St ; he Ly 3 pete faptere siete cas st Sette aieaae sires Maes sh ‘ 84 ) Perstans peeset te $333 a sritisietesetatian aie pa ry a fs : : : ‘ ; at fat fs : . f eit ; eats pe gyist iors - 3 melon rasgets jes sbteeec ts Spee othe Mas era + ete + bdr fn ye om Se a ul Ses : 3 7 e by pel ee a REN Mw. 3. iy DVERTI is EME N. iat TAL Creo fs : ne threlPalh two all "Thea ses allt - ready for the Prefs,’ one entituled, — fthe' Warn evand Copsplexte to preferves Fed af ther, and particularly and certainly from that unis Py verfal marvin Diftewper, Theor, yh satin ae Sta 8 sl he 1 ae gy = ate ene ae 4 Ke We re : V eevee, és lof. at me re : a re erve from Surfeits and. other’ Brae fe, AI th s therein preferibed” beitg ‘Very eafie and natural for. every one to’ perform without Coft or. Hirai ; cauling ., h 0 tl pup ’ De “eget to” the He a TO ET one, Se Long LIFE and “HAPPINES s Or; A Difcourfe of ike smperance i gh, hs Ge | The birciedla Nature of all beng ¥ - - reguificfortheLifeof Man, As - All forts of Afeats, Drinks, Air, Exercife, ec. with pe aa Directions how to ule each of chem to the beft Advantage of the ae BODY and MIND. Shewing from the true ground of Nature whence molt ce Difeates proceed, andhowto.preventthem. bee i To which i 1s pee A Treat! Ue of moft forts of . * With aries other scree soNe and moft ufeful Obker- oe Vations, very neceflary for all Families. The whole Treatifel difplaying the moft hidden fecrets of Philofophy, and made eafieand familiar} _ tothe meaneft Capacities, by var rious Exampzes and Demonftrances. The like Neber before Mubiifhed. 1: Communicated tothe World fora general Good, By Pbilotheos Pbphologus, — t i ‘ Londen, Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, at the the Crooked-Billet i Howe ipo . Late near Shoreditch, 168 3. me eres te hh gn: — ee 9 & . ¥ $ * . f ‘ Dak t ‘ Ae ml - Bs ave: thy Be Se Oa Ler of a gin an re : 8 Har paighty Tyraet Cuftom has made if fa thi- | fh oonable (and confequently to fome People [ecom-— ' gugly neceflary) to dedicate Books, when publifbt, . to fome great Names, whom Authors. are wont ia. - Toad with Blatteries, and them beg their Protetion. — A Cowrfe in my Opinion wo Jes impertinent than bale: For éf the Writer be Confcious to him/lelf,thst “We needs Pardon and fuch Supporters, why does be _ trouble the World with his Papers ? if his Intentiors are goodand candid, what need of fuch fawning Ac-. _. Greffes? Truth x too Noble to trackle tathofe little Artifices, ad carries in the Majefty ofiher uncloud- ed Brow, both fufficient Pals-port and Patronage ; * fincethofe that. oppofe her, do st at their own Peril, ana at Long-run [be is [ure tobe Victorious, \ > IT therefore decline that vulgar Method, as one _ that am no ways fond of running the broad Way of — — the Multitude... To thee, (OQ Reader) wheever thaw — - art, uw $his Book eatirely dedicated; and yet I {hak . not fo nach as be[peak thee to be kind and courteous. only for thy own [ake, defire.thee to be yult avd con- - fiderate ; to weigh smipartiaily what I offer {mean _ the Matter, sot the Words or Stile) andif fillthow — wilt with the deaf Adder /fop thy Ears againft the - Foice of the Charmer, the favlt and the danger _ Thine; Ihave difcharg’d my Duty, . Vi Tae EER onc ae he Jp ailtett! . acquainted with thernfelves, mt een a .* @ %& ie Phe main defig it of this ‘Treated barby esi - perance, the mot excelent’ \ nov negleci Virtue inthe World, to thsir Praiticl ee Se To 0 per} walle them to Bie kind to ‘their: own "Helis, | Weak “gherr’ own Lives, ‘theinown Souls! 2 mon” | | Nor will it be needful here to give’ You's Bilof ae . Fare of 3 the feveral Difhess which. this Bangnet p a —fents you with; that’s done® in the’ Contents feveral Chapters. AMT (ball fay, is; “Wha bere*are -wariety of “Truths plainly delivered, ‘which I do not * know are elfe-where (in Books) tobe wet with ay [have xot aon vited Authors iz compofing this Trae, - £0 pay you, like a Banker with other poMts Coin, * ’ or enterain you with a Rapfody of olen: Notions, as inc i See trivial As the Py er Leni Os a Taylors Cufhion ~ One grand Objetion I 0 foes VIZ: That I ait : guilty of. Tautology, or have’ too’ ‘oft re epeateth ‘ ‘the fame things. To this T_Anfwer ei ha ¢ a hope you will rarely fina bare’ Repetition, but although the fame, or alike Ex prelfions miy OCCUP ~ . get fill they. are either attended ap Some. Addie eng age other Notion. eg and lluftration, or elfe are eK ee ta the by cuae i. 1 “Needful Truths “ave never’ too “often 4 Fabesbiak till they are once well learnt. - Many. men are - flow of Apprebenfion, and cannot reach ones meaning — win ae expense 0 Ms Me ards: a * reiterated — ai 7a 2 = | 5 ie b oO? Strokes, q ey ees 7 % la ag ae a 2 . 4 ae % a8 poe Pe ihe 3 sealers f , genni ext .0n Moy te a Bae eee f maaan Rees ory: ay ae Vili, thas hee, 9 e ey aa e, «ag yet “ts feven Notes s#il/ are Ota Foun- | dstion on.which he builds, fo that.to every Leflon, Song or Divifion, they muff be repeated. - 0 in the Mathematicks | (that Demonftrative Science, whereby fo many vare things are effeited) the Number’ Pens the extent of all natural Numera- tion, and. Eleaven is but a beginning again. And the very fare Figures must afterwards continually be xepeated i jz all. Arithmetical Operations, , to bring greater. Myfteries to manifeftation, — In 0 molt delightful Art of Reprefentation, 5 hee are but Seven perfect Colours, and yet oy thefe a skilful Mafter can paint and imitate all the Ap- peMtances in the Univerfe, c a 5. i Ge oO the: Reade era _ There are but Seven Mettals, and yet hem many Wonders are wronght by and out of them?" In Seven Days the unbonsded Jehowah created aii — -Beeings, by the power and virtue of his holy Word, _ which Word of Power does ftill both conferve and oo.” nerate ; for there is no ftanding {till of Gods power in Nature ; all things being continually repeated by _ the Revolutions and Configurations of the Ccelettials, — and therice it was that the Wi/e-man (aid, There was — no New thing underthe Sun. There ave but fever — Days in aWeek, which are repeated fifty two timesin aTear ; and fo from one Generation to another. ~~ Therefore, whoever will treat aright, either of divine or natural things, and their occult Virtues or Vices, mujt make the feven Primogenial Forms oy — - Conftellations bis Bafis or Ground-Work, and in all cafes have recgurfe ta them, or elfe he fall never ‘ truly difplay Natwres Operations. ao There ts yet another Prejudice may be taken, becaufe in fome particulars I have [poken what may feews too. 7 free avd faterical: But if any, with unbvalfed Minds — — -pleafe to confider the Fopperifhnelé of thofe — - things I [peak againft, and withal how defteudtive they — areto Mankind, they will be fatisfied, that [uch fub- rect deferved no other Treatment. “Tis netther ont 2 “of Til-Will or Self-Intereft Ihave handled them at — that vate, out as I conceived they ought juftly to be ex- ‘ pofed to the Contempt of that part of the World, which J long they have Afs-ridien and feduegd. To the Reader. | : Pe WaAY COME “to rhe right Underfiinding of Gods Law in Nature, andgovern your felves accor ding by, ‘to the Obtaining Health, both of the Body: aad Mind, and be happy here ag hereafter, is the *Endeeconr as well ygee feof 32> : “Your Well-withing Friend, at : er | Philotheos Pibbaleg | See so cs ee : ey Hees Se a ; Now a a> ia es nae + Wh Et ro swat see mneie doh! aes oD rearife.» mo HS * * nS) Be he at Ks 1 rit’ tes ARO | “chap I. A Deferiniie > the four grand. Ona che whence the four Complextons proceed. Edom every man may know hisowe Complexion; alfo of Beas ys andHerbs,and to what Virtnes,V sees aud Dj ‘them-are noft fubjett, and what foods moft agreeable 1 to Perfons of every Conjtitution, ‘ page i Of the Bitter Quality, — . ih pega” Of the Sweet Quality, ss a AY ind 85) a . Of the Sour Quality, — apa us gi Pio. ; | OftheAftringent of Saltsfy repos aay eevee Cay Of the Cholerick, Complexion, eS 4 wa a Me dee a Of the Phlegmatick Complexion, |» ~ lt 2 Death Of the Sanguine Complexion, AR wee ne Hee So Of the Melancholy Complexion, 1a GA ods ooPs3 ‘ar Cha I. Of the excellcney of Temperance, "the Rok led ofa Mans hf, and the ae a of felts and Sobrictys p. 43. which prege the Body tobe eo * Temple of the Lord, Pp. 48. Of the P orophes Daniel’s refufin, ing the dainties that came fromthe King’s Table, p. 50,51. The Abjtemions lives © of the Rechabites a reproach to the Ifraclites. : _ Alf, of Sampfon’s drinking Wine, &c. Ds $25 53> The can] € of Leprons and ee Difeafes, ey.” frre OB | The ot eicae S Col »P. Ti. Feavers, Pe'}as Chap = : ti Mo — of the Panes a sd, ° vir. 1 ie Nature and Comple: ion of Oxen &. Cows, p 79. of their Mate | Kae 83. \, ‘The. excgellency a Butter, Cheefe “Of Sheep, their Compleeions and Wire, and of their, ie Elelh, Pp: pa How krtow. whether thee Mutton be pers El a aT fh 6} 0 Fs cies pn 893-9 2: Of Laanb, LL. SAS Calves ht apg dee 935 94595. Of the pele of Swine,c these atone: oe Kelty L00yp. oe SG ER caller re: 100. oe Flefrof Fowls Chai ov. 7 ; By er Shy st Wie ay. of preper- i se 5 wiZs | Oph, Roafting, Baking,, SHEMARE, Fr 3a Broyling of Flejhs ana other Food, - “from p: 193, ‘to, Dp ree Be Ey “chip: YY. The Seafins of As yeas int pick maf People are liable to Difeafesand Mortality ; and the Reafons why fo " many’ are fi ick dye more at one time ‘than another. Alfa _ what Food is beft to preferve health at that time ; fhewing alfothe patafert of the year in which moft fores of F lefh ure unclean and ape. tocontrak Difeafes; and what times _ men may eat Flefh with leaft danger to. their Health. And _. of the Nature of Summer Fruits, bow they are good, and & patie Pees as | ALOMID. L250: bODe 140. Chap. art, ‘Of Waters, fate Beer atid yarn “Fe ana Mi lke Pottage, sme t* D- 81582. ° ro <= “is ae / which 1s added the confideration of Clothing, Houtes - _ and Beds, and what great Benefits arife from Moderation — and Temperance i in thofe things, : _ p.141. Of Waterin geyeral,both internal and externabp. 1425143. _, Of Rain-Water, andits Nature, nee Pp. 145-. fe River-Water ; and the Reafons why V; allies are. fe : : mig and Fills fe barren, : 14,7: r ; . N x i ee Co N TEN TS. aS * or Springer Foiteain Wats vine % ‘i P-. 150. | Of Pump or Well-Watery os P. 1§t. | a gl Pood o fanding Water’, AS aa, Paella ‘ | Of Ale, and its nature and operation; “a alfe f Beer, | and the moft proper and natural stad cae Eas ee ad 54 | _ How toextrath the virtue of Hops, = Pe TO Ze | OF Tobacco, its nature and Oper ations Ai Pp 164, | Of Clothing, Bedding, Ce. : idee hey a) | Of particular Trades, as Carpenters, Fras andpar= | ticularly of Sea-men, the. aes 189. Th he evil effetts of the Liquor called Punch, a Piz | Chap. VII. Of Grains, Herbs and Frit, VIZ, Ee. ~ Of Wheat, 3 at “p. 193. Of Barley, Nie | P1996 OF Reye, CA ee SOc Of Peafe and Beans, , Soe Dh 2s : Of Kidney or French-Beans, ss 204. -* Of Herbs, raw and boyled,*® < ~ Vp 2OF. | Of Colworts, Cabbage and ‘Collyfowers, "Pp. 209, ) OF: Purnips, bil 9 ee Of Carrots and paired ‘hon Bab he hk PR | Lbat the Fruits, Herbs & Grains which oxr omn Climate -- “produceth, are more natural and prepey $0 maintain ‘Strength and preferve Health, than ail! that come | from other Countries, * p. 215. ~The nature and Property of Spices, Nutmegs, ‘Cloves, Mace, Cinsamon, Pepper, Ginger, ep. 218. The itt con[equenice of their Ri mixed mack Childrens’ Food, - Peat. hor Fit, | od 226. a Chap. VIIT. Fhe At Mifehief of Variety 4 Meats and — . Drinks, and the inconvemencesof 1tproper Mixtures; atta on the other fide, what Foods are fit to be iin | : ’ oe 2280 - Be me ices” sa sot i , z : ; Ce Poe ge) neg . mee & ees Pts 5 ae r ~ produc:.their feveral Complexions, contrary to their ewaColours, fit 1D 2.260250, 231s 232, OF Plum-cakes, which are compofed of abont ten difagree~ pe see Ingrcaients, ke | Pp: 233. _ Of Bread-Puddings, ie os > Of Broth or Pottages that are heat a fecond time, The Reafons why bowled Water will wat keep fo well as Wae ter newly taken from the Springs ee P: 23%. OF Syrups, : P24 Os The fatal confequence fick People are confined te, p. 242. Of Mince-Pyes, &c. | | | D.243. Several forts of Food that are proper to be compounded, as bearing a fimile with cach stner , #246. Chap. | X. The Reafens in Nature why Cities and reat Towns ave fubjett to. the Peftilence and erber es more than Country-Villiages. The excellency of Solitude, «and Advantages of a.retired Country-Life, p.249.. . ee fee ie Rie ne ER agi" i ; ‘A Digitation of the feven perfect Colours, fhewing how’ there being mixed two, three or four of them togethers, Pp: 235. 2 p.236, > | That mens Attions awaken tha Iske Propertyin the Cotle= {tial Bodies, wherher they be geod or evil. Shewing alfo what Violencies they be that caufe Wars, Famine, -Peftilential Poyfons, Botches, Byles, Venereal _ Bifeafes, Feavers, Plagues, Scabs, Leprofies, Spots. in the Fleth, Tumults, Burning. of Towns and ’ Cities, &c. D- 2525 2539 25-425 52 % The excekincy of 4 Retired Country Life, P: 259- Chap. X. Of Infettson or C asching-Difeafe ba d baw they i é _ aretransferred from onete amother, p.262. Chap. XL. Of Women, their Natures, Complexions and . datemperancess a” : P- 273+ The ee AR Nip are Weare oe sks ee ‘ he ti Pete oe min Sy age eet Livy oS oe UIE AN. oti aT LB era sv alse i aaa ¥ J a ed, SRO ee $ fi : t sy Wein 2 oc va Sd Fine, i : t ; y bth ohbeR ori tn i Find c ae or out ad Td “ll bape hi “fh sane J hs ) SE Goan a Cares, en ive pd, Nee “Particular ‘Direttions. for. Beats ‘on L Dirk # pees “proper and natural for Women, > tis be! ae ee dine ee ae ) Wb, at caufes the SCHrveys inate ane ast Thee cafe of Fed eavers ‘and Coplalfi Ons, a op. 288. nh ° “What makes Travail in Child: bearin ih ‘bisa | 7 280. The Tnconveniences'ef Men aia” onic bit 5 o8*popetber, ©: P: 2935 254. an tbe Evils of bard favasbing ‘and binding heir Children, aa, p.296.297- phd proper ‘for Children Ahm ‘itn | ‘pr298, @ prevertt Convultions ana griping paints 3 ie: ‘the Stomachs “of, Children, Alfo, of Sree __. P300. “oF. Melted-Butter, — x ue x p- 302. aie. “Of the Qugntity of ¢ Cc hildrens Frid, YP Snes 2 vk te Chap. 3 V1 {T.. A fhore Dif{conrfe of the Pain f the ‘a Teeth, ‘fhewing frem what. saufe # does chiefly proceeds - and how ta prevent if. 3 cai iibs S90. | Chap. XIX. Of Méarrsages and the Tnepnveniences of aie Matches, sore efpessally for Xoung Men, * ¥ | Me a | Chap. XX. Howto Cure all Wounds and other Accidents} fpcedily, washout Salves, Oyntmnents or Plaifters, p63 55 [ti Chap. ¥X I. Of Blaymany med the Power theredf, p.o4u | | REA - ity 7 ae - " Phi i - } “we #9 | 7. eed . ~~ < ‘| 4h 7 ’ x ’ | t ee soot ag yt SS ul ge é : sobi =. - a = i ae INTRODUCTION — Wihole Treatite. Y CHAPTERI | ‘ < ¥ — i were Ag oa id ee “A Defcription of the four Grand Qualities, whence the four Complexions. proceed. How every Man may know bis own Com=: ~ firft Precepts which the Antients di€ta- — » ted tothe Students of Wifdom; nor is ‘there'a greater Happinef attainable upon Earth, than to have in a Sound Body, a Sound’ {Hind. To dire&t my Fellow-Mortals towards this great Point of Felicity, is the Scope and In- tendment of our Pains in this Book: The Foun- dation Principle of Wifdom being to underftand® #ature, Cwhich is the Art of God) andthereby \@ur own Frame, Powers; Faculties and Con: Meee ae Vi is Brion, i %, NOW THY*SELF was ont of the K : ot ‘ AT 2 . Che wapto wealth, ftitution, {fo as to imbrace what is good, whol- . fome;-and-agreeable, and-to efchew all that. is - evil and harmful ; and the End and Confumma- tion thereof is to know the Swpream Beeing , Author of created Nature, and to love, obey, and enjoy him forever. | % In order hereunto, are fublime.-Gifts, and to be-regarded’ with, higheft efteem, not.only for the delight and pleafure they afford the Body and Mind, but as — they fortifie thofe that-obferve them againft many Vices and Temptations ,..as well as pre- fervethem from a thoufand racking Paizs and torturing Di/eafes, and fo furnifh them with the~<] beft Treafurres of this World, viz. Health, nct only of the Body, but alfo of the Mind; for ’tis that Health that-f{weetens all God’s..Bleffings, - and is the prime good of this Life; What ad- an. vantage or pleafure is there inthe bighe/t pre- pared Food, ox choice compounded Difbes ofthe rareft. Dainties, in, the richett or moft Cordsal Drinks, the gaye? Apparel, or the molt flatering Ad. tbefesrof Hin, to.4 Peilon rack. aith he Stone, or tortur’d with an Idaca paffio, or half. 74 drown (houtd thenceforth perp Now. if the Body »~ ne order vn'd. with an overflowing, Dropfe, or burn-— éug within, like Mount Atna, -with the raging vi-- olence of: a Feaver ?. What are, Riches and | Fame. to.a Body full-of Pain ? ..Or who would, | accept of a Crow, upon condition that his Head: | # 4 i ae ' snare nwo awe ‘diftemper’d through dif 7 al orig Life and Wappinets, = order and fuperfluity, the Mind and. all the | Senfés are prefently afflicted; if the Harmony. _ of the one be interrupted or deftroyed, the other . cannot continue: For the $pirit is the original, whence the Body proceeded, and is the Life of every vifible Subftance ; ‘and as the Properties or Qualities are in their degrees in the Spirit either ftrong or weak, fo alfo they are in the _ Elements of the Body: That quality that doth predominate in the Spirit at the incarnation and Birth, that very Coc property doth carry the upper Dominion in the Body, which is mani- . fefted by the Inclination, Shape, and Form, ‘Be- haviour, Words and Works ; ‘and this is call’d a Mans COMPLEXION, of which ‘there are commonly reckon’d four kinds, viz. the Chole- vith, the Phleematick, the Sanguine and the Me; Lancholy ; and fince the true underftanding of each | of thefe does mainly conduce toa mans knowing and right ceeulntite of himfelf, we fhall there-_ fore treat of them feverally, . __ Butin the firft place we will lay down a fhorte.. . Defcription of the four grand Qualities, viz. the ~ Bitter, Sweet, Sower, Aftringent or Saltifh, from whence the four Complexions proceed. aa SL ANS WARN 57 ao ney Kea ‘ieee nN Ee he YR see a . ; ; ee oe wt SEs Sa eaTige 7 ine tah ‘ei The way towealty, = = = «| : 4a : F Bae ¢ ‘ 5] Vs B va . f Ca Wr eae. Taste ue wi 2 GS tiny # ire t 4 te ee : ; i Sie F & : 2 gray ‘ tty 3 As . . ie POS 3 4 Y : % ees J ‘ i 4 ‘ % ‘ : / , 5 2 ’ . 3 * i lle OF He Bitter Quali, 2 9 By r $e i es 4 4. ae se 4 bah ied im my At the bitter Quality. ARIS 2 ay ee & & : eit -% Dae a Va >a. Thofe that are dignitied with this Quality, || are for the moft part of {trong Bodies,thick, well | fet, of middle Stature, of hard fierce Counte- || -nances, Village rather round then Ovel, big | - Bones, Hair curling, of quick piercing Eyes, bold ‘Behaviours, ready. of Speech and Apprehenfion, || ' of {trong powerful Spirits, able to go through | «much Labour and Action, if Intemperance do notimpede, which many of this fort of People — _are fubject to, quickly moved to Paffion, but | their Fires burn too fierce to hold long; of {trong natural Heats, great Appetites, therefore: _ .they) are apt to be Gluttons; the Difeafes they || _are moft fubje&t to, are Acute Feavers, Gout, Pox, | - both {mall and great: Food good for this fort of | People;: areall forts of Gruels, Herbs, Fruit, {mall | _ Drinks, and all Food made of Milk, and every | other fort that is Simple and Natural; andthe | contrary they are to avoid on peril of their. «: 2) Jt as to be noted, when the Sweet Qua- dity.is trong, andincorporateth with the Bitter, — and hath an equal fhare in the goverment of — the Life, then the fiercenefs of this Quality is — allayed by the friendly Influences of the Sweet; fo that fuch Perfons areof more human meck }} ‘Pifpofitions and Inclinagions, though they have |! ; a ‘ 4 Fire | SO. ia. te ay | long Life and Happinets.. 0 5 Fire enough, and fometimes too much; becaufe | fuch are apt to be troubled for their Paffions _ more than the former, and are generally of bet~ ter, evener Tempers, and at times» apt’ to~be perfwaded againit their own Reafon' and Un. derftanding, more temperate Livers, ofexcellent Apprehenfions, both in the doing and learning of any thing, of healthy ftrong Conftitutions, as free from Difeafes as any fort of People; but they cannot endure Intemperances fo well.as the — former; alfo, all forts of ftrong Drinks, com- pounded, fugared, fpiced, hot Food, are injurious: unto them; But on the contrary, »all forts of Food of,a middle or. mild Nature,» are very agreeableto them, and make healthy;f{trong brisk and airy, fit both for the action of the Body-and: Mind: This fort of People.are of the Cholerick — _and Sazguize Complexion, which, 1s.a commend» Pe CMMELALIE.. aries oets add Brest Oe 3» But when it shall fallout that the, Sower Quality is joyned in government with:the Biter, andthe Sweet Quality weak, or underneath, then fuchPeople are of harfh, fower, envious’ Tempers, being inclined to all kinds of rude robuftick Ex- fierce Inclinatiens, being of quick) Apprehen- fions; but in general, they are an ill go- verned People, caring for nothing fo;-much as Drinking, Gluttony, and vain Company, :very /palfionate in their love and hate; great part of jthe rude Multitude are made up with this pe : | Q} » ercifes, unmerciful to Men and Beafts; of cruel POE PO ee 6 — Whe napto Healt, of People; the Difeafes te are fubjett to, are - Feavers, Gout, floppage of the Breaft, Stone, Con> wulfions, Dropfies, and the like, according to — what fort of Intemperances they give themfelves _ unto, being great lovers'of their Bellies; it being their chief Study and Philofophy, how they - may have where-with to gratifie their Paunches, often cutting off their Lives by heady Diforders, and Superfluities ; ‘this fort of People are of the Cholerick Phlegmatick Complexion: But if they fhall incline to fear the Lord, and underftand ’ the principles of their own Nature, being gui- ded by the divine Voice of Wifdom, which con- tinually crys out againft, and condemns all the fore - mentioned Inordinahces ; which divine ‘Wifdom is ‘futlicient to abate all kinds of In- temperances. gies 04. But if the Afringent or Saltifh Quality be joyned. in the government of the Life with the Butter, and the Sweet impotent, then all is poy- -foned ;fuch People being for themoft part ofhot. headed, ‘harfh, cruel, ‘violent, envious Difpo- fitions; ‘their Looks are fierce, angry and poy-. -fonous'y they often hurt and wound the Healths of fuch ‘who are under their dominion, by their Looks, ‘Wifhes and Words, great Swearers, Lyars , Back-biters; Deflowrers’ of’ Women, | Gluttons ‘and Drunkards, being’ often cut off _ by violent Deaths, and by the féntence of the | Judge, vif they-do not adhear to the counfel of | - long “Life and Dappinets, 7 the love of God, which being obeyed, . will re- gulate all the fore-mentioned Intemperances. 5, All Beaft and Cattle, as Horfes, Cows, and. the like, if they fhall be dignified with the Bitter Quality, are ftrong, well-fet, big boned, hardy, of great Spirits, .and.fierce , quick of motion, but not very handfom, fit for labour : But if Cows. happen to have this Quality predo- -minant, thenthey are dogged and mifchievous, not very free. of Milk, neither will they give much Milk:, But when this Quality doth pre- _ dominate in any Herb or Vegitation, then the _ Body 1s. rather hie than tall, ftrong and full _ of Knots, and brufhy ; the Leaves harfh, cut or _ dented, of an. unpleafant Tafte, but. hot, and of a warming Quality ; good Herbs in Phyfi- cal SpriaHenisy if the Phyfician hath , skill to correct the Poyfons of Mars and Saturn, they being gieat. openers and. movers of Obftructi- ons: For the chief motion of Nature doth _arife and proceed from, the détter. Quality, and _ if it be not too.violent in a.thing, then it is the _ pleafure of every Life ; for when this Quality doth move witha: gentle motion, it fhakes and makes the whole Body to.tremble, whence _ proceeds Laughter and all Mirth: It isa moft _ pleafant quality when the fweet quality doth - angorporate it felf with it,and hath an equal-fhare _ inthe government ofthe Life. _ But on the con- _. trary, when it doth predominate in any Crea- ture, it isa fierce, furious, raging Quality, as is P.. ; mentioned > gti’ noap to wealth, mentioned Pct” viz, a proud lofty § oirit el Power, endeavouring ' to pees all in pee itis self yi he aS Of the: Sweet | ua leg. | ~~. In what Perfor’ (Over this ‘Quality ee ‘predominate , it. indues “them ‘with a meck triendly Life and Difpofition, of a, _handfom, tall flénder Body; of a {mpoth. foft’ skin, the Complexion White ‘and Red, “the Body not very ftrong, Hair foft’ and fine, of kind’ courtu- ous Words and Behaviour ; “their” ‘Fire. burns | but gently ; ; their Spirits will not ‘endure much labour, care nor trouble ; all kinds of Intempe- rances are apt to inflame them: The Difeafes they are firbjeGt” to,” are “Acute Feavers , Quifi ee stl fumes and vapours flying’ into the Head on eve ria occafion of trouble ot little Tntemperance ; al feveral Diffempers are caufed through fuperfuity ct Blood, ‘which is apt ‘to abound in this fort oe . le; alfo Boyls, Scabby, Pocky and Eeporows Dif ifes, ‘which do proceed from the inflama- ‘tion of the [weet ahftye > "This fort ‘of People ~ ought to obferve the Rules of ‘Temperance, and order in Meats, Drinks, Cares and Exercifes 5” their Food ought to be neither’ hot’ nor cold; but of a middle Nature, fo°alfo their’ ‘Drink ought to be fuch as will fare the tempera- ture of this fort of People, which F fhall fay” fone } tong Life and Pappinets. 9 Tomei of in the Defcription of the Sazguine Complemion, pac.26,27, &e. _ 2. But when the Byrter Quality is in equal ftrength, then it doth (as is mentioned before) | abate fomewhat of the friendly Difpofitions and Ynclinations of this quality ;. and fuch People are of ftronger and harder’ Natures, and of fhar- eran yg en - "3. When this /weer quality doth predominate inany Bea/ft, then they are ofa gentle, mild Dif= . pofition, ofa friendly Temper, ofa handfom, Well fhap’d Body, not very ftrong: But when it doth predominate in any. Herb or Tree, _ then the Body or Stalk is tall, flender, fmooth _ and handfom, of white, yellow, ruddy Colours, Of a flagrant f{meil, and full of Vertue; fuch _ Herbs and Frait may be eaten without further preparation ; andalfo they may be ufed Phy- fically without any correction, if gathered under their proper Conftellations, and ordered’ aceording to our direCtions in the Chapter of the . preferving of Herds. | ot OF the Sower uality. 3. Thofe that have this Quality predomi. nantin them, are of middle Stature, rather fhore then tall, large Villages, flefhy and corpu- tent, flow in motion, of dull heavy Spirits, notapt to learn, great drinkers, fubject to grofs ae ee phlegmatick we ete | Tha =!) UU ee : aiinbibe ote ateny oa ReR S eM TS As BGG Bh ei) ge da aa to Che may to Health, phlegmratick Humors and -dropfical Difeafes, not very ftrong nor healthy ; their Fire and natu, - ral heat burns but dullys ga" "°°" a. But if the /weer quality be joyned with this, — and hath an equal fhare of government, then fuch People are of pleafant merry tempers, apt _ to laugh, of eafie Faith, and a {mall oceafion will — move them out of one pe into another, not | fixed, nor of any depth, fearch or underftand- — ing, apt to {peak much, but not wife, being like Children, laugh and cry all in a breath, very — good to carry Tales and Stories from one to _ TS 2 7 ik tale ee eens 3. But ifthe dstter quality doth predominate equally with this, and the (weer weak or un- derneath, then fuch People are beaftial, hard- hearted, cruel, inhuman, Swearers, Lyars,and ” the like, fit for all robuftick, dirty, killing Im. — ployments; but they are of ftronger Conftitu- tions than the former, and healthier, andalfo — of better and: quicker Apprehenfions, but of very ill Tempers. oa ob ie aes 4. But if the alti or aftringent quality doth A predominate, and have an equal fhare in go- ~ vernment, and the weet quality weak, then this © fort of People are not fo corpulent nor flefhy, — but taller and more flenderer of Stature, of fower — | Countenances and Difpofitions,cunning in Words and Deeds, apt to Diflemble and Lye, theyare, 7 alfo apt to bear Malice, having two Faces; the. | Difeates they are fubje@ to, are the Stone, Wind ee : Collick, ss Honig Life and Bappitiefs. arr Collitk, Confumptions, and many windy Difeafes and Infirmities; if ‘Temperance be wanting , many of this fort of People are alfo great drinkers. 5, When this fower quality doth predominate . inany Bea/f, then fuch are of a dull, heavy Dil- pofition and Spirit, apt to have great bellys and flow in motion: If in Horfes, they are neither _ handfom nor free, dull Eyes and great Heads : Tf in’ Cows, their Milk is not fo good as others, _ being thin: If in Herbs or Fruit, then their _tafte is fome-what unpleafant, harfhandfower, — and their Colour is of a dark Green. : — Of the Afringent or Saltifh — | Quality. — 4. When this Quality doth predominate in any Perfon, they are of a tall Stature, and for _ the moft part flender, but of a fwarthy, pale or muddy Complexion, rather Lean than Fat, ge- nerally of hardy ftrong Conftitutions, and alfo_ of good Apprehenfions; when this fort of People do apply themfelves to the learning of any Art, they attain to an excellent Underftand- ing therein, being fixed in thofe things they refolve on. ag . 2. Butif the d:tter quality doth equally govern in the Body and Senfes, and the /weer quality weak, then fuch People are very fordid, Lyars, C 2 Swearers, oo in a het noap tb 0 Bealth, ; Baarers: sei tane Drunkards, inclined to’ all . \ kind of robuftick Plays and Games, as Ringing, - Rull-baitings, J ear-baitings, to follow Drums and Fencers, and the like evil Communica- tions, having ftrong Bodies, and fierce favage *beaftial Spirits, and abufers of Women, - . But if the /weer quality doth interpofe, and the bitter and affrrngent weak, then fuch Perfons _ are more moderate in: Words and. Works, in+- genuous, apt tolearn, of good Underftandings, and of handfom healthy Bodies. * 4. But if the fower be joyned in government _ oat the affringent, then fuch People are more — grofs and phlegmatick,- and not fo quick of ghee? prehenfion , flower of Motion, and of fordid .Difpofitions. . Alfo, it 1s to be noted, when this aferingent quality doth predominate in any Bea, then they are large, big boned, {trong and heady, but not free of Paton but cunning and fullen : When a: in Herbs and Frsit, they are tall, but nothand- fom + their tafte is harfh, hard and unpleafing 5 they are good againft the Difeafes of the Phleg- matick and Sanguine Complexions, if the Sa- turaine Venoms thereof be corrected. This is a shore De(cription of the four grand Qual lities,and their natural Operations: But this I would have every one confider, and be fens fible that their Influences are not compels ‘ ling, on Men as they are on Beafts, “except men” live long ilife and Bappinefs, 13 live as beafts, viz. inthe power and operation of . — the beaffial Nature, as many Thoufands do, and far worfe, whence proceeds thofe violent and cruel diforders in the World: But thofe who do turn the Eye of their Mind inward, and fearch and find themfelves, and come to di- _ ftinguifh the fecret workings of God and Na- - ture, and hearken unto the Voice of the divine _ Principle, -which is the holy Oracle that will teach every one, (in all particulars, what is right in the fight of the Lord, and the contrary) the fear of the Lord, and the true knowledge of God ina mans felf,and thereby furnifh every one with virtue, ftrength and power to refift every _ evil Influence, though it proceed from the moft harfheft and worft of Complexions; it will alfo teach him to tune and bring all the four Qualities - intoan equal accord, even asa skilful Muficéaner _ compofeth a harmonious confort in the variety of parts, or as he by skill tunes his Inftrument ; for the moft skilfuleft Muficianer in the World _ can make no harmony, if his Inftrument be not in tune; all the various Mores and Toves of an In- _- ftrument muft incorporate in each other, or elfe _ no Harmony can bemade; even {fo it is with the _ Qualitvesin a Man, it is as poflible for him that hath learned himfelf to tune himfelf, and com- pofe all the properties of Nature, and to play on _ them as a Muficianer doth on his Inftrument, fo _ great isthe power of man, if he caft his Wilf | and Delire into the divine Principle and. ive : 2 ait one 10 ¢ | sh) Vee ¢ ™ CWS RPI 2° SRR Ae i 14 he nap to Health, — my of God, whichis able to tin@ure and change the worlt Complexion and convert it into its own Na- ture; therefore letno man dare tofay, and com- plain, that the Lord hath dealt hardly by him, that he hath made him of the harfh wild — Nature: And though it be true, that many men, as to their #atural Qualities, are fordid and wild ; yet neverthelefs they have thetrue T#ndfure . “that can tranfmute and change all forts of Metals — into the fixeft Gold, even that very Word of the Lord that made and formed all things, which doth enlighten every man that comethintothe — - World, and bleffed are all thofe that are obe- dient, and follow its Counfel; of what Com. — plexion {oever they are, the Blefing of the Lord i with them. | ‘ sp aise re: __. ‘Thus having treated of the four grand Qualities, - J fhall now proceed.to difcover the four Com- plexions, which proceed there from, and to what — Virtues, Vices and Difeafes each of them are moft ~ OF the Cholerick Complexion. — “B ‘He Cholerick Complexion anfwereth to Fire, — Band that fort of People whichare dignified . with it, are of a ftrong Body, and lively a€tive Spirit, quick both in. doing and apprehending of || any thing, free in Speech and of all other action, “| : on ape Pie # nes tong Seite an Happinets, 1s apt to Wrath and Paffion, quickly affronted; Diep toe, tee in. them burns _fictce, their Paffions are quickly over, not fubje& to retain Anger, nor premeditate Revenge ; they m ‘¥ are of a hardy ftrong Nature, generally of good i Apprehenfions, and Witty, but more or lefs f0,. according to the ftrength or weaknefs of the predominant Conftellation at their Birth. _ If People of this Complexion do obferve the rules of Temperance, and keep themfelves within the bounds of Sobriety, then they are fome of the Hea/thief# of men: But many of them are - much addicted to Superfluity and Inordinate living, by reafon of the ftrength of Nature, and _ their ftrong Heats, which do in many of them © _ increafe the defire to eat and drink beyond the _ power of the digeftive faculty of the Stomach; ~ _ For in moft People, in whom the Fire doth - predominate, their attrative faculty and defire — __ of eating and drinking is fo very ftrong, that it prolongs the pleafure of eating and drinking many degrees beyond the Meceffity of the Sto- - mach, which does not only caufe an heavy, ‘drowfy Indifpofition to follow, but fows Seed for many Difeafes. ‘Therefore as this. fort of People are peel the greateft Eaters by In-. clination, fo lies, reftrain the Extravagancies of their. Ap-, _ petite, and eat but {paringly, efpecially of rich, _ hot compounded fpicy Food and {trong Drinks,, aS Wine, Brandy, Tobacco, &c. For they are all Enemies ought they as much as inthem, 4 ll i aa Neer eee cane Pe 5 ie ae ES SS, “ag ap bie baie ‘abe ai song Wife and appinets. = 17 that pleafant gleam of Light,and refrefhing Qua- lity in Wood doth proceed ; fothat in the Charcoal there does only remain the dark, fierce Su/pherous Fire, which does, when burning, fend forth pernitious + ep am Fumes and Vapours, ofan — ulfcent, burdenfom to Nature; for thefe Scents or Vapours do powerfully penctrate the Body by way of Sele, and fearch out their likenefS, and incorporate, therewith, whence diforders ‘arife, efpecially in People of weak Nature, and that have but few Spirits: Even fo it isin the Body, if’ the pure Spirits and Radical Moifture be through fuperfluity, or any other way, dif: order’d or weaken’d, then prefentlythe dark. original Fire is kindled, and manifetteth it felf in its own form, and burns fierce like Charcoal, & then the Body falls into Diftemperatures. Not but this dark ferce Fire thar doth fo violently burn, and difcompofe the Body and Mind, did poflefs the body before, for indeed it is the cen- ter of every Life: but fo long’as the ptire Spirits - and Balfamick Body were. ftrong,~ and the Qua~ lities of Nature had their operation in equality, this fierce fulpherous Fire lay hid; or was cap- tivated in the {weet Embraces of the Radical Moifture and pure Spirits, and reftrained by their ‘Vertue and power, even as the pure Oy! and | Balfamick Body in Wood doth moderate and qua: lifie the fulpherous Charcoal-heat, fo long as the Wood remains intire, and no violence done to the fweet Oyl, ‘which is the true Life of the - ae : D m. WOO 5 we * 8 —_-, Whe tarto Dealt. Wood; but fo foon as this fweet Oyl is wound-— hei as os Ya rah a any Latta GCb Ercan lb tat dot CE gee ed, and becomes fuffocated, as is-done in ma- king of Charcoal, then the fierce, poyfonous, dark, Fire, of Satura and Mars is awakened, being of a. furious devilifh Nature and Ope- _ The fame is to be underftood in every Hegz, table, Mineral and Animal, be it what it. will ; If the pure Radical, Spirits and Oyl of Life be any ways hurt, then.the dark Wrath of Nature appears ; and if it be in the Human Nature, then the Body falls into terrible diftempers, and cannot any way. be recover ed but by a powerful Medicine, able to, incorporate At {elf . with. the Ging Dy and RHtE APUISy ADE! Qe nRI CI them with thefe forreign Awxelartes, enables them to withftand and qualifie the fierce poyfon- ous operation of the awakened dark Fire, and compel it. to retreat to, its defigned central ob- {curity, ar’ ts ; P70 SLT Sieg This. Cholerick Complexion ought in a moft - f{pecial. manner to: obferve the rules of Equality and Temperance; for the Original Fete which we have been {peaking of, is very, ftrong, in. them, and moft apt on any diforders tobe kindled, whence do proceed fo many. Violences done by this fort,of People : Alfo,they generally love Arms and the Field, anda dittle exercife and cuftom will make fighting and iling of Mee as familiay tg them, ; aR EA killing of Sheep or Oxem 1s to ; Butchers: Therefore they ought to be, fobery —sisidonig Life att appinefs, = ag and aecuftom themfelvesto.a mean in-all things, | as Meats, “Drinks, « Exercifes, and efpecially in - Commurication, or in their outward Converfe in the World: All forts of Food and Drinks, that are rather inclined’to Coolze/s than Heat, are moft profitable’ to People of this Complexion ; and a5' in quality, foalfo ought they-to be careful that they do not exceed in’ gvantity, which they are apt to’ do'more than any other Complexion, “as dtorelaid. 88") 20. NOIRE Dil t Certainly’ Man being an Jmage of God, and Nature in him‘containing the true nature of all things (which the Antients fignificantly called a Microcofm,. or little World) ~’tis no abfurdity “to affirm’, that he hath power to change and ‘alter his zatural Complexion, if he once come to know the Principles of himfelf, and can but di- “Ringuifh the Principles of his own Nature, then — “tay he preferve the pure effential Spirit from fuffering violence ; & ‘he can alfo by the fame Eye. of underftanding preferve the eflential Vertues of all other things, according to that meafure of Knowledge he hath of himfelfi | ¥ _ Likewife, People that are dignified with this Cholerick Complexion are fubje& to: acute Feavers, their central Heat being great, whence do pro- ceed a powerful Life and’abundance of’ Spirits; For in all €reatures that have their central heat ‘Tron; » the Balfamick Body and Radical Moifture is alfo powerful ; therefore fuch People can in- “dure Labour beyond others: The fame is to be ; De wmderftood 20 Ghesmaptoealth, underftood. in Vegstables, and other things, ac- cording. to: their Natures, where - ever the central Heat. is powerful, there alfo the Radical Moifture and {weet) Oyl is’ ftrongeft, wherein the natural Life. doth. burn and shine: An example we have in Weve, and inall. fweet Fruits, efpecially in. Sagar, in which things the {weet Bal/amick Body and. pure Spirits are po- tent,» lively and brisk, and they do not only afford a greater quantity of Spirits when fepa- rated, but much /frexger and. fiercer, than any other Vegitables that are of a lean, Hungry Na- iture: . ‘Therefore People» of this..Complexion, though they are f{trong,and_ brisk, .yet if they commit « Intemperances ;..that are beyond. the power of the natural heat. to throw, off, then they ate-in far greater danger than thofe that are — of a much weaker (ature and.Gomplexion, for the Reafon ‘before affigned;. which daily Ex« amples do confirm ; .as when-fuch ftrong, heal- thy People fall into-Difeafes,. what terrible, fharp — Feaversdo attend moftiof them, which,-deftroys - the Life ina few dayes.¢.| Therefore-the, ftrong- eft ratwr’d-Peoplecught:to'be fober, and not. Jay hedvier-Burthens:than.Nature. cambear ;. for Ae that chath the, healthicit, and ftrongeft Con- Stitution; may; eafily -opprels it 5 ),aeither | is it fafe to: puti, teo-ymu¢h,; Confidence; in. their ftrength 5».ner to, beaft\ of it,-.or commit fueh _ out-rages againft their. own Natures,.as many young People. do in . the: way-ef Pride, to Purp 4 ; - we v ' rol e ¢ oy ei mee ee 4 ¥ lomy Wife and Happinets. te: their Fellows,'-and then glory in it;~ For the frrongeft Caftle will quickly yield by. continual Batteries. re re Hs ead -53 é Lee Of | he P hlegmatick Complexion. . Thofe in whom this Complexion is predo- minant, are not fo quick andattive either in the doing or apprehending of things as the Cho/erick, but more flow and of a fofter Nature; their central Heats are but weak in comparifon of the former; and if they incline to inordinate living, either in Meats, or Drinks, or Idlenefs, they dre-apt to. grow Far, and their Bodies {well with grofs phlegmatick. Humours, becaufe their natural heat is but weak, andthe digefFive fa- eulty of the Stomach cannot make fo. perfect a Concostion as the Cholerick Complexion ; fo that great. part of their Food is. turned: into grofs. Juices, which fret the Body, and make it heavy and dull: All fors of ftrong: fpirituous Drinks: do agree better with this Complexion than with the Choderick, andif they do.not exceed in quan- tity, will not fo foom precipitate them into Feavers ; but if they drink much, it will {well their Bodies and Members.to a wonderful big- nefs,. as. we fee fome, both: Men and Women are, which great drinking doth. deltroy the edge of the Appetite, and increafes. their defire to.drink ; for theic natural Heats and) Stomachs. » eo 3 are they fwallow down, whence are generated a2 = | Che usayto Healt, -arenot able to make arly profitable Con codtin i, ; nor feperation of fuch quantities: of Drink as ‘i Be Tr ey VS SR 5 5 , i ia 1 t " ye NS abundance of raw Humours, that do not only | {well the Body as aforefaid, but-load the Joynts — with windy. and watry Diféafes, and alfo ob- ftruct the paifage of the Brea; for all fat People have narrower paflages than thofe that. are lean — and fparé, and fetch their Breath with more dificulty, becaufé the Veflels of the Stomach — and Breaft are contracted through the drinking - of too much ftrong Drink, and eatirig too little Focd, and what they do eat, too rich in Qua; Yet is it very eafie for this Complexion, and _allothers, to prevent Fataefs and heavy Drop- fical Humours (which many of this fort of - People are fubjeGt to) if Order and Temperance — be but obferved, with regard to both sok | and quantity of Meats and Drinks, with pros per exercife, efpecially in the open Air, and | walking by River-fides and running Waters, which do wonderfully open the Paflages, and beget and fharpen Appetite, and caufe good Di- geltion: For though one Complexion ‘is more” apt to. grow Fat than others, yet Experience | teaches, that it is Idlene/s and Superfluity that is the grand caufe thereof; Look ‘amongft ordi< mary working-people in Country-Towns, and you | Shall very rarely fee any of the Husband-men | ‘or Field- workers very Fat; though in fuch’) a “places” long Life and Dappinets, "2; ‘places'aré’People of all Complexions ;, but Cities and great Towns are the Nurferies of fat Paz chinell’s, where there is good ftore, of rong: Drink, and Wine, rich. Food, with eafe and zdle- me/s. Yam not ignorant that fat People have an. ae for themfelves, viz. That they eat and drink le[s than many lean Folks: This istrue; but lean, {pare, rawbon’d People have for the moft part great Heats, which do digeft and throw -Off all fuperfluous matter ; their Appetites are fharp arid piercing; alfo, they are generally of active Spirits, given to. Labour and Action, Which deftroys all matter for Fatnefs:. But moft that are inclinable to the Phlegmsarsck Com- plexion are of contrary and: colder Nature, as aforefaid, their Appetite not fo fhrap, nor di- seltive faculty fo ftrong ; and if difcretion, care -and order with proper exercife, be not obferved, great part of their Food and Drinks, for want of heat, is twrned into grofs raw Humours, which caufe an heavinefs on the Spirit, the Oy1 from whence their Light of Life does fhine, becomes of a watrith Nature; therefore fuch People ought to have underftanding in the or- dering of their Lives, for want whereof, many do by various forts of Intemperances deftroy their Healths: Alfo, many will take and fol- low the Paths and Examples of others, which they ought not to do;. for what may be good Food for one, may be the contrary for another; . ‘therefore every one ought to learn the degrees. | : | and , 24 ney mag whe map| to Health, ae a a ~ and power of his ow Nature : : For the. differences of mens Conftitutions are fuch, and: their Na- tures fo contrary, that "tis impoffible to. give any particular rule to fit every ones Conveni- —ency; fo that there is'a neceffity for every one | -to-fée with his own Eyes ; and in this refpect the Proverb is punctual truth Every: man (tO ~himfelf) « either a Fool or a Phyjician. A man may {peak fomewhat that may be ufeful ina _ general way, and helpful to many, if minded, but the power of doing is in a man’s felf, and if one do but in any tolerable degree know iis own compofition and the’ se of his own nature, he may very eafily help himfelf, for man’s Will» is free; and if he be well informed, ‘and his Faith his own, and he do not make ‘the ways — of the Multitude to be his Rule, and their Faith his, a§ many do, then he may, and hatl power by wifdom to alter his Complexion for the bet- * ter. One of the chief caufes why fo many’ run themfelves into Error and Difeafes, and — Death it felf, is becaufe they mever Look into themfelves, nor obférve the operations of their — own Nature, but look what others do, that do they, and take the advice of every Fool (efpe- — cially if he be ‘a /earned Fool) without any eX amination whether it be proper or not. - Meats and Drinks good for this Complexion are all forts of drying warming things, _ as Bread — eaten with Oyl; tec Butter be eaten {paringly ; Sai Cheete is goad, not new, but ey: alfo, all — ~~ Gruels . tong Life and Bappinels. Bs 2: Gruels and Pottage that are. made. with quick Fires, and not too much boyled, but thin, brisk and lively ; -for fuch things are eafie to be concocted, and quick on the Stomach} likewife all {picy Herbs, both boyled and raw in their Seafons, that is, betimes in the Spring, and again after Michaelma/s, viz. in Ocfober and | _ November, but Flefh they ought to eat {paring- ly, efpscially from ‘Fuze to vt laft of October 5 yet they may eat it more freely, and with lefs danger from December tothe end of May, becaufe in that time Cattel are generally fed with dry Food, which generates a firm Flefh, and Fat freer from flumy matter: Befides, the fear . fon being then cold, the natural heat is ftrong and more central, fo that all Cattle do make a more perfect Digeftion, and their Stomachs are able to throw ,off all faperfluous matter, which renders their Flefh far wholfomer than at any ~ other time of the Year: Then alfo all Peoples Heats and Stomachs are more powerful than 1n Summer, which does in fome degree cut off, even in the Bud, all faperfiuous matter. | For Drivks, let the Perion that is Phlegmatick ufe fuch as are of a warming nature; good {found well-brewed Beer is better than Ale, ex- — cept the Ale be thin, clear and free from that Yeaity quality that moft Ale in Cities, efpe- eially in Lozdon, is fubjeCt unto; Wwe allay’d with Water, and fometimes.a glafs of Wine alone. will do no hurt; Alfo, moderate Exer- — y “9. Bal. ay *, a) aA ae , ee anv ves ; » Sh eae 1,3 ¥ : =e . ‘ i Se haa Health, | 26 éifes, and efpetially Freld-Labours, near Foun — tains & Rivers ate profitable; but ae Sahg Fi ; 0, a Bed isInjurious to this fort of People, as‘alfo foft Beds do weaken and make their Natures — more tender; Hard Beds, as Quilts, and the — like, are very ufeful for all Peoples Health, if they could be perfwaded to it, but efpecially to ~ the Phlegmatick Complexion; nor fhould they (as is too commonly ufed) prevent the free In- fluences of the Air by Window-(butters, and Car- tains to their Beds,- for the frefh cleat Air is — wonderful friedly and healthy to Perfons of this — i Conftitution. | OF the Sanguine Complexion. Thofe that have the happinefs to be of the Sanguine Complexion, are generally of af fable [weet Tempers , moderately quick in the ~ doing and apprehending of any thing, of good — ‘underftandings, but fomewhat inferior to the ‘Cholerick, apt to take Affronts at {mall matters; for they being of good even Humours them- felves, expect the Sine treatment from others, hating all fordid A€tions and Oppreffions, either of Man or Beaft, it being contrary to their Natures to deny the ferving of their Neigh- bours, though it be againit their own Interelt ; they are quickly moved to Compaflion; and many who are’ ftrongly dignified with this cae - ie Sanguine | 2 — AE ee Sy. Can ee | i ee \ * long Wife and Wappitiets. = ay Sanguine difpofition, are of fuch yielding tem: pers, and fo great haters of Controverfie, that — they chufe rather to lofe their Right, than cons tend, being great lovers of Unity and Friend- _fhip, and very rarely the firft breakers thereof; they love to retaliate Kindnefles, and hate any _ fhould think they are of a churlifhnatures °~< But for the: moft part this Complexion is | mixed either with the Cholerick, Phlegmatick or _ Melancholick, whereby much of the goodnefs — and vertueisabated ; and foon'thecontrary,when this Sazguive Complexion is mixed with any of the other, it doth much abate the evil harfh In- _ ¢linations thereof. People of this Complexion have antipathy to all things that’ tend to ine- quality or difcord ; ‘the very thoughts of trouble. will make fome of them fick, they are fo'tender and delicate; and for the fame reafon much » Bufinefs is troublefom to them, and they quick+’ _ ly grow weary of it, being naturally of a cheer. ful difpofition. Blood is apt to abound in them, atid a little Imtemperance either in Meats, ~ Drinks or Labour, will diforder them; therefore , they ought above all People to obferveand keep themfelves within the bounds of Sobriety, “be-- caufe their Natures cannot ‘bear overcharging fo well as other Complexions.. They are to for- _ bear all forts of Meats and Drinks, in which is advane'd too highly any quality either in Vertué er Vice; forall Extreams endanger their Health, » & do not only over-heat their Blood, but generate 3 BK 2 too ee ee Oe ee — i. 4. » ase “ 98) heTuaayp to Wealth, | too great'a quantity of nourifhment. The fred -quéat drinking of Wine, or other ftrong drinks, as Beandy, Spirits, and ftale {trong Beer, and the common eating of Food compounded with ; ftore of Spice & Sugars, and allfat Flefh, andthe like, :thefe People ought to refrain, or ule very fparingly ; for the Elements either of their Bodies _ . or Minds will notadmit of Izequality. DMdzatsand _ Drinks that are good, not only to preferve Health, | but allo to: mtintain. Strength, are all things in which, there isno manifeft Quality that doth too violently predominate. ;: for all fuch things being | : : frequently eaten ‘or drank, do: beget their pwm ‘Complexion; - that is; do. awaken their Sizzle, - and caufe an unequal Operation in both Body and: Spirits; which. is the undoubted Root of moft: D:feafes: This ought to beconfidered byall forts ef Complexions ; and if care were taken in this. particular, it would cut.ot many Diftempers ; for Health is, only maintained and continued by thofe things that are Eyval intheir parts, becaule: every’ particular thing has a fecret Power, (when either eaten or drunk) to. incorporate its felf with. its: Likenefs in. the: Body, and to. awaken and: ftrengthen it, whence doth arife: both: Harmony: and Di/cord,according to.the Equality-or Inequality . of the Mea¢s- and, Drinks received, | . This our daily Experience doth teftifie, and _* no. Wile man can. deny ; for all Meats or Drinks 49) Which any particular Quality is too highly ad— . vanced; whether it be in Virtwe or Vice, ith” OT: agen frequently * | a : jong Lifeand Pappinels, 26 - frequently taken, prove prejudicial to the Health ; moft People being .in this particular miftaken, thinking, That if it. doth exced in Wertue, fo— ‘wuch the better; but that Opinion arifes from ‘want of underftanding the Elements and Prin- __ ciples of their own £Vature ; for as.to be toomuch _ inthe Svz, or toomuch in the Shade doth beget Complexions, 10. moft .Difeafes are generated _ by the common eating and‘drinking thofe things that do contain too:much ;Vertue, caufing not only a furplufage of Nourishment, but fetting Nature into an unequal Operation, which People of all Complexions ought, as much as in them lies, to prevent,. but more. effecially: the ~Saz* ESS SEIS Ge Wea ee eae ee Food. good for this fort of People, are all things ofa fimple Nature, wherein Bread hath the firft place, A@/k, and various Difhes made thereof, | - fundry forts of Herbs in their feafons, being well — and naturally prepared ; alfo, Gruels and Pottage made of Oatmeal, being made thin, and quick boyled, are. ofan excellent Nature ,. clean- fing and opening the Paflages, they, beget Ap- petite and help Conceétion: For Oatmeal is to. be accounted the bef of all Flour, by reafon of its preparation, the body of the Grain being open’d and the zzward Spirit as it were fet at Liberty, and made more Volatile, as is done alfo in Malt, _but more artificially, for the body of the Barley - isopened to an higher degree, and thererefore | oo give forth its /pirit or Balfamick Body, whem ee et Su Asai; OO 31 ong LifeandPappinefs, = committedto Water, fooner that Oatmeal, which — is done but by half in comparifon of the other.’ “There are likewife various forts of Fieb. and ‘Fifi that are of clean Nature, eafie of Concoftion, - if well ordered, ‘and ftee from 'Su/feits and other — “Onckeauneffes (which moft Beafts are fubje& to, — but few there be’ that confider it) which are ‘proper enough for Sgagudme People to eat mode- yatly of, ‘provided. the ‘fame be “well prepared : For ofall forts of Food, People ouglit to have the greateft care of FLESH, not only in the well-ordering it before it be killed; but alfo in — Sfeafoning of it with Salt, and in the preparing or — arefing; Flefh’being more unclean in itsown — Nature than either Herbs, Fruits or Grains,which1 fauppofe moft People will confefs, & thatthey are _ far more agrecable and friendly to Nature, and not fo dangerousto Health ; nay,give me leave to _add, that they are alfo more pleafant; for *tis chiely the continual cuftom of eating Fld, and the conceit of the great Nourifhment it contains — beyond other things that makes men fo much ~ delire it: which Opinion is falfe: Moft forts of Fileh indeed are endued with much matter, but _ great part thereof is ofa gro/s phlegmy nature,which — quickly will caufe the whole to fall into Putri- faction,if the ftrong fharp fierce power of the Sa be wanting : And when it is falted, the matter for Putrifaction is fo great, that the Salt cannot con- tinue it long fweet, but {o foon as the pure Radical Spirits in-the Fb, through time a Poe Ae . . either ae er ee : ee il et a —Tbenaay to Health, = 30 E are evoporated or fuffocated, then the Salt hath no longer power to_preferve it from Corruption. A man may as well fay, that green Corz or Grafs breeds better nourifhment.in Cattel, than either _ Hy ox ary Corn, for indeed it generateth and fills the body fuller of grofs Phlegmatick matter, ~ and makes fuch Cattle heavy and dull, and great _ Bellies, apt to faintynefs and Difeafes; but Hay and'dry Cor generate a firmer Fiefh, and more ~ _ brisker {pirits,makes them drink well,appear with moderate Bellies, but clean, {trong Limbs, able _ to,endure hard Labour without prejudice to their Health: The very fame is to be: under- ftood of Fieb, if compar’d with Fruits, Herbs and Grains, and Food made of them, which do as far tranfcend Fie/h in vertue and good found clean Nourifhment, and.to preferve Health ~ and Strength, as Hay and dry Corn do, exceed either. greez Corn or Gra/s in the prefervation of Strength and Health in working Cattle. 0. , All forts of Food, either for Man or Beaft, from which the Sun and Elements have exhaled or.dryed away the grofs phlegmatick Body, are _ not only cleanzer, but fuller of Spirit and Life, not fubjeét to. Corruptions, but breed a firmer - Nourifhment, as all Husband-men and Shep- herds will tell you:. Therefore Bread, Butter, Cheefe, and all forts of Food made of Flour and. dried. Fruits, are {trong healthy Diet. » OF Se 32 =—(“ is THE BAY to Wealth, = By # OF the Afelancholy Comp'exion, - 2 People of this Complexion, that have their Significator in their Radix weak, are flow, andof dill heavy aig ale ‘fubje& to be furprized - ‘with fear and fufpicions, apt to be froward,' full — ‘of mental Referves; feldom forgetting Injuries, chollow hearted, giving fair Words, when their’ 'Thoughts:are quite contrary, additted to Witch~ . craft, or fore-/peaking of things, which fometimes ‘do:take place, when they have low poor Spirits to’ deal with, whofe predominant Quality in Nature’ _ us: Weaker, and under the Dominion of their — Spirits, otherwife-not.. For the awakeried Evil’ and dark Wrath in this fort of People; ‘zz. ‘their’ vehement .Wifhes? or evil Words' do’ carry ‘the’ power of that Principle, whence they were con- ceived, and enter'the fame Principle im thofe to’ whom they are’ directed. Andifthofe wrathful’ Spirits be not eitherthrough the ftrength of the — predominant Quality” in. the Complexion, ‘or | through the power and virtue of the Holy Spirit and. Faith in God ;-withftood and overcome. . (which often is done) then thefe Ewzl Rapes, viz. fuch Wi/bes and Words will take place,whether it be in Man or Beaft-; for this evil,revengeful, dark Spirit not being fo'with{tood, enters into the dark Centre ‘and Poyfons in the Body, and by - fimile incorporates there-with, awakening and ftrengthening them, and then the Body and all | % the 5. eh = ~ 4 long Life att Dappinels, =z, e .., + ea all the Se nfes fall into Diftrefs, and moft terrible - ‘Difeafes, according td ‘what Poyfons and Salts were kindled: This is called naitcheraft, and indeed is one fort of it. (there is another, which is not fit for this place) and this fort of. People are called Giluckyp-Congued.. ~ But on the contrary, if thofe People of the Mehancholy Complexion be well dignified in their -Radixes, then the fore-mentioned Evil, fignificati- ons are abated ; neverthelefs they are ponderous, and flow in learning and conceiving of any thing, | but when once obtain’d, they make it their own and improve it; they are capable of great Learn- ing, but they muft have Time ; for this caufe all Youths born under fuch Con/ffellations, are very dull in the beginning of their Studies, - but if continued under good Mafters, will in time ex- ceed either Mercurial or Venerial Boyes ; for they have greater and ftronger Spirits, both to retain -what-ever they learn, and to endure more Pains and Labour to obtain any Science; befides, they are not fo apt torun outof one thing into another, being more fixt in the Root of cheir Natures : They are generally flow of Speech and ACtion ; naturally penfive and covetous, by reafon that the Sanguine Nature (which proceeds from Venus, | Sol and Mercury) is in this Complexion, as it. were hid or lockt up under the harfh Forms of Saturn and Mars, under whom fuch as are born, jare apt to be Hard hearted, full of Revenge, Cove- \tous, Ge. not but that they are endued with the i Sangning RES Es Bere AR. a4 be nDAP.ta. Healey, 9 Sanguine Nature, as well as thofe born. under Venus, Mercury or the Sum, but the fame is Capri- vated, as aforefaid, under theharfh Forms, which is the chief caufe People do fo much differ in their Tempers. But if youcan unlock this. Saturzine Cabinet, and fet the Spirit at Liberty, as the ’ Manifter does in his Saturnine Grain,Niz. Barley,en- franchizing the pure Bal/amick Spirits that fweeten the whole Body, you will find it debonair and jorial, and of a very agreeable Converfation: | The truth is, Strong Beer, Ale, Wine, or any Spirituous Drinks freely taken, will melt down this fullen SaturnineGravity into Mirth and Gaity; for we daily fee how free and merry fuch People will be, if at any time they have tippled a little extraordinarily, during the time of the Operation - of their Liquour. For s#roag Drinks make all {forts of People more free, and to forget forrow, | becaufe they open the grofs Body, and caufe the’ Spirits to have their free Operation; the faid Drinks being Spirituous, incorporate with its _ fimile, viz. with the /perit, and makes it for the prefent more powerful, but when the Operation of fuch /perituous Liquours areover, then both the | Saturnine & other People return to their Natural” Difpofitions, but with fewer Spirits, which ~ caufeth a dull heavinefs to attend molt, after fuch > Drinkings, becaufe the Jwternal heat and fpirits | are too violently awakened, and ftirred up, which’ caufed them-to.evaporate, and thence proceed” Indifpofitions, and Diforder. Great Drinkings” , ee | . long Life and Happinets. es Are injurious’to the Health of moft that uf that ‘Trade, only this Saturzine People may fometimes drink a Cherripping Glafs or two, without any danger to their Health , efpecially- when they come to forty years of Age; ‘for before, all forts of ftrong Drink ought to be drank {paringly by fuchasregard their Health, ¢ It is alfo to be noted, that not only ftrong Drinks, but all other things have an Operation 0n the Spirits and Bodies of Men, whether Meats, Drinks, Air, Exercife, or Communication; were | ‘it not’fo, Man ‘could not be altered within for better or worfe: But what a fenfible change do “we find in our felves many times, between a ‘dull heavy Day, and a brisk, clear Sun-fhiny Morning? Every thing, be it what it will, has a power of influencing and varying us; which the Apoftle feems to take notice of, when he faith; — Evil Cominunication corrupts good Manners; and the P/almift, wherehe ara With the Frowara thou {halt learn Frowardnefs: The Original of all good or evil Tempers and natural Inclinations are according to the Nature of that form and pro- - perty that did predominate at the Conception and Birth, and ave made either better or worfe, aceor- ding tothe good or ill Cuftom of the Place and People they communicate with, or the Imploy-. ments they are put to, and the Meats, Drinks, _ Exercifes and Air they are ufed to, i . Take two Youths, one of the Sanguine Com — plexion, thé other of ne Cholerick, put the firft to — tat sah a. An i aper S o 36 The tay to Health, a Butcher, Car-mans, Water-man, Ox. any fuch -Merchant,.or {ome fuch neat Profeffion, and in’ a little time the Saxgaine Lad will become.:more Cholerick, and the Cholerick more Sanguine. But note ; there is a twofold poffibility of alter. ty Up . ing and changing either for the better or the “worle ; Firft, Natural; as the free Will fhall confent to either Evil or Good, one being as near to man as the other, who beingacompleat Image — or Epitome of all things, their true Natues be- ing contained in him, therefore heis both capable — and liable to be influenced and wrought upon by — every thing it meddlesor communicates with, — as is {een in Souddiers, moft of them, when raw, and at the firft Fight, are timerous, and very — apprehenfive of danger, but after they are once . flefht in Blood and Slaughter, net become un-. concerned and remoflefs, and can does Sheep.and Oxen, without having any pares ticular Quarrel or Enmity, but even in cold Blood; fo great 1s the Power of Imployment : For as Fighting and Kylixg of men is the work - of the fierce Wrath of God in men, and fo foon | .asyou confent with your Will to enter upom — this wrathful Imployment, the center of the _ dark ftrong Wrath is awakened, and by a little -cuftom and ufe it becomes tenfold ftronger than. _ at firft; then all doing as. one would be done — unto, and ‘Tendernefs and Compaffion age aa | Le ee 7 Ki alice, — ill men with © as little trouble or regret of Mind, asa Butcher — sit eee . . juth 08 Sila hia’ ay * t- “long Wife and Bappinets. 7 eafide, as if never any fuch Notion or Principle -had-been planted in Man. The very fame hap- pens in other Imployments, that Quality which therein predominates, awakens & ftrengthens its ‘Swaile; for which reafon,-in former Ages, fome that have written Remances and Love-ffories ina -paffionate and pleafing Stile, and ‘lively Repre- entation, have been banifh’t for their labour, their Works proving ofivery evil and fatal Con- fequence to Young and Amorous Minds; for all Books, be they what they will, do bearthe Image and Figure of the Spirit of him that wrote them, and fo much the more asthe Imagination of the ‘Author 1s more ftrong,which in this fort. of Wr:- tersand Poets} @c.ufe to exceed; and iffuch Books be read with attention & inslinationthen they awa- ken & ftrengthen fuch a likeProperty inthe Rea- ger as was in the Writer,beit either good or evil. ' Therefore the perufal of all P/zy-Books, : Ro-. mances and Love-stories have and do prove very injurious to fuchas mif-{pénd their time therein; innocent,and think no harm, that look intothem, but after a while, if it take with their Affe‘tions, she cafeis altered, they make a real. change in the whole Bodyand Mind; the Thowzhts are all taken ip with thole dewitching Ideas, and they prove Che Sez muft needs fall in Love withand Marry ivith the Chanber-maid,& the young Lady run away he Coachman, or the mare impertinent Chaplain, ‘ome only it is like:playing with Edge-Tools, at firft they are | Leading Cardstomany real Evilsand Temptations ;. | 38 Che eae to petty” oe only: t6 Gas over fome’ of thofe fine ie ies ~ ward» Power: and: fympathetick: Drawings of Arcadia, or the grand Cyrus. | Communication, Orc. do unto us? For they never _confider that every thing has power -to open.its the pradiife of this ~profound . Philofophy, infi- | caine. Merciful and fall of - Humanity: +. Ant) ght OE a ae a ee neiys 4 ‘ ~ 4 / aT Se Nidoeiy ‘ mod ‘Sir a f i ? Ane which they admired with’ fuch delight i in. re Tis fortifh Ignorance that. kes ena - | What hurt can thefe external things or Food, own Principle, the underftanding of which ground was the Original caufée of Mofés’s Law of Cleanneff and. Seperation, and the oceafion of the Abftinence of all the Wife men in former Ages from this or the other fort'of Food, Drinks, Habits and Commiunications, for they faw the in- every thing ; and therefore wile»Pyrhagor.as, the better to draw: the ‘wild barbarous ‘Nations to nuated into them the belief of a Tran/migration, or fhifting of the Souls of Men, when they dyed, into other Creatures, ias Cows, :Horfes, or the] like; with which Opinion being once pofleft| they would neither opprefs, nor kill any fort ol) ea{ts or living Creatures; for then they belie! ved they fhould do Violence to their departed | Friends, viz. Kathers, Mothers, Children, &¢} Through which Conceit and. Cuftom they weri) not only much brought of from their forme Cruelty and ‘Barbarity, but betook oe i to the more wholfom eating of \ Fruzts, Herb} and Grains, fo that this wile favage People be} fom : Ph | i me ” \ 2 “a ea Aiken pole meow net ele et long nite atin Dappinets, 39 fome of. per of Peopledo continue this Cu- ftom and Law unviolated to this day in fome parts ofthe Eaf-lndis, sal, The Grae, holy Light apd Love of God of which the Lord hath given. a’meafure or por- pon to every individual Perfon ; as St fobs faith, The Word. of God mbioh me all things, and. mith out it nothing was made; this fame Word is the LIGHT OF MEN, and.doth enlighten every map that cometh into the World, "This pure Spirit of Life hath power to tinGture and change all evil {nclinations and harfh,Tempers, which do arife from the malignant Configurations of the pre- dominant Conftellations and Complexions, if man gives up his Will, and is guided by. its Countel : This holy Light and Word is the Effential. Life and Living Power of all things, the Eve of the Mind, by which man. is able to diftinguifh the Good from the Evil in himfelf, and alfo in all other things, according tothe meafure he hath thereof, and the knowledge jhe hath. of himfelf: ‘ 1s alfo the true Bal/amick Vertue, from whence all Friendlynefs doth proceed, not -only.in Mazz, but in all other things according to their refpe- tive Degrees and Natures; is likewile the 2Mo- derator and Qualifier of the fierce, fiery, harfh Brimftone Spirit; and in what Complexion fo- ever this pure, Lzfe and Power does predominate, that Perfon, by verturethereof becomés of an qual friendly ‘l'emperament, both in Body and Mind (notwithftanding his Complexion may in- cling a ie . central, Reft, or trie Sati qualified, ‘made more” Friendly and’ Sangaine, if its counfel be regarded. © All true Religion, doing” ‘as one swanld be done unto, Offices of Love and Aéts {weet Tafluences ‘of this pure Spirit'and Love of God, become thereby of a Charcoal Spirit; whole {weet Water is def royed, Viz. Twice dead, Ana pluckt up, as it were,“by the Reots, as the Apoftle, -phrafeth it, they. growing of a fierce, terrible, fiery Nature, feared up in the harfh, dark, ori= - ginal, ‘as. Lot’s Wife was, becaufe fhe looked” back, viz. into the Original and* [alt Spirit; the Pillar of Sai fignifyine the great ftrength and pewer of Goad’s Wrath, which was. thei kindled by reafon. of Tranfgreffion, ~~ nit long Wife and Pappinets. 4 __ The very fame. is to be underftood of all Beafts of the Field, and other things; not fo in- "deed as it is in man, but according to the Na- ae rae ture of each. For thofe Creatures that did in the Creation arife from, and were chiefly compound- ed of the fierce ‘barlb. forms of Nature, whofe predominant Quality ftands in the Saturnine and ' Wartial Fire, lave but {mall portions of the Vertue and Light of this World; for the plea- fant Vertue and friendly Qualities, which the Principle of this.vifible World gives unto all her : Children, do all proceed from the Internal Spt- _yvttual World, and this outward Principle is an - Imageand Likene/s of the Internal ; the Invifible - ‘Spirit and Powers, are the Root of the Vifible ; and whatfoever is manifefted in this World in Figures, Shapes and Forms, the very fame hath the Izterzal Spiritual Principle in Power and Vertue. And according to the degrees of the Spi- rit, and what property of Nature was predo- tainant in the, Radix of each Creature, fuch a Shape, Form, Inclination , Complexion and Difpofition the Creature is endued with, be it dither Avimal or Vegitable; for the Body was formed by tlié vertue and power of the Spirit, aiid there is both the neareft Affinity and Re- femblance between them, as is manifeft by all Creatures, in. whom the’ dark Wrath of Satorz and Mars was predominant in their Radzxes5 they ‘are not only of an #m-lean, fierce terrible Spirit, but their Figures and “Shapes are ioe eee MII Yiel CL Vo¢e 10 aiid as ts sh ee ek: | ; a. § ¢ mao ovig Site ait aiih, FF and feerce, as Lyows, Tygars,” W. “olues, Swine, and many, others, both in the Elements of Earth, Air and Water, ‘that < are unclean. Devoarers, ‘and Creatures of prey, killing and feeding u upon. their fellow Creatures; and as fuch Creatures,are un- clean i in their Radixes, whence their Taclinati- - ons and Defires to unclean Food do proceed, as. bearing the meareft Affinity with their, Nae tures; fo their Figures, Shapes and Forms, w ith : their fuitable Inclinations, -do clearly mani eft e what, matter they proceeded from in their Creation. ne This Root, ‘the reat and illuminated Prophet M ofes underftood by a divine manifeltation, whence his Lay proceeded, ‘wherein he- - prohi- bits his People the Jews, from eating of s#ucleap Food, both Feb and Fifb, with: many other Circumftances tending to. Cleannefs; for that great Prophet faw by a divine and natural 1 un-. derftanding into. the Effeaces and Original Qua- Hities of every Creature, and that each thing hath a {ecret Power to incorporate with its Like, nefs, and to make that Quality ftrong, which in. the Radix was weak, and lay as,it were hid ; And on the eontrary, to hide and make that property weak,whichin the Radix was ftrong; aes os greatisthe power of Nature; and this is not only done in the Evé/, ‘but alfo in the Good: There. fore.all men have power, moré or lefs, to alter and change their Inclinations and Complexions, either for the better or the worfe, as they give - their ~~ ~The way to Health, es their Wills up to praGtife either Good or Evil. ‘But if People abandon themfelves to their atu yal Inclivations, and live under the power and | dominion of their Complexions, & by degrees give way to JIutemperance and Coil Commuiica- tiong, fuch do often times become of far worfe Anclinations and Difpofitions than their Com- plextons naturally tended unto: And on the con- _ trary, fome-there are who by the power of their . Wills rigoroufly purfuing the Paths of Vertue and - Upderftanding:., become more Friendly, and of better Tempers than their Complexions promife: For the natural)Inclinations and Influences’ of — the Stars have ‘hot power to captivate the Soul in Evils, if the will gives it felf up to be guided by-the Holy Spirit of Fetus Chri, which will dead aman into all Vertue, and all Truth. * CHAP. IL. OF the Excellency of Temperance , the _~ “Knowledge of a mans felf, and the "mighty Benefts of Abftinence.and Sobriety. SONS, | high Emperancc is a dzvine Gift, and whofoever obtaineth the perfect Government and _ Kaowtedge of himfelf, is endued with the /pring- j Road Ge head 44 Oye wap tobealth, head of all Vertues: The fear of the Lord being the firft ftep to all true W#/dom, both Spiritual, and Natural. The Root of all Kyowledge that man is capable of, is in himfelf:* Therefore if — any will underftand any thing truly, he muft | firft turn the Eye of bis Mind inward, not out- ward, as the cuftom of moft is; for Manis-an Image and Likenefs of all things, both Spirstual — -and Nateral; in him is contained:the true Nature ‘of all things, and“he 'that doth know and under- ftand himfelf, ‘andthe Principlesand Operati- ons of his ows Nature both in Body and M 3 and what Properties in the feven-fold Nature of this World are predominant in him, and to what his Inclinations are moft naturally propenfive, both as to Vertue and Vice, he may thereby “not only fhun many Inconveniencies,. but alfo fo ‘much as he knows of himfelf, he alfo knows © of his Creator, and of a// other things. And {fo on — thecontrary, he that doth not know and diftin- a the Principles of God and Nature in him- | elf, does neither fee nor know any other thing _ as he ought :. Therefore all fuch who areigno- rant of themfelves, are fubjeCt to be changed and altered out of one Opixton into another, always leaning hard on the Shoulders of Cu/fom, fup- porting their Ignorance with the truth of Tra- astion, having one of their Eyes, if not both, amongit the Multitude. But all srve fight in divine and natural things dogs arife and proceed from-the unalterable. divine Principle or Gift es ie toed Go 3 ied: long Wife aud Pappinefs, = ag God; For the watural man, as he is wholly blind, as to things divine, fo neither does he fee even into Natural things any otherwife than a Beaf, beholding the outward Subftance, but knowing nothing of the inward Power of the. Spirit; or if fuch do underftand any thing further or more - than, Besfs, it is either by Chance or Cuflom:, But. when the Eye. of a mans underftanding is . opened in the ¢rve Spirit, he then feeth into his own Effence.and Properties, and by the fame fight has a profpect into the Nature of all other things, more efpecially if he be one that is born with a Nature Foe, for the comprehenfion of fuch things. . ee Fad For this reafon it is faid----The fpiritual man. difcerneth all things, even the decp things of Gods But-nothing hurts and hinders man from obtain- ing the true Knowledge. of God. and. Nature in. himfelf, than his looking abroad out of himfelf, imagining that Wi/dom and Underftanding is to be found and learned in and from fome other thing; Neither do many confider that worthy, faying of the Apoftle, avouching, That ee ever may be known ef God is manifeft in man; not without Man, but within himfelf: Maz 1s that City the Wife man {peaks of, In whofe Gates | Wifdom cryes ; But if man will be gazing abroad, _and not regard the inward Voice in the Heart, _ {as moft do.not) then he can never come to any true Judgment either in things Divine or Na- | SSP eae ieee Surely 46 the way to 5 wealthy” are tural, becaufe the Foundation’ of all —. . as Right. knowing i is within a mans {elf rei se “Let us appeal co common Reésfon: How is it pote, if a man do not obferve the particular rinciples and Operations of his own Nature; — that he fhou'd obférve and underftand thofe of — other things, whofé Motions and various Cea | rations he is more remote from,and doth notfeel? Therefore if a man ‘would know how to rule; — Grid and preférve any Creature, dr thing, this : fifdom and Knowledge muft be firft E ential in himfelf, and to underftand in particular what — things are Extream in him, andthe contrary, which will much belp in the way of Tentpel | rance and Moderation, witha due confideration “~ had’ to the nature of the Food, the Age, ‘Air; i Imployments, &c. and alfo the Quantities of all i thofe things ought to be regarded, and not to © heap together too much ; this being a fure Rule of Health, if aman finds him(elfas lightfomand brisk after Meats and ‘Drinks, or rather morethan © he'was before: For the intention’ of Food is to — Refrefh Nature, and not to' dull, opprefs, and incommode her, as moft in ‘this. particular do, efpecially thofe whofe natural Heats are ear, | | and Appetites {trong. | ne a | But full Meals, ‘and’ too frequent ule Gf tich - | Fed ‘and {trong Drinks do’ breed’ too ‘thuch 7 Nourifhment, ’ which’ is the Oxginal of Tatty — Difeafes ; > it furs and/ftops the Paffaees; Sos 4 too mM 3 i! long ‘Life and Pappinets. 47 too. much Blood, and. thick dull Spirits, which makes the Body heavy and lumpifh, and by awakening the central Heat, caufes the exter- nal parts of the Body to glow with an unnatural _ Flame, which obftructs the powers, {0 that the. ‘purethin {weet Vapours of the Air (which are the Refrefbing Zephiri of Nature) cannot peni- _ trate them as they are wont to do, when the Elements of the Body are free from diforder, — for then they fuck them in like Spunges, which renders the Body full of Spirits, brisk, vigorous ‘and fprightly as Virgins at a Wedding, or Boys ata Feftival. Ann e828 _ But this pleafant Condition is never felt when the Body is over-fraight with Nourifhment, and like a Lamp ready to be extinguifht by fuper- fluity of Oy/; therefore folemm Feaffs, and fet times for Meals, and eating and drink- ing whether they have Appetites or no, and 9 OF er Circumftances that attend them, are _ Friends to G/uttony, but mortal Enemies both to Temperance and Health, when, People deluge down various forts of Rich Food and Cordial Drinks in aformal Method, fitting perhaps ¢wo Hours, inticing one another to Gormandize and ~ Guzle, not only beyond WVeceffity, “but even | abovethe Power of Nature: And yet not content, ) after they have already exceeded all bounds of | Temperance with ftrong Foods, then.in Wine warious forts of Frasts, Tarts, Sweet-meats, and } athoufand Kickfhaws enricht with the Ea and Weft What tee 1 RR ova Bi Sic ro Pe : pa haat od “ “a 48 ce oay to edith, asia Weft-Indies siiaprcake dea! of themfelyes more ‘thant futlicient for a‘ fober and “temperate _ ‘Meal : in the! inean time few do confider bi ihe va here- 4 ee a Pallate of one chip ; ievettelele when Retire ofa contrary nature and tafte comes, the ee ve petite is awakened, and he can with pleafure fall too again, and fo of feveral Varieties, the Invention whereof at one Meal was meerly to gratifie Luxury, by ‘prolonging the pleafure of the Pallate,’ which could not be done with — fimple Meats and’ Drinks: Not but thata man may eat feveral forts of Food and Drinks at one Meal, without injury to Health, but then they mutt be Homogenial, that is, agreeable to each — other ; -and/alfo ‘he that fo eateth, muft as the — Wife man advifeth----Put a Kyife to his Throat, which very few inthis Age do obferve: But of _ this we fhall {peak more hereafter. As Abftinence and Sobriety does alwayes fortifie the Obfervers thereof againft many Evils, {fo they make the Body pleafant, healthful, and fit to difcharge ‘all its: Functions, and prepare the’ mind to’ be’ The Temple of the Lord, as St Paul calls it. Thofethat take Meats and Drinks "i : Or ‘3 long Wife and Happinele. == gg for the Neceffities of Nature, and obferve that the Food be not ftronger than fhe, but on the contrary, ‘fhe ftronger than it, fuch have’ for the - tmoft part great Spirits, and but Uittl Flgb; whereas Giluttons have mutch Flefh and little “Spirits. _Have not allthe holy Prophets and re- nowned Law-givers from the beginning, been. Perfons’of a wonderous Sobriety and ‘Tempe- rance, as Mofes and Eliz, who fafted forty ‘dayes, and yet the Face of Mo/és fhined, and he ‘could guide his Body as if it had been a Spirit ? And feveral other (indeed all) holy men en- ‘dued with divine underftandings, have been re- markable for their Temperance: For the Spirits of men are not Earthly things, to receive their Nourifhment through the Orgazs by the con- coction of Meats and Drinks only, but derive » ‘their purer Aliment like Spunges through the whole Body, from theclear shin Vapours of the Air, which do powerfully penetrate the Body — on all fides, but are hindred through fuperflui- ty of Meats and Drinks; and {o the Spirits in the Body, for want of being found with thefe . vefrelbing Gales, become thick, and asit were fuffocated. © TL Wil - For this caufe moft that abandon themfelves’ up to Gluttony and Epicurifm feldom attain to ola Age, or if by means of an extraordinary tough Conftitution they do rub out, ’tis: with ‘Torturesand Mifery, their Bodies being as full of Difeafes as an Ho/pital. But on the contrary, ow ee wy many are 2” dee 2 SL cee A here oe a bine cs 4 aD ot enaee at ae) a » 2 ) i’ . 0 “ear ta eeu s 4 RA UR 6 > 6 ea ee af Aes 4 ; Nes per = al y free from Di- Food, whence a) ee yy > Body, which renders the Spirits many in Quay. _ pity, and fine in Quality, and thence. arifes light-_ a4, foninefs “tO the Body , ; and. vigour. to. the : ~ "The truth of this men may experience, if they - will but give themfelves the leifure to reflect, | ¥ x and confider, whether or no they do not be ore Meals, ordinarily find themfelves pleafant and - ghtfom in Body and. Spirits, but after they have indulged their Appetites with an over-— plentious feeding, the one is beavy, and the — other dull; whereas had they. but eaten tempe- — rately: of fimple Food, it would not only have continued their ftrength, but alfo refrefhed their — Spirits ; for the pure Spirit is the true Life, Plea. — Mure, Delight and, Beauty of every Creature ac- cording tothe Nature of each, and canfeth the” {weet Oyl to burn friendly, and fhine with a * comfortable Ray, if it be not wounded by dif.” orders: ‘This Spirit being fo Volatile, and fur. | pafling pure, that it will not endure the leaft } Violence; for when any Injury is offered to it, |} it either becomes evaporated or fuffocated, and™} then prefently the Vigour and Beauty of thag) thing faileth, be it either Awzmal or Vegitable. ‘ITkhevefcie thofe that do regard the Health of | : vy al Pattee, |e ae Was es ene Pe 5 i ife and appinets. Pe a ‘and Mind, ought to preferve the Spirit the Body the Spir free and potent, which muft bedone by Sobris_ mie us ie yp ae . 