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Fundamenta chymica: or, A sure guide into the high and rare mysteries of alchymie; L.C. Philmedico Chymicus.

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Title
Fundamenta chymica: or, A sure guide into the high and rare mysteries of alchymie; L.C. Philmedico Chymicus.
Author
L. C.
Publication
London :: Printed by William Godbid, for William Barlow ...,
1658.
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Subject terms
Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/B02287.0001.001
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"Fundamenta chymica: or, A sure guide into the high and rare mysteries of alchymie; L.C. Philmedico Chymicus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B02287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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To the learned R. T. on the following Tract.

WHat rare Discovery? what light is this Shines to us by thy Metamorphosis? That doth derive an Art to simple man, From God and Nature; by which Art he can Of all diseases know the perfect ground, And render imperfections, whole and sound. Thanks therefore, learned Friend, for this our gain, Who reap the Harvest of thy polish'd Brain. The Great Elixir sure enjoy you must, That thus can raise a subject from the dust 〈1 page missing〉〈1 page missing〉

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Of dark oblivion, and then transmute His for vesture to an English sute. Thus thou hast chang'd the language ne'retheless The sense remains, though in anothe•• dress This thou hast gain'd hereby; the worl•• will see Thou art a friend to dame Philosophy: And for the labor thou hast undergone, To cloath this Infant in our Albion, Succeeding times shall praise what thou hast writ▪ And future Readers own to thee their wit•• Mean time, if Zoilus say, thy pen di•• halt, Conclude, his brain's not season'd with our Salt.

Your humble Servant, Owen Crane.

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