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Finding ray labors have found fuch kind acceptance, & fmh 
 good entertainment amongft my honeflt Countrey- men } it 
 hathincouragedme this feventh time to write for their benefit, 
 & although this book may prove fruitlefs to many becaufe not 
 underftood, nor regarded^ yet fome few may be of that fpirit, 
 za to comprehend it &imbraeeit,if not openly profefs it, yet 
 fecretly believe it, for upon ray foul it is truth, written in love 
 to thofe that are afflicted with tbefe diftempers, commonly cal- 
 led New Difeafes.: And I have taken up the Cudgils in defence of 
 ray Prcdeceflbr Dr.Cvlpepper, intending to amend his deficien- 
 cy in point of Art, or better to finifh where he left off: Heber 
 fieged the Difeafe*, & I hope I fhal florm them , & caufc the E- 
 nemy toflyoryeeld to my medicines ^ which medicines the 
 Colledgeif they pleafe may ufe for the good health of poorc 
 Chriftians. 
 
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 I Shall here tel you what Rofie Crucians are , and that 
 Mofes was their Father , and he was 0* a^ fome fay 
 they were of the order of Elias, fome fay the Difci- 
 ples of Ezekiel , others define them to be 'rmtyw n mvnyi- 
 
 mf ; />. The Officers of the Generalifimo of the world, 
 that arc as the eyes and cares of the great King,feeing & 
 hearing all things; r they arc Seraphically illuminated, as 
 Mofes was according to this order of the Elements , earth 
 refin'd to water, water to air, air to fire 5 foofa man 
 to be one of the Heroes of a Heros y a D£mon , or good ge- 
 nius, of a genius,* partaker of Divine things,and a com*- 
 panion of the holy company of unbodied fouls and im- 
 mortall Angels , and according to their vehicles , a vcr- 
 fatile life , turning themfelves Proteus -UVc into any 
 fhapc. 
 
 But there is yet arguments toprot&rfle Mr. wdfeord, 
 2iVL&'f&FAlliams- > Ro[ie Crucians by clc^ion, and that is 
 the miracles that were done by them , in j^iy fight; for rn^ 
 it fhould feemc Rojie Crucians were not only initiated ' 
 into the Mofaicall Theory, but have arrived alio to the 
 power of working miracles as Mopes^lias^ EzekieUnd 
 the fucceeding Prophets did,as being tran/porred where 
 they pleafe,as Habakkuk was from I ewry to Babylon or as 
 Philip after he had baptized the Enuch to status , and 
 one of thefc went from me to a friend ofmine in Deio/i- 
 fiire " and came and brought me an anfwer to London 
 the fame day , which is four dayes journey, they taught 
 
 A 3 me 
 
me excellent predictions ofAftrologie and earthquakes 
 they (lack the plague in Cjtyes ^ they filence the violent 
 winds and tcmpefts - y they calme the rage of the Sea 
 and rivers ^ they walk in the Air , they fruftrate the 
 Malicious afpecl of Witches; they cure all diieafes ; I 
 defiredoneofthefe to tell me whether my complexion 
 were capable of the fociety of my good Genius £ when 
 I fee you again , faid he , I will tell you ( which is ) 
 ( when he pleafes to come to me, for I know not where 
 to go to him ) when I faw him then he faid Ye fhould 
 pray to God, for a good and holy man can offer no grea- 
 ter nor more acceptable facrificc to God, then the obla- 
 tion of himfelf, his foul. 
 
 He iaid.alfo that the good Genii are as the benigne eyes 
 of God, running to and troin the world, with love 
 and pitty beholding the innocent endeavours of harm - 
 lefs and fingle hearted men, ever ready to do them good, 
 and to help them ; and at his going away he bid mc be- 
 ware of my feeming friends who woulu do me all the 
 hurt they could , and caule the Governors of the Nati- 
 ons to be angry with me , and fet bounds to my liberty, 
 which truly hapned tome, as they did indeed : ma- 
 ny things more he told me before we parted, but I fhall 
 not name them here. 
 
 For this Rofie Crucian Phyfick or Mcdicines,I happily 
 and unexpectedly light upon in Arabia , which will 
 prove a reftauration of health to all that are affiidted w h . 
 that ficknefs, which we ordinarily cal natural,&all other 
 uifeafes , as the Gour,Dropfic 5 Leprofie,and falling fick- 
 nefs ; andthefemen may be faid to have no fmall in- 
 light in the body, and that walfoord, Williams, and o- 
 thersofthe Fraternity now living, may bear up in the 
 fame likely Equipage, with thofe noble Divine fpirits 
 their predecefsors, though the unskilfullnefs irf men 
 commonly acknowledge more of fupernaturall aflifcancc 
 
in hot unfctled U. i< ies, and perplexed melancholy, then 
 in ihe calme and diiULft uie of reafon ^ yet tor mine 
 own part, but not without fubmiflion to better judge- 
 ments, 1 looke upon thefe %sfie Crucians above ail men 
 truly infpired, and more than any that profetTed or pre- 
 tended themselves (o , this (ixtecn hundred ycares i and 
 I am ravifhed with admiration of their miracles and 
 tranfeendent mechanicall inventions , for the falving 
 the Phenomena in the world - y I may without offence 
 therefore compare them with Bezdiel aud Aboliab-jLhofc 
 skilfull and cunning workers of the tabernacle , who, as 
 Mofes teftifies , were filled with the fpirit of God , and 
 therefore were of an excellent underftanding to find out 
 all manner of curious work. 
 
 Nor is it any more argument , that thefe Rope Cruci- 
 ans are not infpired , becaufe they do not fay they are; 
 then that others are infpired, becaufe they fay they arc; 
 which to me is no argument at all ; but the iuppreffion 
 ofwhatfohapned, would argue much more fobriety 
 6c modefty ; whenas the profeffion of it with fober men, 
 would be fufpe&ed of fome peice of melancholy aad 
 diftra&ion, efpecially in thefe things , where the grand 
 pleafure is the evidence and exercife of rcafon, not a 
 bare beliefe , or an ineffable fenfe of life , in refpedt 
 whereof there is no true chriftian but he is infpired ; but 
 if any more zealous pretender to prudence and righte- 
 oufnefs, wanting either leafure or ability to examine 
 thefe Rofie Crucian Medicines to the bottom {hall not- 
 withstanding either condemn them or admire them ; he 
 hath unbecemmingly and indifcreetly vetered out of his 
 own fphere,and/ cannot acquit him of injuftice or folly: 
 Nor am I a RofieCrucian ,nor do I fpeake of fpite or hope 
 of gain , or for any fuch matter 5 there is no caufe , God 
 knows, I envie no man , be he what he will be, / am no 
 phyfi dan, never was,nor never mean to be: what / am it 
 
 makes 
 
makes no matter as to my profeffion. 
 
 Lafdy ,chefe holy and good men would have me know 
 that the greateft fwcet and perfection of a vertuous foul, 
 is the kindly accompli fhment of her own nature, in true 
 wifdom and divine love* and thefe miraculus things that 
 arc done by them are, that that worth and knowledge 
 that is in them may be taken notice of, and that God 
 thereby may be glorified whofe witnefles they are j but 
 no other happinefs accrues to them from this, but that 
 hereby they may be in a better capacity of makcing o- 
 ther snappy, 
 
 From my houfe in Spittle fields 
 next door to the red Lyon 
 
 this i o . of May, John Hey don. 
 
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 A New 
 
 METHOD 
 
 o f r 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 Of the Accurate StruBure of M*us hotly. 
 
 I Admire the goodnefs of God towards us in the 
 frame and ftru&ure of our bodies, the admi- 
 rable Artifice whereof, G*len, though a N a- 
 turalijl, was fo taken with, that he could not 
 but adjudge the honor of a hymn to the wife 
 Creator oHt. The continuance of the whole, and every 
 particular, isfo evident an Argument of exquifite skill in 
 the Maker, that if I fhouldpurfueall that futestomy pur- 
 pofe, it would amount to too large ( yet an entire J Volume. 
 I (hall therefore write all that is needful to be known by all 
 men, leaving the reft to befupply'd by Anatomists'. And I 
 rhink there is no man that hath any skill in that Art , but will 
 corifefs, the more diligently and accurately the frame of our 
 body is examined, it is found the more exquifitely conforma- 
 ble to our Rcafon, Judgement, and Defirej fo that fuppofing 
 
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, Rofle Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 the fame matter that our bodies are made of, if it had been 
 in our own power to have made our felves , we (hould have 
 framMourfelves no otherwife then we are : To inftance in 
 fome particulars^ A t in on ■ Eyes, the Number -, the Scituati- 
 •», the Fabrickoi them is fuch, that we can excogitate no- 
 thing to be added thereto, or to be altered, either lor their 
 beauty fifety, or ufefultefs -,b\it as for their beauty ,1 have trea- 
 ted largely of it in my youthful merry Poems.cV now am not 
 minded to tranferibe my tender nice fubject, and couple it 
 with my fever er ftilej I willonely note how fafely they are 
 guarded, mdfirfy framed out for the ufe they are intended : 
 The Brow and the Nofc faves them from harder ftrokes-, but 
 fuch a curious part as the Eye being necefiarily liable to mif- 
 chief from fmalleft matters , the fweat of the Forehead is 
 fenced off by thofe two Wreaths of Hair which we call the 
 Eye-brows^ and the Eye-lids are fortified with little ftirt bri- 
 dles, as with Pallifadoes, againft the aflaultof Flyes and 
 Gnats, and fuch like bold Animalcula-, befides, the upper-lid 
 prefently claps down, and is as good a Fence as a Port-Cullis 
 againft the importunity of the Enemy-, which is done'alfoe- 
 very night, whether there be any prefent aflault or no , as 
 if nature kept Garrifon in this Acropo/u of mans body, the 
 Hm^, andMookM that fuch Laws ihould be duly obferved, as 
 were mod for his fafcty. 
 
 And now for the ufe of the Eye , which is fight, it is evi- 
 dent that this Organ is fo exquifitely framed for that p»r- 
 pofe , that not the leaft 'curiofity can be added : For firfr, 
 the Humor and Tunicles are purely tranfparent to let in light, 
 and colours unfouid,and unsophisticated by any inward tin- 
 fiure. And then again, the parts of the Eye are made coh' 
 vex, that there might bea direction of many raies coming 
 from one point of the object, unto one point anfwerablein 
 the bottom of theeye^ to which purpofe the Chryftalline hw 
 mor is of great moment, and without which, the fight would 
 be very obfeure and weak. Thirdly, The Tunica uvea hath a 
 Mnfctthus Power, and can dilate and cqntrad that round 
 hole in it which is called the Pupil of the Eye, for the better 
 moderating the tranfrniflion of light. Fourthly, Theinfide 
 
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Rofie 'Crtid an PHYSICK. 3 
 
 of the uvea u bitched, like the Wall of a Tennis-Court, 
 the raies falling upon the Retina again; for fuch t repercufll- 
 on would make the fight more confufed. Fifthly, The 7V 
 McaJrachnoides twhichjnvzllops the Chrjflalline Humour ,by 
 vertue of ics Prcceffus CilUres % can thruft forward, or draw 
 back that precious ufeful part of the Eye, as the nearnefs or 
 diftanceof the objeds {hall require. Sixthly and laftly, The 
 Tunica Retina is white, for the better and more true recepti- 
 on of thefpeciesof things, (as they ordinarily call them ) 
 as white paper is fitted to receive thofe Images into a dark 
 room i "nd the eye is already fo perfect, that I believe it is 
 not needful to fpeak anymore thereof j we being able to 
 move our head upwards and downwards , and on every fide, 
 might have unawares thought our felves fufficicntly well 
 provided for ; but Nature hath added Mufclesalfo to the 
 Eyes, that no perfection might be wanting •, for we have ofc 
 occafion to move our Eyes, our Heads being unmoved, as in 
 reading , and viewing more particularly any objed fet be- 
 fore us •, and that this may be done with more eafe and ac- 
 curacy, (he hath furniftied that Organ with no leffc then fx 
 feveral Mufclcs j and indeed, this framing of Mnfcles, not 
 onely in the Eye, but in the whole body, is admirable • for is 
 it not a wonder that even all our rlefh fhould be fo handfom- 
 ly formed and contrived into diftinct pieces, whofe rife and 
 infertions fhould be with fuch advantage that they do ferve 
 to move fome part of the body or other ? and that the parts 
 of our body are not moved onely fo conveniently as wil ferve 
 us ro walk and fubfift by, but that they are able to move e- 
 very way imaginable that will advantage us^ for we can fling 
 out Legs and Arms upwards and downwards, backwards.) 
 forwards, and round , as they that fpin , or would fpread a 
 Mole-hill with their feet. To fay nothing of Refpiration, the 
 conftriclionof the Diafhragme for the keeping down the 
 Guts, and fo en'arging the Thorax, that the Lungs may have 
 play, and theafliftanceof the inward interccftd Mufcles'm 
 deep fufpi rations, when we take more large gulps of aw* to 
 coo! our heart over-charsed with love or forrow; nor of th 
 
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the modulation of the Voice, tunable fpcech , and delicious 
 fnging : You may adde to thefe the notable contrivance of 
 the Heart, its two ventrirfes,*nd its many v*Iv«U, fo fram'd 
 and fcituatcd, as is mod fit for the reception and tranfmifti- 
 on of the blood, and it's fent thence away warm to comfort 
 and cherifti the reft of the body-, for which purpofc alfo the 
 valvftU in the veins are made. 
 
 But we fee by experience that joj and grief procted not in 
 all men from the fame caufes, and that men differ very much 
 in the constitution of the body, whereby that which help- 
 eth and furthcreth vital conftitution in one , and is therefore 
 delightful, hindereth & crofTeth it in another, and therefore 
 caufeth grief. .The difference therefore of Wits, hath its origi- 
 nal from the different paflions,& from the ends to which the 
 appetite leadcth them. As for that difference which arifeih 
 from ficknefs, and fuch accidental diftempers, I have appoin- 
 ted them for the fecond Part of this Book, and therefore I 
 omit the fame as impertinent to this place , andconfider it 
 onely in fuch as have their health, perfc&ion of body , and 
 Organs well difpofed. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 Of the perfection of the Body, and then of the Nature of the Sen- 
 fes-, of Delight, P*i», Lave , Hatred, fenfual Delight , and 
 Pains of the Bod), Joj, and Grief, 
 
 OTher things I have to fay, but I will rather infiftupon 
 fach things as are eafie ahd intelligible even to Idiots, or 
 fuch Phjfictaw that are no wifer , who if they can but tell 
 thejoints of their hands,or know the ufe of their teeth, they 
 may eafily difcover itwasCounfel not Chance,thaj created 
 them^andif they but underftand thefe natural MedecinesJ 
 have prepared in this Book for their example, they will know 
 that they (hall be cured of all Difeafes without pain, or any 
 great coft, and Love>not Aioney, was i t that made meunder- 
 take this Task. Now of the well-framM parts of our bo- 
 
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 dy, I would know why we have chree r oints in our Legs and 
 Arms^salfo in our fingers, but that it was much better then 
 having but two. or four? And why are our fore-teeth /harp, 
 like Chizzels, to cut, but our inward teeth broad, to grind} but 
 this is moreexquifitc then having them all (harp , or all 
 broad, or the fore-teeth broadband the other (harp-, but we 
 might hare made ahardftuft to have lived, though in that 
 worfcr condition. Again, Why are the Teeth fo luckily pla- 
 ced? or rather, Why are there not Teeth in other b$nes as 
 well as in the Jaw-bones, for they might have been as capa- 
 ble as thefe ;But the reafon is, Nothing is done foolKhly , nor 
 in vain. I will (hew you how to prolong //7<?,and to return from 
 age to youth-, and how to change, alter ; and amend the Hate of the 
 body-, but that I intend in a Trcatife entituled The Wife Mans 
 Crown : To keep the body in perfect health is my prefent de- 
 Cign,andto cure allDifeafes without reward-Jo^ there is zDivine 
 Providence that orders all things. Again, (to fay nothing of 
 the inward curiofity of the Ear ) Why is that outward frame 
 of it, but that it is certainly known that it's for the better- 
 ing of our hearing? 
 
 I might add, That Nature hath made the hind-mofi parts of 
 our body (which we fit upon ) moft_/ky&y,as providing for our 
 eafe, making us a Natural Cujhion, as well as for Infiruments 
 of Motion for our Thighs and Legs', (he hath made the hinder 
 part of the Hf^ more ftrong, as being otherwife unfenced 
 againft falls and other cafuakuv. She hath made the Back? 
 bsn? of feveral Vertebr i , as being more fit to bend, more 
 tough, and lefs in danger of breaking then if they were all 
 oncintire bone, without thofe griftly Junctures. She hath 
 ftrengthened our fingers and toe s with Nailes , whereas fhe 
 might have fent out that fubftance at the end of the firft and 
 fecond Joints , which had not been fo handfom and ufeftil, 
 nay, rather fomewhattroublefome and hurtful. And laftly, 
 She hath made all bones devoid ofyWi?, becaufe they were to 
 bear the weight of themfclves, and of the whole body \ and 
 therefore if they had had fenfe,our life had been painful con- 
 tinually , and dolorous. 
 
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6 Kofie CrucUn P H Y S I C K. 
 
 And now I have confidered the fitnefs of tne parts of mans 
 bodie for the good of the whole , let me but confider briefly 
 his fences and .his nature, and then I intend more folidiy to 
 demonftrace the caufe of all Difeafes,and with that the C ure, 
 becaufe I intend a Method of Ro fie Cruet** Phjfic^. pro mi- 
 fed in mj way to Blij[c By our feveral Organs, we have fe- 
 veral Conceptions of feveral qualities in the objects for by 
 fight we have a conception or image compofed of colour and 
 figure, which is all the notice and knowledge the object im- 
 parteth to us of its nature, by the excellency of the eye. By 
 Bearing we have a conception called Sound, which is all the 
 knowledge we have of the quality of the object from the 
 Ear: And fo the reft of the Sences are alfo conceptions of 
 feveral qualities or natures of their objects. 
 
 Becaufe the Image in vifion confifting of colour and fhape, 
 is the knowledge we have of the qualities of the ob;ect of 
 that Sence, it is no hard matter for a man to fall into this o- 
 pinion, That the fame colour & fhape are the very qualities 
 themfelves^and for the fame caufe that found & noife are the 
 qualities of a niece of Canon or Culvering charged with 
 fulphurous Powder, fired, or of the Air : And this opinion 
 hath been fo long received, that the contrary muft need-s ap- 
 pear a great Paradox, The fame qualities are eafier in a bell} 
 and yet the introduction of fpecies vifible and intelligible, 
 ( which is necefTary for the maintenance of that opinion) 
 pafu*ng to and fro from the object , is worfe then any Para- 
 dox, as being a plain impofsibility. I (hall therefore endea- 
 vor to m3ke plain thefe points. 
 
