'Now Physitians say, that man hath in his Constitution, in his Complexion, a naturall Vertue, which they call _Balsamum suum_, his owne Balsamum, by which, any wound which a man could receive in his body, would cure itself, if it could be kept cleane from the annoiances of the aire, and all extrinseque encumbrances. Something that hath some proportion and analogy to this Balsamum of the body, there is in the soul of man too: The soule hath _Nardum suum_, her Spikenard, as the Spouse says, _Nardus mea dedit odorem suum_, she hath a spikenard, a perfume, a fragrancy, a sweet savour in her selfe. For _virtutes germanius attingunt animam, quam corpus sanitas_, vertuous inclinations, and disposition to morall goodness, is more naturall to the soule of man, and nearer of kin to the soule of man, then health is to the body. And then if we consider bodily health, _Nulla oratio, nulla doctrinae formula nos docet morbum odisse_, sayes that Father: There needs no Art, there needs no outward Eloquence, to persuade a man to be loath to be sick: _Ita in anima inest naturalis et citra doctrinam mali evitatio_, sayes he: So the soule hath a naturall and untaught hatred, and detestation of that which is evill,' &c. _Sermons_ 80. 51. 514. Paracelsus has a great deal to say about this natural balsam, though he declares that 'the spirit is _most_ truly the life and balsome of all Corporeal things'. It was to supply the want of this balsam that mummy was used as a medicine. Of a man suddenly slain Paracelsus says: 'His whole body is profitable and good and may be prepared into a most precious Mummie. For, although the spirit of life went out of such a Body, yet the Balsome, in which lies the Life, remains, which doth as Balsome preserve other mens.' l. 27. _A methridate_: i.e. an antidote. See note to p. 255, l. 127. ll. 31-2. _The first good Angell, &c._ 'Our first consideration is upon the persons; and those we finde to be Angelicall women and Evangelicall Angels: ... And to recompense that observation, that never good Angel appeared in the likenesse of woman, here are good women made Angels, that is, Messengers, publishers of the greatest mysteries of our Religion.' _Sermons_ 80. 25. 242. ll. 35-6. _Make your returne home gracious; and bestow This life on that; so make one life of two._ 'Make a present of this life to the next, by living now as you will live then; and so make this life and the next one'--or, as another poet puts it: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.