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A67797	Cerevisiarii comes, or, The new and true art of brewing, illustrated by various examples in making beer, ale and other liquors, so that they may be most durable, brisk and fragrant and how they may be so ordered, as to yeild the greatest quantity of spirits in distillation : to which is added, the right way to refine and bottle beer and cyder, and a cure for those that are sick and ropy, so as to return them to their internal sanity, as also the true method of manuring lands and the art of making salt water fresh : all proved by demonstration and sound philosophy, to be more agreeable to man's body than otherwise, and so not only fit for english constitutions, but also for transportation : published for the sake of verity, and therefore recommeded to all that esteem demonstrated truths before notional theory / by W.Y. Worth ...	Y-Worth, W. (William)	1692 (1692)	Wing Y216; ESTC R13121	45,081	144

taking out of the way that which is offensive to her And that you may yet the better conceive why there should be such a Gass in Waters we shall give you the reason You may remember that I said before 't was the Menstruum of the World making one Globe together with the Earth and having its centre in the heart of the Sea and as Sandivogius saith hath one Axle-tree and Pole with the Earth by which all Courses and Fountains of Water issue forth and disperse themselves through the pores of the Earth so according to more or less do Springs arise and afterwards meeting together encrease and come to be Rivers and those return to the place whence they originally came Now as the Waters pass through the pores of the Earth and through narrow and strait places where Sand is they leave their saltness there and become fresh so that 't is a certain and Infallible Maxim in Philosophy That Water is purged by Sand now afterward as they pass on further they take into their Bodies more or less of the Nature of those things which they passed through and if they come through a place which is hot and Sulphurous and continually burning they are thereby made hot and thence Baths arise for as Sandivogius saith there are in the bowels of the Earth places in which Nature Delights and separates a sulphureous Mine where by the Central Fire 't is Kindled the Waters runing through these burning places according to the nearness or remoteness are more or less hot and so break forth into the superficies of the Earth and retain the tast of Sulphur as all Broath doth of the Flesh boyled in it After the same manner it is when Water passing through places where are Minerals as Copper Allum doth acquire the savour of them as also through all the other diversity of Vapors that the Earth abounds withall so there is no wonder why this Element should be impregnated with a wild Gass as before-said seing it passes through such diversities thereof in the Bowels of the Earth and as it comes to the superficies thereof in a more immediate degree or as it passes further through such places where it is again purged so doth it retain more or less of the aforesaid Gass and this is that which causes the great diversity of Waters so that some are harsh and rough others more mild others more slippery and friendly to Nature as such which passed through Alkalisated places or where abundance of Chalk abounds And 't is observable that some Waters shall wash with half the quantity of Soap as others will which proceeds from the richness of their Abstersive virtue and Salutiferous qualities in Nature and from a Spirituous Oleous and Saline Vapour that they are impregnated withal in the Bowels of the Earth and where is that Philosopher now born that can demonstrate to us how much with this or the other quality Nature hath impregnated the same seing she works invisibly any otherwise than by the effect produced in the use thereof or who dare presume to assert that he will shew us the exact number of times that Nature hath decocted or impregnated the said Waters with different moist vapours or how often it hath since its issuing forth received its purgation or how much it must be now decocted and purged to make them equally generous seing there is such great diversities of Waters as is plainly manifest some more friendly others more austere some more agreeable to one Texture some to another and tho it is still but Water yet doth it as much differ in some Cases as if compounded of different Textures being so unlike to one another for some waters are so prepared to our hands that little or no boyling will make excellent Beer others must have a considerable time of Decoction to ripen them or else they 'l not be fit to make Beer of we have an example of this by the Waters of Roterdam of which indifferent Beer is made as those that have travelled can testifie But a certain English Brewer upon the