A key to physic, and the occult sciences ... To which are added, lunar tables ... exhibiting ... the actual moment of the crisis of every disease ... The whole forming an interesting supplement to Culpeper's Family physician ... By E. Sibly.

  • Sibly, Ebenezer.
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[between 1790 and 1799]
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Credit: A key to physic, and the occult sciences ... To which are added, lunar tables ... exhibiting ... the actual moment of the crisis of every disease ... The whole forming an interesting supplement to Culpeper's Family physician ... By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of proportionable bulk, than it did before this divifion. The minuted: particles of matter, knock, repel, and refill one another, juft as the greater do, and that is all they can do : fo that if we fuppofe nothing eternal, matter can never begin to be : if we fuppofe bare matter without motion eternal, motion can never begin to be : if we fuppofe only matter and motion eternal, thought can never begin to be: for it is impofiible to conceive, that matter, either with or without motion, could have origi- nally in and from itfelf, fenfe, perception, and knowledge, as is evident from hence, that then fenfe, perception, and knowledge, mull be a property eternally infeparable from matter, and every particle of it. Since, therefore, whatfoever is the firft eternal being, mull neceflhrily be cogitative ; and whatfoever is firft of all things, mull ne- cefiarily contain in it, and actually have at leaft all the perfections that can ever after exift; it necefiarily follows, that the firft eternal being cannot be matter. If, therefore, it be evident, that fomething muft necefifarily exift from eternity, it is alfo as evident, that that fomethingmuftbeacogitativebeing. For it is as impofiible that incogitative matter fhould produce a cogitative being, as that nothing, or the negation of all being, fhould produce a pofitive being, or matter. This difcovery of the necefifary exiftence of an eternal mind, fufficiently leads us to the knowledge of God ; for it will hence follow, that all other knowing beings that have a beginning, muft depend on him, and have no other ways of knowledge or ex- tent of power, than what he gives them; and therefore if he made thofe, he made alfo the lefs excellent pieces of this univerfe, all inanimate bodies, whereby his om- nifcience, power, and providence, will be eftablilhed ; and from thence all his other attributes necefifarily follow. Thus, a manifeftation of the Deity is vifible in all his works. There is not the fmalleft partof that immenfe fpace our eyes behold, or our imaginations conceive, that is not filled with His prefence. Theworlds which revolve with fo much order, beau- ty, and harmony, through the immenfity of fpace, the fun, moon, liars, and planets, are upheld by the light of his countenance; but for which they would drop from their orbs, and, plunged into the vail abyfs, would return to their primitive chaos. To the mercy of God we owe all the blefilngs of this life, as the reward of good and virtuous aftions. To his anger, we juft] y attribute all violent concufilons of the elements, famine, plague, pellilence, &c. brought on a wicked and abandoned peo- ple, like the ftorm of fire and brimftone on Sodom and Gomorrah. The vengeance of the Deity cannot be more awfully defcribed, than by David in his Pfalms, which fhould aCt as a timely warning to thofe atheifts and unbelievers, and to thofe wick- ed, idolatrous, and polluted countries, againft whofe deteftable crimes thefe terrible icourges have been fo often fent. The lhaking of the earth; the trembling of the 2 hills