O most High GOD, the One onely Beginning and End of all things, I making supplication from the bottom of my heart desire, that (when that general Destroyer of Humane Bodies shall come and destroy my lean and dried Earthen Mass, according to thy divine Will, and set my Soul at liberty from the Bonds of the Body) thou wilt be pleased in that very hour to take compassion on me, and send thy Ministring Spirits the Holy Angels (by reason of thy Grace and Fatherly Mercy) to me at the hour of Death, that receiving my departing Soul, may humbly prostrate it at the feet of thy most Holy Majesty. Amen.
The End of the Sixth Part.
THE
SEVENTH PART
OF THE
Spagyrical Pharmacopœa.
In which is farther treated, how of Man’s Urine may be prepared the Secret Sal-Armoniack of Philosophers, and what incredible Works may be performed by the benefit of it, both in Medicine and in Alchymy: With an Instruction annexed how an Universal Medicine and true Tincture for Humane and Metallick Bodies may be acquired; and that no way more easie, more expeditious and less chargeable, than by the help of good Spirit of Wine, or instead of that a burning Spirit extracted from Corn, or other Vegetables.
The PREFACE to the READER.
Well-meaning Reader,
The principal Reason which moveth me here in this small Treatise (without any respect or regard of Persons worthy or unworthy) so evidently to reveal and publish to the ungratefull World the Secret Sal-Armoniack of Philosophers, is this: namely, because, by reason of my old Age, I have now one foot in the Grave, and am ready to depart this World, and do patiently expect a far more excellent Mansion prepared by God. I, who now discover this Secret Sal-Armoniack, do also here intimate those vast benefits, which (by the help of that) may accrew to Mankind, accounting great Works of Mercy may be done by it; because it is that, by the benefit of which, all things necessary for Life may be acquired by all Men, whether young or old, poor or rich, as in the following Praxis shall largely be demonstrated.
That Men (if they themselves will) may gain much, yea as much as they please, by the benefit of this my free and ample Revelation of such an inestimable Salt, I am easily able to prove: especially, so soon as I, in the following Praxis, shall exhibit a Specimen of those Subjects, the abundance of which is in all parts of the World, every-where offered, no less to the Poor, than to the Rich, without any expence of Money, or other Charges; but it is known by very few, privily hated by that proud Step-Dame the World, trod under foot, and for its exterior vileness cast out upon the Dunghill, and thrown away in the corners of Streets.