Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...
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Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eirenæus Philalethes ...
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Philalethes, Eirenaeus.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Ratcliff and Nat. Thompson, for William Cooper ...,
1678.
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Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Alchemy.
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THE
BOOKSELLER
TO THE
READER.
Reader,
IT is an Argument of a noble and gene∣rous
Soul, to be freely communicative
for the benefit of Mankind, and most
like to God himself, to be universally kind
to all; nay the very Heathen not only ac∣counted
those men as Gods, who communi∣cated
their Inventions for the benefit of
their Generation, and the good of Mankind
in general, but were worshipped as such by
the succeeding Generations, until Shilo
came: Of this Spirit was our Author, who
wrote many Books of this
Subjecta 1.1, that by the va∣riety
of expressions, and
insinuating hints, the dili∣gent
Searchers might find
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out this Art as well as himself: And of
this Spirit (I hope) thou art, Gentle Rea∣der,
that if Providence have cast into thy
hands the Exposition upon the last Six
Gates, which our Author wrote, as himself
confessethb 1.2, or any other of his
Writings, I hope thou wilt not
degenerate so far from a Good
man, and from the mind of the Author
himself, as to conceal those Treasures in pri∣vate,
which he so freely wrote, and by Tran∣scripts
dispersed, with leave to communi∣cate
them for the good of all. Which if you
shall please to perform, you will thereby very
much oblige this Generation of Philoso∣phers,
(who esteem this Author's Pieces
for the learnedst, freest, and smoothest style,
without affectation, and the plainest, that
was ever yet wrote; who thirsted as it were
for a larger manifestation of this Secret,
yet durst not give a plain Receipt, for fear
of doing more evil than good thereby;)
and not only this Generation, but Posterity
will be infinitely beholden to you, that by
your means these worthy Writings may be
handed down to them. And if you shall
likewise be pleased to send any of this Au∣thor's
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Pieces, either mentioned or not men∣tioned
in the Catalogue, to the Pelican in
Little-Britain, London, you shall receive
the grateful acknowledgment of,
Your humble Servant,
W. C. B.
Notes
a 1.1
See the Catalogue of them in this Book, at the end of the Ex∣position upon the E∣pistle to K. Edward, pag. 47.