well-boyling of his Liquor in the first place before Mashing even to a considerable consumption made excellent Beer and Ale thereof which I by my own experience can testifie was little inferiour to that of England which is highly esteemed there Here the Vertue of Decoction was manifested even by that Water which proceeds from one of the finest Rivers in Europe for that it comes from the Rhine The manifest Difference of Waters may also be discerned in most Counties of England For for Example let six Sacks of Hartfordshire Malt which was made from one Grain at one and the same Time from the Cestern to the Kill be brewed in six different Places or with six different Waters and every one of these Beers shall be discernably different in Tast although the Grain was one yet doth this Difference issue forth by the diversity of Menstruums or Liquors Therefore I would have all our English Gentry Brewers and other House-keepers that brew their own Beer if they desire their Health not to hearken to Notional Theory or to such as are swelled up with the Poyson thereof like a Toad touched by a Spider ready to burst without the Antidote of Plantine but apply themselves to Experience the only sole Mistress of true Wisdom and in the first place let them by many Tryals prove the Nature of their Water first by a more short and afterwards by a longer Decoction But in all be sure that you separate the Wild Gass the Sword of Mankind and when they obtain a Liquor most Generous and agreeable to their Constitutions let them keep to the same for in this Case every Man is properly his own Judge and there is an Ancient Proverb in England That every Man at Thirty Years of Age is either a Fool or a Physician that is he must then know what best agrees with him Now for these alledged Reasons it is impossible for any Man to prescribe an infallible Rule in Brewing any more than those general ones here by me performed therefore I apply my self to the Judicious as my proper Judges to determinate the Cause depending and to Encourage and Receive Truth according as it is delivered God knows my Heart I write not for Notions sake nor for Vain Glory but for the sake of ●ruth and the Health and Prosperity of those the inhabitants of Britain whom I so highly esteem as my daily Labours may easily demonstrate in that I cannot chuse but cast my Mite into her great Treasuries of Wisdom c. But from the Digression to the Matter in Hand I say then That all Waters are more generous that are most endued with a salutiferous Saline oleous Life and do daily receive a Rarification from the friendly Archeius of Nature as also a fresh Influence from the Starry Powers But here by the way it must be observed That Waters are best to be taken when the Sun hath exhaled the

but is that which gives Vertue and must by consequence be united with the Centre thereof seeing Life always subsists in the Centre of every Body which cannot be touched any other way so as to be exhausted but by Fermentation and a violent Seperation which is an Exhalation of the Saline and Sulphurous Qualities thereof which is that Earth by which the said Element is Elementated which doth remain even in rain-Rain-water after all the Moisture is evaporated and this is that in this Element together with the Spiritual Life which nourishes Beings seeing the Element it selt is only as a Menstruum or Vehicle for conveying of the same to the Centre of the Earth where the Sperm is mixed and sublimed for Vegetation and therefore if the volatile Aquacity is in part evaporated then by consequence must the Menstruum become more sharp and powerful to act on Bodies and as it is more satisfied by the radical Union of the Grain so is that Liquor so produced more durable vertuous and agreeable to Constitutions either temperately hot or cold as will be shewn more at large in that Chapter that treats of Brewing And although some as I before cited ignorant in the Law of Nature do affirm That Decoction separates the volatile brisk and airy Life drawing their Argument from the groaning cracking or sighing of the Water in Decoction when alas this is nothing else but the crackling Serpent or wild Blass which is separated by the first Action of Decoction and then ceaseth and the Water concentrates into Parts more agreeable As for Example take Water and put it on the Fire and make it immediately to boyle and violently to evaporate in such a way that all the parts may be radically opened and then immediately damp or put the Fire quite out and this wild Gass shall only evaporate and the Water become free and quiet in its Decoction and is more powerful for the extracting Tinctures as also for the making Essential Oyles or indeed any use whatsoever let others say what they will to the contrary and the more especially where the Sulphurs that are to be extracted are of an hot and generous Nature as is plain