for it is qualified with tlic 'rf^^r, and tempered to a moift eat 5 and without doubt fuch a Vemvfvtxy naturaUj refolve 3me pars of the earth ^^nd caufc icm to exhale 5 as our own in- i^ard heat[^ being moiftened

with

44 ^ Euphrates, i^A-/;^^

with the blood, makes us fwe,, ^1 without any violence. To re ' duce all this to a Corrollarie^ w '" fay that in the Winter Godfeaif the face of the Earth with Froj '^ ' ^ jand Cold^ as a man would fqr '" , fej:^. > and this to keep in th( ''* '\congelative f^ermatic Humidi^^ , /-Uj, which otherwife might a'' l| ;^ m^P\ (cend with the more crude Va- ^^ r/*"^ S;^(?«rj that break out ^(?/^/^/sr/?v at 9 jiM^^ j that time.and filling^the $phm °^ ^hf^ ^ i gf^hl^g^ake in like fo ma- 1^'

I ^iM^^ngs,, for we n:iuft know, f'

that iV4/»re begins to /^^/^r^^J '^i

;/i«^^ the Earth about the end o( "^

^»///;w» ; and continues it all'^'

the ^/;^^^r, the ferie fukilljn. I'

/«^ of the Heavens being then ?

condenfed by the r^Wand 5»i?/- f^'

ftureoiiht Moon^ who isi^^r-'

^^;/^ ajl the Winter , and elc va- ^1'

ted above the Sun, This you '

Waters of the Eafi. 45

ay fee in Sf^ow , which falls hard Froft, which being ta- ^ n up whiles ic js/rcihj, and - gc ft ed in a BlindgUfs'in ajhef^ ~ ^ r twenty four houres , if then )u open the glafs, whilft the lution is warm, you (hall per^ ivcinthe ^r^d^^of the tvater the odours inthc world, and rtainly far more pleafant than cyarc in the Flowers at Maj^ pok into the bottom of the lafsandyou will find there^ fatt grey/lime^ not unlike to illile Jodpe. 5 Separate the legme from it by a foft diftil- :ion in baheoy and put the re- lence in a Boltfhead well )pt, in a drie heat o( ajhes^ ep it then warm for an hour two 5 and fuddainly the glafs 11 fly to pieces, for the mndy i life or fpirit/is not well fet- I in the Body. Here you ly fee the firft Attempts of

46 hu^nntcsoythg

_ 1 Nature , but if you know ho ^\ to work upon Water, you flis .. I Bnd gredter things than I ha^ V. 1 cold you.

The Magnejld then ("as Sit ^j divow hath. written ) is geni rated in the Winter , and n| without reafon^ for then tl heat of the earth is ftrongel and beft able to digcft the Nt triment that comes down froj -\ Heaven^ and coneoU it to a -zJ, "S fcous fferme. But in the ^r/;? and Summer feafom , when tj ^tt;? hath chaft offthe Frofi^zi^ the centraUzndi calefiiall Lum naries have , by their mutua mixture |and conflux of ^^/afzvi rclaxated and dilated the Fon of the earthy then there is a wa made for the fperme to afcen more freely , which fMimin^ Vi^^zxdsis attracted znd inter hefted by the vegetable King

dm

waters of the Eajt 47

if,whofe imediat aliment it is. To return then to thofe firft »rds of Rh£(us Cefirenfisi, wc , this Jperme -is made of the pours or clouds y8c the vapours made by elevation and de- ^ffionoi E element s y and not ely of the elements^but fas he th ) of elementats alfo , that of Bodies Compounded of elements , and this b^ars a ^ble fcnfc. For wc muft ow that the earth is charged th many f articular natures^ Miner alls of all forts and Ca- verous Reliques •, for our Bo- ^ alfo lodge in the earthy /^ f^n the fpirit of life hath left :m. All thefeas well as the rtb it felfe, fuffcr a rarefacii- I, and refolution oi fubfiancc ^ t inTo thek Vapours faith Raj* mdLnlljy Omnia corpora elc mtata refolvmtur ad intran* I iurnl

4^ Euptiratcs or ths

dumnQvlim (^enerationem, T

puts me in mind of an Opini

I have read fomctimcs in

Cal>a/iJ}s t, namely that this k

or <5^^y we have attained tool

attraction and tranfmutation

putrment, rifeth not in the J

furreclion'^ but out of that fern

nail particle , which original

attr^a^ingxht nutriment^ did

^ercajlitfel/ethcxcmtb^ the

^ fliill (pring another new bod^

and this feminall f article ( Q

they ) lurketh fomcwhere in tl

bones , nor in that part whic

moulders in:oZ)«/. OfatrutI

we fee that bones arc very fei

manent and lading , and th

^ojefh was not ignorant of

when dying in <t^gypt , he gav

2 J. *^°' that charge to his bretrhcn , 7

j]ull carry up mj bortes jroi

hence. We know the ifraelitt

^tcre bondmen in ^gjff ncc

fou

TVdters $fthe Bafi, 4P

)ur hundred years after ^^- fh's death , yet all that time is bones were not confumed^ lit were carried away to the and of Canaan^ as it is writ- n, AndMoks took the bones of ^^ Dfcph with him-j for he hadi^^ ' ^^' aitlj [worn the Children of rael , faying , God rvill furely fipyof^^& joujhall carry up my neshence with you. Certainly v we judge rightly , we muft ifc^'e that this feminall parti-^ fjisour onely originall fun- mentall Matter^ the reft being It an accretion that comes i3m the extraneous fubfiame meat znd drink. What lolTe it then if we layby this cor- Pt accretion oxaccejfe'ofmat' for cannot he that made I at firft of the feminall par- /^5make us of it again. <* From iS Opinion St. Fauly in my E iudg-

50 Euphrates ^r r*^ i

judgment, abhorrs notj in thd fpcech of his to the Corinthiam where he would (hew them th manner of the Refurre^ion^ an< ivith what bodies the Dead rift

^ Theu Fool ( faith he ) that whic thotiforvefiyis not qukkned ex ceft it die-^ an^f^ihat which the fotveft^ thou fowefl not that hoa thatjlia/l he , but bare Grain ^ \

" may chance of Wheat or of fom other grain •, bat Godgiveth it body as it hath f leafed him , an to iveKj feed a body that is pn per for it: iox fo fignifieth th Original!. And here you thj are angrie Readers , let me b excufed 5 for I deliver not th, as my own Sentiment , but i the "Tradition of the ^ewes who were fomtimes a very leaf fjed people ^znd knew more c the Myfleryes of God and Na ture 3 than any other Natia

what'

Wdtefs of the Eaji;. ft

/hjtfoever. Bttt':o begin again' /here we left, you muft know^ hat when the centra/i Sun fub- imcs the Fafours^thok Vafourls >artake not onely of the natun f Earth and Water , but of . ivcns -mother particular Mine^ \ ^///fwhereof th? earth md rva^ tr ^sxd\fulL -

To make this nnore clear, the /4^i?«ri properly fo called , rife rom the Sea^ and from zWfrefh ratsrs. . Thefe partake of- the ibft'ance^nA. qualUties of fuch Mjjtpc^ls as are iq [the rvater^ bme 0(f them being bituminous^ omo faltifh yiomt mercurially nd all -of them moifi and'phleg- 'jafic: On the contrary, thoftTj xHlTitiom that come from the = • artk arc drie ^ for the earth W- , «orc hati- and miner all than th^ \ \j vatcr.Thcikferitearthyfumei^} \ ] acccifignvith the coldniafonrf ' ' E 2 of

52 liuphratcs, $rthe,

of the rvater.;, oftentimes" pto duce moft terrible Tctripefts ^. %f^\ fome of thefe beii;g jtitrous i" fome arfemcall^ fome [ulfhure ^ OHs^ and all het •, and feme , hi '^ reafon of their copious julphur ° 'inflamahle. Both thetc, ^I nieai "" the ^4r/^^ exhalations^ land th( '°^ watery vapcursmcct intkat^vafl ''^' circulatory of the ^/> ^ where'' ^heir contrary Complexions o\^ -'"■ htat and cold^Kt mingled togc- '*^ .^therlike agent and patient-^ ot^^ I ^Sulphur and Mer curie •, And thd ^^ y particular Natures and^^^wi/^ ;SiCf°^ ^ which they accqiiired from the miner alls , are resolved by the n^/>^5 and totally reduced, into generall Principles, It is fttange to confider what a powenwU revolving faculty there i^/ in wind ox atre 5 for windh no o- thcr thing than me ftirr'd, land that by/r^ , as wc fee in nran^

that

waters of the Eafi. 5j

■lat the n^.otion of the breath is aufed by hcat^ afwell as that of ' 'le blood^both proceeding from le fame hot ^rmcifle of Life. o certainly the life of the wrld cauleth wind or a com- lotion inthe^ir^, afwell as a 'ux in the Sea , for both thefe re Seas^ and have their fluxes^ 5 we lliall prove elfewherc -h lore fully. Aire then , as wc -<< ave faid , refolves all things , "^n^ .ndcfpeciallyrv/W, f5r it re-^^A^^^ . ;to^i aU /i/^j into jr^f^r 5 and^^. '^ -; •tUs fotfitiofi be diflird,we fhal ■s«iv-;.\u-t>vH !nd fome part of the fait redu- : ^ ■ :.^ ed inzo frefh water. As for the ejidue ^i{ it be cxpofed to the v>i, it will refelve again , and ou may diftill it the fecond me: In a word, if you repeat ^

hisPr^^e/i:,you will bring the /hole ^^^^ of the fait into a ^tf- itillfrejh water , nothing difle- E 3 , ' ^ rent

