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 ...

And after that, from poysoned bulk he cast his venom fell.

THis Reduction of the Body, thus in this water ingenders so venomous a Nature, that truly in the whole World there is not a ranker Poyson, or stink, according as Philosophers witness: And therefore he is said to cast his fell venom from his poysoned bulk; in as much as the exhalations are compared to the Inve∣nomed Fume of Dragons, as Flamell in his Summary hath such an Allusion. But the Philosopher (as he adds in his Hierogly∣phicks of the two Dragons,) never feels his stink, unless he break his Vessels, but only he judgeth it by the colours procee∣ding from the rottenness of the Confe∣ctions.

And indeed it is a wonder to consider, (which some Sons of Art are eye-witnes∣ses of) that the fixed and most digested

Body of Gold; should so rot and putri∣fie, as if it were a Carcass, which is done by the admirable Divine virtue of our dis∣solving Water, which no Money can purchase. All these operations, which are so enlarged by variety of expressions, center in one, which is killing the quick, and reviving the dead.