Section 7

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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CHAP.

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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

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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

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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,ary 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 lafta
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 •

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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