2 . a ety, Gentlenefs and Temperance in Meats Drinks and Exercifes. The Prophet Daniel and his Companions were fenfible of this, when they Were courted, and alfo threatned with the dif- pleafure. of the King and his Servants, if they. ‘would not eat of the various forts of Flefh and Fifh that came from the King’s Table; but Daniel intreated leave to continue that clean fimple Food they had accustomed themfelves unto, viz. Herbs, Grains and Fraits, and pure. Water for drink. Should not we in this Age be reidy to count a man a Fool, and out of his Sen- fes, that fhould refufe Royal Delicacies from the King’s Table, and chufe to live upon fuch mean courfe Fare? But Daniel did witha divine Eye fee into the Radix of all fuch things, and un- derftood their fympathetical Operations, and therefore chofe the moft fimple harmlefs Com- mons; for by compounding many rich things together, efpecially fuch as contain the Assmal and Befia/ Nature, all fuch things lofe their Simplicity, and the true Life and pure Spirits of. each become adulterated and changed, .and be- ng deftitute of its proper Vertues, becomes of mother operation, which hath an evil Influence m_ our Bodies and Spirits, whence proceed thofe requent Isfirmities in moft that live in the ieight of Dainties, the fame being neither wells : eating to God nor Nature. But oa the contrary, Pe te Eg Was aN, * er - Fobn contented: himfelf with Locufts and wild © to the Houfe of the Lord asa Re ey att to. the ' . Children’ of I/rae/, for that’ they” kept the Commandments of their Father, and q frrong Drink, and wore no Wsollen Garment, but other ; for Woollensdo rerainthe Beftial Nature, + af you | burn them, no’ v afhing ‘or other cleans. Atinking Natures, fo Jong: as it continued entire, ‘was not the fober, clean and abieiions Litto | ; of the Racsbites well-pleafing tothe Lord ? “And ij did not the Prophet: feremiah call them up in-_ : 52 coe ‘che won to Beatty ape ad faithfully — pa nn obferved the Rule’ of ‘Moderation, and content, — ed themfelves with pure Water for drink, and © with’ mean and fimple Food, and Peewee he j promifes them,: That the Sons Jonadab fold never — want-a manto fiand before the Lord: “Vis moft. - Gael the eae hath been and i is near all thofe oe uinto. pal men, on bind] is at ‘Sie: “The Prophet’ 4 Honey, ‘of whom our Saviour Chriff faith, Thar & there was not-a. greater Prophet born of a Woman: ‘a Alfo, fames the Brother of our Lord, was emi- nent for his Abftinence (as Ew ufebins reports) info- 4 much that jhe eat no Fi:fb, drank no Wine nor Lianen, whichis of a cleaner Radix than’ the | asyou may more manifeftly p perceive by the{imell, 7 fings Will purge them from that fulfom Quality % which ° they fend -forth when burnt: Now this grok body y ‘and “imate Root for. this 4 anor ae ae ae oe -eanfe the*Prophets and holy men Fave { often. Maid, Thar'the Saints and Péople of the Lord {bonla be clothed in white Linnen ; and the Priefts of the Lord were to ware a Liznhen Ephod; for all Vegi- ? gives are indued with a fimple innocent Nature & ‘Operation, ‘and therefore they have been com- . pared to the-divine Nature, becaufe they bear _ owg Wife and Wayp fomeaffinity unto it, - . _ Thofe that would have their Spirits pure and - _ potent muft ufe clean Food, which will extenuate . the -grofSfuperfluous humours, by which the.- Body becomes ‘eafily penetrable ; and he that doth not preferve his body c/eaz, the pure Spirit . becomes, as it were, fuffocated, whence proceeds . an heavy Dullneff that is not only burdenfom, but © hinders all Meditations,and makes the Soul unca- .... pable of every good Work; but 4bfinence and | ‘Temperance do dignifie a man, and render him fit _ for the Exercife of Virtde and Piety, and is the . Root of /frength and fortitude. As the Mother of : Sampfon was commanded by the Angel of the. Lord, To abjtain from Wine and jrrong Drink, du- ving.the time of her being with Child, 1o was Samp- . fowher Son, whom the Lord endued with won- | derful frength’} but when he gave himfelf up to” Wane and ftroag Drink, andother Intemperances, _ he loft. all power and virtue, and became seak . "both in Body’and: Mind, and a prey to hisEne- “mies. Andis it not fo in our days? Of moft of | ~ the Miferies and Troubles man enfnares himlelf, ~ 4s not Saperflaitya main caufe? Where-ever we Ds (re ee Vice, ihre is. al{ Jotemperance 5 and - vhcré Works, and alfo keeping the Body under, which ~ by. the Power and Vertue of Temperance is fabs. jected to the Influences of the: ae and Love of God... a7) spr oy i ae Temperance, c Ncandynels and, “by moft in our dayes imagine. © Did not: our: fore: Fathers live to wonderful Ages in perfect Health; their Fucd in thofe dayes being chiefly Herbs; Fruits and Grains, and pure Water their Drivk? — they did not make their Stomachs theBariai: paces of dead Bodies,but their Meat and Drink wasins nocent and fimple, by which they were: able to: check and regulate the extravagant motions: of 4 the Mind and infurreétions of the Flefh: -Hencé — fome of the Antients have delivered it as 4 Maxime, That none could underftand God and his Works, and enjoy perfec! Health anid long Lifes but thofe that abjtain from Fb, Wine dd Vices bounding their Defires according to the Ends mh A Meceffities of Nature. . For where. Uncleannefs. and Intemperance reigns, the Soul is fubs 4 jected. with the Body _ that it cannot difcern things Celefial ; but Sobriety and Purity of body. The mony toMealth, we fee Temperance and Abftinenc we may juft-— ly expect other Vertues, becaufe no fuperfluous- matter. is bred that may dull or indifpofe the _ Fancy, the Soul being watchfulin Words-and Banca have ‘ z ffreater power over the Soul an Body than: 4 \ i s i ay te i’ ¥ a ' bie and es renders it th xe nea of God, wherein onnk ae —lonig site site Happinets. hea sy |. ‘hist bled | Spirit delights to dwell, and coms. i nica ce sper and Graces. ft men n will i in words ris eae that there | the poe to a till x i feel the want of i it. ' Tohim: that hath obtained. this goodly Gift, the | meaneft Food, even Bread and Water is moft plea- | fant, and all forts of Labour and Exercife de- | lightful; but the contrary makes all things nau- - } ious and diftafteful: What are full-[pread Tables, | Riches or Honowrs to him that is tormented with | ‘Diftempers ? In fuch a condition men do defire | hothing fo much as Health ; but no fooner is that Obtained, but their thoughts are changed, for- } getting thofe folemn Promifes andRefalutions they “madeto God and their own Souls,going on in the | old road of Gluttony, taking little or no tare to ‘continue that which they fo much defired when they weredeprived of it. Happy it were if men | did but ufe the tenth part of that Care and Di- ligence to preferve their minds and bodies in | Fealth, as they do to procure Money and Riches, ' which | many never obtain, and thofe that do, itferves them chielly to procure thofe Daisties and Superfluities, which do. generate Difeafes, and is the caufe of committing many other Evils, there being but few men that do know } how to ufe Riches as they ought: For there are ‘not many of our wealthy Dozs that ever confider, ‘that as little and. mean Food and Drink will fuifice A ee 56, Che Map to H - fuffice and maintain’ 2 Lord’ Pleafures of the Throat-Cuftom Vi infhare and intice moft People to. Bounds of N ecefity or Convenie. cel Se re i ‘ ie gee eg oe People are: much miftaken in thinking, Thar /oy long. as the Appetite defires, and the pleafure ofeating FJ CONLLAHES firong, they Yia.ty eal On without damage tO their Flealth.” But the truth is,° this js one-oPthe cular, it being fomewhar hard for an hy good ftomact’d man to give off eating ‘the midft of the Pleafure he receives by it,efpe-. ially when Meats by’Art are made on: purpofe — ‘ot only to prolong the Pallate, but alfo to de- it. But in him that uféshimfelfto fimple ‘and Drinks, the fhare of provoking the — te, beyond the neceffity of Nature, is remo- . f, for fuch cannot intice Nature out of her _ “way, nor awaken any other Properties or eee petites in the Stomach but its own Likenelss whereas varieties of Food’ do ftir up as many — various Qualities‘in the Stomach ;-fo that’there © 4s ftill a frefh defire’'to-each of edch' thing, till — _ Nature: is over-cloy’d: And’ therefore Varieties . | are alwayes dangerous, if great Care and Tem- _ -perance be not dbferved. But “he that limits” is Defire by “Wifdom, and ‘has the underftand- ing both of the ‘Quality and Quantity, may cat _ of fundry forts of Food atone ‘time, © but: the © ignorant and tnwife very rarely do it without — Prejucice ro then ficalfht "Oe 259 oem sre * As'the pleafure of @eitperattce, and the | meny benefits that ‘follow Sobziety cannot ‘be ‘Ynagined by thofe that live “Riotows Lives, fo neither can the {weet influence thereof (efpecially _ the firft) be enjoyed without fome Frouble to Old - Adam, "There muft be Se/f-Deryal in thecafe, andaman mutt live in this World as if he were ein} ee eer Tey ere ‘ae | %, yet eer demn hime :,, For all kinds of Iztemperance are firft, cons : ceived in the Heart, and if fuch Imaginations ae Ra ‘wen the plowing of the ¢ _-underftood; for he makes no exception,but faith, | NOTHING that goeth into « man; defileth him _ Which words, fhould they be taken in a Carnal | Yenfe, then owr daily Experience fhews the con: trary; for many thoufands are deftroyed both by: ~ Quantity and Quality of Meats and Drinks; but they are firft defiled sn the Root of their Spirits. - _ © But onthe contrary, no Meats or Drinks have power to hurt ordefile that man whofe Heart and _ Defires are governed and moderated by Wifdoms and therefore faith the Apoftle, From wheace | proceedWars and. Fightings, all Lusts, falfe Imagi- “gations and Intemperances.? Do they wot all-proceed | from within? For if'a man beignorant: of the _ true Nature of things, his Underftanding and Soul darkened, then‘he is fubjett to be defiled-by Lita Ree I 2 Rye | Overy 60. , ¢ | every th ceived within by Imaginations; for no outward Uncleannefs could ever hurt any man, ifthe in- * fide were kept clean. If Underftanding, and the. pure Spirit govern within, then-all unclean De- fires and Imaginations are, as it were, cut off in © the bud, and not fuffered to’ proceed’ toa fubs , fiance, and then.a man is not defiled either. — by that which: goes out, hor *bycany: forts — of Meats, Drinks, or other things >that go into — - theBody. And-fo on the contrary, when the — evil corrupt Nature is:awakenéd, and has gotten — the inwaid Government, thenvallthe Defiresand 7 Imaginations are formed, and do-proceed from ~ the évil Principle, which firft: defiles the Soul, ¥ and then afterwards the body. «00 0) > woe g » This is the very Roet and Foundation of all — Uncleanne{s, Superflaity and. Intemperanme; for ~ every property in Nature mult be. foported and 4 * ase At Tea - —- ong Life and Happinets, 61 _ fed onitsown Food: Hence all forts of Animals, whofe predominant Quality & Afcendant chiefly - _ proceeds from the wrathful and unclean Nature, — do defire a ‘proportionable Food, viz. raw flefh and fordities: buton the contrary, thole Avimals whofe Dignification and chief Quality ftands in _ and - proceeds from the clean Nature, fuch Crea- tures alfo do defire clean Food: The fame is to _ be underftood in the humane Nature, according. _ to the Principle or Property that is awakened at f moft predominant, fo is the man either clean or unclean, good or evil, from thence are all his Defires and Imaginations framed. sais hp ‘Thus we fee that Cleanuefl & Sobriety in Meats, Drinks, Exercifes,cvc. havea greater Virtue & Ex- cellency in them, than Peoplethink; for their | power proceeds from an inward Principle, and they endow their Obfervers with the Riches both of Timeand Eternity ; for Temperance makes all her Lovers truly fenfible of Gods bleffings; | how {weet isevery mean thing tothe fober mind? and how ready are {uch men to give the Lord. _ Thanks.and humble Acknowledgements for his Mercies? they fee, feel and tafte the moft plea- fant operation of the divine Hand in all things, _ their Bodses are delighted with the meanef? of Food, their Minds fatified, their Beds eafie, and their fleep found; they are not fubje&t to sndif- _ _ pofitions, nor rnolefted with Feavers ; their Heads are not dulled with Fumes, nor their Stomachs. — opprefled with farating Fits or windy griping Hn- a0KTS oe Che way te o beat, ay mours; they rife as freth as the Morning ‘Sue a are fit for ‘all Exercifes both of the ‘Body and. | Mind; © their Raidical Moiftare flows: freely thorow every part, like a pleafant gale of Wind, which moderates the - vopntral Fires, that ‘they - burn nottoo violently. a | . But this excellent ftate is not obtainable with, q ‘ out Selbdenial, and fuffering now and then a a little gentle Hunger, which cleanfeth the Sco | | mach and Paffages from all fuperfluous Matter, frees the Spirits from all Imperfe€tions, prevents” all Obftructions, and preferves Health far better than any Phyfical Evacuations ; It hath a certain Occult Quality, tor the digeltive Faculty and Nas tural Heat is never idle; therefore when the Stomach is not filled with fuperfluity of Food : and often eating,it draws away all the fined | 4 matter that fursand: ftops the Paffages, and which were apt to caule /bortne/s of Breath, fendtrouble; — : fom Fumes and Vapours to the Crown, hinder the free Circulation of the Blood, and make the Spirits ¥ popire. | Thefe Evils, and many others, Tem. A erance and moderate Fuftings do prevent ; the i, «i Stomach naturally drawing this phlegmy Subs) ftance out of ‘all the Veflels and Paffages, when _ Meats and Drinks come not too quick,. and caits the lighter part thereof upwards, arid the more _ grofs heavier parts down-wards intothe Bowels; for this reafon when a mandoes fafta little longer a” ghan ordinary, he will feel a kind of a Knawing ox diforder in his Stomach for a. little time, a / a ders e Sen a whe, ‘cidiianimanis ere: hes | __ Aenig wifeanvBaypitets, 6 then it willccafe, , and after fome : {pace d 0. fo again; the occafion of which is this, the natu- tral Heat does very powerfully draw matter unto it felf for Suftenance, but finding no. proper Nourifhment, makes a feparation of the grofs _ phlegmy fubitance that lodges in the Vedlels, of the Stomach, and. cafts it forth, both upwards | and downwards, and. having done this, craves | afrefh for more work, and more, proper matter _of Aliment. Nor cunete Rani | Nor fhould a little Trouble . (thwarting our _ Humours, debaucht with ill Cuftoms and Wan- tonnefs) or fome fmall Inconveniencies divert-us from. getting our. felves pofleft of this Jewel Temperatice, the true Phslofophers-Stone, which turns all into the Golden Elixir of Health, Con- tent and Serenity, fince we {fee none of the little perifhing Goods of this World are to be obtain- ed without trouble and. difficulty; Do not Louths Serve feven years, cua gete hard _ Labour. and many. other Inconveniencies, for a _ Trade, whereby to get an outward Livelihood ? ~ Donot Men Travel by Sea and Land througha - thoufand. Miferies,, even to the hazarding of | their Lives and Liberties for Meat, Drink, anda Tittle Rayment? And thofe few that.do obtain _ their defired ends, if Teyperayce be wanting, the _ snjoyment-of them proves not only burdenfom, but fodfull of Snares, that they had better been © without them; for Péyty bas deftroyed more than Necefity Come fay, than the Sword) the one | oa Pee ee _ having 64 ‘Gye aap | a ‘having | here witha to erate his Bays ein) defires,, and. fo deftroy himfelf, which ne other “has not. ‘What. a deal of pains and charge are ‘People at to pleafe their Liquouri(h Pallates? The Jadzes routt be fent to for Rarities, and the utmoft - parts of the Earth for Deinries ; fuch abundance, fuch variety. provided, as if all the Bea/ts and “Fowls in Noah’s Ark, with an addition o: all: the — _ Fifhes in the Waters, and Vegitables of Earth, © were’ {care enough to furnifh One Laxarious g . Board! And then what Curiofity in Sawces? — What fantattick Humors for Dreffing ? The more extravagant and unnatural, the more genteel, ~ and acceptable forfooth! Whereas thofe things — that are neceflary to {upport and preferve the ~ ‘Body in perfect Health, are eafily procurable, of — imall Charge, foon made ready, and with very little Trouble; they are in moft places ready ; __ and familiar, to be obtained with eafe and plea- fare, without’ violating Juftice, or: hazarding 3 : exther your Confcience or your Liberty. A . Temperance is 2 ftrong: Bull- 4 wark againft that pernicious Enemy of Man- | kind, viz. Die or uf picion of the divine Hand of Pr ovidence, * againit the Frorys and Caufalties ‘| of this World ;. Bane cares.that man ithe have ~ r i on ey to buy Wine, who by ufe finds Water q lefS pleafant , and. more wholfom? Why fhould one bemoan not having half a [core Difbess ~ when one will ferve him not only as well, bur etter ? Sobriety makes a man Superior to thofe vain i fee Se ee fet aRr ae Wea Ee cae lot an Bavints, fearful repining Imaginations, whereunto ~moft, or indeed all, fuperfluous intemperate | People are fabje€t, and when Poverty comes upon them, they are doubly miferable, becaufe they had incur’d themfelves to Uvneceffaries before, the abfence of which more torments them than “any real Wants that they lic under. But he that. Mf ives the government of himfelf to Wi/dom, and | has the true knowledge of Gods Love and the eternal Principle of Zighe in himfelf, and: admits ‘it to have its Operation in the Soul and Body, and who fees with an saward Eye the great Vertue and Fortitude there is in every fimple Gratz, Frait and Herb, and Who hath alfa bounded his defires tothe neceffities of Nature, there is ho'fuch great -reafon that fucha man fhould trouble ‘his head’ with care and fufpicion, and tire his Body with _pver-labouring; for Fruits, Herbs, Milk, Bread and Water are eafily procured: And what fober 'man in the World is reduced to that extremity, as to want fuch things, except in univerfal Cala- -mMities ? 1D hla rhc co hea AL OM Senate Me Every man ought to underftand, that heavy~ nefs, oppreflion of Nature and dullnefs proceed from the abundance of thick putrid Humeurs, -which ftop up the Palfioes and cloy the Joynts,: filling them with grofs moifture, fo’ that the’ courie Of the ‘Spirits is hindered, ‘and they as it. _were'fuffocated, which caufes various Diftempers’ in the Body, that men would give all the World, if they had it, to be cured of, but no PAyfick 5g ‘help them, nate 3 the excellent Lady. * whole prosper of theBody & Mind doth confift; - whereas furplulage of NV ourifhment deftroys the ® i : Spirits & damnifies all the Senfes, as that of Seeing “4s hurt by grofs Humours that obftru& the O; ne , Nerves... And therefore thofe that are fbjottt to meak Eyes ought to’ abftain from all fuch things as ¢ _replenifh the Head with Fumes, fuch are all forts of fat Meat, Butter, and the like taken in too — great a quantity, as alfo fProng.thick Drinks, ef{pe- cially: fuch wherein Worm-wood, or any ftrong _ bitter Herbs are infuled ; for all fuch things are. very hurtful to the Eyes, as experience fhews. Likewife, fuch fuperfluous ‘matter offends the orgaris of Hearing, and marres the fence of Ta/fing, by breeding Cholerick falt Humors ; {o that thofe | ; | who’ accuftom: themfelves to Excefs, generally | he 2 ap. to Dealt, * oe “s ity be their Doétores ; . fori it mutt be. | ‘clean fimple MH well-ordered Diet only that can “fine the Blood 3 _ by ‘degrees, out of w ‘hich pure Spirits are gene- rated, in the goodnefs of which,all Health,and the - | e i 4 ive! @ | a 4 & } - ay have their Pallates debaucht, and cannot give aa . _truejudgment of the tafte of ‘things, se ‘Now the forts of Food and Drinks. that breed 4 the bei Blood and finett Spirits are Herbs, ie and various kinds. of. Grains, alfo Bread, and -lundry forts of excellent Food made by different preparations, of Adit, and all dry Food, ‘out of © which the Sun hath exhaled the grofs Humidity, by which all fortsof Pud/es and Grains become of B | | bs det rmer fubftance; fo likewife Oylisan excellent | * thing: Spas i r fog yLife and Wappinels. 67, Maer! OS RRS ey ce PP eae he thing, in Nature more fublime and pure than Butter: And if youdoveat far Fle(h, let it be fparingly, and not without good {tore of Bread and Herbs. De eh eo _ There are two things in the prattife of Tem- perance chiefly to be regarded, viz. QUAN- ITTY and QUALITY; the later ought to be confidered by every one that is defirous to pre- ferve Nature, but Error in the former des ge- nerally the moft mifchief:’ For if Meats and Drinks be of araw grofs Nature}: and not fo well prepared as they ought to be, yet if a maneat | and drink but fparingly with a perfe&t Appetite, the Stomach (Nature’s Laboratory) ‘will make better Nourifhment thereof, than it can of the beft Food when too great Quantities are cram’d into the Belly ; for the #atural Heat and Stomach are of a wonderful Nature, when free from thefe burdenfom, grofs Humours, it can asit were digeft & kill the poyfonousJuices of unclean Bood, and by an innate power caft off the ma- Wignancy thereof, if the Quantity be not too 3reat: In this cafe Abfinence hath been found % experienc: to cure moft Difeafes that. have srocce ted from Superfluity, if not gone too far ; Cherefore Quantity is more dangerous to deftroy dealth than Quality, though they are both very vad, and often meet together, and then Health ~ s-deftroyed with a winged fpeed, which is the — thief caufe that there are fo-few, either Men, Women, or Children in perfect Health: Where |, K 2 : can a Rae) Sts Ales ue il *. 68 | Thenday to Pealty, | a can.you find a Man or Woman among fuch as | are Intemperate, who have attained to the Age |} of forty Years, that are in perfect Health ? the | belt of them being afflicted with wéudy-and fcor- || butick Difeafes,. which are bred by eating too — much in qgaaatéty, and of an evil unclean gwality | Thefe windy Difeafes are alfo much increafed by | the continual eating of their Food too hor, that is, | before the fulpherous moift Vapours, which are || of a fierce and {harp Nature are evaporated ; for | this fulpherous Heat which goes away in the | moift fteem or-vapours, does contain the Spirits of the Fire, as alfo two Qualities, viz. 4 windy ~ | moist dulling Nature; and a ferce {barp fiery one 3 ‘ the firft of thefe is the caufe of moft wixdy Difeafes, and. the fecond does generate in the Bloood a hor ~ alt {harp Humour, which caufeth an étching and ~ breaking out in the fleb with pots of various — colours, as alfo a wearinefs and indifpofednefs 7 through the wholeBody ; this likewife isthe grand ~ caufe of many Leperous and Maney Difeafes, efpe- ~ cially when the Food is grofs and not well pre; 7 pared, and too much in Quantizy, which Maladies ~ do often happen altogether. All Food that is” prepared by fire fhould not be eaten till thole 7 thick fulpherous and moift fteems be evaperated ; © herein many are miftaken, and even Nature it 7 felf is little underftood ; for the generality of 7 People account hort Food beft, and moft profitable © jor Health, and the ecod Dame will be angry if her 7 servants delay to eat their Food whillh Hot. ~~ But 7 fe i» on a long Life and Pappinets. 6% Butthe continual eating of Hot Food from the Womb has depraved their Stomachs and natural Heat, fo that if they eat their Food cold, it will not give them fatisfa€tion, although hor Food is contrary to the pure fimple Nature, and the health of the Body; neverthelefs the continual _uleof fuch things have awakened their Siriles - in the Stomaeh, and that requires their continu- ation ;- andifa man does leave them, at the firft _ Nature feems to want them; the like effect is } produced by other unnatural Cuftoms,as in taking Tobacco, it being a ftrong Martial and Saturnine Herb, ofa loathfom Bb ylanots Nature and Ope- ration, whofe predominant Quality is of a con- trary Nature tothe Scomach and natural Heat ; therefore the firft taking of ic in Pipes is both. _ difficult and troublefom to Nature, and there is no Preparations ‘known that will make this Herb friendly.or familiar to Nature, but only-the con- _tinual Cuffom of taking it, which does awaken _and f{trengthen its own Quality in the Stomach, | which in the beginning was weak, but by cuftom ‘is become, firexg, {0 great is the power of every _ thing in increating its Jikenefs, and it becomes as though it. were natural: and there is as much’ difficulty. ro leave the ufe of fuch things Gf not } more) as there was at firftto make them familiar ; # the like is true in Brandy, cre. for the more un- ‘} natural and greater the extream is, the more ‘} troublefom it is to leave it. : et dered As for thofe who are ufedto eat “bor ims Boe Gur Sovek Lee > } vi ayy Yi Foe : 10 Bie > Di and are not ware to. eat eld a er will bring them toa liking of it; for man being, a compleat Image of the whole.Nature of this — World, and being endued with the truenatureof | ‘all Elimental things , therefore Cuftom will 4) make every thing, whether good or evil, familiar | | to his Nature. As for my own part, I have not 3 been troubled with mindy Difeafes fince I left — eating of hot Food, which tormerly was affhitted % with likewife, the fame Quantity of any fort — of Food eaten CoM, when aman is alittle ufed 2 to it, will be much eafier and pleafanter to the q Stomach than’ Flor; for this {wells the Ee a fends. Fumes into “che head,. and. -¢auléth < ay heavy indifpofednelS through the: whole : ‘Body; 7 but there is fuch a fottifhnels: and ignorance Oe 4 {elles moft People; that they will not go out of | their old. Path, | following their falfe Prophets, a Cuftom and, Tradition, efteeming themfelves tobe furbcient Judges i in thefe things. 99. a Now. thefe windy Difesfes, and. deep thin Humours that are occafioned’ by the afore- oned Intemperances, are very rarely, or fel ever cured; for what Medicines have power cure, when the fame Superfluities are continued, which were the Original of the Diféafes?’ Pray where is the Medicine that will cure the French. Di feafey. if the Perfon infected goes oniin his : 0 way of Waptonne/(s?y The very fame ‘is to’ be underftood in all other: Diftempers§, atherefore Temperance and Sobriety. are Vertues that are — | ablolutey ” | ONG Hite And Yappiriers on : + ahiblutely neceflary, not only to help” and cure | Difeafes ‘when they have invaded the Body, but alfo to prevent the Generations of them; for molt Diffempers, with a little help of Phyfi ick, might be mitigated, if a fober temperate Life were obferved, fo that by. degrees little or no eed | inconveniency would be felt; but what hopes are there, 10 long as People prefer. Superfluity and the pleafure of the Tafte beyond Health, eating | and drinking, of various forts of rich Food and 3 and cordial Drinks, to the full fatisfaGtion of their — Appetites, which break the bounds of Tevper- ance, the Stomach not being able to make a per- . fet Concoétion, fo that every fuch Meal fows. the feeds of fome grofs Matter.and evil Juice, which by degrees ftops the Paffages, obftruétsthe . Veins, corrupts the Blood, and from thence flow S Various seh A according to the nature of ‘each mans Conftitution and. the degree of mate. ter: There are. but few that think that thofe- Oppreffions and Difeafes proceed from .a .dif-. ’ ordered Life, and a too great Quantity. of No Ou=" rifhment, but moft will be apt to believe them- felves, alledging, That they got C old by leaving off « Coat, or by Accidental Sweating, . Or fome other : A& of carele(nefs: Which mult be a mil take; for fuch things have little or no power to” burt the Health, . if there be not. mattzr before- hand; for you may be fure, if leaving of a Coat do o¢calion: a Cold or any | kind of foppage, | there ba as was fome part obftructed before, and the radical Spirits of thet part were weakened by fome dift order, or elfe outward Col/ds would not have had ~ any power to ‘feize that part of the Body: You — may alfo obferve, that ifany Member or partof — _ the Body be weakened’by any accident, that part © - will firftcomplain, ‘when either Cold feizes it, or 7 “when there is any change of Weather; / from — v2 < ¢ ' d ‘ whence you may conclude, that the Root of all or molt Difeafes, is, fr/?,fome inward Contraction of © _ ‘Miatter, caufed by Superfluity, er other Diforder; ‘which have weakened the pure effential Spirits,” and the Balfamick Oyl and: Vertues in that part © Decome, as it were, fower or fharp, which infects ” thé Blood, and then prefently arifeth a loathing, 7 find: the Pallate’ cannot diltinguifl’ the pure Relifh; nor tafte the goodnefs of any Food; the | Attrattive' Quality, and alfo the Natural ‘Heat of © the Storiach loofe their ftrength and power, then alfo the Retentive and Digestive faculties do ceaté © from their natural Operations ; for-when there 7 does happen any Violence to the pure Volatile 7 Spirit and Balfamick body, then prefently the” action of the Stomach ceafes, and there begins a 7 loathing, and the original Poyfonts-and centraky Heats are awakened, which fet the whole Body” into a flatne, which poyfonous Fire lay,’s it were? hid fo long as the pure Spirit and balfamick Body” were ftrong, andthiscontinual fiery or brimftony, | Spirit was onlya caufe of motion, giving ftrenge and vigour to the Oy/ of Life, whicly Oyl does! of | mux ae piefiential Oylis the truc Life of Natwe,, and the: - Moderator Of the original Fire, even as it is in the Fite of Wood, fo long as the Wood remains, intite, and’ no Violence done to the pure Spirits _and effential Oyl, this Fire gives a moft pleafant. and friendly refrefhing heat and light, it fends. ferth a bright {hine and wholfem fmell, very. agreeable’ to the pure Spirits of thofe that are. near it; but you will find the contrary, if you, offer any Violence to the pure Spirits arid effential | Oyl, wherice the bright shine and friendly hature: of Wood Fire does proceed, as is done in making | of Wod Fire into Charcoal; for thefe pure Spirits. and fweet Water or Oyl are fuffocated in all pearconk ae ae et eee For this caufe the Fire of Charcoai is not only - frronger than the Fire of Wood, but it fends forth fupherous Fynes, which will Pupifie and /uffocate the pure Spirits, and dull all the Senfes,and fend dark ae: eaeees Cr at GE TA 5 wc gu MAT Health, fas BS ss t en why ae oe eh “making it into Chercoa/, and then the Original ~ Poyfons and, ferce Fire is no,longer , moderated Me | but does burn and-manifeft it felf in its own | Nature and Form ;, this makes the difference ~ the pure effential Spirits are either evaporated or fuffocated, and the Oy? ¢whence the natural Life 7) hath its true being) -becomes as it were fower'a and made kées and /barp, then immediately fol- lows Feavers; for all Feavers.do proceed froma the awakened Poyfons (which is, the Original, of every Life) which Should not be firred.or awakened: For this.caufe moft People, when, — fick, are afflicted either with Internal.or Exter- nal Feavers, fome greater, others defs, according to.the Age or, Strength ofeach mans Nature, and when men dye in the ftrength of their Lives, and efpecially fuch as -have {trong Fires,what ter- rible Feavers will fuch have, which burns. and. . confumes Nature in a moments time? But © it * thofe _ long Life and Dappinets, = 75, _ thofe that dye or are fick in Age,& are of weaker * Heats, their Feavers are more gentle ; if People derftood this, they would not be fo. guilty f Intemperance, and {o over-charge Nature; for the meek friendly Life will not indure any Vio: tence or Inequality without prejudice to the Health; for as foon as the pure Spirits are ' wounded or evaporated, Nature falls into an unequal motion, and then the wrathful: fierce _ Pires are ftirred up, and.then Vatwre is indanger. | Take what Creature or thing you will, if you ' wound the pure Spirits, the Balfamick Body pre- fently turns /fower ; for .one cannot: fubfift with-.. out the other; and when this is done, then ina. moments time the poy/onous fierce Fire does of its. . own accord maniteft it felf, which it. could not do, {fo long as the pure Spirits and. Bal/amzck. _ Boay were ftrong, and did predominate, which, does moderate and caufe this Fire to burn more gentle; For this caufe all wife and {eeing men. - have advifed to Wempetatiee, and have com~, mended all fimple and mean. Food and..Drinks,. efpecially thofe' things ia which. the Qualities of. Nature itand neareft Equality ;.for all fuch Food. and Drivks do dittribute and. adminifter due and moift. Nourifhment to both Body & Spirits in an, : ' Harmontcal way, which is very agreeable to, Nature; for all things defire Concord and Unity,, it being the higheft degree that Mature can at- tain to; alfo all forts of Food and Drinks that.. _ do chiefly confilt Rh Equality, do powerfully be-_ get 76 = The May to Wealth, ‘get and maintain its Likenefs in the Body. nd a. alfoin the Mind: And fo on the contrary, high | _ rich Foods, which confift of many Ingredients,are © of difagreeing Natures ; and Dririks,in which the © Fire burns top fierce, do often prove dangerous to © Health, becaufe fiich things are unequal in them- | felves, and except they be taken very {paringly, 7 they awaken tlieit Likenelies in the Body, cau- ~ fing Nature to. be nequal in her Operations; 7 Therefore after eating and drinking fuch things 7 there follows Indifpofitions, the Veins. clowing — with Heat, Fumes, aad Vapours flying up into — the Head, with a dull Heavinefs, which is cau- | fed by the Inequality of the Food, and the great-, 9 nefs of the Quantity, which do for atime (until 7 the natural Heat hath overcome the Food, and. © made feperation) {uflocaté the pure Spiritsand 7 the Oy/ of Life, by its grofs Suices, and affording too much Nourifiment; and if fuch Food ~ and Drinks be continued, there are but few ~ - Conftitutions that can withftand the Ingonve- ~ miencies that attend ficha Life; but Abfimency. ~ and a fober Diet, with Exercifé, are the only _ means to abate all fliperfluousma‘ter, andin- — deed it hinders the. Genération of all offenfive Humours; ABSTINENCY is the only Phyfitian. that a mancan make ufe of, for itfecretly dces 7 digeft all kind of Obftru@ions, and that with 7 great eafe and pleafiire to the Patient, far beyond 4 the common and gro{s Drugs which Phyfitzans. ~ adminifter: “Alfo, ABSTINENCY isthe moft ~ EE EO oh Ww My cA. sane ¥ we Nong life and appinefs, = 77. left Cook, giving a moft pleafant tafte co wHd Pica tp ' Peay es “mean thing, by. which a fimple Porfon omes skillful; for he can diftinguifh the Tajfe and the inward Sweetye/s of each thing, _ and he is thereby ftirred up with an inward in- _clination to pra/fe and admjre God in the ule. of all his Bleffings: ABSTINENCY. does weaken and abate the Fury of the moft Chelerick com- _ plexioned’ People, that they become more Saga guine;, it openeth the Gate of Humility, and is | aFriend to Charity; it encourageth Alpe, and | is the only Enemy of that bafe and cruel Spirit _ Sufpition, the univerfal Fomentor of mankind; | _ ABSTINENCY is a fure Counfellor and a Con- dudtor of all the obfervers thereof in the wayes ) of Trath, encreafing Faith, and caufeth them to eye and follow the divine Hand of Providence, giving Peace and Tranquility to the Mind, and : ae tothe kody; many are the Vertues and Benefits thereof; It alfo gives the advantage of | Time and Opportunity, and is the fore-runner of _ Wifdors ; \t openeth the hidden and fecret Doors of Nature in a mans felf, and renders him ca- » _ pable of all Difcipline, and is the only Enemy to all Evil, and a Friend to all Vertue; The Wife and Prudent in all Ages have accounted her their chief Friend and Guide; by her Vertues they have overcome the inward Enemies of their Members : ABSTINENCY alfo preventeth _ the Generation of all fuperfluous matter, whence _ Difeafesin the Body do proceed; fhe abateth the a repular 4 . lifting Priz ee Hitination’s - fhe pe Encmties; and maketh no noife; fh Drums, nor difehargeth no Gass; fhe not the Body with Labour, nor b “Mind with Care; fhe wearieth n Sea nor by Land, to obtain that E. riot ftand her in ftéad ; “fhe will not ac | any Controver fies _ nor La fuites: fhe v contend for much, becaule a little fupplie Wants ; fhe ftandeth fill, and is Ha and chisineh all pings. Ma ¥ eas, ae a a A 4 eae ce ates “iad ae ha “f les * 7 sie CHAP. 1k a, e of the Jeveral far ts of Fleth -cominonly Eaten. ; oe Hough Thave before fhewn cnet inconvenien- | cies of the feeding upon Fleh (fo common- | - | ly and in fuch excefs as is now-a-days prattifed) and rather recommend the Lovers o Wifdom _and Health'to the more innocent ‘ufe of Graéns, Fruits and Herbs, yet fince there is no /temmsing the Tide of Popular Opinion and Cxjtom, and Peo- ple will fill gorge themfelves with .the Flefh of their Fellow- Animals, I have thought fit here to give a calaaiee account of each fort of Flefh,thiat - at leaft you may chufe that which is moft proper» for your | Conftitution, and leaft prejudicial to | your Health. | | Of Oxen and Cows, their Nutwre at Complex an. Oren and Cog are Anihed with a el guine Melancholy, Nature, a little inclinable to the Phiegmatick, therefore much moifture is an Enemy to,thefe Creatures, in whom the four _ ‘Humours are pretty well mixt, yet the Sanguine. igs predominate. As they are of an indifferent . ee equal The bay to panty» 9 equal Temperature, , fo they are indued with By harmlefs Properties aud innocent Inclinations: They are clean in’ their Radéxes, andtherefore _ refule all filthy Food, and the fame is likewife — a manifeft by their feet breathings, andthe I ung, that proceeds fram them; whereas on the con- trary thofe Beafts and Creatures that are unclean +n their Root, do always defire and. moft rapi« nioufly feed’ on a proportionable unclean Food; as Swine, Bears, Dogs, exc. Which is further a. monftrated by .their Shapes, ‘Tones or Cryes, (frightful and ater as alfo in the flercene/s of their Spiritsand eruel wrathful Natures, allfuch — Creatures are highly gratified w ith unelean Focd, oe viz. Feb, Blood, and the like, “a _ But Cows and ee do afford many Mescellent foxts of Food, no Creature being more ufeful Or proitable unto Mankind, not only i in labour- ing and dreffing the Earth, by which it becomes fruitful, but how many forts of moft excellent Food are made of A@ik? and fo. natural and: proper, no Fruit that proceeds from any Creature is of fo great ule. I4G/é in its own nature being» fo fimp: feand i inndcent, ahd having no manifeit Quality that does too violently predominate, but. is Indued with pila: and concord, eafie of Coh- coétion, ef pecially Rav, as it comes from the Cow, it gently cleanfeth and frees the Paflages’ from Obf tructions, which {trong fat Food does : generate ; ig Cel beech oo, frmpatherical Unton with the ape and natural’ Heat; it filently, | and. | wit heue. bs a long iLife and Bappinets. = 8 without making any difturbarice infinuates’ ‘its - Yertues and Nourifhment: into all’ parts of the ) Body. Milk alfo being’ mixt with Flour, does make fome of the moft healthy and * wholfomt Foods that can be eaten for “all forts of People Be aad Ages, efpecially Children; it being ‘hereto- fore their almoft only Food, boiled: with‘ fome Flour and.a little Water, without any “other ‘In- eredients, which then in the: Countty® wasicalled k Pap, but. of late Years, and.in about the City, they call that Pap which isxmade of Breadiand: Water, which ‘is nothing: near fogood 39 And fince the frequent. ule Of Spaaib\ Fruits and ‘Spices, ay the. aforefaid limple wholfom: Food. has‘ much been laid. afide,\, which is: one:canfe why our Children in this Age are fo much’ troubled with Diftempers. in ithe Joynts, VIZ. Rickers; and the like, hardly known in former times. Milk likewife altered: and Manifatturd (it I may call it fo) -by the good Houfe-Wives ‘Art and Induftry, yields many ‘other forts of good _ Bood, as Cheefe‘and Butter, and smany more in-’ nocent, as Jilk-Pottage (which: 1 efpecially recommend)! there being fuch an agreement in ‘the Ingredients, viz.. Milk, Water and Oatmeal, » ‘being boiled together briskly; and net too! long, as it not only attords a gdod:Nourifhment, but opens the: Paflagés, andis of. a: cleanfing healing _ Nature; and, therefore thofethat do Pe ae ued dt), do feldom want a good Appetite.” wa ® Chee iS all> 5 IB healthy Food, a preat | Bye ftrengthenae 820i (i MHC AY fo Dealth, °/ aes, firm Nourishinent;' and fuch People as eat mue firengtherier of the'Stoniach, affording ees | Bread and Chee/e, andido not want good Beer or Ale, are generally! the: ftrongeft' of men, ablér - toendure Labour and) Travel, chanithofe that feed.on~Flefh; there: is.as much difference be- ) 5 abel ah | : ak Sa big osc ikl tween the one and the other, as thereis between —Horfes;that are fed. with Corn and Ala, and — miftakenin Nature, do believe that F/h of all other: forts of Hood: affords the greateft and’ ftrongeft-Nourifhment; becaufe’tis full’ of mats — ter and Juices; ‘thévery fame may be. fuppofed: + of Gra/s,cormnpared with: Fisys But the: Husb nd=! man will tell you, thatthofe Catrebthat feed: ‘on Grafs are weak and faintifh inecomparifon' of thofé.that,.are fed.swith Hay andiCore 3 forthe: Gra{s contains:too much grofsMoiffure, which: caifeth the Nourifliment:to be unfirm, whence doth proceed dullheavy Spirits,the Flefh and Fat? being foft:and\greasy, which in cafe. of Labour,» wall -quickly,.wafles andiicho€attel are apt to! tip so-But thofe. that are fedi with dry Food: a ee A, Ug i. iB . tT tdi a!) tae { “4 ei Le iain Ae ; (whereby: the: grofs: Hunudicyicand( Phlegm is: _ dryedvaway,.: or exhaled by. the Suiv and Ble ments) aredtrong and lively; of great Spiritsy- a | quick and ative, littleBellies ands dean Limbs: “Fhe very fame) is:to be: underftood of the’Faed) of Men, and if: men couldcbe as’ well fatished’- a * ° é ' . ° A ak | ¢ “as at as to their, Minds with eatmg “Bread, Cheefe, Butte, poir'd Mifky Gruels, Portnges,. Perbs in thew a ~ ” : *. ae 7. oa ut | arinely, except by frog working People; it fills the Stomach, and ‘for the molt part gives Detter fatisfa€tion than any other : It ought not ‘to beeatéa until it be well feafoned with Salt, or Wy eens ifeaten frqb, there onglit'to be pood {tore of : = Nit M ‘2 . Salt Alig ~ all PutrilaQtion arifés; whereas when the {trong — Salt eaten with it, and boiled in pleaty of Was ter, which will fweeter and cleanfe it from its” grofene(s ; it likewife ought to be faltedas foonas — “tis throughly cold, after tis killed ; for the longer _ any Flefh is kept, the harder ’tis to take Sa/t, be- _caufe by keeping, the pure {pirituous parts eva- porate, and then the Salt cannot incorporate it — felf with the Flefh; for ’tis with the pure Spirits that delights..to joyn it. felf, and thereby pres _ferves them, from.Evaporation, and.confequent- ly keeps the Meat /weer and found; And there- fore Meat fo falted will eat much:fweeter, and — keep longer, and generate better. Blood and _ -~Nourifhment, and is eafier of Concoétion. If Cattel of any kind receive damage by dri« ‘ving, or any kind of Sicknefs attend them, and they be: killed before. they have time, to. recover — fuch Injuries, all fuch Flefffis not only unwhol- — fom, but it will not take Salt to keep as others will; the Reafon is this, becaufe if the-pure Spirits and Radical Moifture. be by any diforders, hurt or wounded, whether it be before they are ‘killed, or. after, the Salt cannot incorporate therewith, as aforefaid, nor purge out and de. ftroy the humid grofs parts in the Flefh, whence powerful and fweet Spirits in Salt (which are | _ the inward Life thereof) do joyn with and embrace the effential {pirituous parts, it docs tye or hold the’ corruptive parts of the Flefla €aptive, that they cannot proceed to Putrifaction, | 7 mer |e oy me, a we ya t ‘ | : loug Wife and Dappinets. gs. ind for a feafon it will remain as a fixed Body, till by Jength of time thofe pure Effential -fpiri- tuous parts, both in the Flefh and Salt, become _ either /ufocated or evaporated through. the great fore of grofs humidity which Fleih: does con- tain, tending always to Putrifa€tion; and when any Flefh does begin to putrify or ftink, a fecond falting, nor any other Art, cannot re+ cover it to its firft ftate of Sweetnefs; bue. if the fecond falting be whilft the Putrifa€tion is but yet in the Bud, and not too, far gone, then fuch Flefh may continue a little longer-----In a word, If this fort of Flefh be free from the afore-men- tioned Diforders, and their natural Unclean- —nefles, being feafonably feafoned with Salt, not kept too long, and well prepared by the How/e- Wife, and moderatly eaten, it is as {ound and healthy a Food for ftrong and working People, as any Flefh whatfoever, none excepted, Or Shep tacit Complesions and Nature, gand of, theit,bleth, wisss wend : Sheep are Creatures of great ufe & benefit to the _ Sons of men; their Nature and Complexion is | Sanguine Phiegmatick, with a little mixture of Ae. lancholy; but the Simguine Nature does predos . minate overall the other Qualities: They are. diguified with a meek humble Nature, mild and ~ friendly, aad, wheérein all the Properties aad Elements X eee Rh cys 7 +i were : re aes ae tet NSO Ee ane ; tie ‘ | ‘ ey kegs a an i i “Lt Dae oe we , a ae 86 The Way to Wealthy whencé doth proceed thofe harmlef$ innocent In: clinations, hardly any €réature in the World te be €ompared to them; they havéas it wered pk ncé of the divine Eight Shining inthem); for — if Equality and Concord had not abounded in them, our Sévidnr *efus Chiff would not fo ‘often have compared good and holy mez unto — them; but, it Avas;no doubt, to fhew their Meeknels, Innocencé, and defires of doing good For this Creature if’ not only to be éfteemed for — their natural -Vertties, but alfo for the manifold Benefits which they afford unto mankind both levine a nd eared 007 OS aS eres . The FAjb of Sheep, viz. Mutton, is of a clear fimple Nactre, of eafier Conco€tion than the -Flefh of Oxen ; ir generates a good clean nou- rifhment their Fat is the whiteft of all Flefh, which proceeds from the equal temperament of their Body and Spirits, and the predominan- cy of the fweet Quality, and becaile the Spirits are puré and undefiled. For,the white clear bright Gleam in every €reature (be they what they will) does arife and proceed from the dz- vine Principle, which made all things; and is — _ the effential Vertue and Power that’ does fuftain: and radically dwell in every ‘Creature, and all things in this World, in cach according to its — ‘Nature; and alfo according to what degree it is in each Creature, “they become of a more — friendly gentle Nature, or the contrary. ‘For i in song mite anbwappinets. 87 in what Creature foever this Vertue or Glearn | of Light is predominant, ‘that Creature is of a — moit {weet Compofition or Nature, be it either | Animal, Vegitable or Mineral, for of the pure _ white Colour in all things, the Root is the divine Principle, its Radix is clean: ‘Therefore in for- mer Ages, when any would declare their Inno- cency, they cloathed themfelves in white Gar- ments, becaufe it proceeded from the inriocency in Nature; Alfothe Saints and Prophets in fe+ veral places of the Scriptures by way of Simile, ‘compare Whitene/s with the divine Power and. Vertue, being that the Saints and Angels are faid to be cloathed in White, which ‘was not fpoken without a divine underftanding of the Nature of things, which I fhall forbear to {peak further of in this place, though tothe intelligent Reader it would be no uituféful Digreffions But to return t6 the prefent{ubjeQy 9 7 | The Fleh of Sheep is made better ‘oF worfe, according to the Accidents that do attend them 5. _ no Flefh to be preferred before this, iftliey aré _ free from Surfeits and Difeafes,. which this Crea- ture is much fubje€t to, by reafon of their ten- _ der Nature; for all Creatures in whom the four Humours and Elements of their Bodies and “Spirits ftand neareft Equality, are fooneft wounded, if any Violence be offered. For this Creature cannot endure any violent motion without maniteft prejudice ; -a little over-driving will put them into fuch-Heats as they cannon _ recover a BR ihn I dot Re aay. 3 88. ine The nay to Wealthy’. sect recover - inde a confiderable time, aiid:at Haft, they will break out with a Mainge or Scab ; af they. are folded alittle teo-clofe, it will fret. and corrupt their Blood, give them them. the Scab;> and hinder them from. gtowing ;. over - wet ‘ Weather will corrupt them, and caufe. them to “Rot in, moift low Grounds, and in the beftand — wigheft. Pafturages hinder them from proving | ie wellas they would otherwife ; thevery dri: ying of Sheep and J.ambs.from'the Market to — the Slaughter - Houfes.5 efpecially in» London, ; where they are much hurried by their unmer- ciful drivers, and other Accidents that they meet — with in the. Streets, would give. them the Mainge or the Scab, were eed to be rurn’d back to gr | Paftures:, soul wie | ‘haemo ‘Therefore there is secre the. ‘reatett a un dertanding and care to preferve this Creature — found & free from thefe Diforders and Accidents; — which nothing can do, but a tender gentle. ufage and government; which: fuits their Tem= pers, and hach unity with their Natures: Their — Flefh is far better, and more healthy in’ the Win- ter feafon than in the Summer, efpecially wher the Summer proves Wess for as nothing moré — deftroys and corrupts their Flefh tore than wet _ Weather,- fo in great Heats their tender Spirits on every Accident ate apt to be Evaporated ; ° 4° they are apt te {eit much, "whence pro- ceds a fainty Indifpofition; ¢! ‘pecially when the : o, and Year declines, the Grafs being then more long Wife and appinets. = 89 fore erofs and full of Phlegmatick fuices ; there- fore the Flefh of Sheep and Lambs ought to be {paringly eaten all the Summer, efpecially the latter part thereof; for this Guiatiidesd molt other forts of) Flefh is beft in the Winter and Spring, viz. from December to June, or there- abouts; for cold Weather caufeth the natural Heat to be much ftronger, and alfo more Cez- ‘bral, Tharpens the Appetites of both Men and Beafts, cauferh a good. Digeftion, becaufé __ then Nature is able to make a perfe@ {eparatiori of the Food, whence is generated good Blood - and pure Spirits, which renders the Flefh bard and firm; belides, the Food of moft forts of Cattel is then dry, viz. Hay, whith does always breed a better and firmer nourifament than Graft or any green Food. er BS ee | Tf Sheep be killed with any of tlie before-men: tioned Inconveniencies upon them, then their fefh thereby loofeth its pure Sweetnefs and good Relifh, becomes of a grof$ dull heavy Naturé and Operation, generates abundance of unfirni _ Nourihment and bad Blood; for it too haftily - #1 sout of the Stomach into the Bowels, and has many evil Coniequences, caufing Gripings, and Grievous Pains in the Bowels: Few do imagin -. theMifchiets that do arifé from the frequent eating f bad Filefh. ae: He ~The Marks to know. whether Fleth be good after its killed, are, frf#, That the Fiefh look witha brisk -w ite colour, and the lean of it with 2 NI. ig eat SRRRONB Bre AOU UIS by TNe R v LED A alia i tsi 1 8 meh ae ees ie isis > sai | ak a6 #0 1 PR AS Cae aes a lively bright Red, not witha fading fai whitenefs, nor “witha dull dusky red; for. thele laft colours fhew that the Creature was hurt and ~ the Spirits wounded before it was killed, or the ficfh kept, too long after "twas Rilled. Ano: ther Mark to know whether the Mutton be perfectly good in every degree, is when its pre- ' pared, either doyled or roaited, viz. if when pres pared it doth retain Ci perfect .brisk lively colour — both White and Red, being plump or fwelled; and of a pure {weet delightful ‘Tafte, as alfo by its fending forth a fragrant and inviting foent or fmell, which of all Fleth, good Mutton yields the beft. Thefe are effential Rules to know the soodnefs or badnefs of Fleth, if the Hou/e-wife do erform her patt in obferving fiich Order as is both natural and preper, to be ufed in the Prepa- ration of Nhe which Ehave fufficiently declared from the Rbot,_ in andcher place... 7 Mutton is alfo made better of worfe by, the goodnefs or badnels of the Ground it feedson; the beft and {weeteft is that of the /waller Sheep — that are fed on high Hills and Paftures, where the Grafs is {Wweeter and freer from grofs Juices than lower grounds; andas Sheep delight mot in dry places, as beft fuiting their Natures, {6 they are there forced to labour, wzz, to con+ tinue feeding longer, which motion does free the Body and pure Spirits from that grofs matter, — which fuch as feed in low Paftures, where Grafs is more plentiful, are fubjeCtto; and alfa thicy are the longer before they be fats For gir ‘ | an ae’ ey ita gD fe ee. rs BAS ——sMong Wifeandivappinets; = gt and the dike Reafotis, thofe fmall Sheep (if free _froai other diforders, which they are not fo fubs ject to as great fat Sheep are) do alwayseat much: frecter and pleafanter than great Mutton bred on low rich Grounds: And therefore there is no reaion why Citizens and the rich People fhould {Oo much defire /arge great Mutton, but only for - -Pridéand State; counting it a kind of Difhonour. _ to have {mall Meat féen at their Table, though the fame is not only fweeter to the Pallate, but more wholfom, as being eafier digefted, and _ generating better Blood, and is far more healthy toall forts of People, efpecially for Children, and People that live fott lives, which for the mott part eat the fatte/t largcft Mutton, and other rich Food and’ cordial Drinks, and fcr that very caulé aremore unhealehy thanthe meaner fort of people - eae fi‘ Of L AM B. _.. The Flefh of Lamb is much of the fame Nai ture with Mutton, being an excellent Food, ge: - herating a wholfom clean Nourifhment, as being ealic of Concoétion, friendly to all Conftitutions - and Ages, and much better than Vead, if they be. hot killed too young ; f/f, becawle they are clean in their own Natures; 2d/y, they have the ad- vatitage of fuckiagand running with their Dams, not being altogether fed with 4&7, butalfo on Grafs and zy, according to the feafon of the year, which Cdves for che moft part are hindred aieed Nie. from, ee DO 92 (The udayp to Healthy: from, which renders their. Flefh the moré: uns wholfom. There is-no flefh either more healthy’ -- or grateful than Lib, if free from Surfeitsand — other diforders, but their natures and {piritsard fo tender, that they cannot endure drsving, or the like; therefore Lambs that comefrom remote’ parts to great Cuties, are molt ofthemin onede- gree or other furfeited, or if they come thither. - Be, yet fuch is, their bad ufage between the — Market and the Butchers Shop, that tisenough — to fpoil them, and make their flefh unwholfoms Alfo, when this fort of fefhis eaten, the weather: is for the moft part Hot, which doth quickly wound their tender Spirits, and caufe a general faintnef$ , which renders their flefh fott.and - greafie; generating a very unfirm Nourifhment; and filling the whole Body full of Venomous. Juices, that givea further occafion for Fluxes and Feavers to reign in Aaguft, September and October, in which time Lamb is much eaten, - But if thefe Creatures are killed off the Common without being prejudiced by driving, or others’ _ wife hurried, it is not only the fweerelt, but may — beeaten witli as litele danger asany. Therefore there cuyht to be care and underitanding ufed in managing them, for if the Spzr#r in any thing, . be wounded or {udocated; the Body prefently be- comes heavy; dull, flat; and likea ii of Barth, — having neitlier its true natural fweetnefs,fmell: nor tafte, but is dullon the Pallate, heavy on) thie Sromach,. aifording no proper Nourifhment, | ns : | neither a eis ye e g Life and Happinets, 93 neither to the Body nor Spirits; its. venoms do By fimile beget and awaken their Likenetles, front whence proceeds Izequality and Difcord, which is the Root of moft Difesfes, and even Death ir elf Bicch GveTy fort of Meat and Drink, be it clean or unclean, does: by a natural and fimpathetical Operation incorporate. its felf with its likenefs in the Body, and powerfully ftrengthen it, whence arife both cazcord and difcord, fackne/s and health; as we fee in Wine, in which the Spirit is predoe - minant,. does not the drinking of it -prefently awaken our Spirits, and make them predominate: over all..other Qualities, and changes the Incli- ‘nations, Difpofitions and Intentions, during the time of its operation; . but afterwards it leaves a man with fowrer Spirits than it found him, both becaufe theSpzrzts of the Wize are not only evapo- rated,but have caufed the zatural Spirits toevapo> _ rate alfo by its fpathetical anetiing of them,& as it were calling ofthem out of their feveral Centers; _ the very fame is to. be underftood in all forts of Food, of whatfoever Nature or Quality it is: Mereanding People, a, et. | e Of the Fle/h of Calves or Veal. The Fleth of Veal is of a clean Nature, eatie of Concoétion, affording good Nourifhment, fit both for healthy and fick People, if fuch may be _ All which is worthy the confideration of all Une allowed to cat fiefh, which to me feems fome- “what BECO ae eA dh Sie iy lati mea eat Gaatssih Cul wor haat ik a | iy on ae ss cae a 4 i 1e ‘ : whe ‘ =e - gf Che we " te re nies | What improped, eff ecially’ when in theif tine’ oe | Health they ‘nade efli their chief food, irbeing’ probable that the original of the: Difeate wag occafioned by thé eating of much flefh, which’ one reafon why fomady Peoplei in Engl, when 7 fick, their Stomachs loath Pl® more’ than any other food ; for that food which'’4 man does eat moat of wheal i iit health, that very fame, When fick he will loath, “eff pecially nS he ean molt % s Yo *4 ba Fj bn flefb. ‘But if this fort of efi be eaten'boo ‘young, as 60: many do, at twelve or ‘eighten chavs old, then it ig not fo wholfont; for it being o of 4 fort. flimy” and philegthatick Nature, it’ enerites an vifirin —Noorifhment, and it quickly ‘flips! out. of the Stomdch into the Bowels, and’ ae often'violefitly’ foofens the Belly’, and’ caufeth sripin ng ‘Pains, efpecially, in ‘fat and ph Kee nabiek” People, and Tikewifé in young, Children: “Phat Veal is belt, that is five or tix Weeks old, “and Which fucks’ its own Dam, and does run wich het two or three days ina week; ‘for no Alef is 10 f ood and free _from grofs phlegmatick niatter as ti that have the benefit of Motiow it the opel “Air: Indeed fuch rill not fat fo foon,as others thatare — kept up clofe; yer-the ome is much firmer and harder than-the other, and. affords a firmer and Barder N ourifhment; for that which is & sent d up and ‘kept from the benefit of Motion: &} it, Ste at. Pare of the food turns 19to akind of phieg my fu ub- ance, efpecially j in Calves,” Whote food is all of — a ty’ ofe Creatures i Joug Life and Pappitefs. 95 a moift Nature. What is the reafon that moft Vealis founfirm and like a Jelly, and diffolves and melts away like Greafe ? It is becaufe this is - a tender Creature, and will not admit of driving, their{pirits being fo weak and fleh fo foft, by _yeafon (asis above-faid) of their moift food, that they quickly tire, andtheir flefh will alter from a whiteto a xed colour, which all Vead naturally inclines to, though M/k is a cleanly and wholfom Food, neverthelefs all Creatures that live wholly. on it; without the mixture of other things of a firmer fubftance, as the flower of Corn, or the like, their fefh‘and fpirits are but weak, efpecial- ly’ when fuch ‘Creatures fhall be hindered from. motion, then their flefh becomes of a grofs foft afid phlegmatick nature and operation, and the frequent eating of fuch flefh proves too often of _ a bad confequence, efpecially to all cold, phleg- matick, grofs People, who have weaker heats ; but to- others, who have ftrong and hot Contfti- tutions; this fort.of flefh, if not eaten. to excels, agrees well with them, and is wholefom. | In- | deed every one ought to know their own Conttis tutions, by'which they fhall be able to diftinguifh berwieen thofe’ things that are proper for them, . and'their‘contraries ; and he that is ignorant of this, is always fubjett to.¢rr, and to lay heavier burdens on Nature than fhe can bear, whence does procee a y stich aMicts {ome almoft all their days, d fo many Difeafes and’ Diforders, a“ ~ PO is i oe iy eB i = ORE Ca Oe 23 ss eee "74 sts i ae ae - 9 whe map to Wealth, a fon he Of id Fle h ‘Of. Saine, and — Nature 3 af Rid? Sisk and ( mp lexiows Fiat @ * Swine are badet the dominion of Sagi ak Mags and are of Complexion Melancholy and Choicrick, their predominant Quality. ftands in. the fierce, favage and ancleaz Nature, as their Shapes, forms, cryes and inclinations do abun-. dantly manifeft, by reafon of which they would: be: frightful to. beheld, if they; Were. not made, familiar kept Rane 6 RE MEE Ge BY The, ‘Antient Wile. Men scqgunsedl them, Bey ele | Creatures of Prey, deftrudtive to. theCrea- tion, neither profitable living nor dead, and did alfo .efteem their, Flefh to be of a, grols fulfom . and ‘unclean Nature, fubjeét to Purritaction, their Fat is of a foft greafie nature: The, Uncleannels. of thisCfeature does further appear, if. you burn. their Fat, it does fend forth a srols fulfome {mell,. alfo its fame is not clear and bright, as the flame. , of other Flefh, but of a, dimmifh Brimftone - . colour, which docs arife from the dark, Poyfons. | in nature, .as is further. manifefted: in ‘Charcoal, and‘alfo 3 in ‘Brandy, and other diftilled: Liquours,. when the /weer Onl or balfamick Body,, with the. pure fubtle Spirits, are by any violence fuffocated . and ‘deftroyed, then the dark original . Forms. of Nature. appear ; » fuck. things being burne , the, flame i$ not bright and clear, .but» ofa; -duskifh, dim and Brimsftone colour, as r have more “partis | pula ~ Sa - i os er ( , re ) SS d « . Hong Hifeand Bappineis. = 97 cularly fhown in another, place, where I treat of MEMES IT a oh ck ails Man But in Exgland the Fleth of Swine is of grear wife, but. not wholfom to be eaten frefh, efpe- cially in Agguft, September or October, nor indeed © imany hor Seafos ; this Flefh,where it is frequent- | Ay eaten, dogs generatea grofs Nourithiment; bat the way that Engh{b-People ule for ordering it, makes it_mueh better than otherwife it would be. That Bacon and Porte’ which is fed’ with’ Corn and Acorns, and have their liberty to run, is much {weeter and wholfomer, eafier of dige- ftion, and breeds better Blood than © that which is fhut up in the Hog-/ties, fuch Bacon for want of Motion becomes of amore grofs phleg- matick Nature, infomuch that the Houfe-wife ts put to all her fhifts to make it take Salt; for. where inany thing the Phlegm does predominate, the pure Spirits are weak, and asit were, fainty and dull; and when thisdoth happen in flefh, as often it does, fuch fle{h will not tate falt, but but by halfes; where the Spirit is weak, the Salt camnot penetrate nor Incorporate ; for Salt cannot _ make the dead body fiwing , but fuch Bacon as is fed with Corn, and not over-fat, efpecially if they have egrefs and regrefs, fuch will rake Sale greedily, becaufe itis Hiwely briskand full of Spirits, which are a pleafant habitation for the fpirit of the Salt to incorporate its felf :.. This fort is to bepreferred before all others. Alfo, all Swine gught to be killed in ig weather; and after it ae ear aE ON ge ee ai ww fvpearap fe is wai falted, ‘it fs Sanit pe 'rufted a: votval rit: time with . the {moke ce. of. Weteente: ‘or. ‘straw, which will make | it ook © ema a which ‘does much. corre Ee that ma rofs Qual’ a lity that i iS contained i intheir fle ‘although: Swine naturally are: ‘the iF agit eof ‘all Crea- tures that are J fo. much. ats neverthelefs if they be fed with, Corn, an are fi inped, ‘and killed in’ the propereft Seafon, tl fien wel faltéd, and rufted! aconfiderable time,: faye aremade thereby a firmer and wholfomer food than feveral’ other forts of clean flefh that is killed in hot feafons,. and eaten’ frefh; and many “People in fummer’ time, had’ better eat Bacon fat is Killed’ ‘in Winter and well ordered, than to,cat frefh Meat, efpecially ote that live 3 in Cities, bY. reafon mofk Cattel receive prejudice by, tong, driving, and other accidents. ‘But mall Bacow OF, ‘Pork killed in Summer, or in a hot fedfon, iS of ilf confequence, ‘asto Health; — for then the fat is {0 gr ols, and full of plilegmy" ip matter, that it will not’ take fale" ds it ought’; befides, it “obftrugs. Ni att, and cauiferh’ Fluxes, and an internal . Feavey oP hoke that ‘do aceuftonY therfelves, to the. ie equent, ‘eating’ of Bacon, it does Beaaly 4 4 BO @ fron Nourif iiidne, & dull and heavy. Spirits ; thetefore fuch’ ‘Pedy jJé are not {fo brisk and alry... but duller of Apotehentio jonthaw ovhers that eat more, airy ahd thinér food’; for every fort of Food'does by a fimpathietical O dn ration. firengthea” ‘and’ awaken) tts” Likenefs: ep heretors ye was “that. the moft SHuminated ; nade Ma being the jnate and Likene/s of all things, a Os ht - niencies’ and dangers thatall {uch things brought -Onman; but inthis Dark,Gluttonous and Drunkex man does imagin himfelf to have greater Under- ftanding than the Avtients and Prophets, {fo that there is little or no diftin€&tion made, ‘accounting: all things (as it were) ofa like nature and opera= tion, whence doth proceed innumerable Diforders | and Difeafes ; for the total Prefervation of mans’ | Health, both of Body artd Mind, does’ confift im | the Quantity and Quality of Meats, Drinks, ‘Exer- cifes, Communications, Cuftoms, and the good or ill: Proportions of food ; all things have a fecret Power’ in themfelves to alter and change Nature, either Tor better or worfe, or to Vertue or Vice, according -tothe‘Natures and Degrees either of Ev//or Good in each thing. ee" a Pa . A, bi : a O 2 Of rig 8 1) oie ie (a is A rt ~ i ni * Age there is no regard had to fuch things, every) | hae! a A Lea? bee es ie Shy gle Pet OV ee ee eae eee A - . y : : \ ; + Py rane . r ~ ° I 8 AN gM nad Tefen, re 7 a ee Rae 104 5 Che Bay to Healey, eka \ ey Ms & ¥% ; : ; Pe \ : 7 , ae Ps - 4 ‘Fae - x - aes % % “st @ OF the Flefh of Powls.h (agai a There are various forts of Fowls, moft. of © which men.eat, fome Wild, others Tame, of the two the Wild.are the whol/omeft for Food, their — “Nature is more airy and cleaner, and of a dryer fubftance, affording a better‘and firmer Nourifh- — ment, better Blood and purer Spirits then the Tame; the caufe of this is the Cleannefs of their — Food, great Motion, and their continual being in the open pure Air ; next,in Goodnefs to thefe, — are thofe Fow/s that have free Egrefs and Re- grefs, and are chiefly fed with Corm, fuch do — alfo afford a good clean firm Nourifhment : But © all fuch Fow/s that are kept up and fatted, and ‘crambed, in. Coops, being hindered both from Actions and. Motion, their Flefh is of a grofler — fubftance than the former, not fo wholfom, — harder of Conco€tion, of a ftronger Tafe and Smell, generates a thick grofs Nourifhment, a5 indeed all other Creatures that are fed or made fat after that manner, are much the Un- wholfomer, not being fo Healthy, if frequently eaten, as thofe Creatures that are at their own ~ Liberty; for Motion and A@tion are abfolutely ~neceflary for to preferve Nature from Dsfeafes, and other Evils, not only in Men, but alfo in ali cther things; for it Purges and Cleanfes the Body from all fuch fuperfluous matter which 4s contracted by Meats and Drinks, and other HE Accidents —— Tong Life and Mappitefs, =. ror Accidents that happen to moft Creatures; it ‘caufeth the Blood to have its free Circulation, and generates pure brisk lively Spirits,’ as daily Experience doth teach: “Therefore -alf-fuch uh- natural Wayes and Inventions of -fatting any Creature after {uch a manner ought not to be, “if People have regard to their Health: For all forts of Flefh is in its own nature not only more _ Uselean, but it is ofa grofler fubfance, afford- ing more matter for the Generation of Difeafes, then either Herbs, Fruits or Grains; neither is there any Art found whereby to exhale or de- {troy the grofs Phlegmatick part of Flefh, as there ~ is in Fruits’ and Grains: ‘Therefore Fb will fooner fall into Putrifaction than other things, whofe Humidity is exhaled by the vertue and - power of the Sun and Elements. It being a ge- neral miftake, for to imagine that thofe Fow/s, and other Creatures, that are haftily farted by me penned up clofe, and having fuperfluity of Rood, fhould have the beft and moft Nourifhe’ “ment, indeed they are fuller of grofs Juices and ~ Matter, but good Nourifhment and pure Spirits ~ and Blood, do not proceed ftom the grofs PA/ég- " watick body in any Creature, but from the lively - {pirituous parts ; and the more grofs and phleg- my any Body is, the fewer and duller are the Spirits ef that thing ; Ifthis were not fo, then ~ Horfes fed withGra/s would be ftronger and live- ~~ Tier than thofe that are fed with Hay and Corn. Are not all Creatures, when their Bodies are . | oe has fraiglited - Hal sat ey -betrer pos. and Spirits: ay fy! Ree a | ole Wohi maka Bi at | pater: 9 much matter, - difabled theres ~ to. go. through with their Labour or fee _ their. Spirits e ickly evaporated or fpent, he "= foon out .of comes ,,to pals. through the fuper-abounding Pp hlegmy matter, which fuffocates the Spirits reath, faint and weak? whith ' -and ftops the Paflages, weakening the natural 4 _ Heat and AGton of the Stomach: . Therefore: _ both Men,, and all other Creatures, ‘that’ do feed. -‘n Foot! that is ofa dry Nature. and Subitance, the grofs Phlegm being deftroyed, as in Corn, Bay, Fruits, and many other things, and are inclined rather to Leazae/s than fulnets, are not _ only ftronger, and, abler to endure Labour, but they have far greater and more Lively Spirits, are of. quicker Apprehenfions, and fitter for Ex- _ ercifes both of the Body and Mind,. whieh does alfo further appear inallfuch Fah. thar as fo fat- p ted; it.is;notfo fiveet,. norywill it fo readily take Salt, inorikeep. fo. lone without falling 1 into 'Putri- - -fa@ion t sLikewile, the fat of all fuchfefh, when © . falted, wall. dn a little; ‘ume wafte.an confume _ the plilegmy, grofs, party, which isto { rong, ; thi ‘the pure effential {pirituous, parts thereof are.. . ftroyed,;. swhereas the very fame. Creatures being : fed w ith) ‘Corn or dry Food, having, their Egrets -and Regreis in the open Air, being, killed:in theirfeaton and Sa/ed,will continue mu much longer “ than the former, being much, wholfomer and more pleafant, . breeding, good, 3 ourifhment, CHAP. corso eas: doit: ny : fee slisele Wi DEES oe LEAT - bed a rae ¥ a 14 ag oi Ok at * i 24 din -dNe 21 “CHAP. ‘Ev. Ley De: The Proper anil imo eat “way af om Boyline, Ro es /Pryingy Baking, ee = Fle ab other’ Food. << 8 "Hep proper Pane eal way to By hs Flefh 3 and, EGE HOOK, that the Spirits gt Life OF it may be prelerved, is, 4 fi iff, to put your Flefh into a, Pot. or Veflel -s is /arge, and can. hold . ood fore of Water: Pdr this Flement of Water being of it felf {weet and leafant, does’ cléeanfe and. {weeten. all. things, A cially. Feb, which is full of ¢ grok: matter. ;, but. you z are to note, that “your. Fi. is fot, to. he. put, into your Pot or , Veflel un ef i tf ftp Bayh; for if it lie in the - Mater q LLEC receives Hegr but gx atlually, it dulls ; sand ma, kes flag the fr lous Bare thereof: ‘Like. © wife. whe 1, your: Fic ae gut Into | Gott Veffel, b idet as ( Aged HB, oe fedt Ben it may not . He long _ edn, the: Water; eta it boy!, > and as. foon. visas boyls, you are, to uncover . your. Veffel, ‘and’ to fy ap leeep 1 it boyling. very. quick without intermi ‘Moa -y tall, it is ready, for,cating ;. The Pot or Vellel is nor. to be Covered ; any. time. ‘of the boyling, for thereby the: fweet. and, tefrefhing Influences ef : “the Air are hindered that they cannot have their re Of ce ; aN . free Egrefs and Regrefs, which does as it were — -firffocate and. deftroy the pure and Volatile Spi- - rits in the food, for the dir is the Life and pré: — ferver of the Spirit, ahd theSpirit is alfo the | Life and, preferver of the Balfamick Body in ‘every thitig ; and in what thing: foever the Spi- -rits fuffer violence,the fweet Body & Oyl turneth Soncr, as is moft manifeft, in all fermented Li- quors, if fuch Liquors be éxj fed to the dper Air, the Spirits will evaporate, aiid then, the {weet Body - turneth’ ‘fower, | snc Becomes of a heavy. dull. Nature and Operation’; :° but~in ‘the preparation, of all'grofs phlegmy Bodies, the free Influences of the ir keeps the ‘Spitit Zz- ving till fuch Bodies are digéfted add ite Spirits fer at Liberty; then if fuch Preparations or Di- geftions be continued, the fpirituous parts will | alloeither become fiffocared or’ ‘evaporated, ae: cording to the Nature ‘of the thing, as iti making and: preparit mB of. HEA the ‘gtofs: ‘phileg rmatick Body.in Gra ‘could ‘be ‘be ‘digefted or ES Hibi- ted. but by vette s and. ue OF the Sun ‘and Air; but: when. ‘th hey Have ‘defttéyed the ‘grols Humidity and Phiegit, if ‘the } prepatati on ‘and making of it be continued, "that 1s lH Flay édn- tinued. in. the ‘Sun and ‘Air, it GAIL exhale, and caule,the {pirituous part: ‘to evaporate Alfo." ~The | very fame.or like is‘ to be underitood in the pre- —parations of Food ** ‘for ‘thefe” ‘fery ulpherous Fumes and V apours * ‘which proceed’ out of thefe Veflels ‘all the time of the Boyling, being spree ss Yon Life and appitiets, 105 : back and kept in, become gradually more in- tenfe and raging, and beeaufe of the want. of the free Influences of the Air; the pure: Spirits _ and Balfamick Body are wounded, \ which does deftroy the true Natural Co/sr. with. the. pure Smelland Tafte; alfo, it makes it lumpifh, .clofe, a dull and. grofs on the Pallate; this kind of preparation is lixewife beavy, and hard | ‘“ofidigeftion in the Stomach, and generates thick - Blood and grofs Nourifhmerit, from whence proceeds dull Indifpofitions,. with fumesflying ‘into the Head: For the digeftive Faculty, and _ trive Vertue of all forts of Food, does confift in _» the Spiritiows parts, and if any Violence be done to them in the Preparation, then fuch Food be- comes dull.and half dead ;..for thofe Fumes and - Vapours that Pots and Veffels fend forth, are ofa _, fulpherous and poyfonous Nature, as you. may ia “ani if you take up any fort of Feod, when | © doyled, and -prefently whilft it is hot cover it ~welofe, which will force thofe,fiery fumes back, “infomuch thatthe re-entring the Foed, de- ftroys and fuffecates the pure Spirits; therefore il edited aetlscot. uly be beaiy buries have a dull grofs Tafte and Smell, very unplea- '- fant both to.the Pallate, and ftrong of Con- | -coétion; the truth ‘of this every one knows, if _ they would be fo wife as to take notice. ef it ; for thofe fulpherous fumes that Food {ends forth, as alfo the Veifels, is altogether of a contrary / nature to the Heat and genuing Vertue Hs be : $56 | “he way q Food, #8 se alfo. ‘may. perceive fo Vaned ‘ike . j Food is’ prepared® and taken: from the Fire; this “fiery Heat will of its own accord-evaporate and te be it felf from the Food; it dwells nolon- “are “Bot, “will cauile a Mange’ int their: Blood ; “The ‘very faine ‘operation it hath in» men , but not'fo violeit, (Becatfe of thescontinual -ufe » - make it. ‘Healehfat! ‘nor’ Wholloni; for if you. eS your felf and*Stomach'to ‘the fe equent:¢at- nite will long afterthem, “and wilt not bel fa- | ‘tished’ without ther” -QneBxaimple we have - > amongtt others in ‘taking of Fobzto,) whichsat st {tis "molt si la aiid biathlon, ‘but through “blamed by many 5” “Porfay they, Of have: found wy. Stomach, neither wilt it farisfie my Appetite. he Bee, Yee) Re Re ee i. < e 0 ‘peal thy . Us 4 ger therewith than it is forced by the: continu. ation of the Fires ithath no natural Simile with — the Food; therefore j it will notincorporate its felf with it) and nothing is more unnatural than to “eat: and drink any kind. of Food: whilft thofe fiery > Steems and ‘Fumes bein it; for it fwells the Rody and generates Wind; fends Fumes and. Vapours ynto the Head+ it alfo infedts the Bloodwitha “hot! fharp Humotir; ; But this unnatural Heat is made by cuftein the more" friendly ;as-you _ may perceive; “if you give Dagsior any other | Creature Postage ; ‘or the like,» «whileft. they ‘of fuch things. ‘In this ‘particular sI fhallobe “by Experience that cold Pood iwilt! #ot agree with ‘This may! betrue*” yet neverthelefs this does not 4 rand drinkin&’ of Phyfical things, your Sro- Cultom, ¥ wi ah #j AP é er appineis. 