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A20900	A breefe aunswere of Iosephus Quercetanus Armeniacus, Doctor of Phisick, to the exposition of Iacobus Aubertus Vindonis, concerning the original, and causes of mettalles Set foorth against chimists. Another exquisite and plaine treatise of the same Iosephus, concerning the spagericall preparations, and vse of minerall, animall, and vegitable medicines. Whereunto is added diuers rare secretes, not heeretofore knowne of many. By Iohn Hester, practicioner in the spagericall arte.; Ad Jacobi Auberti De ortu et causis metallorum contra chymicos explicationem brevis responsio. English	Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609.; Du Chesne, Joseph, ca. 1544-1609. De exquisita mineralium, animalium et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione et usu. English. aut; Hester, John, d. 1593.	1591 (1591)	STC 7275; ESTC S109966	94,663	138

art to imitate nature Secondly it worketh by it selfe but not first because first it engendreth some vnperfect mettall of the same beginninges in his mine and lastly conuerteth it into gold in which point art followeth nature it selfe in that of vnperfect mettalles it maketh gold as nature it selfe doth Hereby it is euident something to be made of something two manner of waies mediatly and immediatly For according to Arist lib 9. Meta. There may be many matters of one thing as mediat and immediat albeit at the last the mediat matter must bee reduced into the immediat for otherwise of diuerse matters diuers thinges would rise Therfore because art taketh both the mediat immediat matter which nature doth reduceth the mediat at the last to the immediat as nature also doth hath one and the selfe same agent which shall spoile the quicksiluer and at last transforme it and the end of art and nature is all one that is by the vniting of this forme with his matter at last to ingender gold there is no doubt but that art imitating nature it selfe in all pointes can make an vnperfect mettall a perfect as nature it selfe doth make as we haue aforesaid Wherefore the causes being all one of necessitie they also must be one and bring forth the like effectes Neither do I thinke them to be excused which seeke the subiect of the Chymick Philosophers in the vegitalles Their lahour is in vaine for there can be no generation but by the neerest conuenient and immediates Others haue bestowed their labors vpon animall thinges specially in an egge because the Chimick Philosophers moued with a certaine similitude of egges called their worke the egge and said that the egge euen as the Elixir doth conteine 4 elements whose shell they called the earth the thinne skinne the aire the white water and the yelke fier So also the same Philosophers by a darke speech said their stone was one in three and three in one because it conteineth in it a bodie that standeth a soule that g●ueth life and a spirit that staineth They which vnderstand not these darke speeches perswaded themselues that an egge was the Philosophers stone because it conteined three in one the shell the yelke and the water and therefore at last concluded the egge to be the onely matter sought for by the Chim●stes being no lesse deceaued then other not considering this matter not to be fit to draw out mettall out of For a man begetteth a man a beast a beast But because good Au●ertus hath tried this with his losse as I hard which decocting egges philosophically consumed some hundred of crownes therefore he quarrelleth with the art as though it had deceiued him but vndeserued when he himselfe rather erred for art is not bound to maintaine his fault For kinde ought to be ioyned with kinde and like with like and euery blossom to answere to his seede as we said afore And there be some which seek the matter of their Elixir not in vegitals or animalls but in thinges vnder the earth and neerer For they say that art doth immitate nature and therefore thinke to labor vpon those first matters wherupon nature wrought and decoct quicksiluer and sulphur which they heare to bee the next matter of mettalles But sillie men they loose both their cost and labour For the Philosophers quicksiluer is not that common neither also the common sulphur as I said For is there any man which can attaine the intent of nature in due proportion and measure no man truely Moreouer quicksiluer if you set it but to a verie litle ●ier it vaporeth away being mixed is seperated sulphur also not hardly when notwithstanding the coniunction of both these is necessarie euen to the end of digestion in the generation of mettalles so are they deceaued as many as seeke the stone in marchasites tuty antimony ar●●ick orpment when as it is either altogether an inseperable sulphur yet ought to be seperat at lest as wee haue said or because it is seperat with a small fier all the Philosophers writings sufficiently declare that it can not bee the Philosophers subiect They also erre which think to take gold for the man and siluer for the woman which two they amalgame for we may vse the words of the art with common mercurie of three make one which they decoct chyminically sublyme and out of it at last drawe the spirit which afterward they goe about to fix For they depart from the philosophers writinges which confesse all with one mouth that the agent is ioyned and proportionat by nature in the mines with his owne matter and they say that it is but one thing wherein are the foure elementes well proportioned that there is the ●ixer the ●ixed the stayner and the stained white and red male and female compound together It is therefore as wee said before a certaine third nature common and altered of diuerse mixture and digestion of sulphur and quicksiluer in which is a mineral power to ingender a mixt thing which to do so perpetuallie worke and suffer betweene themselues vntill they be translaved from the forme of vnperfect bodies first begotten the agent not being yet seperat from his matter into an other forme and at last come by continuall digostion and purifications to the last true perfect forme which is the forme of golde in which is the last tearme of motion where also the agent is v●terly seperate from his matter Many see●e what this is few finde it or if they do finde it they know not the preparations and intentions of the philosophers whose medecine is also drawē out of those things by art in which it dwelleth potentially by nature and in which the perfection of the first matter and all mettalles are found This matter after they haue founde it first they thinke meete to be calcined and purged from all his filths restoring his h●a●e and preseruing his naturall moisture for in the Chimicke calcination there ought to be no diminution of the body but rather multiplication Then they reduce the calcined matter by making thin his groines into a certaine liquid substance as into his first matter which they call minerall water which doth not wet the handes then is it made one in kinde but not so in number whose father they call the sunne the moone the mother and mercury the mediator the bodie is altered from his proper forme but a new is induced immediatly for there is nothing founde in the nature of thinges spoiled of all forme That done out of that so dissolued they seperat the four elements and deuide them into two partes into the ascendenter spirituall and into the inferiour or earthly which twoo partes yet are of one nature for the inferiour is the leauē fixing it and the superior part is the soule quickning the whole matter Notwithstanding their diuision is necessarie that they all might be the easilier changd amongest themselues