 That the fubject wherein colour and image are inherent, 
 is not the object or thing feen. 
 
 That there is nothing (really) which we call an Image or 
 Colour. 
 
 Tha: the faid Image, or Colour, is but an apparation unto 
 us of the motion, agitation, or alteration, which the object 
 workech in the brain, or fpirits, or fome internal fubftance 
 of the Head. 
 
 That as in vifion,fo alfo in conceptions that arife from the 
 other fenfes, the fubjed of their inherence is not the objed, 
 but the continent. That 
 
Rofte Crucian P H Y S I C K. 7 
 
 That conceptions and apparitions are nothing really, but 
 motion in fome internal fubllance of the Head , which mo- 
 tion not flopping there, of nccefftty mult there either help, 
 or hinder the motion which is called Vital * when it hclpeth 
 it is called Delight, Contentment or Pleafure , which is no- 
 thing really but motion about the heart, as conception is nothing 
 but motion in the head; and the objects tha: caufe i t are called 
 Pleafant, or Delightful; and the fame Delight, with reference 
 to the object, is called Lwe-J&vt when fuch motion weakneth 
 or hindreth the vital motion.then it is called Pain t and in re- 
 lation to that which caufeth it, Hatred. 
 
 There are two forts of pleafures , whereof one feemeth 
 to affed the corporeal Organ of the fence , and that I call 
 fenfual, the greateft part whereof is that by which we are 
 invited to give continuance to our fpecies; and the next by 
 which a man is invited to meat, for prefervationof his indi- 
 vidual perfon. The other fort of Delight is not particular- 
 ly any part of the body, and is called The Delight of the mind, 
 & is that which we call Joy. Likewife of pains, fome affect the 
 body , and are therefore called The pains of the body-, and 
 fome not, and thofc are called grief. 
 
 CHAP. III. t 
 
 Of the nature of the Soul of Man, tvhether Jhe be a meer Modi- 
 fication of the body, or a Sub fiance really difiintt; and then whe. 
 ther corporeal , or incorporeal, and of the temper of the 
 bodif. 
 
 HEre I am forced to fpeak what I have in my Familiar 
 Spirit, and it is not impertinent to my purpofe^ there- 
 fore if we fay that the foul is a meer modification of the body, 
 the foul then is but one univerfal faculty of the body, or a many 
 faculties put together^and thofc operations which are ufually 
 attributed unto the foul, mult of neceffity be attributed un- 
 to the body : I demand therefore, To what in the body will 
 you attribute fpontaneow rmtion} I underftand thereby a pow- 
 
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 cr in oar felves of wagging, or holding flill moft of the parts 
 of our body, as our AWfuppofe, or little finger : If you will 
 fay that it is nothing but the immiffion of the ffirits into fuch 
 and fuch Mnfcles , I would gladly know whaz does immit 
 thefe /)>«>/>/, and di reft them fo curioufly-, is it themfelves? 
 or the brains ? or that particular piece of the brain they call 
 the Vine-Kernel} What ever it be , that which doth 
 thus immit them , and dired them ( muft have Animad- 
 verjion-^ and the fame that hath Animadverfton^hzth Memory 
 and Reafon alfo: Now I would know whether the ffirits them- 
 felves be capable of Animadverfion, Memory, and Reafon-, for 
 it indeed feems altogether impofiible; for thefe animal //>/>*>* 
 are nothing elfe but matter very thin and liquid , whofe na- 
 ture confifts in this, that all the particles of it be in motion, 
 and being loofe from one another, friggeand play up and 
 down according to the meafurc and manner of agitation in 
 them. 
 
 I therefore demand which of thefe particles in thefe fo ma- 
 ny loofiy moving one from another , hath Animadverfun in 
 it? if you fay that they all put together have-, I appeal to 
 him that thus anfwers, how unlikely it is that thatftiould 
 have Animadverfun that is fo utterly uncapable of Memory t 
 andconfe^uently,of Reafon- y for it is impofsible to conceive 
 memory competible to fuch afubje:t s asitis how to write 
 Char -abler s in the Water , or in the Wind. 
 
 If you fay the Brain immits and directs thefe fpirits- how 
 can that fo freely and fpontaneoufly move it fell , or another, 
 that hath no Mufcles} Befides Doit or Culpepper tells you that 
 though the Brain be the inftrument of fence, yet it hath no 
 fenfe at all of it felf^ how then can that that hath no fence di- 
 rect thus fpontanecti fly and arbitranoufly,the animal fpirits in 
 to any part of the body ? an Act that plainly requires deter- 
 minate fenfe and perception : But let the Phrfcians and Anatc- 
 mifis conclude what they will, I (hall, I think, little leffe then 
 demonftrate that the brains have no fense-, for the fame in us 
 thathath/?»r?, hath \\kcw\(e animadier (ion -, and that which 
 hath animadverfon in m, hath alfo a faculty of free and arbi- 
 trarious Fancy and Rtafon. 
 
 Let 
 
Refie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 9 
 
 Let us now confider the nature of the foaitt t znd fee how com- 
 petible thofe alterations are to fuch a fubjeft-, verily if we take 
 a right view of this Laxepithor marrow in mans head^nehhet our 
 fence nor underftanding can difcover any thing more in this fub- 
 ftance that can pretend to fuch noble operations, as free imagi- 
 nation and fagacious collections of Reafon, then we can difcern 
 in a lump of fat, or a pt of honey-, for this loofc pulpe that is thus 
 wrapped up within our Cranium, is but a fpongie and porous bo- 
 dy, and pervious,, not onely to the animal fpir its, hut alfo to more 
 Juice and Liquor;, elfe it could not well be nourifhed, atlcaftit 
 could not be fo foft and moiftned by drunkennefs and cxeefs , as 
 to make the underftanding inept and fottifhin its operations. 
 Wherefore I now demand , in this foft fubftance which we call 
 the brain , whofe foftnefs implies that it is in fomc meafure li- 
 quid, and liquidity implies a feveral motion of loofened parts; 
 in what part or parcel thereof does Fancy, Reafon, ay.d Animad- 
 verfion\ie> Inthislaxe confidence that lies like a Net , all oh 
 heafs in the water-, I demand , Jnwhat Knot, Loope, or Interval 
 thereof, dees this faculty of free Fancy, and aft ivt Reafon refde ? I 
 believe not a Dotlor in England, nay, not Dr. Culpepper himfelf, 
 were he alive, nor his men, Doctor Freeman, and the reft, can at 
 fign me any-, and if any will fay , in all together; they muft; fay 
 that the whole brain is figured into this or that representation, 
 which would cancel memory , and take away all capacity of there 
 being any diftind: notes and places for the feveral fpecies of 
 things there prefented. But if they will fay there is in every 
 part of the brain this power of Animadverfion and JFrf»^,they arc 
 to remember that the brain is in fome meafure a liquid body, and 
 we muft enquire how thefe loofe parts underftand one anothers 
 feveral Animadverfons and notions^ and if they could ( which 
 is yet very unconceivable ) yet if they could from hence do any 
 thing toward the immijfton and direction of the animal fpirits in- 
 to this or that part of the body, they muft do it by knowing one 
 anothers minds, and by aioint contention of ftrength, as when 
 many men at once, the word being given when they weigh An- 
 chor, put their ftrength together tor the moving «f that Aiaffic 
 body, that the (ingle ftrength of one could not deal with ; but 
 this is to make the feveral particles of the brain fo many indivi- 
 
 C dual 
 
IO Rofie Crucian PHYSICK. 
 
 dual perfonji a fitter objcd for laughter, then the leaft meafare 
 of belief. 
 
 Befides,how come thefe many Animadverfiont to feem but one 
 tous, our mind being thefe, as is fuppofed t Or why if the fi- 
 guration of one pare of the brain be communicated to all the 
 reft, does not the fame object feem fituated both behind us, 
 andbeforeus, above, and beneath, on the righchand and on 
 the left} and every way, as» the imprefs of the objed is reflected 
 againft all the parts of the brains} but there appearing to us 
 but one animadverfion, and one fight of things, it is a fuflkienc 
 Argument that there is but one^ or if there be many, that they 
 are not mutually communicated from the parts one to another, 
 and therefore there can be ho fuch joint endeavor towards one 
 defignj whence it is manifeft, that the brains cannot imm'xt or di- 
 rect thefe animal fpirits into what part of the body they 
 pleafc. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 OfSpntaneoHS Motion-^ ft he External Phsnomena^ofthe nature of 
 the £ fence of the Soul her J elf 9 what it is t and. whether it be cor- 
 foreal, or incorporeal. 
 
 NOW I muft tell you, that the brain hath no fence, & there- 
 fore cannot imprefs fpontaneeujly any motion on the ani- 
 malfpirits; it is no flight Argument that fome being difleded, 
 have been found without brains -, and this I faw, a Captain in 
 Chrifley y in Arabia, that was accidentally kill'd by an Alcade^nd 
 an Arabian, the ftory is pleafant, but not pertinent to our pur- 
 fofe- but this man had nothing but a limpid water in his head 
 inftead of brains, and the brains generally are eafily diflblvable 
 into a watery confidence, which agrees with what I intimated 
 before. Now I appeal to any free Judge, how likely thefe liquid 
 particles are to approve themfelves of that nature and power, 
 as to be able by erecting and knitting themfelves together for a 
 moment of time, to bear themfelves fo, as with one joint con- 
 tention of ftrength y to caufc an arbitrarious obligation of 
 
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Refie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 the/pints into this or that determinate part of the bcdj,but. the 
 abfurdity of this I have fufficiently infinuated already > 
 
 The Nerves , I mean the Marrow of them, which is of the 
 fame fubfiance with the brain, have no fence, as is demonftrated 
 from a Catalepfe, or Catechus-, but I will not accumulate Argu- 
 ments in a matter fo palpable. As for that little fprunt piece of 
 the brain which they call the Ccnacicn , that this (hould be 
 the very fubfiance,whofc natural faculty it is to moveitfelf,and 
 by its motion and nods to determine the courfeof the fpirits into 
 this or that part of the body, fecms to me no lefsfoolifti and 
 fabulous then the Storie of this entituled Doctor Freeman, fo 
 much commended by ignorantly innocent people: If you heard 
 but the magnificent fiorie that is told of the little lurking 
 Mufkrcme, how it does not onely hear and fee, but imagines, rea- 
 fens, ctmmands the whole fa bricks of the body more dcxteroufly 
 then an Indian Boy does an Elephant-, what an acute Logician, 
 fubtile Geometrician* prudent Statefman, skilful ' Phyfician, and pro- 
 found Vhile (op her he is / and then afterwards by direction you 
 difcover this worker of miracles to be nothing but a poor filly 
 contemptible K nob, or Vrotuberancy , confifting of a thin Memr 
 brane, containing a little pulpous matter, much of the fame na- 
 ture with the reft of the Brain, 
 
 Spectatum admifsi rifum teneatisamici? 
 
 Would you not fooner laugh at it, then go about to confute 
 it? and truly I may the better laugh it now, having already con- 
 futed it in what I have afore merrily argued concerning the reft 
 of the Brain. 
 
 I (hall therefore make bold to conclude, That the imprefs of 
 Spontaneous Motion is neither from the animal fpirits , nor from 
 the Brain, &c. therefore that thofe operations that are ufually 
 attributed unto the foul, are really incompetibleto any part of 
 the body ; and therefore , as in the lafi Chapter I hinted, I fay, 
 That the foul is not a meer modification of the body, but a fub- 
 fiance difti net therefrom. 
 
 Now we are to enquire, Whether this J 'ul fi ancedif'inct from 
 what we ordinarily call the body , be alfo it fclf a Corporeal Sub- 
 fiance, or whether it be incorporeal} If you fay that it is a cor- 
 poreal fubfiance, you can underfiand no other then matter 
 
 Qz more 
 
ir Rifie Crucian PHYSICK. 
 
 more fubtile and tenuious then the animal fpirits themfelves, 
 mingled with them.anddifpsrfed through the vefols and porofi- 
 tiesof the body-, for there can be no penetration of dimenfi- 
 ons : But I need no new arguments to con;ute this fond conceit-, 
 for what I faidof zhzam vat fpirits before, is applicable with all 
 eafeandHtnefsto this prefentcafc' and let it 6c fufficient that I 
 advertife you fo much, andfo beexcufed from the repeating of 
 the fame things over again 
 
 It remains therefore that we conclude, That that which im- 
 preflfes Spontaneous Mmon upon the body or more immediate- 
 ly upon the animal fpirits : That which imagines, remembers, 
 andreafons.is an immaterial fubflance,dilVmct from the body, 
 which ufes the animal fpirit t and the brain for Inftmm.'nts in fuch 
 and fueh operations. And thus wehavefounda/pnVina pro- 
 per notion and lignitication, that hath apparently thefe facul- 
 ties in it , it can both underitand and move corporeal mat- 
 ter. 
 
 And now this prize that we have won will prove for our de- 
 figninthis new Method of Phylickand Philofophy of very great 
 confequence^foritis obvious hereto obfervechat the foul of 
 man is as it were 4^v«*<3^ a cimpendkus ftatue of the Deity-, 
 her fubltance is a (olid E fgies of God; and therefore as with eafc 
 weconfider thefubftance and motion of the vaft Heaven* on a 
 litt'.e Sphere y or llohe, fo we may with like facility contemplate 
 the nature of the Almighty in this little 4odel of GoJ t the foul of 
 Man t enlarging to Infinity what we obferve in our felves when 
 we transfer it unto God v as we do imagine thefe Circles which 
 we view on the Globe , to be vaftly bigger while we fancy them 
 as defcribed in the heavens. 
 
 Wherefore we being allured of this, That there is afpiritutl 
 fubftance in our felves, in which both thefe properties do refide, 
 viz,, of the undemanding, and of moving the corporeal matter^ 
 let us but enlarge our minds lo as to conceive as well as we can 
 of a fpiritual fubllance that is able to move & actuate all matter 
 whatfoever,never fo far extended, and after whatway &manner 
 foever it pleafe, and that it hath not onely the knowledge ofthif 
 or that particular thing, but a ditinct and plenary cognizance 
 •f all things^ and we have iadecd a very competent apprchen- 
 
Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. j 3 
 
 fionof the nature of the eternal and invifible God, who like the 
 foul of man , does not indeed fall under fence y but does every- 
 where operate fo. that hh perfon is eafily to be gathered from 
 what is difcovered by our outward fences. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 Of Plants-, 'h tt the meet motion of the matter m ty do fomething' y 
 yet it will not anount to ths production of Plants.' Th.it it is no 
 botch in Nature that fame Ph&nomena be the refu'ts of Atjtion y 
 others of fub/lantia! forms, 'that beauty is not a meer fancy ,tnd 
 that the beauj ani venue of Plants is an Argument that they 
 are made for the ufe of our bodies from an intellectual prinei- 
 yle. 
 
 HOW weak is lMm if you confider his nature, what faculties 
 he hath, and in what order he is in refpect of the reft of the 
 creature;} And indeed, though his body be but weak anddif- 
 armd, yet his inward abilities of Reafon , and artificial contri- 
 vance^ ad nirable, both for finding out thofe fee ret Medicines 
 which God prepared fortheufe of Man in the Bowe s of the 
 Earthy Plants and Minerals. 
 
 And nrft of Vegetables , where I (hall touch onely thefe iour 
 heads, their form and beauty, their eed y th'ir >gnature> % and their 
 great u[e, as well for medicines a.s fttftensnee • and that we may the 
 better underftand the advantage we have in this clofer contem- 
 plation of chew^rks of mcure, we arc in the firft place to take 
 notice of the condition of ths fubftance, which we call matter, 
 how fluid and flppery, and und 'terminate it is of itfelf; or if 
 U be hard, how unfit it is to be changed into any thing elie^ and 
 therefore all things rot into a moifture before any thing can be 
 generated of them,as we foften the waxbefore we fee on the feal. 
 Now therefore, unlefswe will befoolifti, asbecaufethe unU 
 form motion of the Air, or forae more fubcil corporeal Element - 
 may fo equally comprefs or bear againftthe parts of a little 
 vaporous miifture, as to form it into round drops (as we fee in 
 thede.v, aniotherjexperimencs) and therefore becaufe this 
 
 more 
 
, 4 Rcfie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 more rude and generalmotion can do iemething , to conclude 
 that it does all things ; We mull in all reaic r. confefs that there 
 is an eternal Mindand Verttte, whereof the matter is thus ufe- 
 fully formed and changed. 
 
 But meer rude and undirected motion, becaufe naturally it will 
 have fomekind of refults, that therefore it will reach to fuch as 
 plainly imply a wife contrivance of counlcl, is 10 ridiculous a 
 Sephifm,as I have already intimartd,that it is more fit to impofe 
 upon the inconfiderate/w*/.r of fed & children,ihtn upon men of 
 Mature Reafon, and well exercifed in Philofophy , or the grave 
 and well praB.ifed,feraphically illuminated Rtfie Crucians Admit 
 that Rain, and Snow, and Wind, and Hatl ,and he, and Thunder, 
 and Lightning, and a Star I mention for example , that may be 
 let in amonglt Meteors, by fome called Bellens-fiar, and is well 
 known at Sea-, I have feen it welt Copper Vejfels a-board a (hip; it 
 cometh of an heap of fuch vapors as are carry ed by violent crofs 
 Winds up from the Earth^and fuch like Meteors may be the pro- 
 dufrs of heat and cold, or of the motion and reft of certain fmall 
 particles of the matter; yet that the ufeful and beautiful contri- 
 vance of the Branches, Flowers, and Fruits of Plants fhould be 
 fo too/ to fay nothing yet of Minerals, and the bodies of men ) 
 is as ridiculous and fupine a collection, as to infer, That becaufe 
 meer heat and cold does foften and harden Wax, and puts it in- 
 to fome (hape or other, that therefore this meer heat and cold, 
 or Motion and Reft, without any Art and Direction, made the 
 Silz er Seal too, and graved upon itfo curioufly fomeCoate of 
 Arms, or the (hape of fome Bird or Beaft, as an Eagle, a Lyon, 
 &c. nay indeed this inference is more tolerable far then the o- 
 ther, thefe effects of Art being more eafie, andlefs noble then 
 thofe other of nature. 
 
