ustain
the most intense Torture of Fire.

Behold! thus have I exactly,
from first to last, commemorated
this History. The Gold I indeed
have, but where, or in what Land
or Countrey. Elias the Artist is at
this day hospited, I am wholly
ignorant for he told me, his purpose
was to abide in his own Country
no longer then this Summer;
that after he would travil into Asia,
and visit the Holy Land. Let the
most wise King of Heaven (under
the Shadow of whose divine
Wings he hath hitherto layn hid)
by his Administratory Angels accompany
him in his intended
Journey, and prosper it so as he
living to a great Age, may with
his inestimable Talent greatly
succour the whole Republick of
Christians, and after this Life gloriously
behold, and take of the
prepared Inheritance of Life Eternal.
Amen.

CHAP. IV.

Therefore, now to compleat my
promise, I will forthwith betake
my self to the Dialogue or,
Colloque between Elias the Artist,
and me the Physician.

Elias the Artist.

God save you, Master Helvetius!
If I may not be too troublesome, I
desire to have the freedom of Discoursing
with you for a little time,
because I have heard, that you are
a curious Indagator of natural
things. For I have perused
your Books, and among them,
especially that whole Treatise,
which you write against the effect
of Sir Kenelm Digbies Sympathetick
Powder, where it is gloried,
that the same, can at distance cure
all Wounds. Assuredly I am incredibly
delighted in those things,
which are beheld in this Speculum,
whether Sympathetick, or
Antipathetick, naturally implanted
in Creatures. For the inexhausted
Treasures of the Divine
Light and Deity, no less abundantly,
than liberally granted to us,
may best of all be known from all
the Creatures, which are produced
either under the AEtherial Heaven,
or in the belly of the Earth,
or in the Womb of the Sea, to the
end, that by their potentially insited
virtues, they should restore
health to the Mortal Body of
Men.

Helvetius the Physician

O Sir! The presence of such a
new Guest shall never be troublesome
to me, but rather I receive
you as one of my best Friends. For
Philosophick Discourse, touching
the Secrets cf Nature, is the only
recreation of my Mind, also it is
such convenient Salutiferous Nutriment,
as no man can be worthy
to taste of, before he shall be
rightly disposed for that Banquet.
Enter, I pray, Friend, into the House.

Artist

Indeed Sir! H