About the end of the Preface of this Treatise, I mentioned some few things touching the same; viz. that of good burning Spirit, with little labour and no great cost, in a very easie way a true universal Medicine for humane and metallick Bodies might be made. This I would have no Man to doubt of, but to account of as most true. For I now ready to be laid in my Grave, have great need to be very carefull how I divulge any thing, unless such pure verity as experience hath taught me. If the most wise God will prolong my Life untill the next Summer, and enable me to write out of Bed, my purpose is to publish some other new wonderfull Works; but if in the mean while I be taken away from the number of the living, then (candid Reader) kindly accept of these few things here written.
This being thus imparted to all diligent Chymical Operators (whom I here salute and bid farewell) I wish a Divine Benediction in this Life, and Eternal Glorification hereafter. Amen.
Glory to GOD onely.
The End of the Seventh Part.
THE
FIRST APPENDIX
TO THE
SEVENTH PART
OF THE
Spagyrical Pharmacopœa.
In which is contained, how many, yet greater, Secrets may be prepared by the Alcahest, or Secret Sal-Armoniack, than those which are mentioned in the Seventh Part of the Spagyrical Pharmacopœa, viz. how Vulgar Mercury may be firmly fixed, and rendred totally constant in Fire, within the space of three Days. Also an Explanation, how by the benefit of it may easily be acquired the Mercury of Wine, as the highest Medicine of the World. Likewise, that the Secret Fire of the Wise, otherwise called the Fire of Artephius is the supreme Secret of Secrets: Together with a Revelation of other admirable Secrets, of which the Authour hitherto hath made no mention to any Man.
To the Well-meaning READER.
I could not forbear to signifie to the Lover of divine and admirable Works, the Reason of my former omission or silence; namely, why in a little Treatise of mine lately published (which is intituled The Seventh Part of my Spagyrical Pharmacopœa) in which I treat of my Secret Sal-Armoniack or Liquor Alcahest, I so suddenly broke off the Thread of my Writing begun, before I had any thing largely discoursed of the eminently excellent Vertues thereof, which it manifests not onely in Medicine, but also in Transmutation of Metals. Therefore, the Reason of my abrupt Cessation was as follows.