54 Euphrates , or the

rcntfroni the common either ir fi^ht or tafte.hnd here you mpf i not think your /4/ns loft^for i! I you know how to congeal the ' vPAter y you will find it again . but fo alter diiovci what it was. that you will wonder to >fce it This praflice , if well under flood, fufficiently declares the 7iature ofair-^ but he that know? where to find congealed air y anc a^'^4^u*^C2in(X\Qo\vt'\ihy heat to a vij- ^/^ ^J^!^Gus rvater^ he hath attained tc ^^^ /' fomthing that is excellent. ^it^Muchmorel could fay of thij rvonderfuli and [firituall Ele- 7J7€nt^\vhok penetrating , rejol- ving factdtie I have fometimes contemplated in this following and fimple expeiment. Com- mon Qjfickfilver hath a'^miracu- lous union of parts , and of all compomds is the firongefi ex- ccipungGoU'^ for if you diftiU

ii

j^C^u^

W4terj fi/theEaJl. 55^

by Retort a hundred times , it " ;ill be ' Quickfd'i/er ftiil not- dthhanding all thofe reittera- *d rarefactions oihxs body . But ^

you take a thoufand weight "" fit and vafour them away but nee in the of en air , it will nc- - er come to Quickfilver again 5 or the Fumes will be lifted up -- ) the tt^/W^where they will fuf- ^

V ^tonlldijfolution ^ and will v ome down meer Rain-water. U'^'f^'''^'' 'his is the very reafon why alfo ^^^^^^'^ le vapours of the Elements are - rj i/^ fted up to the middle Region Z4i^i fthe^/r ^fprtherethen^/Wis ^ ■

\o9icold^ and hath moft libery^^ ^^ e^ an^d in n^o other place caiv^^ ^^W<^< leir Rejolution ^ which ^{ature^ y itcnds,^ htferfeoied. This if ? ndcrftood , is a moft noble Je- \

yet of Nature: nor was ^^^ ig- orant of it , when complain- ig of the decaycs of his own E 4 body

5 6 Euphrates \ or the

bodj^ he delivered himfelf thusirf^ chap. 50. j-jjQf^ liftefl me up to the wind fi thou caujejp me to ride ufon tt r and diffohejl my jub fiance . % Wc have hitherto (hewe^m you ho^ Fire rarifies all thing? (f and how wind and air refolvi f) ' them yet further than fre^ a'i'

we have exemflified in ^ickf ft her. And this is it wc hav<i^ delivered elfwbere in more en- ij vious Tearms , namely Than Anmi Circumferences dilate^ and Cen f<i ^^^^[p Jers contra^ '^ Thdt Super ioun ^^'^ diffolve^ & Infer iours cjagulate i That we fhould make ufe efan indeterminate Agent^ till we cai^ > jinda determinate one. For true it is, that the metcuriall diffoU

'^i^^/i^^-'^t^- J? in^'^'^ '^^^j and in

■ aiery things t^ and the fulfhu-

rious congealing virtue is in the

earthy that is to fay, in fome mi

« '^^^ nerall natures and fubjlances

PJC^4iiyr/ which

Wafers of the Bap, 5^

vhieh God hath hid in the '^ ^ arth. Take therefore n?^/^^r of^^''^'*/ :/>, which 'is a great di[jolvent^^ ^^^^ nd ferment it with earth , and ^^^^*r« »n the contrary, earth with b?4- i^c^CPc

er 5 Or to fpcak nnore obfcurc- - ^ ^^«^ /, ferment Mercury with ^^^' zl^^^ hur 3 and Sulphur with Merca-p^ ^jf* J. And know that this c^;?^^/f-*C^/? ^

/>^ faculty is much adjuvated y heat'^ efpccially in fuch pla- es where the /jp^rw cannot eX' ale^ and where the ht at is tem'^ erate/j but if the place be ^^7^;^, L ^^ nd the heat excejjtve^ then iti-. 'iff pates. It remains now that'^ i^e fpeak fomething of the two ajftve'. materiall Blements , amely oi Earth and Water t, for ihefe are the bodies that fuffer ^ >y jfr^ > and whofe parts are perpetually regenerated by a - ircular rarefacfion^znd conden* v^

It

58 Euphrates ^rrA^

It is the advice of the Bro thers of R» C. that thofc whc would be Proficients in this Ar fliould ftudy the elements anc their oferatkn^ before they feel after the Tinctures of Metalls. I is to be wifhed indeed that mer would do fojfor then we (houlc not have fo many Brojlers^ anc fo few Philojofhers, But here it may be queltioned 5 who is he that ftudies the elements^ for a- ny fuch end as to ohferve anc! ^ imitate their Operations i For in n the Univerfities , we ftudy thera if onely toattainto a falfe book-i Theerie , whereof no use can be |j made but Qtucking^ Difputing^ 5( and making a Noife. Verily [ the 1)0 Brine of the Schoolmen^ K hzxh allaf d zi\d per verted even that defire of Knowledge which God planted in Man. For thei^ Traditions we receive there , ^

com-

JJjming from our Superiours ^ . ^rry with them the awe of the utor, and this breeds in us an )inion of their certainty 3 fo a an Unwerfity-man , eannoc all his life time , attain to fo uch Reafon and Confidence^ as look beyond his Led'on. I ive often wonhred that any her hirits can think Arijiotles hilolophic ferfe^ , when it infifts in /wrerr words without ly further effects 3 for of a uth, the faiftty and injuffid- I'r; of ameer Notionall Know- ige is fo^apparent,that no wife an will aflert it. This is beft lown to the Fhifitians , who hen they have been initiated this tvhirlygigg^ are forced at ft to leave it , and to a(lume '•fl? Principles f if they will be ch as their Profeffion requires ey fliould be. Arijiotle will

very

^0 Euphrates 3 ^r /^tf .

very gravely tell us. Mi defim Jj^ fhikjophm^ ibi incifit Medicm But I admire what affiftance ^^ Phifitian can receive from thi \^ Fbilojopher, vfhok fcience tdl .^j us, Scientia non eji particuUri ,j^ um: for without parUcuUrsi^^ Phifitian can do nothing. But ii ^ in good carneft, did not o/ri J fiotle's Science ( if he had any arifc from particulars, or did defcend immediately from Uni verjals? If from Uni'verfals ", how came ^e to be acquainrc<^^ ? Did he know tb l

VI

in

with them

Genus, before he knew the Spe cies^ or the /pedes before the in dividuals': I think not: He knev S the individual firft, and having obferved his nature and propri etjy he applied that to the vvhol Species 5 -or to fpeak jenfe, to al individuals of that kind ; anc this aplication made that know

ledg(

Waters of the Eafi. ^x

ig^general^vvhich at firft was rtieuUr , as being deduced Dm zparticuUr ohjeB, This is iCjand Arifiotle will tell us fo, DUgh he give himfclf the Lie 5 r elfe where he affirms , Nihil • in intelUBft , qued non fuit ''.us in Jenfr, Which if it be ie, then Scientia non e^farti- Urium is falfe. But I have ; ncwithhimat prefcnt , and^ ' : my own part I have learnt J'lgago,' nor of Arijlotle but ' Roger Bacon , Quokl commu- Qt^^z* \ \ fauci funt valor^s 5 nee fro- J>^ efcquerda, nifi propter parti- ff^^ f aria. And this is evident in" I fra^ifes and profeffions that " iduce^ny thing to the bene- ^' oitnan. For Nature her fclf I h imprinted the Univerfall tions and Conceptions in eve* ^^ soul^ whether learned or u»-^ ^^ nd^io that we need not ftudy

Uni-

q

^z Euphutts cir tit

Unkjer falls , and this our Frik^ had ehfervedj for, faitfa he. Jl communihus K^mmi cence] tidnibus vnlgus. cpntwdAt cu fafientiht^ ^ in parficularik i ver$ 5 &.propijs err at ^ & drfca n dati And for this very rcajo. Di he condemns Arijl4)tle and G \ len^ QjiU in commtmihrn & uh \ 'uerfalihus fe occufaverunt , ' 1 ferduBi funt ad feneciutem^ % i tamco7iJHmentesin fe^o^ribfis k: vulgatisy nee vias ad h^^c [cert i magna ferceperu^i. Let not . u do as thofe hut hens did^thc^j ni in this very point, rfic gxcm it part of the world' follows thei » Let^s rather fipllm!^wljierc,i\f ( tf^re leads •, for iSbe: having u f ffefi thefe U/fiverfa/U^ inoiifc mMsyhBXb not done it in vai i .bui/to theend we^ihould apf n th^em to outward jevfibU part i eplar^ , S< fo attain to a /r/^^^ e: ic -Vv/il per

WdterscfthEafi. 6.p

rimentdU knowledge , which ^^

this life is our oncly crown ^

dpcrfe^ion. Ifamanfliouid

iinthclfare Theorie oi Hus^

»^rj^, and oncly read r/>^/7's "

crgkks^ never putting his

nd to the Plcw^ I fuppofe

S Theorie could not help him

his daily bread : And if wc

1: in the Notions and ndmes of

tngs , never touching the

'ngs themjelves^ we arc hke to

^duce no effects ^nor to cure any

^eafes , without which perfor-

inces Philofophie is ufejles ^znd

t to be numbrcd amongft our-

sceffaries 5 But how f alfe this

J God knows, and man alfo

i 'ly knowJt if he Jconfidcrs but

3 )fe two Obftrudions of Life^

ii knefs and poverty. But they

51 : not oncly effe^s that arc

f! nting to Arifiotles Fhilojofhj

t : even his Thurk is for the

If moft

^4 Euphrates or the

moft part/4//e, and where It » true yxi'is fo flight and fuperf;' ciall, that it doth not further i \ at all. He is none of our mxiti "' dries bdeive it , but the ver ^ Mewora to all naturall tiijcovi |j . r/Vj^andhehath for many Pi^ ges , not onely ebjiru5ied bi ^1 exftinguifhed the Truth. Muc might be faid of this fellow an his ignorance ^yj\(ic\\ is not moi grfijsihzn ferverfe : I omit t fpeak ot his ^^theifm, and tt eminenc) of his /^^//V^ , whic was not onely deftrudivc to ih JFAme of the old Fhilofopher. whofe Books tlus Scribli burnt, but even to the happwe^ zndjfrogrefs of pofieritj^ whoi he rob'd of thole more antien more excellent and invaluabl

Monument f ^vT :

U have digrefi thus far to coi r€<a thi$/r4% fheeft who hat

fpoir

WdterscftheEaJf, tsj

3oird a numerous Flock '^ and lie rather^becaufc of a late cree- 'ng atttmp of fome of his riends , who acknowledge :m their Dictator ^ and the Fa- ^r of their Humane Wifdomey id fuch indeed he is. But when fey tell us , who write againft m, that we do but reftore old trefies , when indeed we op- »fc an Athieft , and one that nied the creation of the world^ d the dear immortAlUty of our mis: they muft give us leave ^ be a little angry with them, ice we muft lay the H£retic at :ir Doors , for they are the ^n that maintain him. In the san time^if they are in earneft, think us guilty of any herefie^ : them publickly /hew where- 5 and we ftiall not fail to give :m ah account of our Senfe and nr (JHifinterpr stations. For F our

6ut pai^t we had not trouble* them at this tkne , had not €f r. P. oi them darkly ai^ timer oh} fignifiedy that we teach a ne f P*i?^r, new PhilofifM?, and ne' n DiviniPyi^ To whom I ihall r< fj turneno:4;?/jv^r but this ^ Thm before he undertakes to jud£ J; what Phihfofhie or Divinity j, new, he fliould firft endeavor tounderftand the old. But i\\ is aikp out of my ways ^nd tfa jt I may return -3>2;<i«s^/?!fc> sj ^ ; I fliall now refurae my D \i fcmrfid^E^rth andWater^ m thofe %e are f en fiBh fuh {target not um^vtr^alls and ChymAra i fuch C5 the Ferifateticis fane when they couple Nature ai Nothipg^

By £tfrf^ 5 I undcrfland n this impure fa»culcttt hdy , x tvhich we tread ^ but a mo dtnflc f^tc tlcmcm 9 name

Ci

waters $f the Eafi. e^

:he naturall centr all fait Nitr^^ his [alt is fixed or permanent t?^^^ ^ n the Fire , and it is the fdfhur ^^ui^ ^ )f M^/^r^3 by which (he retains^ If /v^w;^ md congeales her Mer curie. ^-^"^^ vhenthefetwo meet,! mean the ^ >ure earth and the water , then he earth thickens the rvater^znd, mc the contrary the rvater fub^ Uiates the earthy and from thefc 3?/? there rifeth a third thing ^- ot fo thick as earthy nor fo thin "^ 5 jv^^er , but^fajncan i/i/^ ^mflexien , anT^thS^w^cSled^ f^rr/^r/'g^ whlchTsliofliii^ clfe uta c&mfofition oLWi^iLMd^^^^^ ilt. For we muft know, that f^ lefe two are the prime materia, jj^ Is of nature , without which_- tc can makcno fpermfotfeedi )r is thaTail, for whciTthc i^^is Riade , it will never grow I a hodj , nor can it be refolved ddifpos'd to a further Gene- F 2 r4-

6i Euphrates or the

ration , unlets ttefe t\yoare^r^- ^5 fent & alfo^^/'^rtf^withit.This ^^

/ ^ we may (cc all.the y ear long by ■ ^

, a frequent and daily experience i ^^^

/For when it Rains ^ this Heaven- ^j

f ly rviiter meets with the Nitn

that is in the e^rth, and ^///i/i^^J

I it, and the Nttre with his jicri- ^^

' monie fliarpcns the water , f( ^^

; thatthis;^//'r^«^ rvater diffolveij^

i all the Seeds that are in th( ^^

Lground: And thus Solution i ^

C

the )t^7 oi Generation^ not one! in our <^rt^ but in Nature alfo j .which is the Art of God. W«- necdnot fpeak much more 0 xhc earthy forthefcfew words if rightly underftooc',ue fuffici enr, and carry in then! a dce2i [evje than an ordinary Readi ^^ M O wiirpercclvc. I know there i ^' another ^yW^^- Oriental Earth which is all golden 'and //#//'*« f (?^/^/, and yet is not C?p/^, but

baf

Waters efthelEafl. 69

n(c C9y7ternffible thtng^ that - :ofts nothings for it may be had ^ W the taking up. This is th^' - 'arth of fty£thtofia ^ that hath aif - olours ink: This is that Jn* Irodamas of Democritus , the ;rccn Duenech and Sulphur that lever touch'd thejfr^^vvhich if it )e rejolvd, then it is our glafjie ^ Azoth^ or vitriol of f^enus Phi- e "^^ •^'^' fJophicalL "

I hisjscnough as to the__g4^ l ^jXi2£lh£iiii^ , and now wc 1 /ill fpeak of the Water. This ! llemerJt is the Deferent ^ on Fe- \ iculumoi d\\ Influences what-;! oever^ For what efflux foever ' ' be that proceeds from the r *rreftiall Center ^ the fame a- |- !:cnds and is carried up in her h ') the Air • And on the contra- r Mil that comes from H aven :fcends in her to the earthy fpt |i her Bellj the inferlot^r and y^- ^ V V 3

V

70- Euphrates , ^y fA^

I femur natures meet and mm

glc, n6r xanthey be manifefiu j il^rithput a fingular artifice i I Iftence it is that whatfoever i. !

fure in the earthy all that (he re \ ^^eiues from the rvater: Am'

here I mean fuch fure Subfian ^

JV^jbu^/'^i? ^^ ^^^ ^^"^^^ "^y ^^^ Philofo I 7,^ / /^ phers I)ecomfofitaT\ For th(t<

* Eagle leaves her Egg^ that is t(

fay, the n?4f^r leaves her Limo

^ty in the earth, and this X/w^ <'

}?/;f is co^voffed into Nitre 5 anc

^ to other innumerous Mineralls

We have formerly told you o:

.. two Suns or JFires , the Car left i

,^,4VZand the Centrall. Now botf

^thefe difpence their efflttxions

or influences , and they meet ir

fhe vapour of the jv^^^r^ Fortht

\ Vulcan or earthly Sun . makci

t the rr^^cr afirend to the ^:g^^

f oFthe 4/;^art?herc tEc^ ^4/gr i;

^ /^^fpread unde7 thcjf^fcrimjres.

^A.

! -'

Waters of the Ma>fi. 71

(orjhe isegpofe j to tfto^^ df^ -

|ncLg/4;gg>jr7and this in a naked^

feSSZ^^^ ^^4>^ The 4/> j>f a truth,isthat Temfle, whcrf nferiotirs arc married to their Hfcriours •, for to this place the heavenly Light defcends, and (5 united to the aereaS oleous iflumidity , jvhich is hid in the l^eSy of the ^4r^r-,This light be- ing hotter than the rvater^mzkcs ler turgid and vitally and />- Ireafeth hex feminall vifcotis moi- \hre 5 fo that (he is rgady to de- pofe her fperme or limofitie^- Ivere flic butj»;££/£^jQ^ her j>r<?' i7r.^^4/gr~Burthis cannot be' mlds flie returns to her own Country, Imeantothe Earth-^ ^ br here the CeU^ftrnm c^t MaLc ' efides. To this purpofe llie <ie- 7^;?^^ hither again J and immc- ■^F 4. diat-

7Jt Euphrates , er the

,.. diatly the MaIc laics hold upon.

her , and his fierie fulfhurioum

y fubfiance unites to her Limofity k

\ And here obfcrve that this Sui 'n

Xfhnr is the Father in all metal fo

[\Uc Generations , for he gives the t

majctilirje fierie Setd ^ and th(Sti

\water gives the hdj , namclj i^^

Ithe itmofitieox heavenly aque^ i)

