Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.

The Vegetable Sal Armoniack of Lully. Libro de materia Vegetabili in practica quarta.

TAke excellent Wine either red or white, distil by the Rule of Art an ardent Spirit, burning Cotton, evaporate the Phlegm till the Matter remain thick, as melted pitch, to which pour of the ardent Spirit so much, as to swim four Fingers above it: digest for a week in Balneo, then distil the animated Spirit by Ashes, to the Earth pour new ardent Spirit, repeating so oft, till the Earth remain dry, and in the Form of powder: More∣over, you must from the Earth distil an Oyl in Ashes with a Fire sufficiently strong, so as that the Earth being laid on a red hot Plate, casts forth no fume. That Oyl, as also the Phlegm are of no value in the present Work. Calcine or Reverberate the said Earth in a close Vessel, to which pour of the animated ardent Spirit an eigth part in an Alembick, digest in Balneo three days, then gently draw off the superfluous moisture, being insipid as common Water, imbibe as before, and continue so oft, till the

Earth in a close Vessel, to which pour of the animated ardent Spirit an eighth part in an Alembick, digest in Balneo three days, then gently draw off the superfluous moisture, being insipid as common Water, imbibe as before, and continue so oft, till the Earth be made Volatile, which you will know, if a little of it put on a red hot Plate be almost wholly evaporated: This impregna∣ted Earth sublime with a subliming Fire the space of twenty four Hours: The Volatile and sublimed Salt sublime by it self yet twice, which is to be with the ardent Spirit dissolved, distilled, and forty or fifty days Circulated into an Odoriferous Liquor.

Sometimes they impregnated the Earth from the beginning to the compleat saturity of it, with a fourth part of the animated Spirit, thus: