Oriatrike or, physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life / written by ... John Baptista Van Helmont ...; now faithfully rendered into English ... by J[ohn] C[handler]. Sometime of M.H. Oxon.

  • Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
Date:
[1662]
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Credit: Oriatrike or, physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life / written by ... John Baptista Van Helmont ...; now faithfully rendered into English ... by J[ohn] C[handler]. Sometime of M.H. Oxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wife Men s Thou doft fatisfie us, and befides, doftaUo over-fignifie, that Man was the fixth Day, and that he feperated the Light from the Darknefs oii the firft Day, which Light or Spirit, he called Day, and his Blood, Flefh, or Darknefs, he called Night, which Evening, and Morning, constituted the “ fixth Days and fo confeqiiently, the other five, although according to eve¬ ry ones peculiar Nature. But doft thou make no mention of the fevcnth Day? , ' ' V ' Mercurius i The feventh Morning, Light or Life, is the Spirit of God it felf j even as was faid : And therefore in Mofes his defeription of the feventh Day , it is not exprefled, that the Evening and Morning was made the feventh Day, as in the fix precedent Dayes s and that for this Caufe, becaufe there is no Beginning, or Evening granted to be in God the Father, becaufe he is he who [ Is what he is but it is fo accounted, becaufe on the feventh Day, heinfpired into Man his Face, the Breath of Life, and this man became into a living Soul s fo that of Man, and the Breath of God, the feventh Day was made. Wife Men} From thy relation, we have fully underftood the Beginning and Ending of the firft Day, and of the fixth Day following, with the feventh Day not ended, that Man was conjoyntly made into a living Soul: But we delire to hear, what Mofes will have to be meant by the Word^ In the Beginning f Mercurius > The Beginning is God the Son^ by whom, in whom, and from whom the Heaven and Earth were created j as the Evangelift John doth moft ex¬ ceeding evidently teftifie, in his firft Chapter, in thefe Words : In the Be- ginning wets the Word ( which with the Dutch alfo founds, Woort, that is Fiat or let it be done ) and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. This Word was inthe Beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was nothing made. In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of mem And the Light Jhineth in Darknefs and the Darknefs hath not comprehended it. There was a Manfentfrom God, whofe name was ]ohn. This Man came for a Tefiimony, that - he might bear witnefs of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but that he might bear witnefs of the Light. That was, the true Light, which enhgbtneth every Man that cometh into this Word i He was in the World^and the World was made by him, and the World knew him not. He came into his own,and his own received him not: But as many as received him, to them he gave Power to become the S ons of God, to thefe who believe in his name i who were born not of Bloods, noroftheWiRoftheFleJh, neither of the Will of Man, but of God. And the Word was made Flefh, and cfvelt in us, and we faw its Glory, us the Glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace, and Truth. John gives his Teflimony concern^- tnghim, and cry eth out faying i This was he, whom If aid’, hewhichisto come af^ ter me, was made before mebecaufe he was before me: And of hisfulnefs, we all have received, and Grace for Grace: Becaufe the Law was given by Mofes, Grace, andTruth was made by Jefus Chrifi. No Man hath feen God at any time: The ^ onely