in that of making Tea and Coffee or the Infusion of Sage and Sassafrass and many others in that 't is a general Custome to boy I their Waters twenty four hours and only open the Pipe to let forth the wild Gass which is purely Philosophical Observe that this Experiment is best made in such Vessels as have a blind Head and proper beck only for Evaporation And thus having in general run through what was promised in this Chapter we shall conclude the same with this positive Affirmation sc That Decoction and Fermentation are the two Pillars on which depends Exaltation and Perfection CHAP. II. In which we treat of the right way of Brewing Beer and Ale in general so as to make them the most Durable and Vertuous to Drink THE right way of Brewing is by a true and natural Preparation of the Menstruum or Liquor by which the Vertue is extracted from the Grain which can be no other way but by Decoction which must be so artificial as to separate the wild Gass as was touched at in the last Chapter That being the Grand and Fatal Enemy to Human Life and there is no Element in Nature so much abounding with the same as Water as is plainly manifest in this That rain-Rain-Water takes into its Womb all and every Gass that proceeds from other Elements which is the reason that those Places where Bogs abound and the Air hath not Power to penetrate the Body thereof so as to rarifie and enliven the same are so unhealthful and so often cause contagious Diseases for you must know the Motion Decoction and Rarification is the Life and Exaltation of Beings as hath been said as also the Purification thereof in that they separate heterogeneities and concatinate and ripen the homogeneous Qualities and seeing these are of such Universal Tendency in Nature why may not they be the same in Art For Decoction is here really necessary for without the same it is impossible to prepare our Food so as to make it generous agreable and healthful for our Bodies For as that Learned and profound Philosopher Bernard Trevisan saith in his Answer to Thomas of Bononia That Water which is Cold and Moist if it be well mixed with Vegetables assumes another Quality and in Decoction takes to it and puts on the Quality of the Thing wherewith it is throughly mixed And there can be no true Mixture of things of Different Textures but by Decoction and Fermentation but you are to observe That when I speak of Decoction I mean not one so violent as to evaporate the Compound but to ripen the same So then I shall come to explain what that Decoction is which best agrees with our Mind and is that upon which the whole End and Scope of our Intention is built sc a Seperation of the Wild and Unruly Gass which is the grand Enemy and fatal Destroyer of the Life of Man for reasons before rendred the manner how this is done hath been also already touches at therefore in preparing your Liquor in the Art of Brewing let the same be carefully observed For otherwise instead of having a wholesom and generous Liquor you have that which is destructive to the fermentative juices in us by its Stagnatizing quality and tho this hath been prevented by many in the Art of Brewing yet it hath been by accident the true Philosophy thereof being unconsidered For when the Wise and Prudent of this Nation have by experience found their Beer ill Brewed by making of them ill-disposed or by its soon souring or roping they have ordered that the same should be well boyled and then they have found a better effect by which boyling a separation of the Gass predicted hath been made and this might have been much more easily done and without a considerable diminution of the Liquor had but the true reason been understood sc by an immediate sudden quick and violent boyling and then an immediate damping of the Fire so that the Gass may evaporate which will be more in one half hour than by gentle simering in five or six hours for the Body of the Water is radically opened so as to let that freely pass out and then the Water attracts and receives in its place a vital and spiritual Life from the Air for there is no such thing as a Vacuum in Nature for if Nature should admit of this Beings would soon be annihilated But we se the contrary for Nature tends to the bettering of things and aims at her End rejoycing in the same as the Pismire doth and threfore is she not one moment Idle as Sandivogius truly says but many times she comes short of her end by meeting with obstructions in the way and therefore must it be the great business of Art to help her where she is deficient sc by

are the best that go through Sand and Chalky Places which do imbibe the Contrarietyes as is plain in this of the late Invention of making Salt-Waters fresh late I cannot so properly call it being touched at by Helmont and other Philosophers but however it was of late that a Patent was obtained for the same Salt-Water therefore is thus made Fresh by a Precipitation or Imbibing their Saline Qualityes by some contrary Ferment and then the Aquacity may be distilled off either in a Copper-Still or such Instruments as the Patentees have ordered to sea Now the matter proper for precipitating the Saline Quality is Salt of Tartar Pot Ashes Lime made from good Chalk or rather that of Oyster Muscle or Cockle-Shels or two or three of these mixed together and made into Balls and thrown into the Still and the Water distilled there-from shall be as purely Fresh as the best River or Fountain Water Now the Philosophy and Mechanical Reason hereof is this The Alkaly destroyes the Sharp and Spiritual Points of the Acid and fixes it so that that which is yet more Spiritual may ascend And the same thing may be performed by any other Alkaly This is the Reason why Lime Chalk Beech-Ashes Crabs-Eyes and Alkalized Nitre or that of Coral make sour Beer sweet as the Spirit of Salt in few Drops immediately makes New Beer drink Stale Why then may not our Springs be enriched by causing them to run through such things as will make a Precipitation of the Saline contrary Qualityes whereby they may be made wholesome and agreeable to our Constitutions seeing both Nature and Art daily perform the same and Experience shews us That it may be radically done For Example If you have a Spring which is Saline Vitriolick Muddy or Nauseous then dig as near as you can to the Head of the said Spring and round about it make a Bed of Beech or Wood-Ashes and then lay another of Sand and then let the Foundation thereof be made with Chalk and the Waters by passing through shall be made so Sweet and Pleasant as to answer the End desired This may be done in any Place where the Waters ascend and where Chalk and the rest may be had with little Cost and Labour but with great Advantage to the Drinkers thereof seeing Diseases as hath been said do often proceed there-from Now your Waters being prepared you may thus proceed to your Brewing First make your Liquor or Water to boyle very suddenly and when it boyles with the greatest Violence immediately damp or pull out your Fire as hath been said or immediately remove your Liquor into some proper Vessel there to remain and cooll till the height of the Steam or Vapour is so gone as you can see your Face in it and then put it into your Mashing Tub to wet your Malt as stiff as you can well row it up and let it remain so about a quarter of an Hour and then add another Fortion of Liquor and row it as before for if you ad your Liquor by degrees you shall the better obtain the Vertue from the Malt then add your full Quantity of Liquor according as y●● purpose to make your Beer or A●● in Strength then let the whole stand about two Hours more or less according to the strength of your Wort or difference of Weather then let it run into the Receiver and Mash again for a second Wort but your Liquor must be somewhat cooler than for the first and let it stand but half the Time these two Worts being added together you may put the Quantity of Hops you design thereto and put it into your Copper and let there be a large blind Head fitted to the same lute all fast that nothing may evaporate and gently boyl the space of one or two Hours and as the Goodness or Badness of your Liquor or Menstruum is remove then the Head and let it out into the Receiuer and strain the Hops there-from into your Coolers And so have you a Wort in which the full Vertue of the Grain and Hop is which being cooled fit for Barm let it work and then be tunned up according to the Experience of the Brewer Now if you design it for Distillation of small Beer for Servants then Mash a third Time with your Liquor almost cold and let it stand not above three quarters of an Hour the which you may Hop and Boyl according to Discretion there being no Curiosity to be observed the full and essential Parts of the Grain being before extracted wherefore this is something austere and harsh but may be moderated by a little Honey or Molasses and being boyled with Hops Wormwood or any other preserving Herb becomes excellent Drink Now Double Ale or Beer is the two first Worts used in the place of Liquor to Mash again on Fresh Malt and then doth it only extract the Sweet Friendly Balsamick Qualities there-from its Hunger being partly satisfied before wherby its Particles are rendered globical so as to defend themselves from Corruption for being thus brewed it may be transported to the Indies remaining in its full Goodness nay rather enrich it self therefore must double-brewed Beer contain three times the vertue of the single because of its durable Qualities and internal Sanity whenas the single if not well brewed especially soon Corrupts Ropes and Sours And thus you have in general my Sentiments concerning Brewing of Beer to Drink of which we cannot as before was said be more particular seeing the great Diversity of Waters and different manner of each particular Brewer which make considerable Alteration and some are so practically expert that they need no Teacher therefore our Intention here is no other than only to delineate and point forth the exact Method of separating that Gass which is so destructive to Human Kinds c CHAP. III. In which we Treat concerning the Way used in Brewing in order for Distillation THE way used by Distillers is that whereby they may obtain the greatest Quantity of Spirit and although we do not approve of it yet we think convenient to give it because they shall not think that we are ignorant thereof Which is thus First heat the Water a little above Blood-warm that is between Blood-warm and Scalding hot and then the Malt being in a Mash Tub add so much Liquor to it as is sufficient just to wet it and this is called Mashing then row or stir it up very well with two or three Pair of Hands for half an Hour together stiffly till it is all mixed in every part then add in what Quantity of Liquor you think fit but the stiffer you mash the better it is then strow it it all over with a little fresh Malt and let it stand an Hour and a Quarter or thereabouts then let it off into its Receivers and mash again with Fresh Liquor and let it stand about an Hour rowing it up as before said so a third Time But some will mash a fourth Time

Measure help us with some Artificial Fermentation when that by which the Natural is performed is through an imprudent Use and Negligence found short and deficient Now in this Case you must consider by what Qualities the Yeast acts and so prepare a Ferment agreeable thereunto The Old Country Wife helps herself much in this with Flower and Eggs and some by that of Castle-soap but we by a Union and Spiritual Action of the three Principles in such a way that the Sulphur may be predominant therefore we say That if you have the true Essential Oyl of Barly so prepared as just now hinted you need not at any Time have any Deficiency or Shortness of Ferment seeing it is durable and a small matter thereof will supply your Want Also the true Quintessence of Malt is not to be despised nor the true Quintessence of Wine For that by these many excellent Secrets are performed but more especially and above all doth our Sal Panaristus supply this Deficiency in all and every part thereof if it be but rightly used For as the Famous Radolphus Glauber says concerning his Sal Mirabilis or fixed Nitre That if the same be with Flower throughly moystened with Warm Water and set in a Warm Place then by its own proper Power and Vertue it begins to Ferment especialty if some fresh Hops be put to the Water by which also other Things are promoted to Fermentation This serves not only for Yeast for Bakers but Brewers may also thereby help themselves for by it Wort may be excited into Fermentation and the more highly our Sal Panaristos is exalted and purified the better both it perform this Operation as being more endued with the Spiritual Action of Fermentation therefore are we now labouring to produce it in such Quantity as may be sufficient to give Demonstration of its wonderful Vertue to the most Ingenious Enquirers of Art Many excellent and profitable Truths are in the Art of Fermentation which being more largly treated of in our Britannean Magazine we omit it here and come to the other Heads as follows Now the Way which Experience shews to be the best to order your Vessels for the Preservation of your Beer is as follows You must not at one Time scald them and at another Time wash them with cold Water for that is the direct course to make your Beer get a Tangue of the Vessel for the Scalding of the Vessel as you call it doth not so much wash away the Smell of the Tilts and Grounds as it attracts and stirs up the Gummous Rasomous and Oleous Part of the Wood unto the External Pores and as that finds something to operate with it must be doing then doth it give an hidden Ferment and cause the Beer to receive the Effects of that Tangue for Nature is never one Moment idle but will be doing even when deprived of its Original Form and the Activity of the vivifying Spirit therein as is evident in the Wood of Dead and Corrupted Trees yea where the Life of its Vegetation is totally destroyed for there by Fermentation and Putrefaction Worms are generated which evidently makes good what we have said We also see That after the Death of Human Kinds yea while the Body is roting and Food for the Worms that the Hair doth yet grow whilst it hath any Moysture to succor it which although Excrementous yet doth it vegetate and so would every Form be doing something although it destroys a far more pleasant one as Beer is destroyed by the Tangue of the Cask In Holland they seldom know the Effect of this evil Tangue for that the Cask hath one Head taken out by the