407 ‘ ja Life sy Cuftom, and by Ait it hath awakened its Simile in the Elements of the Body, and made | that Quality ftrong, which at the firft taking of it was weak, or lay as it were hid under the ~ Qualities that did predominate; therefore at the fl taking of fuch poyfonous or phyfical things, they. Generally diforder People, but when (as ‘it is mentioned beforé) the continual ufé hath made this weak Quality f{trong, then it oft-times proves as great a diiticulty to Refrain it,’ as it was to make it Friendly at the firft taking, or rather more. For.in Men is contained the true Nature of all things, only one Property does predominate and is ftronger than the other} which Quality hath the chief dominion in the , Bovernment of Life ; therefore there is a poffi- _ bility in the Humane Nature to alter or change | himlelf fer the better or worfe, that is, through “fe and Cujtom .of Meats, ‘Drinks, Exercifes, © “and: Communications, wis. to, make that. Qua- ‘ lity that in the Radix was weak to become /frozz, and on the contrary, that which was /trong neak, {0 great isthe power of Cuftom, and the es continual Ule of things 5 for every thing, be it _ What it will, Hath a “Yécret Power in its felf’ to - awaken i its Simile; both in the Evil and alio in. the Good. Likewife there ought to bea great - care taken that the Food be not over no¥ ‘under “un ens for as foon as the rOfs Phlegmatick € cared, of the two, it had better bea little Bod in the F4ed is digelted, the sure fp Cate y p P Pe 2 parts 308 fey The 10 ay to Health, Oe _ parts become Volatile ; and then if the Preparati- * _ons be continued, they evaporate, and go. back- - Wward towards the Center of Satara, and fo lofeth its pure Colour, Smell and Taffe, and be- — comes of a heavy dull Quality, and efpecially if the Vellel, be clofe covered; for fo foon as the Egrefs and. Regrefs of the Air is hindered, im- mediately the Spirits fuffer Violence. For the pure effential Spirits, which dwell if the fweet . Oyl, whence the, Fire has its bright, fhining, — pleafant and friendly Quality, will not endure — ~thofe violent raging Fumes, and Vapours, their — Nature may be underftood by their furious. | Motion ; and if thofe fiery Fumses be by the force © of covering the Veflel kept in, then they be- come ten-fold niore Terrible and Fierce, as you — May perceive when any Veflel is boyling, if you uncover it, the Steems fly oiit like a clap of ‘Thunder ; indeed all fuch Fuses and Vapours "are of a. dark fiery Nature and Operation, for be- ing kept in by force, they feek out’ their Center, — and do by way of Simile incorporate therfelves with, their like Spirits in the Food, or what-ever elfe it be; fo that thofe fiery fulpherous dark Spirits and Fumes become ftronger and more powerful in their operation ; for they being of grapip oShsamen ae lay nove Of Baking of Flefh, ie This ‘Preparation 13 nai fo, wholfom aor | healthful as either Boyling or Roafting, for thefe Es | following Reafons; ae Be ph eo rteid tong fifeana Dappinets.' x3 - First, Molt forts of Food that are baked, are ed both of the, Element of Water, ‘and’ de ri ivet F Pree , : a ee” es ae ae . allo of t 1 Air, which are not only the Purgers and Cleanfers of all Food, bt ee ede t the fipporf and “life of, the Spirit ; 2dly, The Air ‘in Ovens -be- ke omes fulpherous and deadly,” by «reafon of the topping of it, that the reviving ee Influences of this Elemént, Has’not its freceprely and regrefs, fo that the pure {pirituous parts bes come, as it were, fuffocated. Nor‘can fuchflefla _ be fupplied with convenient quantities’ ‘of Water, which in all prepatations of flefh is'a great clean- fer, and upholder of the Spirits, fo that it boyls in ats own grofs ee Ya which’ all flefh does plentifully afford; “Alfo, the ‘heat of Ovensiis _ fiercer and more fulpherous'“thartthe fiear of © | other, Fires, where the’ Air has its Influtnces 5 ithe Air allo beng confined, is Of deadly poyfon- ous nature and operation; . it ‘all deftroys’ the matural Colour. ‘Therefore flefh’baked does no - ways, look like that which’ is Boyld-or ‘roafted ; -tbefides, it is of a ftrong: fullom’Tafte in compa- | tifon.of the former, ‘and a lefs quantity willcloy — _and fill the Stomach, “more efpetially if fuctefeth Mhall be eaten hot, which renders it much’ more ‘wholfom than cold ; ‘for thofe fulpherous Fumies andYapours that do proceed from baked Food are _ Much more hurtfulro the Health than that which | dseither boyl’d or roalted ; ° for there are but few | Weffels in which Food is boyledthat‘are or can “be kept fo clofe-as Ovens. This way, of Prepa- & ie a al Rng ; by os x & ~ a q ration is,troublefom, therefore baking faves them the _ labour. | Now at thefe feafons of the year lsh is ‘unwholefom, and very apt to burden Nature, and to bring .Difeafes, as Lhave-difcourfed in — "another place, the frequent ule of baked flefhin “this feafon, with other evil circumfances which do then concur, does beget divers ObftruGtions, and generates. an unfirm Nourifhment, becaufe moft forts of flefh at this time are more fubje@to — | Difeafes do. very, frequently (fe for Flefrin | a OP ge ow e i iS. ie ee ga pat i ae aa ee its beft- Condition is full of grofs Juices and matter — for Futrifaction; by reafon of the great ftore'of — “Tong site ‘and pavpinets, 115 Colour with t the Smell and Tafte, which makes a fix Food lively and brisk, eafie of Concoéti, gen ating. a far better Nourifhment than any oe of baked Meat, BAe OF Steming of Fleth. "Fi hi. %, this kind of ke ae of Flefh’ is a of ay fame nature with the former ; for i it has nei- ther benefit of the Afr, nor a convenient quantity ~ of Water; in this and all other Preparations of Food, where thefe two Elements are hindered from having their free influences and ° operation, (asis mentioned before)’ peither flefh nor any other food can be well prepared ; for the radical and pure Spirits (where thefe two Elements. are en’d up from having their influences) cannot {ubfift neither will the fire burn,but prefently ‘the pure Spirits and Oyl in the Wood, or other things, becomes fuffocated; for the Water and Ar are the true Life & Power of every becing ; ; whence it comes to pafs in all Preparations, both of Food and Phyfick, where thefe two Elements have got their free influences and operations, the pure Spirts become fuffocated, and the {weet Oy] is turned fower, and beeomes of a ftinking Quality, which isthe caufe.all forts of Food fo prepared becomes ftron in {cent and alfo in ‘Tafte, and it ones its Barurel, Colour ; . if ie Thave uel A : ‘ \ t; =— Teh a oy. VATE PE Sy Ree” Ae | BiG eae } = \ Vibe i re ee bee J pie < eo cat whee) siete + as. ew : : ca 16. eRe. Oe, may to 0 Health, es eits - original Gale, of the dark brimftone. Spirie of Suture and Mars gets the dominion, which: was, - as it were, hid before ; but: fo foon. as the trug Life is wounded, ‘this Crude Fire becomes many. . degrees {tronger than before, as is feenin Charcoal, and in many other things; for thefe pure Spirits and oily Body, whence the true Light. hath its bright fhining Quality, are the Qualifiers or -Mo- derators of this dark fierce fire, as I have. elfe- where largely difcourfed of, touching the Nature a of Brandy ; of this all. ‘Houle-Wives. ought to take notice; for if the pure Spirits and fweet — Body be not preferyed in the Preparations. of. Food, fuch Food is rather a Death to the Body, and alfo to the Spirits, than Life: The greateft Wifdom in all Preparations is to preferve the pure Spirits and {weet Body from being either fuffocated or evaporated, and yet at the fame timeto digeft and open the Body ; for the Crude matter in all Food muft be degefted, or elfé'the ure Spirits cannot be fet at Liberty, or freed trom the phlegmy matter; which pure Spirits and {weet Body does tinéture the Bood, “as. we fee when any food is properly prepared, which ; comes to. pafs through the. Freparatoit 2 at - digefts the grofs Crude parts, and then pr fently the true Spirits appear in their friendly forms which before the Preparation were captivated 0 hid by the grofs Phlegmatick Body ; the fame i fi done in B4alt, butina 2 higher degrees Mof Certain’ it is, that the, “pure Spitits and: balfamick _ bafamick Body cannot be {upported and continu- | ‘ed without the help of the ir and Water ; erefore it is agrofs Miftake and Error amongit | moft Hos/e-Wives, to think that by Covering the ‘é 'Velfels, wherein Food is prepared, to preferve the _ Spirituous parts; thereby imagining, that if _fuch Veilels be open, that the Spirits will evapo- — - rate, which never happens till the grofs Pody in | the Food be digefted, and the Food be fufficient- ‘dy prepared, which does (as is faid before) fet _ the Spirituows parts at Liberty, that they become volatile; arid then if the Preparation be con- tinued, they will evaporate, bat #or before; for inthe Preparation, the Elements of Air aad Wa- ter having their free Influences, ‘keeps the Spirits and Oily Body living ; and if thefe two Elements | be prevented, then the fiery fulpherous Fumes |. become fo Raging that they feek out their | “Center, and incorporate themfelves with the _ ~grofs humid part of the Food, fo that they gree- _ dily devour and fuffocate the pure Life and {weet “Oyl; tiie very fameis to be underftood in all Phyfical Preparations. — , ; _« The Obfervation and true Knowledge of thefe ‘things are very material, as to the preferving of | “Health ; but firft they muft be underftood ina | mansfelf; for beforea man can effentially know “any thing, the Cognofcible, and the knowledge ‘thereof muft be manifeited in himfelf, or elfe it “4s. impoffible for any ‘one to know any thing Truly, Whatfoever may be known or underitocd RTE a) ; | of VE : web its 2 y PY ge ‘a ‘ i tLe abl - eee . ee Of Fryed Fle, d +4 ‘ ~ is, Pees hai ove t “a 9° Food will have a moft pleafant Smei/, a brisk lively I'a#e, very delightful to the Pallate; alfo, _ it retaineth its natural Colovr, according’to that _ colour that was predominant in the Radix.of that thing, be it either White, Green, or whatfoever — elfe, which can no way be mawatained, in. the Food, but by the benefit and help.of. ithe Water, and the pure influences of the sr: Where the | operation and influences of thefe two Elements are hindered, the pure Spirits do fuffer Violence, which alters and changes both the coloar, fmell and taffe, then it has a {trong and! odious Scent, and its d/fe is, alio more unpleafing than, the former, andthe Stomach does not fo eagerly de» fire it: Likewifle, its true Co/osr i$ fol, or in. fome & ahh ADF Sah ie Y 5 ’ re Bees : s : 7 te oh Ns eas: - vat roye as 1 - Fiy’d Fiefh, it does fend: fortli @ fttong fulfome its Tefee is ftronger, and its natural/Colowr is _ changed, by reafon the puré Spirits & {weet Body. are (as it were) fuffocated’ by that fiery ‘harfh heat the Pa# does contain; this Heat:is more _ poyfonous than the common heat of fire, which is caufed by the Mettal, whether it be Braff or “Iron; for the Bire does not only awaken. the . poyfonous Nature that fuch Mettal does contain, but the pleafant Quality or oily Body inthe Fire ~~ (whence it hath its bright fhining friendly Qua- lity) is fuffocated; therefore all fuch Heat that proceedsfrom Paas is ofa harfh fierce natureand operation: The truth of this is further mani- fefted by thofe that fhall be darned or fcalded by fuch Pass, which is tnore poyfonous, and the _ flefh is harder to be'cured than what is burned by common fire, and often proves more dangerous ; the very fame matter does caufe any: kind of Food to have fuch a ftrong fmell; . for in all Pre- parations that caufe the fmell'to become ftrong, it isa fure fign that fome Violence is done tothe pure Spirits and balfamick Body, which doth awaken the Center of the dark wrathful ‘Nature ; The very fame is to be. underftood in all other things; and that is the reafon why fryed, baked and. #ewed Food does fend forth a {tronger and © fulfomer {cent than other Preparations ; ‘and all fach Food will fooner cloy and dull both Pallate and A » a E Pe . MEAS Bo the it i ee Ral WwW a et 0% Were 2 A t- ri sath 4 wails oL*& 7 Pa Dy thes . Brug il S « " t POMP a ie at : ces of | Air, an a a ‘ . trary nature to whatat-was when it wasput into’ othe the Pan. | For,thefe Reafons all fryed Food is “of a ftronger fulfomer Nature than either boyled, - voufied or broyl’d Meat, harder of Concoétion, — ' and does cloy,theStomach :, ‘Therefore all Hou/e- - Wixes.and others that do prepare food, if they fegard, the Health of the Body, and true pleafure . of the Pallate, ought to.underftand the pofiibility of Nature in gll Preparations, that they tmay digeft the raw_grofs Body of food, without offer- pe any violence. tothe pure Spirits & balfamick | . Body, and then ail fuch food would be ofa mo — Plealant fell, color and taffe 5. for Sf the pure - Pprrits be Kept. free, and not, Tioéated.in the | Preparation fch fond becomes flendly to Nex - ire, affording good firm and wholfom Nourifh- amerit, gale of Concoétion; the frequent eatirig | bff uch food makesa man airy, fullof lively Spirits, _ and of a, ood Complexion : So on the contrary, | | af they be fuffccated, then prefently the fweet ' ‘Oy1 is turned Jowek, ‘or into a ftinking Quality § then fuch food io prepared wall have (as is men= "tioned ae! me Fate i i Beast eat tah, “> fe = a 1 NERS ’ Re na) errs - jong Wifeand Pappinets. = rms - tionéd before) ‘4 ftrong fmell and tdfte, not ‘yetaining its natural colour; ‘for in all forts. of Food, in which the /piritwous Parts and balfamich “Body is ftrong, their fmell, colour and tafte is _ ‘pleafant and friendly. Alfo, it is ro be noted, that moft Preparations of Food, the quicker they are perfortned (provided there be no violence ‘done to the Spirit) the bettérand more friendly fuch food will prove; for flow and intermitting _ fires, in either boyling or other preparations, do ~ flatten and dull the fpirituous parts: thereforeno Baker can preférve the pure white colour in his ‘fine {mall Bread, if he be not quick about it; ‘for ifany Preparation be continued too long the Volatile Spirits become in a degrée {uttocated, then Venus, Sol and Jupiter grow weak, and ac- ‘cording to the lengtlr of time and dégrees of heat, fo the natural Colours do alter and’change ; for the Colours of all forts of food (when prepared) ‘do arife by degrees one after another gradually, and when the grofs Body is digefted, then the .anward virtue (which lay hid-and captivated in ‘the Body of Phlegm). appears in its own friendly form, with a moft lively and pleafant. Colour, Smell.and -Tafte; this isthe potur of Time all ‘Preparers of food ought to underftand,; for if their Preparation be continued any. longer, the ‘Operation of Nature goes backward towards the “center of tlie original fire, then Sururz and Mars “and their: properties, are. prefently . awakened, which do caule the cofour, fmelland tafte of fuch R Me feed (perty which does FTN eatin theoriginal or forts of Food, that the meek and moft friendly Life be preferved from fuffering violence. a _. OF Broyled Flefh. Broyled Fle was much ufed in former Ages, but now it is little in fafhion, in comparifon of the afore-mentioned preparations; Flefh drefled this way is much {weeter and fuller of Life and Spirit than Bked or Fryzd, by reafon it does not boyl in its own fat, asthe other two do; alfo, it is quickly prepared, and the grofs Humidity — in the ‘flefh does freely ‘purge and run into the “fire; it has likewile the free egrefs and regrefs of the dir, the fire being full of lively brisk enna | | 7% Whicr a _.,... lottg Wife and Bappinets. 123” which in Ovens and Frying-pans are deftroyed, by’ which means the heat becomes more grois and fulpherous, like the heat of Charcoal, which does _ fuffocate the pure Spirits, and then the fat be- ' comes of a heavy grofs and oily Quality, witha ftrong tafte and fmell ; which grofs matter ‘in broyled Flefb is deftroyed; therefore it does not ‘only eat fweeter, but breeds better Nourifhnsent, if the fire be clear and doneas it ought; the fire’ of Wood does prepare all forts of tood {weeter and better than Cole, and renders. it much whol- fomer ; for in all Preparations in which the food does boy] in itsown fat, or in fat put to it, if it ‘hath not plenty of Warer and the free influences of the Aw, the grofs humidity in the fat does fuffocate the, pure Spirits, andthen the {weet Body (which all fat does afford great {tore of.) becomes gtofs aiid fulfom in {mell, tafte and ope- ration, which will quickly cloy the Stomach, — and generates burdenfom Humours in the Body, becaufe the pure Vertue and friendly Quality in food fo prepared, is in part deftroyed; Ifthis was underftood, People would not be in love with fuch Preparations ; for through frequent Ufe and €0 1tinual Cuftom of eating food badly prepared, ‘the Pallate is adulterated; and although fuch food ke ftrong and fulfome, (which always comes to pafs when the pure Spirits are wounded in the Preparation) neverthelefs the Pallate is net capable to diftinguifh Taftes; for the fentfes are eafily made friendly (by ufeand cuftom) to the ie R 2 greatelt Ee _avere not fo, it would be impoffible for Nature “to endure thofe Adulterations and unnatural Pre- parations of Food. Therefore we fee what a wonderful Power there is ia every thing to awaken and ftrengthen its LikenefSinthehoman ~ Nature ; for thisvery caufe the moft illuminated Prophet Mofes commanded the People of J/rael thactheyfhould not only abfaiu from eating Un- clean €reataves, but that they fhould alfO /eparate thethfelves from every unclean thing ; for he was fenfible that Man was capable to be wrought-on by all things, becaufe he has a jémife with all. ~ ‘There is more in this than many imagin; whieli. ‘every one ought to confider, not only in Prepa- rations of Food, butt in all other things. | red? « yee ot all ftinkin t "Butchers Shops from feet pleafant Airs: Ifthis / 5S chk pe. The Seafons of the year in which all forges’ __ of Flefh are moft unclean and apteft to _» contrac and breed Difeales, and alfo ae the'danger of eating much green Food : - - And the Reafons why fo many are fick _ _ and dye more’t one time than another. TT He Seafons ‘of the year which are moft i. dangerous to contract Difeafes in, are from the middle of Fune to the aft of October. For, 1f, This feafon is hot, which openeth the Pores, ‘caufeth Sweating, and as it were a continual Fvapotation of the Spirits, which caufeth a tid of fainty Indifpofition to poffefs the whole Body ;. for all heat, which exceeds the Medium, whether it proceeds from Seafons, Meats, Drinks or Exercifes, doth gradually wafte atid confume: the Spirits and natural Heat, and dulls the edge ofthe Attractive, Digefive and Retentive Faculties - of the Stomach; therefore in all hot Countries and Seafons mens “ Appetites are not fo vigorous and quick as in cold Countries: For this reafon all Superfluity and Intemperance are _ far more dangerous, and men are apter to con- tra&t Diftempers in the one than in'the other, ‘as sae experience | Nae yar? a ne . . | | ‘ \ 7 ms ee en wt }: 4 ; 126 = Fhe way to Healt ~~ Tn : * ; it ay Nee Lie of Mees b, Tea = or “eS. ¥ Z r i kK tO = OS re ee ee ee a Ou ae ES eta tS, ‘inall Sot Climates are more temperate in Meats, — Drinks and Exercifes than they are incold, which — jh People and others ‘is One main caufe why Exghfb ‘that travel into the Eaf and West-Indies are {0 unhealthy, and fo many have dyed; Experience hath taught them, that the grand caufe has been -Intemperance, not only continuing the fame them, faying, The hotter the Weather, \the flronger apa hotter the Drink ought go be; this Cuftom hath been praftifed by ‘tome idle fottifh’ People _Diforders there, which they had been addicted to in their own Country, but rather increafing @xperience manifefts; we fec that the Natives — that. underftood Nature; no.more than Swine; — Whereas if fuch who travel did take right mea~ pares in. Meats, Drinks and Exerciles, they would oe as healthy as in their own Countries. -. | 2dly, \n this Seafon People make ufe of variety of green Food, as Beams, Peafe, Cabages, Coll. fowers, ..Artichoaks, Gc. All which things do contain great tore of grofs Phlegmy, matter, efpecially. inco/d Counerses, where theSun (which ds the. central Life of all things has not that power +o prepare fuch food asin hot: Alfo, the Bodies of moft People being accuffom?d all the remaining part of the year to ftrong ‘thor Food and. Drinks, and then on a fuddain, without gradual Progrel- fion, beginning fuch a kind of Diet as does beget Cruditiesand ObftruCtions; is very prejudicial to them ; for Experience; does thew, that all fuch things are fullofEhicgmyand have DERN eagle | : Se Am nary pie ANC + ne 2 fog Hite and Wappinets, = r27 and they very impure, comparatively, to what _ they were inthe Spring: ‘Therefore they ought. to beaten moderately, or elfe all fuch things do - fwell'the:Body; and fillit with grofs Phlegmatick Humours, whence’ doth arife thofe heavy dull _ Tiidifpofitions, which do generally attend People [eet Beelone BAP LSIo4¥9 bo. occ gener + © igdly, Iwis likewife to be obferved, that a great part of that green Food: before-mentioned, doeg _ Often lie a'confiderabletime before they are eaten, | @iz/ twoor three days, ormere, after fuch things . ate cut/or gathered, efpecially in great Cztzes and _. owas, fome' of them lie heating together a a _ Ortwo before they are {pent, as Beans and Peafe, @e. by which means they lofe their pure brisk : lively tafte-and {mell, their, natural. Colour is chafiged’ into a dull Green, mixed with a dusky ‘Black; they are dull onthe Pallate, lie heavy on ‘the Stomach, snothing fo. quick of Concoétion as thofe that are boyled frefh;. thefe things prefent- . Tinétures, ” Swhence‘doth proceed the pleafant Tafte, with - the moft- fragrant Smell.and natural Colour 3 if _ *your Pallate be not too much adulterated, it will . ‘eafily diftinguifh the one from the other. ih ie a 4thiy, Atthis time of the year the Air (which is the Life of the Spirit in all Cstées and great “Townsyiis thiek and fulpherous, full of grofs “Humidity, -which has its fourge from many Un- . *¢leanneffes {uch places do plentifully afford, more ‘éfpecially in this feafon, which is inamicable.to ie er. HAR oi a la ree Poe a the pure Spirits of all fuch food; : for alk greey. Food is naturally fubje& to Putrifattion, by reafon, of their Phlegmatick Body ; this makes them: more unhealthful'and dangerous thaniotherwife they would-be, iffrefh and livelys 5 ” "Thele Siomer’ Fruits, when they have been gathered long, andexpofed to the cotrupt Airof Cities and Towns, the ‘pure {pirituous Vertues ‘and digeftive-Faculty is im a manner:deffroyed 5 ‘thefe Fruits, viz. Goofeberries, Curraips,. Rlums, — Cherries, Pears, Apples; @c. are endued witha ‘very tender ‘Spirit and Life, and. being full of ‘Phlegm and grofs matter, they iquickly corrupt and‘ turn to Putrifa€tion; which all the Eaters ‘thereof ought-to’ confiders Likéwifeit may.be ‘noted, that many of-thefe Fruits: ares¢aten ona full Stomach, both at Meals andammediately ‘after, which muff needs’ be. very perniciouste Health, ‘becaufe they obftruét the Stomach and Paflages, generating many crude Wandy Hue _ ‘mours, whereby they fuffocate the pune Spirits, — and turn the {weet oy of Life fower; whence doth _ proceed griping Pains in the Bowels,: Blines, Fea- vers; befides, Pains in the: Foynts, caufing Trem-. bling Diffempers, like Agues, ‘according, tothe ~Conftitution of each man, ‘andthe.matter which isawakened‘in the Root. But ontheiicbatrary, “af fuch Fruits: arevipe and frefhigathered,.and _ eaten in order wheat the Stomachiscleaniand free ~ from being cloyed with other food, thenthey are. - yery profitable, being molt of them of anlopening « ag long wLife and Happinets. = 12g _ and cleanfing Nature; for they gently cleanfe | and purge the Paffage and Bowels: But all thefe _ Suramer Fruits are belt and fafeft prepared, Being mixed with things of a drying and warmin Quality, or rather made into Drivks, ‘and when fuch Juices have paffed through Fermentation, the Phlegmy Body is digefted, and the {pirituous parts fet at liberty, which do tin&ture.the grofs Body, fo that the Spirit and true Life is made thereby predominant over the body of Phlegm;. ; ae P hat 4 ae if =“ Se : e357 / i ae 9 oe mnaen Lam SeeN, Ne Sais $72 La abe » fo Heal mi is more fulpherous ; ‘the pleafant Influences and ms Spirits of the Air are dull and thick, which caurfes. ‘a dull and fainty Indifpofition to poffefs the Bo- _ ‘dies and Spirits of all Creatures; Men themfelves — ‘can witnefs the Truth of this: Moreover, all — ‘Creatures are more fubject to fweat, by which — the Spirits do evaporate; likewife, the Food of — moft Creatures is Grafs, which is of a” grofs Phlegmatick Nature, and generates not only — an unfirm Nourifhment, but alfo fills the Body — full of evil Juices, the fat and flefh being ofa foft — ‘greafy nature, having but few Spirits, and thofe — that are very impure, the blood of moft Cattel ‘being thick and grofs, which is the caufe their — flefh will not take falt as at other feafons ; alfo, — about this time moft forts of Cattel, éfpecially thofe that come from remote parts'to-great Cities, — are more or fefs heated and furfeited e driving, — ‘and other Accidents, they being *not formerly — -ufed to driving , the’ Weather being ‘hot and — fginty, the Air thick and humid, and they being loaded with much grofs leh & far,all thefe things “concurring , males their fle’ 'wawholfom; and — fubjeQ: to Corruption, ' elpecially Sheepand Lambs, — “whofe Spirits and Lives are fo tender, that they ‘cannot endure any kind of violent motion with- — . our manifeft danger to their Health: “It is very — “rare that any Mutton or Lamb is 800d inthis “feafon, they not being free from’ the: aforefaid Accidents,, you may eafily diftisguifh by ‘the pafke; frmell and colour of: that ee ee ong Puc anbyappuiets, = £33 the Common without driving’ & other Actidents, ‘and that which is killed in Lozdoz with driving, _ the Bodies of all Creatures being inthis feafon full of Phlegmy matter, that every little Accident ‘will wound the Spirit, then prefentlysthe Body fuffers many Inconveniencies ; and if fuch Cattel be kill’d before they have time to recover fuch In- » juries, their flefhis of a dull heavy Phlegmatick _ Nature, the Spirits are few, and thofe that are are impure ; for thefe reafons it’will not take fal: --noreat {weet, as others will, which are free from -fuch Inconveniencies; for Salt has no power to “preferve fuch flefh from Putrifa€tion, becaufe (as as mentioned before) the Spirits are impure; for thofe grofs Bodies are He Or by the verture and power of the Spirit; and in fuch Aefh where the {pirits are fewandimpure, and the flefh grofs | and full of Phlegrny matter, the /a/¢ cannot in- corporate; therefore in this feafon ufe what Art you can in falting your flefh, it will.not eat fo {weet nor keep fo long without ‘corrupting as at other times of the year; but‘on the:contrary, in _ other feafoas, and whten the flefh is free from the afore-mentioned Inconveniencies, their Blood be- ing thin, and well tempered with brisk and lively . fpirits, fuch flefh being falted asfoon as it is cold, the fale will greedily penetrate it, and incorporate At felf with the well-tempered Blcod and pure ‘Spirits, fo that it does hold the corrupt Phlegmy ‘part of the flefh captive, that the humerlity there- | ‘of cannot turn to Putrifattion, watil thofe byisk ' aiVELY hs age ae ae ane: iotig Life and a; ” DA) a Se A ee om See es: Mie PMT NIE 9) ANA ie AR a eee hee cy Nea “ ; LO tee ‘ : eon a < « M3 434. «he map to Health pF . sa ie lively Spirits both in the flefh and falt bethrough length of time, wafted. or fuffocated, which — comes to pafs in fix, eight or twelve -Moneths; more. of lef$, according to the goodnefs of it and ‘ ‘well ordering, and» other Accidents, and then it will fall into corruption, and there is no Reco, very for it; but if the Salt had cleanfed and — purged the flefh from its grofs humid parts; as fome fay it does, then fuch flefh would have - kept a longer timé, asall other grofs Podies will, when the Sun and Elements have dryed away and exhaled the phlegmy grofs parts, and left remaining the more firm and f{pirituous, which will continue: found and good many. years, as many forts of Corn; Fruits and Hay, which até ~ altogether as {ubje&t to Corruption as Flefh, when — Breen and full of Phlegmy Juices; but-their Pu- trifa€tion is not fo loathfom, nor foofenfive to Nature; neither will fuch things'generatefuch pernicious Vermin as fleih will, the matterin fefh — aS srofler. OT OR t, oy eam Or) joes a | . It was not without great Reafonend,-Wildom that the Antients commanded. that flefh fhould be eaten {paringly, and that. there; fhould be a a ‘particular care taken‘ abdut the good fate of the — Bodie of fuch Cattel, But,alfo in-the killing and preparing of it; the drefling and, prepating of all other forts of Food being left. to évery Ones _ difcretion. But the learned Prophet Mo/es was fenfible that the. comming and frequént, eating of Flefh was very dangerous;.as tosthe health of che 1 | i a “ Body4 ~ a i _ thly, Ia this feafon all men do find themfelves more {abject to Indifpopitions, the Spirit dull and heavy, apt to faintnefs, and fooner wearied with Labour than at any other time; the Ap- | petite not fo quick and lively; Therefore all forts | of People ought to have. double the care, as to | their Health, at this time, bothin Meats, Drinks and Labeurs, alfo in Quality and Quantity; for | Latemperances are not fo dangerous inthe Wiuter | or Spring, Nature being then ftrong and able to | bear, with lefs prejudice: Thisis the time of | the year in which alfo moft forts of Cattel are | fubje& to SicknefS, as Sheep to the Ror, and | other Cattel to Murrians. And do not almot the double Number. of People ficken and dye in this feafon? And isnot. theflefh of all forts of | Bowlsin hot weather lean and poor, although | they have more plenty of Food than in Winter ? | Bur it lies not in the Quantity of Food, but in | the feafon of the year, andthe Weather; forall | Heat, when it does exceed the Akediam, evapo- | gates and dpends the Spirits, and then Nature daes

in the body have gotten great power over Nature; in fuch cafes the beft Medsciwes do often fail, moft. Difeafes being generated gradually, as the _Intemperancés are committed ; for Nature ever’ hides the Evil Matter (whence Diftempers do _ proceed) as longasfheisable; but when once the Défea/es do manifeft themfelves with any kind of Violence, then there is danger at hand; moft People being miftaken in Nature, for they. gene- rally attribute the’caufe of their Difeafe to the leaft Intemperance or taking of Cold, or the like; never confidering how many Diforders and Intempe- -rancesS they have formerly committed; every Act of Intemperance does in fome degree o- -ftrucét Natute, and by degrees fows the feeds of _ future Difeafes ; not but that oxtward Colds and the likedo hurt Nature, and oft-times awaken the matter which lies inthe inward parts, and bring it to manifeftation; but on the contrary, _ ‘when the in-fide is clean and free from Obitru- - €tions, and other Evils, the body doth then very . rarely receive any injury by fuch outward Ac- cients; for Nature {till endeavours to overcome ‘and withftand the evil matter in the body, and makes feveral E(fayes to throw fuch Diforders of, ut if Irregularitiesin Meats, Drinks and‘Labours be continued, the Evil at laft grows fo great, that 218 See then & #38 9 he ueay to Bealthy then Nature muft. bow, and Diitempers t ¥ place... This is always to be noted, that if any Member or part of the body be weakened either — by inward ObftruCtions or outward Accidents, a5 Ealls, Bruifes, broke Bones, Ge. andthe Perfon be guilty of any Intemperance or difordérly Lis | ving, the weak or hurted pare firft feels it, ac- cording to the old Proverb, The weake/t goes ta the Wall. Xt willtbe convenient, if any upow particular occafions be exceffive in Meats and Drinks, to obfervethe following Rules, which they’l find to be very profitable. meee ee xp Firft After full Meals and excelfive Dranghts, fee that they faft longer than their wlual time is; this gives great advantage tothe natural Heat, — by which the digeftive Faculty of the Stomach _ does by its fecret.attraftive Power draw unto it (elf ali Superfluity and evil Juicesthat have beem © -bred through Inteimperance, digefting and throw: ing off all fuch matter, which might otherwife occafion Difeafes, for the action and natural heat of the Stomach is never idle, but has always its continual motion, and fecret attraction, aid, Hungeris {0 powerful,that it willdraw the very fle(p off the bones: Theretore fajtiag after immoderate eating and drinking, 1s a jure Rewedy to prevent Difeafes and Swfeits, drinking good ftore. of W’ster-Gruel made thin and boyl'd quick the fol- day, without any Ingredients. in it, will cleanfe the Szomaci and help to earry off the grofs mat- ter and evil juices, avhich do proceed from ! ) Repletion ; se age ONES “a ee Uy, Ms " ) on 4 Ls Shaw ® : Ag : * de eee ee ea Ai, it ¥ A { 4 >. Te ia ent AL s , - q - ‘ agg | tis World isto live an zd/e Lf, and co have their MA Sh a. es | Lables le as ai ay Pr St 1 Ehe tay towenithy Lables daily furnifbed with variety of ich Food and - frrong Drinks ; few' of them confidering that the true pleafure of eating and drinking is inhaving a perfect Appetite, and that without Labourno man can be brisk and lively, eitherin Body or Spirit, which Superfluity of rich Food, ftrong Drink — and Idlene/s doth deftroy, becaufeé moft of fuch — things are unequal in their patts, and fo beget Inequality’; alfo they are endued with too @reat ‘Vertue, whence doth proceed too much Nourifhs — ment, which is the Foundation of moft Difeafes ; _ for this caufe mean and fimple Meat and Drinks 7 ‘are not only moft grateful to Nature; butdo ~ _ beft fupport the Body in perfeét Health and Strength, far beyond all the richéeft compounded Flefh, Fifh and ftrong Drinks, though all fuch things are and may be very ufeful now and then, being moderately ufed for the neceflity of Nature, as the Scripture faith, A// GodsCreatures are good, : - being received with Thanks-giving: Molt Meats — and Drinks in their own Naturearefimple and ~ “ innocent ; it is generally Compofitions that make Meats and Drinks not only too Rich, but alfo Improper teas x: va : i ah yoke a 4 q | one site aa paps, oe aa. Eee ree rey lh 4 CHAP. VI , ion Besiers. afiae Beer and Tobacco. to which’ 1S waded the confideration of Clothing, Floufes and Beds, and what great Benefits arife from M oder ation and Bemperanee in thofe things. ih He Element BE Water is not ffferton to any ‘@ > other of the Elements, neither is Nature swanting to work. wonderfully thereby; There is{o great a Neceflity of Water, that without it no Apimat can live, nor any Herb or Plant bring forth; for in it is the Seminary Vertue of all things, ‘efpecially of Animals, whofe Seed is manifeftly Watrifh. ‘The Seeds alfo of all Herbs and Plants, although they are Earthy, muft notwithftanding, be rooted in moifture before they.can be fruitful. ‘The great and illumina- ted: Prophet Mofes tells us, that before the Crea- tion, when the Earth was without Form, the Spirit of the Lord moved on the Face of the Waters ;\ and in another place, that the Plants did not grow, becaufe God had: not caufed it toRain upon the Earth. Nay, fo great is the Efficacy of this cleanfing Element, that the {pi- , ital Regeneration cannot be performed with- 3 out Aa . ‘ xt tov i iy ee MA fi te aa wy, Phy Mati ot Ya an ; ea } be. % Al ne Uh attach ‘ ris oh Lowy rt gah Niet 4 cee % yO ee a a af ve hs ey I a ite es a ay va 42 — The vagy 6 Health, > out it, as our Saviour Chrift himfelf teftified te a Nicodemus, and very great have the Vertues of it been in Religious Worfhip in former Ages amongit the Prophets and Wife men in Pree tions and Purifications. Innumerableare the Be- nefits,and {0 various the Ufes thereofboth i in the fseneration, Hoan & Increafe of things, that fome of the Wife men have, concluded, that Water was the beginning of all things, and fit — ofall Elements, and the moft’ Potent, becaufe ic hath the maftery over all the reft, for it fwal- loweth up the Earth, extinguifhes Flames, ie cends on hithy and bya moft ‘wonderful divine Hand, and the ftretching forth’ of the me fen len geth the Heavens for its Throne, whet falling down. in gentle Showers and ‘refefhing Mews; as from Natures.choicett Limbegk;: Ae - prepnated with Codleftial Vi ertues, ait becomes’ Hawt feiof all things thar: grow in the Rartheonint “Wor is there fearce any part of Nature: mpore fall of Wondersthan thefe liquid Regions. i “fe eplaus cells us of a River neat Sta) which run- ech avih a full Channel all the Sbbath day,yand kin on a fudden it ceafeth; -astif the Spring - were flopped, andall the fix dayssyout may, pals ‘ever it-dry-fhod 5; but again on the dfeventh day, - ‘ho man knowing the reafon of it) the Waters ‘return in abundahce-as before; wherefore the ‘Ibhabitants thereabouts callde-theWabbaths-dages “River. The Gofpel teftifies ofa Sheep Pool; ia. 3 pmek whofoever ftepped felts rafterthe (Wa- ters » Be PM . Whi 1 Bc at <0 ta eo: oe pen 6 ae hy aN r , | —sdontg Wife and Bappiteis, = 43 ters were troubled by the Angel, was madg whole of whatfoever Difeafe he had. tg - Many fecret and admitable Vertues- which — the Creator hath endued this Element with, as in all Ages hath been manifefted; for it’ being " ‘pure and clear in its own Nature, it is the only. and alone thing by which all external things are purified, purged and cleanfed: But if it be adul., terated or ineorporated with any other Liquor or Juice, then ‘it becomes lefs pure, and will not fo well perform its Office, yet it may make them better'and more uféful. Though it be a vulgar Proverb---ds weak cs Water: Yet { muft tell you, - Water is more ftrong: and fublime than moft: imagine, for it contains a mof ravifhing and excellent Sprrituons Balfamick Vertue, whence pro- ceeds that pure {weet refrefhing Quality, whereby it hath Power by its innate Vertue to digeft and “purifie all forcs of Food : Alfo, in all Preparati- ‘Ons itis fo Innocent and Friendly that it diffipates _thegrofs phlesmy Bodies, and prefervesthe more ‘eflential Parts and ‘Vertues, and keeps the Spiré- ‘thems Partsliving, pe "Tris not ‘only the moft plentiful and truly pleafant of all Drinks, but it fupplies’ Nature with its friendly Moifture, and relieves Thirft _ ‘beyond . | adly, It.is drawn up into the Clouds. by. bhi power and vertue of the fweet. apathy) of the Sun, Beams... : 3th oe carried to ait fo with the Clouds. Mast Ue ree by. % Ma Pie Ps oS SBR y ‘ dy}>'Tis endued: with wonderful. Vert im a rea

| Teeth, though cold Beer and Ale is warmer in _ Operation, and-willmore cheer the Stomach, and make the Spirits more brisk than the hot, be- _ caufé no fermented Liquors, whether they be Beer, Ale, Syder or Wine, willadmit of the heat. _Of fires, without violence to the pure {pirituous '_ parts; they are fo volatile, that they will pre- _ dently evaporate; therefore warm Beer or dle will _ fooner become flat than that which has not been warmed; for when the fpirituous. parts are 3 ‘evaporated ‘or futfocated, the {weet brisk Balfa- y mick Vertuedyes.) But thishot fulpherous Quality i in ‘Pond: Water, e “which through cuftom moft Cattel like, is of an -evil nature and operation, becaufe the {pirituous vapours of the. Air. cannot {0 eafily penetrate _. through its grofs: thicknefs, whence it dulls the edge of the Appetite and Stomach, breeds grofs thick Blood , often is the occafion of many _ Difeafes, bud very injurioustothe Milk of Cows. eyes do not Pools and Hauling: ‘Waters hs OR tele ioe See ats oes he MSAy te Henley, - pa Senerate various forts of V ermin” “and delete, which is caufed throwgls the Contra tion. of grok | thick fulfom Matter for want” of Motion, katt which running Waters are not fu © But although Water be® Aecraver common, -@rink for Maa: as well as Besfs, yet fince {now asdayesMen generally betake themfelvés to other _ . Liquors; we dag bean treat ae them: Tike. . wi e, : , ts ie wi es aa J , 4 {33 dyn" of Ale, ‘nd i icsNacurds and Opetation, 23 alfo of Beer. AG ne 88 Ae hath the fir stack of all Drinks wide ‘with Mault, and is of greateft Antiquity : : That Ale is belt that is made after this manner ; aft, That the Liquor or Water that you put ‘tO your Mault be made boiling-hot, but not ‘boyl, and them put it into your Mafh-Tub or “Wellel, and let it fend a little while before you put your Mault to it, which will fomewhat mé- derate the fierce heat of the Water; thereby ren. dring it more capable to receive the Vertues and. - fveet Quality of the Maule,’ yen violent hot ‘Water will not do fo well; for it doth ‘not only “hure the pare Spivitudus Part s of the Maule, but» ‘will Ax or harden the Mault, fo:that the Sweets “pefs and good Vertues will nor fo éafily give it 4élf forth into the Water; alfoy if you put the ‘Maule ito. the Water wry hos, then it will. Mi aoe. | Pe : Fre cp ct ates = ia t a tae ” . aes = ee ee ee ee See ae : «lal iin _ long ates Tinge, or caule Martial Colour ; the Water is re inuth boyling of the Wort, which is not com: mie | Ka: — mendable ae with age or no boyling, and _ Rot much reafon for the much bo fort of Drink made of Maule, exee, ated Eee aoe aor one mendable in dle; for good Ale may be made ing, and indeed’ there is t you defign r ¥ tokeepit a great while; For the By oo 3 way ti as Le ot he Ni SN Ne Lass x ‘The toap to Pealth, 89? ME OY Sp yling of any — oyling of Ale t, toh = id 7 a a a - ‘doth caufe.a too great Evaporation of the Vola. — . ble Spirit and Balfamick Vertues, which will not endure the harfh Fire ; for this caufe {trong Wort will wwafte and evaporate as much in ‘and more. Befides, boyling thefe Liquors de- ‘ftroys their mild gentle cleanfing Qualities, and fixes’ them, making them hotter and fiereer in Operation’; for the more you evaporate or de. ftroy the /iveet Body of any thing, the ftronger and fiercer the Original Qualities become, and ‘appear maore external; but fo long’ as the pave ‘Volatile Spirit and feet Balfamick Body predomi- hates, the {trong fiery Original Spirit OffSature, and Afars lies as ic were hid; and feeing all the ‘friendly and wholfom Vertues of dle refide in the /weer Body, vou ought not to deftray Tat by } ‘ever-much boyling. ~ Nay, I willadd, that the beft and. mot -wholfom Ale may ‘be made, and not boyled at all, _as fomein this Nation do, which does but” — watte it in Quantity, and make it worle in-Qua- lity, fo that ic becomes hotter in Operation, and a friend tothe generation of the Stone. Every one knows, or may know by experience, that Beer heats the Bedy more than Ale; the reafon ree Bes 7 % y . R ‘quantity inone Hour, as Svesl/ fhallin three, — 4 i) ‘ t { é ¢€ MS 7 ‘5 ; a A ‘ ’ bY, ' ; t u bs 4 } ' 4 { q 4 uf a Tong Wifeand Pappinets. = gy is, the Bal/amick Vertues in Beer are in part des ftroyed by boyling, fo that it becomes more like _ a Spirit, and therefore it will keep longer, and. _- becaufe of its lafting, moft People imagin it the — _ beft, which is a great miftake ; for they might | aswellfay, That the beft Sack drawn off by ~ _-Piftillation into aSpirit,is better to drink than the — Saek was; whereas I think the contrary in known to every body of common fenfe: The _ nearer you bring any thing to its Original, by . deftroying the bel//amck Vertues and middle Qua- tities or ‘vegitative Vertue, the longer that thing will keep found; this is manifeft in all Spirits drawn from any Wexes or other balfamick Li: quors ; for this reafon, Beer that is boyled moft will longeft keep from turning fower or flat ;. but ftill, ‘this is no Argumenc that it is there- fore the beft'and wholfomeft ; for the predomi-.. nant ‘Quality in all Strowg Beer, efpecially if it be. kept to be ftale, is of a fierce harfh Martial and | Saturmine Heat, of a hard greedy Nature, which infeéts the blood with fretting eating Humours; . very prejudicial to Health ; alfo, it generates the: Stone, not{omuch from the Hops (which many. accufe as the chiefcaufe) but for that the pure ‘Tweet body is in fo great a meafure deftroyed in . the boyling it to fuch anheight that ic might . _ keep; not but that the Hops do help to heat the bedy, andcaufe the Stoveand other Difeafes, but _~ hor purelyand meerly asthey ave Hops; but this , _--Bemes to pals from the Preparation. - For be | ae He their eu: Cea Sui ie Ss Le ea ee 8 he weap fo Healey, ‘thei: own Naturehave no {uch operation to eaufe, — the-Stome, but altogether the contrary ; for Hops — fe aR a RE et ok gt Rg Rs ee FS, Tid af ie a's \ ao are. ofan opening cleanfing Nature, and they _ eafes; but all their natural medicinal Vertucs are deftroyed, in their being boyledin the Beer, and then there remains in them chiefly the Mar- rial harlhGery Froperty, which helps to preferve the Beer from growing flat or eager, but it aug- mentsits heat, and makes it of a Harfher oper it tion: And as the boyling of le deftroys the fweet cleanfing, purging Quality, and caufes it to, evaporate; juft {o.it does by Hops, and fo much the more, becaufe in them the volatile “Spirit, Rands, as it were, external; for the Sun and Elements have exhaled the Bro Phiegmy fubitance, and thereby fets the fpirituous parts _at liberty, only being clofe ftuffed into bags, pre- ' ferves them from evaporating whillt there they , ‘continue; but as foon as they come into the fierce boyling Liquor or Wort, ‘thefe eflential Vertues and goodQualities are deftroyed and flee away ;, but full there remains the original ftrong” | bitter Quality, which cannot be deltroyed by boyling, except.they be annihilated, for it is the Root of its Life. Now this bitter Quality in Hops is of a harfh aftringent Nature, and very hot, as the original Spirit in all things is. For this caufe all Beer that is boyled Much, and hath. Store of Hops in’t, will keep a long time ; pu ex Pe Hye ~s _ Rovertitly. putes by Hiio® ania esoolcO Medicines againft the Stone and Dropfical Dif qi + ee = ree fe oy, as * ‘ t: athe 2 OR es mt yt re : + we ae, aya © Rie | Sale: me A ‘etal ie Wes - Long Wifes ee) Bs rRenS fr Fe CaN Sie Ca sae AA De Ue i al lai GS < 4! bs i e re | firmities ; fo that tis no ways to’be accounted {o goodas Ale, Rip ; ay Ye : te em | For Aleis avery excellent fort of Drink, if ‘well ordered ; and as the predominant Quality ~ foon the contrary, that in Ale is Solar and Vexe- vial, viz. {weet and balfamick, indued with a mild foft friendly Nature.and gentle Qperation ; _ it fweetens the blood, .opens the body and purges by Urine. Hops are very wholfome to: be put into Ale ina {mall Quantity, but they ought not _ to be boyled; but thus you may doit, fill your | Copper or-Veflel you ule for that purpofe with what quantity of Hops you pleafe, and infufe _ them about/half an hour, and then ftrain thent Out, not letting it boy! at all, and then for certain |. proper for thebedy ; for the Wort will extrac and réceive the pure /pirituous parts and balfamick .. *vertues-of the Hops inas little or lefs time thant _ inthe Mafh-Tub: here is:the very famecaufe | and reafon forthe one as for the other. — “wrought or fermented, that thereby it,may-be _ Rleanted froin its Yea/y fubftance, which moft Af } in Lozdon is clogged with, which makes it-grow fewer in a few days ; and sbefides,. before ’tis - then’it heats the body and caufes the Stone, if it find matter to work upon, and feveral other In- . | in Beer is Martial and Saturnine, hot and fierce, _ you-have all the Vertues.of the Hop$ that are _ the hot-Liquor did the fweetQuality of the Mault » ‘Likewife, the Ale ought to be throughly — {ee your Wort, make it*boyling hor, -then take '60 Ghenady tobealth, — fower it fouls the body, and fends dull dark — ' Fumesinto the Head, palls and flattens the edge — of Appetite, and diforders.the Stomach: Bat * none of thefe Inconveniencies happen when Ale . is well brewed, and has wrought as it fhould do, — wherein {pecial care is to be taken, that itbe not’ — fet to working whilft the Wort is too hot, forthat’ | — caufes too violent a motion, which weakens the — original” Heat, fuffocates and wounds the pure: ~ Spirit, which fome call freesing, and this does in: _ fome degree deftroy the b4i/amet or fateet Body; and whenever it happens, or that ‘your Drink — i works too much or too furioufly, be it déeor Beer, ~ it will not keep, but turn fower or eager fooner:. © than the other that is put to workinfucha degree of heat'as it will but juft nfove or ferment gently’ — _and mildly; for if your Wort be put a working — before the fiery heat or fulpherous Vapours be’ — extiaguifht, which are of a contrary Nature to: ~ the genuine natural Heat of the Wort, as con-* — taining the fierce Spirits of: the Fire, then pre- fently the balfamick body is wounded, and turns ‘fower fooner orlater according to the degree of* the motion; for this fierce motion or working, — waftes the pure’ /pirstuons.. Balfom, and awakens _ she original Qualities of Sawrmand Mars, vig. an aftringent Eagernefs, or fower hard Quality, — -that would not have been. manifefted, sif this irre-” gular Motion had’not excitedit.. § 5 _ On the other fide, ‘the Wrort:oughit. notto be. fe + Late fi,‘ : he ie an pappinets. eB, ai | y it were) flat; for the Heat that proceeds from . a Fire, and remains in fuch. Liquor, is a great ener and Awakner of all the Properties, of go od ule in this refpect, provided it ke “not ‘too fierce. And further note, That all /ale big Beer, whether ftrong or {mall, is more or Jefs anjuricus to moft mens Health, efpecially. thofe whofe Natures are fubject to breed the Stone and, Gravel : -*, ; a Fol oo of 6x sal Beer AG ‘a es eae are € generally great Errors committed in brewing Small Beer, viz. moft Hou/e-Wives and forse Brewers let their firft Liquor ftand too long in the Mafh-Tub with the Mault, that is to . fay, an hour and a half or. two hours, whieh firs up and awakens a fulfom fower or keen Quality, which would be prevented, if it ftood | but one hour, Andthis is not only injurious to the Ale or beft drink, but hurts and {poils the Small Beer that comes afterwards; ‘for if once “the original grof$ keen’ Qualities be awakened, ‘thereis no Charm to lay them again, no Reme- dyor Art can help, but all fich Sweal/ Beer will _ prove not only ungrateful to the Pallate and Sto- ‘mach, but breeds bad Blood, cauling fharp falt ~-Humors, which help to encreafe that general Difeafe called Whe Hcurbep. And ex GPa ans 4 ete ples WE a a BAL, , ESS ARTO RS. VEER GES AEM Eee re eet oi nage: Mt eae . Ca ey 2 + ‘iy Ae : ee Ys ae F ee: : : Age. " k 4) k 4 , 1 ty te ; & 4 rs Reafon and Experience tells him’tis prejudicial. “Tr is rot above fixty or feventy years ago fince that enly Gentlemen, and but a few of thofe — took Tobscco, and then fo mederately, that one — Pipe would ferve four or five, for they handed it — from one to another (and it feems were then fo _ honeft ds hot td fear infeCting one another with — “any French Contagion) but now every Plow-man — ‘has his Pipe to himfelf. In former‘days Canary — was chiefly fold by the Apotheearies, and per- haps then when Adulteratien was not fo much — in fafhtion, might be the beft Cordial in thei Shop. The name and ufe Of Brandy was not - known till offate; but now the Excefs of all- _thefe things is become almoft general, amongft — all forts of People, ever among ft thofe that count — themfelves moft fober'and Religious’, and who — fhould fet Examples of Temperance to others, — it not being efteemed any fin to fmoketwo, three — or four Pipes of Tobacco at a fitting, and Carrouze firong Drink, Brandy, Wine, and the like, in — perfect Health, and when need or nature doth © not ‘require fuch things ; and yet think all’s — well, if they can but tollow theiroutward Oc- — -cafions, and keep themfelves from being Drunk, — they never regard ir,, though one of them do de- ~ | “trav of Gods good Creatures’ as much in’ one ; & “ ae: f — euf ae day, ‘both in Value, Quantity and Quality as. _. would fuffice five or fix. Still, Tfay, all this is get reckoned any fin among{ft many Thoufands — a Te ae » 4 I a 4 :™ Wye O95 3 bg o 4 ~ e. ‘ a £ ie. eS rrd - a? Fal ee 3 2 ~ Oy as “ OW ‘ey \ : oi b ‘ \ batt ea _euftom and frequent ufe of thefe Intemperances hides the Evil of them, which few confider; or if they do, yet they are afhamed to follow the — 5 pure diftates of Wifdom, for*fear of difpleafing or being hooted at by the frantick Rabble, who gaze, laugh and rait at all that will net run with ‘themto thefame Excefs of Riot. ‘There is fcare¢ any thing in the World that has fo much de- _ praved and deprived man of his Underftanding, and led him afide from the fimple innocent pe Ways of God and Nature, fince hisoriginal fall, as Cuffom and the Example of the Crowd. As in _. the sovernment and ordering of Families, if the _ - good man of the Houfe fay to his Wife, It wi# be beft to order the Affairs of our Hufe fo and fo----- Yes (prefently fhe anfwers) # zstrue; butthen — what will People [ay of us? How ftrangely they will talk? and what a bafe Report we {ball give occafton tobe raifed of ws? If we do only thofe things that ave proper and necelfary to preferve the Health of our ' Bodies and Minds, how many ftingy [neaking Names will they call wz, crc? ~~ And by this learned Lecture the filly man is over-per{waded to continue on his old Rode of Extef and Superflutty , to the Difpleafure of God, Injury of Nature, Prejudice of his Families Health, bad Example to his Children, and imparing of his Fftate an he Ee ae | ne ia ey Ue tees Mae, all hig Rt ie to eh: the Chat Bee cenloriells i. Fattle of a few Gofips, the wagging of whole Tongues is nomore to Denahaete by any Wife . ghan, than the Chatteris f of Mag-pics, ¢ or the bus, ef Hes: in Autonine! ae: ee ais “omitgh a Nothing is ping oN than that eae is not 1 ene of many Thoufands that. is guided by his own Mind, Wifdom or Reafon, but thecommon: 1 Cuftom carries. the day, few everftandto dif ute whether it be good or bad, Js #4 Cuffom,t the. X afbion, all the Mode ? If it be, there is no feruple tobe made. The unlawful i of Tabacco, Brandy, Wine, Gre. and the Intemperance therein is cloaked over by the wicked €uftom of the: Mul. ‘ titude. Would not any. indifferent body wote ita fin and a high fhame for a Manor 2. Woman. to fit fotting and {noaking: ten or twenty Pipes. of Tobacco ina day, making rhe whole Honfe {tink an hundred fold worfle than the Saurzine Smoke of Chimnies, and {piseing and fpawling - ; as though he had taker a fluxing Potion; ante © continually fupping “up of Drinky and as Fitba 0 pai: {pitting it up again, asif his Chaps had . eund the perpetual Motion. Would not, oe | 4 all this feem moft Abominable, and be counted a very great Evil and Intempérance, ifit were.” not a Guitars 2 The very fae is tobe underz ~ | {tood in many cther things ; which evil Caftomg and Habitsall £ Br well-tinded People ouglit to refrain and caft from them, and look upon thém uo @herwie thanas Inventions and Snares lai¢ by, ee “¢ e ¥ Bige>- . ut “ : é Piny © NEE Li Bo EE eae Dit eae) ON a es i Pa eee e224 ey © agree g ree. ac Re Sa eee, Biren ices’ + ae Bs ; | by evil Angels to inthrale and infhare mankind, | | that he may keep them in Darkne(fs, and that by their following thofe evil Cuftoms, they be alwayes rendred uncapable of under-:. ng Godorhisown Nature __. How much precious time do Men {pend in “Amnoking © ebacco ,. dofing and ftupifying their _ Senfes ¢. And how many through fuch neglect - f fi 4 « af > of time, and the Expences, which this fmoking generally draws with it, have half ftarved their poor Families, and involved themfelves in many — “Mifchiefsand Inconveniencies? But to proceed toparticuiars,, =. , fae , Fobaccodoes generally difagree moft with the Cholerick and Sasizuine Complexion’d People,being an utter Enemy.to their Nature; the taking of it in Pipes doth over-heat their Bodies, the Fumes and Smoke thereof do too violently peneé trate and awaken the Cester, which wae fets Nature into. an unequal motion; for the fulphe- rous Fumes penetrate too furioufly, which does powerfully ftir up and awaken the Element of - Water,, the attractive poyfonous hot Qualities of Saturn and Mars being fo ftrong in Tobacco, that . rarely any can take it without much Sputzzxg, - whieh is Injuriousto moft forts of People, except fome cold Melaucholy or grofs Phlegmsatick Com- plexions, who through cold windy Diftempers aad watry grofs Humours want Evacuations; To fuch it oft-times proves profitable, if not taken too frequently, but asic wereinaPhyfical Wee. fe OM Way. \ ns ane ; ie es hod UU Pnbie se ol Bt u/ — “But for others that are in per ‘tect Healthy, efpecially for the Asiime or r Cholerick Come Sas 3 fs Pgh ae er a j wick it very rarely (i _ for it dries upand ae | vf ii ae f ) eA 3 , Liquor, _by all Smokers, for Svall will not make Nature — “there muft be Supplies. ought to be cautioufly taken into the Body. I ‘Nature in all fich unequal things, efpecially © Fumes; aad ip the Ke Ste he A and forcibly fhould keep it in ror cng ee xe ol all the inwards parts and Vedlels, and fharpen. the Ap 3 petite, becomes all over hot and dry, the Appe-— tite dull, the Stomach out of tone, and great drought or defire to drink follows, and hence it — isthat the Pot and the Pipe are infeperable Com- ; panions, and ftill the fronge/t Drinks are defired © reftitution for her loffes 5 for every Extream be- eetsits Likenefs,and afcer too great Evacuations 2 eS a: I dare from Reafon and the Teliooni af Experience affirm, that ’tis abfurd, and againft Nature, for either young People, or any others — that arein perfeét Health,to practife the common {moking of Tobacco, it being an Herb endued with extream Qualities; and all fuch” things - i —_— sai = would have every one eonfider the poflibility of aan halt _thofe whofe predominant Quality ftands in the © high Poyfons, ‘and to obferve the Nature and _ Operation of each thing, and then they will cer; — tainly find. the ‘truth ‘of what is mentioned Dehsre. ' ‘Lad ro Wines Fe “he predominant Quality ‘there i is 2 certain Spiritual Heat, and as foon as a man I ‘Spirits 1 to be raifed or awakened above and beyond its, proper degree, if any quantity | & ani than it found in her; For all Meats and Drinks and whatfoever elfe goes into the Body, that is _ or kindle the Central Heats, and raife them frem unequal. Operation, confumes the Radical Moi- flore, and as it were burns upthe /weer Oyl, and People are pofleft with an heavy Dulnefs and Indifpofition, Fumes and Vapours befieging the eae, the Senfes ftupified or diforder’d, the Stomach and Appetite furr’d and dull’d. By which effe&sall Men may be fenfible that Na- ture does perfe€tly kate all Extreams and In- equality: But on the contrary, if Meats er there be in them no manifef Quality predomi- vant, then they gently infinuate their Vertues 4nto all parts of the Body, adminiftring both dry and moift Nourifhment, and with filence and eoncord fupport the Body i in Health. “Wo Vertue of Tobacco taken i Pipes, iS ¢X- i unequal 1 in its parts, does too violently awaken their feveral Cexters, and brings Nature into an ea Hid Dapp : He “Let us a aabiadple in Prong Drinks se ~ jane os them, he prefently feels his Internal _ : , during the time of its operation, but _ | afterwards it leaves Nature with fewer Spirits — , evaporates | the pare Spsrits 5. for this caufe, | _ after the operation of fuch unequal things, ‘moft | Drinks be of a fimple or middle Nature, and — : trated Pe Oe 4 _ which the Fire and Light cafts forth as an abo- — al - Mination, being void of all real Vertue; it con- “tains a grofs Humidity, and a fierce . | 7 keen Qua- - Jity, very pernicious to the pure Spirits: For ~ Smoke proceeds from the poyfonous Juices and ~ Liquor, which the Fire and Air feparates — --and.cafts forth, it being a thing that all © People endeavour to avoid, and how inimical — “yt is to Nature, is further manifefted by that ~ black futty Subffance which it leaves behind it, “and by its deftroying Vegitation; for itcontains © two poyionous. Qualities, a ftrong Bitter one — from Mars, anda .fulfom Aftringent one from ~ Saturn, its black Colour fhews that‘its predomis — nant Quality is from the venomous Center of — . Saturn, and hence when Tobacco 1s burned, at — - fends forth a ftrong fulfom {cent or fmell,. offen= five to moft that are not ufed to it; nay, do not the very Breaths of thofe that take Tobacco per- — feétly {tink ? And does not the fmoking of it fo — defile the common Air, that a manmay know ‘where one hath been that takes Tobacco, they — deave fuch a fetid Vapour behind them?. Do — not-all or moft of our Exgii/b Herbs, when — burned, fend forth a far better Scentor Fume ~ than Tobacco does? .And Iam fure many of | them would not only. be lefs offenfiye, but pro- duce better effects, as tothe Cure of Difeafes. ~~ “ nant, for the Fire powerfully awakens all the ~hiddeti Qualities, which could not be perceived ‘whilft the thing remained intire. If the chief i ee eee ee burnt, ftand in the friendly Nature, then it fends forth, and is a= — *nifefted by two Qualities, wiz.-a moft pleafant ; Aweet ‘Smell or Vapour; chearing and de® ‘lighful to the Senfeés, and alfo it fends forth 3 - _+burthenfom Fume or Vapour, which ircorpo- tates it felf with the Air, and flies away in @ ‘Smoke or Steetn; which is from the poyfonous ‘Root,the Original of every Life: But on the cons trary, #f you burnany Herb or other thing; the predominant Quality whereof ftands in the Ades | tial or Saturnine Poyfons, then all fuch things - fend forth alfo two Qualities; viz. a very Uns -pleafant Seent or Fume, offenfive and burthen: . in to Nature, dulling the pure Spirits; and a8 it were fuffecating the pleafant thin Vapours of the Air; and alfo ‘it fends forth a grofs humid “poyfonous matter, that incorporates it felf with ~ the thickeft part of the Air, and evaporates ina * Saturnine Soke ; for if there lie hid-any Ver- - _ tue or Vice in any thing, Fire will unlock al} ithe Gates and difcover it; and if there be any \Aromatick or Balfumick’ Vertue in’ the Herbs or Wegitables {fo burnt, it will appear by fending forth odoriferous and pleafant Smells; As ie PAA Ene - ie le Or of ye fly, 1 iC is. the more Werte: in T, basco bec - Fumesand Smoke of it will open the Body, and) } -* doofen the Belly, for it is the nature of all Smoke to — fy saad being of a fierce keen penetrating Quality — fe that arifes from the Original Poyfons in Nature, | * whence it has alfo a Sharp fierce humid Quality i that is exceeding offenfive to the Eyes, like the © - Fumes that Onions fend forth when cut. And we mutt likewife note, that when Tobasco was — . firft brought into Exglapd, it was ten-fold more. — offenfive to the Takers thereof than it is now, - pecaufe their Fore-Fathers were not acquainted with the ufe of it, fo that they could not entail pny: defire of it on their Pofterity ; ‘For: the 4 ~ Children that are begot by Perfons, that have — accuftomed themfelves to the common ufe of — thefé unnatural things, contra& a kind-of un- — fenfible Affinity with fuch things, as proceed- q _ ng from the like matter and. Effences, fo that — ~ thereby there are Foundations Jaid for Inclina- 1 "tions towards the ule of them: The fame is fo] be underftood i in other things, as thofe whofe — “Parents live much on Fleh or Fifp, do lay Aug! q Foundations for an Inclination thereunto in:th $ 7 yory Radix of their. Children, that it woul POE Pe aes or oe ee ee | Happinets. 177 hing for them to réfrain umiliarly , and with the lefs difficulty | efe evil Cuftoms and Habits, till in time- become almoft Matural, and thence. _ humane Nature ih general beeomes weaker and decayed, and Difeafes come into the World with Children as part of their Effence, and Scur- _ veysand other Difeafes grow almoft Univerfal, _ and all this for want of ‘Temperance and Difcre- - tion in their Progenitors: A fad Inheritance to leave our OF-{pring, when we bequeath them | our Follies, and intail upon them A4Gferies that are but the juft Punifhments and natural Con- fequences of them ! oh ; cult 't oa Of Cloching, Bedding, e<. As Moderation, and a frugal Reftraint, free from Superfluity or Delicacy:in Clothes, Bedding, - @e. does much eonduce to the Health of the _ Body, as well asof the Mind (which is obferved | butby a few)fo all over-warmClotbing,foft Feather- | Beds'8 clofeHoufes render Nature fo nicely tender, that upon every {mall Accident the body is | fubje& to various Injuries. Firs, fuch ufage _ makes all the external parts fo obnoxious, that _ €very little Co/d penetrates and-feizes the Body; Which being by thefe means obftructed, there TG ge Agee NT DUS SO dollows’ aw dh follows Coughs, Wheefings, ee oP ae difables it to perform all its Labours and Exer- cifes. The caufe of fo great Inconveniencies proceeds from warm Clothes, crc. which hinder — the moft friendly Element of the Air from pene- — ‘trating the body, whereby the Spirits become weakand fainty: . Por as nothing hurts the body more than hot fulpherous Airs, fothere can be nothing that does more cheer and refrefh the “Spirits than cold pleafant Airs, which is known by every mans Experience. ce eS zdly, Warm and clofe Houfes, ec. are attended with thefe evil Effects; the. Air; which 1s tho Life of the Spirit, is hindred from having — itsfree egrefs and regrefs, by the clofe drawing — of the Window-Shasters, Hangings and Curtains, — which fuffocates the pure. volatile fpirit of the — Air, benums and {tupifies the Senfés, and caufes — an Indifpofition from external heat to poflefs the — whole body ; befides, it ispernicious to.the vital — Spirits, dullsthe Appetite, weakens. the Stomach, — and depraves.the fenfes. of ‘Tafting, and. the.di- _ geftive Faculty, athly, Soft and Ware Bedsg swith Curtaing | te drawe i ee tong’ Lif : 1979 n befor ioca: od Rout: the Beds “pret hefe following bad: Confequences, both othe body and mind; the Air being, asit were, pen’d up ‘becomes hot baie fulpherous, becaufe the fe pure th hin vapours and fpirits thereof are fuffo- | et and {9 confequently muft needs be very injurious to them that lie thus in their Beds: Moreover, the Air cannot penctrate'the Bedy ; and fobeing defticute of Motion, the Stomach and natural Heat is deprived of its free operation ; _ and this is the Reafon that Suppers are not fo well digefted, but oft-times become Noxious, caufing am unnattiral kind of Sleep, creating an Aptitude in the external parts to glow with a burning and unnatural kind of Heat: Thisill Cuftom 1s too frequently ufed by thofe whio are fick, but efpe~’ cially by thofe that lic im Child-Bed, to whom often the confequence ismore dangerous: > The Chambers of moft fick People are kept {0 very élofe, that it will diforder a Healthy Perfon to continue there three or four hours; And if {, what detriment then do you think muft of necef- fity attend the fick, by reafon of fuch hot fulphe- reus Airs? And ‘indeed, confidering how low _and weak their Spirits ate, nothing ean be more hurtful'to'them than this is, under thefe Circum- Ranees. For thefe pure thin vapours and fpirits being deftroyed by thofe fulpherous ones, the -poyfonous and deadly Vapours are ftirred up, which have a powerful influence upon the body, by way of fi imile, and wound the pure Spirits in at OS ee be 180 0s“ he Map to Heaths | ' the Body, caufing an:unnatural Heat in allthé — ~ external parts, wih a fainty kind of weakne Se This becomes as offenfive as the Heat and Ain ~ which proceeds from Charcoal, and is ofthefame — _ nature and operation; for in the making of Char- — coal, the pure Spirits in the Wood, which is its. ~ true Life, or that {weet Water or Oyl, whence: ~ the Light hath its bright fhining Quality, is fuf= — focated, and ina manner deftroyed ;: forthe Spi- rits are the Life of the Oyl, and the Oy] is the ~ houfe and pleafant habitation of the Spirits; and. in all Preparations where the one is deftroyed, the other dyeth,as in thisof making of Woodinto Chartoal, where both the pleafant Qualities are deftroyed, the free Influences of the Air being hindered, the Spirits and Oyl,' which areofa - friendly nature and operation, become thereby, fuffocated. The fire that Wood fends forth has a bright {hining Light, its heat is friendly and vefrefhing ; but Charcoal, though it has the fame Foundation, and is #¥ood in the original, yet — _thefe two friendly Qualities being deftroyed and _ {uffocated in the making thereof,it comestobeof another nature and operation, as if it had not been Wood. » For thefe Reafons Charcoal will not. flame nor givea bright light, but itsflameisof a {ulpherous Colour ; for having loft itsMoedera- | tor or friendly Life, theoriginal Poyfons take ~ place, and its Fire becomes much itronger than. that of Wood, and the heat and fumes thereof burdenfom to the pure Spirits of thofe thatare © near fuch Fires; the dark wrathful Vapours do awaken their file in the body. If this were - rightly underftood by a delicate fort of People » World, I am perfwaded they would noe fear every {mall b/s/t,0f Wind, neither would. they _ deprive themfelves ofthe moft pleafant & benigne _ Influences ofithe Air,which keeps the eflential Spi- _ rits livinginevery Creatnre, and is indeed the ex- eellentfiupport of the whole nature of all Beeings, gi. ving to them Lifeand Vigour. And therefore you dainty Dames that are fo nice, that you will not endure this. pleafant Element to blow upon you, _ unlefs itbe ina hot and fulpherousday, in which dthas not half that power and vertue that it has im-cooler Weather ; You, I fay, whoare fo Curi- ous, do but confidera little ferioufly what is faid, and your own Experience may convince. you, ~ that there is nothing better than pure and clear _ Airsto.cheerrand comfort Nature, and. to, make _ the Spirits brisk and lively; Are there any more _ healthy than thofe whofe Imployments.and.Ex- ertifesareinthe open Air? Are there any who ¢an endure Labour with lefs. Prejudice? Are. there any who are generally. more..Robuit? ” Aniy that have better and fharper Appetites than they? Likewife, thofe that ufe the Country- Air much, enjoy, in a great meafure, the above- “mentioned advantages ; It will be very. conve- - nient then to ule a Medium in reference to Clothes, Hoafes and Beds; and of the two, Coolne/\’ is _ Amuch fafer (fom ones Birth to the Grave) than, Beal, (i ee a iiial PS Sas RE aE a ce ire Rep eam fac So a i a ea ts x a Via gag ah “4 } a? , ei toh Meo! byt pape! i orig Wife and iappinets. = 181 ong Wife and Bappirtets. Sr rare ee ee 182 ChE map to Dealt Heat, both inwardly and outwardly. ."Pleafane — ‘and gentle Airs fhut the Pores, that the Radical Moifiure and Spirits cannet evaporate 5) 11 hey : ftrengthen Nature, givean edge to the Appetite; — the thinner and meaner! a mans Clothes are, the — ftrongerand briskerhe is, and his natural Heat — and digeftive Faculty isalfo theftronger; befides, thin Clothing (except in cold Weather) makes — People fitter for Labour, and lefs burdenfome, - prelerves the natural Heat, and keeps: it: more Central. Therefore it is that all’Creatures that aré born and bred in cold Climates: are {tronger and better able to endure Hardship and toilfom Labour than thofe that live in hot ‘Climates, and are greater HatersandDrinkers of ffrong Food and ‘Drinks; for this caufemoft People incold Couns tries are inched to the Intemperances of Gist: — tony and Drunkenneff more than in hot, fogreat is the power and operation ‘of opencold Air; it — does wonderfully ftrengthen Nature, and nou thing can be a greater injury to Health, than for — People to aceuitom themfelves to Tenderne/s; the more they do wear,the more they may, fo that at laft they may have need to carry. their Beds on their backs ; for by degrees it weakens the Body}. and caufes fo great a tendernefs;. that they find it: very troublefom to have the frefhcoolAir to blow: upon them; theefiects are not better which rich: compounded Mears and Drinks produce in thofe — that are accultomed to them; they weaken the: ~ Sremach, and by their heat contracdtthe Veflels: © Gh ce Ng ee a I ——sdMonig, Life and Bappinets. = 183 ‘of theStomach, infomuch that with a kind of nauféating they both eat and drink, or rather they know not well what to cat or drink. ’ This © Lb ig. % i | Jook that you havea good rovfing Fire in your WAG MA ae | os ad itl a Breakfafe ready, _ Liquors: This is is the Trade that mary | % re PeEe HGS ha. . robe voay to Peal 1 three hours after let a plentiful, Dinner of FN be made ready, with ftrong and ‘en fands of this Nation. ule, as. if they. ‘ft ey as * Pe 3 ie bring Difeafes upon themfelves, ant to dige their Graves with. their own Teeth; ; ‘for if thé mic fe of all eheir Affuencies, wherein they. efteem _themfelves happy, they are yet moft: miferable. | fhe on the ak shee Rig eae would’ have and oy Fs ee ‘grecing .in, he NA? ; do not Ae te sn Bounds of that neceffary Nourifhment which Nature requires, left the Natural Heat of the Stom ach be thereby defttoyed ; be fure that Na- ture be mafter, not'the Food ; ufe moderate. Ex- | ercife and ‘Labour; © for nothing. does, more. trengthen the Body and make the Spirits mote brisk and lively than pains taking. af hig As to wearing of Clorhes, ufe fich as are nei- ther too Warm nor too Thin, of the two the latter _ isthe beft ; for it both hardens and ftrengthens - Nature, and has many otlier good effects before. mentioned. Itis alfo co onvenient that the ‘Head and Breaft be kept cool; for that ftrengthens the Stomach, and all the Vellels thereof, it helps : Concotti on, and docs, greatly p: event the gene- ; ‘ration | ve ’ yee cee eee va i, J val % . - x - ~ | e | _ fation. of Phlegms and other Crudities, which — 7 more mgt pe ae ive cat sr cchtaay o uit le ~ to Difeafes as thofe othiers which are fo nice oe curious of themfelves: And though their Food - becourfe and fimple, yet it does fupport Nature . _ more than all the Superfluities of the other ; for this courfe manner of living does propag ats | Health, and ftrengthens Nature, becaufe all fuch things are equal in their ne ; thereforeI would ‘advile all Citizens, whofé Affairs are moft with- _in their Houfes, to ufe themfelves to wear thin lothes, and to keep fmall Fires, and to let their Houfes -be as open as may be to the Air} for. where this Element has not its free Influences, | the Air in fuch places is thick, the pure Spirits: and thin Vapours .thereof become, as it were, dull and fuffocated, that it cannot penetratethe Body by the way of the Pores ; whereas the Ras dical Spirits are in a manner ft upported, refrefhed and kept alive by a continual fucking in or pene- tration of that Element, and as if there were a total intermifion but for a mall time, the Spirit could not fubfift, but Death muft needs follow; — fo where the fame is in part obftruéted,the Spirits, by reafon of hot fulpherous Airs, grow fainty, and do in a manner dye away, and nothing will _ recover them but open clear Airs; for the Sup- “port, Life, Strength and Vigour of the Body re the Spirit, and the fi fupport and life of the Spirit isthe Air; therefore both Body and Spirits in Mari and all other Creatures are not only fup-* porte inti Wife and Bappinets; 187 Sorted in Health and Strength, by grofs corpo- real Meats and Drinks, but alfoby a pure thin Spiritual [ubftamial Life, which the Elements of _ the'Body and Spirits in man do continually fuck _ in-like Spunges, from all the four Elements, fpecially from the ir, which if it be too clofe _ pen’d up, and has not its free Influence, it be- eomes fulpherous, and awakens the dark, poyfon- ous fire inthe body, which is the original of every Life, and this it does by mile, as I have already at large explained--------------Such is the _ _ pleafant atid friendly Nature of the-dir, that it _ does by; a fympathetical operation give life and vigour tothe Radical Moifture and Natural Heat ; for this Element burrs nothing, but preferves all, except cthofe .delicate.tender, Creatures who by a too great Indulgence ef their unreafonable Ap- |. petites, and foolifh compliance with ill Cuftoms, _ willingly deprive themfelves of its fingular bene- fits; therefore thofe that régard their Healths; ought not-to make ftrong Budvarks and Fences from the free vifits of fo gooda friend, but rather ‘court its: Familiarity. by motion in the open Fields, airy Houfes, &c. I know it is a Cuftom — in many places of the Country to plant Trees be- foretheir Houfes, but 1am of opinion that they. ‘are not convenient nor profitable, in refpect of _ Health; for ic hinders thie frefh breezing Gales of Wind to enter into and {weeten their Houfes; alfo, Trees, Woody places and Vallies do by fimile attract the Clouds and moift Varours, whichare eee OB bee oly es . Anparions 188. Che may to Healey injurious ‘to fome Conftitutions of men. It is ~ lkewife convenient that all forts of People da. not accuftom themfelves to fit by Fires, efpecially — thofe’made of Cole, or any other ofthe like Na- — _ ture, -becaufe they do:as it were by a natural — fiomile dry up the Radical Moifture, exhaleand — ‘fuftocate the Spirits, and with too great violence — opens the Pores of the whole Body, and as‘it — were, chills the whole Body, making it thereby — incapable to: endure the Air, ‘without trouble — and danger of taking-cold; it alfodullstheedge — of the Appetite, andfends dark thick Fumes into; - the’ Head, weakens the Eyes, and caufes a gene~ ~ ral indifpofition ‘through the whole body. Bey — fides, that heat and warmeth whielvis procured by’ Fires, heavy Clothes, ec. igvery troublefom, in comparifon of that pleafant’ natural Heat that: — aS awakened by Motéow and) Adtiom in airy and) open places; and there is as muchdifference both: inthe Appetite and the whole fate of the Body: -_ anid Spirits; between the one: and the other, ag there is between Light and Darkze/s, the one bes’ ie lightiom, airy, “pleafant, {trong andilively, - with a fharp and perfe@ Appetite, the other be-! tng unpleafant, cold’on one‘fide'and hot omthei other, dulf and heavy, of little Appetite, and’ that not ecod ; and fo the body ‘being feeble and. tender, the man knows not ‘what: toeat, nor what to drink, nor what to wear, hefindsevery> Room too cold for him, he is indifpofed; there. _ tere he muft, have! this and the other dazary. ae é ats le Os Si hlne WPM, Sete of é is ; : - on S eek) aa Sate ee ea leg MGS we a, J lefts < Ly “ee i we rae * i "hyn Of (i a, \ "Hy Bey P 4 ie : % ‘ r it atthe +. s } a i -asidthis and the other Cordial Drink, but-alk to tion of Health, touching which we are in the firft | place to note, that all fortsof Trades that work in Wood, as Carpenters, Foyxers, and. .other ‘Trades of the like Nature, areall of them whol-, fom Imployments, as well becaufe their Labour eonfifts of fundry motions of the Body, as for that the various forts of Woods they aie ins | irk oS geal F ey ae as Brie enh or, Uptiat'g* i Ve j y= as age : Me Sata $ A ** So ae ve of themfelves not to lift pieces of ‘Timber ‘bee alwayes fends forth, being sid: ae friendly and gentle Breezes of q or, " alte Ih eee (oe). a ae 1 ————— SlCr et UCUhTCUMSO -_ “aera a oe ae aes ae Na id ; e: / . * adel pt 7 t Ree 2 Wo pe mei, Pant heed a) iS na oy ! _ long Life and pappinefs. 19% and indeed they living on falt Fleth and — ’ ith, an hardly be free from doing Violence ta _ Nature, becaufe the Spiritwous Parts and Balfa- 4 sick Body is almoft deftroyed in that kind of | Food, and the Quality which is predominant is ofa hot, fbarp and fierce Nature; and this | Nourifhment being commonly taken does heat — and dry up the Radical Moifure, and cools the refrefhing Vapours which proceed from the _ Elements of Air and Water, from whence alfo ‘proceeds unnaturalDroughts, andthe Generati- — onofthe Difeafe called the Scarvey, and innuy _merable other Diftempers: But thefe friendly Elements,the Water and the Air,give them often great Relief; for otherwife they could not as _ they do eat and drink to fuch an Excels. — 4 Many men of this imploy ruine their Health _ Dy indulging too much their Appetites ; for they _ eating and drinking beyond meafure, and with- Out exception, whenthey come into hot Climates, wiz. the Esf and Wef-Indies, where the Beams of the Sun are fo powerful; that their Pores are opened, and they fweat continually, and their pare Spirits and Radical Moifture fo muck exhaled and evaporated, that they prefently feel am inward Weaknefs anda Decay in the | ‘Natural Heat and in the Stomach, accompanied with cloudy Fumesin the Head, caufing an In- _-ifpofition and Wearinefs through the whole _ Body, and rendering Nature incapable to bear. - | Aweb: a Durthen of Intemperances as they lay bi upor eating, I fay, of /a/ Feb and Fh, and their drinking of or and znflaming Liquors, and ob-" - ferving of no fit Seafon, nor due proportion of — time for taking of Reft, which in hot Countries — fhould be froni twelve of the Clock to three in’ the Afternoon; Thefeand other Extravagances bring upon them Fiexes, griping Pasas of the — Bowels and Acute Feavers; their drinking of that — Liquor called 31unch is alfo very Inimieal to- Health; For the Lzme-Fusce, which’ is one of — _ the Ingredients they commonly ufe init, “isin — its Nature, fierce,. {arp and Aftringent, apt to — create griping Paws in the Belly: ‘Thefeand — many other Difeafés are the direful Effe€ts of — their Intemperance in eating, nie be ore - But ftill tis certain none would be’ more Healthy — than -Sea-faring men, if they keep within the — _ botinds of Moderation, and would be but con- tent with the more fimple and mean forts of — Food and Drink, as Bread, Chee/e, Butter, Gruels, — various Grains and Frits, which are both mild’ — and friendly, and would with a little ufe and ~ cuftom fufieiently fupply Nature witha Nou-- tifhment both dry and moift, and that mueh” better than the various forts of Food whichis gene-" ~ rally allotted for Sea-tnen; /a/t Flefb ee | | ~ . 1 do well between whiles, if it be (Paringly and fel-" ) domeaten ; but I would advifé fuch People nor _ tocat too freely of the various Fruits fuch Coun- ties afford; and to-eat {paringly alfo “of Fb, ; j : RS RRR * Fibs sori re Bappinete: pia: 193 ® ¥ “ib, abe “For all fiidden’ Alterations and Ex- ‘CHAP. VIL | of Wheat ey other ea... Beans, Peafe, | Herbs, (olworts and f Folly - flowers : And that the Fruits, Herbs and Grains Of Our own Country are beerer, and mote agréeable to our Bodies, than ~any brought from abroad: To which is added, fome Remarks on Pifh. PE Pay F all forts of Bread, ebint made of Wheat is the fineft and belt; Some 4frologers think thee this fort of Grain is under the Dominion | feveral kinds o | _ of the Planets a smi and Vesue; as there are heat, the bet is that which is hard, shick and heavy, ‘clear,’ fussoth, and of - the colour of Gold, and which grows in fat and Limy Ground, ‘and afterwards has heat in the Mow three or four Moneths, by which that raw kind of Quality that isin all Grains, may be | ie digefted ; the un pial in iy, &e. will not of ae fon. SA Susilo eae er eee ba 1M J toll otek, Y iis ta fp 07 y 5 Tye May tobealth, net he inconvenient. ‘This Grain-is not only ‘the firongeft, but of all forts of Bread the Quas ‘ities and Properties « of its Nature ftands in the r beft Equality, only the fweetand Balfamick Qua- ‘ lity does a little predominate, which gives it _ that pleafant Relifh and kindly Operation, far beyond all other fortsof Bread; there is fearce- _ dy to be found any Grain, Herb or Fruit in the whole Creation io highly graduated in Nature as Wheat, or awhere the Forms and Qualities of Nature ftand in more exa& and perfe& Equality ; therefore it does juftly challenge the firft place and - preheminence of all forts of Bread orFood; itis the ‘Poundation of all good Nourifhment, galled by the Wife man, The Staff of Life; Andour Savi- our Chrift compares the Heavenly and Spiritual Pood of the Soul to Bread, which does not a_ little Illeftrate the excellency thereof. Wheat ought not to be ground at Millabovea day or two before it be made into Bread; for when the ‘Body is broken, the pure Volatile Spirstuoms. Parts and orly Balfamick Body, will more or lefs evas porate, according to the time it has lain ground, : sunlefs the Flour be packed up hard and clofe in Casks, as Sea-mex and Merchants do when they carry it to Sea, by which.means the Spirituous. and Gily Quality will be fome:what. Jong er: pre= ferved; but fill when it.comes to be-ufed, they’! find it to be much ayser, and. the Bread made of that four isnot to be pornpared ingoodaefsto that. made of Wheat new! y ground, it is neither fo~ S week i nD i appinets, —§ igs weet nox {0 moift as the other: This Grain is fo found and firm in its Nature, that if it be not. ground; it will endure to be kept for feveral aa but if once broken, the Volatile Spirit, long Wife and © | which is the preferver of all things, will evapo- "Fate, and then the fweet friendly oily Quality ‘45 quickly deftroyed, and it lofes its natural Smell; Colour and Tafte, and generates Worms; But when the other lively and pleafant Qualities are preferved, no Vermin will breedinit. — . I confefs it is very hard to hit the proper Beafon of Reaping this and other Grains, the _ Medium between the time of ftanding too long,. and cutting too foon, is to be regarded; but of thefe Evils or Extremities, the ieffer, »whieh is the dster, is to be chofen; for if it be cut down three or four dayes before it comes to its full Ripenefs, it will gain what Was wanting by Tying in the Sheaf, and heating inthe Mow, by which means you fhall not only preferve it in _ its natural Colour, but it will alfo be heavier and fuller, yielding more and bétter Flour: If you _ Tetit ftand too long until it be over-ripe, them it will fcarce recover it felf; for when this or any other Grain comes to its full ftrength and - ~ ripenels,-and it benot then cut down, the pure Volatile Spirit and oily Body begins to evaporate, — asthe grofs phlegmy matter in any Body is ex- _haled and digefted by the Influences of the Sun, . fo alfo the Spirttuows Parts and O7ly Body will be exhaled and evaporated by vertue of the fame As i } Cc 2 Be Influences, 196 _ The May te Healty, ‘Influences, .after the. drying up.of the former - grofs matter, by which the Balfamick Body isas it, were captivated ; for the Sun works firltin i the phlegmy and grofs Body, which when it is ~ exhaled, the pure Effesstial Spirits and Balfamick Versues being, fet at liberty, the Sun alfo will © immediately work on thenrtoo, and dry them | tad Peas oe ed iG Pa 2 and Efficacy both of Nature and Art to retrive, — an example we have. often of this in Hay, &c ~ Your Wheat by too long fanding grows. (as I have already faid) not only lighter, and lefes © its natural Colour; and will not afford fo good — “nor fo much Bread, but it alfo is herder of Con- — -coction, and creates Obftru€tions in the Sto- mach; ,the Wife man fays there is a proper Sea- fon for all things wader the Sun, which without doubt. 