 Nor is it any deficiency at all in theWorks of Nature, that fome 
 particular Phenomena be but the eafie refultsof that general 
 motion communicated unto the matter from God; others the 
 effects of more curious contrivance, or of the Divine An , or 
 Reafon, (for fuch are the hir%n <^ M&m»h the Raticnes Semnale/) 
 incorporated in the Matter, efpecially the Matter it felf being 
 in fome fort vital, clfe it would not continue the motion that it 
 isput upon,whcnitisoccafionally this or the other way mo- 
 ved; 
 
V&tiCmeMi PHYSICK. 15 
 
 ved,and befidestheNatufeof (7<?df>eing the mod perfect ful- 
 nefs of life that is poflibly conceiveable, it is very congruous 
 that thisoutmoft and rcmoteft fhadow of himfelf, be feme way, 
 though but obfeurely vital: Wherefore things falling off by 
 degrees from the higheft perfection, it will hi no uneven or un - 
 proportionable ftep, if defcending from the top of this utmoft 
 Creation, Man, in whom there is a more fine conception, or re- 
 flexive Reafon , which hangs on, as every man hath fo much 
 experience as to have feen the Sun, and other vifible objects by 
 reflexion in the Water and GlafTes and this as yet (hall be all 
 I will fay for this reafon^ I will give you more then I promifed in 
 the Contents 3 by four pro pofitions concerning the nature of 
 conceptions, and they fhall be proved- and aifo of the main de- 
 ception of fence, that Colour and Image may be there where the 
 thing feen is not : But becaufe it may be faid,That notwithftan- 
 dmg the Image in the Water be not in the object , but a thing 
 meerly phantajiical, yet there may be colours really in the thing 
 itfelf, I will urge further this experience, That divers times 
 men fee directly the fame object double , as two Candles for 
 one, which may happen from diftem per, or otherwife without 
 diftemperif a man will; the Organs being either in their right 
 temper, or equally diftempered, the colours and images in two 
 fuch characters of the fame thing, cannot be inherent therein,be- 
 caufe the thing feen cannot be in two places. 
 
 Oneof thete Images therefore is not inherent in the Ofyett 
 but thefeeing,the Organs of the fight are then in equal temper 
 ordiftemper 1 theoneof them is no more inherent then the o- 
 ther, and confequently, neither of them both are in the <)b] e cts % 
 which is the firft proportion mentioned in the precedent num- 
 ber. 
 
 Secondly, that the Image of any thing by reflexion in a glafs^ 
 or water . or the like, is not any thing in , or behind the glafs* 
 or in,or under the Water, every man may grant to himfelf' 
 which is the fecond proportion of Des Cartes. For thirdly, We 
 are to confider, firft, That every great agitation or concuflion 
 of the brain ( as it happeneth from aftroke, cfpecially if the 
 ftroke be upon the eye ) whereby the Optick Nerve fuffereth a- 
 ny great violence, there appear eth before the Eyes a certain 
 
1 6 Rofe Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 tight , which light is nothing without , but an apparition onely^ 
 all that is real being the concuflion or motion of the partsof 
 the Nerve:, from which experience we may conclude , That ap- 
 parition of light is really nothing but motion within. If there- 
 fore from Lucid bodies there can be derived motion , fo as to 
 affect the Optick Nerve in fuch manner as is proper thereunto, 
 there will follow an Image of light fome-where in that line by 
 which the motion was lalt derived to the eye, that is to fay , In 
 the object, if we look directly on it , and in the Glafsor Wa- 
 rer,when we look upon it in the line of reflexion, which in effect 
 is the third propofition, namely, That image and colour is but 
 an apparition to us of that motion , agt'tation, or alteration, 
 which the object worketh in the brain or fpirits, or fome inter- 
 nal t'ubftance in the head. 
 
 But that from all lucid, (hining, and illuminate bodies, there 
 is a motion produced to the eye, and thorow the eye, to the G'p- 
 tkl^Nerve and fo into the Brain, by which the apparition of 
 light or colour is effected, is not hard to prove. And firft, it is 
 evident that the Fire, the onely lucid body here upon Earth, 
 worketh by motion equally every way, infomuch as the motion 
 thereof flopped or inclofed, it is prefently extinguifhcd, and 
 no more fire. And further, That that motion whereby the fire 
 worketh, is dilation and contraction of it fclf alternately, com- 
 monly called Scintillation, or glowing, is manifeft alfo by expe- 
 rience' from fuch motion in the fire muft needs arife a rejection, 
 or catting from it felf off that part of the medium which is con- 
 tiguous to it, whereby that part alfo reecteth the next, and fo 
 fucceffively one part beateth back another to the very eye, and 
 in the fame manner the exteriour part of the eye preffeth the 
 interiour, ( the Laws of refraction frill obferved. ) Now the 
 interior coat of the eye is nothing elfe but a piece of the Optick 
 Nerve, and therefore the motion is ftill continued thereby into 
 the Brain, and by refiftanceor re-action of the Brain , is alfo a 
 rebound into the Optick Nerve again, which we not conceiving 
 as motion or rebound from within, do think it is without , and 
 call it Light, as hath been already fhewed by the experience of a 
 ftroake : Wehave no reafon to doubt that the Fountain of 
 Light, the Sun,worketh by any other ways then the FirtfX leafc 
 
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Rofic Crucian PHYSICK. 17 
 
 rn this matter- and thus all vifion hath its original from fuch mo- 
 tion as is here dcferibed; for where there is no light, there is no 
 fight •, and. therefore colour muft be the fame thing with light, 
 as being the effect of the lucid bodies,their difference being one- 
 ly this, That when the light cometh diredly from the Fountain 
 to the eye, or indiredly by reflexion from clean and polite bo- 
 dies, and fuch as have not any polite bodies, and fuch as have 
 not any particular motion internal to alter it, we call it light; 
 but when it cometh !• the eye by reflexion from uneven, rough, 
 and courfe bodies, or fuch as are affeded with internal motion 
 of their own that may alter it,then we call it Colour-, colour and 
 light differing onely in this, that the one is pure , and the other 
 perturbed light; by that which hath been faid , not onely the 
 truth of the third propofition, but alfo the whole manner of 
 producing light and colour, is apparent. 
 
 As colour is not inherent in the object , but an effed thereof 
 upon us,caufed by fach motion in the objcd as hath been defcri 
 bed; fo neither is found in the thing we hear , but in our felves; 
 one raanifcft fign thereof, is, That as man may fee , fe alfo he 
 may hear double & trebble by multiplication of Ecchoes,which 
 Ecchoes are founds as well as the Original; and not being in one 
 and the fame place, cannot be inherent in the body that makctto 
 them; nothing can make any thing which is not in itfclf; the 
 Clapper of a Bell hath no found in it, but motion , and maketfe 
 motion in the internal parttof the Bell; fo the Bell hath motion 
 and not found, that imparteth motion to the air ; and the aire 
 hath motion, but not found; the air imparteth motion by the 
 car and nerve onto the Brainy and the Brain hath motion, bur. 
 not found} from the Brain it reboundeth back into the Nerves 
 outward, and thence it becommeth an Apparition without, 
 which we call found; And to proceed to the reft of the fences, 
 it is apparent enough, that the fmell and tafte of the fame thing 
 are not the fame to every man , and therefore are not in the 
 thing fraelt or tailed, but in the men ; fo likewife the heat we 
 feel from the fire is manifeftly in us, and is quite different from 
 the beat which is in the fire-, for our heat is pleafure or pain , 
 according as it is great or moderate; but in the cool there is 
 no fuch tiling: By this the laft is proved, vU. that as in vifion, 
 
 D fo 
 
l% RofeCrncUti PHYSICK. 
 
 foalfo in Conceptions that arife from other fenfes, the fubjeft 
 ©f their inherence is not in the object , but in the Sentinent •, 
 And from hence alfo it followeth that whatsoever accidents or 
 qualities our fences make us think there be in the world , they 
 be not there, but are feeraing and apparitions only •, the things 
 that really are in-the world withouc us, are thofe motions by 
 which thefe feemings are canfed ; and this is the great deception 
 of fence, which alfo is to be by fence corrected : for as fence 
 telleth me when I fee directly , that the colour feecneth to be in 
 the object ^ fo alfo fence telleth me whea I fee by reflection, 
 that colour is in the object. But now I am out of the way 
 from rhe outward Creation of Man, in whom there is a princi- 
 ple of more fine and reflexive reafon, which hang? on, though 
 not in that manner, in the more perfect kindc of Brutes, as 
 fence alfo ( loth to be curbed with too narrow compafsj layei 
 hold upon fomekinde of plants, as in thofe fundry forts of Z«- 
 j>hjta t but in the relt there arc no further footfteps difcovered 
 of an animadverfive forme abiding in them-, yet there be the 
 effects of an inadvertent forme {\oy9-iw\<9-yo( materiatcd 
 or incorporated Art or feminal Reafon •, I fayici* no uneven 
 jot to pafs from the more faint and obfeure example of Sperma- 
 tical life, to the more Considerable effects of general Motion in 
 Mineralls, Mtt*lls t nor yet to fay any thing of the Medicines 
 extracted, mortified, fixt, diflblv'd and incorporated with their 
 proper Veagles , becaufe we have intended it our laft bnfinefs 
 to return to Mineralls, Meccals , and fundry Meteors, 
 whofe eafie and rude fhapes have no need of any particular 
 principle of life, or Spcrmatical form diftinct from the reft , of 
 motion of the particles of the matter. 
 
 But there is that curiofity of form and beauty in the more 
 noble kinde of Plants, bearing fuch a futablenefs and harmony 
 with the more refined fence and fagacity of the foul c*f Man, 
 that he cannot choofe (his intellectual touch being fo fweetly 
 gratified by what it deprchends in fuch like objects,) but ac- 
 knowledge that fome hidden caufc much a-kin to his own nature 
 that is intellectual, is the contriver and pcrfecter of thefc fo 
 plcafant fpectacles in the world. 
 
 Nor is ic at all to the purpofe to eV/cct that this i>u Jinefs of 
 
Rojle Crucian P H Y S I C K. I o 
 
 Beauty arid comclincfs of proportion is bnt a conceit, becaufe 
 fome men acknowledge no fuch thing, and ail things are alike 
 handfome to them, who yet notwithstanding have the ufe of 
 their eyes as well as other folks ; for I fay, this rather makes 
 for what we aim at, that Pulchritude is conveyed indeed by the 
 outward fences unto the foul, but a more intellectual faculty is 
 that which relifhcs it-, as an jiftroicgieall , or better, a 
 CeometricaU Scheam is let in by the eyes, but the D em n ft ration is 
 difcern'd by Reafon : And therefore it is more rational to af- 
 firm, that fome intellectual principle was the Author of this 
 Pulchritude of things, then that they (hould be thus fafhion'd 
 without the help of that principle : And to fay there is no 
 fuch thing as Pulchritude, and fome fay, there is no way to felici- 
 ty ; The firft, Ianiwer,is becaufe fome mens fouls are fo dall and 
 fiupid. And the fecond is that they never knew The way te blifs, 
 The firft cannot relifh all objects alike in that refpect j The fe- 
 cond knows not Haffinefs , nor the way to long life , nor the 
 means t$ Health, nor how to rtturn from Age to Youth , &e. 
 which is as abfurd and groundlefs as to conclude there is no fuch 
 thing as Reafon and Demonftratien, becaufe a natural fool cannot 
 reach onto it. But that there is fuch a thing as The way to Blip, 
 Long ltfe,*nd a certain way to Health, not as yet known in Eng- 
 land, I will demenftrate in a Treatife by it felf ; The way r* 
 Health! l\a\\ (hew you anon in this book, the reft in another 
 Part, as I promifed yon. 
 
 Now that there is foch a thing as Beauty, and that it is ac- 
 knowledged by the whole generations of men, to be in Trees, 
 flowers and fruits, and the adorning of buildings in a!! Ages, is 
 an example, and undenyable teftimony • for what is more and 
 ordinary with then then taking in flowers and fruitage for the 
 garniihing of their work? Betides I appeal to any man that is 
 not fank into foforlornc a pitch of Degeneracy • that he is as 
 ftupid to thefe things as the bafeft of Beafls, whether for exam- 
 ple, a rightly cut Tetraearum t cube or Icofatdrum, have no more 
 pulchritude in them, then any rode broken j. me lying in the field 
 or high-way cs; Or to name other folid Figures, which though 
 they be not regular properly fo called, yet have a fetled Idea, It 
 Nature, asa Cw, Sfh*rt t <oiCyli*d*r : whether the fight-of thefc 
 
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zo Jtejie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 donotgratifiethemindesof men more, and pretend to more 
 elegancy of fhape,then thofe rude cuttings or chippings of/rw- 
 ftone that fall from the Mafons hands, and fervefor nothing but 
 to fill up the middle of the wall, and fo to be hid from the eyes 
 of Man for their ugliiiefs : And it is obfervable, That if Nature 
 flupe any thiig necr this Geometrical accuracy, thatjwe take no- 
 tice of it with much content and pleafure, as if it be but exactly 
 round, as there be abundance of fuch ftones upon CMcJque , a 
 hill in Arabia, I havefeen them there, or ordinarily Quinquan- 
 gular, or have the fides but parallels , though the Angles be une- 
 qual, as is feen in fome little ftones, and in a kinde of Alablafler 
 found here in England , and ocher pretty ftones found upon 
 Bnlver ton-hill neer Sidmoutlt in Devon/hire^ and neer Stratford 
 upon Avon, and in Tyms Grove at Colt on in Warwickejhire , are 
 found fuch rtones that grow naturally carved with various 
 works, fome with Rofes, others with Lyons , Eagles , and all 
 manner of delightfull works-, Thefe ftones I fay, gratifie our 
 fight, as having a nearer cognation with the foul of man that is 
 rational and intellectual, and therefore is well pleafed when it 
 meets with any outward object that fits and agrees with thofe 
 congenite Ideas her own nature is furniftied with : For Sjmme- 
 metrj t Equality , and Ctrreffondency of parts, is the difcernment 
 of Reafon, not the object of Sence, as I hare in another place 
 proved. 
 
 Now therefore it being evident, that thercis fuch a thing as 
 Re<t*tj % Symmetry. m& Cowf//»r/>efproportion,(tofay nothing 
 of the delightful mixture of colours , and that this is the proper 
 object of the UnderftandingaadRcafon; for thefe things be 
 not take* notice of by the Beafts \ I think I may fafely inferrc, 
 that whatfoever is the firft and principal caufc ©I changing the 
 fluid and undeterminated Matter into (hapej fo comely and 
 fymmetrical, as we fee in flowers and trees, is an understanding 
 Principle, and knowes both the nature of man , and of thofc 
 objects he offers to his fight in this outward and vifible world, 
 and would have man fearch and finde out thofe fecrets by the 
 which he might keep his body in health many hundreds of years, 
 and at laft find the way u Blift - % for thefe things cannot come by 
 chance,or by a Mulciraniom attempt of th« pares of the matter 
 
 upon 
 
Rofie Crucian P R Y S I C K. 21 
 
 upon themfelves, for then ic were likely that the fpecies of 
 things though fome might hit right , yet mod would be maim- 
 ed and ridiculous ^ but now there is not any ineptitude in any 
 thing which is align that the fluidneffe of the matter is guided 
 and determined by the overpowering counfel of an ecernall 
 mind. 
 
 If it were not needlefle , I might inftance in fundryj kinds 
 of flowers herbs and trees ^ but thefe objects being fo obvious, 
 and every mans fancy being brauched with the remembrance of 
 Rofes^ Marigolds fie Ui^orvers ^ PUtiics^Tulifs, Pauftes, Frimrofes^ the 
 leaves and clutters of the Vine &c. Of all which you mult con- 
 fefs that there is in them beauty anil fymetry, and ufe in Phyfick, 
 and gratcfull proportion- I hold ic fuperfluity to weary you 
 with any longer indudion, but fhall pals on to thofe considera- 
 tions behind, of their feed, fignaure and ufefullnefs , and (hall 
 pafs through them very briefly, and then I (hall come to 
 minerall Medicines, thefe obfervables being very ncceflary firft 
 to be known by way of an Introduction, and as ordinary 
 and eafiiy Intelligible. 
 
 CHAP- 
 
 
22. Rofe Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 CHAP. vr. 
 
 Of the Seeds and Signatures of Plants, and wherefore 
 GOD made them. 
 
 EVery plant hath its feed-, Rofie Crucians therefore fay there 
 arefecrec Myfteries lye hidden im-them, which fhouldbeour 
 delight to find out-, for Divine Pnovidence made all good for 
 the ufe of man: And this being no neceflary refult of the mo- 
 tion of the matter, as the whole contrivance of the plant indeed 
 is not^ and it being of great confequence that they have Seed 
 for the continuance of propagation of their whole Species, and 
 for the gratifying of mans Art alfo, induftry and neccflUie, 
 (for much of Husbandry and Gardening lies in this , it cannot 
 but be the Act of Ceur.fel to furnilh the fevcral kinds of Plants 
 with their Seeds, efpecially the Earth being of fuch a nature that 
 though at firft for a while it might bring forth all manner of 
 Plant ts t ( as fome will have it alfo to have brought forth all kinds 
 of Animals ) yet at lift it would grow fo fluggifh, that without 
 the advantage of thofe fmall compendious principles of gene- 
 ration, the Crain of Seed would yeild no fuch births, no 
 more then a Pump grown dry will yeild any Water, unlefs you 
 pour a little Water into it firft, and then for fo many Bafons 
 full, you may fetch up as many Tankards full. 
 
 Nor is it material to objed that {linking Weeds , and poj- 
 fonout Plants bear Seed too, as well as the moft pleafant ~nd ufe- 
 fuli for even thofe {linking HW.r,and pojfcnous Plants have their 
 ufe in Rofte Crucian Phyfick^ , as you (hall know hereafter - t be- 
 fides our common Phyfick- Mongers often ufe them as their Fan- 
 cy guides them, grounded upon no other reafon then woful and 
 deadly experience^ fometimes the induftry of man is excrcifed 
 by them to weed them out where they are hurtful, which 
 reafonsif they feeme fleight, lenn-but confider, thatif hu- 
 mane induftry had nothing to confli A and ftruggle with,the fire 
 of mans fpint would behalf extinguifhedin the flefh, and then 
 we (hall acknowledge that that which I have allcdged is notfo 
 contemptible nor invalid. 
 
 But fccondly'i Who knows but it is fo with poyfonous Plants, 
 as vulgarly is fancyed concerning Toads, and other poyfonous 
 
 Serpents, 
 
R«fte Cruet** P H Y S I C K. £j 
 
 Serpents that lick the t " Venom from off thfTEarth ? So poyfo- 
 nous Plants may well draw to them all the Malignc Juice and 
 nourifhraen? , thac the other may be more pure and defal- 
 cate, as there areReceptieles in the body of man, and Emunctc- 
 riesto drain them of fuperfluous Choker and Melancholy,^- 
 
 Laftly, It is very well known by them chat know any thing in 
 Nature and Phyfick, Thar thofe Herbs that the rude and igno- 
 rant would call Weeds, are the materials of very fever *ign Mc- 
 dicinef,\.\\?£ Aunitttm Hjerrtele, or Winter Wolfs haw, that other- 
 wife is rank poyfon, is reported to prevail mightily againft the 
 biting of Vipers, Scorpions, and mad dogs, which Sir Chrifto- 
 fhtr Heydon aflenteth unto-, and that that plant that bears death 
 in the very Name of it, SoUnnm Lethifcrum, prevents death by 
 procuring fleep, if it be ayplycd in a Fever; nor are thofe tilings 
 to be deemed uprofitable, lay the Rof'e Crucians , whofe ufe our 
 heavy ignorance will not let us understand; but they will teach 
 csas followeth. 
 
