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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01091	Hoplocrisma-spongus: or, A sponge to vvipe avvay the weapon-salve A treatise, wherein is proved, that the cure late-taken up amongst us, by applying the salve to the weapon, is magicall and unlawfull By William Foster Mr. of Arts, and parson of Hedgley in the county of Buckingham.; Hoplocrisma-spongus.	Foster, William, 1591-1643.	1631 (1631)	STC 11203; ESTC S102476	41,047	74

held that the spirits were vinculū anima corporis so the soule may be after a kind in the spirits as that which is bound is within the teather But the Peripateticks Divines deny this as needlesse For seeing the body is generated for the soule and the soule created for the body and both make the totum compositum what need these any bond to fasten them together There is a reciprocall desire of comming together at first and endevour after the union so to keepe together The spirits indeed are the instruments of the soule by which it worketh and when these instruments 〈◊〉 the worke failes and the soule the worke-mistresse takes her leave not because she is hid in the spirits as the contiuent to abide in but because she wants the spirits as her instruments to worke by For the is corporis organici actus seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the act and perfection of the body not onely for that shee gives the body act and being as Aristotle defines it but also because she gives the body action during the being As Tully not improperly interprets it Now then as the workeman cannot be said properly to reside in his instruments but rather the instruments in the workeman because as Logicians speake tota instrumenti vis in usu consistit So the soule cannot in any kind depend on or reside in the spirits her instruments but the spirits on the soule Therefore as the Axe must not boast it selfe against the hewer nor the Saw magnifie it selfe against the shaker Esay 10. 15. No more must the Doctor set up the spirits against the soule to be her upholder from whom they have all their being and operation Fiftly I deny Master Doctors carrier viz his direct invisible line carrying the sanative vertue so many miles from the weapon to the wound Surely this is Tom Long the Carrier who will never doe his errand But the Sunne hath his beames a true messenger betwixt Heaven and earth and so this Salve betwixt Weapon and Wound O incomparable comparison Tully saith the Sunne is called Sol quasisolus as having no peere no creature working like it But the Doctor like another Archimedes can by his Art make one working by sending forth beames like it Sola Sophocleo tua carmina digna coth●rno The Sunne beames the Messenger betweene Heaven and Earth proceed of the light of the Sunne in whom is such innate light that he is the fountaine of light But what light hath this Salve to send forth radiant messengers The Sunne and the rest of the celestiall bodies is ordained by God and Nature to worke upon the terrestriall by light or beames motion and influence Art immitates Nature But what Art hath in this kinde ouertaken Nature The Sunne is a Gyant saith David Psal 19. 5. many degrees even 166 bigger than the earth as the Astronomers collect and so may by proportion worke on it The Sun is the eye and visiter of the whole world there 's nothing hid from it saith the Psalmist Psal 19. 6. and so by his presence is within the sphere of his activity The Sunne is above and so sends downe in a direct line his beames without hinderance But this Vnguent hath no proportion 't is little in respect of the Patient it hath no presence or contact with him It must worke in a laterall oblique line and so is subject by interposed bodies to bee hindred A little fire cannot burne or heat a great body at a great distance in an ascendent direct line much lesse an oblique many other bodies being interposed No more can a little Salve worke naturally on a Patient at a great distance when many other bodies are interposed The line and the ayre carrying it so long a journey will be hindred and stopped if not altered and changed The line and his carrier the ayre may be stopped and hindred not onely by moving intervening bodies which may give place againe to the line and ayre when they have cut and crossed it as the Doctor instanceth in the cutting of the ayre with a sword and the re-union after the blow is ceased and the re-union of the line of Dyers water cut with a Boat but also it may meet with stationary immoveable bodies as wals woods houses castles townes cities fiers seas and waters which will not give place to the Doctors line though it were as strong as an halter How then shall this line be carried thus intercopted It must either penetrate the bodies or shun them before it comes at them or when it comes at them glyde in a laterall course by them or per saltum ascend in a transcendent course over till it comes beyond them and then betake it selfe to its old course againe Penetrate them it cannot Nature abhorres vacuity and penetration Avoyd them before it comes at them it cannot neither To avoyde hurtfull things is an act either of reason sense or naturall instinction This Carrier the ayre hath neither of these to goe his journey Not reason it is not rationall Not sense it is no sensible creature It hath not naturall instinction to shunne any place Ayre filleth every place without exception not filled with some other body saith Aristotle Glyde by or leape over these bodies it cannot And Mr. Dr. saith this line is a direct invisible line It must then goe point blancke as we use to say If it glance a skew or leape over and make an angle then the rectitude of this line is broken and Mr. Doctors reason is broken also Besides the carrier failing the line the portadge must needs fayle also And the ayre the carrier may fayle by being changed and altered into an other body For ayre and water are symbolicall elements such as are easily transmuted into the substance of each other The ayre when it comes into moyst and vapourous places Robertus de Fluctibus or when it meets with glabritious and terse bodies as polished iron like Mr. Doctors weapon stone glasse c. as experience teacheth is turned into water Or the ayre in a long journey may be turned into one of the other elements For ayre may bee changed into fire commodissimè parvo momento saith Scaliger fitly and in a short time and it may become earth also though not so easily by vicissitude and often changing seeing there is as Keckerman speaketh Elementorum transmutatio circularis a circular transmutation of the elements Now then unlesse the Doctor can secure his carrier that part of the ayre which carrieth his invisible line from transmutation the ayre onely being his carrier his carrier will faile and bee sit to goe of none but a dead mans errand so Mr. Doctors line will faile the Cure fayle and the reason fayle Neither if the line should not fayle but the carrier truly doe his message and carry it from the weapon to the wound can the Cure bee done by sympathy