Brewers Servant or Cooper and so brought to the River and there with a Broom well washed and every Chink thereof rubbed with a Brush and then set an End to let the Water run away and some rub them with Hop leaves that come out of the Wort and so Rince them again then being dryed in the Air and headed they take a long Piece of Canvis and diping it in Brimstone they make Matches thereof and with a few Coriander Seeds they set Fire thereunto and opening the Bung they let the Match burn in the Vessel keeping in as much as they can of the Sulphurous Fume by laying the Bung lightly on and when the Match is burned they stop all close for a little Time then being opened and coming to the Air you find your Cask as sweet as a Violet for the Acid and Sulphurous Spirits have carried off all the Corruptive and Volatile Particles and bound and constringed the more Solid and Sulphurous ones Sulphurous I say because the Wood burns like a Candle by reason of its Oyly Fatness for Sulphur is the Fiery Fuel of Wood and Coals as Oyl is of a Lamp for the Wet Mercurial Saline Properties extinguish Fire as is evident in the Difference between Extreme Wet Wood and Dry. This plain Position brings me to consider By what Power and Action Trees subsist living in the Winter when they are deprived of their Flourishing Greenness There be Various Opinions concerning this Point It is the general Vogue That the Sap and Essential Vertue of the Tree doth as the Cold Approaches fall down and retreat into the Root and at the return of the Sun in the Spring clivate itself again to replenish the Tree in all and every part thereof But Culpeper being a Man of a sharp Wit thought he had fully comprehended this things and so went about the Confutation of this Opinion by his endeavouring to shew That the Cold constringed and bound the Sap in every part of the Tree alike in the Winter saying It returned not the the Root but called them Sap-mongers who asserted the same Now our Moddler having received from him this Notion seems to impose a new Florish thereon and yet defines not the same so as to give Satisfaction to such as daily enquire into the great Business and Action of Nature For Nature hath a wonderful and most mysterious way of working she performs her Actions by Volatilizations and Fixations or by a rarifying Circulation and Condensation whence Maturation and Perfection these being carryed on and aided both by the External and Internal Powers as was before mentioned in that of Fermentation So then we must consider by what Power she externally Rarifies and by what Power she condenses for as it is the Nature of the External Mercurial Gass to Bind and Constringe the Pores of Trees Plants c. so is it of the External Heat to mollifie and open the same that so the Internal Heat may be admited in its rarifying Sublimation which works opposite Effects to that of the former for as the Internal Mild and Mercurial Spirit doth penetrate and open so doth the Internal Warmth of Sulphur congeal and ripen Now seeing these are necessary to be touched at in all and every part thereof in order to clear this Doctrine we shall proceed as follows First

Transmutation consist in that in him one Grain of Faith though no bigger than a Mustard-Seed is sufficient to Transmute and Change the vilest of Sinners into the best of Saints and by him shall all things be regenerated and created anew and redeemed to an Immortal State old things shall be done away and all things shall become new for do not the Scriptures say That he will create a new Heaven and a new Earth Now as a Christian I am bound in Duty to believe him to be the Imperial Panacea and Fulnese of all yet at the same Time seeing by him that all things were created we do allow that some Essential Vertue doth so remain in his created Works as if concatinated will produce a Panacea which by Mortals is not to be despised seeing it emblematically tipifies the inexpressible Glory of the Almighty Creator but of this more at large in our Ignis Astralis Adeptorum Therefore being omitted here we shall come yet farther to consider the Excellency of Decoction in this that if it is gentle after the first wild Gass nothing evaporates but the Cold and Flegmatick Nature so that the Sulphurous and Saline is ripened as is evident in this if that you make a strong Elixeration of Wort you may by a very gentle Evaporation bring it to a Sap very gumous wherein the chief Vertue of the Malt consists for if it is done gently you may at any time convert it into good and wholesome Beer again which is evident not only by our own Experience but also by that of the Famous Radolphus Glauber where he shews The Concentration of Beer and Wine for the benefit of Transportation and how the same by the Addition of Liquor may be reduced to its first State again and of equal Goodness And I say That this Sulphurous Gummosity