1s.to be principally regarded in Reaping and. Gathering of the Fruits of the Harth. ; Tf youfet any value on Health, and havea mind to.preferve Nature, you muft not feparate the Fizef from the Co#r/ef Flour, becaufle _ that whichis Fize is naturally ofan obftructive — and ffopping Quality : But onthe contrary, the - otherw at is Courfe is of a Cleawfing and Opening . _ Nature ;thereforethat Bread is beft whichis made of both together ; For in the inward Braz and ee er a eo a) : OG BRB Oe _ Skin of the Wheat is contained an oily Quality, which is of a feet friendly Nature, by reafon whereof, the Bread whicli is made of fine and — eourletogether, will not only be TAA ANY Ay an _ keep tothat degree, as’twill be beyond the Power ~ | tang tite aut Bappinets, 197, | Keep longer Moif#, but is alfo more Wholfom,: | Belly, and if plentifully eaten, it will cleax/e and ee the Paflages from grofs phlegmy matter, _itwill frengthenalfo more than the other Bread, _thade of the fineft Flour, it will be harder, and appear ftaler at three dayes old, than the other } will be at fix or feven. It mutt be confefled that the Nutrimentive Quality is contained in the fize Flour, yet inthebraxxy part iscontained the opening and digefive Quality, and there is as ‘great a neceffity of the one, as of the other, for | thefupport of Health ; that whichis accounted | the worft, is as good and beneficial to Nature ag the beft; for when the finef Flour is feparated from the courfef and branny parts, neither the one /fior the other, have the true: Operations of the Flour of Wheat. This may be illuftrated by the ‘Example of Ad/k, «which of it felf is m/d and nutrityve; but when it is turned into a Cwrd or. thick Subftance, thereremains a thin and whayey | | part, both which has not the true Nature, Qua- lity and Operation of Milk, the Curd being of a — hard, tough and obftruG@ing Nature, and the Whey of a cleanfing cold Nature, affording but alittle Nourifhment. ees cere _ By what has been faid, . we may gather that the eating of fize Bread is inimical to Health, and contrary both to Nature and Reafon, and was at firft invented to gratifieW anton and Luxurious |Perfons, who are ignorant both of themfelves, emit Aes cee and | | eafier of Concoétion, -and does gently looferthe bs 5 a ene way to Health, .: ae 4 and the true Vertue and Efficacy. of: natu al. things. . Baar ah ores: much, isthe beft ; for the fower ‘Quality that: is in it does much ‘help Digeftion, and fharpers: the Appetite, and is altogether as pleafant to, _ thofe that are ufed to it as Bread made with Yeft, it is both Wholfomer, and of greater Ans’: tiquity, and more agreeable to the Stomach}, likewife, that dread is beft that is light,» and full: of fall Eyes, asthey call it, being well knead- ed and throughly baked; for the good working of bread does not only make it pleafant to the’ Pallat, but alfo renders iteafier: of Congoétion, ¥ {mooth and free from crumbling; fome make it~ But there is a reat deal of Care. and. Skill to be obferved in making of Bread; “that Bread which 3 i8 Leavenea, ar it be: be not tog with wares, others with cold Water, it matters’ not which is fed, for good bresd may be made ‘with either ;, but it is to be noted, that after you have wetted and kaeaded: your Dough, “you should let it lie an hour or two, then workit up into. Loaves ; this way of doing it willmakeit more | light and pleafznt, but let not your Loaves-be too biz ner too little, for your Bread both’ bakes and. eats beft when the Loaves are of a middle Size.” In fome Countries they make ms Bread with Leaven, and the mixture of the Lees of Wine, |: and this makes excellent Bread, but Care mult). be taken that your Oven be not ‘too hot, nor IS ce too quie k, but it fiould be heated . gmcualy 3, »® appinte gq. nd Over chance to be tow Wi. while until the fiercenef$ of the . Roe ase a fe your bread will not oaly be: feorched: and burned on the: out-fide, but with be alfo usbeked in thein-fide; Ef it is not baked evaugss, then it is offenfive to the Stomach, heavy and unpleafant to the Pallat; if over-baked, then it is dry, and does not afford good Nourifhment 5 Moreover, it isto bebaked with 2 good brisk heat, and not\to ftand long inthe Over, for - thereby it will lofe-that brave Colour, wherein rt a that which it is made of, viz. Beat. Bread is one of the beft forts of Food, free =. from Corruption and other evil Qualities, ype it is made better and worfe according to the Judg- ment of thofe that make i it, and aceoraig to ths kneading anid baking thereof ; thar which is mee well-wrough? will neither bake { well, mor fo foonastheother: Wheatew Bread bakes fooner without, than with Rye or Barley. Barley is of a Saturnine Grain, and of 2 ecurter and sales quality than Wheat, and affords ifs Nourifhment, if the braony parts be aor fepaxa- ted from the Flour thereof, then it makes ecxcel- lent bread, andis as well Phyfck as Nourilhment for thofe that are afflitted with CbSrudtions of the breaft, efpecially fuck as have pases from fuperftuous and frequent eating. of JF. Meats, and exceffive drinking of frome pag : this bread being of x drying and lL sent Be sation, helps Concoction, ma deantes | a an vand | is tO be preferred. before fine, ee at te ke ar e pUHOE | oa heaters bread Our Citizens and others that live at eafe, and feed too plentifully on rich and fat Meats, have ‘their Stomachs made {0 /lppery by the oily:kind tefitive faculty of the Stomach cannot long re~ — tain the Nourifhment, bur letting it flip out of by q am soe — the Stomach, as it were, half Comcoé#ed, caufeth griping Pains in the Bowels, and flatuous gouty ‘Humours in the Joynts; Barley Bread and other mean Food , with drinking moderately, and ufing Field Labour and Exereifes, are excellent Antidotes againft thefe and many other Difeafes. Rie alfo is an. excellent, Grain, .of a.cooling — opening Quality, it makes fome of the beft Bread, if it be'mixed with Wheat; for itis not {9 apt to. obftruét Nature as Bread made of Weatalone : *Tis true,thisBread at fir{t will not be very.tooth-. {ome and pleafant tothofe that are accuftomed » to eatand drink of the beft and richeft things, neither will, it appear to befo wholfom ; for.it is apt to gripe a little; but. this proceeds from the. Natureoi theGrain, which isto openandcleanfe. And I dare affirm, that they,who ufe it will at; tribute many good Vertues to it, fuch as thefe; ‘It cools the Body, it opens and frees the Paflages- from Obftructions, and prepares and fharpens the Appetite; but it is to be fuppoféd that the branny parts be ufed with the flour ,.. otherwile - it is not fo wholfom, yet the courfeft of the Bran» is to be feparated from the other: I haye more: thar long Wife and Pappinefe, = dor’ - than once told you, that the pureft and fineft of the Flour of moft Grains is of ‘a glutinating, clamming and obftructing Nature. But onthe’ contrary, this Grain contains within it a certain flippery and moift Quality, which helps Con- _coétion and fharpens the Appetite; therefore they are not to be feparated; for as the one has @ Nutrimentive Quality and Operation, fo the other has a-Digeftive and opening Quality, the Qualities of Nature ftanding, as it were, in equal “weight and meafure, there can be no fuperva- cantous and .unneceflary Property in this or any other fort of Bread; for when once the’ {weet Harmony. and. Congord of the parts are broken, the. Nature of the thing is changed, and con- trary operations muft needs follow in one and the fame body. That the branny and husky’ ‘partis good in any Grain, it will furthet appear by this: one familiar Example: If you giveto Horfes (that commonly-eat Oates) Wheat, Barley, ce. wherein is more flour and ‘lefs bran than in the other, it will heat the Blood'and caufe D. = eales ; for as the latter is {topping and obftritctive, and over-heats the body, {0 the other is cooling and cleanfing ; ‘but the better way of feeding this kind of Azimals, is to give them the Corn in the Straw, which upon trial will be found to be ex- cellent ftrengthening and nourifhing Food, and that from the Straw and Chaffy part mixed with their Oates, which Pes unitops arid clean’ Hy ? ee ) se ~ go. ma ow the either a fuffocation or evaporation of the _ Spirits; and contracting the Veffels-of-the Sto- mach, whereby the whole body:feemsto fangurb'> Every fort of Food has its various‘operations up= on the body and fpirit of a: man, and that by: way. of fimele. ‘TVhereforeall/Meats and Drinks — ought tobe equally compounded of a body and’ fpirit, as moft things are im themfelves beforethe: Artilt makes thefeparation ; the Food as well as” the Man fhouldbe compounded both of body and fpiric. And to. conclude, I know of nofepara- tion that fhould be made of the one from the: other, but what is done inwardly by the agtof the Stomach.and natural Heat. = = 203 P i | i: “HIE. i Si obese GEhaLes | ' me 5 eee PEse: S ¢ at enn = #) - rg aoe oe pf OMwe i omma ncy. se ae 9 ae Bie ad ee “i i thee Tag rr * ieee w Be OF Peafe and Beans, eh ee 3 | Beans and Pesfe are Mars’s Grains, being drier and courfer than the former: Pes/e of the two ‘are the fineft and eafieft of Coneoétion, they are both of a Windy Quality, yet being eate _». ‘when they are dryed, are not only wholfomer - than the Greez, but alfo afford’a better and finer: Nourifhment,. not fo apt to generate: Crudities. in the Body when they are boyled in plenty of: Water; the Winter-feafon is the raat proper time for eating of them; for then the natural Heat being more central) the Stomach is much the: ftronger; they area good Food for young healthy People: But Greens. Peafe and: Beans are indued: with a grofs Phlegmatick Nature, and being fre-. quently eaten generate many grofs raw Humours: in the: Body; but in the. decking part. of the: year, when the Sun and Elements have confum- edanddryed away the grofs humid parts, they thereby become firmer and wholfomer Food, and’ will continue good and found for feveral years, but ifthey be cut down before the Sun has ated: its part in extracting the grofs Juices, they will prefently corrupt. . ‘Therefore the frequent eating of flch green Peafe is of evil Confequence, and detrimental to the Health; they afford not only ’ unfirm Nourifhment, but alfo caufe Ob/ructions, Feavers and Painsin the Bowels, with Fluxes and "a great many. other Maladies. ‘That this kind Me di es tog WewBAp to Health, _ of Nourifhment is not good, wilifurtherappear by giving you an Example from Cartel, which when they are fed with greem Food, as Grafor the like, their flefhand fat is foft, greafy, and full of phegmy grofs Matter, neither willit take- Salt,: nor keep half the tume as that which is fed» with Alay, Corz, and the like; nay, they are, fainter and weaker, and more apt totire in their. Labour, and to take Surfeits, than thofé that feed with Hay, oc. Idonot fay but green Peale’ — may be eaten now and then; :for they arein — their Nature opening and flippery,: which is’ caufed by the great. Quantity of Phlegmy Mat-> ter that isin them 3 Yet thefe Rules fhould be _obferved in the drefling of them.y. Boyl them in. . good ftore of River-Waser, let your Fire be quiok, | and your Pot opemall. the timeof their boyling, » and they are to. be put. in when the Water begins © to feeth, and not before. By this way of Prepa-. ration.they are made wholfomer than otherwife + they. wouldibejniii om si) VE a ee “)Ehere is a fort of Béaz called by the Ke Exglhi{h Beax, but wecommonly call them Kidver or French Beans, they run upon fticks like Hops; thefe are moftly eaten when Green; they arg of an opening and cleanfing Nature,purge by Urine, and help Concoétion; the ufual way ofdreffing © them is toboyl them in the Shells, and toeat.» them together. ‘They :far exceed and are much * better than other Pulfes that are eaten'green, be- » ° ing in their nature and operation more mildand « * | gentle. ik [5 Se aes a “—_ y 4. aie bak Wan , Be ea b H A , : ; g j J , : ? - a: ¥ _. Of Herbs, RawandBoyled. The beft raw Sallets are made of Spinnage, Parfley, Sorrel, Sage, Pepper-grafs, with a {mall quantity of the Tops of Pesay-Royal and Mint ; for all thefe have a chearing & warming Quality, but Lettice and Oxtons fhould be {paringly put in, becaufe they are endowed with a grofs thick Juice, and are of a poyfenous Nature, fending Fumes into the Head, whence proceeds a dull kind of Drowdfinefs, and propensity to {leep,. which is offenfive tothe EyesandBrain. ‘There areother Herbs made ule of in Raw Sallets, but the fore-mentioned are the belt & moft material Ingredients. ‘The proper feafon for eating them is from the begénning of February to the middle of Fune; the earlier in the Spring fo much the better, and the more frequently they are eaten at this feafon, fo much the wholfomer; forthey are opening and cleanfing powerfully, the Blood is purified, the natural Heat is tempered and en- creafed, the Spirits are made brisk and lively, Appetite is quickened, and Conco€tion facilitated. | _ Raw Herbs area fublime kind of Food, and are tobe preferred before that which is boyled ; for the pare Volatile Spirit inthe Herbs, whence thie Animals fragrancy proceeds,cannot endure the vi- glence of the fire; but in boylinga great part of it is evaporated ;, for this caufe beyled Herbs lie heavier & colder in the Stomach thanRaw,which is [OC fcarcely Pct ine RT idea manent ah ian CPE!) nT Spl Sere SAUER ‘4 - a y i Buy Be L pe — om v4 - , ub ae, ts > ~ Po 5 z j » ’ "a ' bh ’ , : y ‘sek bes , acetate st dhe aan a i oe eds a Fie a Pi ey 8 py ‘ am y 4 4 Pak. ie i ¢ oh EL hy ; 9 e nie . 206 6=—ti‘( tw EHO MBAY to Wealth, : ~ {earcely eredited by any ; for they that love boyleg Herbs,do generally eat much Fh with themjand _ fo cannot difcern the operation theyhave: The — - ftrength and comforting Quality of every thing — confifts principally inthe /piritous parts,whichare. — ~ Joft in the boyling, and fo they become juft of - another Nature; that lively Tin€ture and fpiri: tuous part; which it had whilft raw can neverbe _ tetriv’'d by all the Ingredients Nature or Art can afford: Do not all Creatures eat their Herbs raw? and are they not fuftained by them toadmiration? They are powerful Prefervers of Life and — ‘Health, far beyond all the contriv’d Preparations of other Food. In moft Countries ofthis World, - the Inhabitants thereof do eat(Exgland excepted) , their Herbs Rav, both in hot and cold Climates’; This kind of Food is preferrable to the great Quantities of Fleb, Butter, Cheefé, cr. which are too much eaten among us, thefe latter not Only affording too great ftoré of Nourifhment, — but being naturally hot,they over-heat the Blood, and are heavy to be digefted, by reafon of the oily _ fat matter all fuch things do plentifully contain, they dull the Appetite, and obftru€&, and as‘ were fur the Paffages. : ore ~ Befides the Vertues we have afcribed to Raw Herbs, God Almighty has’ created them for the ufe of Man, and they were the firft Food which was allotted him after the Fall, where he faith, Every GreenHerb {ball be nnte you for Food: And in the firft Age of the World, though their Food was. ‘ : ong Wt e and Happinels, 207 - awas ferarcely any thing elfe but Gree» Herbs and pare Pater, yet when was there any Generation © fince that time, who has lived in fo perfeé Health, and to fo great and flourifhing an Age? The great and illuminated Prophet, Mo/fes did _ endeavour to wean (as it were) the Children of — rael from eating of Flefh in their forty years Journey in the Wildernefs, and gave them Laws to diftmguifth between the Clean and Unclean Creatures, but you could neverread of any Laws _ forbidding the ufe of green Herbs. Now the beft Ingredients to mix and eat with Raw Sallets are yl, Salt, Vinegar, Verjuice, Oranges, cre. Thelé _ make them warm inthe Stomach,and pleafant to itheTafte ; but youarenot toufe thefe Ingredients ' ‘when you eat at the fame time with them File(h, ‘Butter and‘Cheefe ; for {o many Mixtures are not - agreeable to Nature: Some love Sager in their Sallets, which is better left out, if you eat Fle/b, Gt. withthem; for Sugar does not well agree with fat Meats, nor with Oy, except in way of Medicine. : Bet As to Boykng-of Herbs or Sallets, 1 fhall give’ ‘you an account of the beft way of their Prepara- tion, and how they fhall be moft conduceable.to Health, which will appear by the Obfervation of thefe followime things, __ KBirff,. Your Herbs and Pulfes mutt be fred gathered ; for if they be kepr two or three dayes before they are ufed, or if they Jie too\clofe to-. a gether, the Spirits make jo Secondly, The Veflel or Pot in which fuclz. things are boyled ought to be /argey that it may contain.a good.quantity of Water, for Water is. an Elethent fo friendly and clean, that it helps to preferve the Spirituous Parts and Balfapick Body, and to digett the grofs phlegmatick Sub- | fiance; it isthe Sweetner, Preferver and Puri- — fier of all things. hoe Thirdly, You fhould have a quick Fire, and are not tO put in your Herbs into the Por _ until the Water 4oy/, and then increafe your Fire, not fuffering it to ftand too long’ before your Pot boy! again; when that is done, let there be no Intermiffions in the boyling ; - for thereis nothing that does more ‘deaden and flat the Spirits, efpecially in green Herbs, than flack Fires and fuch Intermiffions. ~ RCRA Fourthly, So foon as your Pot or Veffel boyls, then you fhould prefently sscover it, that thefe — Sulpherous Fumes and Wapours may evaporate; — which are awakened, : and forced into the Food’ by the Fire, and-alfo that the frefh’ and friendly Influences of the Air may have its free’ egrefs’ and regrefs, for the Air is the eflential. Lite of the Spirit;{, No Food can be well. prepared, “if, the Vellel be covered. ate aR 08 + 4 =*? , : Fifthly eas re eS eee Tay re 7 +e ey te a | APPUleis.. ran 209 Herbs and Pulfe'fhould ‘not be _ help the digettive bead to concoct that Food, ~ ficult to be digefted. of (olworts; (: abbage and Colly-flowers. Colworts are the beft of the three, being of | amore’ lively, opening and cleanfing Nature _ and operation than the other two, becaufe they - _ grow open, fo that the Air, with the Sun, has’ its free Influences upon them; and this’ is alfo _ the Reafon that they look of a greener and frefher Colour than many other Vegitables;' they’ are alfo more wholfom: If you boy] green frefh’ _ Colworts,:and keep them till next day, and do? the like with a Cabbage,keeping it likewife till the’ | het eae: more fading ; where the Sadize Powercis {trong; the Vegitables are. alfo lively and firong: For. Example, -lay a heap: of, Dung inthe Field, and. let it lie a Week inthe Rain, and then move it, and leaveno Dung on that place, and you fhalk prefently fee that the Grafs inthat place where it did lie; will be 'ftrong}-and of a deep, green frefh Colour, far beyond the Grafgamethesplace:. where-the Dung was, {pread, andithe Reafon is: very apparent, for the Rain, did wafha falts oily, kindof Liquor, into the Farthe:,"The fame Reafon, will hold in other things; :as in. your low : Grounds, that lie between Hills and River-fides, which.are, more fruitful than other, Fields, be-- _caufe the Rain does waflya certain Fatand Saline } Quality from. the Hulls, which drains down’ to: iRA ‘; i: 4 es ) , the 4 i Sc SIGMA ile ATR. IR oa ea ela Va ts al 1 TED eters apis iets MOKMeUeRN SoM ws) 9 eR tne ee Ne cama Bt | 4 ¥ v F By S Ws Pm Si an ea He me a 4 : ik » J q 7. ¢ ; Long wife and Dappinets, 21% he. lower;Grounds and Valleys ;. alfo the Ri- vers fometimes over-flowing their Banks, and reaching. .the adjacent Giounds, . do. leave (when, the Water retires back) a ‘certain fat - faling Quality behind, . which makes it more fruitful than otherwile it wouldbe, Coliiflowers are fomewhat of the Nature of Cabbage, only they are a little fweerer, they aitord but, very grofs Nourifhment to. the Bedy ; na generate abundance\of windy and flatulent - Humours, and fenda great many Fumes up to _ the Head, our Soilcommonly is not Richenough. - for them; they are more forced by Art. and Dung;, than they grow naturally; they being a Phiegmatick kind of Food, are rather more fubjeG.to Putrifa€tion than Cabbage, yet both. the oneand the other fhould be eaten very {pa- ringly ; But as for frefh green Colworts, they may be eat liberally, efpecially by thofe that eat fat Flefh plentifully,. : ‘ Of ROOTS. ‘Turwips are a Root of a. very innocent and mild Nature, it has feveral good Properties, it ‘removes ObftruCtions which: lie in. the Paflages, makes the Belly /olwble, * and mightily helps. -Concoétion by its moift and flippery kind of Qua Fity; one. may -eat plentifully of this with a. great deal of fafety; but of Fie {paringly, as. moft Nations do (Evgland.excepted) in France, cia Beg oe ee” ok ais eee ARIA of Y “ Spain and Portugal, and other Countries 4 posad — of Flefh, with Herbs and Roots, will make a Dinner for four or fve People: But an Engijh ~ _ man will eat at one Meala Pound or two of © | fat Fieh, and {carcely a bit of Bread with it; ' there are but too many in this Nation that fols. © low this dangerous and noxious euftom, Turnips beinga very good and wholfom Root, — ¥ recommend them to every Bodies ufe, efpe- cially to thofe that eat Fée/b plentifully: Icon- fefs when they are eaten by themfelves, they afford but weak Nourifhment, and are a Phlegmatick kind of Food; you muft have a » care what Ground you fow them in, forall forts. of Ground will not bear good Turzips; Do€tors fay, that they are a Phyfical Root, and-an An- — tidote and Remedy again{t Confumptions, and feveral other Difeafes; but I know no fuch’ Vertue in them, yet they are good for weak’ — Stomachs, being eafie of Concoction; for al-~ wayes weak Heats fhould have a portionate quantity of Food. ‘And {cannot think, as fome imagin, that they are fo proper for languifhing Diieales, becaule'they are of a watry cold Nature in themfelves, and do breed but unfirm Nou-~* rifhment; befides, they feldom come to Matu- rity until the declining part of the Year, vizs~ September and Odfober, &c. at which time the» centfal heat of the Earth being weak, all its” Produétions are alfo weak, and endowed with” “grofs phlegmy and cold Juites; for the Sun bes” ing: om _ Roots are not | Fruits and Herbs are, being generally more cold 0 good in’ cold Countries, as and earthy, becaufe they want the friendly In-. fluences of the Sun and Air: ‘Therefore Roots: have not that pleafant fragrant Smell and ‘'aite, which Herbs, Fruits, &c. have. . But Turnips, Potatoes, &c. that grow almoft in the top and furface of the Earth; are better than other Roots, and more familiar to our Natures than * fuch as grow deeper in the Ground, » becaufe they participate more of the Influences both of the Air and ‘Sun than the other; when they are boyled in good Water, and eaten with Butter; _ Balt and Bread, they are good food both for the Sick and the Healthy. bak .vuod Y rete The Carrot is a Root next in Goodnef$ and ‘Vertue to this, ‘the beft fort of them are thofe which are of the deepeft Red Colour; when they are eaten in their proper feafon, they area pleafant wholfom Root, which is from the. . Moneth of uly to the Moneth of December, or there-abouts; after thattime they are not fa swholfom, efpecially thofe that are taken out of the Ground and kept all the Winter and Spring. ~ ‘Phis Root being eaten prefently after it is’pulled _ Bpout of the Ground, and whea it is well or- dered, _ dered, is:not: much inferiour to Tarnips, the . being of an: opening and cleanfing Nature, eafi of Concoétion,’ and «may: ‘with dfafety be eaten! 1 plentifully either without ‘or: ‘with Flefh. “The? — Colour of Carrots do.declare that there: isan ex+1 cellent Vertue in'themn? boot 6). top ots: DAas a ro od 4 | Next:to this isa Parfnip ». which\is..a good. hearty Root, yet not fo good a Friend to’ Nature: asthe other two; for'they arevharder of Con- — coction; and: being eaten, are much -apter: to! create Obftructions in the Stomach, and breéd’ a grofler kind of Nourifhment, and eonfequents ly a thicker and -groffer Blood: It is not good to’ - keep. this Root above a'day or two before ‘tis _ ufed, for then they’l provedull upon the Pallat,. ftrong intheirtafté and finell, heavy and hard of} Digeftion; and this proceeds: from the evaporas; — tion of the /pirituaus parts; as well beforesas ini their preparation ;. for the Spirit is the Life’. of the oily body, and the oily body is the Houle: of the Spirit, ‘andthe one-cannot ficbfift without the other; theeating of them immediately after they.are plucked up out ofsthe Grounds; muft then he the fiteeft timeari: a! nes oie yori mcla'd pee sac HBL SSHP BE O7¢ wack) forge) - ode sod edie. mndiiGtiwe Die elo et ad goat oT ys He fo. 3h tong se y HAA IIA, pele gat HY IO: MB: 10 , : +k the’ Fruits, Presb anit ae cohen our own Climate produceth, “are more | > Natural and. Proper® to “maintain — ~ Strength. and prelerve Health chan ~ thofe chat come from Ocher Countries, : aaelpecialy from hor. 3 : ean apis. ; ‘: 21 : ? 1 ee gy ee om tt Ff ds 4 “Every, Country and Climate does f Gods: : divine Appointment and good Providence, bring: forth fuch, Herbs, Fruits and Grains, as are:pro- per and moft agreeable to the Conftitutions . of the People born in that place; both for Food and Phyfick, asthe Lord in the. beginning’ did tell: Adan, That. every green. | Herb and Seed: fhould be. fory Food, Do we not fee: that.-thofé that: are - born and bred. in Spainor Ialy,-andthey thar dwell in Turkey do differ much from us,-bothin their. Complexions, Manners, and. alfo in’ their Cujftoms, every. Country differing from. another in their. diftinG Inclinations and: Fafbions, accord- ing. to the Nature of that place, and.the Eleva-- tion. of. the Po/e they are under ?... Andas. each. Country has diftin&: Languages, which. cannot : _be: underftood by People born in other Climites; _ fochave they likewife different Conftitutions, In- clinations and Complexions, their Herbs; Fruits and. Gravs differing in their Quality and Ope- - ration: Thefe great differences both of Lan- guages, i ie a ae Se PRS eee, oe eee Te eh ed - ee Te Se SR ES ee eM mo Rv ts, Gee goa aa Sicha a | 2 Yon art 2h ie ¢ Petite ete Cs SEE or ad a i. We ee pt: a : + : oe Meee FS t Bienen gl: See 4° COR ee We , hi ‘s : . radi aes iN ‘ . et : i Be a a. ff ye F > : i \ ee ue Ba Shy. LP ie YOR wR ? ae we ‘ - ral ' i im + oo Ney oad 4 re 2 \ if p 2 WW A r? (aa b | : 4 fia vee £4 3 ia Lae & ‘ . ¥ ¥ Cs 4d » ’ eG Ii wis es “Oars ee es Be ed , ee oS 4 m _ guages, and of all other things that is between each Country, is not caufed by the Sea, whieh _ divides each Country from another, but from the differences of places; for every’ Hundred Miles through the: whole Univerfe the- People differ, and their Speech ; fo that if a man travel five Hundred Miles, he fhall not be capable to’ underftand one Word of an hundred; Do we not fee this in our om Country, where thofe that live inthe North, cannotunderftand thofe of the Weft, which is caufed from the differing Eleva- tions of the Pole and Influences of the Sun, with» concurring Conftellations, which: alfo caufes all other things to differ beth in their Natures and’ Operations ;\ for this Reafon oné' place is more’ famous than another, in refpe@ of divers things 5: and if our own Gountry dovary and differdo~ - much in'the compafs of three or feur hundred « Miles, “what'do thofe:#emote parts that aredi:’ ftant from us many Thoufand Miles, as the Ef and Weft-Indies? The’ People of thofe places. in all particulars do much differ from ‘tis: ia the ¥~ Complextons, Conftitutions, Religions, Inclinati-” ons, Governments, Shapes and Languages; their ' Animals, Lach as their Beafts, Birds, Filbes,&e. are all of them of a different Nature, Shape and Form fremours; foalfo are their Herbs, Fruits and © _ Grains, both thofe that are proper for Food, and alfo for: Phyfick; Do not the Northen cold Climates ° give all the beafls of the Field hardy Conftitu- - tions and Natures, and warm Cloathing? From ° a er _ Whence comes your brave thitk } , | the Creatures in cold Countries produce them ? fe and pappineds. = 27 ve thick Furs? Do'nor And do not theSheep in cold Climates afiord abun- dance of ftrorig. Wool? Whereas the Sheep in het, Countries produce but a little Wool, and that which is very jfize; and many of their Creas tures have hardly:any Wool or Hair on them. The wonderful-and wife Creator hath endued every Country ‘and Climate with fuch a perma- nent Nature; even in the beginning, as brings forth Herbs, Fruits: and Grains, which are pro- perand moft agreeable to the Natures and Con: s @ faitutions of the People born in that place.” And asthe cold Countries produce abundance of | Cloth and Furs; fo onthe contrary, hot Cimsates afford Silks and fine Calicoes, andthe like, which are not proper nor ufeful-for us, neither are ours _forthem: How contrary to Reafon and Na-* tureit is for men in'cold Couztries to cloath them- felves with Silk and fine Calico? and {fo on the contrary, ©for thofe in hot Cowstries to cloath themfelves with our ftrong thick PVollex Cloth and Fars?» But mens Health is not fo. much en- ~ dangered by outward Garments, as by too great an‘ Indulgence of Nature in the ufe. of Meats other Internal, . | bh aii it dt is known by Experience, that the mixing ofthe Eafand Weff-Indian and Spanifh Pruits, withour Food and Drinks, have encreafed Di- fteafes, and made the People more fickly than in ee. folate _and Drinks, the one being Exteraal, and the yd, an Roots that grow in our own Chmate more prosy — per for that ufe, though the Pyficcans have been \ as willing to deceive the People;asthe Merchants; « by telling theny the many. excellent-Wertues cons.) tained in them: Yet: it cannotibé:denyed ‘but: that thofe Spices are Excellent.in thei Nature « and-Operation, though not praper for our Cons. {titutions,- nor to be «mixed amongft -our Food + and Drinks ; for that Food in which fuch ithings:! are mixed, does by degrees deftroy «the WVataralo Fleat of the Stomach, ; drying cup: the Radécal Moiftere, and thole cool. Vapours which would::: — oiherwile refrefh the whole Body; ckeeping of | it pleafant, making the Spirits: brisk-and full of: Life; this pleafant Quality is deftroyed by eat=. ing and drinkmmg fuch things in which Speees,:. Swgarsand Spanih Fruits are thixed:; atmakes the Blood alfo of.a hot, Sharp, kéén’Quality, and! — eaufes thick hot Fumes to. afcend into the Head, making the dead, Hands: and Feet, ott +t * mah ¥ aad ses Reh Winessowhereof ifvaoman drink frequently, he cannct* without: a’ gréat’ deal:of ‘Trouble, and fome Hazard ‘as'to ‘his: Healthy: refrain: from it ;. the like:is true in drinking of Brazdy.and taking. of Tobacco,which Cuftoms are far more dangerous’ than the former: For every fort:of) Food and Drink in which Nature is itvits Properties Uz: equal, does powerfully ftir up and beget its like- nefsinthe Stomach, and caufeth Nature to be. unequal'in ‘hér Operations; \ For no forts of Meats and Drinks do more deftroy the Health and: ‘Welfare of Nature, than thofe that contain too much Nourifhment , and whofe predemix nant Quality istoo hot, which generally is the’ EffeGts:of all fuch Foods and Drinks, in which) the above-mentioned Ingredients are mixed. When I confider the ftrange and unnatural _ mixture,sand the variety of Meats and Drinks that that are: too « ommon ly 1 He oC the UnhesliBimelBiosiet: Age :ooAnd certaial if this neesio te a sinc chi cate $ng and drinking the impr rutts; cess, Wares, and other things: Lai the. aie and Growths: of other Countries, as has been! - done for thefe forty on fifty: Years lat. pats -we: fhall be corrupted dur: Redistes, as too many) are already ;:.all thofe things being: now com. monly ufed which have greatly encquraged.othen’ Nations to»make {uch Quantities of ‘them, as’ that they aresbecome fo Cheap, © that) it is fearcely. worth ‘the Merchants while to bring them over ;. for whete there «was one pound: of Sugar {pent forty-or fifty Years ago, now:there: is a Choufand;: and where'there was thef one! - ie of Wine drank, there: is ‘naw: T etree paz wt to The ufe af Tk aibucen nite Brandy eshaelicoll ote | fince was bese know ;:nay, the ufe of our’ Ale and Beer has hardly been'abave tworhundred: - years, which now we accouht,moft »Natural ; there is fome-whiat may béfaid) againtt Beer, but becaufé it ismadé of our own Grain, Ifhalhnot. fay any thing here: of its Nature or: operation, haviap treated of itsin another places! «Great hath been the Increafe of thofe. Forreiga Ingres dients of late: years, inforiuch, that they ‘are efteemed good tobe mixed | amongf{t.common. Foodand Drinks, as alfo- te be taken Phyfically ; fori you may. hear many fay,: that Tobsare is'good. Was? 7 yr die 4 + ad nen > r: long wifeand Bappinets, = aer “to prevent Fumes and Vaporrs frotin flying into | the Head, and fo make it their'conftant praGice ree ow east fu ; as they fay, the conftant ufé of 1t would deftroy its Vertues ; the fame may be alledged of Brandy, Wine, Spices, Hc. It is to be noted and pitied that Aged People donot only eat and drink fucl _ thingsasare hurtful, burthey mix Spices, Sugars and Frairs amoneft all their Childrens Food, and _ between whiles give them them Wine and /trong | Drink, which mutt be very Injurious to their _ Health; for all Children are tender, both as to their Spirits and Bodies ; and becaufe they are ' growang, their Nature requires great {tore of moifture, which can be no otherways maintain- ed but by a fimple and mean Food and Drink: _ If you mix their Food with Sugars, Wines, Spices, and Spanifh Fruits, they will certainly over-heat the Body, ftop the Pores, dry up the Radical Moifture, hinder the pure ‘moift Vapours of © the Air that they cannot penetrate the Body: _ ‘Thefedeftroy the Stomach, blunt the edge of — | a ee Veffels of their Stomashs, aking them /ean or Con/umptive, and in others” - m breed abundance of yro/f Phlegmatick Humors, all _ actording to the Nature of each Child’s Confti- tution: It caufeth likewife all their external _ parts to burn and glow with unnatural Heat, “ _ generating many Windy and‘'Watery Difeafes * and Evil Juices in their Joynts: All thefe Mala- ° 7 a by other indulgent: - dies are much augment ae ways yw if this had any fuch operation. vie ‘ay . f ) APS), Era! i reel ae % is ae Back, if Wan- _. fititable and friendly to our Natures, than thofe - that come from other Countries? Are notthofe | _ that live in the moft Remote parts of Exgland, and far from Cytses and Sea-Ports, where Money _ is {carce, and fuch things dear, that the common. _ People cannot buy them,moft healthfuland freeft. from Difeafes? Butnow thefe Ovt-lazdifh Ingre- _ dients begin to be fo much admired, that the good Dame, viz. the Farmers Wife will fell her Eggs, Butter, Cheefe and Wheat to buy Sugar, Spice and Dobacco, which {tand them in no {tead, only to: _ inereafe Intemperance and Diftempers. ‘The very | Plough-men and Shepherds defile their moft pleafant _ Air with the falfom Fumes of Tobacco. Like- wife, the common ufe of thefe things have made: way for varionsTrades and Imeployments, {o that a great part Of the People are imployed to bring them over, and to diftribute them here; fo that: there is {mall hopes’ of leaving off thefe Super- fluities; they are ‘become as it were Effential to the Nature of the Ufers; but the chief Happi- nefs of Englifh People is, that their own Country” does: abound with all things that are needful for the fupport and prefervation of Nature, and that _ every one is left to his free choice. ‘Therefore a- Wife\Man may inthe midft of thofe various S#- perfiutties live foberly and temperately to his own" comfort, and the praife of his Creator. 2 : ei 2. at Ponty all forts of their Fruits and tt salfo do much differ from ours, in the Nature of Sol and Venus ; and if uch Fruits awaken their Centers and Natures in the Body, & do find after drinking plent ifully of Wine or strong _ Drink, and eating “Food in which thofe Rich & Fruits are compounded, how indifpofed will Nature be? how heavy and dull the fenfes, and ~ agit were ftupified? And this is.caufed not only and "sroflable to Vee & Wines be not taken foarinaly, they will ee _caufe the pure fubtle Spirits to evaporate,as moft as oi nl a pre ominantQuality whereof ftanding chiefly by overcharging of Nature with the Quantity, 3 ~ but with the Quality alfo of the Food, which do fo violently open the Solr and Ve end dal Pro- -perties of the Body bya fympathetical opetation, and does evaporate the pure Spirits, and confumes the fweet Oyl, whence the pleafant Life burns ; vafter fuch Intemperance in eating and’ dtinki ing, you find great alterations in the ftate: of your ~ Body. Some think, That the frronget the Liquor, andthe Richer their Food i, the more Vertue and firength i is init: but the contrary iS TOO appa-" rent; for nothing i is more hurtful to Nature than that “which contains much Nourifhment ; for this caufe many People are out of order, ‘thei “natural ftrength decaying by. degirees, @and occa fioning many Difeafes to reign, whgeh hadno beeing in former Ages, when the ule of fach : things were notknown. Tn remote par ts, where: Gg iis fuck * ey ae {: ach Fru and are ey. feed 3 ( pers, with w isl we. 2 are. al Hitted. B that path fay. will not. convince ft hs a5 are W7 ife i ins their own Conceits, nor ‘prevent them from, boyling two, Quarts of Ale to one, with good ftore of Oatmeal and Spice, and then {weetening it well — with Sugar, give two or three Quarts a day hot to feud -bed- Women. b 4h ude the, Water Hee ‘no motion, ‘or in, Goal the Excrements of Cities or To fick | Fifh produce, bad. Nourifhment, athe the Blood, and caufé Obftruétions, Scabs, Leporous: Difeates, Kee. Te People} were fenfible of at hurt they do,. they would ‘no more eat. them, than: they, would Frogs, Sie les, yea, ‘Snakes. ‘for they all bave Ope and. the fame Original, and are gee nerated {fom.a like matter; -Thelé ‘Creatures, orrather Vermin _ (for fol may call, them) ate produced from Put rifaction, ‘grofs and ‘unclean ‘matter, | , ct ould be abominable to Humane ‘they were known to be fuch ; befides: matter, a ‘Nature, | “the Difeafes they caufe, they alfodefile the Spi- its by awakening their Similes, they prove Grequently to be of Ill,Confequence both to the Body and Mind. ‘Thefe Fi/b that have no | Scales are unclean, and the Nourifhment they _afford are of a moift and flimy Nature ; but on the contrary, thofe that have both Scales and Fins, are wholfomer, and are.of a dryer Sub- -ftance, and e~fier of Concottion; thofe that are bred in clear gravelly running Waters.and Ri- wers, are {weet, pleafant and wholfom, if taken in their proper Seafons. Both the Seller and Buyer of Fifbes are guilty _Ofa great miftake about them, the Fifher-man does commonly let them dye of themfelves, or by throwing one upon another, caufes one. _ rather to fuffocate another; this .way does agreat deal of harm tothe Fi/b, as wellas to Other Creatures, viz. Cows, Sheep, &c. But the better way isto give them.a wound fo foon as you take them out of their proper Element, rather than to fuffocate them ; for by this, the pure Effential Spirits and Balfamick Body fuffers Violence. There is a cuftom among fome to Keep Fifh alive until they have a mind to eat them; this is chiefly practifed. amongft the Dutch: ‘Though it be a very good Cuftom, yet a great many commit Errors in this particular, for they are oft-times kept in a {mall quantity: $e Gg z ain UE of thide ftanding Water, ul ‘grow weak, fainty and | poo “mind to keep them, let themb “isplenty of good Water ;’ Do not put. any great Quantity together, neither keep them too. One oe Bean ae them. — oN beg poe 2) ed CHAR. VL. ~~: | iE of the Milchief of Patten oa 9 oa ‘ ~ Drutks and ‘the’ Inconveniencies — of. - Tinpr aper Mixtures ; a and on the, other — Ai a8 w what Foods ate fit to be Comins “He é/ mixture of fveral roi af £aerethg i _& “Nattres,is common in thiswanton Age to : oR ‘forts of People, except fuchasareconftrained — through pure /Verefity to live ons fimple Meats’ anid Drinks; ‘but inthis adding of jdivers forts of tees Spieat! Pe asto se thers ne May Lisoke for ant r Biain ne'S is to ner a the- he =A travgpont. Fancies and Liquon{h Palle of thofe.-, they belong to, rather than to. fludy: ad pr Seat what's IS¢ sgiecable to Nature, is Vets Aot oe ‘Dappinels. WT ege be eee two; ‘three, of four things _ together, if the predominant Quality in each be. of contrary Natures, then fuch Food: will pro- duce 4 dif greving ‘Nourifbment in the Stomach, whence muit arife an inward Strife and Coxten- : tion for maftery, fo that oft-times the pure Ver- tues and Spirits fulter violence, and become fuf- _ focated. This is manifeft in all forts of Herbs, Woods, Earths and Drugs, which Dyers and Painters ule, two of which being mixt, -produce a third of a:kind and nature contrary” to both; : isd if you add a third Ingredient of a Nature contrary to thofe nvo, it will become 'a fourth Bd Species : The fame thing happens in Eatables, as you alter the Tajfe of any fimple Food by add-. . ingone or mere Ingredients; So you wary its # ‘Nature, fo that it becomes net only of azorher Tafie, but a quite different Operation ; for this _ caufe there cught to be great Caution and Dil cretion ufed in Mixing of Food, or élfe you bring all into Confufion: We ought to: underftand the Nature of each Ingredient, and what Fusees and Nourifbment, two or more things conjoyned, — will produce : for each rs makes fome Variation, either for the better or the worfe;, tor all Ta/fs in Food have the very fame Or riginal as Colours, and Cooks ought to be as skilful as Paine fersin their Mixtures, which if well obferved, mo't People would be free from defiring fue! ee Difhes, molt men through i igno- --¥ancs “of the ata ure and Operation. of thins, imagining tong: Life’ and tek RS EF LE . ve ay ONS att ere, D 230. imagining that the more both mean and rich In greets are mixed together; the greater and ‘betrer the Nourifhment; The coatrary whereof. \ is true, for fuch things do generally producea — Nourifhment of a contrary Nature to moft of the Ingredients, as is evident in Painting . for Example, take Indigo, Ultramarine, orany Blew, and mix it with White, andit makes a Ske to what degree you pleafe; but then put a third, viz, mix a Pink Colour, and it makes a Greew, ' which is a fourth Colour of a contrary Nature * to both the firft, fecond and third; alfomix — Verdigreafeand Pivk, and it makes a Green; take — | Lake and Ultramarine, and it givesa deep Purple 3 mix Lake and White together and you havea ; Pink Colour ; and if you would have the deep- — eft Black, take the white/t Ivory you can get, — and burn it, and the A/bes will perform your defire; fo likewife Copporas, Gauls and Logwood dyea Béack, though none of them are fo. _ _ Furthermore, it is tobe noted, that there are but Sevez perfe&t Colours inthe World, which have their Original from the feven Conftellations, viz. Blztk, Red, Yellow, Blew, Lake, Green and White, each of which does contain the true Nature ofallthe feven; but that Quality that predominates denominates the Colour, and all the other lie as it were hid or captivated; but when another or contrary Colour is mixt or in- corporated therewith, then both thofe Colours lofe their right in Nature, and through an in- ior 2 oo di og Ae aaa alert er eee: RL The es is Gogh enh oe Re ay hey ies OTe St" RDO MT AS | ward ftrife and contention, there is a Third awakened, whic yx and i 4 ed, which’ before’ the ‘mixture lay hid - and captivated, and this third is of a contrary Nature’ to’ both the firft; and fo you may by continual Additions of other Colours, alter it in- _-toafourth, a fifth, a fixth, and fo on; for from an apt Commixture of thefe feven Colours, an - ingenious Artift in Painting can imitate and re- prefent the Colours of al things in the whole _ Univerfe: ‘The like is to be underftood of Taffes _ and the nature of Food, mixing of two things of _ €onmtrary Qualities, producesa third Fusce diffe rent from each of them; ‘and if you adda third _ Ingredient, that is in nature contrary to both the firft, it will awaken another Nature, which a fay hid or captivated; and fo there arifes.a fourth — ‘thing, and this it performs by Siwaile, making : _ that property in Nature ftrong which was weak, &caufing that to become manzifef?,that before did - difappear. As in the before-mentioned Inftance of mixing Blew and White that produces a Sky- colour, which is one degree of Variation; but then mix Pizk-coleur with thefe two, and it makes ‘a°Greex, which is quite contrary to both the firft and fecond: Now before the Pzwk was {0 added, this fame Greex was efientially in both the Colours, but not manifeft till the Pzzk cap- tivated both the firft and fecond, and made them difappear, and fo brought to manifeftation that Colour which before lay dormant. So great is. the Power of Nature of altering, changing, and ei | ds | us ixt, hy ei Ps partielle Genin of any | one fort of Food, for ; they will hot content themfelves without various things mixed together, many of which being of difagreeing Natures, are attended with very evil Confequences: And efpecially (with griet, Shame and Bee fpeak it) there are fcarce any \ People in the World more guilty of Gluttony and improper mixtures of Food than the Exgii{h Nation, who likewife are more guilty herein of late Years than ever heretofore ; ; for they have not only a great number of various forts of Food in their own Country (which are moft _ agreeable to the Conftitutions of the Inhabitants) but vaft quantities of Fraits and Spices, Liquors, 8c. that are brought from other Countries and | the r remote Regions of the World, which ferve | “en ly Roy Dee ek Bae poe GE Cate AE wh Bir: 3, MoAter Rape ee mS Tee Ome ee oN el, Tee ne ee ee ee ara ee) ; i , : amy a Lal 1 r tT * i 1 F ci pra) es ie of ‘ .» Jong Life and appinefs. ==. 233 oe : Ne: . al ee ihn Tn Reale Yad ' 4 3 ‘ nn _ only to gratifie wanton and liquorifh Pallates, and — promote Glutonyand Exsfs, : And here I [ball nominate {ome forts of Food which commonly are eaten, as Examples, to demonftrate with how improper Ingredients, the fame are _ Compounded, infomuch that Nature doth abo- _tminate them. ~~ 4.. Obferve the compofition of Cakes, which _ are frequently eaten, and given e'pecially to Children as Food ; In them there are commonly > Frour, Butter, Egos, Milk, Fruit, Spice, Sugar, Sack, Rofe-Water and Sweet-Meats, as Citron, or the like; Now here are Tez Ingredients, which are of fo many {feveral-Natures and Operations, but being intermixt all in owe Ma/s, the fimple. » and natural Vertues of alland: each of them ars _deftroyed, and changed into another Nature ;. fo that the predominant Quality of each of them fuffers Violence, and lofeth its natural Power, _ and there becomes a Cofufion, and the firmpic _ afte ofeach thing is fo intermingled and adul- terated, that the Pallat cannot diftinguifh one from another, and the whole proves sagratef:/ _ tothe Stomach, as appears inthat. Should any > Perfon be confined to fuch Cakes only, and mai: them his conffant food but for two or three Weeks; _ Nature would grow fick and out of order, anJ the Stomach and Pallat would was/eate and 2?s- min-tethem; and any two of the faid Ingredics. 5 hy ae 2 Sa ae ane Bis ¢ . Wb hy 3 Sy see re ENC Nis RY al d i as SPE Le NEE aT 4) are ' make far | jeeolilahies holfomer Food: For how — ‘ jong may a man live with Bread and Milk before N ature becomes weary ?. divers have feat CoA any other Diet for many Years together: So like- wife Bread and Butrer,Bread and Eggs, Bread and» Fruit, Bread and Sak, or other Wi ine, is very rood "Food, and a maa may ufe any of them ~ a long time without naufeating Nature. So that you fee here, that Tez rich Ingredients mixed — together do not make fo good, wholfom or nas _ tural Food, as One or Two ef them ; for if ty £) things be mixed together that bear a frien : Afpett to each other, fuch things make but a a degree of Variation, and that for the Getter; for when the Ingredients are proper, and not too. many, the imward or hidden Qualities in each thing are awakened and ftrengthened, fo that _fuch Food becomes more agreeable, and gives : better fatisfaction to Nature than any one fort of Food cando: As for Example; Bread and Atk have a frile with each beher, therefore a fan may live a long time with it before Nature be cloy’d ;. the like may be faid of Bread and Butter, Bread and Cheefe, &C. A In fome other compounded Foods the cafeis far morfe, for in Cake all the Ingredients ara attained their full Rupees, trengeh ‘and V ep. ive ; But in other cafes ray, unripe Bruits are com~. pounded and made into Food,as green Goo[berries and Seger in Tarts, &e. where the Berrzes and the Suge a7" being both Extreams, fuch Food « can- not are ae ee ek ee on, - om h “% me cf ~ pot the fhment ; and | &e. : 3. Iris no ways proper to mix Fruits that srow in hot Climates, as Raifins, Currants and Sugars with Flefb and Fifh, as is done frequently in Pies, Sawces, and other forts of Food; forthe fame difagreeing in their Radixes, generally _ prove of ill Confequence to Health, and nothing is fo good, fo pleafant, and fo whollom to be boyled and eaten with Feb as our own Country | Herbs and Roots: And itis alfo to be noted, That all Forreigz Fruits are more agreeable when mixt with our Frwts, than with our F/e/o,though we havelictle or no need of them with either. _ 4. It is an ill Cuftom amongit many to com- _ pound Food by mixing szprepared things with - fuch as are already preparea; as for Example in in thofe they call Bread-Puddings: Now Bread, when “tis well baked, and other Circumitances — performed to it, as they ought tobe, is then prepared to its higheft degree of ule and excel- oe aloes me 2 OGY mk: ‘neta ‘the’ tie friendly od la was invented, and Whaeltevet preparer | alteration it pales through afterwards, ca cau a fick faintinefs to attend it ; fori in its firft 1 ret paration or. digeftion its crude phlegmy grofs arts were deftroyed, and the grofs Body gpen’d, i which the pure fpirituous parts and balfamick ) Vertues become more volatile; fo if Bread be purto a fecond preparation, or goes through ans other digeftion, the eflential Vertaes thereof are as it were totally deftroyed, and all fuch Food’ has a fainty or fickifh 'Tafte and Smell, and ifa man fhould but for a {mall fpace be "confined . thereunto, tis Stomach and‘ Nature would quickly grow weary and abominateit; (only thofe that do frequently ufe fuch Unnatural Pre- parations,do in fome degree hide the fainty Qua- lity by various mixtures) The very fame 1s to be underftood in alf kinds of Food. For would any man w illingly eat of Meat that is once éoyled or oa/f. a, and let be cold, and afterwards boyled or batitca again? ormix f: ach Plefh with rawy: and {o prépare them together ? §: This ts further manifeft by all Broras z and Pottages that ftand to bz cold, -and are Beat agara; When Art made eg are full of Life and Spirits, of a pleafant Smell and a brigk Tate) gratefal ae the Stomach, and tafle of Concostion, “but. when — they have beea at the Fire rhe Tec ond time, the aA ee Qo ities chat in the’ firft preparation Were ler att -barty, and réadred Volare; are oo | evaporated, Teng aifeaud Pappinets. 237 ' evaporated, and they become of a ffrong du Tafteand Smell. For all {forts of Food over-pre- pared, or twice prepared, are hurtful: for this caule Water-Pap that is made of Breadis not an _wholfom Food,and no way proper for fick People or Children ; and fo much the worfe, whenit is made fulfom and ffrong by the various Ingredi- ents they add toit;. [he fame may be faid of all fermented Liquors, as Beer, Wine, &c. if they _ be committed:to the fire, they become ofa dull Hat heavy Nature, void of Spirit and Life; ox if | _ fuch be put into food, and that fame food after- _ Wards prepared by fire, then alfo they lofe all _ their pure Vertues, and there does only remain _ the ftrong original Quality, which is.a Death rather than Life. This fhould be well noted by | all Houfe -wives, and by WNurfes efpecially ' amongft fick Peaple, and not make them as much Poffet-drink or Broth as will ferve them twenty four Hours, and when cccafion 1s, “heat _ 3t again and again,thereby deftroying all its pure _ {pirituous Parts and Vertues, till ir becomes as | fickand faiutyas thofe that are to cat and drink it5: for fuch things. are burthenfom to a well-Sto- mach, and what then muft they be to fuch as. are fick and out of order, whiofe Spirits are few, and thofe weak and languifhing ? . ., 6, Vhére is another Trick ‘of Nurfes, which even the learned do often advile, oz. when People are fick, to bovl their Drink with a Craft of Bread in’t.. Now both thefe have been pre- oS ag pared | oe ae _ S08. Te eee Ae ro re WW Pur. oa ee ee ee ao ww e Lhe a at ip Em eats Sh \ ahve ries Dips Mia ao li ei eer t wit i ii Sek aim SAR HIV ih A i ca ‘ . i 4 z times of Health, fo that if a well man fhould drink conftantly of fuch Parboyled dulcified staff, it would difturb Nature, and fend dulling Fumes _into the Head, deftroy his Appetite, ‘and caufeé an unpleafant heat in his Stomach, with’a clammy Droughtinefs, nor would it give Nature'any fatis- faction; And if its effeCts be fuch on’ the /omzd, what mifchief muft it needs do thofe that are already Difeafed? If a fortifh Ignorance did not. poffefs many of them that pafs in the World'for Learned men, great Rabbies and profound Dostors, they would certainly never a@t focontrary to’ Reafon and Nature as they do; Nor‘doTknow — any Reafon why good A or Beer should be efteemed Raw, as “tis by moft, ‘even Phyfitians themfelves; has it not pafled through feveral Digeftious, as boyling by Fire and Fermentation, which are the higheit Preparations it will admit of, fo that neither Naturé nor Art can advance it higher ? for iffuch Liquors be committed to the’ fire a fecond time, the f{pirituous parts do either evapgrate, or are fuffocated ; they pat Se | ie gee i ee SIL ES te gh } Fi ¢ to touch them, witho ap ai. CIS Vi ae MR ay eae a ; : : selenite” “1 OE ay Nee | Lora - Life, Da fg. ¢ > 23 9 and volatile, and ftand fo external, that they will not endure any violent,Moition or harth ire to touch them, without manifeft Injury ; therefore all common Beer and dle well brewed, _and Of a proper. Age, being brisk and full of Life, | _ is abundantly to be preferred before Drink again ~ boyled, either by it felf or witha cruft of Bread. uy Panis may fome-what be illuftrated even in "i Common-W ater, which is crude in comparifon of Beer and Ale, and has never pafled through any Digeftion to unlock its fpirituous parts; yet if you take fuch Water from the Spriag, and boy! it, ‘twill open the crude Body, and caufe the pure {pirituous parts to become fo volatile that they will evaporate, fo that ’twill be good for little or nothing, if it be not uled prefently. If you would know whether this be true or, do but walk into the Houfe of Dawe Experience, ‘Take Common Water, boy) it, put it into a good fweet _Veflel.or Barrel; then fill a like Barrel with Water from the fame Spring wzboyled, and keep them for further ufe, as Sea-fairing men do for their Voyages; then obferve what follows, The Water that was boyled will /Pivk, and sever _- be fweet again; but the other, though it ftink, or rather ferment (as fome Water will do twice © or thrice) yet it will become good and /weet again ~ for all Ules. Again, if you'boyl Water in cold Weather or Froff, it will atterwards freeze fooner and be colder than fuch as has not been boyled, Now there muft be fome Reafonfor this, which at } ie Dos other, than. that the bopled Was Der his loft it | tuous or warming N ature,{o that’ aad ine, cold. and” earthy, whence — greater | Influence. ‘upon it, and caufeth a quicker Congelation :, So li ewile i itis. te be obferved, that. if you boy! Water an hour, ; Or any “confiderable time before your Bue in ‘your _ Fleh, Herbs, or what elfe you would d refs i Nei ae - fach Food will not be fo f veet nor wholfomas. what is put into the Veffel as fon as the Water boyls ; FOr. it you boyl Water an hour, and then pS > Jetit ftand till tis cild, and afterwards boylany Food in it, it will give ita ftrong fulfome Smell and Tafte, make it hard of Concoétion, affording but a bad Nouriihment. All which*fhews, the Fire has power to open the body of the Vater, caufing the fpirituows parts to ‘become volatile, and. makes them capable of being evaporated on a fecond boyling, much more than of Beer, Abe, (Ce 7. There are many other Iniproper Minos. that are commoa intime of Sicknefs as welbas Health, as mixing feveral forts of Syrups with their Drink, and. making up Cordials with syrups, which Nature doth loath; for no Syrups are fo ‘grateful to the Stomach as White Sugar, they be- ‘img naturally of a dal, heavy, flat Qu Quality; they are a broken body, the pure fpirituous parts are fulfocated, and fo have not that brisknefs on the: Pallate and Stomach as Sabdre For though ovrups be: made of White ‘Sugar, yet they are: " nothing: oe peg Ps ao. a tl a —~ ia Fit! anil abet 1 rer e ‘eae Ave ee 2% é " hi e ie a iE cee ea yp 4 Ngee alae ig Ce Ra 3 AOE the Inequality of the Ingredients have deftroy- oedall the fimple Vertues of cath, fo that there is vCoxfufion and ‘Difcord awakened, which in the ~Body irritate ‘their ‘Likereffes, and thence Dz- ifeafes and Diforders follow. _ ‘Therefore the ‘more Wife'and Well-mind ‘Perfons in‘all Ages, whofe defire was to know and fear'the ‘“Lord;4nd aiff his'Hand - maid, iNarure, havealwayes chofe the molt fmple in- ‘wbcent Dleatsand: Drivks, “knowing that fuch had -near Affinity to Harmoay, ‘and had not power to beget: orexcite any ‘quality ‘or‘property in Na- _ ture, Bue swhat was Vike themielves, Peaceable cand FHarmele/s , for the nearer the Equality and -Concordany: fort of Food ‘or ‘Dzink is, the grea- rer Power ithas to preletve the Body and Mind in the like fweet Temper ahd Unity, which cuts ‘aif all Dileafes «ia the Bad, dnd “prevents their | : rage very ifeand Welleminded Rae REI cP eee MM MENT e oc erst run RD. ae ' Fi aay Ae PERS ARTY apg a : : : + by ets 4 ait tole 5 gael St PORE IONE, | a r ‘ 1 t a pe a4 aye W mys | paws efteemed the belt Drink, for that it gives to fuch as drink it a full fatisfa€tion; Whereas all other ny particular quality, do leave fome defire be- hind,after a man has drank them, to drink more,» (though perhaps already he hath exceeded in Quantity) : the very fame iS in fupe:fluous Food, only men cannot eat fo:long, nor {0 wuch as they — ean drink, becaufe Food is heavy and bard of Concoktion, and requires time to digeft; where- as Drink is thin and /piritnows, and therefore it quick'y makes feparation, and finds many ways to pals away, which Food cannot do: There- fore over-charged Mea/s of fumptuous Food, do often prove more dangerous to the health of the Body than a debauch of Drinking, though both are worle than drwitif>, and very hazardous. But on the contrary, thofe: that accuftom themfelves to fimple Adeats and Drinks, do not. only highly fatisfie and gratifie Nature, and: prelerve themfelves in perfectHealth,which isthe , reward the Lord has ordained for the Temperate, . but they cut of all Superfluities: (the Semina- — ties of Difeafes) in the very Bud; whereas che. Gluttonous and Intemperate.are liable to a thou-. fand Snares and Inconveniencies, which makes - their Bodies unhealtiful and waferviceable, and eclouds their Minds and Intellectuals, fo that : — they a forts of Drinks, efpecially thofe that exceed in: Wife and Dappinets. = age wery Seeds, For this caufe Waser throughout - the World in Primitive Times, and in moft Countries to this very day, has been, as is they ean chen ‘know ‘themfelves, > nor the Creator inaay other thing: as they ought." OME bay ewe aS gly et ape But fill there are fome forts of Food th at mays “ properly Compoiindeds as bea Simile with 4 -each Others Asst “14: We oe ay Bread, Butter, ai Herbs either eyed or Yai, aS alfé feVveral forts of Roots; «> © 2. Bread and feveral forts of Frattes ine 3. Bresdand Milk, or Milk and Flour boyled together, with fome Water and Oatmeal, ran a Afilk and Water boyled.. : ‘hee 4. Bread-and Butter, Baadone Cheefes | Packet gs Adil: and nipe ignaig as Adilk and Apple, ke * h Breton ahd feveral tent of Pulfes boyled. q. read, with all eats ‘of Fi . to be Ri cat 101) ! RR RA * Bo Herbs a Fife ‘phe rt Pa oo g. Roots and Fle(p: ' ea : ay 0, Bread and: Eges ; ‘but Butter is sbut an im _ proper Ingredient. with Eggs. ea) ‘OF “api rte >. &x¢ Bresdand Eifb. ite orteba) Oa Og 12. Ovand Fifh;” for Bates is not fo good t 1G | Allo: Ffbis wholfomer hi in Water, than prepared ahy other way. sf Td T could nominate many more Mixtures, abut’): thefe are che molt natural‘and-agreeable to each other, and moft of them have mutual &friendly: Albetts from their ghey ; fo that nine Vari-' ix re bag eh Mi ation fs ts pcaeh ele i ie ee ee ee tong Wife and Mappinets.. 9» 247 ation the Ingredients do make, *tis for the better, they advancing each others Vertues. __ If People ¢ aded tO ve moderate ia Quantity, and prefer fuch fimple Viands «and f lees * SC ae proper Mixtures in their food. and dri#k,- and ob- ferve.to, prepare their A#ear.according to the Rules hefore {pecified, moft of thofe- crue! Difea‘es now reigning and: raging would’be prevented. There is abundance more in the obfervation: of thele things, than the generality of People “under- fiand or imagin. All thac I defive of the Reader, could-be per{waded to be moderate j a POR Me TINEA TC by one | Uy tall), AM RENN fe AERO’ BUMP eC I ME te ar “4 , ” eer he . bok > RJ eo 3 ing * is, that he would be fo friendly to himfelfto < - Make Cypal; for no man can be truly fenfible » of the Evil of any thing, except he feparate him- ~ felf from his Errors, and. tryes the ‘contrary. Butchers, Tallov-chandlors, Poulterers, and.many other ofenfive Trades. perceive noc thofe filchy Stinks & Fames which Slaughter-houfes,Melting- ay hhoufes, &c. fend: forth, except they feparate themfetves fora while into a more pure and cleaner Air, and then they become capable of diftinguifhing one from the other. For the like. Reafon,thofe that have accuftomed: themfelves to ‘Uonatural and improperMixtures of Food or bad. Preparations, their Pallates and Stomachs are. become ove with {uch things, and.they can as little diftinguifh the pure natural Tafte and Scents of Food from the contrary, asthe Trades-.. men afore-faid can the noifom fumes of their own Shops and Weork-howleés. “Fhere are many. Thoufands of brave fizical Darzes in this NaHoa 248 + a that are fo curious in and in w 1 tening theit Linnen, that chey*themfelves can’: “hardly tell what will pleafe them; and°yet after” all, they lie on Beds that do really fiwk worle — than Common Houfes of Office, though: being ule tothem, they do: not fmel/it, neither can they, fo great is the power of the Evil Nature and» Cuftom. cle finking Dunghills thefe« delicate Madams {pend two Thirds of their: time, and fyrely then *tis no marvel if they are afflicted «— with fo many Difeafes and Weakneffes; for if’ they did commit no other Diforders*or Intem-''' -‘perances,’ this ‘alone were fufficient’ to deftroy,’ their Health, as I have at large demonftrated in’ my Difcourfe of the Generation of that petmici- ous Vermin called Baggs. ey. 4 : 3 Cuftom. And in thefe m9 tet ee Spy pag ad 1g ; & unt r : i ey ao He ister hs a j fey RAR he Fe Tae tigi alk yo ee eet “? ‘nl + Jong Life and Bappinets. = 949 th oe gy } The Reafons in Nature why (ities and. great Towns are fubje& to che Peftilence and other Dileafes, more than (ountrye. - Villages: The Excellency of Solitude, and — _. Advancages of a retit'd Country-Life. — “@ HeReafonsare, 1. That the Air, which is Bo the Effential Life of alls material Beeings, isdefiled by the Congregating of fuch Troops of People together, whole very Breath is enough to make the Air thick, hot and fulpherous. 2. The Clofens/s of the Streets and Honfes, _ awhereby the pleafant Influenciesand Salutiferous, _ Breezes of Wind are obftruted, which does con- denfe the 4/7, and render it thick and humid. 3. The abundance of Smoke that the multitude of Chimnies fend forth, which is ofa keen fharp | fulpherous Quality, that incorporating it felf _ _ withthe Air, encreafes its dullnefs, and fills it more full of grofs Humidity, whence proceeds Stoppages, and many Obftructions and Difeafes of the Breaf?, andthe Blood becomes tainted witha _ Sharp falt Humour that caufes the Scurvey and a’ wean Isdifpofition throughout the whole Body. : Spang , KK hk a. Ree aso, —- . Uy Warp te Healthy, | . 4 Thegreat Number of Hoses of Ezlement. — _ thaebreathe & (ead forch their pucrid Smellsand: ~ Scents inco the Aig,” together. with the various. — Uacleannetes that otherwife proceed:from. both. healthy and difeafed People, together with the *-— Wabingsand Cleanfiags of Hosfes, andthe fulfom Liquors Fleb and Fi/b have been boyledin, mix- ed with other loathfomand filthy Excremeats, all _ whiclare continually expofed.in the. open Air, and do, wonderfully, defile 1, not forgetting the Smoke, Duftand Albes of Sea-Cole, (where the. — fame is ufed) whichis ofa pernicious Natures* = g,. The -vaft Number of various forts of Beas, and, other Creatures, that are by Droves daily\ flaughtered, and no cate taken, but their Blood 1s. - expofed to the open Air, and runs through the’ Kennels as if ic were clean Water; and nomoré notice taken of it, Whereas the fame-does not’ only fend.forth, deadly Smells and:pernicious Va- * - ‘pours, but fills the Air with Revengeful Sperits, which.are inhal’d into the Bodies of Men, and: there ftir, up Similes.. Add to this the preat’ Numbers of inking Trades, which-aré in fuch’ places, as Tullow-Chandlors, Tanners; Dreffors of Eeather, Soap-boylors, Ge. i GIR. to Lae ae ‘ All thefe grofS Scents, Famscs and evil Vapours. that.Cztzes are fubjeck to, efpecially great Ciries ~ and.populous, fuchas, London, Paris, ec. their Nature.being Siturnine and Martial, proceeding from the grofs. fierce. wrathful matter, as deriv’d’? om, things wherein the pure Spiricugs, parts, eee ES BS yon — HAE GA f iat chars | Ae hae tae i Ni SAA AMS diigo. wn. Ful i ee ee ow er jong Wife and Bappinels. “Ses oct and Palfamick Vertues are deftroyed and totally fuffocated, fo that theredoesremain nothing but the grofs phlegmatick Boay and poyfonous Spis rits, whofe Fumes incorporate themfelves with — __ their-fmi/es in the Air, and all the Elements and _ Stars, where bya fecret and fympathetical power - _ they awaken (by degrees) the wrathful and ~ oylonous Properties for every particular Qua dity in Nature has a Key in its felf to open the _ Gate of its own Principle, whence proceed Pefi- — dential Airs, according to the degree of the awakened Poyfons and Wrath, there beinga cer- tain fympathy between the Terre/fial Bodies and - the Cele/fials; forall things both in Heaven and in * Earth, have but one only ground, and flow from the twogrand Principles, viz.Goodand Evil, For this caufe, when the original Poyfons in Natureand wrathful Spirits, are by the occafions before-mentioneéd, or any others, f{tirred up that they overcome the pure Vertues, they powerfully penetrate all Elements and Bodies, and where+ _ foever they find matter capable or difpofed to res ceive them, incorporate themfelves and with — highelt diligencé endeavour to deftroy the good.’ Vertues, and thence arife evil Airs and various Difeafes, which fuddainly feize the Bodies of. Men. And this Nature doth not only in the Evil, but alfoin the Good, but not in a fenfible way 5 but in a Natural, by Likenefles, where things agree in Number, Weight and Meafure,: there they powerfully weorporate and rejoyce,’ a ereur Kke Fath and: ee er re AY Ne hoes Atl ami | MSE oe ack ae ; Bink Vee whe mS 2% ay. Ate x oo = * f Rasta ae % oe. w ‘ , es ets rine, iii ie Ratner Na Naty \ oN ; Se ayes ate 4 > say 252. Che wap to Wealth, — Digihiass | aes . eee on ae ee Se eee te ee _ and caft.out their Contraries. A pregnant Hx. ample of this we have in Sounds 5 Iftwo Inftrus — ments of one fort be tunedto an equal pitch, {trike one of the Strings, and the fame String on the other Inftrument will fhake or tremble; this I have. done my felf, and alfo-feen ic done by : others, fo that there is nodoubt.to be made of the matter of faét, The very fame fympathetical Power have all other things, thoughin fomeic be.more Occulr. Whatmanin.che World would) believe the attractive Inclination which the Loada _ ffone has upon Iron, if ic did nor appear to his ~ fight? -Allor moftmen of Reafon believe that ~ the. Conftellations, Signs and Elements havea” particular, and alfo a general Influenceon alk Infe-.~ rior Rarthly Bodies, which is apparent toallour, © Senfes, varying ‘Times and Seafons, Night and - Day,making the Earth fruitful, and the contrary; — and.do not our Bodies alter as the Elements. do?» And as the Influencies of the Sunvary, fodoalk: _ thingsunder Heaven, how verdent and fprightly. : does our Mother Earth appear in frefh and — rich Embroideries, and all the Trees in new. Perriwigs, and Fiowers {fpringing; and wanton . Birds, with inimitable: Harmony feems to wel. — cothe the approach of that great Eye of the World, ~ when he begins to: renew his Vifits to us in the : Spring, and ail Creatures look blyth and golly, — and the Blood capers in Youthful Veins, and... ‘nothing appears in Natures univerfal facebut — Smiles and Gallantry; On the contrary,’ —— 7 Ral 16 ~ Pee Maen MB ee eae ety ote + { | BS. ae 4 ies } PS ania aay athe hee Ang Aifeanh Daprinets. 253 he with-diaws his vivifving Bezms, and retreats tothe Chimbers of the South, how cull and de. _jefted does every thing beccine, and Fields and Trees {tript of their Ornaments and Beauty, Janguith hike forfaken Lovers, and appear forlorn ‘as hopélefs Prifoners, and Melancholy as old — Peete ch ee kl Ye ahaty = : Ny: if under the Protection of Truth we might Alarum lezy Traditicn with a bold Paras dox, without dreading Excommunication from the Vertwofo, for advancing Herefies in Philofophy, — Twouldadd, That Infertors counter-a€t on Supe- - ¥iors, as Well as Superiors on them, that all things an this lower World have the like Influencies on the Celeftial Bodies and Elements, as the Celeflials have on Sublunaries and Terreffials, and that this mutual Influx they have one upon the other by | a Certain natural Attraction and {fympathetical Inclination. Thus the wonderful and wife Cre- ator has endued every thing with an Attractive and Influential Vertue ; and hence it often comes to pais that the Sons of Men by their Unclean Converfations do awaken and ftir up the Wrath of the Celeftial Bodies, and bya fecret, and yet powerful Attraction, draws down the malignant Configurations, which fometimes caufe Epidemical Difeafes, at other times Wars, Famine, Ge. all according the Nature of the Evils, or Property of Nature that wasawakened. As for Example: If the People of any ‘Town or City give way to - Uncleannefles in Meats, Drinks, Gre. andaddi&- | #9 : : ve Ng a 0 heterouuees’ of Venus, as ‘mo tf “ard, then by mutual Inclination the like Proper ‘in theCeleitial Bodies andElements are excited ar ‘by. degrees containtinate thie whole d:mo/pbere ‘ _ «Cor parts of the Air next the Harth) with Peli. : _ “Lential Poyfons, caufing Botches, Boils, Vemerial — - Difeafes, Feavers and Plagues, all according tothe — degree of the awakened, Wrath, and the “length Or “fhortnefs’ of the time of its operation; for all . , ‘Plagues and Pestilential Air 's, caufed by Unclean- — nefs, do by degrees corrupt the pure Spiritsor _ Venerial Properties in'the Body; for whenfoever - -fhis fweet Quality is violated, the Diftem, ers “thence arifing will for the moft part manifeft. themfelves in Botches, Boils, Scabs or, Leproftes, and. Spots in the Fleb, often accompanied with general | Weaknefs, anda decay of the Radical Moifture. - But if the Properties of Saturz and Mars be {Q violently ftirred up or awakened,. and the fierce. - Storms of Nature do predominate in the Hearts and'Souls of men, then follow Tumalts, Wars, Burning of Towns and Cities, and fuch like Calie mitiesand Dewssations. For mens evil Words and Works and Unmerciful. Cruelties certainly awaken the Wrath of God in the Stars and El. ments, and haften on Judgments, No man or - Nation can efcape the great Law of Retaliation, vhich the Creatot ordained in the beginning; Fo Mofes’s Law was the greateft and. moft excel- icayer all Laws, becaufe it was built and-had its Roori in nN ature 5 ‘ther ‘eforé wh jenfoever the id _anaePoIa “0b erve odifiled; The Camp : : tee Pee 4 é om being defiled he will not awaken the Wrath “or Principle mer do avaken and enter into with their 3 | a cis Figg tin FM . “Shall continue in the fame, without Repentance, “ibe ik, 3 neither | the “ment. “that Property that was predominate in the Word; ° Sound or To one, the fame,* or the like Quality i a ; “does ftir 1 up and awaken in thofe to whom t. “Words or Difcourfés are dire€ted; whether pak | “good ¢ orevil; if the Words are formed by the Se ‘turnine Propetty, then they awaken Envy, Cop- a Morofe Dogved Humour ; Ift a a l “Fention, anda ; “proceed from Mars, then the fierce wrathfu “Fires’are excited, and fo of the reft. For if 3 qc “were not fo, an Angry Word would not have: any “power to move them to Azger to whom it is dis ‘reGted; nor would Loving Speeches beget Love, ‘nor'a Meek Anfiver (a ccording to Solomons Ob- ‘fervation) Turn avay Wrath : But asone manhas ‘power to {tir up and awaken Love or Anger i in an~ ‘other, by his Words and Works, the fame is to be “underftood in all other things ; for there isa pro- ~ *portionate fimilitude between ‘Men and the Cele- feat Bodies and ‘Elements, Man being not ‘only ‘an Image and Likenefs of God and Nature, but ‘the Horizon of both Worlds, in which the Su- 'periour and and Inferiour Naturesare conjoyned, ‘and the Son of the Stars and Elements; fo that there is a » power i ‘men to ‘awaken and attract Wks cH “This is further rnhifelted bya mens st Weed and Works; doth not every word. carry the Power of “its Principle whence it had ‘its birth? For | their ‘Nature, well. 2 as there isin ele ft alter or: change Mens Bodies inds, This “many of thé “Philofopbical 7 ts have conferited to; and molt A/frologers. ‘gre of the fame Opinion? ‘The Cal:alators- of % litidities find by their daily Experiened. ‘thae _ Vitioufnefs and Intemperdnce in the Natives — ‘Life not only caufe every malignant Configus | “ration of the Cceleftial Bodies to take plaée-and have its Effects, but dlfo he that lives Intempé- rately is always in danger, and fubje& ¢ to the . male'A{peéts of the Supériors: . Whereas on the 4 eontraty i it ismott true, that a Wije Man (that is oyieperate; juft and cifcumfpeet) Yoay rile his own Stars. But when Perfons give themfelves te Tnordinate Living near or about fuch times as ‘the Heavens threaten them with evil A/pects, Tranfits bx Direétions, then: fach difaftrous In. “fluencies powerfully take place: © _ For this very Reafon men‘are often in feist and drawn away to many Inconveniencies’ be- fore they are fenfible of ie; for the wrathful, un- lean Nature having been by degrees awakened and ftréngthened by its fimile, either in Meats, Drinks, Imploymeats or Communications, ‘(for ° every Property muft have fuch Food’as hath affinity therewith, or elfe it cannot increafe, nor be brought into Manifeftation, but without ity it languifhes aud becomes impotent in its Opera- tion) the Perfon {0 offending is thereby fubjet- ed to one: the fan tae Configurations of the Cz-., L; | kefial Oh a ytee + boa t § " Ws 4 $4) FIN E4 ae: hae Lae a = x pe . Yet if fuch an “ a PP EO Eth eh 5 ; Terrefiid, 0 a y --the,.common Air and defile ig which ,being fo RATT Cea oh gHhing is. bse MENUS R GS Fetdtie peious.to the. health of the Body,. and alfo to the. - ‘Mind ;, for outward Uncleannefles do naturally - and powerfully attra¢t.the evil. Power, both Ex- : ternally and Internally, becaule all fuch per sis. _ #ious Scents and Smelisdo arifeand proceed from the poyfonous Roct, and fo beara near afinicy .to the evil Angels and Spirits, and donaturally iturbed by malignant Configurations and A/petts, — asin great Tempefts of Thunder and ed ‘ | an + i ry ke, the evil Spirits and Angels are very ear almoft externally ; for by thofe wd Nature is violently exeited, and the fame being predominant inthe evil Angels, they at uch times become more apt.and powerful todo nS _. External Uncleanne{s. does not only pollute _the Body and Senfes, but :alfo the Soul and Spi- -mits, for which caufe fome of the wife. Antients would not wear any Wollen Garments, becaufe they are made of the Excrements.of Beafts ; And indeed all Hair and Wool does contain a grofs fulfom. impure Nature, but.it lies fo hidden that dt cannot ke perceived, unlefs it be feron Fire, and then it manifetts it {elfby its filthy ofenfive . oe a 5 4 Z ; ed £64 bith vet ae ve? 2a oe : Zea . __For this eaule the Philofophical Autients made - diltinkion of things, fome being Clean, orhers —Dasleaa, betwixt which they commanded a fe. paration fhould bemade ; but few in this blind _ Age do underftand or regard the fame, though — there be fcarce any fort of Learning more necef- fary; For thofe fecret conveyances of Vertue and ~ Vice, Cleanne|s or Tnclewinely or the transferring. | ~ of Diftempers from one to another, is done after — . an hidden imperceptible manner by way of Spi ‘wits, Glances and Yar ~The natural ‘Spirits in~ e aur fo fubtle and penetrating, as ue powerfully {earch into all things, fo that a mai ia cannot touch any ‘thing, “though it be ever fo ve Ht ok, Pt. es ge ; : bg FY San a ee % ‘. 2 hy . dmpileble or bard, as Iron, Stone, or the like; = eg hemes Be Pony . eg 7 wick p me vi | utthele armble Scouts do not only penetrate it,but ~ are more or lefs retained thereon 5” if this were | not fo, the Dog would not find the Stone his | " Mialter throws among{t many others, nor fol- — low him (unfeen) by his Foot-iteps; “nor could — the. deep-rmouth'd Hounds trace the light-heel’a — Hare inall her doubles and windings,” and though » fhe run fo fx:ft as fhe fcarce toucht the furface — of the Gals, yet fhe leaves real Efflavims and Tmprdfions enough to. betray her to thofe perfu-— ing Enemies. Nothing can hold cr withitand — the Spirits, they are fo'thin, quick and piercing, — no Tron, Stone or Weed can refit them, but — they penetrate and feerch the depth of all things, and alfo will incorporate with thofe hard’ Sub- . ances ; & if fo, Row much muff they be imbib’d * 1 en! OT ee Pe eS Piphe tan Paani se - >" * ye oe ee “ei oe ae | a r “4 a 4 Robes Tht yy i 5 : ast a Hy ap: £, xi, sty *3 Dae t Bo ini : ae Le ey ‘ : ; os. © — Young Life and Pappinets. Ping i fois Sis < el Ets a ad pec + ry ae M a ERO Ae eNO s 265 Poa by Beds, where People lic warm and fweat, and _wherethe Az cannot come with its refrefhingin-- fluencies to cleanfe and purifie thofe grofler Ex- crements, the Vebickles(or Lodgings) of malignant Spirits, that are continually breath’d forth by all Infirm Perfons, which are fo much’ the more retain'd therein, becaufe all Feathers are of an hot fulpherous unclean Nature, and therefore | ‘more difpofed to entertain and wellcome {ich | unclean fulfom Vapours, which are prefently _ awakened when others come to lie in fuch Beds, in _and readily enter and penetrate all parts of their Bodies, even to the very Center ; and efpecially © ., if it happen (as often it does) that fuch Per _ . fons fucced to lie in fuch Beds, as ‘have but weak ests and few Spirits, and under the Dominion ef theirs who lodg’d there before ; then thofe pernicious Vapours and Spirits more violently feize them, and incorporate with their Szwéles, and quickly awaken the /leeping Povfons, and ins fet the whole Mats of Blood, and thence flow Difeafes, the moft dangerous of all others, be- ‘caufe they weaken and cramp Nature by degrees, itealing on gently, and mildly deftroying the Health before: People are fenfible; for when once any begin to feel them, then commonly ‘they are grown imturable; neither do the Phy- fitians know what to adminifter, becaufe they do not’ know whence’ fuch *Diftempers pro ebeded 6 Le gt TE sees But on the contrary, thofe People that have ee te Mim a Rrone ge UPL ge OP AN CSR MRO OER a aR mae ae ee Ue Laney aan Sie ERMC yt hand OS af muh. oo! re ftrong Spirits - natural fp and 4 who Dominion over the Spirits of fuch. difeafed Per ers -fons, as they fhall lie with or after, or. ie q predominant Qualities in their, Radix are of a ‘contrary Nature, are nothing fo fubje& to, eatch or receive Injuries this way, becaufé. they gefift and repel fuch ill Vapours and Spirits, that ‘they cannot enter or wound them. For as Di- feafes are received by Simile, and being. weak zt : ed Per fons, i may thofe ill Rays be witha - the Center of Life, by. which means the Redica i iMoifture and Balfamick Vertues are preferved; Hence many'do commit great Uncleanneffes,, 3 and lie in all manner of Beds, and with People | that are infeGted with loathfom Dif eafes, and of the diftempe under the dominion foon the other fid& Rood by Antipathy, fo as they cannot eater | yet are not fenfibly toucht; but as we ufe to fay, The Pitcher nver goes fo oft t ta the Well, "but st comes home crakt at biti So even thele ~NIGOROUS Conttitutions mut expe. by - degrees to be. debilitated’, and at Jaft be- gome liable to the like Impreffions. as. well as Others. Tam not ignorant that many People al be yery. inerecwlane 3 in thefe matters ; "tis true, they believe that the Plague, 3 ‘aall-Pooe, the Itch, and ocher Afinzy and Leprous Diftempers are catching, ne caufe the Bees pales Toor ollow, and the fee them externally in the Flefh ; therefore molt phe do baclx fear and fhua.. SAPNDIAENS an loug Life and Happinets. , 269° ape lying with fueh; but asto all tzwerd Dis 4fes of various Kinds and Natures, few or none either fear or regard them, not imagining that thereisany danger of Contracting thofe Diftem- pers by converfing or lying with or after thofe _ that are fo internally difeafed. But I muft be free to tell them, that all s#ward Difeafes, as Cofumptions, Pryficks, &c. are of far more: dane _ gerous confequence as to Health, than Itchy or a Diffempers, the one being outward, the . - other Me : iS fe Tag yh abet « 7 o muft be filent, left the Ladies be offended: — However if good Council may procure my Par- | don, I doubt not butto recover their good Opi- #ion as {oon as they fhall have read over the fol- — ¢ lowing Chapter. “er , my ‘ “2 ’ ‘ ean eae : i sara ey aor aerate te lee nei re nr me ener ap ee a ene caf , ee a Ss i Paki! ——e ce eS a a. cae ) Ww | es ~ Ne he +S , % gs ; i a i ue Fe ¢ , * cat ; vy ire CHAR XL ee > ee < of WOMEN. seit Natt; isis | and Intemperatures as. allo of their. Children Togecher wich an account of the etrapativn of all Windy Difeafes: ¥ * tT He Nature and Cripletion of Women doth differ and vary, ‘even as Mens, fomet being: ‘more Sanguine, others more Cholerick, &cs” “But. generally they are more Sangaine than Men;’ of weaker Heats and fewer Spirits, therefore can- not endure any Inequality or Tntemperances ‘with- out great danger to their Health, whether it be in Meats, Drinks, Exercifes or Pafions of the ‘Mitid. "F heir predominant Quality doth ftand in and proceed from the Element. of “Water ; therefore are of a finer, fofter, yielding “Tensper then Men, and their Love doth exceed that of the other Sex, and indeed all kind of Paflionsdo fooner and deeper wound their Spirits. Therefore all fudden furprizes of Love or Hate, : i or Sorrow are apter to deftroy- the Health of , Women, and furtocate their Spirits, {topping the Circulation of the Blood , and caufing. the Body to fwell,° and then atundance of Wind is generated, which ftops all the Paf- oN A v “fages Sy + 274 ly breathe. | _ Now the O Original of all fuch Difex{es, whiah are called Vaposrs or Wind, come through the ~weaknefs of the natural eat, and becaufe the Spirits.of molt Women are {o Volatile, that every — fudden Accident or Inequality doth either eva- porate or fuffocate them, during Which time the whole Operation and: Circulation both of the Blood & Spirits is hindered ; and fo the Life feems tobe indanger, which catrfeth a Commotion of a the inward parts, as ifthey did arife out of their natural places, which is nothing elfe but certain Stoppages and Swelings of the. Velfels that the Breath or Air cannot “pafs, and then the Body is in a kind of Agony and, trembles. during the Fit, which is never long, for if it were, the Life * could not continue; But ‘through. this agonons condition and {trugling ftrife of the Properties of Nature, the E lement of Five is. Jawakeneds w hith 1s of a quick power ful active Quali y, and doth penetrate all parts of the Body,.. and breaks oren all the Paflages, which fers Nature intoa. sreat Hat throughout all the Body, likea Fea ver, and then this taciturne Contraction anddul + focation of the Spirits does begin to ceafe 5 -but Pp great. dry. Arde ors do remain a ‘cont derable. ‘time: a) After, and by their violence do’ awaken the Hig- fyent oF W ster _ which caufes .a. breathing. Sweat to fucceed, that is, ver) _berefi icial to Nas. ture, and gives calc,and {o thew orft Icems to.be- oe over for rhe. prefenc. ' © Now | ies fo that ‘People in this conditicn' can ak 7 sydd ia gia ie Sy apes pkigces Wicns inh ae allan a MMU TL Ta "SARE > 6) 2a ani lara te Ream, EN RS RAT ieee : i Veen te Go D> ele f a - E > ~~ ee RT yt PRN od ¢ long 7 ite atid Bappinete. aes Now all thofe Difeafes that cauf= Nature to fhake and tremble, as Agues, Vapours, and the - like, até caufed throvigh.the {uffocation of the Spirits, which does firft awaken the Original Quality, viz. the fringent tacttura twitching _ Property, that does forcibly draw ated contrac ~ all thé inward parts, and particularly the Vefels - Of the Stomach, and ina moment ftops all the ‘Paflages, which Nature cannot endure and live, and therefore ufes her utmoft effects to get rid _ Ofthofe Chains, by which Contention the dztter ~ Quality isawakened ; for that Quality dbove all others cannot brook Cesfinement, but breaks “open all the barricado’d Palfages with its fiery an@ rapid Motion, and awakens the hot Property, ‘which prefently fets Nature into fuch a Flame, | as fhould itcontinue,would foon confume her,but _ thefe Heats do fo violently hunger afterand draw — the Airy Quality, as its true Life, that it rouzes the Watry Elersent, and thereby quenches that Combuftien, whereby Nature receives Reliefand - ‘Refrefhment. , But the Original Caufe of all at the firft, is the wounding the Volatile Spirit, A which in Women is quickly done, but Mex are ' Wery rarely troubled with this Diftemper of Va- pours, and the like, -becaufe their Nature ftands _ inand proceeds from the Root of the Fire, and ' the Properties of Satsrz'and Mars are more pre< domimant in them, and therefore their natural Or central Heats are greater and f{tronger than Womens, and confequently are of better Judg- Shir GAR bl IN Bagh - Maents , os aa ate both for bog ool sad eh ; _” governing of all thin ngs: “For Man was made — ee “and hath in'him ~ ‘tinGure of the Fire, which is furious an If. the ftrong nie and forth. < _ driving, very defirous to manifeft it felf. But — “the Tin@ture of the Female is fromthe Water, . viz. from Venu. Therefore the Males of all ~~ forts of Creatures are far hotter, and of ftronger and greater Spirits, and more defirous of Copy: "dation, or more unchafte than the Females, not : fubje€t to thofe Uxeleanneffes, but fit for Gemera- ‘gion at all Times and Seafons, W hich Women are 4 ‘not: And hence it is, and alwayes was ac- ~ ‘counted a greater Sin and Shaine for A Woman to : < uuchafte, than for a Man, though it iS not excu- fable baeirhen And for the fame Reafon, Womex TEx were never allowed thofe. Priviledges of Poly- _gamy a8 Men amongft the Antients. For “the wachaftisy of Women deltroys the Generation 4 of Mankind. in the ie and brings Confufion — -and Defolation to Families; {6 that antonpels in Women is a Sin againft God and againit Na- ‘ture: For the Creator in, the beginning implanted Modefty, and given the Bridle of” ha [tity unto Women, and indeed unto the Fens “all Creatutes, by enduing them with a “cold ‘meek ‘Temper, derived from the Element of therefore they are naturally more moderate, and - not fo hot and defircus of | opulation as Men ; and ~ when once they have Conceived, are, fatisfied till har il ; eS £ Water, which doth allay and cool them, and - *“fach rime as they have bro bught forth, fetting z eS | ia . afd Mong Hite -afide the Confequ that happen between Men and Women, which —_- forceand ftrain Nature; but as for pure natural — Tnelinations they ceafe, and are asfree fromthem as Sheep, or the Females of any other Creatures. Thefe are the wonderful Works of the great Creator; for rf it were not fo, all Generation _ would be deffroyed and corrupted, even in the very | Root, as fometimes it comes to: pafs amongit La- | feévions and Petulent Men end'Women, through _ various forts of Uscleanneffes, which are againft _ God's Law and the Right of Nature. Donot all the Beafts of the Field obferve their Times and Sea-_ ~ fons? And after Cozceprion, dothey do notitria- ly withftand their M4z/s, and not fuffer them to touch them till after they have brought forth, | ' y 7 end alfo brought up theiryoung Ones, andmade ‘them capable to fhift forthemfelves ? © All which _ time they remain without Inclination, becaufe theend of Nature is anfivered; And this is accord- ing to the fir Law of God, which al} Creatures have kept (efpecially the Females) unviolated, / EXCEPT WOMEN, ‘ a “Butthough I faid, that Womens natural Incli- | ations to the Sports of Venus do ceafe after Con-. ception; yet it is not foto be underftood, but that Vatare in Women does remain in a poflibility * ofbeing awakened, as by the ardent defires' of -the Mind, which if kindled, can eafily ftir up the fleeping Powers of Nature, and by’ many Other wanton ways, which are ufed to provoke Beis. 6 8S ue Nature “did dirett tho of thar Sear, tbdilenve an higher. 