or other objects annointed with it remaine safe and undiminished in his voracious and sharpe set presence though his jawes and teeth be set to it Fire is the most raging agent of all but a fire of tenne miles or greater compasse if such could bee could not burne heate or warme a man two miles distant from it The celestiall bodies as the Sunne and the rest of the Planets excell in virtuall operation all sublunary agents The light and heate of the Sunne goeth through the whole world It goeth from the uttermost part of the heaven and runneth about to the end of it againe and there is nothing bid from the heate thereof Psal 19. 6. But yet a little cloud interposed obscureth the light and abateth the heate The interposition of the earth keepes the light from Antipodes The interposition of the bodie of the Moone eclypseth the Sunne in our Hemisphere in part to some inhabitants and totally to others which in a diametricall descendent line inhabit under it It never workes alike upon all parts of the earth When it is Winter with us by reason of his Southerne journey and oblique beames it is Summer in the other temperate Zone because his beames strike downe in a direct line and cause a stronger reflection and that stronger reflection the greater heate And when againe it is Summer with us it is Winter with them by reason of the Sunnes approaching neere unto us and departing from them So though it worke upon all things vnder heaven yet it worketh not at all times alike by reason it is not at all times from all things distant alike nor at all times free from interpositions alike Now then shall terrestriall agents by distance and interposition bee totally and celestiall partly hindred and shall this Weapon-Salve worke from the weapon to the wound at all distances Shall the interposition of neither ayre woods fire waters walles houses Castles Cities mountaines heate cold nothing stay or hinder the derivation of the virtue of it to the body of the party wounded O Agent beyond all Agents Certainely the Angels of heaven cannot worke at such a distance Onely God whose Essence is infinite and is Omnia in omnibus all in all can worke thus because from him nothing is distant at all For in him we live move and have our being Acts 17. 27 28. Let the judicious and religious Readers judge then if these weapon curing mediciners make not a god of their unguent and commit not idolatry in attributing that to a little smearing oyntment of their owne making which is proper to God only the maker of al things I cannot be perswaded but that this Salve consisting amongst other things of Mosse taken from the skull of a theefe that hath beene hanged of mans fat of mans blood warme as it is taken from his body collected and composed with a great deale of superstition as hereafter shall be related the divell usually delighting in such things is accepted of the divell as a kinde of sacrifice and that hee greedily takes it from the Weapon and makes the mediciner beleeve it is spent by the virtue of it going to the wound whilst hee skilfull by reason of his long experience in all Arts and so in the Art of medicine doth himselfe secretly apply some other virtuall operative medicine to cure the wound and to delude his credulous Mountabankes makes them beleeve that this Salve which dropt out of the hangmans budget hath performed it And I am drawne to this opinion by an argument à comparatis Canidiaes witches and impes of the divell when they go a hagging annoynt themselves and are suddainly carried into remote places through the ayre riding upon a broome a hogge a goate or the like and the divell makes them beleeve that this their transportation is naturally effected by virtue of their medicament But in very deed these their oyntments which are made besides other things of the fat of infants as testifieth Gaudentius Merula mans flesh as S. Hierome mans blood as Apuleius doe not doe the feate but the divell himselfe carries them as testifieth Cajetan Navar Grillandus Bodin c. And the holy Scriptures which tell us of the presumption of the divell to carry Christ himselfe and set him on a pinnacle of the Temple Math. 4. 5. and on an exceeding high mountaine verse 8. So the divell when men in this case annoynt the weapon makes them beleeve that it is a naturall cure when in very deed if any cure be performed it is done by him selfe by secret application of other meanesendued with virtue to produce such effects And the 〈◊〉 vell doth this for his owne greater advantage 〈◊〉 shall more at large be related hereafter Artiticulus secundus Wherein is brought the Authority of Writers dis allowing this Care and condemning it for magicall THe Weapon Salve is the new invention of the divell an old impostor I can bring neither Plato nor Aristotle for ancient Philosophers Galen nor Hippocrates for Physitians Tertull●an Cyprian nor Augustine for Fathers Aquin●● or Alexander de Hales for Schoolemen directly and expressely writing against it The first I found to make mention of it was Cardanus de venen● libro 2. cap. 6. yet hee though much given to magicke had no farther knowledge of it than report and that it was said to consist of such ingredients as he there mentioneth The next was one Schenk●us who calleth it Prodig●osa vulnerum curatio per opochrysmatis usum A prodigious curing of wounds by the vse of the Weapon-Salue No better commendation is given of it by Andreas Libavius who calles it Impostoria vulnerum per unguentum armarium sanatio Paracelsis usitata The imposterous cure of woundes by he Weapon-Salve used by Paracelsians The like Elog●e is given it by one ●ranciscus Tidi●●us Calvin also as testifieth Rodolphus ●●clinius denieth this cure to be naturall Bartholomaeus Keckemannus saith that this Weapon-Salve is no naturall agent but supernaturall Not from God nor from his holy Angels nor miraculous but from the divell as shall be more at large declared hereafter Doctor Ioannes Robert● wrote three Tracts to prove the vnlawfulnesse of this cure The first hee calles Anatome brevis tractatus novi de magnetica vulnerum curatione A short Anatomie of a new tract of the magneticall cure of woundes The second is an answer to R. Goclinius his Synarthrosis which hee not vnfitly calleth Goclinius Heautontimorumenos The third and last hee calles Curationis magnetica Impos●ura containing an answer to the pernicious disputation of Ioannis Baptistae ab Helmont a Physitian of Bruxels To all which is added the censure of two Vniversities Lovain Doway both pronouncing the magneticall cure as it is termed of the Weapon-Salve not to be naturall but superstitious magicall and diabolicall I will conclude with the saying of Paracelsus himselfe who speaking of the operations of this unguent averreth that Certè haec omnia miracula