 Wecomcnowto thefignatures of plants, which indeed re- 
 fpecrsusmore properly and adequately then the other, and is a 
 Key(as Rvfe Crucians fay)to enter man into the knowledge and 
 ufeof thcTreafures of nature-, I demand therefore, Whether itbe 
 notaveryeafieand Genuine inference from theobferving thac 
 fcveral herbs are marked with fome mark or fign that intimates 
 their vertue, what they are good for \ and there being fucha 
 creature as man in the World that can read & underftand thefe 
 figns and characters, hence-LOcolIecV that the Author both of 
 man and them , knew the nacure of them both; and befides di- 
 rine providence would onely initiate and enter mankind In the 
 ufeful knowledge of herTreafures by the Seraphical illumina- 
 ted Rofije Crucians, leaving thereftto employ rhe vulgar that 
 they might not be idle, for the Theater of the World is anex- 
 ercifeof man* wit, and therefore all things are in fome meafure 
 obfenre and intricate, that thefedulity of that divine fpark,the 
 foul of man, may have matter of conqueft ancrtriumpb, when 
 he hath done bravely by a fuperadvenient afiiftance of God. 
 
 But that there be fome plants that beara very evident figna- 
 tore of their nature and ufe 3 for example, CkpiUus veneris , Poli- 
 tritfHMiOvMAMM-bair', the Lye in which it is fodden or infus'd, 
 
 is 
 
24 Rope CrttcUn PHYS1CK. 
 
 is good to wafh the fftad, and make the hair grow in thofe places 
 that are fart^ the decoftion of Quinces, which are a downey and 
 hairy Fruit, is accounted good tor the fetching again kwir that 
 bach been fallen by the French Vex-, the Leaf of Balm and Al- 
 leluia, or Wood-S'errel, as alfo ibe roots of s! nt bora, rcprefent the 
 heart in figure, and are Cordiacal. 
 
 Walnuts beare the whole fgnature of the head; the outward 
 green Cert ex anfwers to the Vencranium, and a Sale made of it 
 is fingular good for Wounds in that part, as the Kerne lis good 
 for the Br.ttns, which it refembles. ■ , 
 
 VmbehcM Veneris is powerful to provoke />*/?, as Doctor Culpep- 
 per affirms ; as alfo your feveral forts of Satyritxs f which have 
 the evident refemblance of the gcnetal parts upon thcm ; Ann 
 efpecially, and all your Orchiffes , that they have given N am cs 
 unto, from fame bead or other, as CjnoforcbU., Orcbu Miotics, 
 Tragorchu,&c the lad whereof notoriorious for its Goatifh 
 imell, and Tufts not unlike the Beard of that Lecherous Ani- 
 mal, is of all the reft the moft powerful incentive to luft. 
 
 The Leaves of Wypericcn are very thick pricked., or pointed 
 with little holes, and it is a fingular good Wound-herb, asufe- 
 ful alfo for de-obftructing the pores of the body. 
 
 Scorpioides, Echium , or SeorpUnJigraffe , is like the crooked 
 Tayle of a Scorpien-, and Ophiegl<jjuw, or Adders Tcnfue , hath a 
 very plain and perfect refemblance of the Tongue of a Serpent; 
 asalfo Opbiofcorodon of the intire head and upper-parts of the 
 body, and thefe are all held very good againft poyfon,andthe 
 biting of Serpents^ and generally all fuch plants as are fpccklcd 
 with fpots like the Skins of Vipers,or other venemous creatures, 
 are known to be good againft the flings or bitings of them, and 
 are powerful objects againft poyfon. , 
 
 Thus did divine providence by natural Hiertgljphicks, read 
 ftiort LeUurcs to the rude wit of vulgar man,'others of the.fr- 
 rapbically illuminated Fraternity ,.being ent'red , and fafficiently 
 experienced of thefe, found out the reft, U being very reafona- 
 blc that other herbs that had not fuch fignatures, might be ve- 
 ry good for Medicinal ufes, as well as they that had. . 
 
 Rope Crucians have quickned and actuated their Phlcgmatick 
 natures to more frequent and effectual v entry \ for their long 
 
 UvtSy 
 
Xtfe Crucian VHY SICK. 25 
 
 fotsJ§e*lth t k)tMthfMlnefsflitm they were not rcry fiery, to fay 
 nothing of their h^inefc, riches ,vifdom andvertue , becaufel 
 narc in ray Trcatife of Thewaj toblife, fpo^en of it largely. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Of the ufefulnefetf Plants, and of the Works of God. 
 
 YOo flial now briefly ta^e notice of the ufefulnes&profitablc- 
 nefs of plant$ both for Phytic^, and Food, and then pafs on 
 to the confideration of the infpired Rofe Crucians , what their 
 Medicines are : As for the common iifes of Plants , Werbals 
 teach you fomething- but I refer you to xhtfingular Medicines of favvmA- 
 Rope Crucians in my Book of The way to blijs for the 9fl9?ti&fi of f/j 
 your health, Animals know as much by inftinct and n&ture^and ' 
 that which is moft: obfcrvablehere , is this, That brute Beafts 
 know as much as many Phyficians do that are taught by Herbals 
 enctyi and thefc deny the power of God in the Works of Na- 
 ture, and the power of Nature in the s^ill of man, that it fhould 
 beimpoflibleto ma^e Trees be-ar frttit in December, and Apple- 
 trees to grow to blojfom, and bear Apples contrary to k ind in March. 
 Beafts hare knowledge in the vertue of Plants as well as men- 
 for the Toad being overcharged with rhe poyfon of the Spider, 
 ( as is well j^nown ) hath recourfeto the Plantane-Leaf. The 
 Wcafel when (Vie is to encounter the Serpent, arms her felf with 
 eating of Rue. TheDogwhenheisfic^attheftomac^, £nows 
 his cure, falls to his grafs , vomits, and is well. The Swallows 
 ma^e ufeof Celandine , the Lennet of Euphrasia for the repair- 
 ing of their fight. And the Afs when he is oppreffed with melan- 
 choly ,eats of the Herb A fp I enium^ot Mt I 'twdft.de fo eafes himfelf 
 of the fwelling of the fpleen.The Raven ma)(es ufe o( Cinque fojle 
 for the prolongation of his life to fomtimes fix or fevenhundred 
 years,and therefore I thin/^it is that the Rof.e Crucians prefcribe 
 theoyleof Ravens, Swallows, and Harts for the ufeof man to 
 annoint himfelf, to continue his fleih and weli-complexioned 
 body from wrinkles and lamenefs ; and Ditlamnum Cretenfc is 
 much ufcd, as I told you in my Wife mans Crown •, Cretian Ditta- 
 ny cures Wounds of what nature foever. 
 
 E Which 
 
2 6 Rofe Crucian PHYSICK. 
 
 Which thing I conceive no obfeure indigation of provi- 
 dence^ for they dding that by inftinct and Nature, which 
 men who have free Reafbn cannot but acknowledge to be 
 very pertinent and fitting, nay fuch that the skilfwllelt Phyfici- 
 an will approve and allow- and thefc creatures having no fuch 
 reafon and skill themfelves as to turn Phyficians , itmuft needs 
 be concluded by vertueof that principle that contrived them, 
 and made them of that Nature they are, enabled them alfo to 
 do thefe things. 
 
 Let us now confider the Fruits of the Trees, where [I think it 
 will appear very manifestly, That there was one worker of Mira- 
 cles , andinffirer of Wofie Crucians ; I might now reach out to 
 Exortick Plants, fuch as LheCinamon-Tree,thcBa/fiwe-Tree,and 
 the Tree that bears the Nutmeg, invelopped the Mace-, as alfo 
 the famous Indian Nut-Tree, which at once ( as the Rofie Cru- 
 cians fay ) affords almoftall the necefTaries of life; for if they 
 cut but the Twigs at Evening, there is a plentiful and pleafant 
 Juiee comes out, which they receive into Bottles, and drin^in- 
 fteadof Wine, and out of which they extract fuch anAq.ua? 
 Vitaeasis very foveraignagainft ail manner of fic^nefles , the 
 branches and boughs they make their Houfesof, and the body 
 of the tree being very fpongy within,though hard without, they 
 eafily contrive into the frame and ufe of their Qanocs, or boat.. 
 the Kernel of the Nut ferves them for bread and meat, and the 
 Shells for Cups to drink in^ and indeed they are not meer empty 
 Cups, for there is found a delicious cooling milk in them-, be- 
 fides there is a ^ind of hemp that indofes the Nut, of which 
 they mak Ropes and Cables, and of the finelt of it, Sayles for 
 their fhips:, and the Leaves are fo hard and ftvirp pointed , that 
 they eafily ma^e Needles or Bodkins of them for Pitching their 
 Sayles , and for other neceflfary purjpofes* and chat Providence 
 may (hew her felf bcrigne as well .is wife, tail fo notable a Plant 
 is not reftrainM toonecoaft of t'ner World nst'-eEaft-Indies, 
 but is found in Affrica^Arahia^znd in all the I (lands of rheWefc- 
 Indies/asH/Z^.ww/^C^rf, where our men are victorers • and 
 feveral other places of the new-found World. 
 
 But I thought fit to infifc upon thefe things by way of intro- 
 duction, but to contain my ielf within the compafs of fuch 
 
 objects 
 
%.ofe rrncian PHYSICK. I 7 
 
 objc&s ftsacernecejOfary forcer knowledge, and familiarly,and 
 >reour eyc$,u - 1 we rnav the better (ibele things 
 Undei; ood) utic> i .0 demonstrate thello- 
 
 fic Crucian way to health, and their ordinary Medicines which 
 to us are rice as j ec known. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 The RofieCmcian w ay how to get health ;Tjoe caufes why we eat 
 food; Of the firfl nature, of the World; A me a fare of raw and tem- 
 perate n, eat , and the cc.ufe of the fiery, andfeummy Call t.nd 
 needle fs muddy Uwels the melt t nature carelefs of making the reins 
 of Urine drawers , drin\lefs animals have none at all - t how to 
 clenfe your felf from theft, idle Bowels and avoid alldifeafes. 
 
 DO you notconfidertheweakneffe of man,what faculties 
 he hath 8 and in what order he is in refped of the reft of the 
 creaturesi R»fle Crucians obfervt though his body be weake and 
 difarmed, yet his inward abiilties of rcafon, and artificiall 
 contrivance is admirable j he is much given to fcarch out the 
 Mtdtcinall Virtues of Plants , Wights , and Mine rails , and 
 hath found out thofe that were of fo prefent and great con- 
 ference as to be Antidotes againft poyfon that would f« 
 quickly hare difpatched mankind , it were good for us to de- 
 monftrate the Rofie Crucian Medicines , now our land is affiU- 
 ed with afickpefs called the new difeafe , of which all forts dje^ with- 
 out remedy, for none as yet have prefcribed a Medicine , for 
 young men that defire to live, and for old men that wifti for 
 heakh , without which no life is fweet and favory , then let 
 us bend our felves to cure our brethren firft, and endeavour to 
 (hew the means ( befides the commmon Collegian Dodors 
 drenches, or Culpepers way, how every man may get and keep 
 his health , that is fomething ftrange but avowed truth; the 
 confent & equall(I mean agreeable to kind)temper&.dulling our 
 four firft beginnings, the ftaffofourbodies,forif this knot be 
 
 E 2 broken and 
 
2% Rofic Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 broken^&chcyloof towards their former liberty ,they wax proud 
 and itrong, and fight , for their nature is together by the ears, 
 and put us to pain , and lets the rule of nature,aid this they call 
 
 thedifeafe. 
 
 Then to handle one at once as our manner is, and will keep 
 •ur curtom ftill , to keep onr health and body in temper , feems 
 no fuch matter to me as the world would make it , even plain- 
 ly impoiUble, when I know all the wayes and entries to let 
 in difeafes anddiftempcrsofthe body, may by fmall heed be 
 ftoped and fenced. 
 
 Wee muft needs draw breath and eat meat •, for the caufe 
 I (hallfpeakc of it in its place- and as this is not all clear and 
 agreeable, fo nature hath her leavings^ and again labour and re H 
 are needful , and perhaps we cannot chufc but be moved in 
 mind with joy , greife , fear , hope , and fueh like paffions, 
 though the Stoickj deny neceffity, faith Des Carte;. 
 
 By fo many wayes and gats difeafes may enter, if they 
 be not well watced and looked unto , which may be done in 
 reafon , and hatn been done often , as they allure us that 
 have lived long without all difcafe and fickneffes , as John 
 Harding relates of a Miniftcr called Iohn M*c\lai*e to have con- 
 tinued for thefe fourfcore years laft paft together in heakh t &af- 
 ter his hair,teeth,ey6&fle(brcnued,& becameyong again,&fuch 
 like (lories arc to be found enough if we might ftay to feek them- 
 fome are contented for all but air and meat , but thefe fay they 
 have often feeds of difeafes lye hid in them unable to be fore- 
 feen or prevented , as we find thofe meats that make the rlneft 
 ihew, ( as Wine and Sugar ) and fuch enticeing bakes, to 
 have hid in them moft hateful difeafes and dregs in the bottom; 
 fo the air when it feems the belt and highefl: , yet is foraetimes 
 infe&ed and poyfoned with venemous breath fent out and 
 thruft into it either from below or from the fears of Hea* 
 ven , and as the • caufe is hidden and unknown to us, 
 fo the hurt impoflible to be avoyed and prevented. 
 
 If I lift to let my fpeech run at large , cfpecialy in o- 
 ther mens grounds , I could finde that that Divifion is 
 falfe, firfc , (to come to meat anon ) and then if it Wdc 
 
 true 
 
RoJteCrncian PHYSICK. 29 
 
 true, yet the eaufe'of that infe&ion not unable to be forefcen 
 and warded-, but I am fo forry for the fault above,that I can the 
 better take heed hereafter j yet methinks it is a grief to hear the 
 harmlefs and glorious divine things above, fo defaced with flan- 
 der, and no man makes anfwer for them. 
 
 Gentle Reader, be pleafed to ftay a little; If the Stars have no 
 light, and fo no power but from the Sun , that mod wholfome 
 and profperous creature, then they hnrthim mod wrongfully, 
 and reprove themfclves very rightly. And again, if they be but 
 a piece of the finer part , andtirft nature, as it were, of the 
 World , as I have fhewed in my Book of the The Wife Mans 
 Crorvn y then they be the wholfomcft things in the World; fo far 
 be they from poyfoned flander : And fo let their Lights be ne- 
 ver fo grofly mingled in their meetings, and thereby that ftate 
 of the Weather changed fuddenly , and from thence our 
 bodied troubled and turned into Difeafes, becaufe they 
 were not prepared and made -ready for it, yet the things are 
 good and prosperous; and by knowledge of Aftrology, or influ- 
 ences of the Planets, and races of the (tars, we may prepare our 
 felves, and prevent all , if we cannot have that happinefs to con- 
 verfe with our Guardian Genius. Now for lower reflexion, it is 
 not worth the anfwering when there is fo much wafte ground in 
 the World; then let us pafs over to that other Breach - t may we 
 not fhun the leaving baits in our Dyet, and take fuch meat as is 
 moft temperate and aear our Nature , and then drefs the fame 
 after the moft kindly and wholfome manner, feafoning itwel 
 with labour, mirth and fleep? 
 
 And to be plain, I have (hewed in another Treatifc of mine, 
 entituled, The veaj to bliife, fo much noted by our Writers,what 
 a jewel of health it were to ufe all raw & temperate meat, or be- 
 cauf we be wife & vertuous^and thisDyet would perhaps change 
 our Nature of fire, but like Pbi/ofophers, a quite contrary way ; 
 taking the belt,whenas none is loft,and leaving the worft,which 
 is that we now take, a Way I fay , to {trip of all grofsnefs and 
 foulnefs of bodies, the only hurt of themfelves, and is the Food 
 of all Difeafes. 
 
 I will Jell you another way which you will think fl range, but 
 y,oa (hall find it true •, if the meat be temperate , as I bid you 
 
 ehufc 
 
24 Rope Crucian PHYSICK. 
 
 chufeir, there is no hurt can come thereby, (if yon keepmea- 
 fure in your felves)fave from your leavings^ thefc in fo clear a 
 Dyct firft will be very few-, but if you would be ruled by my 
 Counfcl which Nature f aught we , thofe few (hould never hurt 
 you. 
 
 Of all the Leavings in the body, there are three which the li- 
 ver maketh moft troublefomeuntous, (for the reft areeafily 
 difpatched ) a light and eafie, or rather & fiery (as fome call ) 
 Ckoller^ a cold and heavy mud, called Mtlmcho'lj-, and the third 
 is Vr\ne y which I wil treat of in the next Chapter, but thofe two 
 the worfer-, and this fault is not in themfeives, but all by rcafon 
 of the needlefs and hurtful bowels in our bodies, (as the Seeds- 
 man ufeth to fow good and bad together ) which being of the 
 fame kind and quality with thofe humors,do draw and pul them 
 ftil unto them ( as all other parts and things doj for their Food 
 and nourilhment.and fo by the narrow paflages to and fro,their 
 greedinefs in pulling and holding, and a hundred fuch means, 
 fubjed to great mifchances, have brought in as many mifchiefs, 
 whereas Nature the great expeller of her unlike, and Enemies, 
 if (he had free choice and liberty, would otherwife with eafe, 
 and without hurt, expel thofe Leavings, efpecially fo fmalla 
 number of the better fort in fo clean a Dyer •, nay , fet the ma- 
 lice of thofe parts, (thofe parts are Melt-ball, and Reins) if 
 there be not fufficient ftore of other foul meat at hand , like a 
 poyfoned or a purging Medicine, they ufe to draw good Juices, 
 and to make Food of them^ what is not manifefted in this chap- 
 ter, (hall methodically be demonstrated in the enfning, fori in- 
 tend to be fenous in this part of my Book , and will (hew you 
 what Nature taught me. 
 