7 degree of Temperance and Order than they pre: {cribed to. Men, as knowing t ¢ whole Well. fareand Prefervation of V id chi pend on their good or C6nt therefore appointed to the with fmple and, equal Natures, and have Afi< = get their Likenefles, and for that Reafoa mean é os aot Ss _ fimple. oe eS ne fimplethings. have in all Ages been Commend- able, efpecially for WOMEN. Nae | What we'have faid of Diet, the fame is to. be underftood. of Exercifes, and therefore the P/i- " Uefophical Antients did not count it proper or iui- » ting their Nature, to put Women: ordinarily -uponany fhare or care of the Government or lard Labours, becaufe of their weak Spirits and Heats; for on all occafions of Difficulty, Labour and _ Trouble,they are fubjeft to be either roe Cholerick or'too Sanguine, which their Natures cagnot bear ; _ for all Inequality, be it what it will,gproves In- _ jurious to them and Children :, Belides, it is very unfeemly to fee Women dirty, and imployed in hard. flavifh Drudgery, and fuch of them as are forced. thereunto through the bad Husbandry of their Parents or Husbands, dothey not by follow- ing fuch robuftick Labours become béld, rude and uncivil, & feem to have patoff the Womanifh Nature __ bothin Words and Works.‘ Now this Rudenefs isbad inthe Mi/es, but an Hundred times worfe in the Females: For if their fweet courtious friendly ‘Tempers and Natures be'd-:ftroyed and - . wounded, the Generation of Mankind is there- - by corrupted inthe Root. Therefore Men ought - not'to put Women-to tuch rebuft Imployments and hard Labours as many do, except pure Ne- -ceflity compels them to it. a “It is a common Opinion, That WOMEN are wore Salacious and. Unchafte than Men, But the fame isa great miftake, and built only on this Ground, becaufe many Womés are found eafily | ! 3 tO ( 7.fmetn” ee Se ee ee OF . Ha, Ri > ie A ee ee eee as aad ay ' carry himfelt fasr, courtious and kindly tothemj he may command them beyond what is conve- — nient, which many wicked: Fellows knowing; make it their BufinefS to betray them) which proves the Ruin of many. New Men finding them thus to comply,they being ignorant of thers Natures,.and alfo of themfelves,? judge that at iWVomen which they find true in themfelves. And ¢o this Scandal fome wile Women haveialio'given . a further ovcafion by proftituting themfelves to all Unchafity, but thofe Abominations do net — proceed from their: fimple natural Fei Meheie Food ought to be well repigad, nels shee! 00. muelz nor t00 ‘little, but according to, — the Rules’ in*our Chapter of ‘Preparations ; for. Food well prépared is not only of éafier Concokti- on, but’ breeds better Blood. ajid’ finer Spirits, than “which nothing brings more advantage to Females, by reafon of ‘their weak: Heats : allo fach good Blood breeds moft excellent, Milk. . 2. Dhey ought to eat and drink fo Moderately ‘that the natural Heat of the Stomach may Over: come and ‘digeft it without any difficulty, fo’ that there may no fuperfluous Dregs remain; as' are alwayes wont todo, where Nature is ovér- charged, which fills the Veffelsfulliof fharpcrude s ia ofa griping Nature; fora {mall quan- | of Meat and Drink, when well concocted, af Fords not only a better N ourifhment, but alfo O a, greater AE tee Lo Ga ee. ae) ves OS? ES Ce SOR SSG eo oh 7. a 4 i t)'S: greater Si rs ‘more that Nature : gan mamage. Ie being a grols Error for People to ‘imagin, That a pent) F — quantity “mult be chrukt j into the Belly, or elfé — they cannot fubfi it, never confulting the freagth _ ef the natural Heat : : Nothing deftroys, the Health, and breeds ae Juices.in the Body mor than this Intemperance, which moft,Beople are 4 fubjeCt to more or lels 5, and from hence are. ge- ~ nerated Windy Difeafes and Griping Pains in the Si ensth,. eh it hugo dows 3 Stomach, and Fumes in the Head, whieh - q miférably, affice moany. of these: Gluttonous q People. felves; all fuch. Foods are. heavy.of ‘Congoégtion, fur the Paflae gS, ive the edge: of Appetite, and breed. bad. ‘Bip ~ But..on..the. contrapy\,. firnple - ipnocer EN Aorta which for, the. tmiolk part are ealic and. ight On: the, Stomach, x) are moft all Jad Hey ought z as mult as in er aes to Ms : bear all forts of rich fat Foods, thatdo confift of _ Various Natures, and difagreeing amongft them- agrecible tot he Fepsinine. Conftiturion, and alfo 4 for their Chticanasite cad, Butter,a little Oheefe, Milk, Herbs. varioully ordered ; 3 Fleth,. but in _ its proper Sealons 5 > and: HPS atis iavell pres pared. : | 4. But much lef fh, and the ‘fequeat ea thereot, does. e ions to Women; efpes crofs phlegmatick Complexions,y. cially ‘ tholeo Ww hot Heats are fo weak, that they aresn@® able tomake.a PETS fonsothens or Separagion; for. ¥ fuch | whole Body, and give occafion for the Generation of Windy Difeafes and Vapours; and indeed all {trong Drinks) if not very fparingly taken, deftroy the Health of the Female $ex,being contrary to their Tempers, _ for their Heats being weak (in comparifon of Mens) and their Spirits few ; therefore. every - Inequality is harmful to them and their Children. _ Befides, they are fabjett to various Difeafes,;which cannot happen to Men ; and of all thefe, {trong Liquor is an efpecial promoter ;: and. therefore * the Pbilofophical Antients alotted only Water for ’ Womens drink. And if our Women were but’ fenfible of the ill Confequences oftheir frequent Sipping of firong Drinks, they would be as far - from doing it as thofe in other Countries, there. being hardly any Women “in the known-World that are fuch great Drinkers and lovers of ftrong- Liquors. as the Ezelifh; neither are any fo tur- | bulent fiery & Mifiuline Spiriredand accordingly : nk os ala they they ate!troubled-with vehi Dias to = || _ the Women in other Countriesiare ftrangers. ate g 4 Burthermore, (rong: Drinks Qf not. paringly © + | taken) heat the Blood, caufing sharp fale Hu- ‘ mours to pofiels it, which alfo makes their Milk hot and windy, very prejudicial to Children; ~ for whatever: Inconvemiencies the Mother fuf- fers, the Child partakes thereof, bothinthetime: } of Pregnancy: (© tor breeding) and whilft it er a _.'Fherefore Moderation and: Temperance} : both: ia Quantityiand-Quality,gis highly neceflary for’ | them, becaufe the: whole’ prefervation. of man- q kind does inan efpecial manner depend on their’ « prudent, living. | q G6. Lf Women have regard to tier: own Health, andthe Prefervation of their Children,they ought ‘not to eat any Food hotter than their Blood; but _ efter their Food is prepared, let: it ftand open, ' that the fiery fulpherous Vapours” may. freely afs and fly away ; for thofe Steems are very pres! judicial to-all Peoples Health, ‘but more'efpeci-2 ally. to the Females: And this ought tobe’ obferved in Flefh above all: other Food, an@alfo. oe in Puddings, .and the like things that aretof a’: 4 grofs ftrong Quality, and fo have: the greater power to retain thole fiery Stems, whieh are of ©. — 2a hot griping windy Nature, and caufing a Mank or Scurvey im the Blood, and makes the’ Milk windy and Sharp; which violently gripes the poor young: tender Babe that fucks it. . Tis” UE; Uke not. only Pamiliarizes the moft ‘eral ‘oe . Cure Yong shite Dappinets, Bg tural things, but renders them as it were Natu- ral, and infome refpects almoft'Neceflary (wit- _ nels Tobacco-[moking, to {uch asarebefotted to it} fo that often times the leaving off thofe ill Habits. do prove very hard and dificult > nay, fome- times the abrupt leaving them is as dangerous as - the Evils chat flow fromthe conftant ufe of them; - foafily is Nature,depraved and turn’d out of — her fimple way: . Thus, fuch as have long ufed themlelves to hot Foods, ifat any time they mifs | them, and are forc’d to make {fhift with ‘cold, - then their Stomachs feem empty and unfatisfied, only becaufe ’tis depraved, and der want of 4 - fittle: Cuftom of eating cold. . Hence many: be- - jieve that there is good Nourifhmentand Vertue _ in hot Food, zz. better thanin the fame Food = . goldyvor as warm as. the Blood; nay, .many _are;fo-fond of this fiery fulpherous Steam. or _ jpermueious Vapours, that the good Dame will be | angry, with her Maidg if by any neglect fhe let this, preciows Steam fly away, calling all the Fa: _ mily.to.come quickly, leaft the:Meat be cold, and (as the calls it) good for nothing: Whereas in truth it will be then much the more wholfomer 3 _ for thofe pernicious fulpherous Fumes ought to - be feparated: from the Meat, before it be recei-. _ -wedinto the Body... And a little ufe of eating’ - ‘cold Food would remove all fuch ill Habits, and > amake cold-Meats.and Drinks more friendly and . fatisfactory to Nature, and help to prevent the ~ Generation of all windy Dileafes. 2 tess vais Furthermore, Betechettivey unto Pew ddes Gaulle ) ‘Appetite, fo neither will the fame quantity ther - fwell the Body, or indifpofe Nature fo thuchas the like quantity of hot Viétuals will, did the ‘Body will feel it felf more airy and lightfomer vill heat the Body, efpe: — ~ giallyall the external parts, but themit is ati wat ‘natural heat, which is more burtlienfoins thah q pltafant; for the fiery fulpherous Sreenis that re | °Tisitrue, hot Food ¥ main in Food after’tis prepared; aré of the very fame Nature and Operation, as the heat ef Cliar~ “¢oal; And fo’ Experiencé wilb teach you, ‘that. *tis very unwWholfom to hold ones Head over the -Stéems that. proceed either frome boyld or’ baked — Foods, or over Furnaces, or Pots} Or whiclipto- _ceedifrom Ovens; for they take away the'Com- | ma and make People look Palé and Weak: ty; now. if their Operations externally =the a a vifible ill éffeé&t, how muchmore Prejadicia’ will they be when internally: received, ‘ghd with the Food fwallowed into-the Body? Poffibly i in fome: ftrong Conftitutions, thofe I nconvenien+ } olesmay not bes elt til Agescomes Onj? But few. themare free from themy. though infenfibly FO} what caufes they proceed,» Bi dds Alfo;it is to be noted; that this fiery heat Food ‘does:retain after ?tis pteparedy ‘is contrary ‘unto the natural Heat, both of the Food and the Sroz. mach too, and: wilkno longer rettiain than whiltt ris forced: by the conftant:heat! of the Fire; aiid then of its ownaccord w vith oe at a ung ily: away. nae eo la hee ee eS ~ c itas: foon deteeathoied | ne ie Fire im an me ; i we Vapour, which Fumes if they be. ftopt by covering fuch Foods, {0 that they cannot fepa- ater d fly away, then they will re-enter, and caufe the Meat to-eat ftrong: and: fulfom: . In a word, *tis;nothing but Cuftom that makes hot Foods: eafieiand agreeable; but all the Cuftom an the World can never: dialed | them fo natural : . andfriendly as: Cold, after a little ufe. | . 7. They: ought td;accuftom themfelves to moderate Exercifes ine open’ Airs, whieh is prefi- _ table for all People, but,efpecially for thofeof _ the fair. Sex’; for it havdens and‘ftrengthens Na. ture, begets # good Appetite; prevents Obftru- €tions, breeds ¢ ‘ood Blood and pure Spirits,whielt renders: the’ sw foie Body: liglitfom and pleafant; - nothing next Temperance in Meats and Drinks being more profitable than moderate Motion, and airy Houfes & Roems, & not to pen up themfelves {asmany do) -in:elofe hot Rooms with great Fires, which prevents’ the moft' pleafant and friendly Element, the Air, that it cannot have its free Anfluencies ; and{o what: Air does remain in fuck, places like ftanding Water in a Pond in’ the heat -of Summer, corrupts: and. becomes thick ane humid; which:dulls the edge of Appetite, wea«' kensthe natural Heat and the Functions of the Stomach; befides, much fitting by Fires and in’ hot Rooms, draws forth and deftroys the pure’ thin oift V apours- and Volatile Spirits, opens the. dak and: ines alkthe Body tender; fo Big uc fuch People do ‘not’ only sbvoihe thts wea difpofed, but fubje& to the Tnconvetiiericies | carehinte Colds, if they do but poise ‘into theoper Bir vA boa See igi itewilis smiderate C lone hing is very contend? a able as to Health ; formuch or thick'Gleaths are apt to heat and'tire Nature, and’either hinder -Exercifes, or: makes them) burthenfomn,” put the | external parts into’amunpleafant Heat, and hin’ 7 der the cool refrefhing Vapours frotn penetra ting into’and relieving the Body: Therefore — thofe that ufe themfelves to a mean in Cloathing ~ have better Appetites, axe longer breath'd, ftronger, and not fo apt to receive Injuries by every fmall: 4 attid ent as thofe that inure themfélves to very’ — warm Cloathes, hot Houfes, ah wile fe ise ic Li eo xe the like Effeminacies: 9.1: q 8. Women ought ot to dis too long in ‘Bed; as smoft of chem that are ‘of :any Quality or Ability | do; their Beds being forthe moft part’of Fea~ thers, which are oft, hot and fulphe erous, with’ Curtains drawn clofe before the Windows’ and about the Bed; “whereby the imprifoned Air, hin~ dred from, its free Circulation, ftagnates ‘or'cO"<. a ‘rupts; And this too 1s very Prejudicial: tO cheike is young Children, whofe Heats are weak and _ “Spirits tender, Often caufing’ Feevers'and Con- vulfions, elpecially: when: Ot cher Tatemperances” - goncure |” oh reyes GS yh feINGe parent + Befides, this ‘adhe nine youtr "Red, wea: | | kens all — omnbers, pega aegis | 4S: * oo is uae eS ‘ MS 7: ROC. Hen ‘tong Wife and Dap Isa principal part, and the Body being kept hot, d lying long without Motion, ‘hinders the “concoction or feparation of the Food, fo that great part of it turns to grofs phlegmatick Juices, for which very caufe many Women are ftupid, . weak, feeble and prefenily tired, and out of Breath, if they do but ufe any kind of Exercifes, and hereby their Travail in Child-bearing is ten- ‘fold more burthenfom than otherwife it would be, witnefs many ordinary Country People, who | have nothing the trouble at fuch times as our fine lazy fluggabed. Dames. . 3 *-Befides, (as [have already obferved elfewhere J Feather-Beds are ponderous clofe Subftances, in their own Nature unclean, and lying feveral Years in Corners, or the clofeft parts of Rooms feldom expofed tothe open Air, they contract abundance of grofs humidity, and the various di- feafed People which lie and fometimes dye on them, leaving behind contagious Effluviums and” Venomous Particles, lurking perhaps for an Age, and not drawn forth till a Perfon happens - to lie onthem, whofe Similes awaken them; For Beds are continued from Generation to Gee -neration, and not throughly cleanfed once in twenty or ey Years, and {o become very pre- judicial to all forts of People, but efpecially to “Women, who {pend two thirds of their time in Ta them ; Actions of the Stomach, impairing fo much its due Heat, that Nature wants Fire for Kyrtchin- ‘work, 1 mean, is not able to make a profitable ah ” them drink and eat fuch Foods as het as poflible | ’ Cee ach ‘them; and al > 2 c oe e Wy, a { ‘ ¥? . 4 * trate all parts, and wound the Spirits, and by | degrees weaken and deftroy the Health: fo. men were fenfible of the Mifchiefs attending their — indulging themfelves thus in their ftinking Nefis — every day almoft till. Noon, they would furely be afhamed of, and dete{t their own Sloth and — ' Folly thereinay {0s West oy oe ae 9. Women in time of their Moneth: or Lyings sm, are for the moft part through hard Travail, | and many natural Weaknefles and other Difeafes, — brought very low, and their Spirits weak and | but few: Now, in. this low condition their | Nurfes do as it were force fuch great quantities of — {weet ftrong Suppings on them, even againft Na- | - ture, or more than Nature can bear; for the 7 Nurfe and Miftrefs do both foolifhly imagin,that — » there is no other way for Nature to bé reftored, © but by great quantities of {trong virtuous Food, ~ never remembring this Ruic---- Phat Mature ought — alwayes to be fironger than the Food; and notthe — Food ftronger than Nature: Alfo, they make — ‘they can, crying, Adfrefsaf you do not eat it whilft | Jeeshot, aval! oe worth nothing, Néhen in truth fhe 7 gives it her io hot that ’us wovfe than woraize 27 Alfo, many cithem will boyl Ale or Beer, with” | | ~ Oat-meal | % -Oat-meal and Spice till it becomes thick, and then, add ftore of Sugar, which ought not to be, becaule no fermented Liquor willendure a fecond preparation, without a total deftrution to the pure Spirits and balfamick Vertnes, as 1 have de- monftrated at large in’another place. “There- ° fore the Oat-meal and Water ought to be boyled — firft and briskly, not too long, and then add a like quantity of Beer, Ale or Wine, as you pleafe, and fet iton the Fire, and let it be made boyling-hot, but not boyl, andthen take it off the Fire, and [cum the grofs phlegmy. part off which fwithson thetop, and let it ftand till it be about as warm as your Blood, andthenyou may drink it with fafery ; but always remember, ‘thatthe quantity be not too great,nor the quality too {trong for Nature ;- your beft time to put in your Spice is with your Ale, Beer or Wine, but let it be bruifed,and make but little at a time, fo that you may have it frefh and frefh; for heating fuch Foods, and moft others, a fecond or third time does deftroy the brisk lively {pirituous parts, and .renders them dull, heavy, hard of Concoétion, and not fo pleafant to the Pallat. ro. Molt Women that have where-withal do inrich their Food and Drinks with fo many — forreign Ingredients, as donot only makethem _ long Wife Happinels, — ggi too rich, and confequently generate too mucie® Nourifhment, but alfo mtice the Pallat to re- ® ‘ecive more than is needful, whereby the natural ‘Heat and Stomach is over-charged, and the ee | Pa. 4 Veflels- | aya Chet 1” " to. s wealthy. | dpe or ane af Vellels sttesche beyond their Gels phd natura “Proportions 5 fo. the Body {wells and: becomes ” . uneafie,. and Wind in. sLandalee: is genera 4 Nor do fuch after’ eating and drinking find them: q Felves Refrefbed, ‘which “is the: Intentior put. on the contrary,are more ‘difor fullnéf, than they were before ‘Therefore ‘it concerns all, éfpecial 2 but weak. Spirits and Heats, not to jn quantity or ‘qaality,: “but: adminitte tionable Food,’ ‘that the natural Heat-ant | ‘mach be not: uit to any difficulty to” ‘digelt and © concoét it 5 {othe pure Sr Ae srs there by be — preferved free from Opprefit For ail (Health and Joy confift in the goo ek of the. natural.” Spirits, it being a ‘grand: Miftake in moft, who ” think to recover loft ftrength by over-rick "Food, | | ee Cordial Drinks, and great. quantities 5 for : _ they do but adda fecond charge & inconvemiency } ~ to Nature’; for, the Spirits chat were weakbefdre, — hy thete Tntemperances are made weaker. ‘Like- “wife, all Women in this’ imme of. their Lying-in, ' fhould. be acvifed not to drink 100. f freely: or any J forts of Liquor, efpecially fuclvas aptare tobreed | much Milk, for fear of fore Brealts and Feavers > ge lerthem hewaré of ftrong Drinks, becaufe they | Wheat the blood & body beyond: Mediocrity evaporate, t sy “dl te Volatile Spirits, and awaken the Ceptral Fires, whi éh ought not by any means to be ftirred up. rm. C leanne[s > in Women is @ molt (ublin. Verte, and to be had inthe higheit E Eiteem: | oe Veneration : > ae - of Cleaune/s and Separation. Many of the An-°. tients did not count it lawful to know: a Woman after known Conception ; 1 {t,becaufe then the End of Nature is anfwered,and alfo God’s Law; 2dly,° ce becaufé then the Inclinations to Copulations in all’ Females ceafeth, , except’in fome depraved Na-'- tures, and through wanton finful Provocations, _.asis before mentioned. Now this being none of the leaft Intemperances and Uncleannefles, - ought to be confidered by all People, the rather for that it {trikes at the Root, and corrupts mankind in ‘the very Radix: But ‘on the con- trary, there is nothing more preferves the Fruit “found and healthful, than Cleannefs and Sepa- — ee pe eT | Alfo, _ if ‘Men did feparate -themfelves: from i Women all thofe proper times and feafons whicli- wNature forbids them, and did fometimes lic alone, and keep themfelves Chafte, it would render them more healthy, {trong and full of © » lively Spirits, ‘and more Mafculine, it being an- _Effeminating thing for Mex and Women ‘to lie alwayes together, making no diftinction of Un- ¢leanneffes, or of Sickneis, there being fearce . any particular Intemperance or Uncleannefs that _ dettroys more Men, Women and Childrer than “T this; befides, it enfeebles ‘the Courage} and > Spiggeley alleles ae en erney Cha SIE Alel any Res )4 ba ial ie , Be baa Bo Men fon Spirited, and alfo feffen the cir Affetions, except in fome few dulling Natures ; ie ina word, it debilitates all the parts, and brings = an infinit number of Difeafes: How many Thou Ee of poor Children. dre yearly: dchiauet by the: Effeéts ‘of the before-mentionéd Intempe- ranices, » fome by Leprous Scabby Difeafes, Boils and running Sores, and. the Difeale, vulgarly called, The KING's Evil (but to {peak truth, it 1S the Mother and Father's Evil), others swith sveak Joints. arid Ricketty Di CHIPErS, and imany other ‘Calamities, . as Con wv Stoppages,, c onvulfions and windy Difeafes. _. But here I am apprehenfive, that J fhall offend the Women by telling them the truth, and whic - any of them might know to,.be truth, "9 they ~ would but leok into themfelves, aides examine ‘ things. It being a grofs Error for any to imagin shat Man in the beginning was made, a as to.his outward man, more cotrupt, or. fabject 1 to Di- fiempers than the Beafts of the: Field, all forts of which are now an bundred-fold 1 more | Healthy. ‘than Mankind; .yet both they and man," as to the Elements of the Body, . are compoun ded of one and the fame matter: And as the’ has endued man with Wildloka, Reafon and Un- _ derflanding aboveand beyond all other Creatures © vifible, fo. on the other fide, there is not a ‘Crea- wre under Heaven. ofa founder and more ‘heal- thy Conftitution than man in his Original ila t cis.certain man 1S -naturall y the molt -compleat-— | pe pe yh Sa 4 * “reator ° a " Y ee y ar hy e oF UIE Be >” Etbeciliy of his natural Frame and Compofi- lo ome would have it) that he is afflifted anyofthem, ne | But had Man lived in obedience to the divine and natural Law of God, he would as much. have furpaffed the Beafts in Health as now they —dohim, and Children would beas found and free from Difeafes as the young Ones of other Crea- tures are, had not their Parents corrupted them- felves by their Intemperances in their Radix, and trained their Children up in thelike Inconvenien-— cies; and this is the true caufe of mans Imbecil- ities, whereby he is become inferiour unto the wery Beaits as to Health; Not that he was made fo in his Creation, ‘for we do not read that the Antients were fickly and fubject to this and the other Difeafe, nor of the immature Death or _ Sickneffes,cither of their Women,or efpecially of theirChildren,whénce we may conclude that they | ‘Were found, and not. liable tofo many burthen- fom Difeafes, as weand our Children aredubjet £0; 296 | oes | to; and this we ‘may be the rather codticde aa, 4 becaufe the ‘Scriptures do teftifie, That the days. -of Mankind were fhorcned becaufe of their In- | temper ances, as Gen.6. ‘The Violénces and Intems perances of man had corrupted the whole Earth, and all things therein, which was the. erand a ‘caufé of infinit Diftempers, and the fhorening — ~ of Life; anexample of this we have in many of the Beats, -who are expofed to the unmerciful- ne{s of men, and more efpecially in Horfes, who in their Radixes are one of the moft. healthy forts of Creatures, of ftrong hardy hot Conttitu- tions and Natures; neverthelefs , through the hard ufuage and ftrain their cruel Drivers force them unto, they become the moft difeated of all others. | Moreover, thefe inhumale Ontrages Unclear. | neffes and Intemperances, do awaken GodsWrath . in the Conftellations and outward Elements, and powerfully, as by Sile, draw down mali nant : _ Infiuencies, whence proceed particular and uni- — verfal Calamities.. Whereas if mankind « did live in the obfervation of Gods Law in ‘Nature, and contented himfelf with what was needful and _ fuitable to his Nature, the fame would not only © lay a fare Foundation for Health, both of Body and Mind, but Magnetically attra@t the benevo- lent Influxes: of the Celeftial. Bodies, and make even this, ower Life a kind ‘of Paradife both, for Tnnoceacy and pure wy ‘ullied Pleafures, 12." All Women and Nurfes ought to be — | N that — oe that they do not fwarhe or bind their young In- fants too hard, which many are guilty of; for the delicate tender Nerves and {mall Bones of | Children cannot endure fuch ufuage without great Inconveniency, by awakening the internal fee which {fpreads through all the Body, and - |} makes the external partsglow with an unnatural heat, which makes the Child fret and cry, and - that {pends its ftrength, and puts its whole Body into diforder: And after they have thus pinion’d up the poor Infant,& wrapt it in fo many Cover- ings, they then cover it up again in a Cradle or Bed; (but the beft of the two isa Cradle) where for the moft part they are kept over-hot, and the pleafant Air prevented of having its freeIn- | fluencies upon them, whereby their pure Spirits ~ are fuffocated and rendred impure, the Circula- tion of their Blood obftruéted, which occafions ie many Infirmities, aslofs of Appetite, {toppages _of the Breaft, and Generation of that univerfal Difeafe the Wizd, which is a mortal Enemy to | Children: Alfo this hard binding does often de- _ formthe Body, and deftroy the Proportions of the Limbs and Joynts, which are eafily forced out of due place in thofe tender Years, which | | brings a great deal of umeafinefs and torture to . them, and proves of very evil confequence as to - Health, as many of our fine Citizens Wives, and others may know by woful Experience. Indeed thefe prepofterous wayes are focon: . trary and difagreeing to Nature, that thereby is’ ty aan 0 deftroyed Te a) oA RU LRSM ONS Na 8s ay i 4 : ok 4 deftroyed: ih eet anit py ‘deli tof you } pa ig ‘Children 5, pile to make them amends, for fuch their hard UE lage ‘and Deformities, if ‘they y hap- ‘pen with difficulty to out-live Childhood, thee Parents being much.concerned at the crookednefS : and difproportions of their Children, which themifelves have chiefly occafioned, muft needs fend for the tres or Steel- ‘Bodice-mmaker, W which "rarely doth any’ good, but generally the contra- ry, putting Youth go unfpeakable Mifery: to no” purpofe; and this conceited Remedy ‘proves of as dangerous, confequence to many as the firft Original Evil: Therefore thefe Courfes ought to. “be avoided, for they bring many Di- | tempers on the Body, which Nature is never - able to out-grow, efpecially in weak Conftitutions, for they infeeble the whole Body, caufe. the Cop- tufion of the Br ea, lay Foundations for Confump- tions, and caule many to have Pale, thin om BIEN weak TOR KGa grt a * i ) eo their breathing is an. es | ent 16g Life ‘and ¥ long Wife and ibap oe Tent. Rene and their very Excrement is little Jef, and yet our good Dames would think ita fad - bufinels, ifthey fhould give their Children wz boxed Milk; whereas the boyling thereof mecca ' , the wheyey part of it, and fixes it, and makes it - ‘thicker and harder of Concoétion ; but. on, the- ‘contrary, Rav Mi/é, as they call it, that is, un-. hoyled, is of ‘a cleanfing Quality, era: Cm 3 ftion, carries away downwards all windy matter ‘out of the Stomach and Veflels; and caufeth it topafsaway freely, there being. no fart of Food. ‘or. Phyfick like it, fo that ’tis an. excellent, Re. -medy to prevent all Cosvwlfions and griping ains. of the Stomach, attending: windy Difeafes i in, Children." = 3'»:- And when Children begin to be capable to eat: harder Food, then Bread and Butter, and ‘Bread q and Chee/e will be good Food for them ; “(provi-. y ded that the Chee/e be not too old, ner too ftale — and ftrong, for fuch Cheefeisvery injurious to” _ Children, heating the Blood, and,,caufing too, a great a Drought.) But moft Foods that are in _ ufé inthis wanton fuperfluous Age, are impro- . per for Childres, one of which is mughinufe — amongft the rieheff fort, and indeed maft People } now-a- -dayes feed their Childyen with it, Viz« © Water-Pap, that is, Bread and Water, fuppofing that fort of Food ta be'light of ponege Ona isa great miftake; for Bread, the chief Ingredi- ent therein, has already pafled through the ! | eft t Preparation it is capable of; for, the: firfk. es | ePAAHOW yoo. es if pain all forts of Bod does sige ra fe | } . troy! the crude, Body of Phiegm, and feéts the — Bre irituous parts at liberty, which by a fecond Preparation muft be deftroyed; and then fuch ., Foodsiand Drinks become dull and heavy, and ~ “ole hard upon the Stomach, yield but a bad Nou- " gilhment, breed thick grofs Blood, whence pro- ‘Stoppages,. and many. Infirmities of the | and are fo contrary to Nature, that ies thole iat do prepare any fort of Food a fecond time, ‘are forced to add fome predominating. ftrong Ingredients that are rich,as Sugar, Spice, and Spanifb Fruits to hide the Qualities of the firft and grand Ingredients; for who could indure to . eat Bresd and Water boyled together alone, or Breadaud Ale, or Bread and Wine? And yet all > thefe in themfelves, and without any alteration, are very ‘pleafant and wholfom. | FG; Furthermore, all fat Flelh is very hurtful to a Children, for it furs and oyls the Stomach and | Bes Paflages, and in fome Children, whofe. retentive. _. and digeftive Faculties are weak, and the Expul- five ftrong, it.quickly flips out ofthe Stomach ~ ~~ into the Bowels, and loofens the Belly too vio- | * dently, caufing griping Pains, efpecially when | #efhis not good, and at fome certain feaioes of >) the Year. ° « Likewife, all kinds of firong Drinks are Abo- Ee Geidon unto the Natures of Children, it drys - and heats them, infects the Blood with {harp | mangy Humours and Difeales, evaporates: the EY pure tbe tir") Sha ees eth 1 Nak eS ar RF a i & SAS CeO a pees Pe actin Es) 9 acd 15 as: ‘a Rater Reni Wen + . = = ‘ ae jo She May to Yoatty, pure volatile Spirits, &c. But of all forts of Drinks, the molt fit and proper for pay igi, | Water; the next is fos Beer that is we . Brewed, oe a ae eee Oda - All kind of sselted Batter and fryed Foods, be _ they what they will, are hurtful tothe Health of all People, if not very fparingly taken, but more efpecially to Childres; for Buster has palled 7h ee b through feveral Digeftions and Fermentations — that have opened the grofs body, and made the! {pirituous parts flying or volatile, and therefore if ‘Besrer ftand open a little while in the Air, it de- _ f{troys the goodnefs and pure brisk tafte of it ; but _ ifit be committed to the Fire, then the, pure Verture is immediately fuffocated or evapora-. ted; and then it turns into a grofs freng Oy, which is very otenfive'to Nature; but many to prevent its running into Oyl, will add Water to jt, and keep it in motion, and {0 by the help of the Water, the Motion and the Air, the Spiritu- -OUs parts are kept living, which indeed is, the — belt way of azcltzng of Butter: Neverthelefg, even - this is proffer on the Scomach,-and oyls, fugs and obftructs the Paflages more than Butter eaten on Bread, which is the beft and moft natural way : od of “ufing it. 8 The truth hereof is further. manifelted by this, take Buster, Flour and Water, ahd make it~ into Pafte, asthey do for Pzes, and then bale it, and let any of thofe which love fuch things. beft, be confined to live on it for two or three | "3 + Weeks, eo ee ss Aetigg Life and Bappinefs. == 403 - ‘Weeks, and confine another to Bread and Buster, and fee which will be tired firlt; tis certain he that eats the dsked Bread and Butter thall prefent. ~ fy loathe it, but he that lives on the common Bread and Batter may continue to live thereon, and be well fuftained, without being weary of it for _ many Years, and yet all is but. Bread and Butter, _ only the preparation makes the difference. For - you may obferve, that all kinds of Food made of _ fiae Flour and Butter, and baked, is of a clofe heavy fubffance, hard of Digeftion, that fouls ~ and makes the blood thick and grofs, and being firft invented for Wantonnefs and State, are continued to gratifie the fame Preperties, and _ therefore ought to be banifhed fromall fober Wife ; PIERS Tables, | 7 bOF the Quantity of (Childrens Pood. ‘There are but few’ Mothers or Nurfes but do _ errin Qwastity as much, and more often than in the Quality of the ViCtuals which they take them- -felves or give their Children. Now over-charg- _ ing of Nature is more dangerous than Food that is of a contrary Quality, or made fo by improper Mixtures and Preparation, though » both arevery bad. Tis hardly to be imagined how little in Quantity and mean in Quality will | Gratifie and maintain Children in perfet Health | and Livelinefs, and therefore we fhould confider how difficult a point it is, even for People of | | mature 304 3 “tong ‘site a ant Haappinets, Re “mature ‘Age, to be Temperate in eating oi | drinking, more efpecially when Meats. “and | “Drinks ‘are made by Spices , Sugars, forreign Fruits, and other mixtures, enticing to the Pal- Fate; the’ pleafuure of which you mutt ‘note, doés always continue many degrees beyond the necef- - fity of the Stomach, which is one of the chief caufes of Gluttony. - Now if it be fo hard@nd— difficult a thing for Menand Women to be Tem-' _perate, and abftain from Exeefs who have ex-_ -perienced the Dangers, Indifpofitions, Relapfes — and the like evil Confequences thereof, How’ — then can we expect that Children fhould under- _ftand when they have enough, ‘that is fufficient to fuftain Nature, and no more? ~ 'Tis certain all healthy Childvex will eat and dae to theend — of the pleafure of their Pallates, ‘and till their Sto- machs loathe it,more efpecially where fuch’ Food: or Drinks aremade enticing, asof late Yearsmoft * are: And, therefore it may be truly faid, that 3 all or molt Children, are as it were taught and — trained up to Gluttony from their Infancy,which . chas many evilConfequences. — af, The over-charging C hildres with’ Meats. and Drinks, does fulloore their pure: geo? Spirits, which in them are very tender. * < 2dly, It ftupifies all the Senfes;: eating dull heavy Indifpofitions to attend the whole | Body, awakening the central Fire, which Apreads it _ _» felf, and caufeth’an-unkindly*heat through all - the extol partsy and in Jome iS pts Contti-- oon < tutions’ {ong hii snd Bappinets. ——_405 tutions, bringsjan Jmward Feaver, that confumes thevery Ficfhow the Bones.;. zal, Ac furs and ftops the Paffages, breeds thick grofs Blood and evil Juices, which fall down upon the Joynts and makes them feeble, © and dilating the Veilels of the Stemach do fo - ampair the natural heat and digeftive faculty, © thatmoft of that exceflive Food is turned into phlegmatick grofs watry or windy Humours, _ which afcend intothe Head, and caufeth ic to _ grow great, and as it were {well, being heavy and fottifh, which Diftemper is ufually called, The Rickets, which generally proceeds from In- temperance, andthe indifcreet management of ’ ’ Mothers and Nurfes ;. for Superfluity does not only contract malignant Difeafes; but makes all ~ ferts of Children. (as well theftrong and healthy, as fuch as are weak) {0 uneafie, that thereby they are apt on all occafions to fret and cry ; it | likewife makes them nafty, and of an unpleafant, dull fottifh Humour, requiring double the Ten-’ _ dence which otherwife they would need. And _ when by over-gerging they have made them thus froward, .then to quiet them, they pre-. | fently clap more Victuals or Drink into their _ Mouthes, and. thus force them even againft _ their Defires, as well as beyond the Neceffities _ Of N@ture, more than their Siomach can bear, which continues and. encreafes their — Diforders ; nay, they feed them till. they {putter out of their Mouthes, and alfo caf it up, ee RAGE: Gt a as aie which te jos The Way to Mebtey, a SN oe eh ae STOR ah) aio ry uy ee OE he Be ah Ae Cen Tie |, tte eet men a ‘which latter, many filly Worn count’ geod fign of Health, whereas in truth, “this Peking | “(as they callit) is afuretoken indeed that fuch Children have ftrong Stomachs, but withal that their Stomachs are over-charged and difordered “with too much Food |, for no healthy Stomach. either in Young or Old, will caft its Food up when in Health, if fuch Foods be eaten ‘mode- ‘rately, and be nottoo mueh in quantity,’ or of -accontrary quality. jap eee ' Alfo, fometimés when the Stomach is too moift, and full of watry Humours, “fuch Chil- ‘dren and others ought to fa/t a while, and then _ eat fome drying Food.. But on the contrary, “jt upagain, butifthey do, it makes them fick and dildrdered: | | 52 aes 9am prevented, but by Sabrsety and good Order; for “» “all’Mothers ought to give Cbildren Meats and ~ Drinks according to Reafon, and’ not according — thofe Children that have weak Heats and Sto- “machs, though over-charged, will feldom caft gt x, ec 4 “ae ~ All which’ Evils are sot by any means to be ‘to the Childrens defite ; much lefs ought they to very 4 “force them when their Stomachs loathe it, which _ wounds Nature in the very bud, deftroying the _ ok Creatures, are moff endued witha ‘ferve li Add | ’ airy lively Spirits, which Cheldren, as all other | kewife,not to give-your Children F@sd too © ‘often, thatis, not’before the former is digefted, © which many Women do, and fo deftroy” the © ‘poor Childrens Health, and lay Foundations for — Long wife and Wappinets. 307 Add to. thefe Mifchiefs of “Intemperance in Children, that it dulls the Wir, ‘clouds the Ramey _ and darkens the Apprehenfion, and fo renders them saieibiaeeepableof ui kind of Learning; For Tem. no ts perance and Cleanse/s do not only make the Body | found, healthy, light and pleafant,but ftrengthens © _ the Invelle&, makes the Spirits brisk and lively, helps the Memory, and givesa penetrating un- | derftanding, and fits one for all Imployments both ofthe Body and Mind, and lays a hopeful - Foundation for Health, Streagth and long Life. To conclude, Cleanne/s and good Tendence in _ Children is very profitable, and their Beds ought t0 be efsan, fect, hardy and in siry Rooms, for their Spirits are fo tender, that any grofs' thick Air fuifocates them:~ And as their Coverings: ought not to be too thick or heavy, fo alfo fliould ” their Day-Garments be moderate, ‘eafie and'cool, } nor fhould they be forced to Sveep, as the Cuftom. _ of fome is, but to go to fleepas Nature inclines | them; Alfo, they muft not fit or lie too long without Motion; for’tis shat gives Spirit and Life to all young Creatures. oe It is to be noted alfo, that Womens Diftempers, as to Windinefs, and many other Weaknefles, are | much encreafed by their /fraight Garments and _ Lacings, which do prefs and woundthe frength of that part, it being one main Reafon of their | foortnefs of Breath, contra&ting the Paflages and. Veffels of the Stomach, whieh caufeth alfo Sick- nefs, with pricking pains in the fides, and often Bree fends ~via ee: OE AOA EAS Sete ere mee eh ne Sie ot, = SA ES OND SN eee . ud 5 bed! . Tha) Cid ete PO 4 Wer ~ . 4 “ae ai ae 7 Fas SM ; # ae. Py |e Giles y i Ree ee Se ee » er Corer hh aA bee : The wap to Wealth 7 ae a hy Sy r rN ah ie which are as {tiff & hard as Boards, which makes _ the Stomach, Wafte and Back fo feeble,that many 08 a | ib me Fumes into the Head, nothing being more Injurious to them than> thofe Bodice and Stays, — ey } when they leave them off, they feel themlelves - fo weak that they are forced to continue them, neither can they hardly turn themfelves in their Beds, but feem as if they were tinjoynted, which: caufeth many other Inconveniencies, as growing deformed, and makes Labour and Exercifles pete oe Ge: aman ie Poi te tae ' I" bur-. | If thefe R ules be followed And obferved byanyy they | will find great benefit thereby, and be tafe of imuch- ‘Trouble, and prevent a great Number of Difeafes, and lay Foundations for an healthy found Gene= F : ae hee 5 he shy \ ? f pea SF aw . M4 ‘WALION. — Ba tail os A dayhh 8 g Eh Tata) Be tee tt A, nF af a - eee ae Sea ¢ - - e GE Sy aed fae 2 ries . » at ie : : & f ie aS “at tae BO ae wd hag Ree Mea F shat a ih Saleteieetmmeeiatied — ie emcee sai ii mn ee Perch ae » Gea sy > ¥ « , ¥ ie cae fia oo ; i long site and > Dappines : 409 | 14. wy 6h , is - Gy eae > CHAP. XIL ee : The Cauk bP SURFEITS, sid hove tO prevent them and keep the Body ia Health. As alfo of large Drinking a Meals ; and of eating of Suppers. XN] Hen any one finds himfelf much wearied ie Y orvery horthrough fome violentaction, | or fainty through Labour, or long fafting, or any other Accidents of the like Nature, which may have wafted the Radical Moifture,. and _» dpent the pure Spirits, whereby the whole Body — “becomes heavy, dull and indifpofed. Then to recover Nature and the Spirits, and yet at the : fame time prevent the Difeafes called Surfetrs, } = thefe following Rulesare abfolutely nceehary for © every one to obierve: 1. Before eating or drinking. you ought to refty by fitting ftill and filent, or taking a {mall nap ofdieep, or if conveniency will permit, go to Bed and keep your felf warm for an hour, or two,or. three, according to the greatnefs of the occafion, | which will recover the Spiritsand {trengthen the | Hatural Heat, and fharpenthe Appetite, refrefh- _ jngthe whole Body, and chearing alltheSenfes, _ fo that you fhall not only eat and drink oath tenfold more pleafure and delight, but, with much ~< BS Te ve SO lad a a Toe hor ele eee Sy WAyeN. a preg g ve 3 % 1 by . oe Any Health, than from Reft or Sleep. Neverthelefs jn fome of thefe times of WearinefS chere isa ne- ceffity of prefent eating and drinking, ‘but then — it ought to be done f{paringly, and fuch Food as. is eafie of Digeftion, as thin brisk Gruels, Pot- tages, and the like, and that in afmall Quantity; for when the Spirits are {pent by any of the fore> mentioned Accidents, the natural Heat of the — Stomach is fo weakened, that it cannot bearany — great Quantity of Meats or Drinks, norfuch ~ BG i eer ene MCN RU ge AUT” a EE, NER RR RR OR Poe ON sepa RMR: 3160 ( (ks ME Way to Henith, much more fafety, as to Health. Forno Meats _ or Drinks (thougn of the higheft Preparation) — have fuch Power to recover and reftore the Spirits, - and make the {weet Oyl in the Body burn clear, as Ref hath; for which caufe a man canfaft — longer from Food, and with lefS prejudice to his - ‘Foods as are too {trong in Quality, without mas nifeft danger to the Health. All Inequality im this {tate is very ite we ; for when the Radical ed, the natural Spirits aredull and Impure, which cannot be reftored butonly * by Ref ; for the quickne{s and fharpnefs of the ‘Stomack and digeftive Faculty does chiefly con. fift in the Goodntefs and Quantity of the Radical — Motfhure is wa Moifture and pure Spirits; And for this’caufe thofe that are tired with Labour, alefs Quantity ~— of ftrong Drink or Food will overcome them: _ Alfo, thofe that are endued with {trong Spirits, and whofe Radical Moiftures*are pure and free —~ from Obftructions, have good fharp Appetites, and caneatand drink greater Quarftities Without — prejudice ss Natty Life and appinefs. gra | prejudice to their rn r Health ; but on the contrary, fuch as have but weak Heats and few Spirits have - but little Stomachs, and faint defires to eat, their Stomachs being full before their Bellies ; andthe fame is to be underftood when the Spirits and Natural Heat are impared and made impotent by Accidents. Therefore Ref after any kind of ~Wearinefs (be it what it will) is a moft fafe means to preferve Health, and prevent the gene- ie b -ratjon of Difeafes. _ ‘2, It isto be noted, That Surfeits and Obftra- | Gions are not, (as many fuppofe) contracted at the firlt-or fecond Inconveniency (except the | Accident or Diforder be very great) but by de- - | grees, every Excefs {ows fome feeds for Difeafes, _ which would be prevented, if care wére taken, and Nature not overcharged, efpecially, at the . -forementioned times, wiz, when the Spirits are | Weakened or fpent, for then the {weet Oyl and Radical Moifture immediately, turns fowerifh, andthen follows an unnatural Heat and Diforder through the whole Body, with a dizzinefs in the Bead; for the Volatile Spirit is the true Life and Becing of cverything. = __ Many lively Inftances might be given to de- -monftrate this, as we fée in all the Vegitations of the.Barth, if the /pirituous parts be any way. de- ‘ftroyed or fuffocated, that Herb, Seed or Grain ~decays and becomes of no ufe or vertue; which is likewife manifeft in all Spirituous Liquors, Beer, - | Mle, Syder, Wines oe. if by long (coping or | : ate oroer : ‘$95 -other accide “Properties’* and «Qualiti-®’;°" and ~ therefore | POS See a ee ve) Pe ae aa eee are Rm wo. ay eye st be e watte their parts forever. — ANS Sh Ogee Se The fame is to be ¢conceived'in the Humane © ‘Spirits are weak all the Properties of Nature be- come unequal in their operation, and rif€ up with | ‘a kind of Violence or hunger after the fweet Oyl, © with eagernefs to devour it, * which is the true — “Life, Pleaftire and Moderator of all the other © when once the fame is wounded, the whole — Syfteme of Nature is difordered, and-all her | Oeconomy difturbed. And thisis really the very | ‘Root of all Dutemperatures) both of the Body” ‘and Mind; whichif every one did underftand, and takecare that Nature were not overcharged, | might eafily be prevented. But though Nature | doch frequently complain, figh, groan‘and lan-" Teng Witean Wappittets, 313. euifh under many fuch Inconveniencies and bur-. dens, yetfew there be that’ever think or eonfider the caufe from whence fuch Indifpofitions prc- ceed, but for the moft part, through Ignorance, take wrong meafiires ; for if any find themfelves weak, fainty, weary, and the like, they pre-. fently think to fupply this defect of Nature by giving her good “ftore of rich Food and Cordial “Drinks, which for the moft part ‘do but adda _ fecond burthen to her, and proves of more ha- _ zardous confequence to the Health, than the firft _ Diforder,fince thefé Indifpofitions generally come not for want of Nourifhment, but rather the contrary, and for want of due Reft after too violent AGtions or over-long continuance at ~ them, and for lack of giving Nature proporti- _» onable Meats and Drinks, whereby the Spirits and Radical Morfture are waited, as aforefaid; © ‘though it muft be confefled, That Health and Strength cannot be maintained, but by a conftant 3 Supply of Meats and Drinks, yet the main thing is _ inthedue and proper Timing thereof. There-. | fore weak+natur’d Peopleat all times, and others, whenever by Labour, Travel or Fafting théy are brought into a weak and fainty ftate, fhould then be more than ordinarily cereful that their _- Meats and Drinks be not too ftrong, nor too _ rouchin Quantity, nor of a contrary Quality, fe obut proporcioggple tothe prefent ftrength oi their ~~ Natural Heat?” ane 3 3, Great drinking of Wize and ftrozg Drinks, Sf weiter 314. She Map to Meni, = after full Meals of Fleh and Fy, (mot of them being of difagreeing Natures one to the other) — do often wound the Health, and that Conftitu. tionis rarely known that they do. not proveof evil and dangerous confequence unto; whieh many of the richeft fort of People in this Nation — might know by woful Experience, efpecially in EON DON, who do yearly {pend many Hun. _ dreds, (1 think I may fay Thoufands) of Pounds — on their Ungodly Pauuches.. Many of; whom — may fave themfelves that chargeand trouble they. are ufually atin learning of Mounfieur Némble~ — beels, the Dancing-Mafter, how to go upright, for their Bellies are fwellen up to their Chins, which forces them to behold the Skie, but notfor Contemplation.fake you may be fure, but outros pure neceffity, and without any more Im prefli. a ons of Reverence gowards the Almighty All. Wale Creator, than their Felow-Bruits; for their — Brains are {unk .into their Belses ; Injectton and Ejeéfion is the bufinefs of their Life, and all their precious hours are {pent between the Platter and — the Glef, and the Clofe-stool.and Pé/s-pot. Are pot thefe fine Fellows tocall themfelves Chriftians and Reght Worfbipfulls ? et ember . Fhe natural Heat being. overcharg’d by too — ereat a Quanticy of RichFood,that contains over=_ much*Nourifhment, ftops the Paflages, arrefts. the Spirits, and makes the Srqggach violently — attract unto it felf from all oatlter the Body, _ the pleafant moift Vapours, to help and affift her — | {a oe pe | Yong wifeand Happinets, 4x5 to overcome and digeft that load of Vi€tuals — which they have ingorged, that often. puts Na- _ | ture very hard to itin her internal Laboratory, _ caufinga kind of fuffocation of the pure Spirits, drying and confuming the Radical Moifbureand thin refrefhing Vapours. ‘Therefore after fuch — - Epicurian Meals, there isalways an Indifpofition — Gectellche xihole Body, with dullingFumesin — the Head, and drouzinefs, that generally con- — tinues, four, fiveor fix hours, more or lefs, ac. | cording to the ftrength of each mans Conftitution, and the Quantity of Food. During which _ time the Paflages of the Spirits are obftructed, the Pores ftopr, fo thatthethin pleafant Vapours of the Air from without cannot penetrate, aad _ thence the blood is heated, and its Circulation hindred ; and allthis by grofs phlegmatick Juices © arifing from Superfluities, which impede the - Paflages and free Courfe of Nature. But after - fome hours, when Nature hath ftruggled with | thefe Befiegers, and flung of their Chains, and _ overcome her Enemy, and forced her way, and made af{éparation, th€n again the Road of the _ Spirits is again laid open, and the Pores are un; -dockt to let in the refrefhing Breezes, and the | _ Man grows brisk and lively, and fit for bufinefs--- _ And i indeed he might have been all this while, _ifto pamper a liquorifh Pallate, and gratifie an _ extravagant Humour and Cultom, he had’ not willfully Izgurgitated {fo much Food, as thus op- | preffed Nature for the va and though he | ewe 2 think y et . 316s. Cheapo wealth, think now all’s over, and is ready the very.n ; day to attacque her again with a like Debauch, yet he fhall fhortly find, the Dregs remain, there — is a Morbifjick matter left, and continually encreaf. ed, which at length being ripened into-Ack by — fome proper Afpect of the Heavens, or fimilary — Accident on Earth, breaks forth into a. mott-— grievous Surfett or violent Feaver, andthe Man — is all on fire, and fighs, and Linguifbes, and dyes. j «And who-fhall pity him? finee if he would in | time have hearkened tothe Voice of Rez/oz or ~ Experience, either of them would have told him, | That the fole intention of Nature in €ating and. | drinking is putely tofupport and refrefh her, and © not burden her; and therefore he oughtto have © _ chofen fimple Food, and the Quantity not too — great for the natural Heat, and then he fhould — _ have found, after fuch eating and drinking, a” Certain pleafant refrefhing and chearing Joy 7 fpread through the whole Body, from the Cezter © to the Circumference, being more hrisk, lively, active.and ufetul than before. - ot. tae ee Bur fill, many there af, that be not! conmteng | to Over-cran Nature with too great a Quantity | of Food, butthey will needsavowa#hertoo, with - adeluge of Drink, pouring in fuch vaft Quanti- 7 ties of Wine and ffrong Ligxors into.thir foohth | Hogfheads, as if they defigned to make their | Souls tamcatately [wins ont of thetr Bodies. This © fecond Charge, eipecially when it comes imme- @ diately upon, ar foon after the firft, wounds | « Dame LBB aa ee ae ‘ : Wee ee | "7 Yong Wife and Dappinets. 317 ~ Dame Nature to the very Heart,. and fets her on fire, confuming the /weet Oy/ and Radical Moiflure by whole-fale,fiifiocates the paver Spirits, and puts — the Bod (their limpid and natural Habitation) all into a Combuftten ; and the firft and greateft Sufferer in this Hurliburly is the pure Volatile | Spirit, Balfamick Body and pure Oyl, which is of a friendly Nature, fo meek and gentle, that itcan- . not, without manifeft danger to the Health, endure any fuch harfh Fires or churlifh Motions. _ And whenever Violencsis offered to this benigne - Quality, Nature falls into a languifhing, which | makes the Functions of the Stomach to ceafe, and the Sa/r’s {pirit loofeth its favour, if the Dil- ~sorder happen near the Center of Life: But if - only the pure Spirits and fweet Oyl of any | Member be hurt, then it often falls out that the _ Evil and Defe&t remains only in that Member, | and the Stomach and Center continue well ; and _ infueh cafes the Lifeisfeldomin danger. But many Phyfitiens, miftaken in Nature, do conclude,T hat the cane of [uch Defects proceed from fome ill-habit or vitiated Tone of the Stomach, and more Central parts; and theretore they will give _ itrong Potionsof harifh Medicines, both Purgzxg -§ and Vomiting, which for the moft part hutt Na- ture, weaken the Center, help to weaken and . deftroy the Balfamick Vertues, and the Limb or © - Membér afflicted grows worfe , for when in any _ Member the wrathful Ssturnal and Mercurial Poyfonsand fulpherous Heats of Mars are ftirred up : i i H ; "up and awakened, the bi Aaa : Vat Aig f ab mie 4: Pr 4 je ye Me oes ke et a ee ‘ ‘ mM ads Py nim ve) ‘ y i 4 ‘ YO fs ‘ ¢ ‘i ’ es ha a poate! % Sele J E ‘ ee , ; “ “ at . j Me P 7 } ey ry 9 4 €. £ b i? bop ww bs : , a . ee ¢ ye * ’ ‘i * “ Bs > ~ - proceed. Did People rightly underftand this, _. they would be afraid to commit fuch Excefs, — loading Nature beyond what fhe can bear, by adding JIntemperance to, Intemperance, as firft to over-gorge themfelves with too much, as wellas — too rich Food, and thea to drink fuch great . Quantities of Strong Drink afterit; Thefe two — Su 7 without great Injuryte Health, = = perfluities Nature canret bear at one time | Bovey gee _ And therefore: fince fome men are fuch Swine as to delight toovercharge Nature with toomuch Drink, their fafeft way isto drink when their Ste- — machs are rather empty. than full; for hard drinking doth not very often furfeit, when the | Stomach is free from Fullnefs. (except men drink — to avery exceflive pitch, and of various fortsof | Drink, or fuchasis bad in its kind) efpecially _when men are at mature Age, orrather old than © ge young ; for indeedall rong Drinks are abfolutely againit the Health of Yodug Poople, by reafon ~ their Blood is more hot, which being enereafed, — {ets Nature on Fire, and precipitates them into — Bary, Luft and Madnefs. yh ret aes . Butic may be obferved, that more People do | furfeit themfelves and deftroy their Health by Gluttony and Superfluous Eating, than by Over- -. drinking (though perhaps.the Sin of Diuakenne/s «makes more moile in the. World) for aes if | lotig Life and Bappineig, = gx9 hid inthe Bud, and little or no notice taken of it, _ but isindeed committed by all forts of People,both Male and Female, Touxg and Old, but more ef{pe- cially by Touxg People and Children. And the . _‘Reafons hereof are, becaufe Food is ofan heavy _- grofs Nature, and hard of Concoétion, and requires time for aie fo that Nature «an- _ -not foeafily rid her felf of it; but Drink doth pafs through: feveral Digeftions and Fermentations, _ “by which the fpirituous parts are already become _ volatile, thatthe Stomach and Natural Heat have no-fuch difficulty to feparate it, for that isdone _almoft as foon as it comes into the Stomach. The fpirituous parts incorporating themfelves with cic fomilies, vize-with the natural Heat, as every man is fenfible of, prefently aiter the .drinking of ftrong Drinks, which fet the whole _ Body intoan heat, if fuch Quantity'be drunk as caufeth an evaporation of the natural Spirits, and the phlegmatick part thereof falleth down into the Ureters; fo that though it muft be confeffed, _ “Bhat fuperfluity in drinking is very injurious to _ Nature, yet being of a thin fpirituous Quality, it finds many quick ways of Evacuation and _ Tranfpirations; therefore not fo dangerous as overmuch eating; but both are bad againtt _ Health, and great fins againft God and Nature. _ Befides, thofe that are inclin’d to Drink, are ma- | nifeftpejall men, and fo their Irregularities often -) veftrain@ through fhame, and refpett to their ] Credit ; “whereas the other gormandize publi, Lo) ae as an yer wide nrg: pi aly . cuftomary i js that Vicebecome. - 4. The Eating of Suppers. is es bir to few). except Young: People, whole Imployments are hard, and in the Fields or open Air ca dich | asdo not make Dinners, and whole Food and © Drinks are mean ; for fuch People may eat Suppers 4 without prejudice, as alfofuchas accultomthem= felves to eat in the Morning and fafkeill Night; alfo they that be of Houfe-Imployments. B all forts of People that live fedentaryLives,a: of eafic Imployments, more efpecially the are of mature Age, as Gentlemen and Citizens, Os. who ufe themfelves to lie long in Bed in the Q Morning, and to.great Dinners and rich. Cordial ‘Drinks, whofe. Tables are {0 adorned and fer — forth, not only with fuch great ftore of rich Food, but alfo with other Circumftanees of great ¥ , Charge, fothat.a fober man would not imagin 7 .that fo great Coft, Pains and Time fhould be | {pent thereon, except fiich Dinners would cons f tinue and fuftain Nature feyeral years, butalast 4 the fame is all fwallowed and devoured inone ~ hour, and.all the Pleafure of it gone, and for real ufean honelt piece of Bread and Cheefefhould — do.a,.man three times more good than_all this 7 variety of Dainties, whole beft fervice isto make 7 work. for the Doéfors and Apothecaries,. and they se to provide Imployment for the Seotomms: or if — they efcape the Woodem Tenement and | lin 4 they haveto ihew in Memory of thefechargeable | ee ay ae iawn 3 ists spoglie on Gea oe ee ss tong Life arn apoiners. = gat Treats, is an empty Purfe, ‘a difordered Mind, a Loathfomely fullied Soul, and an indifpofed difem- pered Body, as full of Di'eafes as an Hofpital. Tothis fort of People it is moft injurious to make Swppers ; neither indeed are they good for any who live eafie, and eat Dinners, becauée the fpace between Dinner and Supper is not fufficient to make a perfeét Concottion, efpecially with thofe that eat much Fie/b and Fi/b, or Food that isfat; for after {uch Food men ought to faft at the leaft eight or ten hours, becaufe the oily fub- 'ftance furs the Paffages and dulls the natural _Heat:and A@tion of the Stomach, and confe- -quently requires a longer time for Concoction bs Herbs, Seeds, Fruits or Grains. Befides, | Fiefh is of a grofler fubftance, and more phileg- -matick, therefore apterto generate Obftructions, thicker Blood, and more impure Spirits, and therefore thofe that feed thereon ought to falta confiderable time after it (by which means the natural Heat of the Stomach may the better di- -gelt the fuperfluous grofs matter) before frefh Food be taken into the Stomach again. © hades Thereforethe beft times for eating, are about eight or nine in the Morning, and five in the: Afternoon; fornothing gives greater advantages ‘to the Stomach to cleanfe it felf from all grofs fuperfluous matter, than time and forbear- ance of eating or drinking for a fit {pace, which: s makes theedge of the Appetite fharp, and the Pallate Perfect... w Te - More- . leg ee he ney ¢ to o Seale, ie hon sally 4 Faftings and Labours ) fil the Body full af the : and caufe it to glow with an unnatural Heat and © ‘unfound fleep. And yet fome thereare, who ) (through a diforderly Life, their Natures being © depraved) are fo troubled with Windy Difeafes, — that they are forced to eat Suppers to prevent — the burdenfom pains of the Wisd, and yet all © will not do. But the moft confiderable thing. why Suppers prove burdenfom and unhealthy to | Nature, is, becaufe in the Night the Body i is without Motion, and feems to ceafefrom Ation, © and the Roms are made clofe, and the whole Body kept much hotter than in theday, all which ~ doth prevent the pure thin vapours of the As — from penetrating the Body; but i in the day the: | body being kept cooler than in the night, it is’ fuller of motion, caufing a more perfect Con- i coftion. a _ Therefore the moft natural ad approved way to Health, is to make but Two Meals in twenty ~ four hours, one (as I faid): in the Morning, the © other about four or five inthe Afternoon. And © - it isto be obferved, that the ftrongeit Food and — preatett Quantity ought tobe eaten in the Morn~ ing, and the fmaller Quantity, and fuch as is. eafieft of Concogtion in the After-noon, VIZ Méilk-Pottage, Mile and Flour, Milk as it comes” from the Cow, after’ tis cold, eaten with Bread, Water-Gruels, ec. Now the the Reafon of! ! | : “this : i 0 “4 * Nes Oe i! bt 43 ve ie : LF beg ae ae R's \eaaad aN re 7, uff ite B i re [ee iotig Life and Dappinets, 1 Wades this; 1s; becaufe in the Morning, the Spirits, : ‘through Reit,, are reftored frefh and brisk, and — the-Sun.is 1 not come tothe Meridian; bur by that time. it arrives there, the Food is pretty well di- _ ogef fted 5. for you muft note, That when thé Sun E. eomes tothe Meridian, it dothmore or le{s exhale -orcaule, {ome Evaporations of the natural Spirits, -efpecially 1 in hot Seafons ; and therefore Nature 1s. then mors indi'pofed, dull and heavy than at ~ other times. Alfo, the fore-part of the day path fpent the Spirits by Lubour, Exéreife, Oe. t |For d is caufe moft Peoplede find themfelves | dull and heavy after D.nner. © ‘There is nothing that does more help Con: } coGion than the cool refrefhing Influencies of the Air; for it ftrengthens the natural Heat, a dmakesitc more: ential; for which caufe Peo- . : ple i in. cold Weather have greater and ftronger _ Appetites, and more Spirits thanin hot; and therefore are able to endure more Action; {0 likewife fuch as are bred in cold Countries, are harder, ftronger,andfor the moft part longer liv’d than thofe that inhabit in ov er-hot Regions; for | Heat dries up the thin fpirituoas Vapours and Ras. -dical. Moifture in the Body, and cau‘és the in- ternal Heat and Moifture (which Should ferve for the help of Concoétion) to fpread it felf into ‘| all the external parts of the Body; for all out- ward Heat does by fimile draw forth the inter- } n Lheat, and ciufe the pure Spirits to evaporate. For this very Reafon mens defires are much after i Ye ls Dink = 324 The Moapto Health, Drink in hot Seafons, and onthe contrary for — Food incold; Thus likewife the heat of Beds, — where moft People wrap themfelves ‘up’ very “warm, takesaway the Appetite; forletaman — go to Bed fome-what hungry; yet after he’ has © dlept, his Stomach fhall feem dull, and his defire — of eating gone, till his motion for a’‘whilein the — Air does recall it; and the fame Quantity. of — Food eaten for a Swpper, which provesburdenfom — - tohim that goes to Bed, fhall be moft pleafant — and lightfome to one that fits up all night, fo — great is the power of Air and Motion. ’ There- ; tore all hot foft Feather-Beds, with thick Cover- — ings, which moft People ufe themfelvesto, with — Curtains drawn, @c. fo that their Chambers are — in the next degree to Bagneo’s or-Hot+Houfes, are very inconvenient; for they weaken the Back and Joynts, deftroy the Appa and render — the whole Body fo delicate and tender, thatevery — little Inconveniency is felt, and fuch People can: — fearceendure the frefh Air to blew upon them, — without fome prejudice to theit Health, which ~ doth encreafe ftoppages and all Windy Difeafes ; J but on the contrary, open frefh Airs,Rooms that ~ _ have large Windows and fair Profpeéts, and the | Bed open, hard and clean, fo that therefrefhing Influencies of the Air may pafs freely, wilk. — ftrengthen the whole Body, beget and encreafe Appetite, and make the {pirits powerful, where» © by Nature dees avoid many Inconvenienties and’ — 3 a ; ¢ ‘ j hee es a €H cA P) Pp. — a \ A fr ‘ F wy i" oe w J ‘Difeal- bse < ueads ge en y ; ! " Te tong, wLife and Davpinets 375 ; gpfei ) =e tT CHAP. X IIT. : ee, Of Windy Difeafes, the Reafons thereof in Nature, & why Englifh People efpeci- - ally Women, are fo ae troubled there- with ; Alfo anAccount of the Inconvent-— eaay of cating and drinking between Meas. yl [He epacration of Windy Difeafes in the Body arife from many Caufes, but chiefly red ahite Wig. | 1. From eating and drinking of tooyreat Quan- ities of various forts of grofs fat Food and _ftrong Drinks, of difagrecing Natures; which ftretch the — Teffels of the Stomach beyoid what is natural, nd generate evil Juices of a fower keen Quality, nd fharp griping Nature; for it is not purely Wind, oran airy Quality, that doth fo gripeand | ain the Body, and fend up fuch Fumes and ‘apours into the Head; for if it were not fo, fature would find fome way to difcharge it, ‘Thich thaps might makea noife, but not be feintul, “But this windy fubftance is mixed ess a Sharp fower thin poyfonous matter that ns out of one place into another, and caufeth iping pains} and all this chiefly proceeds from ‘pletion, and too much Nourifhment, and un- pansted matter. For when Meats and Drinks are, ag CE bss, cit ao " he t noay to eat, hg Pa are taken, thatare either ill/prepaied or tod stg > in Quantity, or ofa contrary Quality: tothe Con- ftitution, then the natural Heat of the Somach | — and digeftive Faculty cannot concoct fuch Foods: nor make any rerfeét {eparation, nor caft out thofe evil Juices and Veroms, which all forts ae) ~ fuch Food doth contain, but efpecially FLjb and fat firong Meats, which are apt to Jodge inVell els, | and caule Pains and Sw ellings; for w hat: part or | Member foever of the Body. is by any” Accident made weak, thefe evil Hamours wall flow unto- | and feize that part in an efpecial manner 5 thus, \ If the Brain be weak it caufeih a violent Head. ~ Ach to continue for féveral days together, with © a dizzinefs ; but if the more central parts, as the | - Breaftand Paflages be impotent, then you fhall, 1 find all the Faculties of the Scomach debilitated, 4 _and its rententive Property fo impaired, that it” cannot retain theFood,w hence preeceds loa. hings — & vouutinay but on the contrary,if the Centre’be — well fortified witha powerful natural Heat, then © the Sromzeh eafily flings them of, they difperfe themfelves into the Members and more external — arts, which a feth fiellings and grievous pains q 1n the Hips, Legs and Arms, or w here-elfe it hap- ~ pens, ae [bi ign from one part to another which 4 £ mecalltheW#ady Gout, a Difeale, though very P painful, yet not fo dangerous as when it lies and” cen-ers it felf near the Heart and vital Parts ; for when th ae \dge about the Stomach, fuch People erence: well ¢: ‘ther full or fafting ; ; for after he 4 ) eee ° Se —ssMong Lifeand Dappinets. == 3.27 _ this Humor doth fo fower the Food, that it makes - the Stomach fick, and fubje& to fower belchings, _ and the whole body to fwell, and fickifh Qualms } toarife: and thisenticeth many to takea dram of Brandy, or other ftrong fpirituons Drink to help Concoétion, which feems to give fome eafe _ forthe prefent, but in a little time the fame In- - eonveniency will return, and then again, away they run to their Doéfor Brandy-Bottle, and thus | come to accuftomthemfelves to fuch {trong fiery - Liquors,whereby theyyet more and more weaken the Stomach, and caufe the before-mentioned | Windy Difeafes to encreafe, fo thatin a littletime | they fhall not be able to cnmaey Food without a Dram after it; nay, it willcome to that at laft, that they will not be able to digeft their Food either with it or without it, the Liquor will _make fuch a Prey of Nature, caufing the Head _ never to be free from dulling Fumes and Vapours. Now thefe Difeafes are very rarely cured by any of the Medicines that are appropriated to | to them, becaufe moft People do more or lefs con- finue the fame Diforders which were the firft caufethercof. Forno Medicines have {uch Power either to prevent or remedy thefe Diforders in the Body, as Temperance, Cleannefs and good Order; for they have an inward Power and eertain Efficacy for that purpofe; and if Tem- _ perancebe continued, it will augment the Radical — | Moifiure and pure Sprrits,& by degrees ftrengthen the natural Heat of the Stomach, which only ‘ h ith / a ase ; ee nap toe i: a aa the Power to draw all fuch windy: grof tharp matter from all. parts of the body, and. focaft it out, if through length of time it be not. become | too central ; for the natural Heat-hath a magne. — tick ere that forcibly attracts all. fuch matter — -as burdens Nature, even from the moft inward. q Cavities and furtheft Circumference unto it felf, and there digeftsand throws it off, both upwards d ‘and downwards, if a proper degree of Tem. — perance be obferved both in Quantity and Qua-. lity, and frefh fi upplies of Food and Drink come — nottoo often. For fo powerful is this attractive. 4 Faculty of the Stomach, that it wall draw the — very Flefb off the Bones, as is moft manifeft both — by men and bealts, Bike Stomach be not fuppli-. cd with ‘convenient Quantities of Meats and. 4 Drinks; forthis Heat which ferves for concoétion. a and feparation is never idle, but alwayscontinues. its motion and ation, fo long as the Spirits are lively, and that there doth remain any Oylin | the Lamp. For this. caufe moderate Fa/ting hath. been commended by all Wife Men, and a clean well prepared Diet hath great Power, not, only — to prevent Difeafes, both of the Body and Mind, — but alfo to root them. out, efpec: ally when the caufe of fuch Difeafes (as generally it happens) 4 have arifen from over-charging of Nature with ~ too great Quantities of Flejh and Fifh, and the more becaufe People make no diftin@ion between Clean and Unclean, nor of he Seafous of the Year, | of the Surfeits or Dsfeafes the Catrel are fubjeCt untOs : The tap to Wealth, = zag unto, whofe Flefh they eat, nor regard the'im-" ‘proper Mixcures of fuch F 56 d, &e. aes TF - 2. The fecond caufe of Windy Difeafes, 1 afign’ to be the frequent eating and ‘drinking of Hor’ Foods, 1 do not mean fuchas are hot intheir own mature and operation, but fuch as having been prepared by Fire, are eaten before thofe fiery {ulpherous Stcews are evaporated ; for they are: ofa very pernicious venomous Quality, and al- together of a contrary Nature to the genuine Heat of Nature, and particularly of the Stomach alfo; for this fiery heat willno longer incorpo-' ate it felf with fuch Foods, Brozhs, cc. than it is forced by the conftarit heat of the fire; for as foon as they are taken from thence this fulphe- rous Steem or humid Vapour will haltily feparate of its own accord, which does manifeft that this Heat isan Alien, and that Nature cafts it out as an Enemy; for indeed it contains three veno- mous Qualities, that are abfolucely perniciousto Health, vz. | | | iff, The firft is an harfb Fire, ofa Saturnine Martial Nature, of a keen fharp fretting operati- on, which dulls the pure Spirits, and infeéts the Blood with a Maingy itching Humour. odly, It contains a grofs deadly poy/onous Water, or humid Quality, that does incorporate it felt with the groflett parts of the Air, and fly away ina fteemor Wapour; and if Food be eaten be- fore thofe fiery evil Vapours be feparated and ® Uiu evaporated, «or et LR ~ See hig y | “ va a we ak wk , 4 i . : bee . 332 The wWapte Wealth, = evaporated, it fwells the body and hurts the'nas 5 tural Heat-of the Stomach, and infénfibly, but certainly generates both Windy and Watery Dif. - esfesy filling. the inward Veffels of the Body with eviland venomous Juices, fending Fumes into _ the Head, and difordering the whole body ; and : this more efpecially in Women and Children,who, -aswe have fhewed you before, are by Nature much more liable to. Windy Difeafes than Men. _ 34ly, If this furious Steem be by any Veflel that covers the Meat, after "tis taken out of the’ Pot, or off from the Spit, fo that it cannot fly away, but is ftopt and turned back, orconfined to flay with fuch Food, after it is prepared, then will it re-enter intoit, and make it flat and heavy, and alter the Tafte of it, fo that it will be ftrong and gro{s on the Pallat, and heavy on the Sto-” machindy tiles te6m poll: a ___ {tis alfo to be noted, That the common eating _ Of Hit Foods does poffefs the Blood with a falt fharp fretting Humor, like a Maingy ; and if Children were not accuftomed to fuch things from. their Mothers Breait, it would more fen- fibly. break out upon them in that kind: For this very Reafon, in Dogs and many other Crea- tures, if fuch hot Broths or Food be given them, it will caufe the Mainge in their Blood; and the very fame it occafions in the human Nature, but not externally {o manifeft, becaufe rendered more Z familiar by ufe. 3 The le a 3. Therhirdcaule, not only of Windy Difeafes, but of many others, is Peoples eating and drinking too often, nothing more burdens Nature or gene- races more crude {harp Huimors; for when irefh . Food is thrift intothe Scomach before the former | isdigefted, it mixeth with the half-concocted Food; which does furprize Nature and dilturb her work, and touls the Stomach, cau‘eth fower belchings, makes the Ve(fels to {well, and in - fome Conftitutions is atsended with griping Pains and Indifpoficions through the whole body, | &c. for the natural heat is {o opprefled with thefe con:inual fupplies of Food, before it'calls, - or is ready for them, that it cannot make any perfect feparation, whichisa tnain caule of Windy Difeafes, filling the Vetfels with unconcoéted . Jurces, which powerfully ob‘truct the due Fan- étions of Nature, and hinders the Circulation of — the blood and fpirits, which is che reafon, that . when fuch People do travel or labour, and oft- times only upon the change of Weather, they . are indifpofed and prefently tired, and out of breath, and troubled with an inward Heat and Drought,continually calling for fupplies of Drizk, which does but promote Diforder and {well the body, and make the Exercife more burdenfom, For indeed driaking bet.veen Meals is very inju- rious toall forts of People, except to thofe that labour hard and {weat much; for fuch may drink, but very moderately, orelfe they may | 3 ey hue erat, quickly / ~ ’ yey... Agen. Cpe ee 332. we “The way tobealth, se quickly out-do Nature; but for. othersthat live” ealiy Lives, anddo not {weat, to be fipping, or) — rather pouring down {trong Drink and, Wine be- — tween Meals, does prove of very evilConfequence; for it deftroys the edge of the Appetite, and _ makes the Stomach difordered, always feeming . — asifit wanted fomething, and in. fome Confti-% tutions an hot heavy dullnels; for all ftrong Drinks, reccived ina greater Quantity thanthe Stomach can conveniently mafter, leave a fower.} heavy ftinking matter behind them in the body, > which furs the Paflages with a flimy fubftance, — and caufeth lofs of Appetite, {hortneis of Breath,» Rhumes, with fharp tickling matter that firft — af{cends into the Head, and offends it, and then. falls back again into the Breaf# and upon the Lungs, whence Coughs and C fs tions. proceed. * 2 a Alfo, in fome People it begetsa kind of an un- MB A ¥ “e-tural hunger or craving in the Stomach, ora... fharp knawing Pain, which caufeth many io . eat, but they are never the better fatished nor 5 eafed, but rather encreafé the Pain thereby. 9 Tess am confident abundance of People can witnefs ~ thisto be true from their own Experience, and: - yet will not confider or regard the true Reafon, and Caufes of it. For it isa gro{s miftake, when, any fhall feel their Stomachs gnaw or gripe in this manner, to run prefently to theCubbord; and think thereby to cure that defect, which for « tie moft part does but encreafe it, andnolonger _ gives ea‘e thanthe Foed ordrink 1s in the Mouth; edna | ke * tong Hifeand wappinets, "333 - for this evil habit ofthe Stomach does not proceed - for want of Food or Nour ifhment, but through its due office of Digeltion; for where Food is | does, asit were, furffccate the pure Spirits,and then Stomach and Conftitution; which depraved Juices difperfe themfelves into feveral parts of the | eer firft there be fome inward Defe& of Shall fenfibly afflic. | for they will foon grow fainty, and Fumes and thustoo frequently cram’d in, the digeftive Fax culty has not power to make feparation, which _ body, enfeebling the Joynts and Members, ° wounding the Spirits, and making Room for outward Colds, and the like Accidents to take. | a ; for Colds do rarely feize.any partofthe edy (provided the Accident benot too extream) | Accident, nay, even the alteration of the Air fharp crude fuperfluous matter, which dulls and difables theNatural. Heat, that it ss wand ey : _ prefently the fweet Oyl or Juices of fuch Food. - turns either ofa keen fower or bitter Quality, | | according to the diforder or Nature ofeach mans. | Weaknefs,asmayappear by thofe that aretroubled- _ _ with ftoppages of the Breaft, whom every petty. ‘But as Nature abhors all Extrearns, fo on the other fide, over-long Fafting does help to gene- raté windy Difeafes, efpecially in infirm People, | _ whofe naturzl Heats are week, and Spirits few, Vapours will be apt to fly up into their Heads, — and when they come to eat, a {mall matter — ‘takes them fick, for too long fafting does{pend _ and evaporate the Spirits, and wafte the Radical 3 Ne tp SRT Ree : Moitture, | gt ee 334. Chenoa fo wba sp mes shad | Manure; PP HRAFE ERE eh igeltive { facult ty, fo tha ¢ | after eating and drinking, the Senfes | eemn to. ke a " peas and the ‘whole Body fleepy and indif- a _ pofed; and befides, after fu: Along fafting, , Ped q a are apt to ftrain Nacure. by. taking ‘more — Meat and D-ink than fhe can bear. | Therefore q a mean is fafeft in all things ;,for if any refrain from Food toolong,: the action of che S:omachis | fo vigorous, and its attract.ve faculty fo powers ful, that it preys on the natural Spirits and Ra- dical Moifture, fo that you Shall then findavery _ imperfect Appetite, whence comes that common ~ faying----I have out -fafted my Self, or my Stomach — és gone. For the ftrength and perfection of the - Pallate and S:omach confilts in the ftrengthand | vigour of the Spirits and Radical Moifture; © therefore both fi:perfluous eating and drinking, ~ and alfo immoderate fafting do generate Di (ete Wand caufe Indi ifpoftc: ions both in the Body and Mind ; Therefore it is not fo ca: amenduble, nor fo healthy to make brit one Meal in twenty four Hours, as to make two modeia € Meals tn. thae {pace, for otherwife there is apt to be too great an Emptinefs, and too eazer an Hanger, which. — makes People give ‘themfelves f cla ‘treelom of i eating, as thereby the Velfels are itretcht bythe , © great Quantities of Food, which makes {uch have : great Bellies,and proveJat and gros: But though ; 7 they willeac but once ina day, yet many ofthem 7 that are able toccme by it, do give themfelves the. q _hiberty ofdrinicing lufl:y Evening-draughts,which © do fo ftupitieishe SenJe es, and heat the Blood, and 4 *, PE ee Ga RE, ee mee eee ote tes We ~*~ — eee long Lite anb Wappinets. 335 ‘fut the Paflages; fo that "tis no wonder that they — are not prepared for a Breakfait. | In a word, there is nothing fo fafe, nothing © - fopleafant as Temperance, and to obferve proper "Timesand Seafons for cating and drinking, and — keeping within the bounds of what is neceflary both in Quantity and Quality: “And'this we | muft aver, That as the World goes, few there are that hurt their Health with Fa/fing, in com- - parifon of thofe Multicudes that deftroy them- felves by Superfluéties; nor is it fo dangerous a confequence, if any competent carebetaken. _ © Iris alfotobe obferved, That all kinds of Food ill prepared, 1s hurtful, and apt to forward thofe Wendy Diftempers; tor any Food that is too much or too little dreft,or under or over-prepar’d, } > is prejudicial to the Health; but over-prepared _ it is very much too littledone) for over-prepara- tion, be it of what you will, does in a great meafure deftroy the brisk lively Spirits, which. renders fuch Food of a heavy dull grofs Nature’ and Operation; fothat it cannot adminifter fuch proper Nourifhment, nor can the natural Heat _ of'the Stomach draw fuch pure {pirits from it, a3. _ otherwife it would yield (for it cannot give what it has not) *Tis therefore a great Error, as to. Health, to over-prepare Food, as the Cuftom of fome is, viz.” to boyl Pefh fo long till *tis ready. to fallto pieces, which many do, becaufe the. | Broth fhould draw forth all the ftrength and | : , vertue ; i ta t oe rie tl % : i ae is the more hurtful of the two (unlefs where ee eM COTE ae” ee ; oe i tin€tures are deftroyed; and therefore fuch — Foods lofe their natural Colourand fragrant {cent, and become {trong and fulfom; for no prepara-. — tion ought tobe continued any longer than the crude body be opened, and the grofs matter di-, — -gefted ; for if it be continued longer, then the. © pure fpirituous parts willevaporate:. [heInten-. — tion of kinds of Preparation, is to digeft the ~ phlegmatick grofs parts, that thereby the fpiritual: 7 Vertues may be fet at liberty ; butthen, ifthe — Preparation be continued, your Fire, will ferve ~ you as the Cecleftial fire, wz. the Sun and Ele- © ments do the Husband-man, when he makes his = Hay, or the Maulfter his Mault ; for firft, the, ~ | the grofenefs of fuch Flefh, the lively vertues and 7 ba! come like Sat thet hath loft its favour, good for | bittle but the Dunghil. The very fame is to be underftood in all Preparations of food; for it _ hath rarely been knownthat any fuch grof over- | prepared Broths ever did any good to fuch Con- fiimptive People, but rather the contrary ; for all _ Fkefa ought to be boyled in plenty of good Water, (and River-Warer is beft) and quickly done, _ €ven toa point, and the Broth ought to be thin, with a brisk pleafant {mell and tafte, and the | flefhof a whiteifh colour, fuch Broths, if well _ prepared, and the fleth be good, will pertume the whole Room where they are: The very fame _ is to be underftocd in all other boyled foods, as . Herbs, Roots or Grains, be they of what fort they will, being thus naturally ordered, they will in _ their kid be brisk and accepiableto the Stomach, eafie of Concoction, and breed good Blood and pure Spirics; but the common Food and ways _ Of Preparation, which moft prefcribe for fick or _ weakly People, are fo fullom and ftrong, that _ the frequent eating of them is enough to make well People fick; it being no unutal thing for | Phyfittans and others to order fuch Food for weak | Ox fickly People, as they themlelves orany others Bases x x that _ too long in the Sua.and open dir, its {pirituous . | Qaality will alfo be exhaled, and then it will be-. 337 378. ALOE HOM f0. 