^ £ a^uM^JioH^^ bjl!c

^^ ^ .Acoagulation is made. We mufl ir

know moreover, that in thij wi

^ ' -' ^

I y Sulphur there is an impure ex- (g

c^ ^^^-/^^ fyaneoHs heat^vihich gnnws and fS

, y ^ eorrodes this waterie Kg^^ ^ en- bi

^'^'^ deavouring to turn her to ar lut

impure fulphur, fuch as his own tc

hod) is •, But this cannot be, be- k

caufe of the Heavenly Seed or M

> d^ ^^^'^^ ,X/^^f hid in ^^a^ueous Nitre, irc

^o<^/^^ wjiidLLV*^^ fuch mc

thing 5 For as foonas the fui- i

phurtous terreftriall heat begins i\

CO work 3 fofoonitavvakes andrk

^ ftirrcs

y

Wditrsoftht E4ji *r5

.lirres up the Heave f^lj light "^ " whichbcing now fortified with^ hcMaJculine 7in£ture^ orjure^

ire^oi i\\^_[ulfhuL'i begin$_to , york onitsojvn^^^ , namely ^ ^^^ V/^ on the aqueous Nitre , and fepa- rates from it, ih^ feculent extra^ ieous parts of the Sulphur , and b remains by it felt a bright ^ v'/^^ 3celeftiall«;ff^//m Wy. Ob- '''

fervethcn that the tincture or, ^ \0ul^,.^^L.Jul2ht^j^ x^eneratcd in ics own im^Mt^ ^ 7odj[ butlTmuft forfake that /4 X^^i^-' hdarkand earthy Carcafs ^ znd /ir^^A put on a new furijiedhodj before ^^^/ i?"*^ lit can be united to the Itght of Heaven. XH^niE^odj^nngs * j out of the water , 'foFmcivater , brought it down from Heavenj and certainly by tt^^^er and [pi- rityjc muft be all Regenerated ^ which made fome learned Di- vines affirm that the element of

water

Oca,

74 Euphntc%^0rttfe

f^Afer was not^ but oncly tha' i oitht edrih. Nor can I hew If omit the Dodrine of St. John w who makes the WATEHjt one of thofe three WitnelTaili which ^teft God here on earthy id And mach to this purpofe ind that Speech of Sc. Pad: Houtn That God m times fafi^ f^ffcrd i all Nations to tpalke in their own \t tva^esx, hut never thelejsiidxih hej k\ he left not himfelfe without An JVITNE S ^ inafmuch as hti gave them RAIN from Hea- n ven &c. The Benedidlions oi Bieffings that defcend from God, are not a form of words^ like the Bcnedidions of Men 5 They are all jfirit and effence , and their Deferents are natu- ral vifible Suhflances, and thefe are the Bieffings which the Pa- triarch wiftit to his Son:Godgive tbu ^f the DEW $f BE A-

VEN

Waters of the Eajt. 75

"EN from A^OVE^andof heF ATNES of the EARTH \ ■^-' romBENEATH. He was f- otignorant ofthofe BleflingS) - 7hich the God of nature had iclofed in thofe natural things-^ Tid therefore he faith in the ame place, Thefmellofmy Son - r like the fmell of afield^ rohich he Lord hath hlefjed. And St, i 'aul ii\^his Epiftle to the He- retvs tells us , That the Earthy ^hich drinketh inthe Rain^ that ometh oft upon it y receiveth . leffingfrom God-^ but that which I itarethThomes and Briars isre- ecfed and nigh unto Curfing , vhofeendistobeburnt.

But to explain what this blcf- . ~ ing is , we remember we ha\^c written clfe where 5 that Water yditlrm. s of a double Complexion,! -^ Zircumftrentiall and Centrall. ^ in the Circumference ftie is

crude -

rj$ Euphrates 6r the

crude, volaiill and phlegmatic I but in the Ceriter ftic is bcttc: I concoftcd, vijc^HSy airedU^ am ^^ferie. T his Centrall part is fef /and faltifh , outwardly whit ,and Lundr , but inwardly ra and 5^/4r, nor can it be well ex ^/trafted without a lunar ox [oU^ /Magnet , whofc ipropcr alimen, l^it island with which it hath i [wonderful! Sjmpathie. Henc< ^ /that obfcure faying of the Phi- lofophers , who when they de- fcribe unto us their Mercuric , give it this Chara6ier as mofl naturall , Q^odadhdret cor fori- J>us . That it adheares to the bo- dies or met alls. And as Vitha- , got as faith in the 'Xurba , Suum absque igne confequitur focium. And therefore it is written in the fame book , Magna efi fro- finquitas inter Magnefiam & I err urn. We fee indeed by a

vulgar

WdtersoftheEaJf. 77

jgat Experience , that if any K dmary ftone ftands long but '- common water 5 there fticks . it a certain limojitie ^ which ^^ t water dcpofetb. But not- -^ ithfiindingjdijJiis^ andLalL|| iey^fayy we muft needs afSrm, H lat even their Mercune^^&d^l

ztcs not to the vulvar metaHs g^ JnTEis^ word Mercurie,^zsjnl ; dSthcLSimcsithcy_ar^ tt1g_ambiguous and fubtillj! Here is ind_ecd^a mjjierk_£Al, icirsjn__^it/^ > ^ndjjcnotty^ ncTwlth which many learned Men have been gravel'd 5 and ow fince we have menrion'd , we care not much if we fpeak \berly of it.

There is nothing fo frequent,- nd indeed nothing fo confide-^ able in their Books as Fire and VAter 5 but the rciprocall and onfufed nfi of both termcs ,

puzzles

7o EuphvMS or the

„ puzzles much, as when they te us that their waur is their /n Of xhis they have written I . ftrangcly, that I have fomtirnc Q^ been angry with them •, but z mongft them all 5 I found on * had a good will to fatisfie m(

This Author cojtifeffed he mij carried two hundred feveraj times , notwithftanding hi knowledge of the true matter and this becaufc he did no know xhtfire or agent by whici the matter is altered. Thefe mij yfprtmes oi his o'wn moved hin it fcetns, to a commiseration a Pofleritj • but I muft needs af- firm he hath taken his liberty^ and expreft his own n^indy^^ \:' - Jljiownj^. 0t4rjre{ faith he) \y ^ ^^^^^^^ p ^0^^ -> cmtinna//^ it ^i^^afmrsmt nnleffe ^e heat be top^eaii^it parttcifaPts of S^h pifmr.%.^it Dt^dv^es , Calcines ^

WMers ef the Eap^ ff

And congeales aU% it u artificial ff 9find^ dnd not chargeable > a»d \\t is taken elsewhere than from ^ he Matter. To alhhis he adds \ iiatatlaft, whereof he would o{ lave us take moft notice. This ^ke ( faith he) is not alt^e/d cf ^, ranfmuted with the Matter* He ril bought certainly he had fpo- |5 :en enough^znd truly fo he hath tr ml it is to fuch as know it alrea-

id ^ For my own part I have found ~ ;/| \ certain mineral jinking water ^ ii vhich partakes of the nature of (V ^ulphftr^ and w hofe frefaration oj. s artificiall , which is not of the iiffentiaJl parts of thew/nf/^r^but lii^ccidentMl and extraneous y ^ which vaf ours not unkft it be imer-hVatedy v;hkh piffolves y ii Zalomesyzrid Congas alU but l snac congealed 'y for it is cx- ], )el'd at laft by tbcfircoinatitrt^ f- and

'^ Jbupnratcs or the

and goes off in windy fumt^ This mcnftruous fulphuriou fire againft Nature , hath taugh j( me how natural our work 1S5 to: T it doth that here , which com mon water doth in the grea jj worjd In this rcfped it is calVc of fomc Philofophers Fhlegma, Ros^ Aqua Nubtumi, not certain- ly that it is fuch , and therefore let us not deceive our felvcj mth Mifc^njiruffions, He tha would know the Reafon ol ihokTermes^kt him take thii Account irom a moft knowing Philofopher, fAqua Nuhium vo- catur ( faith he ) quia difiillata. eji veluf Res Idatj, tenuijfima- rum fartium. Efi quoque eadem aqua acetum acerrinum , quod^ corf us fecit merum Jpiritum. Ui enim, acetum diverfarum qudi- tatum eft 9 mmpe ut in frcfu»* dHmfenetret\ & aftringat y fii

1

WdtersoftheEafl. ti

f£c aquafolvit , & codgulat^ non ittem coaguUtur, quia non ejl de tbjecio froprio. Thus much as ~ othe Termes , and now let us cturntothe f^;>^itfdf. I faid

ijfhis /fre cffcds that in the Glafs^ . vhich common water doth in he great World 5 for as this ^ hlegmatkk element coagulates lot 5 nor is it at all diminifticd , otwithftanding that infinite umber of individualism which i j Mature ftill produceth 5 even fo 1 -4=- isinour «7^r^.5 fox our water V" '

flfo alters notj though the mat- frbealtcr'd in her l?elly^ and j lur very Principles generated ! here, namely Sulphur and ^£er' ' uriephilofophicaU. Norfliould ny man wonder that I affirm ommon water to be incoagulable ty heat at leafi , for in this I

]l peak not unadvifcdly . I know

*hcre arc in water fome natnus G coagiii^

82 iiupnratcs, »rthe

ccagulahle , but they arc nc fb parts of the ir^f^r^ but of othcJ^ elements •, Nor will I deny bu 111 fomefhlegme^ nay, a very grcspoi quantity, and fomtimes all5ma;iii( be retain'dby mixture with ofoi ther natures J and feem to bin coagulated into Stones ^ an«i thofe fomctimes tranjparent ka but coagulation in this fenfc namely by mixture oi parts , a in meal andrpater^ I mind not but by coagulation I under ftanc Ij a trafmutation of the Jubfianck of «?^er rvater into .E^r/^ or 4/>; and this in fimple water cannoi I be. r kno\y there is a water , \ that of it felf^ without all extra- neous additions jynW coagulafe in a foft heat toTa fuftlle fak more pretious_than Gg/^-^ but this is not any water that the eye ^^^^ 5 but anothe,r invifible HU' miditj\ which is indeed every

Waters 9f the Eafi, 83

J where ^fed non videtur ( (aith ^^^j

ti Sendivow ) donee artifici placeat , ]^ 1

i This might fatisfic as to this"^^^"^ J

point, but I will add fomething/^^A<^i^

more^lcaft I fpeak without Rea- p/eJ^A

fon, efpecially to thofe , who

are not willing to allow others

a better judgment than they

have themfelves.