 CHAP- 
 
Rofte Crucian P H Y S I C K. 2 1 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 Rofe Crncian Medicines made plain by example:-, And thofe are a- 
 bsvf comrolcmcr.t -, Thafthrret Sw.-bcams declare fome fine 
 *n& fo> rain fat nejs to vourifo marine'. How to live twenty yeers 
 without Fcod } ds many creatures do. Vfe and Cuflom a fecond 
 N.itPirii The Bird called Manuda Diaca, and the finging Dog, 
 andCamelia-ithtt never eat food. An experienced Medicine, 
 ar.d how to applj #v Parte e'fr, and the Rojie Cwcitn %ew Art of 
 Healing. 
 
 OF Arifictlc it is reported, That he is the witty Spye of Na- 
 ture,and as if he had been made in this matter , he {hews the 
 need and ufe of the greater JEntralls and Bowels of Wights, and 
 faith very truly and wifely,The Heart and Liver as the fpring of 
 Life and Food, to be needful for all Wights, adding to the hot- 
 ter one,the Brain to cooled the Lights to clenfe the Heat, flay- 
 ing there as if he thought the ocher three unprofitable^ nay for 
 one of them in the fame Book, (F fay) telling the (lories of the 
 Hart and Camel , and giving the reafon why they be bothfo 
 fwift, healthful, long-iiv'd and other good properties above the 
 reft enfeoffed .vouched in plain tearms, the want of the fiery and 
 feummy Gall, as a great Enemy to them, for the Melt that 
 muddy Bowel, that it may be left out as needlefs in the bodies of 
 the better creatures. The Meadows near Cortina and Afugga- 
 dere declare when by arrange and hidden venue they bereave 
 the Beads thereof that graze upon them of it- the Herb is called 
 Afplenmm; as I told you in the preceding Chapters, nay, that 
 the Milt is not onely idle, but hurtful,which all experience, even 
 in our felves hath taught it. 
 
 The Turks light Footmen, (I fay, which I know not by what 
 exam pie unlefs it were the want of the fame in the Camel , ma- 
 king the Bead able to travel anhandred miles a day , andf<? 
 without drink fifteen dayes together ) being in their childhood 
 purged of their Milt, prove thereby the mod light, fwift, found 
 and lading Footmen in the World. 
 
 As 
 
32 Rope Crucian PHYSICK. 
 
 As for the veins of Urine-drawers, as drinklefs creatures have 
 none at all, fo fome men have but one of them, as if nature paf- 
 fed not to make any at all ^ if we could forbear our drink (as 
 thefe Beafts do by kinde, and fome men by cuftom ) we might 
 the better fparc them, and avoid many mifchiefs in our bo- 
 dies. 
 
 Therefore the odd man, Varacelfm , I know not by what 
 light, if not of the EofieCrtfs, (caftin I think, from feraphical 
 illumination ) not onely fees thefe faults , but alfo finds wayes 
 to amend them, and to cut the mifchiefs off all thefe three noy- 
 fome parts, not with any yeildirg Craft , but with Rofie Cruci- 
 an divine kind of Healing, with Aarum frotabile,&c. fo that to 
 avoid all difcafes thatfpring of the Leavings, take of Aurum 
 fotnlfile , one ounce •, one pound of the Oyle of Ravens ^ two 
 pound of MiltrvAJt y or Afpler/ium-, a handful of Cwksfojle^of 
 Ditltmnum Qretenfe^ Ophl.^lofsum and Scorfioides, Echihm , of 
 each alike quantity, and obferve the Afcendent, andhis Lord- 
 and the Moon, and Lord of the fixt , at your difcretion , and 
 take the quantity of a Walnut every night and morning, and 
 anoynt the face &hands,&(if you wil)the reft of the body: Ro- 
 fie Crucians have other healing and yeilding Medicines, you 
 (hall know them in their places ^ this is fuch an experienced 
 Medicine, that you know where to find it; I need not (hew 
 you to put out the fway and power of thefe idle bowels , or 
 perhaps it (hould not need, and in a fcock that cafeth our clean 
 Dyct Nature her felf as (he doth in thofe Meadows by other 
 creatures, would alfo quite raze and difpatch them within a few 
 generations. 
 
 But 
 
Rofte Crucian PH YSI CK, •» 
 
 But I will go further, Hear a Rofte Crucian t)tw and unheard of 
 opinion, and yet let not your judgement run, before you fee good 
 reafoii; What if we could f aft for ever, and live without all food? 
 might not all hurt and danger of meat be then forestalled? 
 if other Creatures, whofe life hangeth upon the fame hold, by 
 the fufferance , nay by the commandement of God and Nature , 
 do laft for ever, there is no Reafonbut the fame common Nature 
 will at laft fuffer it in us; Let us fee. And to ftep oyer the Came- 
 /;0»,becaufe it is a Cold and bloodlefs Creature^ what fay we to a 
 Bird, which is an hot and perfect one? 'a bird in thzMelucc'o Iflands, 
 Manuda Diaca by name, that hath no feet at alI,no more then an 
 ordinary fiih, as Mr. Moore faith, and I have feen her; the bi°nels 
 of her body and bill, as likewife the form of them, is much 
 whu of a Swallows, but the fpreading out of her wings 'and Tail 
 has no lefs compafs then, an Eagles-, (he lives and breeds in the 
 Aire, bomvy by the force of wind with moreeafe then Archytas 
 his Dove, and comes not near the earth but for her Burial; for the 
 largenefs and lightnefs of her wings and tail fuftain her without 
 Latitude, and the laying of her Egges and brooding of her yourg 
 is upon the back of the Male, which is made hollow, as alfo the 
 breatt of the Female, for the more eafie incubation, taking no 
 other food, as alas how flhould fhe?then there is found.- but whe- 
 ther fhe lives meerly of the dew ot/7^^«,oroffliesandfuch 
 like infects, I leave to others to difpute. 
 
 Nay,have you not heard of the Little Dog in the JVeft Indies, 
 which fingerh io fweetly al! the night long, neither night nor day 
 eating anything ? But there be examples in our kind as well, then 
 it is certain above contrOlment : Sir Chriftopher Heydon faith 
 there is a Mouthlefsandfoameatlefs people or kind of men about 
 the held of Ganges, which liverh by the breath of their Noftrils, 
 except when they take a far journey, they mend their Diet with 
 the fmell of flowers '• and left you may think I lean upon bare 
 Authorities without theihy of reafon,all'the matter reftsupon this 
 reafon I told- you before, that our life lay in the hind fbefidea 
 little exercife) of two like meats, one- for the Soulxnd Natural 
 heat which is within us, and the fineftand firft moifture in our 
 body, the other is without any meat, of the fame Temper with 
 our body as near as may be ; to uphold the frame and building of 
 
 F the 
 
5 4 Rofte Crucian V H Y S I C K. 
 
 the fame which / faid to be a fine Alerj and Fiery flame. 
 
 And we are now grown foout of order, and fo much eltranged 
 from our Etherial firli Moifture and the life of God, that we creep 
 downward towards the Earth through difeafes, before we can 
 reach the Life of the Vehicle; within fixfeore years we dye, and are 
 hidden from the fenhble appro:h of renewing life. 
 
 \ 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 Of Nature and her medicines experienced by Rojie Crucians, and of 
 the occult virtue of My fleries-^of the healing andconfuming medi- 
 cines and of their ufe- } of the Gout, Le fro fie, Drop fie And Falling 
 Sicknefs, &c. 
 
 NOW the Aire it felf, efpecially when it is ever more as 
 the wet Sunbeams declare, fofprinkled with fome Finefor- 
 rAignfatnefs, may feem fufficient food to nourifh the finer part of 
 our fVvww^wherein the temper of mankind, and his life (touching 
 that point) ftandeth, which is as much as any meat can do to life, 
 (fork is not fed by common food, as I faid above ^ though not 
 enough for flrength, becaufe the grofler, founder, and tougher 
 parts wherein the ftrangth lyeth, (hall want food in this Dyet , and 
 fail no doubt greatly, yet life fhalllaft ftill t as long as Aire and 
 frfi moifiure holds, in my opinion: or if we think thatfofparea 
 Diet, we may mend it (as the mouthlefs people do) mih (me\[ o? 
 Flowers*, or rather,as we know Nature is able to draw Aire and 
 other food which fne defireth through the skin into all places of 
 the body; fo if (he had meat applyedtotheftomach,fhe would no 
 doubt fatisfie herfelf that way moft finely, without the heap of 
 hurts let in at the broad and common gates,as we fee by example 
 for Drinks, that all the while we fit in Water we fhall never thirft.- 
 And for meat, I have heard Rofte Crucians {zy joy applying of wine 
 in this fort they fafted without all hunger for two years together. 
 And in like manner I have experienced this, and faired two 
 dayes when Ifirft ftudied the nature of the Guardian Genii : But 
 if that would not ferve the turn, and we mult needs receive in 
 
 meat 
 
Rojie Crucian P H Y S I C K. }- 
 
 meat at the common gate, yet we may Jet it pafsno further 
 then the gate, and make the ftomach in the mouth, which is the 
 ufe of fome/tyk Crucians when they are Seraphically illuminated; 
 and to provide enough for life and ftrength, and a great deal bet- 
 ter for our health, then wedo,becaufe the clearer part alone 
 (hould be received , And moreover /fay, for the clear difpatch 
 ofth at our ordinary trouble and anoyance which your reverence 
 will not fufter me to name., although /might among Pbyficiant, 
 but they know my meaning.- But it fhall not need to fteal fliifts 
 and holds if you will believe the Rofe Crucians y t\\zt we may eafily 
 faft all our life (though it be three hundred years together) without 
 all kind of meat, and fo cut oflfall doubts and dangers of difeafes 
 thereof fpringing; and for my own part, I know fome that have 
 fafted and lived in the holy orders of the Fraternity without all food 
 tenyears fpace togecher.What need we fay more ? if you be both 
 fohard of belief, and dull of fjghr, and reports of good Authors, 
 nor my own experience will fink into you,nor yet can you fee the 
 light ofreafon fhiaing before yo, take here a few of ordinary 
 matters in the life And ufe of men, and weigh one with another; is 
 it not as common in ufe, and indeed needful, to fpit, and avoid 
 another namelefs leaving? and to Drink, but to fleep efpecially?I£ 
 fome of thefe,nay all may be fpared why not our meat alfo?Iet us 
 fee a little, and by example, becaufe Reafon is both too long and 
 too open to cavil. 
 
 To leave drink Avhich many have all their lives left ; Elizabeth 
 Drewe, a Devonftoire Gentlewoman, is reported never to have [fat , 
 nor the whole Indian Nation. Sr. John Heydon.hith, he knew one that 
 kept the namelefs matter forty dates together. And although this 
 anfvvereth not the queftion , yet it fheweth the truth of the for- 
 mer Holy Story , for if in fo foul and grefs a thing as dyet is , he 
 could folong want it, why not thefe men for ever , in fo clear 
 and fine adier,almoft empty and void ol all leavings?For the grof- 
 fer fort, which make up this foul and fhameful one we left be- 
 fore , as you heard, and the finer in the paffage from the Stomach 
 through the former Gates were drawn all away to the Liver, as 
 the like is ever in us and voided otherwnes. To clofe up all,I was 
 at Sea with one that flept not one wink for thefe three years laft 
 paft, and Mr. Iohn Kvotsford is a Witnefs to this truth,andCapt. 
 Wwdfor. . F \ And 
 
3 5 Rofie Crucian P HY SIC K. 
 
 And thus wc fee thefc ftrange things fall out in proof, but how 
 I cannot (land to (hew: Firft ,nature f utters them, then ufe and cu- 
 ftome>another Nature,brings them in, yet we may well beleeve 
 the like in this matter of meat we have in hand; For as the 
 Bear ( according to the guife of many Beafts that lurk in Winter) 
 faitethfourtydaies,fo£«g*«/ztf TheodidattHsfhz reported Rope- 
 Crucian tells of a Scottish young man,David Zeamons, that waited 
 on him, that by ufe brought himfelf to faft three daies together* 
 which by ufe might have been three hundred as well, if he had 
 ordered himfelf thereafter by flow and creeping cuflome, as 
 Captain CopeUnd calls it, and by fuch means as/ fet down be- 
 fore. 
 
 Sowefee,.I fay, great wordly wonders prove plain andeafie 
 truths in the fight of Wifdome ; you have read of the won- 
 derful works pf God in the Accurate Structure of mans Bod/, of his 
 Soul, of his Senses , of Plants, of Minerals-, and Rope Crucian 
 medicine fhall be that which /will infift upon, and that by the 
 means aforefaid (where are more than one, if this like them 
 not, they may take another) it is poflfible for -all men by kind and 
 cuftome to keep their health for ever : Lee us come to the next 
 poipt, that is, afwell to be recovered if it were loft, and that all 
 difeafes may be cured. This is a point much harder then the 
 firft, even fo befet and ftopt with all kind of lets and incumbran- 
 ces, that a man can fcarce tell which way to fet his loot forwards. 
 Firft appears zAZfculapius,Hippocrates } and Plato, the chief among 
 the Grecians, bearing in hand fundry difeafes of both kinds (both 
 come by defcent,and gotten by purchafej hopelefs and paft reco- 
 very, and giving over the men that owe them,for troublefome to 
 themfelves and to the Commonwealth : Then you may fee 
 Galen, and his foft and fine Company with him , and that follow 
 thefe are Ge rard and Riveritu ,zr\d Culpepper, and thefe with a 
 long train of hedge-Dolours-, and among thefe ftands Freeman , 
 with Caterers, and Cooks , laden after them with all kind of dain- 
 ty Druggs flznd forth and Cry, they have thefe many ages de- 
 vouredheaps of Books, and took endiefs pains in fearching out 
 the Nature of tingle Medicines,and making mixtures of the fame, 
 and yet could hardly cure fome Agues, and other lefs difeafes* 
 But for the four great difeafes, viz, the (?«//, Leprofie, Dropfte] 
 
 Falling 
 
Xo/ieCrUcianVHY SICK. 37 
 
 Falling Sicknefs, they could never heal them, and have therefore 
 for Oracles fet them down incurable. 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 That the knowledge and vertue of Medicines arefecretly hid from 
 vulgar under ft anding : how they may begotten: and of what lies 
 couched in the Oil of Bodies: of the ufe } and how to fetch it out by 
 Skill, the Haven of Medicine, 
 
 W Hat is left to be done in this Matter? what mail we 
 fet againft the weight of fo many great mens Authori- 
 ties ? Equally put them in the Ballance, as we have done hither- 
 to, and weigh them with truth and rcafon : Bu t where {hall we 
 find it? fay they; As it is every where, as Mr. Hobbs faid, drowned 
 in the deep, fo in this matter it is fcattered all about, and largely 
 fpread withall ; for there be three things, and everyone full of 
 wader-Branches y belonging to the Rofie Crptcian Art and way of 
 Healing ; The fir ft is knowledge of the Difeafes, the fecond the re- 
 medies againft them y and the third of the Appliance »f the remedies, 
 all which mould be traverfed in this Methodical myfierious 
 Treatife : but it (hall not need I hope, nay we muft take heed how 
 we enter into fo long and large a race, in fo (hort and narrow a r\ 
 
 compafs of time appointed, efpecially being never run before by ^ ^C^-^ 
 any man but our felf, not one of the wife Egyptians > notour ^y 
 Anc eft ours, the holy Company of Mofes and Eliot , whofe fteps 
 we ttrive to follow,and their fucceflburs;for when they have once 
 hie the mark they have fhot at, and gotten the great and general 
 Medicine Caput monuum A. P. curing with eafe all difeafes, they 
 think it ftraight enough,and anempty and needlefs Labour , as 
 iti< indeed, to trouble themfelves and their Childrenmth large 
 Rules abort innumerable Signs and Caufes of infinite difeafes,and 
 -abort other fmall particulars in appliance. Neither would I 
 "have you fet Sendivwius , Par4celft , and their heirs upon me, , 
 andOy th^y have taken great and goodly pains in this field; you 
 
 ■will then force'me to fpeak my thoughts.. 
 
 Though 
 
g 8 Rofie Crucian V H Y S I C K. 
 
 Though thefe men, (to let Philalethes^Vaughan^nd Culpepper , 
 far let ,Ereeman, and other Pretenders, with jomc Scholars goe,as 
 too young and child! fh yet,) by great light of Wit wherewith they 
 flowed, and by long proling both with eies, ears, and hands, in 
 the myfteries of Egypt , faw and performed many of the Rofie 
 Crucian deep fecrets , yea and there got moft of their worldly 
 praife, although I think a number feigned, yet Paracelfe his new 
 Art and Rules of Healing are not good in my opinion; For firft, 
 againft the example of the Rofie crucians, from whom he had recei- 
 ved all things, and then in defpight and difgrace of Galen, for mif- 
 calling his Countrymen, as you have heard , but chiefly carryed 
 away with a mad and raging defire of Fame and Honour, which 
 C#//>*/yvralwaiesdefpifed,yetthe Starres favoured him, when 
 I aflifted to fet up that new,famous and ftrange work of Phyfic\, 
 now well known and practifed, which Paracelfe when he took in 
 hand,a man unfit to do it, to pull down and raze the old Work, 
 and to fer up our new experienced fecret, which he could never 
 do all his life. 
 