3 that are in perfest Health, canno : or drink ; fo that ‘the change is much _worfe, which is much to be pitied, T: het I Ignos and Blindne/s fbould fo polfe -/sPeoples ei Thst * fpeak and write from that Underftanding which 1 a ‘the Lord ofall things hath given me, in difcharge. : of my Duty to my Brethren’ and Eelowy reas tures. cia ae Pb oor OC ea ee F Patael | | 6 kc Se . $ SO ‘= Fatne/s is very sabe in Men and nd Womens | when it doth not exceed the Medium, norprocesd from Idlenefs and Intemperance in Meats, Drinks ~ or Exercifes. Some men are from their natural q -Conftitutions more apt to be Faf than others, q efpecially thofe in whom the fweer Quality is — ftrong, fuch as are the Sanguiwe-Phlegmarich, Sanguine-Cholerick, Sanguine-Melancholy, and who. — are of pleafant merry Difpofitions, muchinclined — to Delights, but not fo much to Aion as thofe — that have the affrixgent or bitter Qualities predomi- 4 nant, nor are their Spirits fo vigorous, ormatural. Heats fo fharp; and therefore their Meats and Drinks make more Humours, becaufe the ation’ of the Stomach is not fo ftrong, neither is its attractive Faculty fo powerful, fothat a fmaller. Quantity of Food does fuftain them, than does. others. But as thefe fort of People are apt to encreafe in fldb and fateefs, {0 alfo do their Incli- rations increafe to Drink, which feems more. gracelut Fe ee eS ae | Tog Life and bappinete aes I unt. amet ity dy edt ins A hy 1 Sa rimae Sp i 4 - grateful to them than others, becaufe their Heats _ are not fo ftrong to concoét Food as other mens are; but Drink being of an eafie Concoétion, and | ofa pleafantchearing Quality, which fuch People delight in, having afimile with their Natures, _ theytake more delight in drinking than in eating, _ elpecially after they are arrived toa mature Age, and alfo they are very inclinableto Laughter and © _ Merriment, by reafon of the abundanee of {weet — Oyl in their Confticution. - _ But fat People do much differ, fome are more _ lively, ftrong, active and long-liv’d than others ; for where the Phlegmastick Property of Nature is _ ftrong & joyned inthe Government with theS«s- guine or oe Quality, they ate apt to grow very _ dat and corpulent, being flow of motion, and of _ dull heavy difpofition, inclined to an eafie foft » life, andto drink much, their Fires and natural Heats being but weak, thereis not.a perfe€t Con- _“ eoétion made of the Food and Drinks, but every | thing tends to generate abundance of grofs phleg- _ matick Juices, which {well all the Body and © Members thereof. Se ORION A iat ec Tf the bitter Quality be powerful, and fharein . Dominion with the Saxguize, it makes Perfons merry. and brisk, but not fo cumberfomely Fas and Phlegwsy as the former, becaufe here the Na- | tural Heats are ftronger, confequently they have - greater ftomachs,, better Appetites, and are gi- _-ven more to Action, efteemed good jolly Com- anions, many of them will {peak well and bold- Nee a ole | Re ee eT ae eg re ce Oe | " 310... Che soapy to entth ly, they are of ftrong ‘Conftirucicns, but great ~- Drinkers,which oft-times wounds their Health.7> When the Affringent Quality isCo-partner with _ the Sweet, it gives People tull-bedied and flefhy, — but not fat ; of Healthy Conftitutions, bur not fo pleafant humour’d or Merry asthe former: Many of this fort are both great Drinkers and Eaters too, beirig inclined to Intemperances. - But if Temperance, Cleannefs and proper Exercifes were obferved, wt.due Foodand Drinks, there would be but very few People over-fat, let them ~ be of what Conftitution or Complexion they will, it being an eafie matter in the beginning to pre- vent it, but aftér Perfons are grown very fat, it is more difficult to contract Nature and the Vefs _ fels, yet it may well be done, but not without fome Trouble. The beft way to prevent Fatz ore one | Hough we mee eye. in eves pine of 8 this Treatifeoccafionally mentioned Fieh, and that: vulgar eating thereof is-prejudieial, yet — we efteem it a matter of fuch Importance, ‘asde- ferves'to be particularly and diftinétly treated of in a Chapter by it {élf.° For there is greater Evil and Mite ery attends Mankind by killing, hurry- | ing ‘and oppteffing his Fellow-Creatutre es, and» eating their Flefh, and that without diftinétion, than ‘is: generally apprehended or imagin’d. Man’s {trong Inclinations after Fleh, and his making {o light @nd {mall a matter of killing and — oppreffing the Inferior Creatures, does manifeft — what Principle has got the Dominion in him; for had:man continued in the pure Law of God; andlived in. the power of the humane Nature, and ‘followed the Voice and Di@tates of the divine _ Principle,which he was created to live in,he would ” have been far fiom oppreffing, killing or eating the fielh & blood of the Beafis, which was not allowed. him inthe beginning; for man was created to be obedient, and tolive in the powef of the divine Principle, and therefore was putinto-a Garden) am ongtt innocent Herbs, Fruétsand Grains, which © werem + * 5 ! 2 ee a ae a i ‘ “ a : ce : } : long Wife and Wappinets. —; 3 _ ‘Were intended and ordained for his Food; and | ‘was forbidden that Fruit in which was manifeft ' goodand evil, which fhould not have beenawa- _ kenedand made manifeft in men; for all Hurry- ing,Hunting Oppre Ting and Killing,be it in what _ ‘Kindyou will, arifesfrom one only Ground, viz. _ from the wrathful Powers of Nature. Now _ Flerbs, &c. have an innocent Original, and no _ Power to awaken or kindle any other Properties but what are like themfelves ; but the Bea/fs are _ equally endued with Wrath, Revenge, Hate, Envy, Love, and indeed with all the Wrathful | and Senfual Paffions. For which caufe their _ flefh, (efpecially when unclean) and biood was fo ftri€ly forbidden by the holy Antients; for the humane Nature ought not to have incorpora~ | ted it felf with the beaftial, otherwife God would | have indulged man the freedom of eating of Flefh _inhis firft Eftate, fince he loves it fo well; but On the contrary, the Diet. prefcribed him-was this~---Every green Herb (hall be unto thee for Meat : There was no mention made or thoughts of Fie. _ 2. It fhould be confidered, ‘That’ Fefb and Fifb cannot be eaten without Violence, and doing that which aman would not be done unto,and making Deftruction of God’s Creatures, which are gene- fally more profitable living than dead (as Cows and Sheep, which are the Creatues moft eaten) Now killing, not only of thofe.of our own kind, but alfo of any other Creatures,” came in with | the Tranfgreffion ; for Man wasnot made to be, | | : a ht OS ee Baa. The way toPealth, a Tyrant unto the reft of Gods Creatures, norta — live in the Wrathful Beaftial Nature, but in love and meeknefs to have Dominion over all things — aS > for their good, and to maintain Unity and Con- — cord, which can never be done, unlefs he live © inthe Spirit of Love and Meeeknefs, whence — ~ arifeth that noble Vertue, Compafiton, which ~ oppoieth all Violence, as much as the night doch the day. ‘This all the Wile Antients underftood, but more efpecially the moff learned and illumi , nate Prophet Ma/es,whodid ufe all pofible means both natural and divine, to bring the Children of Ifrael oF from eating of flefh, as appears firftin - their forty years Travel inthe Wildernefs, during which they were not commonly admitted to,eat — _ Fiefh, as appears by their Murmurings afterthe Fi{b-Pots of A:gypt, which when the Lord heard, — Namb.r, he fad unto Mofes, Give them lf 4, 18,22. Mofes anfwers, Shall we kill our Flocks "and Herds, or where fhall- we have Fleb to feed this Multitude? Which fhews, they did not ufe to kill and eat the Beafts in their march - towards the holy Land; for if they did; why then do they complain for want ofie? *Tis true, the Lord gave them Flesh, but it was in — his Wrath, and to their Deftruction; fer they “had awakened the Centre of Wrath, which pro- ~voked the Lord (for Fiefh cannot be otherwile © procured) but this they ought not to havedone; forthe Lord had brought them out of Agype by his mighty Power; thatis, out of the Land of SM ahicer Fee! «eee aay : V. antty, ¥ ae Long iLife and Dappiiets, 348 Vanity, Violence and Oppreffion, tor fo Agypt righly fignifies, and the Wilderne/s does Se ae Path and Way of Regeneration, that leads all, that perfevere tn Seli-densal, to. the boly eternal Land of Peace, that flows with Milk and Honey: Tiere. fore none ought to look back or murmur, chat - are once got through che Red-Ses, leit they tall, asthe Children of J/rae/ did, and become like Los Wife, Monuments of Vengeance. 3. All kinds of Violence, whether towards our own kind, or-upon interior Creatures, and-w he- ther little or much, does wholly arife from che awakened Wrath of God in Nature,and from the. very fame Roor does proceed all. Back-biting,Envy, Strife, Rancour avid) Contention, and what-ever elfea mancan think of, that is of that Nature, there being but one only Foundation that does generate Difcord and Inequality amongft all Cre- atures ; and whenever. any man does hurt, cp- prefs, kill or fpeak Evil of any other Creature, it proceeds from this original {pring of Wrath. On the other fidefgrom the divine Principle of Goa’s eternal Light and Love, doth arile and flow, as. from an unexhauftible Fountain, all Friendly Qualities, Love, Good Will, Meek innocent Com- palfion, courteous Difpofitions aud Inclinations, and whatever can be called, or deferves the Name of Good. Nomandid ever ftrike, opprefs, ufe Vi- olénceto, or kill either Manor Beaft from the excitement and power of this friendly Principle ; for all eee and Cruelty, isas contrary Cae tO Mane Piehe —346-—i«“ The MORp to Healthy “tothe natute ans perio of this Pringiple, Light is to Darknefs his d : tain in man}. does proceed that. great Law of do. ing untoall Creatures, as «ean would be done unto, which cannot therefore admit, that any Violencées or Injuries {hould -be done unto Gods Creatures, .gither Supenionot Infeértor.. (6 ois Sob ane 375 This our great and bleffed Lawgiver fe/ue Chrift did demontftrate; whilft he wasin the hu- hy By CRI Eee NK a 9 Adee | hi Sea SM ty eee Sea AN ond 2 - mane Property 5. forall his Practices, Examples, , _ Difcourfes & Preachings unto Mankind were ten- ding to lead them mto Peace, Meeknefs & Unity; and therefore hefaid unto Peter, Pus up thy Sword, for my Kingdone ts not of this World, 'Thatis, My Kingdom ‘does: not confift.in Wrath, Enmity; Oppreffion, cutting off Ears, and Killiag, but - an Peace, Love and Concord; fo likewife have all the holy andenlightned men in all Ages, both by fpeaking andwriting, declared again{t Vio- i 7 oy : Re ; but from this divine Foun: “i AN a <¢ * lence, and endeavoured all that in them lay to draw all men to Unity, which was the firft ftate of Man, and which he loft by fufléring his Will and Difire to enter into Violence and Inequality, viz. into the dark Wrath, which prefently eaufeth uneven operations in his Soul; which our Saviour Chrift: came to {eek and tofave, *that is, To draw the Soul of man back again out of Agypry through the Rea-Sea and Wildernefs, into the Land of Prom{e; a ftate of Ianosency and Unity. For except man do again depart from all Vio- lence, and from under the Government of the if pirit | HD Happinets. 347 Tnsployments or Communications, that very thing, beit what it will, fball powerfully impofe the true property of its Spirit onthe man, by way of Simile. Were not this fo, the wife Antients would . ' not have made fuch diftinctrons between clean and unclean Creatures, neither would they fo | {trictly have commanded, that the Blood fhould be deftroyed by Fire, or buried in the Earth ;. neither would the Apoftle Pas/ have faid, That evil Communication corrupts good Manners, that is, Rvil Company, or the evil Spirit in ill men does awaken and firengthen its Likenefs in the good Rep Mesa a Man, / Si. + ee a er RN) ewiye ee mes sat re 5 ae pat 4 Sipe se 148 = Cheap tetealty Man, and caufes the divine Principle and Voice. of Wildom to with-draw, or become captivated. And it feems our fore-Fathers, even inthis Nation, have in fomedegreeconfidered the great force and power of the wrathful favage Nature of — the Beafts, and that men by accuftomed Violence towards them,and theirCommunication amongft flaughtereft Animals were rendered rafh, preci- pitate, fierce and cruel, and as it were deiticute | of Humanity ; & therefore by ourAntient Laws and the Immemorial Cuitoms of this Realm, Butchers, and fuch People as are of Kg/ling-Im- ployments, are not ta be Furpemen, as——being efteemed neither fit nor capable Judges of Lif and Death: And in the common Proverb, if a man be fieice, cruel and fubjected to the {pirit of Violence, we fay, Sach a ome ts like a Butcher, Nor can we but obierve from daily experience, that all forts of Peopie that are ot rude robultick imployments, and communicate much with fierce and {trong Beafts; as Bear-wards, Hoftlers, Drovers, and the uke, are generally headftrong, ~~ rafh, fierce, furly People, and appear evidently to participate of the bruitih Nature of thofe Ant- ‘mals with whom they converfe. And as the Sheep is one of the moft innocent of-Beafts, fo Shepberds have in all Ages been celebrated for the molt harmlefs.and beit-humour’d of men; and therefore Gowerzours, both temporal and fpiritual, are recommenced unto us uncer the Name of: | Paffors or Sheplerds ofthe Peoples. bps 5 : | 4. That “e eR YS TT Le, SS Tee ee VD Yh Seri ss * Yon Whifeland Panpitiels. -_a4g '. 4 That killing, and eating the Flefh and Bloéd of both clean and unclean Bea(ts was not in ule from the beginning, isclear from the 2d chapter of Genefis; theretore we fhould confider _ when and by whom'the fame was ineroduced. . Add tirft, we muft note; That the firft Beafts ther were killed were not Cowsand Sheep, andthe like ufetul Creatures, whofe Lives are far more profitable than their Deaths, but wild favage Beafts and Birds of Prey, the countenance of whofe Lives was prejudicial unto Mankind, and _ the reft of the Creatures; mor were they hunted and flain to be eaten, but to free Men and other Creatures from danger. But after a little ufe and cuftom of Killing, the fpirit of Wrath and Fiercenefs, by the fierce action in the Killer, and the revengeful {pirits proceeding from the Creature killed, both concurring, was fo power- fully ftirred, awakened and {trengthened, that 7 Killing became as familiar as gathering of Fruit ; and the unclean bruitifh Nature encreafing, they could not only kill withour Remorfe, but beganto count it a delight and pleafure, and then they couid eat the Flefh and lap up the Blood of their fellow-Creatures, which they had flaugh- terd as freely and as greedily as Dogs and Lyons, © or any other wild Beats could do it; for by con- tinual ufe of Killing and Violence, the very fame favage wild Nature of thofe cruel Beafts of Prey were become predominant inmen, fo that now they could not only butcher and eat the flefh of | Beatts te ee ee ae) ee 7 ee eae Sa ne i Pood Pray? ae \ Cree foe ih a PANS 2: : sso (= he WAY fo -deal % - Beafts with pleafure and delight, b their own kind, and in fome parts proceeded to’ "eat them too, as the Capaibals, who feed on His Shoulder of Man, a Breaft of Woman, or the Flannches of 4 Child, and-think it altogether.as - or my Lady herPartridge: (oie o > go 5. Itis tobe noted, That if Mankind had con- tinued in its primitive ftate of Innocency and {weet and wholfome as my Lorddoes his Vexifen, Unity, there would-have been no Hatred, Strife, Oppreffion, Fighting or Kzling one another, no fsughtering of Beafts, Filo or Birds, nor eating ther Flefb and Blood; for that was not permitted until man had immerfed his Will into the Warful favage unclean Nature of the worft of Beafts, For there isno Creature in the World that has — any defire to eat Flefh and Blood, and tear the Creatures to pieces with Violence, except thofe ” in whom the fierce wrathful favage Nature does predominate. And therefore after Man’ had awakened the Wrath, and enteredintothecruel — Spirit of Kélling, the wife Prophets impofed ipecial Commands not to eat the Flefh and Blood — : of fuch Creatures, as Swines, Dogs, Bears, Wolves, ce. But can we believe that man wasvat firt made like thofe favage unclean Beafts of Prey, or indeed worfe ? For fo now he is, and does ex- ceed in Uncleannef$ and Cruelty the worft of Beafts,as muchas a Spar-Hawk exceeds aT itwson/e ; tor. es ca eect ‘ al ee ee nr a Wong fifeand Bappinets, 351 _ for indeed Man is indued with all Properties and Qualities ; but the Wrath and evil unclean Na- ture ought fot to have been manifefted, but che divine and humane Nature fhould have govern’d. his Life ; butinftead thereof, the fame are now, as it were, hid in man, and the cruel fierce Spirit i jd predominate, which makes him of fo near . Affinity with all wild Beafts and Birds of Prey; - and to defire fuch Food as they do; for that Nature that is chief in the Government of any Creatures Life, be it either good or evil, clear or unclean, will ftir up defires of Food fuitable and correfpodent therewith. This is plain in feveral forts of Beafts, as thofe in whom the fimple harmlefs clean Nature claims Dominion, delight in a like clean and harmlefs Food, and their Natures. are fatished. therewith; not but that there is an unelean Nature and fierce Qua- lity inthe cleaneft and keft of Beafts, capable in | fome degree of being awakened; for ’tis not im- poflible by degrees and ufe to teach and bring _ Sheep; Cows, Aorfes, and-many other Creatures to eat Fielh and drink Wine and firong Drinks, and after a little Cuftom thofe, unclean fierce —Cualities will grow fo powerful that they will ‘not only eat and drink fuch things, butalfo defre them ; for all Creatures have one only Founda- tion, and each particular contains the true Na- ture of the Whole, only the Qualitiesand Pros | ‘perties of Nature doditier fo.in one, one Quality asftrong, in another the contrary, whichmakes . | that \ : Shapes, Forms, Tones, Sounds, Gc. And lence — proceeds the poffibility of altering, changing, Srrengshening and avakening of Difpofittons, Incli- $ nations and Qualities in each Creature. This was the grand eaufe in the beginning why Man was — prohibited the eating of Fieb and Kylveg, and why Mofes in the Wildernefs did not permit the Children of Ifracito kill and eat Fiefh during their | eed travel; forthe Weldernefs reprefents this World, which all muft pafs through and deny _themfelves the Vazities, Oppreffion and Violencies thereof, or elfe they cannot enter the Holy Land, but muft fall in the Wildernefs; for thofe thar have through the divine Power of the Lord, efca- ped the hards of the gyprians, andare got clear of the Land of Bondage, and have left Pharoah and © his Hoft fwallowed up in the Red-Sea, ought not to'long or luft:after the Violeacies and Fk(b-Pots of the Land of Vanity, but to continue in the — Spirit of Meeknefs, Love, Humanity, Self-denial, and to do unto all Creatures asa man would be done unto himfelf, which is the true Path of the New Life, that Jeads into the Right-hand-way, and. goes to the heavenly City. Naas ie -* For thefe Wife Philofophical Seers into the divine and humane Myfteries, were’ fenfible of | the manifold Evils that attended Mankind by his joyning himfelf with the unclean Beatts, and by killing and eating their Flefh, which did fo | pewectully 4 7 — —s- tong Wife and Bappinets. 353 _ powerfully awaken and ftrengthen theinhumane _ Properties in Man, that he by degrees became delighted in all kind of volens cruel bloody Actions, — aot only to the Inferior Creatures,but al{o to thofe of his ows Kind, whence Cruelties and Murders _ have been fo mightily encouraged, that fcarce any have been counted of Noble Birth and Bload _ but fuch as have been famous. Maw-/layers, and deftroyed many of their own Species... Some of the Eaferx-Sages, from atrue Underftanding of _ the Law of God in Nature, declared againft thefé Inhumanities and Sanguinary Cuftoms, as _ Pythagoras and his Followers, to this day in fome pattsof the Ea/-Indies, who by their good Ex- amples and innocent Lives, do draw off many of the Savage People from the fame, to.a more pure and peaceable sourfe of Life: For, frf, ° _ they taught them the ill Confequencies of Oppre/- fion, Violencies, Kjlling and eating the Fleh of their. Inferiors, and making themfelves the Sepulchers of the dead Bodies of Beasts ;. and when they had done this, then it followed, that they would not _ftvike, harm, opprefs or kill thofe of their Own kind; for he that does fcruple to ufe violence unto or — killa Sheep or Cow, will, tobe fure, be far from hurting or murdering a Mz”. And thus for many Ages have they led peaceable and harmlefs Lives, in Unity and Amity with the whole Creation, fhewing all kind of Eriendfbip and Equality, not only to thofe of their own fpecies, but toall other - Greaturés, hurting or enflaving none, but allow- Cae Uo ones Xp Soe | 2 thaw, Tho ve Yo.» to ioe . oe ing them al ies Priviledges and Freedoms that® the:Greator had given to all the Inhabitants of — the: World, nor. cutting ‘off the thred.of their. Lives. Before their. appointed time. Andit has. becn.obferved, that. the/e Men, fince their time | of Love and Clemency. to the Creatures, have not — only been bleft. with the Gocds of this World and Dew. of Heaven, far above their, wild). favage. Neighbours; but alfo were never known toy contend, opprels,. fs ent, ki ill: or commit Man Years in Pease ee Concord w itl all the Creating g W hereas | before theyowere convinced that it was > an Evil te deftroy.and eat the Flefh and Blood of ? Beafis, they , made no more of .kiling and. op= prefing Men, thana Wolf dothof devouring : a cheep, cr one ofour Butchers of daoeking down ‘a COW. Opi. con Aste ee oDhe: very fame, and fa greater: ‘Advantages would come to pafs amongft. Chasfidans, if they would ceafe from Contention, _Oppreffion. and. (what tends and difpofes them thereunto)che, kil Jing of Beafts, and: eating their Flef and Blood, and in-a fhort time humane Murders and devilith Fewds and Cruelties amongft each other would abate, and perhaps {carce have a being amongit _ them... For Separation has greater Power than — ~ moft imagin, whether it he from-evil or good; — for whatlecvet any man feparates, hitnfelf ahi that Property ia him is. prefently weakened. AS fuppote a idan feparate humielf irom any kind» of i nA . ‘Tarny Life ex mapoinets, e..*% P eee! Violence. ‘or Uncleanneliy gt aoe eke : eo ing obit to “difineaith between the good. and evil Principles, firtt in himfelf, and then ~ inall other things proportionably, but fo long as. men liveunder the Power of all kind of Unclean- nefs, Violence and O-preTion, they cannot fee. any Eviltherein, becau‘e the humane and divine. Principles are fo weak, feeble, and as it were: ~ dead; becau‘e their Counfels are continually dif- obey ’d, and inftead thereof, the Spirit of Error _ isfollowed. For this caufe thofe that do not fe- -parate themfelves from Uncleannefs, Oppreffion, and the like Evils, but are contented to follow. Li the: Multitude in che Left-hand-way, and refolve | to continue the Religion of their fore-Fathers, “though thereby they do but mean Cu/tom, the =? of Tyrants. °Tis, I fay, impoffible for uch People ever to underfand or know any thing, truely, either of divine or humane Myfte- fies, nor can any man penerate there-into, ex- cept he firft feparare himfelf from all evil and unclean Wayes of the Multitude , and their Cuftoms; for *tisthe departing from Evil, and the practice of Good that crowns a man ae | eee Vertue and Underftanding, and render : ae aye) esi: oa _ bon : - gR8 Dye way tobealth, | him capable to put the right Intrinfick Value upon things, and reckon them at their true Price ; for ’tis generally acknowledged amongft — _ menthe higheft Folly to judge of thofe things which they have never known nor been experi- ~-encedin: Who would ask an bomeft Tarpawlin- Seaman's Adviceina Law-Cafe? expe& a Plough- man Should relifh the Delicacies of an excellent Leffon of Mufick, or think a Cobler fit to value {ome curious Mafter-piece of Vandike or Lillies Painting? Soimprobable itis, that mea fhould have judgment in any Science, Art, or common ‘Trade, ifthey have not feparated themfelves from other matters, and applied themfelves fome time to fuch Crafts or Sciences. And yet fovain _ are moit men,as to fuppofe themfelves capable to judge of divine and humane Myfteries, though they flillave hurried with the Violencies, and wallow in the Uscleawneffes of the Multitude, ~ and hardly have had once in thein whole Lives a ferious thought about thefe fublime Matters, or ever applied themfelves to the PraQtice of them. Pp ts Sate: és . Ma if 6. By whathath been faid, it may fuficiently appear, That all things are moved by Simile, and every particular Property of Nature, both in the _ Eviland Good, does eagerly hunger after fuch Food as is proper to maintain andnourifh itsown © Body ; from which ground'it comesto pafs, that — the Eviland Wicked Beafficlity of a Nation or “particular AZ» does fenfibly move the Wrath of ‘God in the outward Elements by the fame way , : oft § i Z ss fontg Wife afta Bappinefs. 3.57 of Simile, and ftrengthens it powerfully, and as it were naturally kindling and drawing down the corrupt Nature in the Starsand Elements, whence proceeds both publick and private Calami- sies: Onthe other fide, Fu/tice, Clemency, ceafing fromViolenceand Cruely, andwalking in the friendly W ay of Righteoufne/s, Temperance and Purity, does awaken and corroborate the benovelent Influen- cies of the Coeleftial Bodies, and attraét Bleofings and Pro/perity: As witne(fs the Jews, when they lived in the Laws of God and Nature, they were bleffed with the Dew of Heaven and the fatne/s of the Earth, and with Health and all other Benefits, but when they broke his Commands, and ate pol- luted things, then was kindled the Wrath of God .and Nature, and many Calamities were fhowered down upon them. Hence alfo the holy Serip- tures teftitie, That the Prayers of the Ungodly are | an Abomination : God doth not hear or an{wer ‘them, becaufe they proceed from the wrathful Fountain, and have no fympathy with the divine Principle. But onthe contrary, the Prayers and | Defires of thofe that live in the fear of the Lord, and are guided by that divine Principle of his eternal Love and Light, areas /weet Incenfe in his | Noftrils, and he willanfwerthem from his holy _ Fad: for by way of fimile they open the everlajt- ing Doors.of the Palace of Glory, and draw down and are ftrengthened with the pleafant Fruits of ae Se cage 4 | | Thus every thing moveth towards its own Qepter, ape and site attraéts ater De. 2H things, to nourifh and maintain its own 1 Body a -,and this wasthe caufe why the Antients | ‘made » diftingt ons berween clan and unclean Crea. | tures, Meats and Communications, knowing that all things thara man doth. touch have p power: to- make him either better or worle. ae, | 3 7 Our] b! eHley Saviour ba Hh aid ‘ait, That | fe rom th xe Ligh and Grace it God, viz. ai the ‘ divine Princip'e, which does therefore likewife — “receive and comprehend them, He that calleth | his Brother a Focd. fall be’ in danger (faith the Scripture) of Hel! Fire: The Reafonis, Becauife t every word or work that i is framed or created © P from the H’rars in man, and received by its Like- f nejles, if not repented of, does cadanger the Soul, “i ‘and : ae. eee and is apt to precipitatethe Man into the Hidiijh Wature; for every Reot will greedily embrace its own Fruits, and every Word has a Key init. felf to’open'the Gate of sts own Principle, and to awaken and ftrengthen its own Property, as is -manifeftfrom every Moments Experience: Doth not the Avery Words and Looks of one Man awaken the fierce Wrath in others, to whom they are dire@ted?. The very fame good words and works will do; 4 /0ft dufwer ays the Wi'eman) patifies Wrath : Every. Word carries the power of _ that Property or Principle that was predominant Afi itjor from whence it was generated ; and there- -fore wherefoever its found or voice enters and meets: its Svwile; they immediately incorporate dad joyn forees, ftrengthening and encreafing the ame. If this were not fo,. the Apoftle Paul would not have faid, That. £7! Covsmemication corrupts good Manusrs, nor Davidhave avouched, - With the Froward thow foalt feara Frowardnefs. ‘Therefore tis abfolutely neceflary for Peonle:to _ know fome-what of themfelves, elfe they cannot underftand from what Property or Principle each Thought, Imagination and Word does proceed, and see themielves accordingly : _Uis the true _ Knowledge of God ina mans felf that teaches “Wildom and gives Underitanding of Good and _ Evil. : : -. 8. But there are many Thoulands that hardly ever intheir whole Lives do fo much as enquire |. after that true Avomledge which dwells ¢ffencially | ‘ “2 is ea: Pee hak cs ih bi F ogee Temk 4 ; oe vias 3 aa geo. co. “een noap to 0 Dealthy: ey Sy - in Man, or ‘mind: that ésternal Oracle, whee in - Difficulties they may and ought to enquire, as the worthy Prophet David faid, Iwilbhear what the Lord will [ay in me : Therefore as for thofe | that have hearkened to the Voice of Wifdom in themfelves, and obtained any trie Knowledge of God, they contend not about ostward Forms and Modes of Religion; for they have more fure Word of Prophecy {hinting as aLight in a dark placeto which they do well to give heed, being aGuid that teacheth — all Vertues, and condemneth all Vice; but on the other fide, thofe that never tura their Ejas saward, nor regard the Voice of Wifdom, that cryes. in the Gate of their City (as the Wife Man loves to fpeak) but look abroad, and hearken after other Voices, fuch cannot fland alone, they are meer Adjectives in Religion, Philofophy and Reafon, and are forced continually to lean on the Shoul- ders of others, and remain Darknefs in them- felves, asthough the Lord had not glven them any Su/t to favour their Ways, there being no end (and ’twere well there had been ao begin- ning) of Man’s running after others Gods, and of Worfhipping Idols; ; but where the true knowledge of God is not firft attained ina man’s felf, there neither can any man be fatisfied with what another man knows, becaufe it cannot be effential to him, but may be’either true or falfe, becaufe fuch Esr-Kyowledge does not arife from theLight of a mans Life, but is a thing accidental, for bese and atadiftance. This , Long wife arf Bappinets, 36n This aaidiogmert a mans own Gifts and Ta- lents (which the Lord hath given every man to profit himfelf withal) in Napkins of a fupine and carelefs Negligence, and hiding them inthe Earth, has been the chief caufe of mens running to and fro, and contending about other mens Gods, efteeming and fetting up Sigs and meer _ Shadows, and neglecting the true Subffsace ; what Aviftotle held, what Galiaz taught, what Hippo- erates, or St. Auguftin, or Tho. Aquinas, or twenty * fuch noted men have faid of fuch or fuch a mat- ter, they can till; but how the ching is in it felf, _ they themfelves are as blind as Bats; and the ’ Reafonis, they are like the Old Higg that Seneca © fome where mentions,who never pat her Eyes into her Head, but when fhe went «broad. Thus fome of our filly Travellers willtell you forty — ftories of France, Spain and Italy, but of the _ Rarities, the Commodities, the Manufattories, the Laws and Priviledges of England, their Native Country, they are utterly ignorant. Whata Madnefs is it for me, with toil and hazard to ramble to.the ends of the Earth, to dig inthe Mines of Potof, or pick up the glittering Dirt of - Guiny, when God hath furnifht meat home with a Soil that yields me precious Oar, much more. noble and ufeful ?. =f » Now that thefe Hear-/ay-mex or Book-Philofo- - phers, called, The Learned, are as igaorant as any (nay, commonly more than any others) of the true knowledge of God ia themfelves, appears ee. Aaa 8. 8 Undemably rg ro 362, he HoRy to Health, = “undeniably by their walking contrary tothe Ways “of Virtae, by their compelling and fgrcing others to their Selinvented Belly-Forms that are utterly deftitute of the ‘Life of Truth, who do commit the greatelt Ostrages againit-God and againft his “People, but chiefly the learned? it is they that “fet the “Rabble onto torment the Yzzocent and “fenple-hearted, and all fuch “as are’ of contrary formes to themfelves: All which ate the Bifeéts “of the awakened fierce Wrath, ‘and*does:declare -that the Dev?/ and ‘F-/b Powers do predominate in their Hearts, and that Love, Mercy, Meekne/s, and doing asa man world be done unto, “have no ~ being inthem; and it will be fo, aslong as men prefer Vanity, Tradition and their Belly, before the man that told the Woman of Samaria al/ things that ever [be did, which is Jefus €hritt, the true Light, that_enlightneth every man that cometh Cia ba) gato the PVorld. | aa _It was not therefore without deep Underftan- _ding that the more’ Prudent in all’ Ages’ did _efteem the knowledge of themfelves héfore all _ other Attainments, and recommended it as a » thing principally neceflary to every man; for © all that do know the Power of God inthemfelves, and are guided by the Voice of Wifdom, and © live in the friendly Light and Love of God, have | abandoned and utterly exiled all Alatred, Pride, | Malice, Back-biting,: highting, Kuling, Violence and Oppreffion whatfoever, either of Manor Beaft, andin themmeek. sapocent Li fpofitions and: Tncti- RUA a eccly ©) 1s) eh aa a — Se aes ‘nations do reign, ‘ufing and doing unto all Crea- ‘tures, as one’ would-be ufed and done unto; ‘fer Piol'nte and all kind of Craéltyand Opprelfion ISAs contrary to fuch Naturesas Darknels to Light. “And we may affirm, That never any men have “harmed, oppreffed, killed or ufed any kind of Vic- ‘Nenceto any tnnorent Creature from the excitement. or _ 'pomer of this d'vine Principle. ‘Therefore tet . _ > every ‘one confider this, they that find Hatre’, ‘Envy, ‘the Spirit of Oppreffion and Violence vo dwell in them, may certainly conclude them. delves'in the fierce Wrath of God; for all-fuch ‘Difpefitions and Inclinations do’ proceed from «that dark ‘Root of Bitterne/s, which is all contrary _ to the Spirit of Jefus Chrift. o Great is the whole Myftery of Godline/s, but ‘elpecially Chrift-Manifeft in the Fl-(b, viz. That the eternal Love and Light of God fhould dwell effentially in man ; ‘for after man {ufered his Wil} and Defiresto enter into Vanity and Beaftiality, the Lord-faid, It 2s not good nor \fafefor Man tobe alone, but promifed him, the feed of the Woman, the holy Principle of divine Light and Love, which will bru:fe the Head of the Serpent in all that adbear to and follow its Counfel, that is, it will deflroy the works of the Devil, and thea all Violenceand Oppreffion departs from that man, and that faying is fulfilled; The Lord. i wey Strength, my Safeouard and Portion: Andevery — man thus qualified is taught of God, Fehova) is his Tutor, and his Guide, the Mighty tide ae : Aga 2 i! Q | __. long ifeanneeypimts. 363 } fo that he will no longer run after other Godds, nor contend for aay thing but Truth and Righ- teoulnefs, and to live a feber harmlefs innocent Life in the fight of God and Man, 4nd doing unto — all as he would be done weto.’ And fuch purified Souls amidft all the Hlurries (the Storms and Agi- tations of the World round about them) do — fecurely ride at Anchor ina b4i/sful Calm, and are fatisfied with their Portions, and know their Centre, and to them all Contention ceafeth, and there is Peace on Earth as in Heaven, _. g. There is no neeeffity for Mankind to oppre/s, — hurreyand kill the Beafts and eat their Fig and Blood, as many ignorantly affirm, erying out, | What foall we do with them? They will over-run us, and eat us up, if we do not. kill and eat them. But £ Anfwer; That there is no fort of Cattle but is otherwife of ule befides to be eaten, and Horfes -are mot eaten, and yet what Nation complains of having toomany of them? But fome will fay, Many of them are. killed by Violence and Opprelfion ; which is confeffed: But ifthere were no Horfes deftroyed. that way, but ufed moderately and gently, yet there would be no fear of having too, many them; thelike may be faid of other inno- _ cent Creatures. ieee Sian cea ae 10. Theeating of Fée/hand killing ofCreatures for ‘that: purpofe was never begun, noris now continued for want orneceflity, or forthe Main- — tenance of Health, but nana becaufe the high lofty Spirit of Wrath and Senfuality had gotten — ) pint: ti ae ibe ae Pas ; Bee aK y ae ‘ , 4 8 r 3 4 t , 7 cs vi el tees Cee Ber ita Filo NOE ae see 4 ap i a us a aes ong wife and Bappiviets, 365 _ the Dominion in man, over the meek Loveand - innocent harmlefs Nature, and being fo rampant. could notbe fatisfied, except it had a proportion- able Food, and of all others, Fleb has the greateft Affinity, as is mentioned before. And if all men. would refrain eating of Fleb, there. would be no caufe for them to complain for want of Food,; for the Almighty has in all particulars been gracious and bountiful unto all Creatures, butmoreefpecially unto Mankind, for whom he. hath /pread a plentiful Table, furnifhing the whole _ Earth with a great multitude of variety of Herbs; Fruits, Grains and Seeds fit for Food, which do afforda Nourifhment of a moft excellent Sub- ftance, and far beyond Flefh, as it doth appear _ by all that haveapplyed themfelves tofueh harm- lefS innoeent Foods, efpecially in decay’d Na- tures and fick, as all with Voice confent, as well the learved (as they eallthem) asthe fimsple: For _ when People are ill, and Nature weakened with Diftempers, they all advife them to Potteges, Gruels, and various forts of Foods madeof Herbs, Fruats and Grains, but No Flefh mutt come near them during their Weaknefs.. Now if the Vegitables and Fruits do afford fuch an excellent Nourifhment, and have {ueh a natural and fecret Power to help and recover Nature, and reffore loft Flealth and Strength , how. much more then fhall they maintain and preferve it, when it is re{tored ° es 7 nce - But Fle/> was never defired becaufe men found z any 3008: de any defeét,in the: Nour the: like. but’ Violence, nor be eaten without: being: more cr from the Creature, when the paisfal A-onzes of q op ghee ak ae) oe < & poet = - Did men underftand or confider this Power of Nature, they would not fo much defire Fie(b _ without diftimétion, nor make it their common _ Food, but rather with the Wife Antients, would have Herbs, Seeds and Grains in high Reputation, _ hot only for that they maintain men in Health, . | Strength end Agility of Body and Mind, and attribute to long Life, far beyend all Feb, but ‘allo becaufe fuch things have a true innceent Original, being enduéd with neither Love, Hate; Fear, joy nor Sorrow,” but void of ee 2 | : all 7308. ) fore not capable of enkindling any fuch thing i in inan, or awaking ought but what is like them: felves: Thus in in their own kind they are harmlefS and innocent; but Feb is “altogether: thecontrary, and cannot be procured without | oppreffing the Way of God in Nature, and cau- fing the Creatures to. figh, groan and cry to be delivered into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God; and this keeps the fierce Wrath in motion, ‘and caulethitto break forth upont them in many and great Calamities. ‘ar. When the Seribes and Pharifees, ita 15.17. accuféd the Difeiples for eating of Bread with wnwafhen hands, our Saviour Chrift tells. them, It és aot that which goeth into the Mouth de-’ filth 4 wan, but that which proceedeth out of the Heat. This the Difciplés ‘did not underftand, and therefore askt Jefus, What it did weap? who anfwers, Out of the Heart proceeds Evil Thoughts, Murilers, Adulteries, and all kind of Intemperances. Now if the Foundation be bitter, the ftreams cannot be fweet: Ifthe Heart be defiled, then all the ‘Thoughts, Words and Works are alfo de- all nfs Sens Er sssr a Dea ahd rhea: - filed; but if the Heart be clean, then the Co- 4 gitation and Defires are fo alto ; for every man. becomes either clean or unclean, as he eonfents to, or fuffers his Will to enter into the good or evil Principle in himfelf’ ‘Therefore ‘no Meats, Drinks, Words or Works have any Power to defile aman, "fo! long ashis Heart, thatis, his | me an ) 4 tong Wife and bappitiets. 369 - and Defires are elean ; for then from thence — - can proceed no Inclination or Difpofition to any outward thing, but what is like it felf; for if the divine Powér and Humanity.do predominate in a mans heart, it attracteth fuch matter out of __ all things, as is capable to encreafe and nourifh ‘itsown Body; for no man ever did or ean obferve the Rules of Cleanze/s, Sobriety and Temperance, before there was an inward Work and Reforma- tionin the Heart; for all men are firft defiled in _ Imaginations and Defires, before they bring it forth into AGtion: Géluttony, Drunkenne/s, and — all kinds of Superfluity proceed from a contami- ‘nated Heart, which if it were clean, then | Thoughts, Words, Meats or Drinks; Quantity or Quality would not fully him, becaufe his Defires would be bounded and contented with what was. needful; but when a man is corrupted within, there is no end of wanton, vain fuperfluous Thoughts and Defires after thofe things that are peedful, nor indeed convenient for him. _. There is a twofold manner of Defilement ; | ft By Imagination aud Defires; 2dly, The putting thofe Thoughts and Defires into Aticn ; which is _ tenfold a greater Evil than the firft: All good men that have defired to live in Se//-denial, know this to be true; for though evil Thoughts and Defires wilh frequently obtrude themfelves, yet _ if a man ftands upon his Guard, they are eafily eur of in the bud, becaufe they are not yet grown up to’a Subftance, and therefore do nor | SRR er BD bring * | ie 7, rt) POULT a8 ¥ Day ral ae =, DD) cae aD ps ¥, yy Ae ee = Be tray * Wee ; \ ote Ea b 3 4 2 tA “fie Ghe wap to 0 Wealthy at ‘bring the Soul into fuch horror as wttigids de when a man purfues his evil Thoughts, and j brings them into Action igs ‘In Man are the two grand Fountains, vit. Good and Evil, and the Seripture faith, The Right-hand-vway and the Left. Now which foever s of thefe two Principles do earry the upper-moft _ Dominion in the heart of man, from thence are generated, and do proseed the predominant Thoughts,Defires, Words and Works; this is clearly manifefted in all other Creatures, as well as in. man (though in a moreefpecial manner in the | human Nature) for do we not fee,that aceording to the prevailing Property in each Beaft, fuitable are their Inclinations; if it bethe Sanguine friendly. Property of Nature, then fuch Beafts are tame, and eafily tractable, of friendly Difpofitions and _ pkeafant Forms & Shapes,and all fuch Beafts were. by the old Seers and Men of God pronounced Clean, and they defire not, nor incline to aay other fort of Food but what is'‘clean, innocent, and ofa proportionable Nature tothemfelves: On the other fide, thofe Beafts in whom the un- clean fierés wrathfulinhuman Nature has domi-> nion, their very Shapes and Forms fhew fierce-; -nef§, their Countenances are > terrible and: frightful to behold, .and their Inctinations are; both cruel and: unclean, they are not fatisfied - with innocent Food, as otlier Beafts ase, becanfe fuch harmlefs things ‘have little or nofimerle with - the Ferecity of rhieir int whieh prompts. them SS en ot , , > oy of — loirg Like and Pappinets. R73 them to tear and hurry their Fellow-Creatures, and eat their Flefhand Blood, as Dogs, Cats, Swine, Bears, Lyons, Tygers, Foxes, and many others, divers of which our Saviour likexed men unto, becaufe he faw that the fame fierce un. clean favage Nature of fuch Beafts did rulein them, andthence the faid men were more fierée, ~ ravenous and hungry after Blood and all other _ Uneleannefs, than the very Beafts of Prey them- - felves, fo greatly mifchievous is the depraved Nature of Mankind, when he fuffers his Will aad Defires to enter into and live in the Power of the _ Wrath of God in Nature. But toeat Bread or any other Food with unwafhen hands, (previs ded the Food be clean, and not too much in Quantity, nor of a contrary Quality) is no man- ner of Uncleannefs, but a vain fuperftition in the Pharifees, whodid love to make clean the Quéfide of the Cup, but did not matter the Ixfide; where- asthe Work of Chrift was to clean the Iznard Man from every unclean Thought, Defre and In- ciination. And when this cleanfing ftate can be -witneffed by any man, then no Meats, Drinks, nor other unclean thing can enter into him, {0 as te defile him, becaufe his Defires thereunto are cut of in the bud, and utterly mortified; for no man ever did commit any Uncleannefs or In- temperance, but firft the Contrivance thereof was in the Heart; may, when men firft think to commit am Uscleannefs or Violence, there does _ oft-times happen in the Heart great controverfie “Bbb2 ~ or 2: ee ae rat + -} rh, 7 ee . « ; é ‘ ‘ s 5 = Dries aie at TR Ome}: ee : ee ae ie ag MS 372 The my 'to Health, or ftruggling between the divine Principle and the Wrath, and which of thefe two does prevail and get the dominion, accordingly the man aéts- pr forbears; and {ometimes it comes to pafs, that in this inward Conteft the evil Imaginations are _ cut off in the bud, that is, when the divine Prin- ciple prevails, and will not fuffer them to proceed intoAc, and attain unto a Subftance, but when — the Wrathful Nature getsthe Day, then every unclean ‘Thought and Defire is accomplifht, and becomes a fubftantial Evil; 35 >) ee Thus you fee the grand Root and Caufe of all. kinds of Virtue and Vice is inward, not outward; each mans Fruits manifeft from what Principle — they derive their Birth: The external Cleannefs and Virtue.is only a. manifeftation of what Pro- perty does reigninthe Soul; Therefore the firft ftep to Vertue, Cleanne/s, Sobriety and Temperance — is to turn the Eye of the Underftanding Inward, and there examine and try what kind of Spirit rules in the Heart: ‘This knowledge ofa mans’ felf,. and to. diftinguifh between the good and evil Principle of Nature in himfelf, is of abfolute neceflity to every Perfon ; for | he that cannot diftinguifh the two’ Seeds, viz. that of the Woman, and that of the Serpent within, can never be able to judge of good or evil, clean and the cogtrary without. A true invard K powledge goes before Self-denial; he that cannot diftinguifh the Properties of his own~ Nature, cannot know what to deny. himfelf of, Tong wifeand Wappinets. 573 ~ or what to embrace ; But happy is the Man that — getteth Wifdom and findeth Ls meta i ya. We read in the Aas of the Apoftles, ch.10. | That the Apoftle Peter had aVifion, tnwhich appear- ed before bins all rsanner of Beafts, Fowls and creep- dng things, both clean and unclean, -and the Lord Maid unto him, -4ri/e Peter, kill -and eat; who _anfwered, Lord, I have not at amy time eaten any “thing that is Common and Unclean. And the Lord faid, What Ihave cleanfed, call thou not Unclean : Then Peter arofe and faid, Of a Truth, the Lord #8 no Refpecter of Perfons, neither to Jew nor Gen- tiles, Bond nor Free, but every one that feareth God ana workth Righteou[ne/s, is refpected and accepted of him. ‘This Vifion was intended not fo much to contrary, but toconvince Peter, and take off that | feruple he had touching Preaching the Cofpel to _ the uncircumcifed or Gentiles ; for in the Vifton was reprefented to him Al kinds of Creatures, as as well poy/onons creeping Vermin as clean and un- clean Beafts, which was a true Figure of the unregenerate ftzte of Mankind, and how the _ Beaftial fierce Wrath of the clean and unclean Beafts deesreignin him; andalfo, chat the poy-, » _ fonous Qualities of all forts of creeping Creatures _and Vermin havea being andruleinmen. This isagreat Figure, which did fhew our depraved ftate, and that the Creator did not refpect one more than another, but every one that would -Feceive tne Counfel of the divine Light, and [sage PBs | . through. - thew the lawfulnefs of eating clean Feb, or the . , ar. ey, ie — Ye © . ee a +s . » oe? PRA | > Seer tata” oo ee. nee \vie S. rn an , IOV a a? eee ae s sae % “Arisa ae | > wari SP ie i a Ret : ay bs i es kes iy na coe oe b w eee eee 3 sake t £ eee ‘toi em ot} ee 3 7 ‘ a ae Or. » A sty f rd ea ‘ > a i 4 4 , { as ‘ di 2. ore yh, 4 Linas » me, v SE eke ee Oe ee WE OG a Sea Sd Pig His, of him, and that Perer fhould preach the Gofpel _ freely both to Few and Gentile: Therefore who- that | o o.-ekatipe 3 - a ee co | dong jite and Bappinels. = 375 that ina little time they will find no place in the. _ Soul; for thereis the fame poffibility and energy in the divine Prineiple in man, as there is the _ wrarhful cruel Principle, if the Willand Defires adhere untoand follow the firft, then that grows _ ftrong and gets the Dominion, and purgeth out of the Heart Violence and Opprefion, and deftroys all Sen/mality ; but if the Counfel of the fierce _wrathful bitter Root prevail, then the mans mind becomes a Cage of unclean Birds, and is filled with Bes/fiality and poyfonons Inclinaions, _ whereby men come to exceed all the Savages of _ the Defert inCraelty. and Uxcleanne/s, and moft of them that have Power live upon the /poil of others Labours, and by Kling and Oppreffixg as well thofe of their ow# Kyad as all other Creatures. Hence, beecaufe Man that was originally formed thelage of God,and the Rival of Angels,had now fofar degenerated and depraved himfelf, as to _ engrofs all the worft Qualities of even the worlt Of Beafts; the holy Sages are wont to liken fome men to Dogs, for their Snarling and Con- tention; others to Wolves, for their Ravenous Cruelty ; others to Swize, for their fortifh Senfua- fity; and our Saviour calls the Scribes and Pha- | rice: A Generation of Vipers, for their venomous ~~ Qualities. ae ~ Furthermore, this Vifion of Peter does declare, That this evil Beaftial cruel unclean Nature that _had gotten the dominion in man fhould be de- _ ftroyed through the divine Power ; for genes . ala, 3756 «= The May to Wealth, faid, Arife Peter, Kill and eat: Thatis, Mor- tifie the Beaftial Properties, and let the unclean _ Thoughts, Words and Works be cut off inthe bud by the Sword of the Sprit: It was the -poyfonous Vermin and violent unclean Nature within, which the Lord would have deftroyed and killed, not the Beafts without ;' for Man’s _moft deadly Enemies are thofe of his own Houfbold ; inward, not outward ; and accordingly the chief work of every good man is internal; and if the Heart and Soul be clean, then the Thoxghts, Words, Works, Meats, Drinks, ond all other “things belonging to the whole Life are alfo clean; for where the divine Principle has the A/cesdaxt, all the Thoughts and Defires are generated from the fame, and relifh of their Original, which does attra&t the pure Vertue out of all things, be- caufe it has an Unity and Agreement with its own Nature. | Sitar crank. 13. Itis grand Miftake of People in this Age, to an or {uppofe, That Flefb affords not only a frronger Nourifbment, but alfo more and better than "Flerbs, Grains, Ge. for the truth is, it does yield © more Nourifhment,but norof{ofirm a fubftance, nor {0 good as that whieh proceeds from the other — Food; for F/-/b has more matter for Corruption, © and nothing fo foon turns to Putrifaction. Now” *tis certain, fuch forts of Food as are fubject to — putrifie before they are eaten,are alfo liable to the © - fame afterwards; befides, Flefh is of foft moift © profs phlegmy Quality, and generates a Nourifh- EMO ee eee ment — Ni Z Brey i ) loug Life and Hayhitiets. 377: ment of alike Nature: 3d/y, Flefb heats the Body and caufeth a Drought: 4thly, Flefb does breed great ftore of noxious Humours: xthly, Te mutt be confidered, that all forts of Beafts and other living Creatures, are fubje€t to Difeates, and many other Incorivenienciesand Uncleannefles, Surfeits, Over-driving, Abufeé of cruel Butchers, _ &c. which renders their flefh {till more unwhol- fome. But on the contrary, all forts of dry Foods, as Bread, Cheefe, Herbs, and many Pre: parations of Milk, Pulfes, Grains and Fruits; __ as their Original is moreclean,{fo being of a found firm Nature, they afford a more exeellent Nou- rifhment, and more eafie of Concoction ; fo that if a man fhould exceed in Quantity, the Health will not thereby be brought into fuch danger, as by the fuperfluous eating of Blefh. Add to this, that all kind of Vegétatives being well prepared, and the Mixtures properly made, : _ are abundantly more pleafant and delightful to an undepraved Pallat, and alfoto the Stomach, than _ Flefh, as shey are alfo much more pleafant to lookupon. What an ill and ungrateful fight is it to behold dead Carcafles and pieces of bloody raw Flefh? It would undoubtedly appear dreadful, and no man but would abhor tothink - of putting it in-his-Mouth, had not Ule and Cuftom from Generation to Generation familias riz‘d itto us, which is fo prevalent, that we read, in fome Countries the mode is to eat the Bodies of their dead Parents and Friends, thinking they Cce 3 ~ can + t anno way afford thema mor others have when they fall aboad the Leg. ofaRa+ - bit orthe Wing of aLarls. Suppofea Perfon were — bred up in a place where it wasnot a caftam co kill and eat Flefh, and fhould come-into our Leadex~ Eal!-Market,or view our Slaughter-houfes, and fee the Communication we have with dead Bodies,& how blith and merry we areat their Funerals,and what honourable Sepulchers we bury the dead Carcafles of Feaftsin, nay, their very Guts and _ Entrails; would he got be filled with Aftonifh: _mentand Horror? Would he not count us cruel Montfters? and fay, That we were brutified, ana performed the part of Beafts of Prey, to live thus om the [potls of our fellow-creatwres? = - Thus Cuftom has awakened the inhumane fierce Nature, which makes killing, handling and feeding upon Fe and Blood, without di- _ ftinction, fo eafie and familiar unto Mankind: And the fame is to be underftood of men, Ké/- — ting and Oppreffing thofe of their own Kind; tex do we not fee, that a Souldier, whoistrainedupin — the Wars of Bloody-minded Princes, fhall kill — - an hundred men without any trouble or regret of {pirit, and calous. 4 Theret is. no Marksof. Diftin@tiony no ‘eminent Token. whereby: ‘to: -demonttrate-theit — Nobility ; ; for the Lord las endued:the: spoorefe and mseayeft of men with all the NobléFaculnes “of, Nature 5 beth | Divine and : Hirmiabe,: as liz ‘erally as the. mightieft »Potentates :\ oHas' not the. poor Man.as great Pleafure\ving‘vand Refrefhment. and ,Nousifhment «by - eating and, drinking as ‘the 2moft: Neblehsebeitiie: | his fight. as-clear ‘and as- perfesh to behold the amazing . ‘Wonders of God?s Creation!? Do: not. the melodious Harmonies), and: chatming, | Airs. of -Mufick delight'.the - -Phantafie, | ‘and ql chear the. Soul ofa’ ‘poets Man, as snuch ds | of a, Kl NG?: And. Gf we may: defcend ‘to a erofler. Pleafures) "have. not the meaneft of: Men as great..content and! fatisfa&tion: with his» poor Ruffer-Coated Wi fess as’ the preareft Prince: - with’ his, Gaye? oBride,?.Whence the’ Poets al-\ - ways feigned. LOVE (¢ she nobleft.of the Paffions)> to.be bred amonglt, the! Vilagers, anda Com-\ panion. of Ru/ticks and Shepherdeffen: Nay, (to! 20, higher) has. not the: great: All-wife:Greator . given. the. moft, friendly. Element; the ir, in Gavil-kiad, toall the Sons of men, every One enjoying an equal Portion?’ And are»not the eteateft of Men ;fubje@ito all the Injuries:of the . Elements, and Neceflities-and, Accidents of na-» — tural Life, viz. Heat, Coldy Hunger, Thinfy.Di-. eafes, and even 1 Daath it Lilf 3 as. ‘much; wand » * / long Life and bappinels. = 395 frequently, and ascertainly asthe Poor? And — yet {till men are fo foolifh and fo vain as to vaunt | of their great Birth and their Noble Blood: Can any things e More extravagantly Ridiculous? — _ Trueitis, allthat are Governours, Magifirates and Officers of the People ought tobe honoured and refpected in their places, according to their refpeftive Dignities, and fo much the moreif they govern according to the Law of God and Nature, doing every man Juftice and Right, and __ being a Terror to evil Doers, and a Praife unto then that do well. Butthis real Honour, contracted on Political Confiderations of Office and Virtue, is ‘nothuee to that Fantaftick Glory, derived meerly frofr Anceftors, and the brave Feats done by. Our Great-Granfiers Grand- Fathers, {0 much _ boafted of by thofe who pleafe themfelvesin be- ing Great, cather by their Mothers Labours than their cin. 14. It is be to noted, That moft forts of Flefh. and Fifh, asto their operations on the Body and Senfes, are not fo innocent, brisk, airy andlively . as Herbs, Seeds, Grains, Frusts, and various forts ‘of excellent Food made of them, though many of our Exgli{b Belly-Gods fuppofe Flefh to be moft mighty in its operation; but they are grofly _ miftaken, and no wonder, fince their Bratus, Wits and Under ftandings,‘are, through Intempe- rance, Superfluity and Gluttony, faxk ixto their Bellies; for Flefhis of a grofs fubftance, dulland heavy in its operation, fills the body with abun- ts Eee 2 ance “456 he av to teat, dance of flimy corrupt ‘Juice , bad Blood, andi is manyConttitutions too ) Sreat aQuantity,and ane , eth the Azimal gee to be very impure, whence | arife Boils, Sca King "s-Evils, L rofies, and foretimes ‘clotted. Blood, like” “pieces of Flefh, which liein fome of the Vellels. of the Stomach, tll being gathered into hard Lumps, they forely opprefs “Nature, aad caufe DilkmP ety which are the Death of Multitudes. - Feehand Blood istoo near of kin to the nit Life i in man, tobe a proper Food forhim; tis — like the Marrying of Brothers and Sifters; there- fore the Antients were.curious in forbidding efpe- gally the eating of the Flefh of any of thofe baie that would naturally é eat the Flefh of their Fellow-Creatures; and we neéd.go no further - than every mans ‘Experience, to. know that alf . fuch Flefh, and alfo Fifh, have a rank ftrong - fulfom Tafte, and affords a like Nourifhment Nor has Fie/b and Blood grown into fo great Re. . putation from the excellency of its Tafte or Nou. | ryifhment, but chiefly (as we have elfe-where : obferved) fromthe near Affinity it has with the awakened Wrath and beaftial Nature, which in molt men predominates. Hence, when once _ men have tafted Feb, With the Blood, the Beafial Kudlities are prefently. irritated and fo pleafed, that nothing elle will afford them fuch fatisfa&ti- on, becaufeof its great A Tinity with the Beaftzal and Avimal Life ; the hunger apys. fo ftrong in many, that they wil eat :Flefh Ot Fi h that itinks cae ? oa. “be * % A | Eee, Re. iy rai) a te . % inet Ly Ay f My at { f A! i ‘ ewe “7 tr n Wis 7] a ea 398 Be Sica la a A SR se nee, ahh) a . Bl eR RE Tone TEs QP MN DP ee) cee Rs Cae any Oe a ae ae a a ne T arama Talon Hae Ok 0 ina 5 Hae enh GU ae te ane ee ee ars Rie * dir, 1 j ae) Niet cbt ke oe ut at; is 2 a ane Ty ten aa Ly he maay to Dealty, you abftsin from Blood, Fornications, things offer'd to Idols, Ana things ftrangled. There being more Evil in all forts of Flefh and Fith that is{o killed} than moft do imagine; for when there is no_ Wound made, the Avimal beaftial wrathful fierce original poyfonous Spirits become fisffocated, and — Death’s {troke brings the whole Nature into fuch: — amazing frightful Avgonies, as few men or Kil- lers of Bea/fs are fenfible. of, or endued with fo — much Humanity to Confider ; (for if they did fuffer Compaffion to arife in them, their lewd Trade of killing would not be 0 eafie to them) I fay, the central Poyfons being awakened by the ftroke of Death, and finding no Paflage, they feize the pure Spirits, whofe Habitation is the Blood, and then prefently the fwegt Oy! or bal- famick Property turns four, ftrong and fulfom, — as is manifeft every where, both in Aszimals and Fegitables, whenfoever the pure {pirituous parts are by any improper Erepato or other Ac: - cidents, wounded , fuffocated or evaporated, then in a Moments time the {weet balfamick Property is depraved, and turns eager and un- wholfom. Hence it is, that the Flefh of thofe Creatures that are {trangled does neither'‘look fo — well, nor eat fo {weet, nor is fo healthy asother - Hlefh; for when any Creature perceives its Life in danger, there is fucha ftruggling and horror | within, as none can imagine, butfuch onlyas have been near dead by the like means, it being the very fame.in a Bea asin Mes, This being © | , | ' better’. oe Pet, rt ~ ede é ss fog Life and Bappintets. 399 etter underftood by the Antients than now-a-days, it was therefore amongft them not lawful to kill any Creature that was to beeaten _ without making a Wound, by which meansthe _ Blood did pafs freely away, and with it the ferce — and wrathful Spirits and Poyfon:, and fo the * Flefh was purged and freed from many forts of . Uncleannefs, and even this Blood fo let forth was to be buried in the ground, or burned, and fo the beaftial Spirits prevented from Evaporations, or incorporating themfelves with the Air, and ‘confequently from entring into and infe€ting the _ ‘humane Nature with their wrathful Effuviums _ -and dreadful Species, that the blood of all Crea- tures are full of, when killed in their health and perfec ftrength. | apo ree _ The greateft Excellency and common Virtue Of mens eating much Flefh and-Fifh, is, that it makes them Surly, Robuftick, Sordid and of - crue) inhumane Difpofitions and Inclinations, itbeingthe moft proper for Sowldiers, Hunters, | Mofs-Troopers, andall {uch as would have the beaftial favage Nature ftrengthened & encreafed, _ and havea mind to be Lyons & Devils, not only to — their own kind, ‘but all other Creatures; and fo long as People give their Wills up unto the fierce | proud wrathful poyfonous Nature, wemay not _ expect any other Trade to be driven amongft us, whence we find that the meck friendly Principle, istrodden under foot, Compaffion has little or no | place in man, further than it is a Cuftom, ms ei deat (4 pe Sf aS tare dg es é or wr es =) eget. e gee Che wnoap to vo penne ey. | he feems wholly gota oer to teres Opti ase peanaaeede B Sigh 23 4 urs be 2 bbe Creation groans Hot, | or J fighs; there’s no Pain, ‘Violence or Cruelty com- é mitted i inthe ufe of them; they generate purer — Spirits, and make the Body. lightfom and plea-__ fant, freethe Mind from dullnefs, care and hea- | vinefs,. quicken: all the Senfes, make a good | Underftanding, - _preferve Innocency, — vencreafe | Compaffion, Love, Humility and Charity, give the | Spirit of diftin€tion between Good and Evil, _ Clean and Unclean, and help us with many op- portunities for the ftudy of all true Wifdom, 5 both of God, Nature, and our felves: Ina word, — the Vertues beth divine andmatural,. that follow Abftinency and Cleannefs are not to be numbred ; many of them I know by ‘experience, ‘through i the mercy and good favour of the Lord; It makes a man hate all rude, vain Talkative Cony any, | and the many Inconveniencies that attend fuch | a courfe’ of Late: it alfo. makes: the Obfervers | -_thereofcapable at all Seafons to fpeak the words _ of Wildom,either divine.or human,being burllike es Glafs- Windows: bo. an Houle, dtlecsinthe | hake: “pleafeane — Totig dLife and Happinels. = 403 .pleafant light Air, by giving opportunities to all the noble Faculties of mans Soul to exercife their Fun@tions; it tunes the Properties of Nature, whence proceeds molt excellent Harmony, and whoever fhalltry it, fhall certainly find much more fatisfaction and advantages than is here related, or indeed than can be expreffed in words. A | ll _ 45. Itis further to be noted, that all kind of daventions and Arts that eneourage Violence and -Oppreffion, have proceeded from the fierce,harfh Wrath of God, and the uneven Properties of | Saturnand Mars, as Gun-powder, Guns; Drums, and all War-like Inftruments of Mufick. ~ There is nothing that does) more manifeft this than Gun-Powder, where the pure fpirituous parts and balfamick Vertues in all the Ingredients, are _duffecated and deitroyed,. fo that it becomes a _Mmeer Compofition of Wrath and Fierceneis ; for every Property of Nature becomes fierce and terrible, or ftrong fulfom and poyfonous, if the virtue and light thereof be deftroyed, og Je; arated from it; for every particular Creature orSubftance, both Vegstable, Mineral and Api- _ wal does conlift of Fire and L ight,Loveand Anger, Foy and Sorrow, Good and Evil; ‘Thefe ‘are the _ Radixesos each Subject throughout all the three Kingdoms of Nature, and if in any thing you -violate the lovely light part, then the angery Properties appear in their own Forins ; an In- tance whereof we have before mentioned in oy my ~~ Gharcoal, Soe A ‘he way t to Beatty bes Chanzoal, which is one Ingredient towards Gus ‘Ponda, and all the ve(t are alike, being of a terrible, vending, tearing, devilith, fierce Nature, and init is a true Figure of the Wrath of God in.- the outward Nature; fo likewife the found of Drums, and ail ‘Weapons of War and Violence proceed from the fame Root of Wrath, and ac- cordingly the ufe of all fuch things do much - encourageand {trengthen the -wrathful Properties an Maniind, who if they had not, ‘or did not filer their Wills and Defires to enter into the Wrath and fierce Properties of Nature in them- frives, and were not acted and influenced by ‘at, there would never have been any -of thofe Ficllifh Inventions, as Swords, Guns, Powder, Drums, Bows, Arrows and other murdering Pe gises, morany thoughts-of KyHing, Oppreffing and Deflxoyving thole of their Own K zd, nor any other egg eae 5 ‘but Man thould have kept that Do- | inion over the ‘Creatures wherewith the Crea- tex mvefted him in the beeinning, and no Crea- tune Thould have had Power to have influenced hum, or impoled their Properties upon him: ; ty chen, touching alt fighting, opprefing and Katine, ler it be littl cr much, and the pretenee | eter “it wail, weafirm, froma true light and ered, Thatthe fame do arifeand proceed from “the fierce Wrath of Ged, and trom that Devilifh Helidth Nature in Nacure Man swhich is as con- pay Pye aces friendly Love ‘and Light of God in Fehuis Chrift, as the Nig “ghtustothe Day; forifin” man | long Wife andbappinets. — § 4oz man, or any other Creature, the evil Property dO predominate and is moft manifeft, there the good Qualities and friendly Light is overcome, and {0 onthe contrary ; for every Property and Princi- pledoes manifeft and bring forth its own fruit, as our Saviour Chrift fays, Every Tree is known by its Fruits; a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit, nor anevil Tree good Fruit, According to what Property does rule in the heart of any man, fuch are his Thoughts, Words and Aétions; where the divine Principle of Gods eternal Love and Light doth predominate, fuch Perfons bring forth _thofe good and precious Fruits of Love, Mercy, Compalfion courteous Speeches, Works of Charity, and doing unto all men as they would be done unto; but - thofein whom the hellifh Prineiple bears fway, their Fruits are worfe than Briars and Thoras, fuch as Back-biting, Hatred, Oppreffion, Killing, “not only inferiour Creatures, but even thofe of their Own Kind, and working all forts of Impiety with greedinefs. ‘Therefore ’tis of unfpeakable Moment, to be able to diftinguifh in our felves the two Principles, and their refpective Fruits, and tobe careful to deny and root out the Evil, and cherifh and follow the counfel of the holy Light, which if obey’d is fufficient to deftroy allthe mifchievous Works of Self-hood and the Devil; for as the moremen habituate themfelves to Cruelty, Oppreffion, Unmercifulnefs, Killing, _and the like, the ftronger the Hellifh Principle of Wrath does grow,and the worfe and more cruel | By they Nef Gok a TO RS a eet "iy J Ne RR q r) + hin’, W uf } 7 1. Ni ey th ne “ rus peyou \ee ar eae | ee a , +3 : F gj si yy Pas ; hr < 404 Whe weap to Wealthy, they: become: So in the praétice of Vertue, — every Property and Principle grows ftrong by — Ufe and Exercife; and he that enters into the — narrow Path of Regeneration and Self-denial, - ought always to fear to opprefs or do unto any Creature that which he would not havedone ~ unto himfelf; for Oppreffion, Killing, wrathful Words and Works do belong to the Agyptians, and ‘not to thofe that travel towards the Land of Ca- yaan, An Inftance of which. we have in St, Fade, who faid, That whea Michael, the Arch- Angel, difputed about the Body of Moles with the Devil, be did not dare to bring any Railing Accufa- tion, not but the good Angel might, as to Juftice, have done it; but he did not dare doit, becaufe he muff firft have entered with his Will into the wrathful fierce Principle or hellifh Nature, and -awalkerved it in himfelf; therefore he only faid, The Lord rebuke thee: And for the fame Reafon our Saviour Chrift commands men JVot to be An- gery, nor call their Brethren Ratha or Fools; that is, any Name of Wrath, Maliceor Contempt. _ If this. were rightly underltood and regarded, then would not dare abandon themfelves to fuch Heats, Paflions and Furies as every day we be- hold; they would not make it a Trade, a Sport, a Pafs-time to kill, murcer, and ufe all kind of Violence. We read in Gexefis of Lot’s Wile, that fhe locked back towards Sodom, for which fhe was turned intoa Pillar of Saf; fhe entred inte tne herce Anger arid Wrathof God and Nature w hich ’ 1g? the Prophets, and all thofe whom the Lord en- Jightned with divine and human Underftanding, and whofe chief bufinefs was to reclaim men _ from the Snares and Evils of Oppreffion and Vio- lence, and teach them the Wayes of Mercy, Clemency and Love, often threatned them with the fame Judgment which befell Lot’s Wife, ‘it being the Portion of all that live and dye inthe - Spirit of Oppreffion. Nay, was not that great man Mofes prevented from entring into the Holy Land, becaufe he was wroth with the Children ~ of I/rael, when they murmured and complained _ for want of Water, faying, Ye Rebels! muff we. fetch Water out of this Rock for you? Whereup- on faiththe Lord to him and his Brother Aarox, Becaufe ye believed me not, to [anctifie me in the Eyes of the Children of \Urael; therefore fball you wot bring this Congregation into the Land which I | have given them. Here Mofes and Aaron had fuf- fered their Defires and Wills to enter into the wrathful Center and Se/f-hood, whence the word Rebel was formed; for the very Sound thereof _ demonftratesfrom what Principle it does proceed. _And hence probably it may be, that the Evil — Angel did fo difpute about , or claim a property to the body of Mo/es. we This therefore is a principal Point in ig Pl | fer * Diss Kiel erates Si See a Ms. ge eaeieh es ee i alr hbvieNe ha a ee pi x diets Pg teh OTR fe ANS ON ee aa a wy fist Saar uy wey ere to: ealth. won ye, 406 ©=—— ss he MBayto meaty, sy ? r ; a it ae aS a TO Na eS eget, _ Ofthat great Man, King David, who isfom- — times ftiled, A Maz after Gods own Heart, the Scripture faith, That the Lord did not admit him to build the outward Temple (which wasa true figure of the zeterzal and /piritual Temple) And what was theReafon? Becaufe he had been a man of Violence and Blood, which had fo awakened the Principle of Wrath and Fiercenefs, as did very — _gmuch impede the divine Work : & this it will do, — | E i | not x lot only in David b kindled; No mat can do the werk of ¥ reel, * Tomy Lite ant. Bapgirels. pea it wi: bur ‘all others ja whom ir and not awaken and ftrengthem tite Principe which leads.to fuch AG@s, as is. flirtler ma tTrihtt- ed by all thofe that are of violent Trades aud killiag Impl oyments, alchough fock gers a> not fell the Beafis in Anger, or Ina way of Re- venge for any Injuries pretended formerly te be done, but doit meerly as iris their Occupatice whereby to get a Liveliliocd, yet ueverthetets infenfibly, and unknown to. their Reafon ard i ¥a- tention, they do by degrees‘irritate and correbo- _¥ate the fierce Properties of Nature, amd hecome raih, and fierce, and liot, and cruel.» N o wonder then if moft of th e holy Menand. Prophets, who by a divine Eye and Underftand- ing did pry into the hidden Mryfteries: of God - and Nature, were ftri& Abftainers, ~ and fepara~ ted themfelves from the Uncleanneffes, Gppred on _ongand Violencies tat the fuverfiuous woridiy Belly-Gods do fabject themfelves unto, W sae ‘chief care is to procure fuch Meats aad Drinks: as will gratifie their Pallats and Appetites, ier | fing of which, they regard not whom they op prefs, be they Men or Bealts, fome of theas Spending as mucly in one day as arr hundred man: a ean get by their hard Labour, aud ail to plead. Li na - the wanton Luftand mementory Pleafure of ae Throat, they having but only the meer Form and Shapes of Mert, and ya really va id host of Humanity and Chriffisnity. ~ Grom this ground ene ae Aas dla ia By AS A rage Ne sca nn et kl Ms AF a st i RE aa 6) 48 Che way tolealty, doth proceed all violent Courfes and Contefitions, borh publick and private; which Evils will mever beremedied, except men takeup the Crofs and deny themfelves, and follow the Counfel of © the divine Principle, and hearken unto the Voice of Wifdom, which continually erys in she _ Gate ofevery mans City, and happy is he that — hearkens unto her; for fheis a fufficient Guide — to lead every one into the pure fimple way of Truth, and teach us from what we oughit to {eparate our felves, whereby we may acquire. -Healthtothe Souland the Body, and the Trea-— - fures both of Time and Eternity. But none are or canbe fenfille of thofe Advantages but fuch _ alone as are got through the Red Sea and the Howling Wildernefs, and have entred into the _ Land of Canaan; for it feems too mean a thing, and the Ways that lead to thofe holy Virtues are — - too plain for the great People of this World. But our Lordand SaviourChrift faith, Jt K yxg- aom is not of this World; and therefore when Peter : _ in the moit juftand pious Caufe that can be ima- _ gined (vz. to preferve hisinnocent Maiter from .. dinjuft Violence) drew his-~Sword, our Lord - calmly bid him pat a #p; for the Sword cannot. be drawn, but by and through the Power of ~ Gods Wrath, which does predominate in moit’ mens hearts; and this Chrift came to deftroy : for he preached Peace, Love and Good Wtllunta _ all nen; and therefore his ‘Detrine is: called, The Evangele or Gofpel, that is to fay, “foyfub Nenis or Glad-Tidings, x ‘Some ~ he : , 5 : bt feng Wife aud Wappinets, Some there arethat do fay, Thatif they fhould not kill and eat the flefh of the Creatures, the /eould not fubfift or live; which ina bad fenfe -jstrue: for fhould they ceafe from Violence and Killing, then that cruel wrathful fierce Life in them could not fubfift in fuch vigour and. ‘ftrength as it does, but mutt of necefliry become weak, and, as it were, dye; that is, ic would no longer domineer in the heart over the friendly ” Principle of Gods Love: But'as tothe Health of the Body, which ts that which they mean, Herbs and Fruits will fuftain Nature in every refpett far beyond the belt of Flefh. SS 36. It is faid, in Gen. 4. That Adam knew his Wife Eve, and fhe conceived and bore Caz, and faid, I bave gotten 4 Man from the Lord ; (that is, from the {trong Powers of the Wrath in Nature, from whence all Lordlinefs, Pride and Oppref- fion in Government arifeth] Axd (he concerved again, and bore his Brother Abel, and Abel was a Keeper of Sheep [that is, a Keeper of, and Dweller in Innoceney] Bat Cain was a Tiller of the bar{b Earth [which muft be broken and torn up by Violence and hard Labour both of Man - and Beaft, which was the Curfe that the Lord laid upon Adam) And in proce[s of time it came to pafs,that Cain brought of the Fruits of the Ground an Offering unto the Lord; and Abel he alfo brought of the fivftlings of his Flack,.and the Lord had re{pect unto Abel, and unto his Offerang ; but unto Cain and his Offering he had’ no vef[pect 3 awa Cain was very G 88S Wroth, aro MYC MAy to Ment, Wroth, and his Casntenince fell; and the Lord (aid wnto. Cain, Why art thoe Wroth? If thow dofk well, (halt thon not be aseeptcd ? and tf wot,Sin lieth ab thy Door,and unto thee (ball he his d-fire,and thon {bal rule over him; [Uhatis, Unto thee, Catz, fhall — be: the Defire of my Kingdom of Love'and di- — vine Light; but if thon wilt not hearkem unto: itsCounfel, and be obedient unto my Command- anents, thew thou (halt rsle over him; that is, over _ the: divine Power, as it.came to pafs ;. for Cain talked with Ade/, thatis, the Wrath contended: with the Love and divine Power ;. and itcame to: afs, when they were inthe Field, | that is, where * the wild harfh Nature does predominate] that’ Cain rofe up againft A%2/ his Brother, and flew him: Here the Wrath prevailed over the divine snnocent Principle, and deftroy’d it, as it does. atthis day; for thofe two Brothers did rightly’ and truly fignifie the two grand. Principles, and thetwo Seeds, that of the Woman and that of the Serpent. And the Lord faid unto Caiz,. Where is thy Brother ? andhe faid, I know not, am: E my Brother's Keeper ? Here Cain, viz. the Pro- perty of Wrath, denyed: the Murder, and pre- tended: he had done himno evil, or knew no- thing of him; but the Lordanfwered, and faid, FWhas hsf¥ thon done? The Voice of thy Brothers Blood cryeth unto me from the ground; and there- forethe Lord curfed Cazz, andtells him, hefhall be a: Fugstive and a Vagabond. ThenCaimbowed _ -Rimfelf, and faid unto the Lord, My Pupifbment ae" x tong sLifeand bappinets. 4m _ % greater than can bear; behold, thou haft driven me out This deh foamn the Poe of the Earth, and from thy face [ball I be hid; and it fhall come to pafs, that every one that findeth me ball flay me: ‘This Confeffion and Submiffion did fo pacifie the kindled Wrath, that the Lord faid, Therefore - whofoever flayeth Cain, Vengeance fhall be takenon — him feven fold; and the Lord ‘fet a Mark on Cain, left any finding him, foould flay him. 'This:Mark wasthe Light of the Lord, that enlightens every man that cometh inté the World, and which does .more of lefs mollifie and withftand the fierce -wrathful Powers in Mankind; for if this were pot, the Wrath of Catz would grow fo powerful, thatthe Children of |4be/ would not have any being in this World. The Cain went out from the Prefence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nodd, on the Eat fide of Eden: That is, he» went intothe outward Principle of this World, and dwelt inthe Land of Vanity, at a diftance from the divine Principle, whichis intimated by Ede, in which Cazz didnot live, but on one fide of it, ‘viz. in the operation of both the good and evil ‘Nature, which moft men of this World do live in. And it isalfofaid, That he built.a City: That is, he became ftrong and geehy in the Pro- perty of this World ; and therefore Caze was an Oppreflor, and one that did domineer and Lord _ it over his Brethren, and flay the divine Principle. of God’s Love; and henceall Violexces, Conten- tons, Kylling and Works of Darknzefs ; for Cain. pe (Gee @ does aN ET yy ae — ae Ba *%. Taina tee 8 at (42 Ehewsay toBelty, does truly fignifie the Fountain. of Gods Wrath, — and ithe Qriginal Properties of the Father's’ Nature; and del does reprefent the Eternal Principle of God’s Love in the Son’s Property: — Cain intimates the Fire, and Abel the Light ; if ‘the meek Spirit of be/ were not overcome and aurdered by the fierce Wrath of Cazz, there would be Pecae on Earth asin Heaven; and as when Caiz arofe and contended with and flew . whbel, he made no Refiftance, this was a true amanifeftation that the fierce Wrath had got tHe Victory ; but Ave/’s Blood .cryed unto the Lord. ‘The very fame is to be underftood inal kind of ‘Oppreffion, both to Manand Beafts, they all by _ afweet fympathetical operation eall for Venge- vance; for God is no Refpeéter of Perfons or — ‘Things; but whenfoever any Creature is oppref- _ fed, the fame doth from ‘the ‘awakened Wrath curfe the Oppreffor, and fend up €ryes andter- — srible Complaints to Heaven, which moves the — Principle of Gods Wrath, whence fo many Judgments fallonthe People; nor ss it-poflible it fhould be otherwife, as long as the Spirit of “Cain predominates in their Hearts, tearing and ‘deftroying the Peace and Well-beeing of one ‘another, and ofall the Inferiour Creatures, far — ‘worfe than the wild Savages of the Defert; for | ‘when their Bellies are fall they do reft fatisfied untilthey arehungry again; but Menarebecome | fach Belly-Gods and Slaves to their Luftsand | -»Paffions, ‘that they arenever fatisfied, eigheit full e : y OF be Seabee ee BFE oe OM te Rs 2 | fotig Wife and Wappinels. = -413 ox fafting, but alwayes contriving Mifchief, and how they may betray nor only thofe of their own kind, butalfo all other Creatures, infomuch thatall the Elements mourn, and are filled with ‘the Cryes, Groans and mournful Complaints of their miferable Inhabirants. | | _ True Relizion doth confift in this, as our Lord Jefus Chrift taught both by Precept and Example, that Mankind do no Violence, but live in the ‘power and operation of the humble meek Spirit of Abel; for every violent A&tion and Oppref- ion, let it be little or much, or offered unto _ whatfoever Creatures, does as naturally:and {pi- ritually awaken inthem and without them the _ fierce Wrath of God and Nature, asthe blood of innocent ip particularly confider in its proper place. Ochers _ is true in a certain fenfe; but from the begin- ning it was not fo, but only after man had dif- _ obeyed the Lord his Maker, and breken his pure Law, and imbarqued his corrupt will and taint- | ed defires in the fierce Spirit of Oppreffion, and | fullered the beaftial favage Nature to predomi- | nate in him over the divine Principle of Goa’s | Loveand holy Light, as the Scripture doth te<” ftifie, Gex. 6. The Lord looked down from Heaven, and behold every Insagination of mans Heart mgs | evil, altogether evil, and that continually ; 21,4. Lora | ‘~~ ong Life and Bappinets. gry Lord faid, The Earth is filled with Violence, it re- - penteth me that I have mane Man; and the Earth was jee a at ee ‘corrupt before God, ‘aid filled with Violence, for all Flesh had corrupted his way upon the Earth, &c. Here it appears Man had with his will and defires — entered into ‘the violent Spirit, which had cor- rupted the Earth and all things therein, whence the defire of Killieg and eating of Flefh and Blood of Beafts did proceed; and for this reafonthe ~ - Lord was fo provoked to Anger, that he faid---~ My Spirit [ball not abvays firive with man, for that he ts Flefb, yet bis dayes fball be an Hundred and Twenty. Here the Lord fhortned the dayes of mankind, as David faithin another place, The Wicked {hall not live out half bis dayes. 1f manhad ‘not thus entred into the violent Spirit of Wrath, the Lord had not deftroyed mankind, but being thus incenféd, he commanded Noah to build an Ark, (which fignifies a place of Safety, Peace and Mercy) avd to take the Clean Beafts by Sevens, whichis an holy Number in nature, compre- hending all Myfteries) but the Unclean by Pairs or Two’s, whichis a Number of Contention, as being the firft that feparates from Uzity. He was ‘ikewife required to take all forts of Food, both for himfelf and for the Beafts; but there was no mention made of Flefh ; and all the Creatures both Clean.and Uneleanthat he took with him in- © to. the Ark, he deliveged out again, after the Wrath of God was aflwaged ; there was no Op- preffion, Violence nor Killing in all that time, Aya ee ta for ty 1 an “ » Sos ps: eyes nay to te beattop : a ; for if fake had, then would the Wrath have been, again ‘awakened, and Noah with the Creatures” 4 would have been comprehended inthe fame Juc ment with thofe without the Ark: For the Ark does truly fignifie the heavenly Principle of Gads eternal Love, in which he has eftablifhed his Coe | venant. with mankind, and all men that fafe- guard their defires and wills in, this holy. Ark, — denying them{elves, andabandoning all kinds of — Violence, but taking with them all kinds. of .Food: that do bear a Semile with this friendly. | Principle, fhall be preferved from that ds luge. of Wickednefs and Mifery, wherein the re oh: the : World i is-yer helmedfeg } Now after this Deluge,. the lord did, permit | manto eat F//b, bur not without. diftin@ioa, ' nor with the Blood, for man w oule not: be obe- | 3 dient, nor keep himfelf w ithin che boundsand Ji- ‘ mits.of the holy Ark of God, but turned their — Wills into the wild beaftial Natitrel and fo long. ed after the Eflences:and Qualities of the Beafts, whence arifes the defire of killing and devouring of Ficth. This the Lord did well know, and alfo his Prophets, wiz. That if man did not’ obey the Voice of Wiftom, and abftain from eat. ing of the Fruit that grows in the midft of the Garden, viz. in his Heart, which is the wrathful violent Spirit of Oppreffion, he fhould dye,which | Spirit fhould not have been manifefted, nor haver had. any government in man. As for the Tree: that grows inthe midit of the Garden, tis called | | the ) “a { i a me ae eal Palin eek ds ver ome cnc yt A aR i Le ad ei cea He 5 Pig oa es ye tie gels rae a EN Thy a ae t ee we ie Saas * rae belt ee : Ay 0 cd oe ® ; 4 ate ah 3), fe aly a ; ; RS a SOS , {¢ Raa uh, JOR Ne ate, 3 aS i ap | long Life and Waprvinels. 