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glory of your Honour and Vir- tue5;, than any of: my own Aca | quaintance. Now, my Lord; i |
muft crave your pardon that{o }"
ebfcire a perfon as my felf, |, (bould offer fo worthy a Prefent Qui to your Honour, but therefore E piu have ufed the bef lawful Polt- cy,tbough a little'unmannerly,to conceal my felf, but onlytore- | main, My Lord, Your Lordfhips moft Devoted,
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| Pusuisuers EPISTLE ' ¥y a TO THE + HENGLISH Reaper. . he | Reader, \
| LJ Aving, injoyed ‘the benefit of |e this moft excellent and rarely ‘| Learned , Awonymon. in -an nee a Manufcript,many years before the y | ‘Publication in Latiz by the worthy |. and learned Fobn Langius probably | wricten from the Authors Copy,or very little corrupted, wherein this Author was pleafed to reveal’ him- felf to be born an Englifbman, nas ming himlelf Eyreneus Philaletha | Cofmopolita, and to have accompli- fe thed this miraculousTreafureathis 7) 4 Age of Twenty three Years, 1 645. And confidering alfo, with worthy ‘Langius, the Authors good inten- tion to promote the welfare of all men, I could not negle& my duty | | longer
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longer to make his own Country- jj men happy. thereby, many. of | whofe Capacities reach not unto the Latin Tongue, whofe necefit- | ties and good intentions neverthe-_ lefs' ‘may be. fitted to receive the | {aid good things, and the mifery ) of the Times requiring the fame, | if it thall pleafe God to give his Blefling in this our Exglifh fhell of | Learning : I muft teftifie with’ Langins, that I have hardly ever | read any Author more fu and clear inall Operations of this Art) And (which is more to be admi- | red and honoured ) in regard he §} appears.to be fo candid and free i from Envy at thofe Years, being’)
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into} ced amongft ‘the graveft Learned li-} Doors :. ‘Artefius thought it’a he} preat Argument of his extreme thet old-Age; after a\thoufand years to ty} become free from envy 5 but this iN} Author hath ‘accomplifhed’ the eis} fame, by: Grace, in a: few'years 5 lot} which demonftrates him to have With} his grey hairs in his wifdom. I evel fhall. fay little more of ‘hint, and al} indeed little needs be {aid , bute At} what you may. find in effe& by dmt-} reading this Divine Author , or dhehis taken up and faid already by itee} that worthy Langins, whofe Lear- lg) ned Epiftle and Dedication I have hit}Tranflated, and hereunto adjoyn- soled, that this Work might be dent} the more complete, wherein thou illo) mayeft,with more eafe than Fafon, ately : purchafe
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firid An Open Entrance tothe Shat- Palace of the King , with an Al-— chaheftical Salt or Key , ufefulin | Chymiftry : But lee meadvile thee | of one thing; when thou comeft'} tothe poffeffion of the fame, that | thou glut not thy felf with the pleafures of thisWorld,and forget God or thy Neighbour , left with | Midas thou tutn thy covetous Eyes"
into longer or larger Ears , and {04 by enjoying, or rather mifemploy-|
ing,the prefent things, lofe thy fu-!
ture happinefs of and in the King- | dom of Heaven: Which advice] as it is the very Command of God} fo it comes from | |
Thy Well-wifhing Frienp,
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| The Epifile Dedicatory of John Wan- and |. gius, Publifber of this Author in bp Latin. | ka
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moft Serene and Power-
and W arden of his Coin and Metallick Affairs ; as
"1 alfo Secretary of his Ex- |
chequer : John Langius withes much Happinefs.
| _ My Lord and fingular Patron; ; | POrafeench as your Honour bath j~- been pleafed to fuffer the Candi- dats of Nature to have fome ie wt
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The Epiftle Dedicatory with you, atid lately have embraced | nef me (though unworthy ) with fingular | long humanity 5 T come to Offer this exatt 4" little Work of the tene Art of Chy- bi miftry to.your Honour : L confefs” i
truly at is_anotber Mans , but give fn wie leave herein to help my own weake | bc
nels being guilty to mypfelf, that EY" could not be able to afford any worthy | matter , from my own flore; fit for your ‘accouplifo’d Mind ; and they |! have need to borrow goods that are 4!