The commerce that is main- tain'd between Heaven and £(irth , by the afcent and voUti- litie oi water ^ may fufficiently inform us of what dangerous :onfequence , the ceagnUtion of :his element would be. It is im- probable tfien that the wife God 3f Nature ^ fhould make that Htimiditj coagulable^ whofc ve- ry ufe and office requires it iiould be other wife j For if in ~ be ejfenceoi water yZS it is fim* fie water ^ there were an aftrin- ^/nt cong^ealhgfacultj^ii v/ould - G 2 by

84 Enphratci # r^lf

by degrees attain to a total j?Af- ili athn^ and then there could bi tc no further generamn ^ cither oiici fpermes or bodies -j Reafon form . it is this, if the water were fx-l ed^ there would be no valour oi k j cloudy and there being no va,- Bi j four^ there could be nofferme , f; ■ for the elements cannot meet to t make the /per m but in a vapour, k ror example , the earth cannot ri -afcend, unlefs the water be firfllf ^ tarejiedj for in the ^^//y of the i - water \sxht earth carried up5p find if the earth ajcends not, ha- )i I Ving put off her groHfe bodj , and i ^facing fubtiliated and purgea] I tvith the water , then will not J I the /f/> incorporate with it , foi i| I thcmoijlure of the «^4/rr intro- « I duccth the ^/r into the rareJieA i & di^ohed earths And here a- ^ gain as then?4f^r rccocil'd the ait to the earth , fo doth the Atr re- concile

Waters 0ftheEafi, 8 5

f :ilc the w^ur to the j&-£, as if it %^^ X vould r^^iute one courtefy with i ^ iinother^ For the^4ir with it| '^^*'^J*oRtj, ^nd fitpefs^ y intyg- <• lucctn th^ into the ivater , 3ihc/rffolJovvingtlie 4/>, and i'lkUngto it as to its fue^ and '^Ttment. It remains now, that to v^ Obfcrvc, that the vaf$nr of r. he water ^ was the /^^/>j or ma- iO!Wx 5 wherein the other three iiements did meet , and without ^ fa /hich they had never come to- pi ;ether 5 For this vAfsurms the 11 )(gfgre;;i/ that camedHSplhc ^ IK urejLvr^5_e4r£5_]toiit^4^^ [«^o the _^f(W and_ and

101 ow again Se brings her down [01 1 her belly , impregnated with fo le milk of the \orte , and the !^i loodoiiht other ^ namely with ; a r, and J?r^ 5 which Principles iix fredominant in thofe two K feriour Luminaries* But fomc 4 : G 3 wife

$S Euphrates "", tfr f^^

wife one may argue and tell mc\

that this vapo»r being thus im

pregnated, may now be ceagu

tated 5 and fxed , by help o

thofe hot Principles oi air an

fire. To this I anfwer, that thcP^

vijcmsjemwal ^art of the^ft^- ^f

(^-f^ terjMy, buftEe£^^^LilS£Sl/

andTwill fhcw as much by ex-""'

ample. When this vapout isP

fully impregnated, it ftaicsnof

longcrin that Region, but re-'^

turns prefcntly to the eartb^

from v/htncc it afcended. But J

, how doth it return ^ Certainly J

I not in a violent Aormic predpi-^

Jumen de\tation\\V^ Rain^ but as I have"^

lumme. . ^^.j^^^^ elfewhere,it/^4/idownf

invifiblj znd filently -J For if it {^ > be a vapour^ fuch as I fpeak of, *( In cjuo ejtimaginatumjemen A* ^^ fir ale certi ponder is , then it i% % neither ^4r<:/ of nor feen till a ^' long time after. But to pro. ^ cccdjin wfiat I have promifcd

Waters of the Eafl. 87

tnifcd to prove , I (hall inftancc in common Bew : For dew hath

» in it fomc imzXldofe oithcfiar-

0 fire, Wc fee therefore that this -

111 humiditj comes down filently, for its inclofcd jire keeps it ra-

^^efied in the form of air , and will not fuffcr it to condcnfe to jvater^ ztthsLt height z$ the va- pour of Rain doth 5 But when

jijit is defcended neer the earth , it mingles with other crude, va-

(j pours 5 and borrowing from chera a great quantity oifhlegrh^ fettles at laft into Dro/ps. But before we go any farther let us here confider thofe words of the Son of Sirach. Looke ( faith he ) on all the Works of the mojl high^ and there are Trvo and Two one Againfi the other. In this he agrees with that little fragment which goe under the name of CMofes , where God tcacheth

m G 4 hioa

I

85 Euphrates 5 ortht

liim thus. S^cixs^ quod unicuique^ * Creature 5 & campar, & contra-, J' rium creavi^ I will not pcrcmp*^ w torily affirm that Mofes is the au^ hi thor of this piece, or that God w taught him ill thofe very rvordsy U but I affirm that thofe wordsf cxprcffe the truth of God , and H point at fomc great Mjfiertes of t' his Wife dome- Nor will I here tl qmy: ^ confidcrabk CirGum- ka ftancCj^ na^^c-ly that this pie<:e i»i hath in it fomc Hebrew words^ h and this proves the Author was tk a> ^ctvi( not Mofes. But to pafs. or by the Author and come to his^ a I - Senfe •,. I, fay that God created u ' -- water to oppofe it to the earthy oi O and this appears by their diffe- f - 7;±nt copiflexuom and qualities^ i For the earth is ^^'^//i? and felid:, . il the jv^;<r ^ fuhtill z,nd fluid s and ^t the earth hath i-n her lb« cogti'\^ Uting^ aJlripgeH pQW?, sis the o

TV after

Waters of the E afi Sf

]ii\wdter hath partly in it the Jo/e-

ning di([olving facultie. The h urth then fhuts ug_her felf, and - in her felFthe jTrif, fo tRarfhcrc"^ canTBe no Generation or Vege- tation , unkflfe the earth be o- pened , that the f re may be at libertie to work* This we may rfjiee in a grai^ of Corn , where :he aftringent earthy facidtj lath bound up all the other ^/<?- "nents^ and terminated them to \ drie comf acted body- Now his bodj^ as long as it is drie > >r as our Saviour faith, as long ts it abideth alone\ that is to fay is long as it is without water , fo ong it can bear no fruit : But fit falls into the Ground and iies^ that is to fay, if it be dif elv'd thereby the Humidity of ^ ^^41;^;? C for Death Is but Dif- blution^ then it will bring orth ipuch fruit , ^s gur Savi- our

po Euphrates 3 ^r f)^^

. our tcftificth. It is the waterk then that diplves^ and life fol- <iii ^loweththc diffolution '^ for na /^^'J =^^fooncr is the body ofened , but ^J }^^y- the fpir it ftirrs in it, -perceiving ^^ t^ 'j^ -in the Diffolvent or ^^«?i^ n^^- ^^^^A^ier, another //>/>/> , to which /^Au-'^e defires to be uriiteJ. This i^'^^nf fprit is the dr inclofed in the

tOep^Jhjj: led m the Philolophers Books ,

L^^^yW i^-- x^q^a, Mat is no^ri y aqm vita

i^^^^-^^^mdms non madefaciem^ But

^-^"'^ -Iwhowillbcleive that there is a

-^drie water hid in the moijl ?