419 i ‘s we © oh » sole » nl , rs “4 Hh 3 hier St Me a LO Ae a SE RS oe .” ; the Tree of Life; but not without a great My- ftery ; for the Center of Life ftands inthe wraths Property or fierce Fire, whence proceéds the fen- Foility and knowing part in man; and therefore he was forbidden toeat thereof, that is, hefhould pot have awakened it by his Imaginations and Defires, but have continued in Refignation and Self-denyal, and then the Evil would not have been manifefted in him, nor haveovercome him, — Dut as it came to pafs, well might the Prophets gallit, The Tree of Death ;. for when Man did eat of the Fruit thereof, he died unto the divine — Meee ant lived in the Power of the fiery Spirit of © » Wrath, which has corrupted all Flefh, even the ‘very Earth and all things therein. "Iwas after this _ §vas come to pafs, when man had by his longing _ and lufts precipitated himfelf into the fierce Spirit and wild Nature,that the Lord permitted him to ‘kill & eat the Flefh of the Beafts; but it muft be underftood, that this Licenfe or Permiffion of kil- ling or eating of Flefh proceeded from the wrath of God in Nature; as the Scripture faith in ano- ther place, Such asthe People are, [uch is their God; for the Lord appears to every one according to ‘what Spirit‘and- Property they livein, whether it be in his love orhisanger. If they live in the divine Principle of his. eternal Love, then he ap- pears to them in the fame principle, as a loving Father and the God of all Ccnfolation: And on the ‘contrary, when men introduce their Wills and Defires into the fierce Wrath, then the Lords con Hhhe2 | appears i « % bah as Taz Way to appearstothem in the fame Spirit Dreadfadand — Terrible. As the Scripture faith in another place, — “a 4 ; oY y Bt fie ae Seen ras w rear aig te ae pn aCe Ye ts oh 6 ay ; rah ‘ Sai hy wt i: Ay ‘ Digi teat a , Pt » Pee ee or Es dia i rT P «= oan oy 1 pk ‘ Ci t f AY wees 3 y nate 8a ‘Unto thofe that fear my Name and obey myCom- - _mandments, I will be merciful and gracious; butto thofe that depife my Commandments, Iwill be an Angry jealous God, and aconfuming Fire: Or, as # the Apoftle faith, To ove a favour of Life unto Life, ta the arher, of Death unto Death... Thus all fall glorifie God either in his Love or Anger, and remain Mopumenis of his Meicy,or Trophies ot his Juftice. ee i ao i, _. Thus it happened to the men of Old, whom. i the Lord permitted to kill their fellow-Creatures _ and eat their Flefh, their Cruelties and Oppref. — fions foon awakened the Wrath of the Lord, even © as the Blood of Innocent Abel did; thereforéthe — ‘Lerd faid, He would go dowp and fee of it were fo: Which expreffion of Gods coming down does ins — timate the kindling and awakening of his Wrath inthe external Element, as it came to pafSin the — enfuing Deluge, when the Element of Water — was enraged; from this very property of the awakened Wrath did the permifion proceed for killing and eating of EL-{o, as alfoallthe commands © ford etring, and the like; for ifthe Lords people in former Ages had continued their Obedierce, | ‘und lived ia his jear, there had never been any caufe-or foundation for Wars nor Oppreffidn; || for as our. Saviour faith, Te Tempter cometh, but © find th nothing in me; that is, he findeth no Wrach © nor Yiolence awakened in him, and therefoie — » ‘ : : Fine te ‘Ke ; SS een * es =e f= os ‘a eae 1 ees, sa UE A a brs ¥ tong Lifeand Bappinets. gz “he could have no ground to wotk on, nor matter ~ to entertain him, or that would fuit his Principle. The like is to be underftood of all men that do live inthe Power of Gods Love and Light; for “whenfoever the Lord fuffers any to Fight or engage in Wars with his People, the original caufe thereof hath been Siz, in that they have forfaken the ways of Truth and Righteoufnefs, — 7 andentred into Oppreffion, Pride and Cruelty, - which awaken the evil Principle, and cry for _ Vengeance, and ftrengthen the common Enemy of Mankind, and then the Lord fuffers Wrath to take place Now whereas men fay, Jt. és Lowful 32 the fizht of God to fight,kill & deftroy one another, and opprefs and kill all other Creatures; *tistrus, if it be underftood as it ought to be, vz. inthe fight of the Principle of his Wrath, as he isa confuming Fire, anda jealous God; but not as he isa God of Everlafting Love and Mercy in Jefus Chrift; for in that refpeét all Fighting and other Violences are as contrary tohim as Light is to Darknels. Therefore in the Revelations, to the Souls that were a Reith! Crying ta, God to avenge thir Caxfe, being flain for the Tes ftimony of Jefus, it is anfwered, Ref? for a Sca/on; “which was as much as to fay, Be dtill, do nog awaken the Powers of the Wrath; for no mun can call for Vengeance, bit from the power‘of ‘that Principle, and therefore H/hite Garments were given unto them; thatis, they were more -seplenifhed with the blefied power and vertuc of “che Love of Godin Jeius Chnift! © Some $22, oy Re Mae te Apealeyyy Some may fay, If we fhould’ not Fight, andbe ready to witl stand our Enemies ana Ness hbour ta «| "Nations, we[bould quctl be browghe into fubjetian = ~'Thisis very true, if men fhould cave off fighting, — and yet live fuch wicked ungodly Lives as they © do; butif any Nation would repent of the Evil oftheir Ways, and enter with one mind into Unity, and live in the power and operation of © the Love of God, @c. they then fhould have ne “ peeafion to fear or dread any outward Enemies, having fo perfe@ly fubdued thofe within, they — ‘fhouldreft fecure. ‘This the Children of I/raeldid -» often witnels,when they did fear theLord andrefrain — from Idols; that is, when they did not fet their “Hearts and Affections upon the Creatures, nor ‘Jive in Wantonne/i, Gc. then their Enemies were _bowed beforethem, and the very fight or appear- ance of ten.would make a thoufand fly ; but‘when - they did-forfake the fear of the Lord, and turned — tie ule of natural things into Wantonnefs, they -awakened the Wrath, by which their Enemies” -got many advantages over them, and overcame’ ‘them,’ and carried them away Captive; the very fame is now-a-dayes amongit-us, this beingsa -eértain. Truth, that will dtand forever againft — _all gain-fayers and evil men, viz. Thar all Oppref-— fron, Violence and Killing doth proceed from if feed of the Serpent, the Betrayer, whieh I with all our j -Hero’s, and Fighters, and. great Martial men Would ‘well confider, and turn the Bye of their” Underftandings inward and feareht themf{elves, § * < ~ 7 } i% et ts ih 5 then Went DePuy CP Se he doll we mt wie ee tl heh ae e. pte & . , &, a % «Nong Wife and Mappinets, = 423° then they would certainly find, that it is the "fierce Cain-léke Spirit which reigns in them, and excites them to commit fuch Outrages. When ‘the Souldiers asked the Lord Chritt, Whar they (hould do'to be faved? he faid unto them, Be on. — Fented with your Pay, and do Violence to no man: which is to fay, They fhould be’ Souldiers no Jonger ; for all Souldiers do live in the Spirit of | Vislence, and muft kill and deftroy when-ever their. Commanders pleafe. So likewife Chrift faysto Perer (than whom certainly never man drew Sword ina better Quarrel) Put up thy Svord, _thofe that ufe the Sword {ball persfh by the Sword ; my. Kingdom is not of this World; that is, My King- dom confifts in Love, Mercy, Meeknefs, Friendim _mefs, Peaceand good |Villuntoall men, = 48. It is further to be confidered, that the eat- ‘ing of Heh was not permitted till after the overs flowing of Gods Wrath had got the dominion in mans heart, and God had tryed and proy’d them, and faw that they were ftitf-necked, and would _ “got be obedient unto his Commands, nor enter ‘mto the holy divine Principle of Love and Peace, but would live in the Power of the lordly poyfo- ous Nature, and continually luited after Op- preffion and the ways of Aeypt ; and for this caufe the Lord fuffered them to be carred away into the Land of Nodd and Agypr, which isa ‘Land of Vanity, Oppreffion and Cruelty, and. ‘they -fuffered the. fierce wrath tO- d omineer over Ae) RUS Ol: Cegthen: Ss ale aeail it: rs Sean ON iy wh, Pe oun eae es Ree de Rages 2 2. ja Chetan teat, *~ the Lord, and he had regard unto theni, aad — yaifed up Mofes, and in{pired him withdivine — _ and human Wifdom, and made him their Guide; for MOSES doth fignifie the Strength and Power of God, inhis meek friendly Light and Love, or |) a Cleanfer and Purger of the People from Intquity. This great Prophet by the mighty power of the ~~ Lord wrought many wonderfulMiracles among{t the Agyptians, which made the wrath tobow © ~ or give way, and by a ftrong hand caufed his | People to pafs through the Red Sea, that is, 7 “ through the fierce Wrathand fiery Judgment of _ the Lord, untoucht and unhurt, whilft the fame ~ Seaof wrath did fwallow up andcomprehend the Agyptians, the Mex of Sin and Vanity, with their Horfesand Chariots, that is, with. all their |” ftréengtli and Deeds. ‘Then the Lord:caufed his | People to travel forty years iz the Wilderne/s, which _ fignifiesthe wild Nature, which they were tot 9 to ftay in: likewife, thefe forty years are arvholy | “myftical Number, viz. the Muimber of Regent. © yation, during which time the Lord worked " py Marvels, and delivers the true I/raelste from © “inward and outward Enemies, = 5 7 "Yet ftill, they provoked the ‘Lord their God | _ to wrath by lufting ‘after the Fleo-Pots of A:gipt, © - that is, the Oppréffion and the Cruelty 5 for the | ~ Lord did not permit them in-4ll their march to- wards Canaan, .to kill their Flocks or Herds, nor * to eat any Flefh in. thofe. forty: years travel; for 9 _ they were not to'ftay or continue in the wild a; am long Wife andiappinets, > aay _ beaftial Nature, but to pafs through, and by _ degrees leave it behind them, and to deny them- felves all thofe Oppreffions, Vanities, worldly Lufts and Paffions, which the men of Agypt are fubjeét unto, that thereby they might be cleanfed, _ purified and fitted to enter into the holy Land: . For the chief Enemies the Children’ of -I/rae/ met & 7) ~ with, were their inward lufts, paffions and bea- _ fttal Spirits, which did mightily ftrive in them, _ ' toget the Victory over the divine principle of Gods love; and this was the main caufe of their many lets, {tops and hindrances, and the occafion ~ that fo.many thoufands did fall inthe way, and © _ Never entred into the holy Land, of which the Lord told them, That it was a Land that flowed with Milk and Honey,not with Oppreffion,Cruelty, ‘Killing and Blood, but with Milk and Honey, the Emblemis of Innocency and Sweetne/s, and beautified with many excellent Virtues for the maintenance of the life and health of Man, but becaufe they looked back, and longed after the | egyptian Vanities, they did fall, and could not enter into the Land of Peace. As in like cafe the Scripture faith of David, That he being 2 man of _ Violence and Blood, -as ‘having been bred up in Wars and Fighting; therefore the Lord would not admit quently was not fo fit for Temple-work, wherein > hint'to onild the Temple: which outward Temple _ -wasa true Figure of the inward divine Temple ; _ for David had awakened the wrathful Powers of _ Nature within and without himfelf; and confe- | Pirie "3 there » tee. ra ae a 3 b. : aN 426 sane he voay topenit, 4 ™ : ua pot be heard any noife of anesit much lols the, Se ree Mal deat a 4 vs z= i pees Bt amers,. os of. ee Lie ial by agen ae ois he £00. dbus ae were ce ica 4 Sodom to de Abroy i shy, dsd eat I Flef ‘ a I Aofver; Thisis fo far from so being an bie ) | Gtion, that. rightly underftood, it confirms and 7 Alluftrates. all that. have been faying ; for, fe. tis plain, thefe, words. are not to be underftoad litterally : for:Angels are incorporeal, cul ‘efh .muft.needs be, too.crude and grofs a. food er fuch intellectual Effences, void of matter, and therefore fome more hidden meaning and figni- ' fication is.to be undertood, and indeed there lies -couch’d. avery great. Mystery. in this paflage. :The Sodomites had by their crying Sins awakened the fierce wrathful.Principlein, Nature, even in the outwards Elements, which did kindlethe In- dignation ofthe Lord, anddrawdownthe Ju ment. Now out, of this ftrong 1 power of = kindled wrath .thefé two ,Angels:did proceed, whichhad.in. them the power of the fame prin. : ciple, vez. the inward and outward Wrath; and.therefore it. was no marvel that Abraham fhould-kill, & Shed blood: at.their, approach,whof travel ling: towards Sodom, and flaying here by _ che.w ays does, denote the ecu katie te the | 7 erce a | Sind 4brshum immediately intreating and:petitio- | Meas snes bios 283 DL 1205007 7 ymng, 428 = The May to Yealth, “ning the Lord to (ave the Cities of the plain, for _ the fake ot fuch Righteous as might be therein; — but the ¢vo fiery Angels hafted toward Sodim, for the original F.re is fierce and quick in its mo- | tion; & when any People have by their Tranforc/- frons kindled the Wrath of God,then there does a- ‘rifean Inftrument out of the fame principle which ~ _ does deftroy and punifh that people, as is mare fefted in this outward World, hich is buta figure - of the inward; for when a Prince and his People ~ have by their fins ftirred up the Lords Indigna- — ‘tion againft them, then a neighbouring Prince or Nation is excited to be their {Courge and pu- nither, though often times the latter is as great an Evil-doer as the former; for every principle and property, both im the divine and humane _ Nature does always raife up Inftruments from it.’ felf to perform its own work; for look what — ‘property or principle is moft predominant in © either a particular perfon or Nation, good or evi, — Jofl or xnjxf, fuch an Angel they have given ‘them,or is attracted by fimile: Ifthe ferceWrath — bear fway, thenthe evil Angel obtaineth the.Go- vernment of that perfonor people, which does — inwardly ftir up Enmity in the heartsofmea ~ one againft another, whence does ari‘eall kinds — of Oopreffion and Violence both of Manand — ‘Beafts. Befides, it is tobe underftood, that the — Angels, both good and evib, are prompt, and — always defirous toobey and attend all fuch as live. in the power of their refpettive Principle, asthe the Scrij ture takes notice, That cheevil Angel wad ig \« 2 Bei he ae va ¥ ? “% ee in d eS. * ee aS Ga the contrary, Virtee and The Fear of rhe Lord do witn a powerful hand not only with- _ ftand and refift the baneful Influences of bad Angels, and all other evil things, but does alfo attra€t the Vertue out of all things tothe encrea- fing and {trengthening its own Principle, and in- mumerable good Angels are ready at all times to gift and defend the fober and upright in Heart, asthe Scripture faith. Lash mide bis Angels reat mw wales firing VP) MALY ae ee sf LP een ea ; ae , “ep ee oe the Lord faith----Js there any Evil: in the ae fio: ge aul “Cm nosy toBealth, ae kt msinifiriug Spirits to adminifter to thofe thar ferve- the Lord, and are in Neceffn ity. Yn another rai : (thati IS, #7. mas) “and an nor I the Lord’ in- t : iy midft of it? As muchas to fay, 1 am in and through all, and . govern all things in my Love, 4 or in mine “Anger +” ;~ Arid Man being his Image, doth in his meafure the. fame, but the Evil fhould not have been awakened or manifetted in. ee? man, therefore he was.in the beginning forbi den it, but. after he had eaten this Fruit, the teh : faid, Theman is become as one of uss, knowing Gao and Evil, Then the Gates of Paradifé were fhut, againft him, and it is faid, the Lord drove him, 4 out of the Garden into the Earth, that: is, into the wild Nature to labour and drefs it, and the. Lord fet’ two Cherubims on the Baft fide of the Garden, with ; flaming Swords, that sid turn every way to keep the Tree of Life, (Jef man fhould touch it and live forever. The. e Eat here does fignifie in the Radix, the ‘open Gate or Eye "that {ees into: the great .Myfteries and. working Powers of the Creator: The Tree of Life does ins timate the creating Power of God; aid the ort; — ginal forms in Nature, viz. the three. grand Properties, -Sa/s, Sulpher and Mercury, “from, whence all the variety of Complexions, Forms and Qualities do arife; the Cherubums and flay ming Sword that defends this Tree of Life, do. fignifie the original Fire,..and dtreng forms o Nature, in whuch the Lord calls bimlelf az .azgry _ jealous : MMC) eel aye 4 Mong Life and Happinets... 43e | Jealges God, and 4 confuming Fire: The Cherus dims are the ftrong fiery Angels, and great — ‘Powers of God in the working and government in allthe Kingdoms of Nature; «which mighty _ Operations and miftick creating Powers man was not fit to know after he had awakened the Wrath, and came to know Good and Evil; for. if man fhould once have touched this. Tree: of Life, then weuld he have been capable to have — wrought wonders in the dark {trong fiery original . . Property, viz. the dark Magick, and changing of one Form into another; and the creating - Power of God would have been known unto man, who then would /have lived forever in the ~ hellith Qualities. Oe Ca ai sgl _ It may be-noted, thatthe Lord faid nothingin — the beginning to. Adam of the Tree of Life, but only of the Tree of the Kyovledze of Good and Evil; the Fruit ofthis latter Tree only he fhould | mot have eaten, for Esting fignifies to nourifh’ and ftrengthen, which Ada# fhould not have fuffered his Will and Defires tovhave longed afs . ter; forif the fiery wrathful principle-had not been awakened in Adam, then the Lord would. / not have drove him out of the Garden, that is, _ out of the Government of the divine Principle, _ neither would there have been any danger of his touching of the Tree of Life, that is, of the Ori- | ginal creating flrong powers of the Lord; for if — Behad continued in the Government and Ope- | rations of God’s eternal principle of Love and. | ee ‘Light, 432 Whe aap to Dealth, - A eR we ed are lat “il oa yey wie Eight, then he would have been fatisfied with the Fruit of Paradife, whofe Originals {prung. * and proceeded ‘from the Frlial property, and therefore the illuminate Prophet Aofes faith, God plated Adam. ie 4:Garden, which does intimate — - afeparated place of pleafure, where all forts of — mnocent Herbs, Fruits, Grains and fragrant. Flowers do thruft‘and give forth their delicate Beauties, ravifhing Odors and excellent Vertues. ,- mvfilence;_ there:being no Grutching, Envying-. _. ae Contention amongit them, beeaufe of their’ different Scents, Colours or Properties, but all. - fland ftill and faffer the divine hand todo with’ them as he pleafeth. Not but that ia the moft. fragrant Flower, and beft of Herbs and Fruits, — there isthe ftrong ‘poyfonous Root, viz. the. - free of Life, for the Radix of every Creature — ftands in Poyfon'; And therefore in what Crea-’ ture foever thefe original fiery Properties are pre~ dominant, all fueh Creatures are of a greedy ra-. venous fiery Nature; If it be an Herd, itis poy- — fonous rank and ‘fulfom; As on the contrary, — all things and Creatures, in which the divine — Principle does predominate,the poyfonous wrath- ful Tree of Life lies hid and unmanifefted; asina curious Flower, which is of various Colours,and _ fends forth:a moft fragrant Scent; here isno. Poyfon, Wrath, nor evil Quality manifeft, but. asa man. may fay, a Parddifical andmoft pleafant Vertue, the original Qualities are occult, be- — _ caufe the good properties predominate: Butyet. there ~ ~ —- feng Life and appittes. 432 _ thete would be no Vertue, iftherewerenoVice, for thefe original Forms are caufe of all motion, _- whenee the Life and Light doth take Birth ;. but _ .if this Original Fire do predominate in any thing, | beit what it will, it prefently becomes fierce and _ poyfonous. Therefore when Adam eat of the _ Fruitof the Treethat grew inthe midit of his — | Paradifical Garden, that is, in the very center of » his Life, which Ceztral Fire he was forbidden to _ awaken and feed on, he was forth-with, turned out of the Garden of pleafure ; which if he had _ not done, then the bleffed fragrant divine Fruit would have predominated, and the Evil Nature would not have been manifefted, and he had ftill ~ continued in Paradife, from whence he wa’ now | necefflarily expelled; For when the original Fire and ftrong Power was manifeft in the center of _gmans Life, he would have proceeded further, | wiz, into the very center of Nature, and be- come a formerand figurer in the fiercesWrath, and then there had been no hope of his Refto- ration, therefore the Lord drove him out of Ps- _radife, and from the Tree of Life into the hu-: _mane Nature, whofe operation is in Good and Evil, by which means the God of Wifdom, | Peace and Mercy hasthrough the Feminine Tis- : éture, in the fulnefs of time reftored again what-— -foever Adam loft astothe Soul; For the eternal Son.of Love faith, That he came to feek and to fave that which was loft, and proclaimed Peace and Good- will unto allmen, that is, heinvited them to.come™ worKk kes 3 unto AeA) ~The Way to Health, as unto him, and he would refrefh and eafe them of their Burthens; for he faith, My Yoke 2s eafie, “and my Burthen light, and you (ball find Reft to your Souls; And if this Voice of Wifdom were hear- — ‘kened unto, men would no longer live in the “wild Natute and beaftial Qualities, nor opprefs — -God’s Creation, the Groanings thereof would — “no longer be heard, nor would thofe that aretra- — -velling to the Land of Promife any more look — back and hanker after the Flefh:Pots of Eeypr, but _ “would content themfelves with the innocent — “food of Paradife; nor would they murmur like the J/raelites in the Wildernefs, Give us Flefh, or — _elfe me dye, thatis, Tfthey did not feed upor the Fruit of the forbidden Tree and beaftial favage — Nature, and follow the Superfluities of the Egyp- tians, the wrathful fiery beaftial Life would dye — _ifithem, which they were very unwilling to — ‘part with, therefore the Lord heard themin his. (for they had awakened it) and in the © nciple he gave them Flefh, which dark. — Pah Wra 9 AF Ve ’ fame P. Pharoah and all his Troops in the Red Sea, — Es ee a - feng wifeandDbappinels. 43 and travel through. all the degrees of the wild ’ beaftial Nature, and return unto every Form and Conftillation, all’ fuch Inclinations and evil _ Difpofitions as men. have received from them, viz. Unto the firft Form or Conftillation, called - Saturz, you muft leave Covetoufnefs, Envy, Sufpition, andall dark evil Thoughts and Jea- ‘ loufies. Unto the fecond Form, called Fupiter, you mutt: leave all worfhipping of Idols, falfe Forms of Religion, envious peevifh Inclinations — and Perfecutions, which are devillifh Difpofiti- ons that do poffefs many, from whence do pro- ceed great Troubles and Difcords. When you come tothe third Form, called, Adars, you muft. _ with him leave all Wrath, Paffion, Cruelty and ~ Violence.. With the fourth Form calledthe Sez, | you muft leave all Pride, High-mindednefs and. Selfconceit, all Inclinations tending to Ambi- | tionand Vain-glory. Butatthe fifth Formy cal- — led Venus, you muft abandon all Defires after | unlawful Beds, all wanton Difcourfes and Ire ticements to flefhly Lufts. When you arrive at the fixth Form, called Mercury, put’ away all idle Jefting, much Talking, Lying, Diffembling, and carrying two Faces, fo as to appear good withthe Good,and bad with theBad. Andatthe | _feventh Form, called the Mooz, you mutt leave | all unconftant Humours and fickle Fancies, as _alfo Gluttony, and fottifh.fwinifh living, as to * -Superfluities either ef eating or drinking. All thefe bad Difpofitions and Inclizations the a _Kkk 2 Children — a 156+ cag REE wap pee peat’: ALife in the Humane Nature, and cannot be pro- Children of God, and of the divine Palnctollh muft deny chemfelves, and leave them behind — in the Wildernefs; for they do belong” unto the wild beaftial Nature, and thither ought ‘to return; and none that live under their Powers | canenter into the Holy Land. 19. It may be further objected, if Fie Ind not-been in fome degree profitable unto the Children of Urael, and if Killing were not lawful, why did the Lord command Beafts to be killed for Sacrifices? anfwer; The killing of Beafts for Sacrifice is a great Figure or Myftery, which fhews the de- praved {tate of man, and how he is fallen from — his primitive Integrity and Innocency ; for it fisnifies that man by his Evils and Tranfgreffions — had fo mightily awakened the Wrath and fierce — fiery Power of God, that it would not be fatia- ted or appeafed, except there were Violence ufed — and | lood fpilt; for all Sacrifices were made to tone and fatisfie the enkindled wrath, which - after the Gate of Violence was once opened, no- | .. thing but Blood could allay; for man having awakened it by Sin, nothing in the Vegitable - Kingdom, no Herbs, Fruits, Grains or Seeds” would anfwer the ravenous Appetite. thereof, and _ therefore it required Blood, whichis the higheft cured but by Violence, and has the neareft’ Affi- nity tothe Wrath of any thing in the whole Crea- tion, whence tt is faid, Blood requires Blood; and this maybe illuitr ated j in i Rh particular man, | ~—sddotg Wife aud iappinefs, 427 _ when he.does fuffer the fierce Wrath and Fire to burn in him, he becomes like a raging Bedlam, - nothing can calm or fatisfie him, except he doth fome mifghief, kill and opprefs ; for in fuch a fic Blood and Revenge is {weet unto him, and as foon ashe has glutted himfelf with Blood, that _ wrathful Property isfatisfed: And as it is thus in the ttle World,the fame is to be wader ftood by way of Axalogy inthe great. For this cauie the Lord | declared, That whoever did kill aman, his Blood he would require at his Hands: ‘The Reafon and E- » quity of which Law comprehends all Creatures, and therefore it is {aid, Thar Bea/t that fhall foed Blood, or kill any other Beaft, fhould be flain, So that *tis without doubr the original caufe of kill- ing of Beatts, and offering them in Sacrifice, was _ to fee whether it would have fatisfied that fierce _ poyfonous Wrath, which man had fo terribly | awakened by his Violence, and corrupting the ’ whole Earth, whence the Deluge proceeded. _ Butafter the Flood, which had fo {wept away al} Mankind, except eight Perfons, to prevent - the like dreadful Judgment for the future, Sacri- _ fices and the Blood of Beafts was ufed to affwage _ the Wrath, and make Atconement for the Sins of Men, becaufe the Blood of Beafts has both _ the neareft affinity to the original Properties of ~amans Life, and alfo to the awakened Wrath as well within, as without him; for men cannot - Eindle the Wrath within themfelves, but they mut doit without them alto. Bur fil, che | _ Scripture | f pba Ni ON a ote ee SALT ; ‘ 438 = The noayto Wealth, Sonpturefaith, that the blood of Bulls, and the — like, would not fatisfie the Juftice and awakened ‘Wrath of God, nor make a perfect Attonement ° for the Sins of mankind ; and therefgre, befides — their daily Sacrifices, the High-Prieft was once every. Year to go into the feeond ‘Tabernacle, but — not without Blood, which he offered for himfelf and for the People: Alfo it is faid, that the way. into the Holieft Tabernabie of all was not made manifett whilft the firft Tabernacle was yet ftanding ; whence it appears, that all the Sacri- fices, and other Circumftancesof Worfhip in the — time of the Law, did proceed fromthe Wrath, — -efpecially Sacrifices and Killing, which cannot flow from the divine Principle; for that holy | Principle of Love and Light was not ae whilft the firft Tabernacle did ftand; that is, fo. long as the firft principle of Gods fierce wrath did _ predominate: But all Saerifices, Violences and — Killing do ceafe in all thofe whom the Lord doth — appear to in the: power of his Son Jefus Chrift; — ‘but fo long as menare captivated inthe firft Ta- — bernacle or Wrath, the holieft ofall is not ma- — nifeft, that is, the holy and good love ef Godin — his Son is not known or manifefted in them; and — therefore it is faid, Sacrifices and Offerings for Sin — thou didft refufe; thatis, the divine Principle had ~ no pleafure in Violence, in the Blood of Beafts — and Groanings of the Creation, « but ‘then fteps — inthe Holy Prisciple of Love,and faith, Lo, I~ come todo thy. Will, 0 God-! thatisy to deftroy the — : : ? works | FSS Oe eee Chita jong Life and Pappirets. 429. ' works of the Devil, and eftablifh everlafting . -» Righteoufnefs, and he taketh away the firft (chat ~ js, thekindled Wrath, Violence and Oppreffion) and eftablifheth the fecond, that is, his eternal - Laghtand Love in Jefus Chrift, in whom alone, heis well-pleafed, which brings glad-tidings un- toall mankind, andto the whole Creation, efpes cially if men beeome the Sons of God, for then all the inferiour Creatures would be delivered in- to glorious Liberty. ‘ It does appear by what the Apoftle faith, That all Sacrifices, Killing, and Blood of Beafts could — not fufficiently appeafe Gods Wrath, nor recon- cile man unto God, otherwife thanas if one man - kill another; the blood of him that is flain doth eall for Vengeance on the Slayer; butall this while | the principle of Gods fierce Wrath is by their Vio- lence and Oppreffion increafed apd ftrengthened ; even foit was in‘all Sacrifices, mea by their Vio- lences had corrupted the Harth and awakened Gods Wrath, which called for Vengeance, even asthe blood ofa particular man.doth ona beatt ; for all kinds of Violence, be it either little or much, do call for Vengeance and Retaliation, if not-confefied, repented of, and by the power _ of the.divine Love of God forfaken ; which holy principle ot Gods eternal Love and Light in his ‘Son, wasnot manifeft untothem (asthe Apoftle - faith) becaufe the firft Tabernacle or Principle of Gods Wrath, had, through theirs Cruelties and | Evils, gotten the Afcendant over them, fo that : | : the Pee ee ony te Wealth, | ‘ the divine Principle could not have its operation - - inthem, fo long as they continued in their fins, committing thofe Violences and @ppreffions, — for the firft Tabernacle or Wrath in man muft be done away before the fecondcan take place, that is, before the holy Light of the Son — -- of God can reign and rule in our hearts; for _. nothing canallay, overcome and make the ‘ftern fierce Wrath of the Father to bow, or fatiate its fiery hunger in Mankind, but only the eternal — Fountain of his meek love in Chrift, from whom, — _ . (as the Scripture faith) there does flow Rivers of Living Waters ; which alone can allay the fiery Wrath, and reconcile men to the God of Peace, _ and bring to nought the lofty proud violent De-— - fires,and vain Thoughts and Inclinations in man, ° _ and by its operation gives them an Eye of Dif- _ cerning to diftinguifh of Gods Love and Anger in himfelf, and makes the fierce harfh fire of Wrath to burn more gentle, fo that inftead _ of its raging fiercenefs it becomes a meek and cherifhing fire, which is the pleafant motion in every Life, that tunes a man up to an intel- le€tual Harmony, caufing allthe Properties and Qualities to kifs and incorporate with eachother, whence arifes a moft pleafant Crafis or Repo of Temper, Thoughts*and Operations: «. Av Similitade whereof we have ina Mufical Infitug ‘ment thatis skilfully tunedand plaid upon, where there are various Strings and Notes; when proceed different Sounds,. but. all confpring \ re =. = ay rong Mule al Wappsters, = = = 441 _ tomake up moft ravifhing & delightful Harmony, — the dull melancholy harfh jarring Notes of Satura . and Mars being made pleafant by the incorporas ting of the melodious Sounds of Venus, Fupiter, the Sun and Mercury. Do not the Foundations of all Harmony, both in men and all other things, arife from the Befs,vzz. from the firft Principle or Ta- bernacle ;for if there were no Fire,there would be —nolight; fo if there were no Bafis, there could be Trebbles, or if there were, yetthere couldbeno - Harmony, if onewere without the other. What Harmony do men make to them{elves or others, when the heavy fierce Fires of Suterz and Mars — _ do carry the upper dominion in them? Bure if | -the Gravity of Fupiter and SweetitelS of Vesus do interpofe, then all is made delightfully pleafant. But as ’tisimpoflible for any man to make good Harmony that has.never learned Mufick, nor knows how totune his Inftrument, becaufe one String will be feveral Notes too high, and others asmany too flat or low, from which can pro- ceed no Meledy, but a rumbling jarring Nowe of _ Difcords. Soimpoffible itis thatany man fhould attain to the holy Harmony of God in the King- dom of his Love and Light, or to live in the | power of Unity, except he be born again, and hath learned himfelf; for the true knowledg of _ Godina mans felf is:abfolutely neceflary ; for if aman do not underftand the ‘T'reafures and holy _ Virtuzs, the Vices and Evils he always carries - about him in his own. Vellel, how ishe like to i bia rs Lue diftinguifh 4h ee The way to Bealth, uy ‘diftinguifh the Natures,Propertiesand Operations ~ _ of thofe things which he fhall daily meet withal within him? go. This degeneration of thehuman Nature is apparent from the words of our Saviour Chrift, who {aw into the very Rootsof their Hearts and Spirits, and yet made no {cruple ‘to call them Foxes, Sons of Belial, &c. for {uch inwardly they were, as appeared by their Works: But it had not been fo from the beginning ; for-if it had, man would not have been clothed with fucha compleat Angelical form and fhapeasheis; for when the Creator moved himfelf by the produ- ion of all things, each was clothed with as external Body; {uitable to its Spirit, and accor- ding to the degrees and nature of each Spirit, fuch form itattained ; for each fpiritual Subitance. had Power to attract out of all things fuch cor- _poreal matter for a covering or body, as hada imite with its own Nature, as appears moft ma- nifeftly by the (bapes, forms, inclinations and difpo- fitions of each Creature. And asthe internal Pro- perry and Difpofition of each Creature did vary, fo their outward form and fhapedid vary. Thus, where thefieree Wrath did predomi- nate, there {prung up wild Beaffsand Birds of Prey, 4 , hee fe a a 0 ; ee ee but where the Qualities of Nature were more. __ equally mixed, there were formed more benigne and friendly Creatures, as Beafts and Birds hu- mane, tame and tractable, called by the Wife men cleaw Beats and Birds, and where the $pirit~ J i Was. oom a : 9 Z t * ¢. Wa oe long Wife and pappitiets. 443 wasmore noble and great, fo the body and form ‘was accordingly. And asman was.inthe fpirit | and primitive Properties and Qualities, greater and more noble than any other of the Creatures vifible; fo the Lord gave him a _proportionable body above all the reft of the lowerCreation ; for — __ wenever read that any of the holy Azgels of the Lord appeared in any other than Alumane Form: But when God has at any time permitted Evil Angels to afflume fhapes and forms, they have | always been hideous, monftrous and frightful, as _ Dragons, Lyons, Cats, Swine, and the like, which may demonftrate what Prineiple and Kingdom ‘', they belong unto, and which would have been mans Condition, had he not fallen into the hi- mane Nature, which has not only been the chief _ means to preferve mans Angelical Form, but to raife him to a fupernatural Dignity by the Lord Chrift’s afluming an human Body, and making __allthem. Sons and Co-heirs that believein, and are incorporated with him. For though Man, through Sin and Tranfgreffion, hath loft his heavenly Angelical Underftanding and Wifdom; (which yet fhall be again reftored to all thofe that obey the counfel of the holy Seed and divine _ Light) yet he did not bereave himlelf of his firft _ Shape or Angelical Form, becaufe he fell into the human Nature, where every Body has the - Seed in it felf to produce its like {pecies in all refpeCts.. ba | a But as forthe Spirits or Souls of moft men, We ote Oe A Ea they — 444 Dhemay tomentth, _ they have through the defire of Vassity, Oppref- fon, Violence, Kiting both Men and Besfts, wane ton Superfluity, Pride, Vain-glorv, &¢. precipita. ted themfelves into the divided Fosms andharfh fierce Wrath of God, and into Beaftiality, and — the favage Nature, fo that they have loft the — humane Property, are grown hard-hearted, cruel and fordid, having no Compaffion, Fellow- — _ feeling or Merey; and allithat doliveand dye in this favage bruitifh ftate, fhallin the Refw- . rectiow, when every Soul fhall be reinvefted with anew Body, attract {uch matter out of all things, as their Spirits are capable of, and havea fimile | with; and fo appear in Forms hideous, fright- ful and loathfom, as their Natures require ; for fuch Seed as men do fow, fuch a Body may be expected; for fo the illuminate Apoftle {peaks of the Refurrection, God giveth to every Seed its own Body ; and therefore if men fow hellifhSeeds in their Lives, no wonder if they be clothed with fuitable fhapes in the next World. © : ) But oathecontrary, thofe that in their earthly Pilgrimage have retained Humanity, and intro- _ duced their Wills and Difires into the divine Prin- ciple of eternal Light and Love, and been guided by the counfel thereof, Shall in that day arifein a more perfe& beautiful and glorious humane Shape and Form, of whom Chrift Jefus was the firit ; for after his Re/urrec#iow he appeared in the fame (bape, form and body as he had before his Déath. a a Yas ai. Confider r ss dong Wife and Pappitefs. 445. | at. Confider how unpleafing it would be to -moft People, to behold the dead Carkaffes of Beafts cut into pieces and mangled, aad allover | bloody ? and how naufeous and frightful a thing “it would be to think of putting thofe de-gored Gobbits into our Mouthes, and feeding our {elves thereon, did not continue! Ufe and Cuftom make: it familiar? And how difficult a Task would it | be for many People (whodo for the moft part __ live under the power and operation of the tender: -_ compaffionate Principle of Gods Love) to kill the Beafts for their own Food,until a little ACtion of that kind and Cuftom hardens them therein ? How quickly alfo will the dead Carkaffes putrifie and ftink, defiling the Elements, both Earth and. Air? How offenfive are the places where Flefh ‘ae is killedand fold? How rude, cruel, fierce and : violent are moft of thofe who are employed therein? In a word, there is nothing that is ~ pleafant or friendly in the whole bufinefs, nor : -any one Circumftance that is grateful to the inno- {cent Principle in man; nay, the Tafte of moft forts of Flefh is ftrong fulfome, and fimells of the original Cruelty to all thofe that have for any © time feparated themfelves from the eating there- ef, or haying Communication with it. And indeed nome are or can be fenfible how it is, nor be competent Judges of what is faid here, but only fuch as have made Trial’ Is there any comparifon to be made between an Herb-Market anda Fi-b-Marker? In one there isa thoufand : = as lng ha 3 : pieces 446. Whe Way toDealty, . pieces of the dead Carkaffes of various Creatures lie ftinking, the Kennels running with Blood, — -and all the places full of Excrements, Ordure, _ Garbage, Greafe and” Filthinefs, fending forth — -difmal poyfonous Scents, enough to corrupt the - wery Air: Inthe other, you have delicate Fruits. of moft excellent Tafte’s, wholfom Medicinal Herbs, favoury Grains, and moft beautiful fra- - grant Flowers, whofe various Scents, Colours, Gc. -makeat once a Banquet to all the Senfes, and nourifh the purer Spirits, and refrefh the very . ‘Souls of fuch who pafs through them, and per- fume all the Carcumambient Air with redolent Ex- _hpalations. This was the place and Food ordained » for Mankind in the beginning. The Lord plant- . ~ edaGarden for him replenifht with all manner — of ravifhing Fruits and Herbs: There was no ~ Fle(b-Markets nor Shambles talk’t of in the primi-— “tive times; But every green Herb, Fruit and Seed foall be for Food to Man, faith the Creator. . Which | if it had been {till obferved, Man had not con- * tracted fo many Difeafes in his Body, and cruel — Vices in his Soul, by makinghis Throatanopen Sepulcher, wherein to Entomb the dead bodies © ef Beafts; nor fhould the noble Image of the Deity have been thus fhamefully defiled with Brutalities. SO Creatures of Sea and Land we flay, And in our Mamsdo bury, And worfe by half than Beafts of. Prey == Ave at their Funerals Merry, i ee eg cel a to do with, and how to order the Beafts. lone Life and Pappinets, 447 How fhall they but Beaftial grow, ae » Thar thus to feed on Beafts are willing? Or whr fhould they along Life know, | Whe daily praitife KILLING? , 224. There remains yet one Queftion, which Thave' been often askt, viz. If all People fbould live on Fruits, Herbs, and the lke, what fbould we do with the Beafts ?_and what would become of them ? They would grow fo numerous, that they would be pre- judicial to mankind, &c. To all which T An- {wer: | Wee 4a. That thefe are rather Suppofitions than Arguments, meer Fancies, weak and uncon- cluding, becaufe unexperienced. There is- (and pity it is that there is, but) little likelihood of the generality of Peoples forfaking this ill and harmful, (but toolong continued). devouring of Flefh, and confequently there is no great force in this Objeétion ; yet ftill it may not beamifs to - warn the Lovers of Vertue and Piety, te abftain, _ for the many Reafons aforefaid; but thefe are but afew, andthe Multitude will {till purfue and imgulph themfelves in their accuftomed Crue elties and Superfluities. | .2. Should any Nation er great number of People through the divin: fight and true Wifdom | ferurle Violence, Oppreffion, killing and eating the Fleth of their fellow-Creatures of an inferior rank, the fame Wifdom would teach them what 3. [here ee.) | ee L Ps re Re 448 ss The wap to Wealth, 2 thele Creatures in the World that men do not. — killand eat, and yet there are no more of them - than are ufeful, or not fo many as to o¢cafion any fuch prejudice to mankind as this Objection fuppofes, but find room enough in. their proper Elements, andthe Almighty. providence liberal’. ly fuftains them... To inftance in. one.moft coms | mon and ufeful Species, viz. ‘Horfes;. they are not any where that I know~of ufually killed te be eaten, and yet I never heard of any Country | in the World that complained of being over: ftockt with them. It may perhapsbe alledged, _ That the hard Ufage and’ Tyranny which men tnflitt upon them,do deftroy great Numbers of them. Icon: tefs this is too true, but yet if there were no fuch. Exorbitances committed, there would not be too many, nor would their Troops be burthen- - fom unto mankind. For are there not various — forts of Birds, many of them not. fitto be eaten, - and others that for the molt part efcape the Stra- tagems & Snares of the Fowler,and yét we do not find too many of them; nor indeed fhall you but very feldom find any of them dead, though they cannot hide their Dead, fince their Feathers ‘would betray them: The Raves as unfit for — Food, becaufe of its rapacious preying on dead — Careafles, and the pretty Robbin-Red-Breaft for — its Innocency, dre pe. feldom killed, and yet — they do not become offeniive to men. _ 4. How many forts of Beafts and Birds, both i & ’ WL ‘ is | ze i Ve | «long Wife and Bappinety, 449 _ wild and tame, are there in others Countries, ° _ thatare rarely killed by Men, and yet there is a natural Confumption of them; nay, there are _ divers kinds, whom to kill or injure is to this day accounted Ominous or fore-boding M:fchief rothole that meddle with them, for which caufe moft People to forbear tooffer Violencetothem, unlefe. by Accident, and yet there are no more extant inthe World, than of others whom men make it pe bufinefS, and intereft, and diverfion to de- a a oe wh ee a © ya ceuee | _* 5. If People had not occafion for fo many Sheep for their JVool, or Cows for their Milk, &e. they might as eafily leflen the Numbers of them, as increafe them, which every Husbandman-_. might be fenfible of, by keeping the Males from the Females, and not fuffering them to generate _ too young, whereby fuch Beafts would be larger, itronger, and more healthy; whereas now {0 many Cattel are induftrioufly bred up in man pe that when a fcarcety happens of Grafs, _ Hay or Corn, multitudes of them perifh; for _ Cattel being now become a grand Commodity, and (asit were) a Manufacture, Husband-men for the moft part living at rackt Reats, are forced to raife asmany of them as poflibly they can, and to keep them on improper and unhealthy Paftu- "rages, and to over-labour both themfelves & their Beats, meerly to raife Rents for their idle extra- vagant Landlores, who only aim to {gtisfie their Prideand Superfluity. “ ae Mmm 6. "Tis ia PE pa ite a c. a 4 SS ago he Wapto Health, = +. 6. Tiseertain, thatGodand Nature (whodo nothing in vain) never created or made’ more Creatures in any of the four Worlds or Elements, whether Vifible or invifible, than the fame would. nourifh and maintain; as in the Element of Water, if there were never any killed by men, their Mother Element, that brought them forth would be fufficient to nurfe them up and main- tainthem. Thelikeis tobe faid of the Fow/s of the Air and Beafts of the Earth; for do wenot fee, — even in Deferts and Wilderneffes, all Nature’s — produGtions are liberally provided for, and fewer there of every Species than in thofe we call Cruz. lized Regions? So grofsan Error ’tis to imagine That if men fhould not kill them, the Earth would be over-rin, and that there would be fo many of them as would not be fuftained,but that they would be injuries to Mankind : For in truth nothing waquid or ¢ould: hugt or injure man, ‘if he lived in Innocency, and did not firft outrage them; for as Innocency hurts nothing, fo nothing:can hurt it. — i 23. Nowit is further to be confidered, That if any Nation or.Pecple fhould leave off or fCruple . Killing men,and the Inferior Creatures,and eating © their Fiefhand Blood, from a true Underitanding of Gods Law in Nature, and in obedience tothe- friendly and innocent Principle of Gods Love and » Light, then all OppreTion, Violence, Contro- verfies and Killing would ceafe, and that excellent faying of the Prophet would take place, oe . ea long Wife and Happinels. — Ast _ That every man would be taught of the Lord: All. outward Enquiries would have an end; then would not men build outward Temples, in which they fay, They will Worfbip God, but in _ truth, they make the Seats of War, D:{fention, and Coxtroverfie ; but inftead thereof mens bodies _ would become living Temples, in which his holy +Spirit would have thedoniinion; then the do- Jerous frightful Noife of Ges, Drums, Swords, and the tumults of Armed Men would not be heard inthe Streets; no Plotting and Coatriving the _ Deftruction of each other would be; neither » would the Prinee need to fear hisown Warders ; _ nor no wounding one another by Back-biting and flanderous Speeches ; neither would the fuperior ~»World and Element be filled with the mournful Tones and doleful Cries of the inferiour Inhabi- tants, nor with the wrathful fierce Species of Man-flaughter,which doth render every man un- {afe, even fromthe Priace to the Peafant; neither would there be any watz Plays, Games, nor wanton _ fuperfiuous Treats, to wafte precious Time, and ~ deftroy Gods good Creatures ;_ then Man would _. not fay, what fhould be done, and doit not ; then the inward favage violent Beafts of prey would be rooted out of mans heart; and the vio- “Jent wrathful Spirit muft lofe its dominion, and Jay down its wrathful Arms and Weapons of War, and become fubject tothe divine Principle of Gods eternal Lave; neither would men then count themfelves at home inthis World, but Mmmz2.» Strangers | ca 452 other for Morey and Honour’ would have no -beeing ; fer having overcome the inward Ene- mies of their Members, they would reft feeure, there being no Peace fo excellent and commend- able as that which is made by good living, nei- ther in the fight of God nor Man, viz. by the Sword of God's Spirit, not by the high lofty do- mineering ‘envious Spirit, who by foree doth endeavour to fubje€ all unto it felf, fueh a Peace _ cannot long continue unviolated, becaufe it pro- ceeds from the poyfonous ferpentine Root, andit — hath its motion and operation, where the forms —— Bhe Hap teWealty Strangers and Guefts that muft-wander hence; then alfoall outward fighting and flayingonethe of Nature are divided and at Enmity with each © other; alfo, hereeach Property doth with higheft — diligence endeavour to get the dominion, which fometimes one doth, and then by andby another; — fo that there isa continual f{trife and enmity for - fuperiority or government; which is the Founda~- tion of all Controverfies, Violence, Oppreffion, | Fighting and Killing, and why men forget God and defpife the Didtates of the innocent Principle of his Love, which continued Violences and Op- - preffions do more and more kindle and keess the fierce Wrath in motion, and by a fimpathetical — inclination draw on man many fore Evils; for every Principle or Quality becomes either ftrong and powerful, or weak and impotent, according as man {hall joyn himfelf, or livein the power — and operation of, whether it be in the evilor — ae ‘good, _ ; ; ‘g b 1 Fs ry long Lifeand Bapputeis. 453 good,, therefore it hath always come to pafs, that thofe that have given themfelves up, and im- merfed their Wills and Defires intothe Principle of Wrath, have become {trong and powerful therein, committing Intempetances, and out- raging Gods Law with greedinefs; but on the — contrary, thofe. that have feparated themfelves _ from Violence, Intemperance and Uncleannefs, and followed the Counfel of the Voice of Wife . dom, they have become {trong and powerful in the fame Principle, whence hath fowedall kinds of Virtue. What could hurt man, either ex- ternally or internally, or deftroy his Peace and - Well-becing, if he lived in Innocency? The Creator hath not made any vifible Prince greater, or ordained any to reign over him, but only the ~ - friendly Light and Love, which he hath difpof- feffed himfelf of, by fepping out of the Law of _ God in nature, and fo hath loft his dominion. both external and internal, and thereby hath {ubyected himfelf under the dominion of the poy- fonous fierce Wrath, where Enmity, Strife and ~Veolence takes its birth. : But this isthe Happinefs {till of Mankind, that that the God of eternal Peace hath, inhis Mercy, _ given a portion of his friendly Light and Love, tO every one to profit withal; and alfo mans Willis free, if hedo not fuffer it to depraved and _ Gaptivated under the dominion of the evil Nature ; ~ for this caufe the Scripture of Truth faith, That the Lord hath fes Life aud Death before man; that is, . : 4ss «Che wayto Pealth, is, im man; ‘asalfo, the Right-hand Way and the Left, and bid him chufe: The right-hand-Way 4s the Principle of his eternal Love and Lightin Jefus Chrift, and the left is his fierce Wrath; and he that chufeth the good part doth not only be- come a Friendof God’s, and himfelf,; but alfoto™ the whole Creation, and becomes incorporated’ into that unfpotted Body and holy Fountain of ~ Innocency, into which ftate allthe inferior Creas? tures, as wellas man, do travel with pain, and* groan to be deliver’d, as the worthy Apottle Past — faith, The whole Creation groans to be delivered into that glorivons liberty of the Sons of God; thisis the Land that flows with Milk and Honey: Hereis — ‘peace & plenty ofallthings; for Unityand Inno- cency makes the K ¢zgdowss of this world Emblems” of Paradife. For Temperance, Cleannefs and Se- ’ paration fromViolence,freeth theBody from great - Labours and Travels, and the Mind from carking Cares, Sufpitionsand Preturbations,attratting the benovelent Influences of the Cceleftials,and all the‘ Hoft of Heaven and Earth bleffeth him that lives” _ in Innocency, becaufe he oppreffeth nor hurterh> ~ nothing: It is Violence, Oppreffion and Super- fluity which have broke the Unity between God” ~ and Man, andalfo between all other Creatures, and rendered Man the moft unhappielt of all ~ others; his wratinful Mouth is forwiide, andhis © Pauch fo large, that the {poil and deftructien of all the numerous Inhabitants of the Elements wilh _ not content him, he centends with allthings, apd | long Wife and Tappinefs: Ay _ Snditherefore all contend with him; no place is. free from his poyfonous Rays and unreconciled Controverfies; therefore all curfe him, and he doth the fame by them; every Creature feareth _ Man, becaufe he hurts and deftroys their Peace, and in fo doing he doth the fame by himfelf; for _the groaning of thofe Creatures that fuifer pain — and oppreffion,will overtake him thag doth it; but on the contrary, thofe that have feparated them. felves from Violence, Oppreion and Superfluity, all things.that are neceflary for them, and for the fuppors of Life are near at hand, and may be eafily procured, without hazarding either the Health of the Body or Mind, and without Op- preffion to any of Gods Creatures, as the great mimber of fragrant Herbs, Seeds, Grains aid Fruits, which are indued with brave inno: ent Properties, and many excellent Virtues, beyond expreffion, which being well prepared and mo- derately eaten, do not only maintain Health and _ ftrength, but they do beget their own {pecies and “mnoceat Properties, both in the body and mind, | ‘as [have before demonftrated; and whofoever | fhall make tryal, and initiate now thisinnocent way of living, fhall not only make Peace with the awhole Creation, but fhall overcome his inward Lufts and violent Paffiens, which are mans dead. dy Enemies, and then he may reft fecure under his own Vine, viz. under the government of the divine Principle of Gods eternal Love: ere al! Contention.ceafeth, no hideous Cryes nor aaa | : ul a ee : ; oy ' ES a ee 485s The way to bealth, 9 _ ful Groans are heard, neitherof Man nor Beaft; | no channels running with the blood of jlaughter= -. ed Beafts; no ftinking Shambles, nor bloody — Butchers; no roaring of Canons, nor firing-of — Towns; no loathfom ftinking Prifons, nor trot — Grates to keep men from enjoying Wife, Children and the pledfant Air; nor no crying for want of | of Food and Clothes; no Rioting, nor wanton” Inventions to deftroy as muchin one day asa — thoufand can get by their hard Labour and Tra- — vel; no Swearing, nor ftobbing Heaven» with — dreadful Execrations; no gallopping Horfes up © Hills, without any confideration or fellow-feeling — _of the Creatures pains and burdens; no deflour~ © _ ing of Virgins, and ther expofe both them and © ~~. ¢heir own feed toall the Miferies imaginable; nor — no letting Lands and Farms fodear thatthe . Farmer muft be forced to opprefs himfelf, Ser- -vants and Cattel almoft to Death, and all too — |ittle to pay his Rent; no difobedience of the In- — _. feriour, nor oppreffion of the Superior; but the » ~~ firft knows how to Obey, and the laft how to ~ Govern; neither is there any. Want, becaufe — there is no Superfluity nor Gluttony: no Noife, — nor Cries of wounded men; noneed of Chyrar-— gions to cut Bullets out of their Flefh; nor no ~ cutting of Hands, broken Legsand Arms; no roarmg nor crying out with the torturing Pains © of the Gout, nor other painful Difeafes, as Lea. porous and Confumptive Diftempers, except through — Age and the Reliques of fome frains tl ey got ll Ri de he ae eb teach Paley og , ' > ce | ‘ , “ ong Aifeand Bapbinets. 457. whilft they lived in intemperate Zgyp?; neither are their Children affli€@ted with fuch a great number of Difeafes, butareas free from Diftem- _ persas Lambs, Calves, or the Young ones of any of the Beafts, who are preferved found and healthful, becaufe they have not outraged Gods *) Law in Nature, thé breaking of which is the it Foundation: of moft or all eruel: Difeafes that » affli& Mankind, tnere being nothing thac makes the difference between Man and Beafts, as to Health, but only Superfluity and Intemperance, both in Quality and Quantity. Man in his firft ¢ | ftate was made the foundeft, healthieft, of the greateft Spirit and the longeft lived, as witnefs the Antients in the firft Ages of the World, bug. »- when man entred with his Will-into Violence, _ Oppreffionand Cruelty, then the Lord faid, Thag Man had corrupted the Earth, and filled tt with Vio- tence ; that is, the Elements and Properties of _ the human Nature was corrupted and become . unequal in their operation, every particular Qua- ‘tity did endeavour to get the upper hand: Here 1. the Harmony was broken, and Difcord took oplace; here wasthe ftrife; then the Lord fhort- ~ ned mans Life, but not before he became intem- » perate, and did Violence, not only unto himfelf, -but to all other Creatures; therefore they do ~ . groan to be delivered into that firit ftate and glorious liberty man was-created’in, which if he had continued in obedience, and lived undér the government of the innocent Principle of Gods Be NS Ne Sr 48 Che Neaytobeaith, Gods Light and Love, all the Inferior Creatures: would have'enjoyed all the priviledges and liberty - which were ordained for them, according _ ta their capacity; for this caufe, whenfoever any of the inferior Creatures are oporeffed, hurt — or kled, they doby a natural difpoficion and — inclination ery unto the Fountain whence they _ proceeded, and groan for Deliverance, which _ will never be until men with their Wills and D2. fires enter into the innocent Principle of Gods ~ Love and holy Light, whence doth arife nodif- - pofition of Hatred, Violence or Oppreffion, it being as contrary toit, as Light isto Darknels ; all Cruelty and Blood-fhedding do proceed from - another Fountain, as differentin natureandope. sation, as the common confuming Fire doth differ ‘from the light thereof,which is of a moft friendly -pleafant Quality and benovelent operation, but the Fire is fierce, and altogether the contrary; _ ¥yet neverthelefs the harfh fire is thecaufe ofthe ‘Light, and if there were no fire there would be ono light ; the Fare is the Futher, andthe Light is — the Sox, and theyare Emblems of the Fatherand -Son, orortheinternalFireand Light; the Light — -of this eternal Fire is a moft pleafant chearing Quality of Life; but the fire in its own Nature © is a {trong harfh fulpherous Property, a devour- “ing lofty proud Spirit, who endeavours to con- fime all things, and the internal dark Fire is its» “Root; andthe Scripture faith, Who cas dvell with » evirlaling Burnings ?. God-is a confuming Fire ase ; *. Se ree ‘ cdi Danie lea ge ay hd " — t6 all that are not clothed with the $on’s Wed- jong Lifeand Pappinels. 459° ding Garment of Light, Love and Innocency 3 therefore the {crupling Violence and Oppreffion, both to Man and Beaft, and denying our felves of other Vanities and Superfluities, is of great Moment, and the only Path that leads mento the holy Land, preferving both the Body and Soul in health. For this caufe, in the beginning the Lord put man into a Garden, which doth truly fignifie Izsocency, and gave hima great ) nurnber of fragrant Herbs, Seeds, Fraits and Grains, which are all indued with an innoceat Nature and Operation ; but when he had preci- pitated his Will and Defires into the Principle of ‘Wrath, then prefently the Earth was filled with — Violence, and the element of his Body and Soul was corrupted ; then diftemperatures took place in him, and his Life was fhortned, but not be- fore. Therefore the eating of Herbs, Seeds, Grains and Fruits, is of far greater confequence than moft imagine, and they may juftly be efteemed the Food cf good Angels, for their Inno- cency, excellent Virtues, Fragrancies and Oduurs; and the e ore they were the Food ordained for man whilft he remained in his Aagelical fate ; and if he had continued in Izmocency, he would never have defired any other Food; but when by defire he awakened the ‘fierce Wrath, and lived under the power and government of its Nature, then he could not be fatished — without doing Violence and Killing; for inno- f Nanz2 cene F : 460 — The sony to pealth, Pe cent Herbs. he Fruits had no fimile. with: hat Nature that had gotten the upper dominion. in im; for every Property, asi have told you Bheiret mutt have its own Food, or elfeir cannot (| fubfift; then it was, and not before that the Lord permitted men to kill and eatthe Flefh and Blood of Beafts, which would never have been, had man continued i in Tnnocency. And therefore great are the Benefits and manifold Priviledges that now do accompany all thofe that have at. . tained to that ftate of Purity and Innocescy which our firft Parents were elothed with, their Minds _ being freed from Snares, and their bodies from. fu "4 perfluous Labours, therefore can fay; We have no need of Lawyers ; ‘Honefty , . Juftice and Prudence makes their Trade. nothing worth; and but afew Phyfrians, and none of — them keep neither Coaches nor Chariots, they. are not clothed with Gold, Silver nor Plufh Coats, | our Temperarice keeps then poor: The true Knowledge of God and Nature in our Cun. deftroys the Trade of divining for Money: Our Superiors are not proud nor ambitious, neither . do they fpend the choiceft and richeft of the Earth in Courtly Glttony, Drunkennefs and Superfluity ; nor the Ixferiors be not bold, furly, - jnhumane and fwinifh ; nor are any of us de- lighted with flanderous Speeches, nor lend our Ears to hear Lyes; nor are we pleafed with the evil Reports of: others, that do wound thofe — who are not prefent, which do chiefly ferve to advance Hatred and make Divifions; neither do - we % Pe en es et ge em Cm Vo tong Life aud Bappinets, 6x a aif y ye ie ALD SN : 4 | a . we nourifh fuch evil Paffions, but take care, by’ the obferving of our Duty (that is, by doiag uxto athers as we would be done unto) to -deftroy thofe. evil Beafts of Prey in the bud: We pray for our Enemies, and praife them when they do well; norare we grieved when Profperity attends them, nor rejoyce at the Evil which happenetty unto them: Weare not fubje& to thar deteft. | able Spirit of Scoffing, Jeering and idle Jefting ; neither do we {pend whole days and nights in Drunkennefs,nor wafte precious Time in wanton vain Difcourfes; neither are we skilled in Horfe- Races,norexhautt our Treafures by Gaming and. Night-Revelling : Our Streets are not troubled with the crys and complaints of the Blind, Lame _ and Diftreffed ; nor. are our Common-Halls filled with the dif-harmonious noife of Drunken. Healths and Roaring Huzza’s; no fulfom Fumes — of Tobacco, nor deteftable Steams of Brothel- Houfes to infect the chafte Air; no Miftriffing, mor Revelling, turning Day into Night,’ and _Nightinto Day; no Merriment or Sporting at _ the Funeralof theBeafts; neitherdo our Women _ f{pend.moft of their time in lying a Bed, Idlenefs, ror in fuperfluous Inventions to gratifie their ~ Luxurious Pallates, nor with playing and {port- ing themfelves with negre nofed Dogs, who | make thefe ravenous unclean ‘Savages their Day and Night Companions, for which — _ fome have been put to Death by the fentence of the Judge, by playing, kiffing and imbracing of a © OB Ee re I NOL a ey EE CS ae WE aa Pym Wr et ers oe. Mi) ee i 2 ae \ A6® | Che way toBealth — them, fitting in their Laps, which many of them — will hardly afford their Husbands the like kind- nefs; alfo, fic at their Tables, feeding them with — the choiceft of Foodand Dainties, whereas at the — fame time they will fuffer thofe of theirown kind _ to perifh for want, which Cuftom and Commu- nication is inhumane, depraved, and moft de- _ teftable: Neither do we accuftem our felves to — Lye, nor go to drunken Clubs, to tell Stories of — Dogs, Tobacco-boxes, Hunting, Riding for — _ ‘Wagers, Scoiling and Jeering each other, fpeak- ing lightly of their abfent Acquaintance, We — donot forget that Scripture, that faith,» Let ws — bay afide all Malictoufnefs, Guile, Difireulation and — Evil [peaking: Neither,do we celebrate any up- _matural Marriages: Our Young Men doholdic unlawfulto Marry Women pait Child-bearing, — or thofe that are deformed, difeafed or unfit for Generation, for the fake of Money, Honour, or any other bafe depraved ends: Our ways and pailayes are not filled with Thieves and Vaga- bonds; we fear not thofe of our own Kind: Our — Sons are not difobedient, drunken nor riotous; . neither are our Daughters unchafte, ner idle, though their Parents be rich(which are the We. {prings of Eviland Mittrifs of Poverty) neither do we furfeit our felves by over-labour, nor put Nature on eck by violent Exercifes,whence proceed fundry Difeafes: Neither have weany — oceafion to be obliged to thofe we like not;. neice. ther do we make a Boatting fhew of our Friend- AF eT Pe eee Coe oe eo A ee Me pers Panes i oe" Py 4 > fong Lifeand Pappinelg. 453 fhip: We do overcome Ingratitude by our _ eontinual Kindnefs and Well-doing: We fear no Enemies but thofe of our own Houfe: We rea- dily expofe our Goods tothofe that are in want : _Oor Superiors hear all Complaints and Petitions readily; neither do we detain the Rights and _ Priviledges of any: We count nothing fo pro- fitable, noble and honourable as that which we give and affift our Neighbours with: There comes no Harmony into our Ears which 1s more wellcome than the Prayers and good Wifhes of our Neighbours and Friends: We count Riches and great Subftance bafe and abject, if pofleffed privately or {pent fuperfluoufly on mens Lufts and Paffions; but on the contrary, being well employed, and put to the end for which they were given, doth inoble them and make them Magnificent, anda Blefling: The know- edge of God and his holy Law in Nature doth invite us todo good: ‘There isno better way nor means to imitate God than to live foberly in | peace, doing good to one another, and by allow- ing that liberty to our Neighbours and to Gods © Creation, -as we would willingly enjoy: We come in nothing nearer the Nature of God, than ‘ to-ceafe from Oppreffion, and todo good: We defire'tolive in peace, and to have our liberty, and - fodo all other Creatures: We do not defire to be hurt, imprifoned, banifhed, ftoned or-killed, | wherefore then fhould we deal fo unmercifully with ahy of Gods Creatures, efpecially withthofe Mg ae ee ae of. 1 j ~be. i Ta oa, ie a : rs oonl Th #: ae ig be. ee ee eS 464 —~GhewaptoealtR, — of our own kind? all Creatures fhun and Atead all fuch Evils: God made all things by his. wonderful Power, and he doth byhis holy — _ Word preferve all, why then fhould we — work .contrary to him, feeing we cannot make one Hair either whité or black? Man is. the only prince and governour in this World, and therefore he ought to take his meafures of Go- ‘vernment from his Creator, whofe Image he is, — and riot fromthe depraved Nature, which he — through fin, is fallen into, whereeveryformand property of Nature does, with higheft diligerice, endeavour to be Lord, andtodomineer overeach- ~ other, which the Manof Vanity counts right; but “tis agrofs Error: Manwas madetolive _ in Unity, and to have dominion, and governover allthings: Inthe fame fpirit of Unity, he that’ — doth good, and lives in peace, doth, by a mag- — , netick Quality, draw Vertue out of all things; _ the fear of Want, Sieknefs, and even Death it: — felf is made eafie to us, by Merey and Well-do- ing, wherefore then fhould we fear any thing, fecing we hurt nothing? He that ee nee rv to God’s Law fhall not dye before the higheft Number be accomplifhed, and then Death will — be eafie unto him, and hischangeaComfortr. ~ ‘We do count it an Indifcretion to: condemn all that do xot walk juft iz our Path, provided itbe — not an Evilagainitt God and his Law: Carking~ Cares perplex not our minds, nor doth overs’ | labours: tire. our Bodies: We are honeftly : , : curious * j tong Wife and Bappinefs. 465 _turious.in the inquiry of the myfteries of Na- ture; for God doth will that man. fhould pars take of his Secrets ; Opinions nor Senfuality do not becloud our Underftandings: Wedo not | oblige our felves to follow Authors; a few Books: do five Clr turfis; our principal Book hath © but three Leaves,by which we alwayes Pray unto, the Lord, that he wonld teach us which is the triie Knowledge of God in our felves, and the three grand principles of the Univerfal Nature, wherein is contained all Myfteries both divine and humane: We trouble not our Heads, nor Ipend much gocd time in learning many Lan- “guages: We count the more Paint the Glafs- FWiedows have, the more it keeps out the Light: Neither do we count or efteem that to be Pleas furé wherein Voluptuoufnefs is Captain, for fuch. - Pleafures do tickle the Senfes only for a moment, and then flip away, and leave behind them a difordered Body and a perplexed Soul, the me- gory of whichi calls for Repentance, and do in “gender in the mind Sottifhnefs and Infolency, and a forgetfulnefs of all Good, making the Body a Houfe of forrow, & the Soul a Den of Thieves ; Intemperance never goes alone; having many other Evils, and- ee Companions attend- ing her; but at her firft appearance,doth court her Lovers with a Curious painted {miling Counte- nance, which doth allure and draw after her a great Train of young Gallants by her counterfeit Beauties; but we through the good favour of the ae ah, ~ Ooo : Lord f hes. abe NAP to 8 Wealth, pe “Lord Bae rH Snares, and that fheis that isi O- man the Wife man faith, Sits ¢ the Corners ‘of the Streets of mans City, allering and inviting the foo- ia : : Wh Ones by her fading Delights and Pleafures: h Therefore we warn our Citizens to beware of her Charms. But Virtwe,who.is our Captain, though _ at firft fhe do appear to us with a difmay’d Face, and_in modeft plain Garments, and neither ‘decked with feigned Speeches, nor with fading Beauties, but with other moft fublim.and du-- table Riches, as Temperance, C leanne[s, Separae tion, Self-denial, which 1s a little auftere and burdenfom at firtt to old Adam, and to thofe that have {pent moft of their dayes in the one | vances and Oppreffions of Egypt; neverthelefs, a little ufe, cuftem and Self-denial, makes them moft friendly, both to the Body and Mind, for fhe freeth. them, both from Ignorance, vain Opi- nions, Self-conceitednefs, :and all other Snares. and Troubles, and crowns the Soul with eternal | Felicity : If our: ‘Children are Gluttonous, Idle or ? Difobedi- ‘nt to Parents, our Law. and ‘Cultom — conftr: ains them to make Retaliation by fervitude- in our publick Houfes and Places provided for. that purpofe : .. We donot inflave our Bodies by Labours; nor put our more noble, parts: on the Rack bv carking Cares ‘to maintain.our Wives. and Children, . becaule we obferves.. order. and count that unlawtul chat is not needful ; Swill little. ferves and {uports the neceflity of Nature, where” Superflur ity is laid afide: The more Children we Yong wyteand Bappinetg. 467. have, the richer we do efteem our felves: We pratiics lens and “tions.after F/:/b and Blood, they fimell of the Ors- ginal Sin, and of the awakend fierce Wrath of God, which renders man fitter to live ina Fijb- Market and Butchers Shambles, than in a Garden, there being no more Affinity between S/a:ghter- houfes, » Shambles, Butchérs Shops and Sheep, ‘han there is’ between a pleafans Garden and the Fraits that grow therein, end Dogs, Ayons, Bears, and the like wild Beafts of Prey: We do not complain and fay, If we / , ~ Filefh and Blood, we fbonld aye, as fome. will,mean- jg the death of the Body; this note need to fear, but the main thie: Would mot eat les ogcult, they are not. willing to kill and deftroy the Government of - the vidlent wrathful Spiric and ravenous Nature, — - ‘Which moft men love to pratife ; all fuch things that fupports and keeps that Spirie in motion, Which would quickly be weakened, if man did | _ Qooz 0 ROE PON Meanie ot Ae Oe : 3 oe ry ae a ete a aia 468. Whe Wap toHenkeh, fairer then another ; no, ghey all thruft forth their Vertues in quietnefs to God’s Praife and Glory, _ even fo.it would be with Man, if he did fear the Lord as he ought, and lay afide Violence,’ and livein Innocency, thea the Tempter wowld lofe his labour. 2. If any amongft us be Idle, Gluttonous, | Or commit any Evil, and will not amend hisLife — and become fober at the firft, feeond or third: — Reproof, then they are committed to Houfes — and Places appointed for ‘feveral forts of Work, — and there they are put.to fuch‘Labour, Arts or* — Trades as they fhall be capable of, being well — furnifhed with Meat, Drink, Cloathing, fweet — _, wWholfom Chambers and Beds, there tocontinue _ until they have made Retaliation ; their greateft _ Junifhment: is, they are confined to work double. f * ¥ _ : long Wife and Bapvinels. 469 the time that is-alotted for others, 7iz. 12 Hours © inaday; for we do not opprefs our felves nor - Servants with labour, it being not lawful among us to work above fix hours in a day, which doth bountifully fupport us with plenty of all things ; _ where Superfluity is not, there needs not much _ Jabour neither to Man nor Beaft, the remaining time is fet a part for Prayer, Meditations and Con- templations ot the divine and natural Myf{teries of ‘God, as Arts and Sciences, and all lawful inno- ent Recreation: We do account none capable to know the hidden My fteries of God and the Creation, but thofe that become even as Nature wher felf, viz. true, fimple, conftant, patient and pious, no ways hurtful to any thing, v=. a Regenerated Man, none elfe are fit for the Search and Speculation of divine Myfteries, but thofe that are thus qualified; when by an ésmocent pious Life, we have made God .our Friend, then the ‘Heavens, the Harth, Elements, and all the _Terene and Celeftial Influences are conttrained to come to our help: We draw Peace, Love and ~~ Firtye oat of all things,for every likenefs doth for- _ cibly draw proper Aliment out of all things, for _ the increafe and fuppore of its own Body, both - ingood and evil; and for this fame purpofe we ~ do meet often together, for our | occafi- ons do not hinder us, where we do fpeak and difcourfe freely like fo many Children, keeping __ nothing back or hidden, whether it be good or. _ evil, but manifefting the inward fecrets of our ean Hearts, Wis BL id 4 478 The MOayto Heaith, Hearts, and the myftical Operations of the vas rious Properties of our own Nature, andof the — Force, Power, Vertue and Vice of each Quality, — and of their rifing and continual Conteftamongft themfelves for maftery ;and aliothe mannerand = way the divine Principle of God in usdoth open the fevenSeals,and call the Soul back ourof Egypt, ¥iz. outof Difcord and inequality into Congord =~ and Harmony: We donot admit of any Dit courfe that is not filled with Vertue and Experi- ‘ence, either of divine or natural Wifdom, by which the low mean Capacities are raifed by Sr ~ mile, Ufe and Cultom to fome degree of wife’ dom, Silence being in much efteem amongft us, counting it a very difficult thing to hear the Voice of Wifdom, ifthe Ears are not firft — made good by Silence: For he that cannot di- ftinguifh Sounds, cannot tune his Inftrument, and confequently he can make-no Harmony; — the like is to be underftood of the various Voices — inman ; if hedo not underftand by the found of — 1 each Voice,and from what Centre ithad its Birth, ~ and. what Property doth predominate in each ~~ Voice, then {uch an one cannot rightly and pros — perly diftinguifh the Voice of Ws/dow from others; for this cafue many do take the one for the other, ~ We do not admire any ftudy fo muchasthe knowledge of our felves, - efteeming: that to be only profitable both to the Body and Soul: We — have but few Merchants amongft us, and thofe what aie, are ready to break, for their Wares | | have ‘ong wife an bappinets. = ggg _haverbutilittle Credit with us: We do not need | Wine, Sugar, Spices, Fruits, Drugs, nor indee whoo aes ¢ so EB a? none of the Novelties brought from the Weft and % | Eaffelndies,accounting them not proper nor agrec-.” : able to our Natures: We know that the Herd Fruits, Grains, Seeds, and Drags ,. that grow. _ under the Elivation of our own Pole, aremore’ Flomagenial: We are of the Kingly .Propher- _ David's mind,counting all thofeneedlefs Dainties the price! of Blood, for the moft part procured by * great hazard, trouble and labour; Andif David counted Water, (which was procured by hazard ofa mans Life) the price of Blood, it being a moft neceflary thing torthe fupport of the Life, - and heat that time in great need of it, how much - more then muft we efteem thofe necdlefs things. the price of Blood,that are procured by the lofs of Life and-Health? Our married Men and Wo- . menatre not like the Moon, the further fhe is diftant from the Sun, the clearer and greater light fhe gives; but when fhe draws nearer, her Light is leffened >| Our Women do nor {pend -moft of their time in fuperfluous Drefling, and. decking themfelves like painted or.gilded Look- - ing.glaffes, which prefents afalfe Face: Welove and marry them for Vertue more then for Mo- ney, Honour or Beauty, becaufe none of thefe things.makes them fo Praife-worthy, as Sobriety, Modefty, Obedience and good Works: They are fo friendly to us, as not to charge us, or put us to. that unaneceflary labour and trouble of rich At. | : ‘tire, = “aye he Map. to Health, tire, or other Superfluities; their mode/t Lookes and honeft Behaviours, do not only ingage us to — Jove them, but leads all that cafts their Eyes on them to Contenency and Chaftity: » Wedo — not know the Expences of neither Apothecaries, ' Doétors nor: Doéforiffes; They prevent that by good living; neither do they teach or train their — Children from their Breafts to Gluttony, but fup- — ply them with proper Meats and Ditnks, both © in Quantity and Quality, which makes them — ftrong, lufty, brisk and healthy, of clean fweet — ‘Tempers, not apt to cry, or be difordered, but — play likeLambs; neither are they fo fubjeét to km> — . Mnature Deaths, of good Genufles, apt tovall forts - of Learning,(not fubject to the Foynt- Aches,K ings. — Evil, Leporous Difeafes) which do proceed from ~ our well Tillage and Manuring of our Ground — jn the beginning; alfo we takecare to keep it © clean from Weeds, and to fow good Seedin the ~ _ proper times and feafons: Wedo make it our 7 EiGoeG to underftand the Nature and Quality 7 of each Soile; for fome mens ‘Tranfgreffidn the — Earth is naturally fubje€t- to bring forth evil — Fruit, or Vegitation not fo profitable‘for ufe, and ~ if there be not fpecial care taken, and induftry ~ ufed, the good Fruit will be over-run, and much 7 _ weakened by the Thornsand Bryars, and hinder ~ the good Seed from taking Root, and fo © becomecorrupted intheBud: Wedoalfoefteem ~ that Country moft miferable, that doth negle&t — _ the proper Tillage, and Education of is iG i.e ‘- 0) aes ; long Hite and Dapvinets, = 47g being the grand Fountain of all Superfluity,Glut- ‘tony, Seditions and Murders, and a contempt to God’s Liw written in the Heart, Seriptures ~ and Book of Nature; for this caufe the learned - Mofes commanded, That the Drunken, Gluttonous, Difobedient Scns {hould be ftomed ro Death: There- fore we have Laws and Cuftoms that do compel all Pathers to inftruct their Children in all Mode. — fiy, Honefty, Cleanne/s, Sobriety and Silence be- fore their Elders ; ‘and-we truft-not the Educa- tion ofthem to others; for if we will not take “pains with them our felves, how can we believe | that others will? We account it more profitable for them to be educated and inftru&ted in the Precepts of Wifdom, and K,owledge of Nature,then _ for us to {pend our time, wear our Health out, .and perplex our minds to get Riches and Money, « which be the moft part are the very Seeds of Op- _ preffions and Intemperances: We do not admit the — samporting of Wine, or any ffrong Drinks tobe made that is capable to. make men drunk, not that we do efteem thofe brave noble Crea- tures unlawful, but becaufe the Young-men and _ fimple low fpirited People have not government to ufeit as it ought, orto the beft advantage of + Nature, but altogether the contrary: Therefore the Wile iene usdo refrain it, and. prohibic ‘themfelves for their fakes: We had rather the excellent Fruit of theVine fhould be loft,then our People deftroyed in the ufe of it: Therefore if any amongft us do make or invent any fort. of Drink, fa. Ppp that ¥ a a a er 7% or +4 Atk = = MAH MDay'tobealth, that will make men drunk; they are punifhed with: sl le fervitude,and the drinkers thereof with little lefs ; Drunkennnefs being the leading Card to all Evils: We have not forgot the many Burdens, Miferies, eruel Slavertes and Oppreffions: “we endured whilft we remainedin intemperate; Egypt, though the foolifh Ones have: And if we: —*fhould give liberty again. to Drunkennefs, Glut- ‘tony, and the like’ Vanities, we may juftly ex. ‘pe& the fame meafure, and to have no more. ‘mercy than’ Pharoah and his Troops had’;: for © ‘wherefoever Superfluity and Gluttony is, there “you may be fure Opprefiox doth reign,which doth, ‘powerfully ftir up the Wrath; therefore the firft flep: towards the Land of Peace, is for mensto: feparate themfelves from all Uscleanne/s and Vio dence, which the Prophets and holy menof. God — ‘proclaimed’ in all Ages: We know that tobe ‘fawful that is needful, and fuitable to Nature’s ‘wants, being fenfible that every Extream begets — ts. Simile, both in the Body and alfo in the Miad, — whether it be Meats, Drinks, Words, Exertifes or Communications: “We cannot do Violence or opprefs any thing, but firft we muft be ftrong in the fierce Wrath, whence the Violence doth pro- eeed: Neither can we do any thing, whe. — —-ther'in the Evil or-Good'’s but firft we muft be {trong in that Principle, whence the Good or Evil doth proceed; therefore it may be truly faid, Wrath and Fiercene/s hurts-all things, and all things hurts that; but on the contrary, agrtiis’ he Ve ie. | rts > Mohg Wifeand Bappinets, 475, hurts no thing, nor nothing hurts that, it being an irrepugnable Tower againi{t all Kvil oad Violence: Living well is the beft defence againft ‘mens inward and outward Enemies: It is alfoa cuftom amongft us, if any of us by the intice- ment “of our liquorifh Pallates, or. other, Acci- dents, commit any. Intemperance in Meats, © Drinks, or otherwife,we in all particulars make it _ publick at our Meetingsyand fuch do of their own free choice appoint unto themfelves acertaintime — of Abftinency and Separation, according to the Na-" _ tureof the Offence, #z. Dayes, Weeks, Moneths or Years, whereby our Bodies are cleanfed and purged from fuperfluous Matters, (which are the Seeds of Difeafes) by which weare preferved in Health, and our’Souls are freed fromthe chains of that Offence; and our Minds and Spirits — ftrengthened by the Spirits of our Friends ;. Pen- mance and Separation keep the Evil frefh in our minds, with a continual Rass callon he Lord for Mercy, this many of the Prophetsand holy men practifed: VVe-do count it unlawful to in- noble the Carkaffes of flaughtered Peafts, by in- tombing them in our Bodies ; the Feb of Beafts _ is too near a kin unto us, therefore the humane Nature ought not to joyn or incorporate its {elf with the Beaftiality: The Wood-Muficians do freely communicate with us, becaufe wedonot hurt them: All things are friendly unto us,becaule weare liketo them; alfo the holy Scriptures do teltifie thetruth of this, viz. The Lord bath made ? Ppp 2 his a as 475 = (The Monpto Wealth, = bis Angels minifiving Spirits, to minifter to them that fear him and ive in his Love.” “Abitinence, Cleannefs and Separation do fortifie us, and fip- port-our Spirits, which do by a feeret and natu. © ral Attra&tion, even as the Load/Pone- doth Irom, - ‘attra& the Celeftial Powers by which the good © ranean prompt, and do readily ferve us — and communicate to every one according to his © . .Merits and Capacity. | ee - Buton the contrary, thofe that have intro- — duced their Wills and Defires into the central ‘Wrath, and live under the divided Forms and © evil Properties, do ‘thereby fubjet themfelves, — not only to all the inferior beaftial Properties,but © are always liable to be tempted, and give great — Advantages to the evil Genus, -and tothe malig- — nant Configurations. of the Creleftials, which _ forcibly attraé unto them the evil Angels, which © draw many into great Errors, as Gluttony, | | otal Adulteries, Theft and Murders, as — _ alfountoall vain Sports and violent Exercifes, as, Bear-battings, Bull-baitings, Fewcing, Fighting — with Dogs and Cats, Swearing, Lying, and fighteng | with one another; asalfo playing at Cards, Dice, | Nine-pins, and many other evil Robuft Egyptian Sports, which are the Inventions of ‘the evil § Genus and Angels, and do all proceed from the © fierce Wrath of God in Nature. Itis further tobe © nored that all thofe that are Spectators, and love to fee thofe violent Exercifes and vain Pleafures, © _ and take delight to be in the prefence of them, | ue | : yin: are Me RRS: ) 4 i ie. “tong ‘ite and Spappinete; 497 are allled and governed by the fameevil Genus, and withtheir Wills do confent to thofé Villanies. _ Oye Multitude! ftand ftill, and confider what -fireitisthatis kindled in you, and what Fewel | itisthat doth keep it burning, and from what Center it takes its birth, and then you will find it _ +0 be the hellifh Fire, which proceeds from Gods’ fierce Wrath, which can no ways be quenched, | but by your ceafing from Evil, and ftanding ftill, © -andat _Red-Sea, and conduct you fafe through his Wrath, and drown the man of fin, but preferve © his Camp by his holy Angel. | oan e Lord will by his holy Power part the ~ But in our Country we have none of the afore-mentioned Sports nor Agypriane Paftimes: - - Wedo not ufe Cruelty, or do Violence, neither to Man nor Beaft, for fear we Should become — _-worfe than Savages, as the People of Agypr, and thofe of the Land of Noddare; for no man can do Violence and not awaken the Wrath and vi- | olent Spirit; for all Inclinations to Violenee do proceed from the fame Spirit, and all that take delight and pleafure therein, are precipitated _intoit, andthen this hellifh Quality gets domi- _ mion, and crucifies the Son of God (ws. the friendly Princ a of Light and Love) afrefh, ac - the Scripture faith. ~ For thefe Reafons our Ps. | a aie will not admit any Violence tobe done, either to Man or Beaft ; becaufe all Oppreffions — _ and Violences, whether they be litrle or great, hhave but one’ Rootor Fountain; the fameis to’ be ay, Ghewoap to Health, | ‘be underftood of Virtue, and as Uleand Cuftom do encreafe. Virtue, and make it impregnable, — fo doth ‘the praétice of Evil make the fierce ~ Wrath ffrong and powerful: Therefore we. have no Bear-Bastings to gather the rude vio-° — Tent. Multitude together, and to.torment the ~ Creatures of God, who bear his Image, either in: — _ hhis Love or Anger ; neither have we Bull-bastings — to make and force one Beaft, contrary to their — Inclinations, cruelly to tear one another to ~ ‘pieces, whilft a company of People look on, that — intheir nature are tenfold worfe than Beafts; . ~ meither have we any Cock-fightings, nor no ‘Fefix wal dayes, that ferve chiefly to call the violent — Rabble together; nor no Whitfon-Ale or Morrice- Dancing; all.our Dancing and Fewcing-Maffers,. — fince we came out of Agypt, have givenoftheir ‘Trade, and applied themfelves to the ftudy of ~ Wildom, and many of them are become excel- Jent proficients therein: All our Ale-houfes and Taverns areput to honeft ufes, ex. to-entertain | ‘Strangers; and the Inftruments of Muck, which was ufed in them, during Pharoah’s reign, we have caufed them to be burned as a Sacrificeor ~ Retaliation,becaufe the Agyptians had prophaned the Lord.in the ufeof them: We-have no fatted Swisze, fatted Oxen or Punckonello’s among us; — neither have we any of Pherosh’s lean Kine: We wear no dwords by ourfides, butallour weapons — of \Var are inward, and we never ufethem for any other occafion, but to defend our va | tsOmM ss Tog Lifeand Pappinels, * 47 _ from Vitioufnes: We joyn not Harmony, Swearing and vain Difcourfes together, as the _Egyptaiw Mafters:of Mufick do :. Our Men:do mot rob Women of their principal Ornament, _.meither living nor dead, nor adorn their heads “with their’s, which fhews (in thofe thatdo) a. ‘bafe depraved. Effeminate Nature ; “moi sof this fort of People belong to Pharosb's Troops, that are.or may-expe& to be {wallowed mp in the Sea of Wrath: ‘Our Women donot — ‘gather themfelves inte:comranies in the ftreets ‘and there fpend time in evil Communication 5 neither do they ftand idling at theif-doors in painted counterfeit Drefles; to allure the wanton Fyes of the Paflers by: We have no Playshoufes, neither dare we ie conforts of Mufick in any fuch places:. We do not fuffer our Children to, go to any of the publick Shews and Games of Sodow, for fear they fhould look back, :and fo be- «ome Monuments.of Gods Wrath, as Lor’s Wife was: We do not allow or fufler our Young ‘mento run nor ride for Wagers; neither do we fuffer our women to ule Robuft Imployments, for fear they fhould become rude and immo- -deft, as the Egyptien Women are; for the whole prefervation .of Mankind do chiefly de- _ pend on their -well:Conduétand Temperance < _ VVeturn ourbacks on all idle Difcourfes, which ferve only to invite men to Folly, and fpend precious time: Our Friends Abfinence, Temper= ance and Cleannefs-do ‘continually fhow us the 480 hengaptoDealth, vanity of fuch things, and {purs us on, and 4 hhaftens us towards the Land of Peace: Wedg mot look back for fear we fhould awaken the — Center, the original Poyfons, and then our {weet _ swater would be in danger of being dried up, asic ame topafs in Lucifer and his Legions, there being but nine Figures, ordegreesof VVildom attainable by mortal men; the tenth Number, wiz. o. is the higheft; and thofe that have — gradually paffed through the Nwes, muft ftand Elin filence, and leave off all numbering, and fuffer Gods holy Spirit to. work the wi andthe =~ d@eedinhitn, ashe pleafeth, _ na aie ee ». We have no Butchers,Fowlers,nor any thatbes Jong to the Trade of Killing, Violence or Opprefs fion amongftus, moft of themrevolted, and joyn- ged themfelves to Pharoah before they came outof = ” Eeyps, and was deftroyed with his Troopsin the sea. of Blood, or Wrath; and thofeofthem that ~~ pafled through the Red Sea, werecut of inthe ~~ Wildernefs; for finding their Tradevery. bad: and low, andthe nearer they came tothe Land of Peace, the worfe it grew, fo they beganto -— ~ tumult, and complain, and murmur againftthe =~ Lord, That he dealt fo hardly with them; which’ — awakened the Center of Wrath, and deftroyed 7 them, fo that none of this fortof Peopleentered © the holy Land that flows with Milk and Honey, =~ -and not with the Blood of the humane nor beas ftial Nature: Neither have weany Billings-gates, ; all chat fort of People are oux hewers of VYood . ~ and = | a: ae a aM oe ates ae : a Bite ee aoe ——__ botig Life and bappinets, abi ~ ate ae Pe », + Bo ant Ss gape? MS Se ¥ %) « ei . ifs : ie nen to pent, ae ! ot frit Jeatned in all particulars to | siti “a pam is contrary to out Philofophy to mix — ~or.gompound our Food with things. of ‘difagree- 1 ang natu se +. We ule no double Preparations; q pray { Ns our food. is, the more agreeable — “tis latures, and belt fuftains our Healths, . ot a cuftom for our Women to give or furffer ti en to drink AY. kind Se Speit or ee 4 we o£ F a tack oe aay experience to ‘be. Toh ‘aod or | -Ghildren. al all, Young People, atin te } ) - proper: ~Nourifh set eat to,all ee | -on, the, contrary, all. Orts of Beer, yder, and © ‘pother® fermented ieee e) OF a foil Keen or idharp Quality.;' and. ‘for. this caufe being ese i eh Milky it turns or. fepazates the Whayifh’ part “from the thick; the fame is to be underftood if ° _ Children er: “others, drink after eating. “of Milk, "if they.do not forbear.a conv enient time, till the 7 Stomach hatl: made feparation, a Me ‘altered the | _ Property-of it. Befides, the conftant drinking — of uch Liquors do fower the Stomach, ‘ ‘and ge- — ~~ neratea keen or fharp,gqazhsty, whichisapt to ture | . the Milk into. a’hard tough fubftanee, © and theres by puts Nature to Brea oi to vicwaren ct i , Bt ae lo. SO igien he ae cas ata ot » * jong Wife and Pappinels. 