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The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…
The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of quotations] / By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
printed by Timothy Green, 1722
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. THE Great GOD who formed all things, and who after a Singular manner forms the Spirit of Man within him, has Endued this Nishmath-Chajim, with Marvellous Faculties; which yet are all of them short of those Powers, which Enable the Rational Soul, to Penetrate into the Causes of Things; To Do Curious and Exquisite Things in the Mathematical Sciences; And above all, To act upon a Principle of Love to GOD, and with the Views of Another World.
III. SOME Rays of Light Concerning this Nishmath-Chajim, have been darted into the Minds of many Learned Men, who have yet after all remained very much in the Dark about it.
FAMOUS have been the Sentiments of Helmont (and some other Masters of Obscurities) about it; who would Exhibit it under the Name of the Archaeus; and with much of Reason Press, that in the Care of Diseases, there may be more of Regard Paid unto it.
ACCORDING to Gr•mbs (Writing, De Ort• Rerum) it is, Medium quid inter Vitam at Corpus, et Vel••i Aura nit••• Splendsque A Sort of Luminous Air, which is of a Middle Nature, Spirituous and Corporus.