 Thenwefeehow it is performed, he fets down fome falfe 
 rules, fome waft,idlc, and fome wanting, and all unconftant, dif- 
 erdered,and unlea:ned;when he doth well (as he doth fometime) 
 he doth no more then was done before him , and brings in the 
 fame thing difguifed with new, odd, crofs,and unheard of names , 
 f .ch as may move wonder at the firft, but when they be fcanned, 
 Laughter, as Mr. Moor faith of Eugenlus Phllalethes his like de- 
 vifes in his Aula Lucis Adamlca Maglca & Euphrates, and others 
 of his Welch Vhilofophie. And that I doe not flanderj them 
 where there is no caufe,I could prove, if this place would admit a 
 Volume. Wherefore let us follow the true and right Rofie Cru- 
 cians, zs eafily you may know them by their actions, if ever you 
 fortune to fee them and be acquainted with them; and leave 
 Paracelfe, and the reft in this ill matter, and Light and Apifh, as 
 he makes it; and why (hould we fpend all our care and thought 
 about a fmall matter ? you have a good Medicine and remedy a- 
 gainft difeafes , when old wives in the Countrey , and fome 
 good Women, amongft other Dr . Culpepper; late wife, and Simple 
 men, on our fide ( I mean Simple in refpeel: of the Grecian fub- 
 tilties about nothing ) when thefe people have healed moft, nay, 
 
 even 
 
Rofie Crucian V H Y S I C K. 39 
 
 even all difeafes, and with which womanifh Medicines indeed? 
 the German Doftour (let us give him his due praife) hath quite 
 (lain the Grecian Phy(ick_, and here done much for mankind , by 
 defcribing and dispatching our clofe and fecret enemie , which 
 under colour of friendfhip and fighting againftour enemies hath 
 this long time betrayed us and done us much mifchief; which 
 thing one of their beft Captains of their State, Yeme/lby name , 
 after he had been a while in Egypt , began to fmell at laft , and 
 began to repent himfelf of all his former pains (which we knov? 
 were great) beftowed in that kind of Healing, faying it to be but 
 words, and the whole force and weight of this An to lean upon 
 the knowledge and vertues of Medicines, feeretly hid and, cinch- 
 ed in the midfi and oyl of bodies, to be fetched out and gotten by 
 the skilful means of A\chymifts ;even foof that Art , which is 
 fomuch condemned of his fellows before and fince him,have fled 
 and do daily flie from the daily toil and trouble of their fruit lefs 
 tend barren dead Sea : Now let us fhift our Sailes, and flie further 
 too, I hope of wind and tide and all; which we have, a/- r» *&- 
 But let usmountuptothe«4/»-»!M/?t0pof our Knowledge , 
 and fee if we can defcribe the Haven of Rofie Crucian < Medicines, 
 and fee what marks it hath, and how it differs from other Creeks 
 adjoining , left at our journeys end we mifs , with more fhame 
 and grief, and fuffer Ihipwrack. A medicine is that which kills 
 the face of that which hurts us; and this it doth many waies,and 
 yet alfo to one end (which is is the end of all doing and working 
 as I faid before,) for his food and fuftenance. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
 
4 o Rofie Crucian PHV SICK. 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 Medicines againfl Witchcraft and to care thofe that are affliSled 
 thereby y although their bodies be pojfejfed with cvill [pirits, that 
 caufe them to vomit up Needles, Thimbles, Pots, Glajfes, Hair,, 
 andfhreds of cloth, which by the Divil were conveyed into the bo- 
 dy. That Winds and Tempefis are raifed by Witches upw meer 
 ceremonies of Medicines, and of poyfons; with the examples alfo 
 of other fupernatural effects of unclean f pirits, and of imaginati- 
 on. How to cure a Witch, and to take away her power. 
 
 A Servant ofGodand Secretary of Nature , muft be well advifed 
 of what he writes, cfpecially in this age, and of this matter 
 (yiz,.)o£ the Rofie Crucian Phyfick^ left he mould, as I faid before, 
 fail in this defign, and fo it may be afhame that he mould be 
 reproved, by the pretenders to thofe wife.truths he alone hath 
 opened to publkk view; then let us come again and fort our 
 fpeechss. 
 
 A Medicine heais tu, and kills our enemie , either by dulling 
 or confumingitjfor when it meets with a contrary of even ftrength 
 (as when oyl and poyfon &c. joyn) then in ftrength they neither 
 eat up nor deftroy one another, but both are dulled and weakned, 
 and make one heavy thing which nature cafteth out for an unlike 
 and unkindly dead things which they call an excrement, or (Lea- 
 ving;) but in cafe it be of more llrength and power then our ene- 
 mie, then it quite deftroyes, devours, and turns him into his own 
 nature. And this confumer is either like the thing that hurts us, 
 in which fort even as every herb of fundry qualities draws and 
 feeds upon his own juice in a Garden ; fo one Poyfon doth cure 
 another, and all purging and drawing things do heal us,andall Rofie 
 Crucians hid and Divine properties do work by plain reafon; or 
 elfe it is unlike and contrary to their cuftome; after which manner 
 us dry (ticks, and Tow \ and vinegar quench wildfire, or other Fat 
 fires, before nvtf*r,whofe fatnefs feeds it, for the ftrong contrary 
 quality quelling and eating up the weaker ; fo doth 
 any cold and dry chine as Bolearminick, Terra Lemnia, &c. cure a 
 Rotten poyfon : and fo are a great number of cures done; which 
 
 onely 
 
Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 4I 
 
 onely courfe , in a word, the Rofte Crucians ufe for Phyfick^ and 
 not indeed wichout good iuccefs ; we heard even now of two 
 hinderances of healing, which our common Phyficiansdid take 
 unawares, and /W/r^//^ pretends to have found out before me, 
 gave any hint to the World of our experienced inventions , of 
 Golddijfolved and made potable , being incorporated with its proper 
 Feyle, which we now ufe by the name of Aurum potabile ; but 
 Parace/fe ftraieth much in the making of it, and knows it not no 
 more than that tattered Dol~lor Freeman, fo fhamefully called a- 
 mongft'Phyficians: Whither in their poifons, on the other fide, 
 when they think all cures thereby performed. 
 
 Now when the Confuming Medicines havedone, their duties, 
 Nature' expells them for poifon and unlike Grange things, accor- 
 ding to the Rofie Crucian Axiomata } as well as tht Grecian Rules, 
 becaufe all their Medicines were not approved by the Fraternity, 
 and were by their confeflion fuch : But if they had either thought 
 of the dulling nouriGier, which as I told yon,takes the nature of 
 the leaving or excrement, or had known the Rofie Crucian vvhol- 
 fome Aledicine , they would have made another reckoning ; But 
 let them go, and us fee out in time towards the Haven of Health, 
 If the Art of Healing be nothing but defraying hurtful things , 
 And their Wronger enemies (but equality will fomerimes ferve 
 the turnj or likes together; and the world be full of both thefe 
 kinds of Creatures , following the nature of their Parents of 
 four beginnings, whL-hareas we fee,fome like, and fome con- 
 trary cne to another. 
 
 Then fure the Rofie Crucian Art of Healing is not (as fome 
 may fay)irnpo(iuble, truly it wanteth nothing, but a man well 
 skilled in the Nature of things, Afiervantof God, and Secreta- 
 ry of Nature by name ; for (I think) I need not put in a Phyfici- 
 an, to know what other part the Caufes of the difeafes , which 
 muft be known and matched, becaufe as Sr. Chriftopher Heydon 
 the Seraphically Illuminated Rofie Crucian^rsd learned Aftrologer, 
 well faith, He thatknoweth the changes and chances of things in 
 \\iz great JVorld 3 mzy ibon find them in the Little. 
 
 But our nought-Healing Bill-men, that daub Medicines upon 
 every Wall and Poft, and fome Leaches, will itep in , and fay , 
 difeafes are in fome fo great, and in all fo many, and mans wit is 
 
 G To 
 
42 Roje Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 lb- weak and fallow, and the Medicines fo hid and drowned in 
 the deep of Nature, that it is not potfible to find them all; or if 
 they were fy.'nJ, to • apply rhem wichfu'.h difcretion as Nature 
 might abide tho'~e poiioned Fcaies and Battels within her. And 
 again, admit all this untrue, yet there be fome difeafes fent fiom 
 Witchcraft, and Sorcery , and other means which have their caufe , 
 and fo their Cure. 1 have read of lbm that have vomited uppieces 
 of Cloth with Pins (tuck in them ,Nalls, Needle s& fuch like ftuft"; 
 and this is lngefted\mo the Stomach Joy thcpreftlgious Sleights of 
 witches ; Others I.have feen vomit up Hair,Glafs,Iron,and pieces 
 of Wood with Pins fluck in it; anothers Cot-ps was differed, 
 and ripping up the Ventricle > there they found the Caufe of the dif- 
 eafe, which was a round piece of Wood four Knives, fome even and 
 fiiarp, others were indented like a Save. Others do Miracles by 
 Catting Flint- (rones behind their Backs towards the W?y?,orftriking 
 a River with Broom, or flinging of Sand in the Air , xhtfiirrlng of 
 Urine in a hole in the ground, or boy ling of Hogges Br I files in a pot- y 
 fome by whlfperlngfome words in the Ear of an horfe or wild Stagg , 
 could-direU: him a journey according to their own dejire&nt what are 
 thefe things available? to gather Chuds^nd to cover the Air 
 with darknefs, and then to make the ground fmoke with peals of 
 Hall mi Rain, and make the Air terrible with frequent Light- 
 ning and ratling Claps of Thunder : B<t this is from the power 
 of the Divel (as fome fancy) which he hath in his Kingdoms of 
 the Air. i* £eQbevor»<] 
 
 fa the Remedy of thefe mifchiefs^f havefeen 7 a man was 
 p'efent, when fome have vomited up Needles 5 Thimbles , Shreds 
 of Cloth , pieces of Pots, Glafs, Hair; another would fufTer him- 
 felf for money to be run thirow with a fvvord when I was nor there, 
 but it appeared to me a Fable. I have feen aRoP.eCrucianPhyf- 
 ciancure thefe afili&ed People. But if you will fay, There is a 
 touchftone whereby we may difcerne the truth of Metals , but 
 that there is nothing whereby we may difcover the truth of Mi- 
 racles i ecorded every where in Hirtory. But I anfwer there is,and 
 that is this: 
 
 Firf}, If what is recorded was avouched by fuch perfons,who 
 had no end nor inrerert in avouching fuch things. 
 
 Secon ily,if there W2 k -e manv eye-wirneffes of the fame matter. 
 
 Thirdlv, 
 
Bafie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 43 
 
 Thirdly and Wily, If thefe things \yhich are lb ftrange and mi- 
 raculous leave any fenfible effects behind rhem ; Though I wil'l 
 not acknowledge that all thofe Stories are falfe that want thefe 
 Conditions, yet I dare affirme that it is meer Humour and Sul- 
 lennefs in a man to rejecl the Truth,of thofe that hear them:For 
 iris to believe nothing but what he feeth himfelf,from whence it 
 will follow, That he is to read nothing of Hiftory, tor there is 
 neither Pleafure nor any ulefi inefle , if it deierve no Be- 
 lief. 
 
 Another Remedy for thefe Supernatural difeafss, is, Let one 
 wat^h the/wrf;- Sufpeued, when they go home to their koufe , 
 and prefently after, before .my body goe into the houfe after him 
 or her, let one pull a handful of the Thatch, or a Tyle that is 0- 
 ver the Door, and it it be a 7V<?,make a good Fire, and heat it 
 red hot therein, fetting a Trivet over it; then take the parties 
 Water ^ it be a Man, Woman, or Child, and poure it rpon the 
 redhot Tyle, uponone fide firft,and then on the othe - , and a- 
 gain put the Tyle into the Fire, and make it exn emery hot, turn- 
 ing it ever and anon, and let no body come injothehoi fe in the 
 mean time. 
 
 If they be Cattle that are bewitched , take fome of the Hair 
 of every one of them, and mix the Hair in fair water, or wet ic 
 well, and then lay it under the Tyle, the Trevet Banding over 
 the Tyle, make a lufty fire, turne your Tyle oft 1 pon the'r'air, 
 and fiir up the Hair eveT and anon • after you have done this by 
 the (pace of a quarter of an /ww;ktthe fire alone, and when the 
 Afhes are cold,bury them in the ground towaids that quar- 
 ter of Heaven where the fufpecled Witch lives; this Mr. hilly 
 faith he hath experienced. 
 
 If the Witch live where there is no Tyle,but Thatch, rhcn take 
 a great handful thereof, and wet it in the parws Water, or elfe 
 \r\ common Water mixed with fome Salt, then lay it in the Fire, 
 fo that ic may wfl/wW/iwof/w by degrees, and in a longtime: 
 fetting a Trivet over ic. Or elfe take two new Horfe-(hooes, heat 
 them red hot, and nail one of them on the Thre(holJ of the 
 Door but quench the other in the Urine of the party fo bewitched, 
 then fet the Urine over the fire , and put the Horfe-fhooe in it, fet- 
 ting a Tryvet over the Pipkin or Pan wherein the Urine is ; make 
 
 G z the 
 
44 Rbjie Lrucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 the urine boil with a little fait put into it, and the Horfe nailes , 
 until its almolt confumed, viz. the Urine\ what is not boiled fully 
 away pour into the tire : Keep your Horf-fkoc and Nails in a clean 
 Cloth or Paper, and do like wife three feveral times ; the operati- 
 on will be far more effectual if you dothefe things at the very 
 change or full Moon, or at the very hour of the firfi or fecwd 
 Quarter. 
 
 If they be CatteKyou muftmk the hair of their Tails with 
 the Thatch, and moittenthem being well bound together , and 
 fo let them be a longtime in the fire confuming. 
 
 You have heard the Caufe of fome of thefe difeafes, and have 
 heard the Cure by Sjmpathie alfo; but thefe are without the 
 compafs of Nature,and fo let them pafs with our fickle landing, 
 which is daily and hourely fobefet withdeftinies,that a man can 
 warrant nothing. 
 
 Truly defliniesare fo deep and bottomlefs, (to return ftraight 
 Homer-like, upon them, and therefore it were belt indeed to let 
 themgoe, and the applying of the Medicines with them J The 
 rather becaufe the other, (1 mean the former)is fo flight a matter 
 to a difcreetP/^y/c/^,fuch a one as is pointed out by their old and 
 famous Leader Hippocrates- who both in this and all other duties 
 of h is Art made fuch fpeed,and fofar palled all his fellowes ( as 
 none fince, which is a good time, could ever overtake him) no 
 nor yet come fo neer as to keep the fight of him, whom they had 
 in chafe and followed. 
 
 Then for thofe Supernatural caufes> which I fhall not ftand here 
 tofearch(forfothey are called J if they flow from unclean and 
 wicked spirits fas fome think) they are nor the Stuff of the 
 things that hurt us, though fomtimes they dwell in and poffefs 
 the bodV, but windy matters, much like unto thofe fierce and Hid- 
 den changes of the Weather, proceeding from the Influences of 
 the Planets and fixed Stars., and working the like effects in mens 
 bodies ^fo that fith the neareft caufe is Natural , let the reft be 
 what they will,andthe Cure be done byNatural means,as we fee 
 by experience amongfl us : And therefore E. A. that pretends 
 this, and puts the fault in the Faith of the wicked,which is a thing 
 as far above Natvre, yet holds its Cure with a Natural Medicine, 
 which we call a Quintejfence. 
 
 Although 
 
Rofie Crucian PHY SICK. 45 
 
 Although I am not willing, that fometimes this fc knefs is 
 fuch as he bids us fometimes withstand it with another as ftrong 
 a belief fetagainft it, but for my part, I cannot reach it with my 
 conceit flet deeper heads then mine or the Vice-Chancellor of , 
 Oxford, DoElor Owen, think upon it ) how thefe beliefs and imagi- 
 nations, and o[her parts and powers of the foul or mind of man, 
 can fo flye out of their own kingdome, and Reigne over a f arraign 
 body, when we know the Soul andmlnde is fo faft bound in the ho- 
 dy In durance ,and fo like robe, untill it be the great pleafure of -/aI&mjL 
 the Omnipotent and the Omnlffent God, the chief good, who hath ovn^ 1 
 committed them, to let them loofe at once, and ^t them full at 
 Liberty and this may be difputed with Grace and knowledge on 
 my part • Let "this man therefore buzze againft my knowledge, 
 which he would have to be more then Grace, I appeal to the 
 Naturall faculties of any free judge, whether there be not as much 
 Grace In me as there Is honefty In him: All men cenfure as they like 
 of Stories; fo let them pafs amongfl: old wives tales for me, we 
 will feverely follow our task. That if the effect do not ceafe 
 which the object hath wrought upon the Brain, fo foon as ever by 
 turning afide of the Organs the objett ceafeth to work ( viz,i) 
 though the fence be paft ; As the ftroke of a ftone ,a blaft of wind, 
 puts ftanding water into Motion, and it doth not prefently give 
 over moving as foon as the wind ceafeth } ox the Stone fetleth: fo the 
 Image or Conception remalnet £,but more obfcure, while we are 
 awa^e, becaufe fome object or other continually plyeth and folli- 
 citeth our eyes and ears, keepeth the mind in a (tronger Motion, 
 whereby the weaker doth not eafily appear. And this obfcure 
 conception is that we call Phantafte, or Imagination-, Imagination 
 being ( to define it) conception remaining, and by little and little 
 decaying from and after the alb offenfe, &c. if fome of thefe dif- 
 eafes fpting, asMr./kW<?,Docl:or Cnlpepef,ir\d fome others hold, 
 and with good reafon, from neither of both thefe two roots 
 named, but from a foul and venomous breath, fent forth from a 
 poyfoned temper of the witches body, through the wlndlnefs of 
 h at efull eyes'. For Thought fa(hloneth the blood and Spirits almoft 
 at hx pleafure ; then all the caufes being ordinary, and agreeing to 
 the courfeof Nature, they may be cured and put to flight by the 
 fame courfe and means ; which opinion, if you pleafe to bear 
 
 with 
 
4 6 Rfffte Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 with m) carrying, ic i; worth the handling, taketh hold upon this 
 reatbn, became fas Rofie Crucians do witnefs) Come beads of 
 ranker venome,do witch and hurt after the fame manners an old 
 Toadby ftedfaft view, not onely prevails, but benums a fVeafell, 
 but kills a young child. And by the fame means the Eever hunts 
 the little fiih, and takes his prey : But moft fiercely and mifchie- 
 oufly of all creatures in the world, the two monitors in kind, the 
 Cockatrice and Apoblefas : again, for that the eye of a mcnftruous 
 woman (as all report) doth fpot theglafs which it beholderh; 
 and moreover Eugenius Theodidactus, in the wifemans Crown, 
 telleth of many folk that through a poyfoned prerogative, which 
 a monftrousMarkof a double-fighted eye gave unto them, were 
 able to bewitch to death all thofe upon whom that eye was angerly 
 and/#r*/;fet andfaftned; but chiefly becaufe we fee them thac 
 ufe this wicked trade,to be by kind of a muddy and Earthlike corn- 
 flexion and nature, brought by age, as they be moft commonly , 
 long lift-, andgrofs diet, to the pitch of melancholy that is, to a cold 
 and molt dry nature in the world. 
 
 For certain proof whereof, bring one of them out of that beafi- 
 
 like life, brought unto merry company, and fed full with dainty 
 
 Diet, and within twenty days, as hath by a Rojie Crucian been tried 
 
 a truth, the whole dare and nature of her body will be fo changed, 
 
 r\ -— .as it (hall notfuffer her to bewitch and hurt again;as you may read 
 
 ^rtrf^tWn my Familiar Spirit or Guardian Genius. 
 
 A- . . ■ 
 
 CHAP. 
 
 / 
 
Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 47 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 
 The Natural! effelks of Medicine: the force and power of mineral Is 
 in dlfeafes ; with examples alfo that ever) difeafe-breeder hath 
 the cure or remedy In it : examples that poyfon prepared cures poy- 
 fon ed people : Rofie Crucian Arts : the virtue and power of the 
 Planets and heavenly Stars poured through the influence of the 
 moon upon the Lower Creatures: of Hot Stomachs: of the Etherlal 
 prft molfiureofofman: examples alfo of Rofie Crucian Natural 
 and fupernaturall cures: of the understanding of thefe experienced 
 truths by the wit of man : of Paracelfus and Culpeper. 
 