^ Certainly few : and this Sendi-

vow tells us of fome Sophi-

fters of his acquaintance, Non

i^J ^^ credebant Aciuam efjein mari

■^<^ noftr(>^& i^men PhHofophi vi-

.V..-7 derivolehant. I have my felf

- ^'^ known many fuch Philofo-

pherSj and of whom I xan fay

the very fame. But to return to

our

fVdieys of the Eajl. px

our bufincfs 5 It is called aqua. - viUy becaufe this air involves - in it felf afire^ which isli/e uni- -^ verfall , not yet fpccified, and ^ therefore it agrees with all /»4r- fkuUrlives^ and is amicable to allkindofGreaturs. Now the particular fpecificd j?r^ 5 or life ^f the Grdihy which is the vege- table magnet , attrads to him- ^ -:(:■ fclf the univerjall fire or life/^ j^ ,^ which is hid in the water , and -^-^^^ "^^ with the fire he attrafts the Air ^*^ ^^ which is the veftiment oxbodyjt^f^^^ of the jfr£j called by the Plato- -i^a *^ fC. ntcks\ Curfus AntmA^ and fom-^,-//^ ^ times Nimbtts ignis defcenden- jj^-^£^ ^ tis. Here then is the ground -^ ^^^^^ upon which the whole Myft^-^'^^f^^^ rie of Naturall Augmentation^' ^^, and Multiplication is built 5 For ^^^,,^ >,. ' the body of the Grain or Cern^^^a4^cuJ\^^ is augmented with the aliment-/^'' /^^ of air ^ not ftmple but decern-^ '^'^'^^

\

511 Euphrates or the

.^ founded^ which /i/> is carried ii^

the water ^ and is a kind of vola^

till fwect fdt 5 but the fre or-

iife of the Grain, is fortified

with the i^niverjall fye , andli

thisjfre is involved in the 4/>, as. in

thc4ir is in the wjUr. hnii

here we naay obferyc tJbat it is 5(

not waUr onely, that cpnduccth^ n

to the Generation or KtgtmrA-^ i

ilon of things, but xojiter and k

Jfre 5 th^t is vpdter and fprity it

or water that hath life in it 5 m

And this, if rightly underftqod, le

is a gr^at ManuduUien to Divi- «

, iw/^.; j^^ • -"' ^'^ ' . . ^i

ToGOjncIudCj the Summcof fi

all we would fay is this , the tj

Hootesznd Seeds of all Fegeta^ t

i/tfj are placed in the earthy inii

the midft of this dewie feuntainy %

as a Lamp is placd in the mid'ft :o

of (?;7e- and the ^t or ///i ?!

oixktSuM attra<as to it (clfc :,

the

Wdfers oft he Eajf. 9 5

Re t^hrjffuch or Lefa^ I mean he fujceov Gummc of the wa- tr^zs the fire of a Lamp attrafts he Oile that is round about it. •^owwhen allthe4/> i$ drawn /j,,///, jji mo^xht water ^ thtnattraSHen :eafeth,and coj$co6iion or tranj- nutation begins 5 but if the rude rvater 5 which was the ve- ^iculum of the air ftaics with he feeds^ then it hinders con- ^ ji

^ffionyZnd therefore the /Sun^^i'^^^d nd the i^rcheus jointly cxpcll ^^^^J ^\ " ler.fo that {he takes wing and^^;^^;/^ eturnes to thcRegion of the air y ^ vhere again (he fills her belly ^^^^/^'^^ vith thzt ftarrie milk, and then'^^'S^^^ le fiends zs before. This is th'c-^^''*^ J eafon why there is in Nature -^/^.^^ iich a vicijjitude of Jhott^res and ^^^//^^^^ t$n-fhines^ forxhe jhowres bringh^'f^^^ lowntheii^r^4/;?»/r/^^ ^ ^ **^t

yhenthe Plants have attra^ed | , ^\/| :. then xbtfun-Jhines call w ^hc j ?.

P4 Euphrates w the ;

j crude^ water , which othcrwifii^

l^alion. This then is the traddi that common water drives, but if flie could be coagulated^ thiff trade would ceafe , and all lifii would ceafe with it. I havejqt f

on a SirJ'thu flies to herJVV/? ,f^ anTfr^ltigainXiS^di^ -^ youngones^jindft^hing fooBl > fc forjRem'>towTRi$anewfan-!i ^^^ifw; cy oTlnine , for fome learned^ fc^^^ tncn cotifider'd as much before^ PJ-i'/^fii which refped that milkie\ ^^ tneifiure which is found in hetk \// yv. /'CriftallBrefts^iscairdbyfomel \^M /^>^^":5f them lac volatiliumy the milk i ^^^of Birds , and they have left it) written, that Birds, do brings their ft one unto them. \

To make an end, obferve that ; there is a great difference be-j)i '"^. ^ tween this common water , an "

^Cu^*^ <hMA^Uj-c^ OUIl

Waters of the Eajl. p;

)ur Chymicall J£^£rr_ or jfr^ nentioncd formerly out oiPorh, Matl:^ ^oxoMv water helps gg4' ruUtion , and this hinders it 5 . ?orif the Phkgmj^oTjrudej^ I it ftaics withthc alF^Jchc air_ vilLn^Kejir5^££/£/fl^^ jorc faid Sendtvotv , Omnis aqua ^^ "^^ mgdatur calido.fi 4 fine fpin- ^J^^^^^ u 5 And thus have I dcmon--^U^i:^*' Irated my Pofmon ^ namely h^^^e^'^ hat common water is not conge- if . ,^^^ Me. CjT' ^ ^^Qz^

Nothing now remains , nor^^^^/^ ; there any thing hinders, but^^^ ;^at we may fafely and MM-y^^r^^ :ly conclude, that fimfle crude ^^Jf/f^ :ater feeds nothings but the^^/^ ffm_Ql_ con^ealahle ifart of jt^y '^l ^dsaUthings '. forjhisjTthe ^^^ %, TralBallamJnd, the elementally ^^^r^ \i3lca/l Humdliy ^'which being ^^ ^^ '^^ , om^und^d of Inferiours and :^A ^-^^ iperiours, isaRcftorativebotlii^^ii//j;i

fcn*-<~'^*'

t r

-V *

$6 Euphrates i^r r*tf

j^of Cfirits and hdies. This i

^ that general vital aliment

which God himfelf provides fo

all his Creatures, and which i

j yearly produced and tnanifcftec

' inihc Elements , by the invifi

bk operation of his Sprtt, thai

works all in all. This_hath ini

the whole K^natm% ofHeavn

and Earth, whqfc^BellyJs^

of T^Tand/j^and when it en-

' ters into thefe lower farts of the

^•, JFi^rW, it ove reads them with t

certain Viridity , makes theni

break forth into flowres , anc

prefentsus with fomthing tha?

is very like to the Paradife we

havc.loft. In a word this is nc

humane confe^ion ^ but a thing

prepared by the divine fpirit ?

^'nor is it made for Fegetablel

onbly, butf or i^/g)?^ alfo , whonj

God did fomtimcs feed with itJ

This the Scrifturc tells us.

whofc

Wdters of the Eafi. 5^7

s %vhofe Authority is above ArL- ;f (iotU and Galen-^ For thus I read ^f^\l\- f(] in Exffd. And it came to pafs \ that at. even , the Quailes came k ;«/> and covered the Camp , and in li the morning the Dew lay round \\ iboftt the Hofie. And when the i\ dew that lay wasgoni up , behold :^ upon the face of the Wildernejs ihere lay a round fmall thing , as mall as the hoare Frofi upon the \\ rround, and when the Children of ] JxaQljaw it^they faid one to anO" :ii hermit is Manna{for they wifl not; 111 yhat it was; And Moks /aid unto ^j hem^ this is the Bread which the tJ^ord hath given you to e^te, E- oi/eryChild knows that dew fet- (Idles into round drops J and here iMofesidhus ^ that when the !; phlegmatic humidity was gone 3j jp, the congelative part^ that \ laid behind, was a round fmall ■j, hing,, for it retained ftill the fi- ll ^ H gurc

Euphrates, ertht

gurc ol the drop, in whofc bel

ly it was hid. T his congehtii

fart is deous :;nd fuftbte ^ an-

with this alfo the Scnprurc ac

cords, telling us , That t^hen th

St$n waxed hot , it melted. It i

wirhall of a muft f^cih^ quic ^^

^^Iteratiany and therefore cafil ^

' tran[mutable or convertible ini

'^ny form i, and for this rcafo

Mofes charged the pcopk t

leave none o^ It tiH the morning

hurfome of them ( fatrh the text

left of tit til the mcrrivg , and\

^red worma -and (iank-^ Whenc

%e may gather , that it; is i

fome degree animalL We fc

then that the ^f^^^^ ^f God :