is so manifest in the Elixeration of Malt and all other things whatsoever that even after a Fermentation that is suddenly forced and after the Distillation of its Spirit it will remain in very large Quantity in the Wash as may easily be demonstrated in the Evaporation of the same for there will remain a Gumous Extract very sweet and pleasant to Tast of many excellent Vertues being the Mummial Balsom of the Barley or Grain 'T was doubtless for this Reason that Glanber said The best part of the Malt was given to the Swine for herein is contained the Saluteferous and Friendly Vertue This being as the Body of the Chicken unto the Broath and is not united with the Menstruum or Liquor but by Decoction Neither is it Volatilized as is evident but by a more long and secret Fermentation and this is the reason why the English Spirits as now made are so unwholesome to the Body of Man they wanting the most Friendly Vertues being filled up in Place thereof with the destructive Gass the Liquor or Wort being not boyled it must remain therein For as the thrice Noble Helmont saith This Gass is not wanting even to common Water all things being subject to the Curse and so cursed Liquors produce cursed Effects But what cares the Distiller for that he himself drinks little thereof for he will go to a Glass of Sack or a Dish of French Brandy and he seeks for Quantityes and Profits from his Distillation to maintain the same this is the reason why we in our Art of waking Wines Brandy c. have commended well-brewed Beer as the true Basis on which the great Business of Distillation depends And we say That if the same be well fermented with our Sal Panaristos or some other Artificial Way 't will yield Quantity of Spirit sufficient considering the Qualityes that are so highly advanced 't is not the great Quantity of Spirits proceeding from new Beer which we esteem so much as we do the Vertues of those proceeding from the Old Let the new Moddler instance what he pleases for 't is generally agreed on by all the Ingenious That Decoction and Fermentation ripen and exalt all things and I make no Doubt but the learned Colledgiates will allow the same why then should not our Nobles Gentry c. be advertised in that wherein not only their own Health consists but also that of the whole Inhabitants For since so many new and ungrounded Inventions have been and more especially now of late how many thousands do there deplorably die away yea even to the Amazement of Physicians And I have but two things to place this on sc The immediate Hand of God's Judgment on the Nation for Sin or the Inhabitants neglecting the Means of their own Health by eating so much raw Fruits rare Flesh so called but rather raw and drinking new and unboyled Beer and poysonous Arsenical Spirits the very Bear Lyon Wolf Tyger Serpent Dragon nay the Basilisk to Man's Health We have an History That S. George killed the Dragon in Egypt from whence came the Honours Titles and Dignities to England and English Men and will you now let the like Egyptian Dragon inhabit your Houses and be harboured in your Bosome when he designs nothing else but your Lives Remember the Valour of your Ancients and let him be banished from your Land let your wise Magicians conjure him into the Black Sea his own Inhabitation and let there be a Law made upon Pain of Death that none shall harbour his Eggs for Fear of a Cockatrice Remember I say the good old way and the Health and Innocency of your Fathers who lived to a good old Age who perhaps never drank any thing else in their Lives but a Glass of well-brewed Beer or Ale which proved to them more profitable than any of these New and Late Inventions especially such as have no Ground in Truth But what says Solomon There is nothing new under the Sun what are have been and will be again so that New Truths are but the Reviving of the Old ones or a Discovery of that which hath ever been though not in general known for those that have known it have made a Secret thereof and being Envious and unwilling that their Fellow Creature should stand in equal Knowledg with them have reserved the same so that it hath died with them as is evident in that of Staining of Glass so as to bear the Fire Tyron-Purple and Transmutation of Metals c. to the great Disadvantage of Mankind for had it but been otherwise Gold might have been as plentiful as Dross Having thus run through the Theory of the Usefulness of Decoction and Fermentation I shall now come to the Practice thereof in the mode of Brewing c. But by the way I think it needful to touch how Waters may be in some Measure exalted to a more salutiferous and friendly Nature which may be of great Use to the Inhabitants especially where good Rivers and friendly Springs are not You may observe that we before hinted at the Nature of Waters now how they may be graduated and made alike is thus Seeing those