Long livers: a curious history of such persons of both sexes who have liv'd several ages, and grown young again: with the rare secret of rejuvenescency of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, and a great many ... rules to prolong life: as also how to prepare the universal medicine .... / [translated] by Eugenius Philalethes, F.R.S. [i.e. R. Samber].

  • Harcouet de Longeville, approximately 1660-1720
Date:
1722
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Credit: Long livers: a curious history of such persons of both sexes who have liv'd several ages, and grown young again: with the rare secret of rejuvenescency of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, and a great many ... rules to prolong life: as also how to prepare the universal medicine .... / [translated] by Eugenius Philalethes, F.R.S. [i.e. R. Samber]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Beginning (I fpcak the Words of Chrifl:) it was not fo. By reafon of which exter¬ nal Ads, Symbols, Shadows and Hierogly- phieks (which Chriftians afterwards explain¬ ed as Types oftheMeffiah) this Law (quite oppofite to the Chriftian, which was called the Law of Freedom, and of Men) was called the Law of Children and of Slaves^ for it grew fo troublefome and fo fervile at laft, throTuch a Multitude of Traditions of Men, that the Yoke was heavier than could be born withal 5 a Grievance which nothing but the Law of Grace and Liberty could cfFedually remedy, of which by and by. And might it not have been reafonably expeded after fo much noble Induftry and Care in inftituting fuch glorious Laws, the Morality of which is inconteftible, and all tend to Peace and Happinefs, and the ex¬ terminating of Rapine, Violence and Op- prellion. Blood and Slaughter, that thefe People fliould have been good and happy ? bnt k was quite the contrary: So that this People of Ifraely who were a leprous, itchy Race, had no Merit to recommend them to the Divine Favour, but chofen thro’ mere Grace, made fo little Uie of thofe Benefits,^ that they grew the moft ungrateful, wicked, bloody People on the Face of the Earth, Mofes indeed, as meek as he otherwife was, had