ort at homes yet E hope you will » not def{pife it, feeing that many bave offered tothe gods thofe things which | are not their own, but are taken from | the Sabean Harweft 5 effecially whilft this Excellent Book ‘feems. to be brought forth out of; the -fasoqurabla gm Bofow of Nature, froma cleergane | iy good intention; and therefore it could ‘notsbe, uor indeed ought tobe, buty
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jy} of Jonw Lanctus, ave ule | long fince entitled amonolt. ber inti- vat} wate Friends. Your Houfe hath hye) bétherto been (like Pernaflus and fifi Helicon ) open to all the Lovers and int) P'viends of the Mufes and of the uh.| Graces, and therefore let it be open Wt} to this of ours, which is not at all ily} ragged, as if it crept out of the fy} Lrophonian Dex to beg an Alms , ih but truly bath a decent Habit, ‘an o- | Pew aud clear Face and tranfblendent vil] Gown , coming towards you from woe the retired’ ft Clofet of Chymiftry hight 20 call. upon your Honour, where- fim Sore admit it benignly 5 for if you jilgh CBter tain it vightly , I doubt not but ha (like a grateful Gueft ) it will return adsonrare Gifts. I pray God you may wilt EVE Many many years to your own ‘ft comfort and yours , Natures and onr publick hopes.
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+ Benevolent Redder , | HAtre not long fince cbtained | this little Book, which I here Publith, from a moft excellent Knowing Man of thefe Matters, it pleafed me fo much, that I pre- fently confulted to impart it for thy profit; and this drove me to it,that this genuine Author feemed | almoft to be the onlyPofleffor and Worker, in our Age, of the Phy- fical Tin@ure, and to have Com- pofed his Work tothat very end, that he might be known to be an | Adeptiff when it fhould come. ‘forth, and that the Wanderers Hi this Art might be reducedto | a the
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faid worthy sntention of the Au- | thor would be fatisfied, and a. clear light kindled in the dark
night of Errours to very many's ||
who until this very day either by dolorous Labour, or prefamptu- | ous Learning, or continual in-
ceffant Sighs (although alas ! now)
and then their hopes do fail them) J do hunt after the great Elixir, off
the Philofophers. For although;
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The Preface of John Langius.
| within thefe few years ome num- bers have afabitioufly endevoured tovobtain the Title of True Phi- | lofophy , and prefumed under the | vizard of a falfe name to inftrud, ‘| or rather. co diftra& and make | mad. all the World with phanra- | ftick . Books 5. nay: have drawn .| fome ignotant Men, and thofe not | obfcure ones, upon the ftagé, not without the laughter of the more 4 difereet: and léariied ; yet. never- _thelefs the fharper witted,and fuch | as have converfed (as the Proverb | goes) more familiarly with’ dead | Philofophers, prefently found out .. theit hooks and baits;fo that fhort- i ly after thofe fruitful promifers; who fwel’d with fuch great words, ‘became forfaken of their Admi- (} ters» ( like the Afs who was ftripe h} @f «the Lions:skin ) and being
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The Preface of John Langias. left: to’themfelves “have alwates born their thot amongtt falfe Cot- -nersand paid the utmoft farthing: But this: Author 5) which we now: dedicate ‘to ‘the common good, as ‘he hath the ftyle and ‘thrid of the) ingenious -Philofophers’, and° obferves it'every where, ‘yea
as he every way breaths the pri- |
mordial and ancient Chywifiry;and fhowes himfelf ‘abundantly’ by his own figns; fo 1 hope: i¢will come to pafs, this Sun being rifen, that’ the falfe Stampers. will.at length quite be difpelied and va- nith like the fog and Jmoke. Truly whos or what kind of Per-
fon, was’ Author: of this {weet Muft-like’ Work, know no more
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nor (fince he himfelf would con- | ceal his name ) do ‘Ethinkefit to ~ enquire |