Which Vitriol does not hurt the Spirit of Salt, as is demonstrated in many places of the First Part of my Furnaces; and he denies that fifty pound or above may be prepar’d in one day in my Furnaces, when yet it may be done commodiously enough, and needs no farther proof.
From all which a wise man may easily judge how good a Christian Farnner is, whose mouth uttereth nothing but wickedness, contempt, and contention, and except my inward faculties fail me, the envy of his heart, his hatred, lyes, and infernal calumnies, shall be display’d.
What is his spirit of Salt to me, or mine to him? Let him prepare it after his way, and I will do it my way, when need requires: Wherefore does he endeavour to defile my things with his, since they cannot be deservedly reprehended by any man, much less by him.
9. Spirits of Vitriol, Nitre, Salt, Aqua fortis, Aqua Regia, in plenty; also Sulphur; at Forty R. Dollers.
In this place may be seen the inhumane and devilish nature of this wicked fellow; for he scarce utters three words but he proceeds to my disparagement.
But what hath Glauber to do with his spirits, for he does not use them? and if he does need them, he can make them without him.
What does he care, if you can prepare them after a better way than he, which yet never can be?
Whatever Glauber has writ of these things is worth the reading; and he can defend both himself and it, neither can you or yours spot his fame, which is so well known to the World.
10. Mineral Spirits: for twenty R. Dollers.
Here Farnner ventures to promise a way of preparing volatile spirits, which is eight years since fully described by Glauber, in the second part of his Furnaces, whither I referr the Reader.