 LEt us come to the next and chiefeft point • And there we 
 muft not fay for frame, that thefe helps and remedies lye hid 
 in nature,toofar for the wit of man to find, unlefs we will accufe 
 our own (loth and dulnefs .- For nature hath brought them forth, 
 and laid them open afwel as the Poyfons and hurtful things, or 
 elfe fre were very crofsand ill-willing to him for whofe lake it 
 feems fre doth all things. 
 
 Nay further fas Mr. Hobs faith) her good will is fuch, as fre 
 hath not only laid them open, but given us wayes to come by 
 them, and means offpeech, hands and wit alfo, far above allo- 
 ther living creatures. And yet fre hath not left us lb, but left by 
 chance we might go wide and mifs them, to frew her mother- 
 ly love and afTe&ion towards us, fre hath guided (as Mr. Moor 
 fairh) many witlefs Beafts, even by common fenfe, unto 
 their fpeedy helps and remdies in their difeafes : That we by the 
 plainnefs and frame of the example (as Mr.Gadbury wifely faith) 
 might be taught and moved to feek out themyfterious truths of 
 nature In Celeflial bodies , as wel as beads that feek and find us 
 Medicines helpful inthe like.difeafes, for our Terreftial Taberna- 
 cle. As to name a few not unworthy meaning ; fre maketh the 
 bziRHlppotamus in time of his fulnefs and fatnefs to goto a reed, 
 ?nd by rubbing a vain ro let himfelf blood, and to flop it again by 
 laying mud upon it ; A Tick dog to feek an Herb aud purge him- 
 felf; and the bear to do the fame after his long faft in Winter-, fre 
 leads the Panther, when he is poyfoned, to her foul and namelefs 
 
 leaving, 
 
4 8 Rffie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 leaving; a lid the Tortoyfe, after he hath eat a Viper , to Summer 
 Savery: And the Hedg-hog is fogood a natural Aftronomer, that 
 he fortifies his hole againlt foul weather; the. Hog will gather 
 Mofs and ftraw to cover himfelf a little before it rains; The dog 
 knows the influence of Mars when he doth deep by the fire, and 
 will not go out a dores when he is in any evilpofition : and many 
 fuch like examples hath nature laidbefore us for our induction; 
 by which at laft wife P lata J'hilo^Apollonius, Pythagoras, and pain- 
 ful men of Greece, as they themfelves report, be they Eliasor E- 
 lifha , from whom the order of the Rofie Crofs came, fas fome fay ) 
 or elfe as others will have it, from Mofes, or Ez,ekiel, or whofo- 
 ever , and by laying reafon and further proof together , firft 
 nude the Art and rules of Healing, to know whence difeafes 
 came, and how to recover them. And then feeking all about for 
 remedies to ferve eachturne, by little and little they matched the 
 moft part of the leffer rank with fingle Medicines, and the 
 greater ones they doubled and coupled many together, infomuch 
 as at laft, which was in Hipocrates time, they were able to heal 
 all ( faving four,) of the greateft and deepeft difeafes, the Gouty 
 the Drop fie, the Leprofie, the F 'ailing fcknej s ; whi:h are now 
 healed by the Rofie Crucians onelj. But this race is below the 
 SeraphicMly illuminated Fraternity : now not a Phyfician that 
 is lined with Plufh in England, Spain, Germany, or France; but 
 holds that Long-life, Health, Youth, not attainable, they there- 
 fore with one conlent, amongft the other four, call them impof- 
 f.ble. 
 
 But to come to the point; what wrong this was both to skill 
 and »**fw<r, they doeahly fee and laugh at, which know that in 
 this labour, they did not onely overfee and skip the Minerals, the 
 ftouteft helps in the whole ftore-houfeof Nature (although they 
 could dig them out well enough to other and worfer ufes) but 
 alfo, which is in all, did let the Rofie Crucian skill of preparing 
 Medicines, whereby weak things are made almighty, quite ef- 
 capethem. 
 
 Wherefore to make up the Rofie Crucian Art of dealing, and 
 to make it able (as they fay^) to help and cure all difeafes came 
 in, or rather went before them, into mans body ; The Egyptians 
 in great favour too with nature both for their foil and bringing up, 
 
 fo 
 
RofieCrttc'utH PHYSICK. 4^ 
 
 fo notably commended above all nations, (having for example > 
 to move and teach them even the great weight of the,worId as 
 St.Iohn Heydonfoiih) for wits to devife, and bodies to put in pra- 
 aife. 
 
 Whereby in fhoit time they unfolded thejknot why the Mine- 
 rals were of greateft force and power againftdifeafes; and foon 
 after, which was a divine light, and in-fight, they perceived the 
 hu^e labour of feeking fuch a htTge fort of fingles and mixtures 
 to be vain and empty, and pittiful among wifemen. 
 
 Becaufc firft, there is nothing hurtful and a breeder of difeafe, 
 but it hath the heal and remedy for the fame about him •• For the 
 wings Midfeet of Cantharldes, the Fruit of the Root Bez,ar y the 
 Afhes of Scorpions, Toads, and Vipers; and divers other ftron- 
 gerpoyfons, both by nature and skill dreft and prepared, do cure 
 and heal their own and all other Poyfons; nay as all Wronger 
 likes do cure their likes throughout the whole world of difeates, 
 even fo when a man hath found out the thing that hurts him> 
 he may by eafie skill mingle and break the temper of the Came 
 further ; that is, make it able to eat up and confume it felf as ea- 
 sily, without any further doubt, toil and labour ; But efpecially 
 becai)fethereis"noonethinginthe world, take what you will, 
 that hath not the vertues of the Plane ts arrefted and fattened 
 upon ic, and alio of the qualities thereof within it felf, that is 
 not as good as all, and may ferveinfteadofall , and that is not 
 able to cure all difeafes; which thing weighed, and with difcourfe 
 of wit an d reafon fully reached, they went to pradVife, and by the 
 like fha;pnefs of wit, they found ontthekindly and rend/ way to> 
 drefs and make fit thefe three kinds of MedLines aforefaid, 
 whLh contain all the Art of healing, all the reft are but waft 
 words and grievous toyl,ro tire a world of wits abou: a bootlefs 
 matter, as fakh-Dw Cartes. But efpecially they refted in the laft a 
 which is enough alone, and yet nor without great forecaft, to 
 chufe one of thebeft, and that the very bei! of all, fcr their eafe 
 indreiling. Though Dr. Cftlpefer of late was not content with 
 this, bit ran through the reft, afwell to fpite his enemies, the 
 Col/edge of Phy/iclans, as to make him felf famous in Taverns and 
 Alehoufes, as Paraev/fe in his time did : whofe fteps he ftrove 
 to follow againft the rule of Rojie Crucian* nifdom and vertue • 
 
 U and 
 
wjtfl 
 
 50 Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 and the example of his anceflors. 
 
 But hath every thing all the vertnes and influences taken from 
 ihe Planets and Stars by the Moon, to the earth; That is, all 
 the curing and healing power of all the things in the world ? very 
 well you muft remember that I proved above all the venues and 
 powers ok heaven, poured down through the Influence of the Moon, 
 upon thefe lower creatures fo be nothing elie fas Captain George 
 fflffrfitol truly faith ) but one felf fame life and Soul, and heaven- 
 ly heat in all things, And again >that all difeafes flow from di- 
 itemper, and as it were difcord of the Natural confent of the bo- 
 dy; then that thing which is endued with (lore of life, and with 
 exact and perfect temperatenefs, feated upon both a fubtile and 
 ftron° body, f which the thing in the bottom is) able alone by 
 fubduing his weaker enemies, tho:edi(tempered difeafes, by 
 (lengthening his fellow life, Aarum Potabi l V, in. our bodies. And 
 laflly, by orderly binding together'the frame that was dipt out of 
 order, to do as much as all the powers and forces of all the Plants, 
 Weights, and minerals in the world, that is, to put to flight all 
 trouble of difeafes, and reilore the body to perfect health and 
 quietnefs. 
 
 But how is all this done? we talk of high things,-and huddle up 
 too many great matters together. It were good for us to work 
 them out diflinftly; when this Aunim Potabilc we fpeak of, and 
 
 , (Irong tempered medicines, flip into the flomach, it (layes no 
 
 lon^ digeflion, being already digefled, nor look for any ordinary 
 paflages to be opened unto it, but as foon as it is railed out of 
 fleep by his fellow, the natural heat, by and by he flyes out, and 
 skowers about, as fall as the Dolphine after his prey, or as nature 
 
 L(K>W her felf, whom MT.(oefer 9 as I take it (faith) to pierce bounds^ 
 and all to the purpole, that is to feek his like food, and fuftenance* 
 whereby topreferve his fiate and being, which is the purpole of 
 all things in the world, as was faid above. 
 
 Now there is nothing fo like and neer a perfect temperature 
 in the world, as the Etherialfirft moiflure in man ; But what this 
 is, you may read in my book entituled □ nVxr.^-j Vmw ma?- 
 ntts. r. 
 
 This is befl and moM in the heart, the root of life, then thither 
 «: hyeth and preyeth upon that part firtt, and that is the caufe why 
 
 it 
 
Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. sl 
 
 it prefently refloreth a man half dead, and as ic were, pulls hfm 
 out of the throat of death; then it runs to the reft all about , in- 
 crealing by that means the natural heat, and firft moifture of eve- 
 ry part of the body; when this is done, he turns upon 
 the parts themfelves , and by encountring with them in 
 the fame fort, according to his might, feeds upon them, and 
 brings them a certain way towards his own nature, even fo far as 
 we will by our ufa°e fufter ; for if we take it with meafure and 
 difcretion, it will o; ing our body to a middle mean and ftate, 
 between his own exact temperature and the diftempet of difea- 
 fes, even a better Hate then ever it had before; if we ufe it out of 
 meafure, it takes us up too high, and too near his own nature, and 
 makes us unmeet for the deeds of the duties of an earthly life. 
 But in the mean while in the midfi of this work, we muft know 
 that by his exceeding heat and fubtlenefs which is gotten by Ro- 
 fie Crucian skill, and which make up the flrength above all things, 
 it divides and fcatters, like fmoke before the wind, all diltempe- 
 redand hurtful things, and if they cannot be reconciled and tur- 
 ned to goodneft, nature throws them out as dead, and unfruitful 
 leavings. 
 
 But how do we talk, (as Mr William Tub the Aftrologi:al Ven- 
 eer faith ) fo much of exalt and perfect temper , when by 
 the verdlib of all the Quefi in ehefe cafes there is no fuch 
 thing found in nature ,bvt in heaven onelj? neither heard you me 
 fay that it floated alofr, but was funkjo the bottom of all nature ; 
 notwithstanding by a true and Holy Rofie Crucian to be founded 
 and weighed up. For as heaven was once a grofs and diHernpered 
 lump fas I told you in my book of the nature and d'gnlty of An- 
 gels) by the divine art of God that ordered all things (as you 
 have read in the Introductory part of this book,) refined and fin- 
 dred away round to the place and nature where it now fhindeth.; 
 even fo one of our grofs bodies here below, being a piece of the 
 fame lump?.Ko , and all one with that which Heaven on.e was, 
 may by the like art and cunning be refined and parted from all 
 hisdifterrpered drofs and foul dro(Tinefs,andbroughr into a Hea- 
 venly nature of the beft and goodlieH thing in Heaven* And yet 
 you muft not take me as though I would h ive the mind and wit 
 of [nan, which is but a fpark of the divine great mind, (I fpake" 
 
 H 2 in 
 
z Rofie Crucian V H Y S I C K. 
 
 in my book called Ventus Ingens) to be able to reach theexcellen- 
 cyof his work, and to make fo great perfection; if he do but 
 fhadovvit, and make a Counterfeit, that is, if he reach not 
 fo far as to make all things, but tomend a few by this his Hea- 
 ven , all U well, it is as much as I can look for at the hand of any 
 man that is not a Mofic Cruclan.Now is the time to reft alktle,and 
 pray for the good ufe and practice of thofe that (hall read our 
 writing. 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 Of the Rofie Crucian Sun,or Spiritual 0)1. Of the Divine Works of 
 God not jet obferved. Hove we make <L£ther. Examples of Me- 
 dicines Rofie Crucian and Grecian. Of Poifon. Of the Superna- 
 tural Miracles of the Rofie Crucians, with obedience to Reafon. 
 Another Medicine of Supernatural eff eft . Of the power and fe- 
 sret skill of Nature. How to dlffolve Minerals : And how to pre- 
 pare them for Mens Bodies. 
 
 EUgenlus Theodldattu* hath (hewed you this Heaven, Nay this 
 Sun of ours, which is nought elfe, as I told you in one of my 
 books of Aftrolope, bx\t an 0)1 full of heavenly Spirits , and yet 
 in Quality of his body juft, even and natural, fine and piercing, 
 clofe and lafting, able as well to rule this little World, as Mr. 
 Thomas Hey don faith, the great Sun is able to govetne the great 
 World. 
 
 But what is he,faies Mr . Iohn Cleeveland-, that can fee this D i- 
 vine Art and Way, whereby God made his great and mighty 
 work,viz: \XTO. as 1 (hewed in my Book ,inticuled, Mofes fpeech 
 to- <W,upon the fecond chapter of Genefis} or if he (aw it, learne 
 and match it by imitation? I anfwer, None but Rofie Crucians, to 
 whom I am a friend, and they God hath enlightned and unheal- 
 ed their eyes, they have found the way lying open in all places, 
 / f\j£L ^ * n a ^ Natural change j,they fee thempafs and travel,I fay (till, 
 £* jjim ^ e cour f e thax^Hejdon calls foft and witty, that is, kindly fepa- 
 tation : and if he be not fwifc and rafhas nwny, inch as Thomas 
 
 Vaughan- 
 
XoJieCrncian P H Y S ICK. ft 
 
 Vattghdn and Street, but will have fober patience, his own skill 
 and labour will be but little if he pleafe; for Nature her felf very 
 kindly will in her due time performe all, and even all that hea- 
 venly workmanfhipbe eafily performed ; and yet I mean not fo 
 but that Art mult accompany and attend npon Nature ( though, 
 with n > great pains and skill) both forward and backward in this 
 Journey (Do&our French knows my meaning, fodoth Doclour 
 Oven, if his angry Cenfure will fufter his Natural judgement ) 
 until he come to his wifhed reft, and to the top of all perfe- 
 ction. 
 
 If you perceive not , confider the way whereby we made our 
 Etherin our book abovenamed, and matched our own firft moi- 
 fture . a trfing EtheriaU I fay, and almoft Temperate; mark what I 
 fay , there is a further end in the matter, hold on the fame means 
 whereby you came fo far through The wife mans Crown , and are 
 gone fo far in the Way to blifs, which is that I fpakeof , and you 
 may reach it. 
 
 Then you fee the way to cure all difeafes by the third way of 
 Egyptian healing* which they doe, and we may well call it the E- 
 gyptians Heaven, and yet it is a way far beneath the Rojie Crucian 
 Art of Healing, as we (hall fhew hereafter. 
 
 But if they will not yeeld yet to reafon, but mutter ftil Tho- 
 mas Street-like, that thefe Heavenly Medicines of ours are very 
 high for the reach of mens filly wits , here ftrowed below upon 
 the ground for other lefler and Safer ufes, and that no man fince 
 the firft nwi, or if I will fay Mofes>wnsthe firft, that firft found 
 out thefe inventions as they call them,after Adam; and that none 
 but the fucceffors ofMofes have been ever yet known to have found 
 and wrought the fame; I will not ftand to beat reafon into fuch 
 giddy-braindmen,but go totheothe^r two waies of healing,which 
 the Egyptians found out and ufed,and called the firft Mineral Me- 
 dicines, and thefe Mofes taught the children of Ifrael in the val- 
 ley of mount Sinai , when he took^ the Golden Calf which he 
 had made, and calcined it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and in- 
 corporated it with a Solar J/eagle, and made the children of Ifrael 
 Arinl^Aurum potabile. 
 
 And the next myfteries and fecrecs,as may appear by Rheruis 
 his fpeaking of Rofie Crucian Secrets, we fitly may call this fecond 
 
 kind 
 
54 Rofie Crucian PHY SICK. 
 
 kind, becaufe that is coo large a Name (if it bs lawful for U5 as 
 well as for all other Learned men, where a fit word wants to 
 make a new) we may do well I fay to call it a Cure *>/<?//, becaufe 
 it is by that way of healing,whereby every felf fame thing further 
 broken may cure it felf; and this inward and hidden thing as they 
 fay, the outward and apparent by the courfe of kind, whereby the 
 Wronger like eates up in triall and confumes the weaker. 
 
 If this leave be once granted, we will borrow a little more for 
 the other two likewife,becaufe their names ,are not pertinent to 
 ourpurpofe, and call that Heaven & Cure-all, for fo it doth, and 
 the next a Cure-the Great, becaufe the Order of the 
 Ro$e Crucians is alwayes to match the greater and more ftubborn 
 fort of difeafes with the Stout and mighty minerals^ and* the reft 
 with thofe hidden cure-themfehes, or at leaft in the lower rank of 
 lighter difeafes, with their likes, onely raw, as the Grecians ufe 
 them, without any curious drelTing. 
 