-ftill bufic with vpater ,' and t

this houre moves not onely u\

en It , but in it, nor do I doul

bur th'S is the ground of thj

deep quejiion , which ( among

many others) Godpropofcdt

W4Urs 9f the Eafi, ,y^ ^^ {^ob. Hath the RAIN 4 father ^ chap, ^^>

0r tvha hath begotten the DROPS ^''^^' IcfDEWt It Ts worth our ob- piervation, that the Children of \lfrael^ when they faw this things j,( though iheyknewitnoc ) faid ^jonc to another, it is Manna -^ for |, what argues this j but that Man- ].na ( as the word imports ) was yfomc fecret gift of God , which they knew not, but had former- ly heard of by Tradition from their Fathers ^ and perhaps by fuch a defer iption as Hermes gives it in the ^radi , namely, that it afcendsfrom the earth t9 Heaven^znd defcends again fronts Heaven to the Earths, and this might make them call it Manna^ rbecaufe it defcended with the :deiv, I <jueftion not but Mofes kne\y. it well, though the com- mon feo fie wift not what it was; ioitht^ldenCalfe Could not h. : H 2 be

lOQ Euphrates or the

^ ^be hvixntzo fovoder with comrno)

fre^ but with the fire of the M

tar^ which was not that of th

j, Kitchin, This is plain out o

' L the Machdbees ^ where it is writ

[ ten, that this j?re w^ hid in

f fity and that f&r many jears i

uwas there kep jure during tb

] Cnptivitj, But who is (b ma<

as to hide common fire in a fit

O and to expccS he iliall find

'there many jc^rs after ? Is

^ not the beft courfe to quench ii

/'/and rather droxvnii'm a VVclt

■xhznhuriciiinzPit. Wedoul

not for our part , but this fit

was far diferef7tivomthc.com

TKon^ and this the T&xt alfo tcl

us, for when it was brought ou

of the Pit , it was not fire , bi

a THICK WATER, The trut

isthxit this Af^/^r/e belonged t

the f^rvifb c httrchs, the Frief\

and Prophets having receivd

fros

Waters eftheEaJi. loi ■

(from the Patriarchs •^ \ mean ^(From Abraham^ I faaCy and J^a- j7oB^ and they from Afcah , and J all of them from XAdamy as wc ,have proved elfcwhere, Thefc;?^''^^'^ '*" j.ndeed were the men that plan- J ted the World, and inftruded ,Pofterity, andthefe and none other muft be thofe ant lent and \(irjl Philofophers^ whom Zadith calls Avos CMundi^ fome of whofc Termeszic eked by him. We (hall now ( before we make an end )repcat all we have faid, and that in a few words, fuch as (hall be agreeable to Na- ture & to the farts of the world ^ as they have been manifefted to lishy experience* We have cer- tainly found 5 that there is no# ,thing ahove^ but the 'very fame is alfo here beneath , but in a move grofs materiall Comflexi- vn-y for God hath ordained, that H 3 the

102 Euphrates, erthe <

the grofs and corf dent fperm of Inferiours , (hould afford'a Bo- dy to the animating atid fubtil Inflitx of their Suferiours. Now God hath decreed no union of Spermes^ but of fuch as proceed from hdies that are of the fame nature and kind • For his own Word baars him witriefle that he hates^ confufion or a t^tixture of Seeds that are different,- or of a divers kind. Notunadvifedly [^^'*'^- then di.i the Priep,or'(as^Fro- chs tells us ) the Fomders of the antient Friefthood affirm, Ccelum e^'e in Term fed modo Terrefirt , & Terr am effe in Ccc- lo fed modo Ctelefii t, .for other- wife they cGufd not- be of a kind. We fay therefore, that in this UnM^^rfe'^thcxc are four X«;«/- naries fvmc^cof two are': c^ele- fifaU^AWo^xtXentMU. The CcekfiiaUm the Suh and Moony

and

Waters of the Eajt. 103

and they arc known to all the world ^ The C entr all indeed zrc not known, and t; erctore not believed , for the onei^ overcaft -c^- with earth , and the other with _,^ water. InchcCe;;r^rthenof chc q earth, there is hid aj?re,which is of nature Solar, but more grofs than that which is in the Sun 5 and in the belly of the v^ater^ there is carried a viscous grojs air ^oHmenfir Otis Imar nature^ hvxrxotiohright mdit*httll zs that which is in the Moon. Tof^ be(hort,thc Central Sm calls |-. into the belly of the water a ms- h- Llinehot Salt 9 and the mter ~ receiving icads to i; hcv Jemtnal - feminine Limofity ymdcmies it upon her wings into the Regton> of the 4ir. Thus we fee how the materiall part of the jeedis ^ made^and now to this body ot it , theHc^vengivcs//A,theMoon -

H 4 S^v^^S

io4- Euphrates 5 ^r fA^

giving it ffirit, and the Sup gi- ving it 5t;«7 5 and thus are, the fgure Luminarks brought toge- ther, the fuferiour contributing that to the y^c^5 which is jubttll and vitall'j and the infer tour that which is corpulent and ma- ter tall, lhis.Sfe^is carried in- 'jvifibly in the belli of the wind ^ jand It is maniftfted in Water , L jfay in water as clear zs Criftai , 1?5^- .P^t of ;*.M^^£^?;.^ici; nnuft.^ idrawn^ foV there is not under 1 Heaven^ any other ^^^^^ where lirmay be found. I have fought itn^y fc!f in the common me- talls^ in Q^iickfihcr ^ in Antimo- nie 5 and in Regulus of Antimo- nie^ alfo in Regulus oiMars^ Vc- nus^ and Saturn^ and of all the io^iies: but I loft my labour, for T foijght it where it was not. All rhcfe Errors^did I run irico afttr /I had known tfie true 'matter-^ r * for

Watirsofthe Eafl loy

for having raifcarried in my firfl attempts upon it , I left it as a thing untra6tahle -, and this Tergiverfation of mine^brought me into many inconveniencies^ I conceived indeed , that a vi- trioll made of thofe four imper- fed bodies ^ Antimonie y Iron^ Lead^ and C offer y might be that glajfie Azoth of Lullie ^ whofe jprit or water he hath fo magnifie<lin his Te (lament. This indeed clinks finely^and may fo fwell a young head, as to make him turn Foef 5 and like the Del f hick Divell^ tell a He in Heroicks, No lefle obfirticiive to m,e was that Speech oi Par- menides^ in the Jurha. ^s am flttmhum , fro finguedine vel nigredine , & fl annum fro liquet faciione fumite. What can this fignific at firft fight but Anti- fnonie ? and what can this ftan-

num

I o5 Euphrates , cr the

num^ that comes from it by U- quefaBion be, but Regulus t This made me labour ior a long time on this feculent ^ unprofita- ble ^oiy, fuppofing oi- a truth^ thxi Regains of Antimonit was white le^d^ or TtnfhilafofhicaL But that we be not deceived, all thefc Par Abies relate to another Minera , and not to common , . Aniimonie , which the Turbo, rmu. ^'^^ondcmrs in thcfd words. No- tan^nm e^ quod invidi lapidtm Antimontum ntmcufarunt. Note ( faith Camhar ) or objerve that the envious calPdthe Stone Anti' monie: But what the envious caird it, that certainly it is not. And Ba[ill Valentine in his Cur rus triumf halts , which he hatf: written in the praifc of Antimo nie ^ic\\su% ^ Nontantumillij Dee conceffum efl , ut- in 5 vel f >j Antimonio inveniati^r Mercuri

u

Warns of the Bafi. loj

us fhilof$fhicus y frimum Ens , Argent'tmrftii^my^& aqaa pri- ma fketdlofum ftrf^viornm , €X qua Jit magnus lapis antiquorum fhilojophQrHm.t, Sedhcprmum , Ens in Alia Miner alt invenitur^ in quo metallic a ratio^ieeferatio altior efi , quam Jiiiij, And the fame JSaJill a little afterwards ^ fipcdkingoi Stella Mart is ^ de- livers himfclf thus. Pleriquepu^ tarunthanc flellam ejje.materi' am veram lapidis philojofhorumy cogita^t€s Je veraciter hoc ima- ginariyquianatura ftellamhanc * fponte fm Jormavit-j Ego vero mgo : hi viri^ Regia via. reiiBa^ per avias rupes^ ubi ibices habi^ tant y&f'rxdatrices Aves ntdi- Jicanf i it^yjnjlitmnt : Non id debetar huic (lelU ^ ut materia fit lapidis nobilijfimi , licet in eo latet medicina optima. It re- nuins then Reader^ that we lay ^ ' afidc

loS Euphrates ^rfy^Ftf ^

^ afide all common mhallsj as C?tf ^ Silver 9 Cop fir ; Irony Tin^ Lead^ Antimonie and Quickfil- ,ver. For if we feck the fper me inany ofthcfe, we (lull never find ic 5 becaufe we feek it in me- tallis vulgi , m qtiibus non ejl , as Sendtvorv hath told us. We muft therefore feek another bo- dy^ which is not common , nor . is it made by mixture or other- wifCjOf any metall that is com- mort'^ but is a certain black Juli_ fhjtr^ luidc by Ndtwe , and ■^ which never .touch'd the jfr^. ^. This is that body whereof ^^Al- berttis Magnus hath thus writ- ten .• Datur in Rerum natura corpus metallicum quoddam^fa- ctlts folutionis ^ fdctlifquc yfitre- faBionis , [i prafarationem ejus nojli, fdltx Medicus.eris, And aher him, his Difciple Thomas Jquinod fpeaking of the fame - Mi*

Mhera y cites thcfe notable words out of another Philofo- jphcV'jEji quadam ffccies mttatli^ quam Gens nunqtiam invenit. This is the mctAll wc muft feck - for , and it is hard to find , be- ^^"^^ ^g mufinot digto come r^^-^-r?^ At it ^ for if we know where it \- is, we need no more but ftoop U and take it up gratis. Yet it is |- neither CUubers Antimonic^ nor — - common Lead, nor is it 2^ flints fione^ nor the Marie oi Peter Fa- her^ who after he had wearied -^' himfelf, and deceived his Rea- ders with Difcourfes of Anti- monie , and fublimatc mthfaks o( common metalls , fought the fulphur at laft in this Clod^ or Marga^ as he calls it. But to pafs by thefe Fooleries and come to a Conclufion .• I fay that this \^\. black fulfhur is the Male^ which being found, wc arc in the next

place

tio Euphrates ^^/^e

.place t9 feck the 'Female 5 And here obfervCj'.that :<3od All- mighty hdxhiti far ticuhr bodies made no difference of ^A'^,but onely in the animail Kin^dome^ for in Vegetables and Miner alls there is no fuch thing . V Vc fee \jl that in grains oiCorn ( (uppofc of wheat) there is- no divifion inro ^aJes and Females , (ox the truth IS thev are all Males ^ and God hath allowed them no Fe- male . but the univerfal one , namely rvater^ whofe vijcous ge- neral fee^)OYning with the par- tieular jecd and fpirit thzz is in the Grain^ is therewith fermen- ted and congealed into the fame ;!r4^/#yr -with the Grain it felf , and fo propagates and multi- ^ /^pliestheCt^r;;: even fo it is in

