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column uitli 0^, (which is as near as I can in this table 

 sonic) and in tht seventh column on the left hand, I find 

 the planetary hour of Venus began at noon and ended at 

 1 h. 41 m. P.M. on that said day. 



Such was the mode of praiitice when nature only was 

 consulted, and the intention really to make a cure, 

 •without a view to gain. Then disease Avas but little 

 known, and people lived to a good old age. 



Suppose your iliedicine ready made up, and just agoing 

 to take it, consider Avhat disease you take it for, whether 

 there be any virtue in your said medicine; and if so who 

 it was that gave it the same; and when you arc fully 

 convinced that your said medicine will avail nothing 

 except the blessing of God be joined to the same, you 

 will not forget to duly ask, that you may duly receive it, 

 always before and alter taking the same; and whatever 

 benefit and advantage you may at any time receive 

 through my labours, always remember to give the praise 

 to God alone, who hath most fully enabled me to writ© 

 these books and to do all these things for your benefit 

 and welfare. Therefore see that you always acknow- 

 ledge the most bountiful Providence of God in all these 

 things at all times, unto whom be all praise, honour, 

 glory, dominion and power, for ever and ever, Amen. 



I have certainly seen some Herbals, where the author 

 has denied all the various planetary influence and eife(5ts 

 of the Stars, either upon the body of man or herbs, &:c. 

 but this error has been committed wholly through 

 ignorance; as in our present day, even some of our 

 ancient and modern astronomers suppose that the planets, 

 by reason of their vast distance from us, can have no 

 influence or eftect on any subject, matter, or thing here 

 below. Thus they labour under a most woeful mistake, 

 seeing that it is not the body of the star or planet that 

 doth produce the least eflcd; on any thing whatsoever, 

 but it is the spiritual part of the same that doth daily 

 perform, operate, and most fully execute, every thing 

 iliat is done and promised by them ; Avhich said subject, 

 matter and thing I have most fully shewn, proved, 

 explained and laid open for the comprehension of the 

 meanest capacity in my elaborate Work, entitled, Tha 