and therewith part by passing into water wax blacke and the water by passing into airie wax white and the aire be● turned into fier The separation of elements made they make a coniunction of water earth with aire and fire keeping a proportion that euery element may be dispersed with other giue vnto the male 3. partes of his water and vnto the women ix parts then euery like reioyceth with his like for the desire of the ioyning specially of the materiall sulphureouse forme These thus ioyned they putrify it in a moist heate lest by hot fier the mercurie should be seperat or carried vp on high through his spirituall nature that by this corruption the matter might be changed and the elementes naturally deuided that regeneration may followe for there is nothing borne or groweth nor without life but first things putrifaction is made After putrefaction they come to coagulation and with the same most temperat heate continually altering the matter as well inwardly as outwardly they do worke vntill all the matter be white like vnto pearles then is there a true fixing and congealing of the shining spirites with the bodies The Chimick philosophers call this the white thorne and white sulphur incombustible which neuer departeth from the fier Finally they proceede vnto Cibation that is to the making thicke of the thinne and making subtile the grosse mingling his water with the ashes and his milke with the foliat earth but moderatly that so the whitenes and rednes goodnes quantitie and vertue of it may increase and grow and by decocting and decocting againe the matter might be nourished Then they sublyme the matter but not with common sublimation and so purge it from all vncleannes lifting vp the bodie and making it spirituall and the spirit corporal fixed by taking away the sulphureous saltnes that it may all be white and easily be molten Hauing finished the sublimation they leuen the water by ioyning the spirit with his whitened earth or calce as with his ferment or incorporating the soule with the bodie For the spirituall accidentes cannot shew their permanent qualities except they be ioyned with fixed bodies as with his leuen which bringeth vnro him his aptnes to his nature colour and sauour by the mutuall and common impression of the bodie and spirit without the which the worke can not bee finished as paste cannot be leuened without leuen But for the greater nobilitie of the matter they thinke it must be exalted by increasing the spirit and sublyming making subtil the earth by naturall rectifying of all the elements and the true circulation and graduation of them vntill they be brought to a perfect ●mbrasing Then they increase the force of their Salamander by reiterating their solutions and coagulations and with new leuen in force and quantitie and that into infinite Last they make proiection of one waight vpon many vppon the vnperfect according to the perfection of the medecine for by how much the more it is made subtill and stained so much the more abundantlie it worketh and so following nature they make perfect vnperfect mettalles and turn them into the sunne moone of their proper matter purified and made subtile by art and then fixed by decoction and digested vntill it come to a white and after into a red colour and is made againe flying and againe fixed vntill it haue his entrance and sta●ne perfectly they ma e their medecine and their powder which they call the philosoph rs stone And that by sundry workes ●iuers thinges many vessels and many furnaces as by that is aforesaid the vnskilfull of art peraduenture will iudge when as vnto the true Philosopher in all this great worke there is but one worke one way one thing one vessell one onely fier and furnace as all do confesse All these things would I note by the way whereby I might ouerthrow maister Aubertus opinion touching the philosophers stone for it is lawfull for any m●n by i●sting to vtter his follie in thinges vnknowen and that I might demonstrat that not the bare forme of gold or siluer drawen from his substance as hee thinketh is not the matter of the philosophers medecine But saith he I care not of what matter the stone bee compounded Notwithstanding because it is not a naturall substance it cannot put on a natural● forme but onely artificiall and deceitfull I could here appeale to the witnesse of many notable men but I thinke it better to deale by reason Therefore I say that mettalles truely altered are knowē to be perfect not by the forme the● had afore or that is put in for that were impossible but by the accidents properties and passions which follow the formes Therefore if in mettall altered all those thinges are found in euery examination that are in the true mettall truely it is to be iudged they haue not a counterfect form but the true forme of mineral gold and siluer For that which worketh the worke of the ●i● is the ●i● as the philosopher writeth 4. Meteor and so contrarie Further more we haue shewed the Philosophers stone to be naturall by reason of his making and that by meanes of the naturall agent that is fier with his naturall colour sent and forme which are accidentall formes following his determinat substantiall forme art ministring matter vnto it For art is ioyned with nature for the beginning of art is nature it selfe as the philosopher writeth 2. phisic ●y which reason art may be called natural his workes naturall his formes are called naturall in two sortes that is when nature prepareth matter for it selfe and afterward induceth forme as in man and stone or when art doth minister and prepare matter for it selfe yet not with the last prepation with nature notwithstanding doth dispose and prepare euen to the end and doth induce a forme vpon it as is to be seene in the making of ceruse and red lead Neither is it any new thing that art in many points followeth nature and that many naturall thinges are made by art which Arist affirmeth 4 Metaph. spheaking of colchota and calchant For nature saith hee in the mines of Atraments engendreth Atraments and he sheweth the manner of the making And a little after hee saith the two atraments may be made and compounded by art for art being the follower of nature as he writeth 2. Metaph. by taking the substance of Iron or copper whereof naturally they are made ministring it vnto nature with often dissolutions distillations and coagulations doth so perfectly and ingeniously make them that they haue the same properties and operations actiue passiue that the two mineral attraments haue The like is seene in making of salt There is some minerall salt founde as in Polonia other some is made as in France yet hauing the same properties and passions as the minerall by which reason it may be called verie naturall and his forme also naturall and verie perfect