'/ //mM-^ metalts y for eki'y- ort£ of them . yf / is- rndfcMiity fulphffred^s , and

/c^^^'^Oifolertc^h^ Nor hath Goidor*

daincd

WaimoftheEafi. m

dained that any of them fliould propagate and multiply the o- ^hcr, either xiaturally or artifi- ' eially^ though we deny not but "- they may be multiplied by h^lp -

phcedjjbe^ldfing,.^^

cation. In Met alls then, ihcix ^ is no Diftindion or D flFerencc of Sexes , fo that out of thcni it is impoflible to cxrrad Ma- fculine^ri^ Feminine Sper*?teTl for fuch cannot he cxtt-acftrrd -li)ut from hodies that are Male and Female ; which metalls arc not , for if they were, thsy -would propagate without Art , God having fo ordained it. ]x is plain then , that mitaHs^i fae- iSgjiot Malear^Temale J breed withmtHem felvcs no^Jjed ^ anfl by_^ con (cquence"' cannot givc^ tliat ^EicRjhey faavc notl^oF tFc trufifcis^Jie Jeed iKhcreof

they

II* Euphrates ^r /^tf

f / they fpring, is chit general /^^^

^j'^'^^^'^^yOixht dements^ namely a ccr- Vcrfj^ic^^M^'^i^ humidity , which appears fei ^^ J y^ ^ as Sendivow tells us ) /;^/^r cT'o^ '' tnli Ac^UA finguis ^ ih^jsjulb^ >y^y '^l^^-^^j^fonnjo^'ajat water. This tva- ' ^^^/<?^is theiryJ'^^, their CMjtSS^ ^fa£ ' an3^tHar Female . for of this v^ ;^ they were originally i»4^^ , and cv /^^ if in this they be again dijjhlved^ rA^vi^^-^.then the Child will attraft the '^ fi^ Mother to it , and convert her L^^.^'^ totally to his own nature x and J ;^6^, on the contrary, the //?/>/> or the. \i^jM&lkrw\^^ tbc_JfiriL

i/Ljfi^Sf^ the child , and ^ xak lt„ toa I,- to \<^ perfedion more than ordiiiary>

k!

^'^ .This islHe way, and be fides it

^*^^ ^, there is none •, For there is no

n^^i^'^-*^^ f^ater under Heaven , from

7.y 4^ \vb^.t hdies foever ii he cxtra-

^ '/'' ":<fted, that hath in it the mttiply^

"^^^i<^ ingvertue^ but^this' one fpatCTy

^•^ which'God hath bleflcHrXni

fe^~ h^rc

Waters if thtBifJi. £17

hcrc,:^though Uccm to fpcafc ^ 'ndiffcfentiy of3/^^/i//j, yet do - / !tot I- raind the common , {ot<:'7 / a their jftrtts have been mortt-^ -z/yt^tc^, \ fed in the fire. Take theri:-:- fore our' Sulphur y which ne- - ch^k ^ vcr touched the fire , ani^ /^ whofe Itje is rv^^/tf in HimiA "^ join this /ii^/;^^ M^/^ to a living - Female, for in this ( as I have clfewhcre intimated ) lies all the Mjflerie , namely in the u- nion of a f articular fpirit ioff^^^;^^ the urjiverjall > by which means - Nature is firangelj exalted and multiplied. Labour therefore to unite thcfc two fubftantial- ly and thoroughly , and thou canft not w//}, if thou knowcft the applications ', For fuffcr me to tell thee a/^rr^f", that the ap- plication of A^ives to Pafjives, I mean the Manner of it , is the greatffi difjicultj in all the Art^ I Fare-

fi 9 lEupfw^tts 5 0r ike ^

Farewell Reader, and enjoy thefe my Labours which I free- ly communicate to thee: not ric affure thee, out of apy De- fign, fori fcek not my own gIotj 5 but that of God and thy benefit.

11

_ ^»<5^M5^»§f^'g

A ^drt Apfendix bj way of Admonition to the Redder.

T was no^ my intention to adde any thing unto what hath been allreadf ^^^ written: but when I re- fleet on thofe vexations I have indur'd myfelf, in the purfuic of this Science^ I begin to.think Ihave not faid enough. To be a little more plain then, know Reader, that whpfoever fceks the fhilofovhers Mercurie in miuSsy or what kind Ibevcr

*i2o r.upnrai:c5 or t^jc

^ they be 5 is already out" of the way, for that Phi lejfip^kk

J Mercurj^io much talk'd of, is a Water ^ and in meta/ls ^ water there is none •, for tl e julfhur ,, hath not onely <;ongeled it there, but hatfv withaJl dried it up. This is evident in common Quickftl'vcr-y and K^ntimome^ •tvhich of .all metalline bodies ^ are the moft crude , and yet as '^r»t^^as,t{'icyare, xhc\x water is ^^xiccattahyi-hdr fire '^ for if we vforce thcn:^ iiito a fume, thar ^^ume (cities not to a litjiuid Jpi- rir^butiniO'drieFlcrvres, This inacie the Phiiorcp ers fcek a more crude mi^erat'whoJc_Jum€ VJZ^MOift-i and would fettle into iV4ter, as being not yet maftcr'd by ibt Sulphur. Such there was none but the Mother of Mercu- rie^ or the firji mAtter , whereof Jfrf^»^^ makes the cemrnQn Mcr- V^r' ^uric

Witters oj tfjc Eap. m

curic\ and this alfo they call'd Quickfilver , and a vifcous wa- ter ^ for fuchitis. In this Mi- nera the menurUlL vdfour was not fo drie , but it would fettle into nater^ and with this water^ thcydiffolved the metalline ho- Me J -J for the moifi fume of this - mintra reduc d^die Tnetdline i

drielumes^ fo that both turned ~^ into ene water ^ and_jhiijrih€^__ called, MerfHrie ^fhilojofhicdl^ and dupitcdted Mercurje. In this ^ ^ point I need not fay more , and if they be not willfully blind 5 here is Light enough for our Metallmongers , and cfpecially for thofc confident Roafters o Antimonie^ who over the foioak of that T>rugg dream of m'^jte- ries ^ as if they were tranfpor- tcd into a certain Cafnomancic. For my part I denic not but Aiitimmt may be rcduc'd to a

mercu'

Co e^A*-t ^, — - ^

\%i Jtiupnrarcs ^;: /^f

mercuriall wAter , though I

know not to what purpofc, for

neither out Mercurie nor o«r

Tincture xlkxhixom it y i( B/tfill

Valentine may be believed.

True it is , the Philofophcrs

u{cjt^ but as a meet Ihftrumenc

thaTgoes off again, and fo they

/C^/y^«Aiie even Kiichin jire , but it is

^-</tf/^^r-<^^ot their matter or fubject^ and

^^^^*^o«^rnuch Icflcis common Gold ^ as

r ^^/.^^^^^ Ignorants would have it.

^9 ' There IS indeed another Anti-

tnonie , which is our Sulphur ,

and the {ub\eB_^ the whole

V^ ^_Arl'^ but this is fo bardto^find,

and wen it is found, fo hard to

prepare, that it had almoft caft

mc into Dejpaire. Howfoevcr

if thou docA ferioujiy £onfider

what I have written^ and what

hath fallen from rac in fonie

j places with as much purpcfe as

Cdution J then verily neither the

thing

JVditrs 0fthe Edfi itj

thing it fclf nor the prewar 4th ft \ofic can be kid from thee. To make an end, know that the Philofophcrs have two Mercn' ries otwafers^ytht Firfi and Se^ €dnd ythcix jirfi {% iht ffirit of - our Antimonic^ and here under- - ftand me rightly ^ Their fecond — is that of Mercuric and Venus ~~ PhilofophicaU , and this of it ^ fclf is alL'fufficient; But to -V^ fliortcn time , the Philofophers ferment it with common Gold. I have now fpoken more than Bifcrftion can well allow of , but the Senfe of thofe Bifjiculties I have met withall, hath carried me thus ikr .• Howfocver be thou cautious in thy Conjlruffi- pn^ leaft the name (A-Antimo^ nit deceive thee , fdr' io thoi_ aaift run Mto a fruitiefs ex- pcncc ol^iine and Subjiavce. This is all I have to fay, and

now

ii4 Euphrates #r r^^

now what ufe to make of it i$ in thy power -, if thou canft be licvCj it is well ^'if not , forbear from this Art altogether , or thou wilt live to puniihthy own Incrcdulitj.

FI^Kl^

BUR ATA.

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