 Let us draw nearer a conclusion of the matter;becaufe Grecians 
 themfelves are able, and our Englijh Phyficians that learn of them, 
 to cure the lighter fort of difeafes, and co heal all but the four 
 aforefaid, we will le.we the reft for them,and fo let this fecond 
 kind of healing go . called our hidden cure themfelves, and bend all 
 our batteries againfhhefe four which [hey cail incurable, and fee 
 how by force of our Mineral Medicines, they may be cured: we 
 fee the Poyfoned fpirits and breaths of venomous things, with 
 what force tbey work upon our bodies, things in Nature fet 
 againft them, and how they confume rhem; If you do not fee by 
 imagination , reafon with your felves, if not remember thofe 
 above named, that killed with their fight ; Hear one or two more 
 that work the fame by touch as violently. The Hare-fijh,a molt 
 cold and dry creature fro omit that (lie makethamans headake 
 by fight) if you touch her aloof onely with a ftafte, that her veno- 
 mous breath maygoftraight and round unto you , you die pre- 
 fently. The root Baaz,am in Paleftinc, as Pythagoras writes, kills 
 the man that handleth it, and therefore they ufed to make a dog 
 pullitup(as Ben. Iohnfon faith) who thereby died imediately. 
 To come into the body; that cofily foyfon Mr. Linacre talks of, 
 that is in Nubia, and one grain kills a man out of hand, yet ftay 
 but a quarter of an hours working , and that one grain divided will 
 
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Rofe Crucian PHY SICK. s$ 
 
 overcome ten men;I hope you doubt not but thefe mighty poyfons 
 if they vvetelikc in Nature to the four great difeafes, and by little 
 and little to be born by Nature, and fet upon them, would be 
 able eafily, by their great ftrength to devour andconfume them; 
 or clfefurefuch heaps of poyfon ast\\zPhyficians give us would 
 not dwell 10 long within us, but would put out life in a moment. 
 Now what are thefe poyfoned Vapour •.<•, but moft cold and dry bo- 
 dies wrought and broken up by naturall mingling , unto great 
 finenels and fubdlenefs,by this peircing fwiftly all about, and by 
 thefe contrary qualities overcoming ? Then let us take the f tout- 
 ed Minerals, fuch as are called Middle Minerals by Rojie Crucians, 
 or hard juices by Mr. Berkenhead (to leave the Metals for a better 
 purpofe) be they poyfons, as G. Agricola faith, but what they be 
 /care not,and after we have by meer working, cleanfed them and 
 ftripped them of their cloggs and hinderances, broken and railed 
 them to a fine fubftance, then match them with their likes, the 
 hurtfull things in our bodies, (hall they not let all the reft alone, 
 and ftraightway cleave to their fellows , as well as a purging medi- 
 cines, and fo devour and draw them out by little and little ? If 
 there be no likes, I gran: they will as well as that, fall upon their 
 enemies, or good juices,and feed upon them. 
 
 Then what do you doubt is not a Mineral body far better ? And 
 therefore if it be raifed to as great a finenefs, much ftronger in 
 working then the gentle and loofe temper of a wight or -plant: 
 wherefore thefe our Mineral Medicines, and fome other fore- 
 mentioned Medicines, and cure the great ,as we call them, (hall in 
 any reafon, work more violently upon their likes, then the natu- 
 ral foyfons of Wights and Plants do upon their contraries, both be- 
 ca'ufe the like doth more eafily yield then the contrary, and for 
 that the lighter here is the ftronger. 
 
 But if you cannot fee thefe things by the light of mind ,6pen 
 your eyes, and caft them a little into the School of Alchimy into 
 thelelfer and lower fchool, I mean of Germans, and you fhall fee 
 the Schollars, efpecially the mafters,by (tripping the Minerals,and 
 lifting up their properties, but a few degrees,to work wonders; as 
 to name three or four, by quenching the Loadftone in theoyl of 
 Iron, his proper food, they make him ten times ftronger, able to 
 pull a nail-out of a poft^cc, And by this natural pattern they make 
 
 Artificial 
 
5 6 Rofie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 Artificial drawers, not for Iron onely , but for all other things,yea 
 and fome fo mighty, as they will life up an Ox fiom the ground, 
 and rent the arm of a Tree from the body, as Mi . Comer doth 
 witnefs; who reporteth again chat ha faw a ftefh-drawer, that 
 pulled up ioo weight of fiefh, andanwns eye out of his head, 
 and his Lights up into his Throat and choaked Urn. They make 
 hinders alfo to glew two pieces of Iron together, S .'■ is the Smith 
 can joyn them To be fhort they make eaters alfo, that 
 will confume Iron fi ones or any hard thing to no ght in a mo- 
 ment; they dijfolve Goldimo an oyle; they Fix Mercttry with the 
 frmkeofBrimjhne,zr\dmake many, rare devifes of 'if.; And all 
 thefe wonders and many more they do by ce-tain reafon.- I 
 could tell you, if I could ftand about it. In the mean time con- 
 fider, if thefe or any other fuch like Minerals were raifed higher, 
 and led to the top of their finenefs and fubtlenefr, and matched 
 with i heir like companions, or with their contraries, if you will, 
 thole great difeafes inour bodies, what iHrrs they would make a- 
 roong them, how eafily they would hew them, pierce, divide, 
 wafte, and confume them f Bur you murt alvvayes have a fpecial 
 regaid, that the Medicines be not Hker our natures, then the na- 
 tureof the thing that burrs us; forthenthey world fail faP! up- 
 on us, and let the difeafes atone, which heed is eafily takenin 
 minerals, things very far oft" our nature, faith Des Carter. 
 
 And with thefe experience the wonderful vertue of rhe oyl ancf 
 water ofTohacc9 wife men I have known do miracles wi h ir. 
 
 What is to be faid more in thefe matters? I think :r hing, un- 
 lefs through the countenance of an idle opinion th.it reigns a- 
 mong them, they dare fiye to the lah, and of all other the mod: 
 {lender fhelter, and deny our abiliry to -break, tame and handle 
 as we lift, fuch flout and ftubbom bodies ^wbat) becaufe yon 
 know not how to do ir, will you fafhion A\ men by your mould? 
 wife men wouldfirft look into the power and (Irengrh of skill and 
 nature, and fee what they can do and meagre it thereby, and not 
 by their own weaknefs; there flvll you i!nder[bnd,rhat there is 
 nothing in nature foftrong and ihibbovn, but it hath its match at 
 teaft, if not his overmatch in Nature, fnch is the nature of mans 
 Wf,of hia Saul: of Jignatftres of Plants ,of mtttals^wi minerals ,and 
 <x her things alfo. 
 
 But 
 
Rofie Crucian PHYSIC K. 5 7 
 
 But admit fomewhat weaker as Herbs and Plants, &c. yet this> 
 if he get rhe help of a wifemans Art unto him, (hall quickly wax 
 great and mend in ftrength and be able eafily to overcome, that 
 other; mark how the dregs of Vinegar, a thing fprung out from a 
 weak beginning, and itfelf as weak as water, is able ifitbebuc 
 once diftilled, to make ftouter things then minerals even mettah 
 thentft rives, all but filver and gold, to yield and melt down to his 
 ovmwateriflo nature, nay which is more then Mi/d- dew ot Hea- 
 ven, as Mr. Cookj the Vicar calls it, wrought firft by the Beethzt 
 cunning beaft, and then, twice or thrice by thedifiiller, diftilled 
 will do the fame, you may judge with your felf, what not onely 
 thefe, but other fiercer and fliarper things, as Salts, &c. more 
 like to do upon Minerals; and by the way confider,iffuchmild 
 things as wine and honey, fo meanly prepared, are able to fub- 
 ducin that fort the moft ftifte and tough things in the world, 
 fo minerals cheaper then Anrnm Pttabile, in their higheft degree 
 of dignity would cure theflouteft difeafe ( being prepared fitly) 
 that can grow in our bodies.Now let us fit andtake our reft a little 
 and then we will conclude our Rofie Crucian Medicines. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
Rofte Crucian VU^ SICK. 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 How the Rofie Crucians make a Chlrurgeons Ir.ftrUment ; t hat it {hail 
 fierce through any fart of the whole body t whom (en fe or feeling , 
 and found the depth of a wound. The difference of Common Phyft- 
 clans Raw, Blunt, and herby medicines, and Rofte Crucians : 
 what a Phyftclan ought to be, what they ought ts learn , and what 
 they ought to fraBlfe, and then I fhall love them «f the order of 
 
 the. Rofte Crof's. 
 
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 BUt I wear away time in vain, to (peak fo much about & 
 matter; andyec fith all are not of like Capacity, I will adde 
 one yet familiar example; when a Surgeon goeth about to fearch 
 n wound that is deep, if he thmft at it with a Butchers pricks he 
 Would move Laughter-, let him take a Thorne, and it wil pierce 
 ibmewhat prettily; but to do it throughly, and at his ptea&re 
 he will ufe , (though to the great grief of his Patient') a fine and 
 long internment of Mettal. But a right Surgeon the common ones 
 are but Batchers, fuch a one as is a Phyftclan, and Aftrologer> nay 
 a Rofte Crucian alfo, would touch his Inftrument, with a Load- 
 ftine, that is commonly found, to make it pierce throughout the 
 body without all fenfe or feeling ; Even fo good Phyftclans fuch 
 an one, as the Lord Marques of fVorcefter had, whom he taught 
 many fine invent ions : he told me of a Golden ball that this Lord 
 made, th.it let him throw it into a River or Pooler would arife a- 
 again from the bottom at what hour he pleafed. This noble Mar- 
 ines fhevved me a key of the lock, that would tell him who touch- 
 ed it. Nay if ic fortuned to be pickt he could know who did it,and 
 what was taken away (tyti^yt)fypo facts) and many rare things I 
 have feen this princely Philofopher do, which his excellency was 
 pleafed tofhew me ; fuch asthefe are hard to be found in this Go- 
 vernment, where none of thefe can live without great envie. If 
 one of thsfe Rofte Crucians be to encounter with our grea tert ene- 
 mies ,thefe four we fpeak of,he would not Ihope,ifhe were a true 
 Refte Crucian be fo mad as tothruft at them with the Raw and 
 
 blunt 
 
Rofte C melon P H Y S I C K. s £ 
 
 blunt Herby Medicines fuch as Dr. Scarborough, prefcribe,no 
 nor although they be fharpenedby Jacob He) don, by plain di- 
 itillations : neither would he, I think for pitty,(Ung xhzpw pa- 
 ttern with Eugenlus Phllalethes Martyrdome of rude and rank 
 Minerals, and unlefsf they were made into a tine clean natural 
 and temperate quality, which would work mightily, and deftroy 
 eitherofthe r e four great difeafes , Leprofie, Goat, Dropfie, and 
 Fallingjickjxfs ' but feed,Comfort, or at leaft not offend, and hurt 
 his patient; they labour in vain that pra&ife otherwife. Thefe 
 are the medeclr.es which I onely ufe, and which a good and wife 
 Phyftcian ought onely to feek and follow, and if he cannot find it, 
 let him ufe the cure them f elves. But fuch a thing as this, I^fay, 
 brought to this equality, and finenefs of frame and temper, (were 
 it at the firfN, wight ?tlant or mineral) was-it which our father and 
 founder Mofes, ('the cnief of the Rofie Crofs) faid is like to Hea- 
 ven, and the ftrength of all ftrengths piercing and fubduingal! 
 things. 
 
 This was it that warranted his Sonsthzrojie Crucians to avow 
 fo floutly, that Art was long and Life fhort, and all difeafes cura- 
 ble, when Hippocrates the Father of Common Phyficians, was dri- 
 ven by the infirmity and endlefs matter of his weak body , and 
 envious mind tinctured with Covetoufnefs,and fickle Medicines, 
 to cry to Rofie Cruciansfaw. they would not hear fuch hard-heart- 
 ed Fellows,nor give him long Life, he faid therefore that Art was 
 long, and Life was floor v. And whereas he and his orY-fpring 
 were fain to leave many difeafed hehplefs, to the great (liame of 
 Art and Plague of mankind, is it any marvel when as they prick 
 at them ( as I faid) with a Butchers-prick ? Nay, fee what they do 
 by their practice, they be fo Far from all help and comfort to the 
 Patient in greateft danger, that they increafe his wifer ey s many 
 vvaies, except the great eater GF all pain, and their common Me- 
 dicine Death, be quickly adminiftred .- Firft, they make the Pati- 
 ent fnfter the punilhment due to their own flothful Idlenefc, bur- 
 dening his ftomach with that labour of loofnening and fundering 
 the Fine from the Grofs, which they fnould before have taken in- 
 to their Glajfes : and then by doing thefe often, they clean tire 
 his feeble Nature (as it would tire ahorfe) when as by Gripping 
 the foul and grofs fluff, that dills [he working, and reteining the 
 
 I 2 Vertue 
 
60 Eafie Crucian P H Y S I C K. 
 
 Vertuc in a narrow ftrong body, they might doe as much at one 
 time as they doe now in twenty, and becaufe their Medicines 
 applyed are of fmaller power and weaker than the things 
 that hurt us, they feed nourifh and flrengthcn the difeafe and 
 ficknefs,but for all thisjf fome of this company and fide ofLeeches 
 have been and are yet fometimes able to heal all difeafes in our 
 body f though with much ado, as you have heard) fave the four 
 named remedilefs, yeaandthofe afwellin their fpring as before 
 their ripenefs,as they themfelv.es report. Is there any Proportion 
 in Geometry ? Let the College of PhyJiciansUy meafures why the 
 Rofe Crucian mighty Medicines which I call Cure-the-grcats, paf- 
 fing thefe in power, as much as the ripenefs of a difeafe is above 
 the Springy fhall not overmatch the ripe as well as the green Dif- 
 eafes : Wherefore there be no doubts left, but this plainly true , 
 That albeit the Grecians is weak and halting in this kind of heal- 
 ing, yet is the Egyptian, or (as now they terme it) the Paracel- 
 fians and Mineral skill fufficient to cure all difeafes : Then I have 
 paid the whole fumme of my promife, touching the fecond 
 means and helps to Blifs and Happinefs , which is Life and 
 Health. 
 
 Before I clofe, I think it very meet, while the time and place 
 very fitly ferveth, to do a good deed, and this fhall be my intent 
 to admonifh and exhort the Grecian Leaches, and their Scholars 
 the English, Spanish, and French Phyficians, whom if they follow 
 Hippocrates, Plato, Pythagoras, and his fellows, I love for their 
 Learning, and piety for their mifleading others .{'although it be 
 grievous, I know to old Scholars, wone in a kind of Learning, 
 to unlearne all as it were and begin again, for their own Credit* 
 and Virtue, yea and profit fake alfo, if they efieem that beft, to 
 leave thofe Gilded Pills and Sugred Baits , and all other crafty 
 fnares, wherewith the World hath been fo long caught and 
 fo long tormented, and to feek this onely heavenly Society; as 
 (to you that are learned J eafily may temper your felves, and be 
 acquainted with the ready,true, plain and certain way of Heal- 
 ingdifeafes. I think in former time they were not greatly to 
 be blamed and accufed but of dulnefs and we.iknefsof underfhn- 
 ding, in not applying and feeing this periecHon, and Applying of 
 all their wants; but fince they have been fo often warned not 
 
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Rofte Crucian PHYSICK. 61 
 
 with words only, but with examples of Learned men, Matheo- 
 lm Fernelltts, Scverinus Dantts, Philo Iud&us, Diodorus Slcttlus , 
 and other fuch like which have and doe revolt, and flie away from 
 them daily, yea and by the certain dc^ds of Paracelfe,k were im- 
 qity to fit ftill : Well, few words will ferve to wife and vertuous 
 Phyficlans, fuch as are of themfelves forward. 
 
 But there is another, and I am afraid, the greater fort, lefs ho- 
 neft,more Idle and Covetous, full of windy Pride and Words, 
 but empty of all good learning, and they are no friends to Rofie 
 Crucians, x\oi they to them, and thefeno gentle warning of any, 
 no though a Roft-e Crucian himfelf fhould come and bring Truth 
 her felf along with him in perfon,would prevail : who care not it 
 feems if half mankind (ho Ad perilh for want of help and fuccour, 
 rather then lofe their gains ; And which not onely fpeak foully 
 but write foolimly, againft this overflourifhing vertue, but alfo 
 like the giddy people of my time, where they catch the State, ba- 
 nifh the men that hold and poffefs it; whereas if it were a good 
 Commonwealth (quoth Arlfiotle) the matter would be fo far 
 from Banishment or Imprisonment, as they would efteem fuch a 
 man as well as the Laws ( for he is himfelf a Law) exempt from 
 all obedience, and judge him worthy to be followed and obeyed 
 as a perpetual King. 
 
 This untowardnefs and crookednefs in men canfodMhur AI-, 
 healing Anceftors the Ko/ie Crucians from time to time, never to 
 abide their Sentence, but to the great hurt and lofs of mankind 
 go into willing Banlfhment, you have cftablifhed a kind of Govern- 
 ment among you (to purfue the fame, like a little ) wherein 
 
 you rule alone over the weak and forry fubjects of mens Bodies, 
 then their health and fafety yo 1 ought to feek onely, befides e- 
 nough to maintain a contented eftare alfo , which Plato allowed 
 his Governours, and nor proSt only (that were Tyranny) both for 
 humanity and Religion fake, for to omit Religion, which they do 
 lightly omit, if a Phyfitian begin once to make a prey 
 of men, he is not onely no man , but a moft Fierce 
 and cruell Beaft , not fit to be compared and matched 
 and matched any where, if you feek all over the world as with 
 the mlfhapen modifier of India, which Ariftotle defcribes, and calls 
 Martichora;\vhkh being by nature or culiome, I know not whe- 
 ther, 
 
6t JtyfrCtfj/toPHYSICK. 
 
 ther^vcry greedy upon mansflefli , is with manifold and won- 
 derful helpes furnifhed, and armed unto it. 
 Firlt vritn a face like a KiJh^ voice like ^Trumpet, two fit things 
 to allure ;and call him in) and then if he flye , with the fvviftnefs of 
 an Hart to overtake him, he darts like a Porcupine, to wound him 
 afar of ; and with the tail of a Scorpion, as it were a poyfoned 
 (haft, near hand to fling him : furthermore, left all this might not 
 ferve, by occafion of Armour, \vz hath feet like a Lion, fiercely and 
 cruelly to tear him, and three rowes of teeth, on each Chap for 
 the in devouring. Apply you and the Apothecarries,the red your 
 ielves, in fecret for my part, as I am not a Rofie Crucian, fo I am 
 as well as they, forry to fee evil done. And I am loath to fpeak 
 evil of it, and lure were not the great grief and envy I dobear ; and 
 alwayesdid, to fee defert trodden down by fuch unworthinefs,and 
 ibme little hopes I have to hear of the amendment, andfoof 
 the return of the truth, and good men out of banifhment and im- 
 prifonment, you fhould have found me in Weftm'mfter-liall : as 
 I have been an Attumy in Termetime, and mean to continue my 
 pracUfe there fo long as I live, except in the Vacation, which 
 I intend to ipend in Chlm'cal and Rofie Crucian Medicines 
 for the good of hone ft plain meaning men wfcxjffti% JWffjtfo 
 
 But Tome may ask what I mean by R.C. the Ceremonle is an 
 Ebony Cro/J, flou:ifhed and deckt with Rofes of Gold , the Crofs 
 typlfesChrlfls iuflferings upon the Crofs for our fins, the Rofes of 
 bold fhew the Glory and Beauty of his Refurrettlon from death to 
 life. And this is carried to Adefque, Caflle, Apamla, Chaulatean 
 Vlrlffa CaxxHch, Aiount Calverj, Haran and Mount Sinai, where 
 they meet when they pleafe'and make Refolution of all their 
 Actions, and then difperfe themfelves abroad, taking their plea- 
 fure alwayes in one of thefe/?/4f^,\vhers they refolve alio all 
 queflions of whatfocver bath been done, Is done,orfoallbe done In 
 the world, from the beginning to the end thereof. And thefe are the 
 men are called Rofie Crucians. 
 
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