483 Bx erlence make feparation. Doth not our’ daily i bg a er eh ER } ona ne Pare 6 Sind “Qane 8 Be fret © « Et ee} ae 7 s - fhow us, that all Curd of M4/t is hard or Cons seoGtion, and burdenfom to the Stom! ‘ 7 ise xs ) : ch? for this taule, many having ufed themfelves to drink: _ «Plentifully of ftrong Drinks, and to the éating of _‘&ompounded Food, which have fo fowered the Stomach, and altered it from its fimplieity, thae the eating of this friendly harmlefs Food becomes » pfienfive to them, and difagreeing, efpecially to’ __flome particular People, whofe Stomachs are, as _ ¥t were, naturally inclined to generate a fower matter; for this caufe, ifany fhall drink imme diately after eating of Milk, st will caufe them -to puke up the thin whayifh parts, whilft the hard fub{tance remains in the Stomach, which “doth foul and hinder Contoétion, ~ For théfe —“Reafons, it is much better for all Children and _-Xoung People, whofe fo | whole , gel is chiefly Afilk, to drink Water, it being th dir being the moft like Milk of --any drink, ofa mild gentle friendly Nature and _. Operation, which is further manifefted by its’ __ being mixed; with Milk, they mix or incorporate _ themfelves as one entire body , making’ no vari+ - ation or feparation, as other Liquors will; “and _ - therefore it hath been found by Experience in all _ Ages, to be the béft and mof natural Drink for _all People,’ but more efpecially for Womex and . Children, who are endued’ with tender. Spirits, and gentle Heats, and.if their Meats and Drinks _ drave not a near Affinity, both in Quality and ~ Quantity to their Natures, it will quickly put Q-qq 2 them Ne kal 484 ve ~* 4 f Our a. Late, cpeby, ¥ er not ag a - ieee es _ wall give but little Milk the following Summer ; long Life and Bappinefs. 485, our Commodities to be undervalued, and our- {elves to have the Lye, without giving them. Reproof, in hopes we fhall get a Chapman; mor are we patient, when abufed by our. hapmen, holding our peace for hopes of Gain; neither are we moved to Paffion for * the like Afront, when Intereft is not at ftake. Our Nobles, Governours and Pres are not diftinguifhed from the meaner fort of People | be by, their great Palaces, rich Clothing and _ Ornaments, or number of Charriots, Foot-mecr, _ FAforfes, and the like; they have no other Marks of Diftin&tion but only their white Robe: Our Clergy do not command a day to be fet apart for divine Worfhip, and fuffer the Rich to make their Servants and Cattle work, and take no notice of them, and _ punifh the Poor for the like Offence: We can fend our Children-to Market to buy any Commodity, if they can but fpeak plain, and not fear being wronged; nay, we can fend them to Swithfieldto buy Horfes; for wehave . . no Jockies or Horfe-Courfersamongft us, whe do make it their chief bufinefs to fell counterfeit Wares; neither do our leathern Dublets {tock © their Cows, that is, not to milk them in three or _ four dayes before they bring them to Market. or -expofe them tofale, whichdoth not only putthe — Creature to much pain,but it ftints themthat they — We sisi aes ae meth tc hs ee aa oman. | vefer apart for Eafter, Whitfontide, and the like, at which'times _ we obfervean extraordinary degree of Temperance, ‘and what we fave thereby, we put into the — Poor’s box: Al{6, when there aré any extraor- dinary Bargains madé between buyers and fellers, whereas the meh of mode do agree tohave © _ thargeable Treats and {upérfluous Dinners; which we give to the Poor, & many other things of thig “pature; anid at the Years end ¢very mangaftsup his Accompt, and for évery pound’ he hath | encrealed his Stock, fo many 6 pences he gives nto the common Treafure for theufe ofthepoor; fo that they ate well provided for, and‘Money - to {pare for other neceflary ufes: “What we formerly {pent in fuperfluous Feafts, Garments and other Extravaganciesof this nature, wenow ot au | 2 ape sss Nong HifeandWappineld. =. 487 _ put to good ules, as the. Planting. of T: ves of all forts,” aoe of Fruit, which do fupply as with.Drink and Food, aad bring: forth without plowing or fowing ; alfo, we employ a great _ number of People in making of good Roads and — _ High-ways, both for Foot and Horfe, ‘but efpe- cially for Foot; for we do aceufon pre Tavs eo | ~ goon foot, we feldom ride, except on “extradr- .dinary oceafions: We have but one. Apothecary ' in a City, and heis admitted to fell‘no other Cordial but only good Wine; neither is VVing to be fold in any other place: We-never eat, or -yery.rarely drink between Meals; our {et Times of eating are at Nineiz the Morning and Five in the After-noon ; neithes do we fit an hour or two feeding. on Varieties, nor intice one another by feigned Intreaties to eat more than Natitre requires, but every one of ustake. as, much Food and Drink.as is fit and futable to. Nature, asRea- - fon and Wifdom fhall govern him; We eat many forts of Food without any other Preparation but only what Nature hath done'to our hands, as Milk, various forts of Herbs, Fruits, and fome- times Eggs; neither do we eat any of our Food hotter.than our Blood, but for the moft-part quite cold, efpecially ia Summer and moderate Seafons: We aceount our felves he if'we | do.not feeliour felves more pleafant, airy, brisk _ and lively after eating than before :-.V Ve ufe our felves to gentle Exercifes in open airy places ; ? Y Our Beds ase feet hard and clean, and Chambers ve oe 6? airy PP elkh Winrar A pre aE. Whe way to Wealth, giry: VVe admit not above two at moft to lie in — a bed together, nor the Young with the Old, — _ oy the Difeafed with the Sound: Our day Gar: — | ments are neither thick, nor thin, but of the two, _rather thin than thick: “VVe count it an evil to © -have our external Members to glow with an — unnatural Heat after eating and drinking: We — prevent Scabby and Leporous Difeafes by Temper- — ance and Cleannefs, and not by Phyfick: Our — Women obferve the time of their Uncleannefs, and feparate themfelves according to the great — _ Law of Mofes: Our Seers have good ‘skilbin — _ curing Difeatés by Sympathy and Antipathy: They — never give’ Advice nor adminifter any Medicine « before théy have bowed themfelves before the — Altar, and enquired of the Oracle of God in ~ _ themfelves: We efteem none fit for Phyfitians _ but only thofe that are from their Radixes born _ with natural Gifts, and afterwards who have — “Tearned thenifelves; nor efteem any man: for © “his Babylonical Gibberifh: We prefs every one, — ‘when they find themfelves difordered either in — Body or Mind, to ftand ftill, and ceafe asmuch — as poflible from Imaginations, or lending an Bar — to every Womans Story or, Medicine, but firft — _ ~ gallon the Lord, defiring hisCounfel; and‘what- — ~ foever the Oracle or divine Principle doth thew — . you, (though it be the meaneft of Medzcives, as Flerbs, Fruits, Seeds, Drugs, or Minerals) that — . be fureto do; as the Mother of Chrift faid to ‘the Servants that waited at the Marriage — ee . long Lifeand bappinefs. 48g *Chri& wrought his firft Miracle, and made Water f Wine Whasfacver he bid you do,that do. Every mean “thing becomes effectual; where the directions proceed fromthe vight Fountatnand if Faith and am innocent Life be not awanting, Alfo,.we prohibit our young _ ’People from eating unripe Fruits, as Aples; Pears, ~Plombs Cherries, & the like,or eating of them after _ - full Meals, or between Meals, or when they have been gathered and expofed to the grofs Aires of © Cities or Towns two or thfee dayes; either is _ ita Cuftom amongft us'to compound ripe and. unripe Fruits together, ‘nor lawful tor any of us to eat Sweer-Meats or delicious Tarts, after we ‘have eaten fufficiently 7of other fimple & natural Food: Our cuftom will not admit us to intreat our Friends to eat or drink beyond what is need- ful: We have not forgot the great Afflictioa and torturing Diftempers we endured whulft we were in Captivity, and under the govern nent of Pharoah’s"Task-mafters, viz. under the unequal Oppreffions of the awakened Wrath, and divi. _-ded forms of Nature, where each property en- deavours to get the maftery, and therefore wedo — continually fhun and arm our felves with the _ ‘Armour of our Lord Jefus Chrift, viz. by ta- king uptheCrofs, and denying our felves thofe Egyptian Vanities and Superfluities, which the ‘common Enemy of mankind doth feek with all : _ eunning Inventions to inflave us again in worldly Lufts,that he may feparate us from our foveraign ‘good ; but the Word of Truth is engraven in our oS ae Es Hearts, bee iS TE RR ape Chetaay tolpentey, Hearts, ‘by! whofe Power and Virtue we withs tood his Temptations, and beware. of his Snares ‘gn time, o and count it our'chief good that the — ‘Lord hath in his. eternal Mercy delivered us. out — wef Captivity 5: therefore it behoveth us to live _ fobérly inthis prefént World: . We defire al- — wayes, and inall ftates, tofubmit.ourfelves to. the good pleafure of the: Lord; for we do not — _ know what ‘is good no further then we are gui~,__ ded by his Aaly Spirit; it belongerh to him to de« d termine what is moft expedient for us, and. his ‘ownGlory: We allhold:this Maxiw,"That-all — that have throughly ptofitted themfelves in the School of Chrift, do daily heat’ down or keep — under the Evemextal Body, by denying them. — felves the Worldly Vasities within. We do not j ‘give Names.to our Children, nor imitate the ~ Philofophisal Ancients like Apes, without under- ee _ ftanding the true Nature or Genus of the Child, | as to call them at a:venture by fuch Names asdo | _-€xprefsa Deity ; whereas this Nature and Ge- © ‘nus of the Child is quite gontrary 5 this is. not | ‘to imitate our firft Parents: :Adam gave Names — to every Creature and Things according to their — _ Natures; ‘that is, exprefliag their Natures and Properties ; he did not pive Names to. wild fa- © vage Beafts, that did figitifie CleannefSor friendly — ‘tra€table Difgofitions. and Natures, norcall Sheep — ‘Lyons, nor Lyons Sheep; the Prophet J/aiah faith, — Wountorthofe that call Evil geod,and Good Ewil, be- ing ignorantof the true Nature of things & #vine eae? he j ot eye : My fheries.s } / | ss Mong wife and appitiets. = 4g» Myfteries, they maké no. diftinGions between: Good and Evil. Adar called his firft-born Cazn, why did not he call him Abed? no, that would — be to calla. Devila Saint, and a Saint a Devil: — Caiz doth found forth and fignifie, the frong. Might and Power of the Wrath and divided Forms of Natuve;, whieh had dominion in him; And _ Abel doth, as. we have'told you. before, fignifie. the eternal Principle of God's love, viz. Cain imi-: ‘tates the flerce devouring Fire, and Abel the Light. thereof: the very fame is to be under{tood of. Ibméel and Ifaac, and Efaa and “facob; the elder. doth ia oth the cowfuming Fire, and che younger the Light thereof’; the firft is the Father, and the fecond istheSon. The Autienrs did not _ therefore gather together all the good Names, which do exprefs the holy divinePower & eternal. _ Grace and Love. of God in his fecond Principle or eternal Light, and call. their Childrem by: them at a venture; ‘No, this would have been great Impiety: Would not every fober man count it forded‘and vain, ‘to call an Ange! a Devil, and a Devil by the Name of an Angel, as moft of the menof Agypr do at this day, diy name and call - pheir Children by Names, expreffing the divine _ Virtue and Power, when as moft of them do live under the government of the evil anclean Nature, and the Spit that doth predominate in them —isfiercevand wrathful, fo. that they call good — evil, and evil: good, which is far offfrom imi- tating the holy men of the firft Ages ;. this doth ee ET 2 , more ai more clearlyappear by Abram, which doth fignix — fie the Original Wrath, and wild Nature. of this. | World; Why did not his Parents Call him Abra. — bane, Enanuel, Grace, Hope, Charity, Abel, Facob or ‘Haac; no, thofe Names were too fublime; but. | Abram did truly found forthand- fignifie his in-,. 7 ward and outward Nature, but in procefs of — ~ fime, when the Light of God’s Grace and Eter- nal Mercy appeared to him, and thathe believed im God, which was accounted to him for Righte- — oufnefs; then the Lord-faid unto him, Thy Name (ball no more be called Abram, bat Abraham, which doth truly comprehend -and fignifie both ~ the firft and fecond Tabernacle; the Lorddid not | deftroy or annihilate the: Wrath and wild Na~ — Fire, then there would beno light, as our Savi- eur Chrift faith in another cafe, Ale came mot ta. — seinforce Abrabem’s Soulnand seplemily At wath | his holy divine Principle of Love and Light, and © therefore his Name fhould.no more. be called — Father of the Faithful, thedfame order and chang — mg of Names was continued till Chrift wasmani« © alkthe divine Seers. Did. not Chrift change St. | Peter’ s Name, becaufe of his fixed Faith, -allicy , | him Sephas, which fignifies.a Stome or Rock ? aot a ~ was not Szu/ called Paul-after-his. Converfion ? 7 "The Antignts never changed, Names, but ‘if q : i 4 ‘ i * : é : 'y ye re ji * be ee ee ; 5 Sag gc s ES i BF ie ie ¥ | a their Natures were changed." Chrift called Herod a Fox, which did truly fignifie his inward Nature, and what Spirit did govern i him; the fame is to be underftood when 1] {tery unto mankind, which is the Original Lane ’ Property is predominant in it, which original “Language of Nature, Birds and fome other infe- they have not broken the Law of God in Nature, pute have lived in the Simplicity thereof; and “though they are not endued with that noble fa- “eulty of Speech, neverthelefs they can by their “general Tone or Cry, - as intelligably communi- Hate, Hunger, Thirft, and the like, as men can by their diftin® Dialects, viz. by altering & varying Hungry, -siour ‘Creatures do retain to this time, becaufe — tate their Defires and various Paffions, as Love, — “this one fimple Tone or Cry, as when they are vh cea ¥ wll 5 emt as eae “bk Rea , 4 & PODS a ea ae aa mag . WA bat ‘y Phy fa 7 . ay ; Px] eet. ' hs a oe e Me fe HUD: Ema aaD ie * 7 ae oe x % an - rt 4 > +e nt eae ee Po ah, 1 oR & ‘ihe ‘ ‘* Gru ie Tar d Vote ad 3 9 Qt ty thag, ig os ellows are. ignorant of, it le aa ‘oh j fuch aT es Or Sound, do, as inte lligab ly ace quaint all thofe. of their own. _kind, as meflican' by -difcourt ing: together 5, for every Tone. and ae. » accord, ling to, the various flates, japon { ondi con pee is In, Kaper Rit cell au AEC firred Py andr 40. pas akg his: aay Pons. toy nO | ptr: Creature. hath done, . therefore he:is trou bled and perplexed with athoufand Evils and: ‘Miferies that other:Creatures are not fubjeétto 3” Whe. confiderarion ‘and true fence. thereof doth’ make: my Hyak to. Ake, » and my Body to? | : Tremble,! Ae ee ecneta ee LS ate Pes Le ae tf pas j ‘ Yi f y fee iA q » Tey { “Tremble, having atruefence of mans miferable | Kate: for where-ever we'go, if it be among men, mee ee lan but Wrath,» vate cand . -Oppreflion, as Swearing, Lying,> idle Fefting . Po onterifig Classons ath verily Difeaofoor Be : _ Sf aman walk into loanfome Fields amongft the _ Beas, shere all things ‘are guset and fil, all — Creatures praifing heir Gressor, ‘according to the “ - rl re Fy. "Pie * » oe aah © oe ey% V3 sia. Bw alle ike ‘Capacity ofeach, sO? DOG i: wire’ : ke i ks ix 7 OCS ES Pht Mi es ay O.POi" Soul sein! 27a Vie “os yey I Ra ee Ga fe pd Bg oS 20 Bap osey gnc The Voice of the Dumb» orthe Complaints of the Creatw’es, expoftwlating with eae teachin de ecual Tithe the eS a= “He Tyranny of Man over his fellow-Creae ©" @ tures, (the Root-of which we:have difco- | - Syered in the fore-going Chapters) leads us a lite _ '¢le'more nearly'to confider the fad ftate and con- “ition ‘of thofe inferiour Asimalsunder his fa- - ‘vage “Butcheries, and how ungrateful, as well _ascruel,he is towards them; foras moft of them -eontribute to-his well-being, either by bringing “him in Food, as Milk, Honey, Butter, Cheefe, “Eggs, &c. ‘or Rayment, as Wool, Furs, Skins, or Eafe, as the Horle.to carry him, the 9p to is | ray ie Abe as % 496 Whe Map.to draw for-him, and the like, ‘too te ‘Minds, and refpectively vent ‘their feveral Do- | lers in fome fuch kind of Expoftulations, + The Complaint of-the Cows and Deer, Cruel-and hard-hearted Max} wert thou con. & -ftituted-our great Creator’s Deputy and Vice-Roy — _of this univerfe of fubluriary Beeings, that thou — Shouldft play the Fyraet and the Epicure, and do- 7 mineer with rigour over. all the reft of its Inha-= — _ bitants? Doft thou in any kind imitate thy So- 7 -weraign, from whom thdt doftderivethy Title? | “Is not: hegood, ‘and: bountéful; and merciful to all © ~¢he Works:of fis Hands, and. beeen the © “whole Creation'?.. and,\dareft, thou, take upon — “thee to beradeftroyer, akeller, and daily practifers Creatures, were not given thee,as:a Prey, that © “thou mighteft difpofe of us'abfolurely.at thy luft- ” fal and. irregular pleafure, but entrufted to thy © ~Conduét and Overfight,: to.be fubfervient unto © - Cthee, to minifter ro thy Neceflities, to imploy 7) me MT pn ait an , ._ ieng Life and Pappitsis. —ag7 -imploy the Faculties of thy Soul with a devout | Coatemplation on our numberlefs Numbers, va-. rious Shapes, diftin&t and wonderful Natures, &c. And thereby ravifh thee with thoughts of — Febovah’s infinite Wifdom, Powerand Goodness; that hath formed, governeth and confer-. ‘veth fo many Millions of wonderful Beeings.?. And wilt thoi inftead of this noble; ferene and. Quiet ftudy of worthy Faculties fo divine as thou. ‘art endued with, forget thy Duty; thy Office; and all Obligations, as tobe the firft that difturbs this dlefed Harmony, and by thy Sin, and Folly, and Madnefs, fet allthe Creation into a Tumult and a Combutftion, atid exercife thy fierce Paf- fions upon us lower Graduates in this mighty Academy, and worry, and kill, anddevourus. — _. We are God’s Creatures, and by his divine _ Power have our fubfiftence; he hath formed us, and given us Shapes fuitable to our inward Na- tures, by his admirable Wifdom; and fubjeéted us under his good Law in Nature, which we have not at any time tranfgrefled: With patie ‘ence we endurethe Summers {corching heat, and ‘the Winters Snow: We wear our own Closthes, ven thofe natural Coverings beftowed upoa us. "as the Livery of our Maker: We are not fondof Variety, when one Suit anfwers all the ends of Nature as well-or better; muchlefS are we fo | “Vain to glory in our fhame,- be proud ofthat - which fhould reproach us with Sin, and value “gtr felves, becauie we have gat osher Creatures oa JSEf yee Bixcrements |) Ve nee > ee Be ike Aye Sowa a noap ts a Health, pa a Exasemiees) ‘upon our Backs: Amongft u us ‘ae . » arevno quarrels about Genrility; nor do we -sefteem or.defpife one another becaufe our Coats. “areiof. different: Colours, and our Horas not all of + -arleagth 30 We have. all our Food in common, | and: never grutch or grumble that one eats more, | tor-daintiet than the other: We call nothing our | town; but what is inour Mouthes: We all drink out of one Cup: Our Drink is never too new, enor yet fo old as to be fower, nor have we any | hankering Jnclinations.. after other Liquors: | “Our Beds are: alwayes ready: Nor are We VeXxt / -with the care forto morrow, but enjoy what is | sprefent, and are fatisfied: .We admirg not your | — ftately. Structures xiorcan our Bj ves. bé dazled i swith the: Witcheraft of Gold: The Stalland the | Crib ferve us as well as Palaces, . and all our dee : Jight is to behold the pleafant green Fields, {prout- | ‘ing. up their delicious Herbs: “and Grals into our | “Mouthes, and view t the gliding Streams, or mur- sens. Fountains ready. to fupply our Thirft, | | ou, Weobferve our Times and, $.afonsof: Genera- | . tions “and.as we have no inclinations thereunto, until able to; conceive, fo, as {oon ; as we have © - gonceived, we will no longer endure | to accom- . pany. with our, Males, nor do wemake.a {port -ofor endeavour to pleafure. our felves with that 1 egreat Mydtery. of Nature, ,.but, only in, due. Sea- ’ fons for to bring forth our own Likenefles, which | as the Wilbof. ee Creator, for the continuation. 1.0f | ~,@ur kind: Nor aré we ee with Beauty, | Hononr, _ Honour, Riches, or any other thing to.aé& cons trary to the Lawof Nature: That troublefome . Pafiow called Love, as it is a fond foolifh Excefg of defire or dotage, over us has no power; yet | we loveandare tender of our Little Ones till they | -ean provide for themfelves, and then we leave them to the fand of Providence: We raife no _ Wars oc Tumults, nor contrive treacherous Plots — --and Sham-Plots againft each other, or againft _-Men: We have io VVeapons but fuch as God - and Nature have endued us with for our partis -ceffities of Nature; Our Imaginations do not. ‘wander after the varieties of forreign Regions; nor have we any occafion to travel out of our own Native County, into other Climates ; ; but | me“ fome- ~ Cree re Foo eee id a 2" a fo | mh reap t to Wealth, a Proje’ weare compelled and forced nyey our covetous Keepers, but it hath always been’ the worle for thofe that tran{ported either us or our Wool, fo that it feems, where-ever wecome Weare a. bleffing ; ; yet whitherfoever they carry “is, we need no Interpreter, for we are not ace - quainted with the B Peni Language, where | one underftandeth hoe 8 another. — “Di anees: of but fill to Vicnt “elligable tl rat "tis to. fickle ; purpofe ; and fo when we call our fellows into the. Corn-fields , or when we have need of -Pafturage, ftill we fend forth peculiar Tones or Bleats. Our Food and our Drink is all fimple and natural, and therefore we are feldom sath an = et en herds and Guides, who for Covetoufhefs of Gain. will half itarve and founder us one half of the. of the year, when all’Grafs grows weak, grofs’ andfull of Phlegm, then’ they put us into frefh® thofe Difeafes which were ‘contracted for want. Pod ’ - of proper food, and by the unskilful managemear: of our Guides, do manifeft themfelves fometimes. by breaking out with the Se2b, and various other ‘Difeafes. “And alfo, when years happen very : + ° f — Augaft or September, and caufes Land-floods,then _ af our guides be not skiltul and very carefulofus, we fuffer Epidemick Difeafes; for thofe of our _kind are fo tender-natur’d, and fo equally tem- _ pered,that wecannot bear any extreams without - manifeft prejudice to their Healths, more efpe- _ cially exceffive Moifture; for we are Phleg matick Sanguine by our Natures, and a little inclined to Melancholy; forthis Reafon very wet dripping -Seafons efpecially inthe fall ofthe year,prove dan- gerous tous,and therefore at {uch times our Own- ers ought to keep us pretty long in our Polds,and to feed us on the higheft Grounds, that fo the fweet Influences of the Sunand Elements may dry and exhale that grofs Moifture which the. Night preduces, before we feed thereupon ; alfo they fhould then give us fome:Hay or Corn in our Folds, which would not only dry up thofe Mong Wifeand appittets. gos. and if we are, ‘the chief caufe thereof is our Shep-» year, and then afterwards in the declining part) — _ Corn-fields'\ and other. Paftures; whereupon” ‘moi Pe GR Se eee ] w ig + he te stem ppnicsel ‘hy OC eee ee ‘Fae teeta bated if awe pi to. pid Didtates of our-own, Inftin& by,.Nacure, wey fhould avoids .for we.naturally delight on high, ground, as Mountains, Downsand high Carn-fiel AS. ‘& there we are very healthy, never affitted with, the Tortures of the Stove, the. trembling Pale. eet : the mscager Confumption, the idle Gout the lafct=: vious POX; we need not your Bagneo? sor Lot. boufes ; we never are troubled. with your horrid _ purging and vomiting Potions, nor eramed with Bolus and Turpentine ; out Food and Drinkistruly, natural and innocent,|and -fufterall changes.of - the Elements and Seafons. without, complaining > Our Love is as it were univerfal, and W. ‘ar, and. 3 Strife, and Contention are. {krangers to our Folds; a Our Females are chatte, oun Dales free. from Fea, | loufie, and our yesug Ones afe at ence the Emblems of Inxosency, and harulefe. Sport and- sRecreation ; mn 1 Cleanne(s.and Simplicity dwell in the- Root of our Lives, andthe fierce werathful. Nature, terrifies. and troubles our Spirits 5 for which caule, Wolves, gs, Eoxes, Bears, Lyowss Orc. all Creatures ite — ; eho Radix ché Wrath.of God and Nature doth 7 saeco ave our Sworn’ Enemies... spr are alfo very. profitable to thofe that es { | tor: every Year. we Bi them actop of 4 4 . ri yr I ee ee ne ai my : ; “ee ay ge iiesedl ! aR ee ie : long Wife and dappinefs. =» 507. _ foft Wool, which covers the Nakednefs of our: Princes, who. oft:times become -proud by our) Spoils; .?cis from us.a moft advamtagious ftaple _ Commodity is raifed, whereby whole Countries: _ fupport themfelves, and by which. Multitudes of _. Merchants.grow rich; nay, our-yery.Dung or. _ Excrement, is fo rich, that it. caufeth the | ground to bring forth abundance of Corn: But, ‘notwithftanding all thefe Obligations, our unrea- fonable Task-mafters (ez) are not,contented ; but after they have yearly plundered.us, both of Our native Rayment and the Fruit of our Bodies, (our fportive young Ones) and. made the mot. _they canof usliving, as.foon.as.our,.Females be- come fuper-annuated, .and not able.every Spring. to furnifh their voluptuous Tables with a Lamb, _ they call them,O/d Crozes, and efteem themlittle _ better than Dogs and Cats <: but if.they imagine pa, _ they can make Money of ts, they will for a fmall. time Rega/e or flatteringly feaft us with ftore of Pafture; and when.they think we are fat enough to gratifie their. extravagant Defires and Appetites, then are we fold, driven, abufed, and finally have our Throats.cut, and our Bodies. quartered, as if wehad committed Trea/oz. ; Now tell us ferioufly, can there be any thing more.ungrateful, cruel and tyrannical? — Do fuch dealings look like man in his firft {tate ?. Do not our innocent Cryes anddying Groans, under your mercilefs hands penetrate the very Heavens, and awaken even the Centre of wrath? | es. Ttt2 saad for ‘J - & ee a re AM hy Pe | Ca ere. were ek Se '~ ae = ‘ i ne) ar wy) be Sf . } Pe OE Gk ia rf ' gd 4s WU : 4h EF ine 4 Big a ‘i 5 4 mpeg , oor ® eee geen HOO > ¥ ues 5% ee mm whe P ; S ¥ . , he nBap to Health, BI é Ee 3 Sy eee “ i eg aye aA 4 7 Bek Vie ee > Pe Nay ’ = tt a for no Vidlenée can be done,’ but VVrath muft if men did noe live in the power of the wrathful Nature, there would beno killing; forit iscon- trary both coche humaae and divine Natureto deftroy; and for this caule it is contrary to the Nature, not oily of our kind, but to molt other . roe clean Beafts’, ‘to eat Ficth, or kill and prey” inf upon any of their fellow-Creatures. - But onthe — other fide, ‘tho! Bzafts that are unclean, and = whofe predominant Quality ftands inthe wrath- — ful Nature, are allor the muft of them ledbya natural inftin& and inclination to kill andprey upon fome'others ofthe Creation; nay, upon Mex himlelf, if they find him at an advantage, : becaufe tholt bloody ravenous Dilpofitions are — planted in the very Centre of their Lives; but’ thofe of our kind are in their Radix of neat Af - finity to the undépraved’ humane Nature. And) = ~ _ therefore we will be bold, fince we have obtained fo much honour and liberty to plead our own innoceat Caufe, and telP our governours, (wiz. * J4ea) this fertous truth, That all Violence, as-~ peating, hurrying, bunting, backing, baiting, killing, fighting, rage and contention whatioever, be the accafion what it will, does arife from the foun- tain ot Mish, the Root of Wrath and Bitternefs _ tn Nature. And if our Lord (Mas) were fo ‘innocent, wife and fimple-hearted as not tohurry, killand deftrey thofe of our kind, and others of — the like nacuce, then all Wars. and Contention be- ws ; fee 4 tween — Ss a ee ee ee gee ee long Lifeand Peappineis. 09 - gween thofe of his own kind v.culd ceafe; but fo Tong ae that terrible ferce wrath{ul Spirit pre- “deminates in Mebkird, there will be continual Wars and rumours of Wars, Plots, Con[piracies, and horrid Murthers and. Afjaffinations amongft _ themfelves; nor can we hore to. efcape their bloedy hands, but our Lives muft be fubjeét to all kind of Miferies, and we muft be contented _ tobe led not only to the Shearer, but alfo to the _ Slaughter-houfe in Silence, as well as Innocence, and fhall not lift. up our Voice to repine-or com- plain (to them) any more fince they ferved that great and moft holy Shepherd in the {ame manner, even theSaviour of the world that was{o far from Killing, that he laid down his own Life fer his Sheep. ee | % Che Hoptes Complaint again‘ rheir Matters. -. Has-not the Creator of ‘all Beeings endued. us with great Spirits and ftrong Bodies, excellent _ Shapes and delicate Forms, not only pleafant to _ behold, but of great ufe to Mankind, bringing © _ to them by our Labours a thoufand daily _ Benefits? By our ftrength we tear and plow up _ the ftubborn Earth, and harrow her obdurate Clods; wecarry them through Dirt and Mire, _-fwim with them through the Waters, and bear _ them over dangerous places, and often hazard _ our Lives with willingnefs to favetheirs: WVe . _ swith great Toil and Labour draw theis Luggage | Weide Se ‘ in Be aoe al'« =~ Al " jy, a “ Cee te! hs Co A iy) ae ran 4 ae ; ro geuy ie LR Re the, 9 pee re ee F ‘sro 0 8 he Haapte Dealth, Sn Cartsand’Wains, and their fat lazy Paunches - I _. “tn Charriots and Coaches. ‘ In cafes of Expedition ‘they ride us Poft, and by’our help remove them- —Yelves above‘an hundred Miles in a very few “hours. All'this we do; andare contented todo; “but what is reafonable and-agreeable to our ‘Na- “tures, will not fatisfe the unreafonable Defires — and Lofts of our Mafters, but through many — ~Abufes, and cruel Strains, and immoderate La- “bours, which they forces to, even beyond ‘the — “power and ftrength of our’ Nature, they have fo - “wounded our Spirits, and’ deftroyed our Natural ‘Heat, that although our Creator hath endued us' — “with great Spirits, and’Bodies ftrong and health- — “fal, beyond moft of our fellow-Creatutes, yet — we are now become liable toas many Difeafes almoft as our intemperate Mafters are them- To enumerate all the Grievances we fitter; ‘would’ be‘endlefs. ‘Some of our Tyrants will — “gallop us many Miles, ‘till weare all-overina ~ ‘foam and fweat, and then tye us at an Ale-houfe — “door in the'cold Dirt, «whilft they are Carouzzng ‘and Hazzaing like mad Devils with their roaring — _ “Companions, ‘and) never regard us, whoin the — “mean tiie become foundred or catchthe Fafbions, — or fome other Difeafe, that perhaps‘hangs upon © ‘us long'as-we live; andwhen at Mid-night they — have finifht their Revels, ap they fer Agdin on our “backs, - and fwitch and four through thick.and thin, ever Hedge and Ditch, ready to break both eur —_ D le eee —s dong ifeand Bappinefs, 513 “andtheir onin' at every ftep, av if the Devil drove — “them. Ochers leads us with exceffive Burthens, and if we'so not as_ faft as they would have us, then they Plow our fides with their armed Heels, - ‘and beat us without, any Reafon or Humanity, “may, fome ef our drivers are f0 poffef with a “devili{h vioknt Spirit, that for getting the value of fix Pence, they will whip and beat us like Furies, and make us draw or carry fuch exceffive. Burthens, that we ftrain our Eyes out of our “Heads, and break our very Backs; and if we complain, as oft-times we do, by our unwilling- nefs to Bo, then they will not only be-labour us ~ “with their Whips and their Cudgels, but Cur/e — ‘us with a thoufand horrid Execrations and many ‘adevilifh Wifbes, which fometimes do awaken the very wrath of Nature in us, and makes us fullen, ‘crofs and {tubborn, and then they abufe us yet erote ws & a oo Kee Others make ufe ofus to hunt our fellowe ‘Creatures, and riding us exceflively, deftroy “many of usin that’ Sport, as they wickedly call “it: There are another fort of things called Id/e- “men or Gentle-men (but nothing gearle do we _ “find from themi) who finding fome of us endued “by God with great Celerity and fwiftnefs of Foot, they put us upon running of Races one with _~ another, for to gratifie their foolifh Vasity, Pride, and Covetoufne/s ; “likewife when Ambition, _* Malice, Revenge, or fome other wrathful -* Paffions, fet Princes and Matioas at oasis or » | when grzi (ss The BOAy.to Health, , es when Infurre€tions and Rebellions are raifeds — _'and Wars are waged, though we have neither — hand in the Quarrel nor are like to get any fhare — ‘of Honour or Spoil by the Vidtory, yet we are “forced to do a great part of the fervice, and with the hazard of our Lives rush intothe Battel, and _ by being ufed to the Martial founds of Trumpets, ‘Drums & Guns,we becomé.as mad & out-ragious ‘as our Riders, and feem to take déhght in thofe ; ‘Violences and Confufiens; and yet after all our Services fometimes our Riders in hard Seiges ‘will killarid eat us, and many times when we — grow old, we are knockt on the Head, and — made Dogs-mear, our dayes fhortnéd without any confideration of our paft Merits, and our ~ nurthered Carkafles given to feed a company oi — ~~ Ba¥enous Hounds, cise, hae i el _ As it not hard that we fhould be thus dealt © “with, and be-made to undergo fuch terrible Sla- — very, as fometimes when former unreafonable | _Labours have drawn out. our Eyes, yeteven — then no Reft, no Compaffien is extended tous, — but Blizdas we are, we are put into the AG@Zand — _there forced to drudge out the remainder of eur > Life in a Circle of milery ? Have we notjuft rea- fon to complain of fuch cruel ufage, feeing we ‘ are the delight and pleafure of moft men, andthe. PS . vg pie Pte seat " . long Wife and Bappine(e.! oo ge; they treat us worfe then other Creattres, ‘the ‘Sheep and the Cows live at eafe,and Shepherds are much more'compaflionate tender-{pirited People than thofe that have the government of'us >for when their Lords are pleafed to prepare: them for the flaughter, they put them into. a goodly. Pafture, where they have Reft and plenty, and when they are grown fat, though they‘ killthem yet they afford them an honourable Burial, -in- erring their Carka/fes in their own Paunches, and ‘mixing their dead Flefh with good Piguor, and the precious Juice of the Grape, . and fragrant Spices ; but when we have fpent all our youth- ful dayes in over-hard Labour, and continual . Travel,and fuffered fo many Inconvenienices from man, and for his fake contraéted many Difeafes, . _ then to make us amends, when we almoft ready to ftarve, without ever eherifhing us up, they. knock us o’th Head, and fling our Corps to the worltof Dogs, +z, filthy ravenous bawling Hounds; this is our Reward amongft the Soas ene er ee) INES STL Ea ee _~ But let Man know this for a certain truth, That the groaning of that Creature that faffereth wrong, ts the beginning of Pain and Tormsens to bins that dothit ; and though we are dumb, and can- not call to our Crestor after the mariner of men, with diflembling Hearts and lying Tongues, yet we fend up our Petitions te him after another Method, and in a natural way,and are fure tobe heard; for we move Be Prineiples of Nature by. 3 »Uw 2 147° «= The Wap to Health -& certain Sympathetical Operation, which awakens — the Wrath, and draws down Judgments onthe _. For moft of the Sons of men are deceived, to . think. that it is no evil to abufe and tyrannize. over theinferiour Creatures,asthough we had no fenfe or feelig of our Pains? Are not we the work of the great Creators hands? and though -weare ‘not fo highly graduated in Nature as man, yet we ferve him (for the moft pars much more truly and conftamtly). in our ftation, for his Honour and Glery ; Dowe not proceed from the very fame Earth man did ? Are wenot com. — _ pounded of the feven-fold nature as well as he? Isthere any Element wanting in us ? and do not we contain the true Nature and Property ofthem — all? Isat not. by the:invifible Spirit, and won- derful Power of our Creator, that .welive, and move, and. have our beeing? Are we not the Sons of the Stars and Elements, even. as Maa himfelf? "Tis true, we are not endued with the — divine Principle of Light, nor-have we ‘vmortal — Souls, as men have, therefore our Creater doth — mot require that of us as he doth of man, who is — the compleat Image of God and Nature, endued_ with gifts Divine as wellas Natural, andin every — particular fitted to be.a Prince and Governour ; but.he has not ftood in, nor kept to that eflential © Law, but proved difobedientr tothe Vozce of Wi/- dom,and entered with hisdefires not only into the nature of the wild favage Bealts of Pied ut ‘oe : | | kened % long Life and Happinets. g15 |. kened the fierce Wrath, & thereby deprived hin- elf, of the divine underftanding & true method of | governitig; & would fain be an abfolute Monarch | or arbitrary Tyraat, making nothing at his plea- ture to break the Laws of God, and invade and | deftroy all the Rights and Priviledges of the in. feriour Creatures: But our Creator will retaliate allour Wrongs, nay, the very arts of Violence uféd unto us, naturally carry with them their own punifhment. Therefore all thofe that ufe - us roughly, and opprefs us, and fuch as are of killing Occtipations, are, generally head-ftrong, violent, furly ane Cruel Peoplep yi. 2 Shas. _ But theugh we do undefervedly fuffer many -Miferies,this is our comfort,ourLives are thereby Shortned, and when Death’ comes, we are .to- tally releafed from all our Slavery and hard La. bours; but it is not fo with our tyranmick Maffers, their works will follow them to Eternity , mid they cannot efcape divine Vengearse, if they do not on this fide the Grave, repent and forfake all their finful Vanities and Oppreffions: There- fore O Man! confider thy Wayes and thy End, and what Principle is predominant in thee, and if thou expecteft to dye the Death of the Righteous, remember----That the Righteous Man is merciful 16 bis Beafbe ; a Uuu 2s... CHAP. Be itis eta By ai era a ee g¥0 | oe von to eat, oa a t Nat ‘s 4 ; <3 pi? 2 i ee eS 1 Way Bi A ‘ , ' j ct i i i e a es de) nt a 6 , as) int i + ie Se oe a ; ss Rs ne Sg he ee) 3 \ ie ae ae ep ee ae ey : ‘ o i ng esi 7s aes» ght peer a i ‘if ah k j " % J : re < P a A H . eer i's a A ‘xy Ms * Wate < et earn "4 ce “Of Hobs, ee proper ‘Seafins f hseiae| i | them, and Wwayes. to pre/erve them, fo as SreCtp Ki not lo fe cheir Vertues, ‘s ay 4 Reat is che! Excellency: ‘of Fietbi, Pieik : X and Vegitables both for Fad and Phyfic 7h; and almof innumerable their Virtues: Buttwo things are efpecially tobe ragarded;- “iit, der they ‘tye eathered iti their proper time; and 2dhy;_ {o to preferve theimafier they be. gathered, that when yout have ‘oecalion to ufe ras mh} they nah, 4 not have loft their Virtue. 6 son — Adto the firlt, wevread Ci, te ene ara God frid, Bits therebe. Lights inthe. Firmaments of Hea: ven, to divide the ‘Day. from the: Night, and ee them be for Signs, and for Seafonsy and for Dota | and for'Years; and theds 6th ‘erfe,. God made two predt: Liglits;’ the greater towrale the Day, and the léffer to r#le she Wight: And: the wife Kine witnefles, Tbarithere ts a proper Tire and — Seafou Jor the doing of a things under the Sun. As, the Creator made ail things in a certain meafure’ of time, foall things both Cedeflzaland Terreftial do aay and alter ‘according to time; the hea~ — | venly Boris the Planets, have their times of of ftrengt h and w caknels, fometimes near the | . Barth, ee , ff wife and Pappinels, Sts ime a | Fath, fometimes remote, fometimes in friend- ly places of the Heavens, and: agreeable ro their own Natures, thence called their Hou/es, their B Fors, their Exalsations ; at. other times in Signs : contrary Qualities, which are called their Dees riment or their Fall; fometimes by friendly (pects they are affifted and fortified; at other times by Malevolent Rays they are debilitated, and hence t they have varioufly at feveral Seafons efpectively their good and evil Influences and Operations inall inferiour Bodies; efpeaially fuch sare-aflimulated. unto them, and thence iaid to e governed by them. _ Does not the excellency of Vocaland Iajtra- “mental Harmony. confift in a proper meafure of ‘time? And are not the Complexions, Shapes, | Forms, Inclinatioas and unalone both of Men and Beafts, good or evil, handfom or the con- |)trary, according to the. time of Conception and || Birth, and according as. the Benevolent or Male- © | wolent Configurations of the fuperior Conftilla- | tions are at ‘that time. Alfo,the Lord has ordained _@ certain meafure and number of dayes. for the _ Femal es of all forts of Creatures to ga. with _ young, v % between the Conception and Birth, _and is there not a, certain time and feafon for the | _fowing of all Grainsand Seeds? And as every | thing.is timed, the Effeéts are better or worle ; } alfothere isa proper time for the cutting of Corn, }| Grafs, and gathering of Fruits. Every manand_ : peronian tas his. time of {trength and weaknels, | and - Pt ah Pk ht ae! oe. . 9 pice Oe Bere Sere rerers x“ ia Oe a ps { ' = ($18 She Wap to Health = and all Beafts have the fame, fo have all Herbs, Fruits and Grains their feafons and proper times — when their Virtues are at the higheft. There- fore I have thought it convenient to give fame — _diretions for the gathering of fome of the moft — material Herbs, and when thole Confedlations that — govern them are ftrong and well dignified” either by Hloufe, Exaltation or friendly Configu- vation with the Fortunes, or by being Asgular, and the like, at which times all Vegstations are in their flourifhing ftate, and will preve the more- effectual in the curing and preventing of Di- feafes, more efpecially if the fubfequent Rules - of drying and preferving of them afterwards be fi obferved. pee jie. PG ks a Butthis is to be noted, that fometimes it hap- pens that fome forts of Herbs cannot be gathered © in two or three Years time under good Izfluences, “by reafon their Signiffcators are debilitated; but if Herbs are gathered and preferved as we direct, — - they will keep two or three Years,but the firft & — Second Year they are beft. It is alfo to be noted, that on the friendly A/peéfs and Comjunctions of — the Planets, the fecret Virtues of Herbs are mul- — — tiplied and manifefted; and if the Phyjtsaz or other ufer of them, knows them, and have Judg: — ment to ufe them, they may perform great Cures: But if they fhall take the grofs phlegmy Herbs without diftinG@tion, and adminifter them — without feparating the crude earthy parts from — the more Spirituozs and Balfamick Virtues, ok 2 3 : often ¥ “ * al aah &y. a 7. tone Life andHappinefs.. — g1q | often prove Defractive rather than Sanzative, en- — creating the Malignity of the Difeafes, and Ve- |) nomsin the Body, rather than expelling them. — Would it not be very eafie both for the learned | | and alfo for the unlearned, even every one, to - get an énfalible Medicine, and cure every Difeafe, if it were true which the Antients have left on _ Regord of Heros, appropriating one Heré to cure forty or fifty feveral Difeafesand defects of Na- |) ture, which do. generally deceive all thofle thac ‘do rely and follow their Rececprs.and Tradstions, — * as fhall more at large be domonftrated from a “true groundin Nature, = | \ Here follows the ‘Tables for the gatherigg of > Flerbs im their proper Times. coat Saab $ “hy a3 beta Ra ai eee ye TABLE “ene oe apt fine: to to Fae dae be Apolo’ , M4 he Beale isswhen the Planets thar govern them are dignified,and Re a obi Afpess, being here calculated for nineteen eae: ote (Herbs under b Satara 9 6 sprit & May. sored stile densi & Ful fly. stink shah s ee EG Ot Se hie dla Ook _ Buekthorne): > Achar faniveaaeateniae y ‘ gt ee oa -Plantanes_, ky ’ |Buckthorn, VplByfoyle, x Biftore, meg ; “+Clowns yg ye Blew bott! eye Devils bir, vp. a Comfeys ioaie Gs ae Wild Capping Rilticoey of. the _ eatica Creefes,). rake ve is Croley: a2 elie. "ke ts ig 8 Dodder of thime|. Pia nh 4 . arts €3 One RR aCe TGS 1S ae ; Elm- Trees ane tale, <3 Goutworr, <2) Bebra SS “Flexweed,, Knapweed, aw Hemlock vir eB : Barainkewar ms Henbane, Vy Black thorne, P i | Fumitory; Esper ”\ mviNight fhade, az iene ow a Redbects, _ VP/Rupture wort pS-talsseled Y, Warer-Ferh; WP Solarsans eal “UP : * a Loofe firife, vp Pe hr 'Sarvis Tree, ‘FiSpleenwart, si Meddler, a each-Tree, ee purfe, Woundwort, pas popleiirers eb ee “‘Snake-Weed, . tt Be tie ‘ PAA le aa le glad Vine) ~ Tamarith-trees ie Stinking " 4 nee Quince Tree, VP. December, * ly Ss ee eS Ya; , Bl, Hellibore, vp. : Cd eee 81013 21 2 | 18 6 19-20] 18 29° 319 21} 7 1 21 | + he 3 20 Nocear and me September.” ec ® Reremony. cal . . Avens, @Afparagus, 7 Hazzle-tree, = ~,{Balme, ss SBlBurriage, =} Cher, Pe st Copmary, $3/Clove-Gilli-) , | i * jCinquefoyls #]| flowers, ¥ 7 Cheat Nuty 7 Dogs grafs, ZlDock, —§ 1 Offober and i fEndive; SB Fig-tree, Mc | November. | -" ey Gra Rofes, SS Honfe-leck, Oo SEUIVCY“ATAsS. White beets, 95 Long-wort Bare: f 40 ; eod-betonys‘V ViSage Cy Horfe tongue sift i Ri —« Sampiré | Te Sucery; § [ T/Liver-werty 3 Tanne ape oad ere Novemb, _ {Dom vy1433| “ae 27° 11 31 3 29 | 1684}5 22 “¢ 31 Hd 13 | 24 I2)15 ZIOIL 23° By? 18 1942 | Be r3 167 21 28) Al a fF lot, FF 208 3 1925 28 | 21 25 15 23 6 14 23 If | 72 | 24 14 27.3 19 i 2 12 14 27, I 47 2) 28 fagtae 19 (4.9 28 18 27 a3 191 17) 412 tr 1218 22ir* 19 : i 28 Se Ree 21 28 }202729 14 27.)) erat 20. J 16.3% 6 « 19 24 18. 23 | 710 a) 3 hare | 23 3 22 2430 31 | 15 ial a Ve ) 1701'9 1g 26 Io 9151517 ae Sustaae \ ie i is EN ey Sey se ‘ ‘ t iN ts Me ss 4 4 if ta, ie te ¢ ! “Hasbs under } West ee | Ine and nly. Aga September. 3 Obteber and if . 1 | Thifle om ae November. vie oe Corton Thiflesm Greind Baty Flee-wort Bs ip 5 eae Alheale, AN iy t —Barberaies, mip CantusBenedidus! Buck yt fen ’ nl apr an : Doves foot, Vi to 9) nol . Dragones, 4st | Flex-weed tt} Fursbufh Mtns, Garlick... dane «Mafter-wert, jim) ‘ Pepper-wort Vv Rubaaby i iS “pein * - A ~ Ground pines anf Pht ee ee eames Refi barrow, 11 ce ie, mic Pe: . Round decks, im } . 1 31° Vaz. P4283 | 20 a3 9 1118 ~ f440 22 pa 8 27 ST 12 t-¢18 ey 1695] 29 a6 | tm 30°. 769615 13 21 19 28 9 24 Tp 1697/5 20 28 (9s saagtag) etene le fp FoR “i “Herbs ce oO. ol, PR bis April, Mey and. me | is te | | Tune. | tune and July. "ue if & Sten ‘Ky ‘ye eb) . One blade; % ‘Se John’s Wort,’ PAY Ailvtree, pe Kn ee burs a . Bay- “tIeey uy ngelicay M tT Pionyy . mot Burnet, : mck 2 gi ne _Safforns aa Cellindine, in : Poe: iy Mifeleo, cf | om ot: ) Role a folie | - Small eentty, VW} Oltober and We. Rofemary, CoP Dik rd y _ November. ~ Rue, Sy | Totmentile. ffuniper-berry-bufh, SL Wall-nut-tres; SU A y Aa “pl a May. June.) doy, Auguft. ; Septem. Oétober.'Novemb. |48 23 27} 7 20 | 6 16) 1 14 31; 8 15 } ie 91823 4 PAO ade 22.2717" 26 24. jig 29 a 6 16) 9 28 Oto | “oa |71 38h gt. | T4206 | 81 16 26 11 | 2027 13.28.29} 3 18 3 | 6 28] 1013) * Set6 o4t 28 Quine" ag 26 22 30 |.14 17! 12 4 21) 17, IL 13) 19 21] 10 20] 25 26) 30 129 10 - 5 ig A TH Tore LA Ge Stl 13. 16106 22°)" “ao; PAR gor 2:6 ty. BOR Il. | 18 20/6 22 28 11330] 30 45 18 (3.6 -4),.18 9 26 48 11 | g 20/ 8 22] 23 |5 6 26 6 RO} | Z20 251° 23> 12.'3: #8 2 10 5.18 28] 12 27 TAS) 9 220.4 Tg O° 3t (i299 2. Jers 2sr'g 19 26 SO Par P12) | NTo I OF 8.5 IZ Ee % 10 [26 24 21 a sy 19h 8°28 4 TA ghee mi iT IQO\I a ihe paid May. May ¢ and Tune. Tune and nly. | August and Alchdot,” ‘ew | Dwarf fe res) Askanor,: es : 6" a Whice Archangle, Pearherfew, Tei ‘Arch inking, nt Winser-cherries, | | Diep-wort, — s'Beech-tree, Fal | re Beans, cas ceo Nuer apa bithons weeds) ‘oS vate ee a hen Black der-trce, ‘Groundfel, B ackberry -bush eo) Am Ai 65| Hartichoaks © ~ |” pays Damnel, | Ae id Colts- Fai vy | Honey-fackles y Burdock, - ye ce Cowrlips, iHerb Robert,” fear Canoe” ast Bring, Soe Coliibine, © Moofe Ear, | Otpine, Poppy.’ Resie gy grafs, Pi White Swage, ices EWillow-use, gagispscomenznemena “White Rofes, + mee 11692! 7. 30a 11693) 5 17 > 18 41694'3 4 19 20 19695) 4.14 3 1696.9 19 29 30)! 2 18 i9 {69726 14 20 1698| 21 ae 1699 LOVER 1700| 6 14°27 1701) 26 20 's26 O The Explanation of the Tables, — d . Firft, Look for the Plant that you havea mind to gather in the Table, and that will tell you — what Moneth they muft be gathered in; and then look in the Table of Moneths, and there you will find what days will be beft to gather them in. eer ta Oy Big APS As for Example 8 {would know what time is beft in the year 1683. togather Fleewort, looking in the Table, I find Fleewort to be an Herb of Mars, and to be gathered in September; then looking underneath for September, and againft the Year 1683. L. - find 12 and 22, which doth fhew, that the rath and the erth are the beft days to gather that Again Idefire to know what time is beft, in the year 1684. to gather Scurvey-Gra/s in; I - find Scarvey-Graffto be an Herb of Fupiter, and to __ be gathiered in Apriland Mzy, then looking in the Table underneath for Apri/and May, and again& 1684. Lfind 5 22 27, 11 31. whieh fhews that the 5 22 27 days of April, andthe 11 & 31 days _ of May are the beft times to gather that Herb in, and foof the reft.. ie 7 When - re 1 a “ars ce i + Cs iby ie Le: ee sa 28 Che waptoHe_atth, —— | | When you have gathered your Herbs in their | proper Seafons, not only.thofe\ you intend for | -Phyfical Operations, but alfo fuch as you keep | -_forcommon ufts, you arin every, particilar to | obferve the fame Methodand:Rules that Hus: bandmen do in making of them Hay, that is, to dry them in the Sum, where the pleafant lively Rays of the Air have their free Influences, and to keep them duly turned, until the grofs moifture and phlegmy {ub{tance. be Exbalea, or confumed by theSunand Elements; and ifthe ‘Seafonbe | dry,, the beft way is to puitthem together as they do Hay,and let them lie ouralliNight, butifinor, | then put them in the Hotfe at\Nights;andiwhen they are fufficiently. dryed>: then makettrong | t 2. Herbs thus -preferved,.a moift Quality; (which the Sun and Elements PNAS Gy Me ga ’ could | a a, Ararat —_ omg Wife and Dappinets, ——g26 — could not deftroy in the firft preparation, with~ -eut Prejudice to the whole) whereby theif pure _ Spirttaous Parts become more free. and Voleile, -and will give forth their good Virtues as readily as Maalt does, when they fhall be put into any proper Mes/truuror Liquor. Herbs, Vay, thus ordered, are fit for all Phyfical and common »Operations ; do not the Husband-men obferve all the fore-mentioned Rules in making their Afzy? viz, when they have dryed it inthe Sun and - open Air, not in the fhade (as Phyfitiansand A- _ pothecaries do, (who thereby deftrey the Virtug of their Herbs) then they make it into:fmall Cocks, and let it ftand two or three dayes, or -more, as the Weacher will permit, after which | many will make ir into larger Reeks, viz. almolt _aload or more in each, and let it and two or three Weeks more, which does prepare and make ‘at fitter ta be made into Stacks or Mows, whereit amuft fettle very clofe; and heat or ferment, and . {Qin four or five Moneths time it will by this fe. cond Fermentation, digeft and deftroy that » _moift fainty Quality, which all Aay newly made does plentifully contain ; After this it fends fortly -afiner or more pure Scest and Smef, and is far berter for all Cattel: Where by the way it ista benoted, that Hey made into Stacks in the open Air, is to be preferred before that in Barns or Houfts, for the former will fettle much harder and clofer, becaufe the pure thin Sprritwons Va- pours of the Air do penetrate it, and thereby keep brea ii fs A) ug the Ha | POM eee) td ee Peta ae 3 530, ce Sag way to ‘Dealth, | oh a the Spiitwous Parts. living, and free from Suffo- | | -¢ation, or contracting any grofs” Humidity, — _whichall places do abound with, where the plea: | - fant comforting Rays of the Su and Airare hin-. dred from having their free Ingre/s, Egre/s and ’ egress therefore fuch Hay hasa more odorife- - rous{inell, that proceeds from the goodnefs and — -ftrength of the Spiritwous Parts, and all forts of | _ Cattel will chufe’ to eat this before any other, — -efpecially Sheep, who are of all others moft cu: q rious. Whereas Hay put into Barns, &e. will not — ~ fertle fo hard and clofe, though never: fomuch careand pains be taken in treading it down, the © “Reafon is, becaufe the Sun and ‘Air are fhut out — by the Walls andclofenefs of the Houfes, fo that | there is great {tore Humidity that fuffocates | the | Volatile Spirits. Lo -3:Imdrying your Herbs,care owe to be taken | “that the fame be neither too much nor little,:for { | -theSundnd Airby their fécret Influence exhale, © confume and deftroy the. grofs Humidity and | »Phiegm,, that before did hold the Spirztaous Qua | cLity, captive, which hereby i is fet at libercy ; 5 asus a) manifeft in all Herbsand Grajs,whillt it remaims © green andun{éparated, if you finell toit, its fcent 7 isgrofs, fulfom and earthy, but when the Sun and | Elements have made {eparation, then it fedds ~ forth a Smell moft Fragrant and Delight{fom, © perfuming the whole Field with its’ whdlfor | Odouts ; 3 But theif the fame be there tooloag | continued , the very’ fame” Influences which’ ‘exhaled roa | ‘clade Ta. ij Apngifeand Bappinefs. 53x _ exhaled and defroyed the grofs phlegmy Body, will alfo prey upon aad confume the 'Spirituens Parts too, as all oblerving Husbazd- men do Know, and then {uch Herbs, or any other thing © Of iikenavurc, will not have any true Virtue or Liteinthem. On the other fide, if they be not dryed enough, the grofs phlegmy Subftance that remains. will fuifocate the pure Spirits, and ~ caule Putrifsdiioz, and kindle. the better, fower and affringent Qualities, which in a fhort time - ae, will deftroy all the pure Balfamick Vertues. - 4 Ifany kind of Herds be dryed in the Shade _ oc Houle; they thereby lofe all their good Vir- tues, or very much impair them; for ?J%5 the. _ Sun and open Air that keeps the Volatile Spirits ana _ Balfamck Virtues living, for want whereof the | true Life and fpirituous Properties will be fuffo- - ated and deftroyed: Is not the Air of all _. Houfes grofs, fulfom and humid, if you compare itaswith the common Air abroad? Are not all _Tnfects and Vermin generated in fhady dull places? And whence is it, but through the great _dtore of Humidity and grofs Vapours which fuch places do contraét? Thus Moths are bred in Garments that are kept in clofe places, where _ the Air has not its free Influences; whereas on the contrary, the Sun beams and open Air pre- went the generation of fuch Vermiz. — ae | But now contrary to Nature, Reafon and ~.scommon Senfe, the fafhion which our Lip-/eara- ed Phyfitians and Apothecaries that ferve a perpe- Ca: Yyyo2 ~~ tual $30, “whe aap to fealty ail aihia’d tual Uyprestiathip to Tradition, practice | Ae bee ‘They dry: their Herbs in the Shade, _and after wards expofe them to the fulpherous tine ie il mid Air of their Houfes: ‘But I believe, Shoul > | the learned{t Doifor or Pot-carrier of them all tell. ‘a Country-man that the beit way to preferve t the. ) | | ii : 4 ‘ftrength:and natural Virtues . his Hy, - were tO dry i it in the Shade or Houle, he could not but ‘Laugh at their fimplicity ; for he knows. that “Hay § fo dryed & rade woul fel eamoe ters Catteljand that that proves the belt Ay whichis made when -the Sun Thines clear,and in a frefh gale oF Wind: ! -For “tis the pure thin-Spiritaous Vapors of the Air tbat penetrate. all Botlies, ard keep the Spirits, q -ofeach thing living in all Preparations. =... A man would think it almoft impoffible, for > thofe that make. it their whole bufinefsS to pres _ ‘pare Medicines, to be {0 fortifhly Ignorant of the - -Natureof things, and the Knowledge of them: . felves: What a clutter do they keep ‘with their vaft Volumns of Pharmacy and multy old Rules?, and yet’ when all is done; one may modeftly avow, that an ordinary Alesbamd-mam has abun< dantly. more vunderftanding i in the proper and natural, way of preparing the Food for his Carteh than thefewworfhipful Rabbies have either in the _ preparations of their-own or Patients Food or ~Phyfick ; and the common People feeing what thefemen of reputed Learning do, follow them like Apes, never queftioning whether it be» goed or bad, fo. verifying the Proverb, where | The Blind leads the Blind, &c. ell Ps Be ae i |! if i 1h iY th i! ess. OS MON eme MM Re TEN Many es et _— eT Fs Woug Wife and appinets, 533) Pao Pell me, I pray, what Virtue or trué Life hath —— Garduius, Wormwood, Centasry, Winter-Cherries, and many other forts, of Phyfical Herbs, when * - dryedin the Saturgine Shades, and then expofed tothe dull thick Airs of Shops, Cellars, Garrets,” and Herb-womiens Stalls, and other clofe fulphe- _rous places, more fit for the generation of Vermin’ and Infaéts than any thing elfe ? "Tis cOmfeffed, | 2% man may ufe fome of the before-mentioned © Martial Herbs.as courily as he will, neverchelefs ’ they will retain the ftrong fulfom bitter Tafte” and Qualities of Mars and Saturn, becaufe it is’ the Original and very Center of their Life, and” | _ therefore cannot be deftroyed; except fuch Herbs _ beannihilated, butthepure Effential Virtues and’ | Balfamick Body are wholly deftroyed: Therefore: _ Medicines. made of any Herbs.prepared as molt: _ Phyfitiens. and Apothecaries do, are. loath{om. to. _ Nature andthe Stomach, andthey have no pow~ er toaflift Nature, or Cure thofe Difeafes which _ the wife Antients have appropriated them ‘unto. - _ Now if Phyfitians and: Apothecaries do not under-- _ ftand thefe things that are fo plain and evident to: every Shepherd and. Husband-man, they may well _ be fafpeGted in their Compofitions, for if the hrf: ee Preparation be wrong, and the true. and living” Virtues deftroyed, let the wifeft of them all-ufe. what Art-they will, they can never obtain: the: Toft Vertue, nor-make a good Medicine thereof; » indeed fuch Herbs and-things may ferve their: tam, to, make vp their ofifed Conpftons, as i witch: . 634 . Ebe Uap to Health. | aes 2 which do eonfift ofas many Tngredients: as cule ‘iL oe are Weeksi in | theY ear,moft. of which are Of. as dif ‘s g agreeing . Natures as Light to Darknefs, + ‘or ‘Sum-- “ -mer.to Winter ; for this caufe moft of their Me. dicines prove ineffettual, for the phyfica cab Vertuess of moft ofthe Siweples are deftroyed for \ want ‘of: 4 ‘Care aud,Underftanding, either whilft they re- . main intire,. or elfe by *fixc ch an undue Compofi-.. 7 tion, where things of quite di ferent Natures: | confound each other: Fos if two things of con. ; trary Natures be added together, they makea, — degree ¢ of variation, and. produee a ‘Juice or, Vie : tue of a third Nature; ‘but then if you adda- third Ingredient, whofé-predominant Quality is. contrary both to the frfé and fecond, then fuch a Compofition or Medicine does make three des. 7 grees of variation, and prod uceth a Juice,or Ver= 7 : tue ofa, contrary Nature and Operation, to both - — the firft and fecond Ingredients, (which I have Phe: particularly demonttrated from ‘the Arts of Dy-. sag and Passting, in the Chapter. Of mixtures of Food). {o.chat when ten. or twenty. feveral things’ areadded together, they. make fuch'a Confufion, and as it were ftrife in Natiire, that fach Phyfick. or Food has not the true Natute nor Operon ofany one of them, and being unnatural, Stomach and whole Nature. of man doth it them; for in fach Mixtures’ things. not Homo-. genial, or agreeable to each other, . being janie | together, there thence arifeth. ‘an inward and | fecret ftrife for Maftery, and fo that Quality be- |} comes tong Wife and Mappinets. = $3 4- | comes ftrong, which before their incorporating | was weak, and fo ¢ contra, making that Proper- — | ty appear which lay hid, and hidesthat which — | before was moft maniteft, fo great is the power: _ of the Simpathy and Antipathy of things! ¢ | For this caufethe Aztiexts did forbid thofe Va- } rieties of Mixtures both in Food and Phyfick’; for } they faw from _an inward Eye of underftanding the great danger of ‘compounded Difbes or Medi- | eines, and that the common ufe of them did ge- | nerate compounded Difeafes, which no Medicine hath power, nor any Phyfitian skill to Cure. . | Therefore the generality of men in former Ages, -and alfo thofe in this, who live on imple’ Meats and Drinks, and obferve the Rules of Sobriety, are free from thofe torturing Difeafes that the Su- _perfluous and Intemperate are fubject unto ; -fach as ufe due Labour and Exercifes, and live on Bread, Butter, and ordinary Cheefe, Milk- _ Pottage, Gruels, and the like, and drink /mall | Beer, and obfervethe Rules of Chaftity, and lie on | hard Beds ; few of this fort of People are troubled with the Goxt, Dropfie, Stoxe, Palfic, Confunp- | tion, windy Difeafes, or the like; Nothing being a greater Evil to Nature than thofe improper. |and unnatural. Mixtures both of Food and Phy- fick, the firft being the very Radix of Difeafes, and the feeond does increafe and prolong them. _ Phyfitians may pretend and boaft as much asthey | will of the Excellency of their D:/penfatory-Ware,. 7ds certain that {uch Difeafes as are Be by. ee a i ~\ degreege Oa AR TOS IE es $36... Mheway to Health, degrees, by the frequent ufe and eating of com-. ‘pounded Foods, (which generally confift of dif. agreeing Ingredients as aforelaid, and made — meerly to prolong the pleafure of the Throat) | _. arénot. to be routed by all their Regiments of © Compounded, Recompornded, Decompourded and Surrecompounded Medicines, as daily Experience © '. Therefore let no. man have Faith, or repofe ‘Confidence in fuch adulterated confufed Nau ‘feities, put fear the Lord, and learn to know the power of Temperance before it be too late; for | when once Difeafes have invaded the Body and © waited the Spirits, then cis a difficult matter to — root out fuch Diforders either by Temperance Or Medicine, but {till the firft as the greater power | to give Relief, there being far greater danger in _ cich compounded Foods and Cordial Drinks, and | compounded Potions of Phyfick than moft. 7 imagin, or can be fenfible of, except they fepa- rate and enter into Self-denial, and .obferve both — Quality and Quantity of Meatsand Drinks, and ~ then their Eyes will be opened, and fee the © Errors of thofe things which formerly they praGifed.: ar ST, Ra ee ae ' Te is not for nothing that mankind is fo mife- rably afflicted. with fuch a number of torturing oq Difeafes, nor is itthrough any vatural Defect, as fome vainly fuppofe; for mankind in his Radix’ — is the oft compleat, foundeft and healthieft of. | ail Creatures, “endued with the greateft and | ~ - ftrongelt | _ —, fottg ite and Pappinels. Me _ ftrongeft natural Spirits, and had he not depra- ved himfelf by Diforders and Superfluities, would have exceeded all other Animals, as to health. - Do we ever read of any of the Prophets or Pa- | -triarchs in the firft Ages of the World, that they were fick? No, there is not a word of their _ Sicknefs, but that they lived to-great Ages in - perfe&t Health (for ought we find) and found-— nefs of Mindand Body: There was then no ° need of Univerfities, where men muft {pend ten ° ortwenty Years meerly to read Recetts over, and to Jearn to write a Bill of Confufton to the Apothecaries, or to put their own Eyes out, that fOthey might fee with other mens, nor to learn ‘Canting Words, to deceive the Ignorant: Their ‘whole drift and defign from the beginning to the end being to get Money, to livein Wantonnels, Gluttony and Superfluity. There was no occas _ fion amongft the Axtients for this fort of People, ' for every one was his own Phyfitian; for fo long asmen ftudied the Knowledge of God and Na- ture in themfelves, there was no place for this external Babylonical Buzldiay, or. fs the autho- rizing Of ignorant Pedantry for the fole Curing, or rather Killmg of their Neighbours ; Can any - underftand or read another mans Book, that can- not read one word in hisown? ‘A mans {elf is a Book, in which is comprehended all kind of Learning, both Humane and Divine, the Radix of all rts and Scéences: ‘For in this Uéttle World, ( Man) wascommunicated unto the Wife Aatients Gh on ‘ m - ‘ 338 «she Map toWenley the Virtues ‘of all Herbs, Seeds, Grains, * peinelte | and Minerals, for the ancient Phyfitians had ’ not Lybraries of many: thoufand Books, nor did) they {pend their time in reading: other mens: © a 1 Works, AOL fatisfied themfelves with oe of but were contented with. one Book, viz. the © Kpowledge of God and Nature in rhemfelves,, and - this Book they read with their own ‘Eyes, and — mot with the Counterfeit Spectacles of. Mitac | j or Galen, If men would but ftand fill from) | _ Self-hood, then would they fee the Salvation of © | the. Lard: The Old Phyfisians and, Naturalifts ae when they were not well, orany of theirNeigh- . _bours were diftemper’d, did not content them- felves with mufty uncertain Receipts; for they § knew that.the fame Herb which has proved bene- ficial to the Cure of one mans Difeafés, mightnot | do.any eood, but. rather harm. ta another, even. though: their Difcafes feemed to proceed from -, alike Caufé; and.does not our daily Experience mmanifelt the truth of this? Thereforetheyinall __ difficult points applyed themfelves tothe Divize ’ Gracle and Holp Light in themfelves, which did reach them fome Herb, Seed, Grain, or the like, and alfo the manner how. to ufeit, which did — perform wonderful Cures, becaufé there was an snward Virtue, andthe power of the Spirit went withthem ; they did notkeepany certain Me- — \thed. tic; all. Patients alike, as oar: Quacks do. now-a-dayes.; ; for the fame Herb, or other thing thal cared a Confers iption in ONG,” they did nor’ adminifter.- tong wife and Bappinets. 539 | adminifter to another in the like Difeafe, except . ° ad ee GA ile ee OA ‘5 oY f Bal itiocw 4 gi Che uBapto Beatty, felves, which if hearkened unto in Humility, / _ ‘would teach them, what to do.in all particulars, asit did the Astients; For thofe Herbs,and great | recorded, that after Generations fhould swastate. 7 —@fthe Spirit, but that men might fee the won-’ © —Kord, when men do apply themfelves unto its, 7 ‘nor have the Applications of the belt things any tients. have appropriated for the cure of fuch & Oe te ifs “i ue i BS ' so 3 } ae t i Cures wrought by them, wérenot fet down and: derful Power and Efficacy of the Spirit of the ” government. Ifmen would: but ftand ftill, andi — not fo, eagerly purfue ‘Fradition and the Inven~ — tions of men and Se/f-hood, then the good Genius’ 7 would be ready and prompt to. fhew and in- | &ruct them in any thingsbelongingto their Pre- ” fervation :. For in the way. of God and Nature. ~ every little thing. is made {trong and powerful;. ~ but when men have not the knowledge of God 7 and. Nature in themfelves, then all goes aftray, | andithe true Efficacy ot Virtue is not known, 7 ' By what hath been faid, appears the: Reafon. — why. thofe PhyficalHerbs and Seeds,which the An-’ fuch. difeafes,do not cure.thofe: di/tempers,no have. any {uch Effects ; for if every-.Hlerd couldvaccom-’ plifh fuch Cures.as are recorded: thereby to have. been. done, certainly there would:none be. fick, but 4/would be made whole; but. Experience. Shews'the contrary,;. nay, are there, not- many ’ ‘aving Teltimonies at this day, who, waiting in, pgs eee hed ~ n yee : * sale eee - jotig Wife and Happineds. — 5231 _. Humility at the Interzal Alrar,have been dire&ed " fuch an Herb, oy other thing, and the manner ‘of ““nfing it, which being followed, the Cure has been effected in a wonderful manner? And yer the very fame Perfons at other times inthe like ‘Diftrefles and Diforders, have not minded their good Gensiis, but looked abroad amongft. the Swive for Cure, where there is neither Life, Knowledge, Power nor Virtue, but only an Jen6- vant bufie Imitating Ape cloathed witha V elves Coat, and as their Courfe has been, the fuccefs | | proved anfwerable; he has perhaps purged their Purfe toa Vacuam, ftuffed their. Bodies with ‘Slops, filled, their Chamber with Galy-Pors and Glaffes, weakened Nature ,. and ftrengrhened the | Difeafe, fo that it carries away Life Captive at _ the Wheels of its triumphant. Charriot, and all that Mr. Duace-Dottor has to jay for himfelf, is; _ That he proceeded fecundum Artem, and deftroy- ed you after the exa€teft method inthe World: . _, All Pra€tice of Phyfick that is from Recezpts and _ Tradition, is uncertain and abominable to Naturé; — - more efpecially where there is a multitude of . Ingredients mixed together, for the moft part of various Natures and contrary Qualities, as though they would force Nature into. obediencé: by the feveral forts of Engines and Enemies of divers kinds, which they bring againft her: | Whereas in truth, when there are twenty, thirty; forty, fifty, fixty or an hundred feveral things _ccir pounded together, and of as many. diftinét Natures; Te a apie oat Re SN, Ok EAR oe a Ratu: ‘ CR cas ela, st 2 aan pve eto < Sane 4 , ‘ t . As a Seren h % ae ‘ ve . ave i, uy i P i f / ad fe b Seles Pah : “ gS he a q oa = we ae Fee ‘Che wap te Pealth, 4 p) i Pi, PEW og . at DOr d d+ of % a _ Natures rid man on Earth can know the Gesuize - Operation of fuch:a Meditine, Does not Experi- ; venicefhew, that in Food, if you ‘compound ten S| or twenty forts of things, the beft andf{trongeft — -Stomachs will lodth {uch Food after one Vieal — ‘fortwo? Who. is there (lethis Conftitution be — ‘what it will) that would be fatisfiedy ifhe were © confined to live on your richeft fort ot Cake-Bread, — -that has tenor twelve Ingredientsin it? Are not — «the, pure natural’ Operations of each thing de- — _ troyed and adultered, where various things are thus mixed, together of different Natures?’ And — _,_ does not the Pallate and: Stomach grow weary — and fick, if confined to fuch Foods? The very ~ fame.is to be underftood:in. Phyfical Preparations, ~ there being not much difference between the | Aporhecaries and our:more curious Cooks Compo. — -. .. fitions, both being alike prepofterous and inimical fo. démonftrate this; Tfhall here incert a © ) + earned Dottor’s:Prefeription. . A Gentlewoman | / badscat Son, :awhom >bemg. net “well, ihe @ ; fuppofed was in.a-Confumption ; The appliesher 9 | felf; to.a famous Dottor:tor Learzing and Skill, | who informs her, her Sonwwasin a wafting Condi-— tion; and you mutt needs’ believe it, for he fav © it im the Boys: Pifs, Then fhedefired him to give © her! direftions ‘how fhe might preyentthat con- 7 fuming: Diftemper? Mr. Doéfor having — avce © amore peep’d. in the Urinal, thrice hook his Noddle, © andi zwice ftroked:the place where he {hould bac inh | 5% CAVA, —. Teng Life and Dappinets. 543 _ Beard, perceiving the Angels to appear, ‘was pre~ ~ fently enlightned by the falfe Prophet, Tradition, to give the Gentlewoman this following Billto ‘the. Apothecary, which does confift. of no lefs _ than ‘three and thirty Ingredients. But by that | timethe Apothecary had mufter’d up his feveral Slopsand compleated the Compofition of Ozeni- umgathérum, the Small Pox began to appear, and _ put a period to Goodman Docttor’s future procee- _ dings, who elfe, to prevent the oysCon/umption, would have lorded his Guts with Materia | enough to half fet up an Apothecary. The Receipt: HAND: Ia Exglifh. _ ROL Amyga. dusle. Take Oyl-of fweet Al- Fe. Syr . Capiat Veneris \monds new drawn, Syrup of | ana 3ifs. Sacchar. Cant.\Maidenhair, of each one eats. wif. _ exattiffim, | Ounce and half, white Sugar- Capiat cochleare x- me powder oe ate: and te ap > ¢\half, mix them, andtakeon: — vig ig iS load Shape Nea fpooonful three or four times . die fuper bibendo 5V-la day, drinking after eacla . oe [equent. ca-| dolsa quarter of a pint ofthe did. Mee... following Apoxem warm. _ Re. Decott. pettor| Take of the Pectoral De- - depurat. thils. Tingg.| coven depurated a pint and ie oe She } ie) J ae half, Tinéture of Saffron and vier Or Pe E" Syrup of Maidenbair, of edch » MOTUS AMM 31S. rif. Fs one @unce and half, mix them apo zen. a ; for an Apoxers. a re R. Conf. Rof- rub.) Take Conferveof ofd red anti. ad _fetacer #7 Rokes pulped, two Ounces, — trajett. Sit, = Palv.| Pulvis Haily aDramand half, ieee Haly ~ >) iguid f a aoe we - whetway to Healthy i Bly sife a , Sif. ‘hae ght Syrop of Balfor a ‘ieee ‘” ee ee ‘Elturion de, Wantity to ‘make it into. an : Bia fingulis notkibus. | ; Electnary. To be taken the 4 140. Ca tat tant ipa ‘| quantizy of a Sue a 4 fo it bic! f hao at oe times . +. ; * : “i, o ay Sp i | » this 3 45 Dane Bill, whole In “cde Bese you - “trace. them to their originals ) are thirty three, and. their various Natures as many, dilagreeing. Sone with the other, and confequeritly make a. “Medicine ofa loathing Quality, and far ficker’ in Nature tham-the diftempe: red Patient: | ‘The very fame is to be underftood or moft or all the things they adminiver underthename | - of Cordials to. fick languifhing: and dying: Pebple,. vas being Mixtures of could ftilled Waters of — -feveral forts, with certain. Syrups, Epidemic Water, “and other like Slops, whichare all great Naufeates | . to Nature, even in the Healtlhieit ftate;. and if : - fo, what a miferable Condition then muft the ts fick be in? The truth is, men in the time of “health, ftrength, and: vigour do make the — bef of Cordials too common to them, viz. Wine, which many drink to the’ deftfuétion of — their Health, and then when they are fick chy. " mut havea change, though it be for the msde and fothey take up with thefe doathfom Compon : fitions of the Apothecaries, which are {0 far from — : being really hems, thar bey are SEDER S | to Nal ature, 4 "Tis F re S J ‘A. ' : : Yo sae te b tong Wife and Happinets $45 oo Kise thing of evil confequence to be ignorant cell ofthe moftexcellent and fublime Vertues of the ~ Herbs which, our own Country: does produce, both for all Phy Gical ufes, and allo _ being no way fo fafe for N ature, as. toapply and ule fimple Herbs in the Cure of Difeafes; for as fimple Food is always. the moft harmlefs, as _ adminiftring a proper and equal Nourifhment | to the Body and Spirits; the very fame is.to be — | underftood in all Phyfical Operations ; forthe Na- _ ture of each thing is.adulteratéd, and its phyfical ~ = for Food; \there } _ Virtue deftroy’d by the contrary Qualities of other | intermixt Ingredients. 0) ’ Tr is further to be noted, that moft forts of - een Herbs, when cut in their proper Seafons, and under good Influences, and afterwards dryedac- . _ cording to the Rules before-mentioned, are far. better than when. green, for the making of | Poffet-drinks and Decoctions, and alfo for Cordials _ by Infufion ; for. the Sun and Elementsdoexhale | and deftroy the grofs earthy phlegmy fubftancé, _and preferve the pure fpirituous parts and balfa- — _ mick Virtues, and fets the Spirit free, that. it becomes volatile; which pure Vertues inallor © -moft green Herbs are captivated by the earthy body of Phlegm. ‘Therefore when dry Herbs, which are properly preferved) are committed toany proper Liquor, as hor Water, Beer, Ale, “Cyder, Wine, Spirit of Wine, @&c. any of thofe | paguers will greedily receive the good Virtues an f{pirituous parts better than they can, from i Aaaa | Herbs ‘ : a. Pr ni , rhe syst ak Hevbethaare green, And whe -n Her] ‘together five: or fix Monetiis, they are fitte fuckbufes than when firit gathereds, ‘an es for feveral years. - : _ shore fublimeVire | prelery?d, ‘and - the: grofs earthy Subftance de- ‘teog’d but in ‘all our Chymical Preparations for ns elecal takes Herbs and commits a | = eae eer Rb untatraly except i mi | bee sy ERE Chymital Bigaors- are at the! end of Nature, f ata tlierefore fey wah not: “adinit~ of another j preférved. as. before is directed, ‘will keep goo Pay colitis propaiarion ‘of the Sui ie ‘Hlemeass q tavalpia be -efteemed, and ‘no preparation pers | formed: ‘by common Hive is tO beicompared there: . this’ Chymital Art of. Nature, the 4 1es and vegitative Qualities are — with ; -2 fopi and ‘Separations, there i is a. contrary. ‘operation ; > 9 aifalsbeydwe Paty er “will nor weil ) vit, salt other forts:6f Liquors “will;- “een ww. ater it debRuwhen-ahy: Balfamich Bodyis 4 jovHedowirh it, aif ‘Silgar; OF the like bud thofe | Moon ects i: we Otel OQ: - i WIT t 5 * oGiticait! folls fit all PHO SpE iy OF Sealy Leraft, °Of ‘Sal, -and-many Otliérs Of Hike f Nature thitatoppared by wig sade, a dical ; Mt \ “cy, long AifeandHAppinets. faz Radical Moifture or {weet Balfamick Quality, |) A Fee eS os Ako REE 58 ae al Teka ete teen: the Volatile ‘Spirit and Vepitative!' Virtue’ or | FrddleQustiy are al deteayely Rave fac es TPF age Sot Wie res, Sy ee TO. Le ee 2 | Phyfical Viruies as theit Authors appropriate “unto them. And we do affirm, that’ fuch as | ave the Di‘cale called the Scurvey in their Blood, “thall be'as {Gon and as well cured, by taking every Morning fo many drops of ftrong Spirit of Wine,, as they fhall by taking this'fort of | Spirit of Scurvey- grafs,. and fo of the Spirit of Salt, and others > For the harfh fulpherous Fires | in Sts, where the friendly Element. of Air is hindred from having its! Influence, des totally — | deftroy the pure Virtues and opening cleanfing Qua- Uities, and.there does run off ouly a flerce, keen, barfa, fiery, aftringent , bitter, furtous Spirit, \ which is very pernicious to Nature, and to all | the friendly Virtues in the Body, nor was it ever Known that any fuch Spirits have given help or cured any of thofe Difeafes which the Lying Au- thors do fo much boaft of. You may try whe- ther this be true, if you take any opening, clean- fing or purging Herbs, Seeds, or the like, and , pu them into any kind of Liquor, viz. Water, £ ; i Beer, Ale, Wine.or Brandy (the laft of which thofe great Phyficians and Mafters of Art do ufe to draw their Spirit of Scurvey-grafs in) wher you have put your Ingredients into your Liquor, det them lie in it, two or threé dayes, more or lef a5_you pleafe, then put'the Herbs ‘and Seeds, with the Liquor into your S# or Limbeck, and ! Aaaa 2 | draw i y | i | £ h Bish Coes 3s te Buh a da) a ae Sg Ge a eae *. Soak A ad PAP Wey Nae SRA aks i Fa Sa i F ice A Mahe ae Rie a ’ ; ,, Bay Ly EMER MME oh hts ay Baa rs te Tak tea ie a ¢ eh asd oe fie ie ) . Toh ort Fal : 5 rf ¥ y ¢ fe Ce a ee ae a hs not For he that has no.ttue knowledge in him= blind fold, and trutts.to other Peoples’ Say-So’s, P _ “tis by meer, chanee, Whereas Phyficcans ought ” ame Bey a 3; ¥ _ knowledge both of his Patients difeafe, and what — Ma ’ : F \ MY eS teal ie ail 3 . Hie 2 Pb Geli ; he” | ee Weer Nh ee THONG SRST oe ARORA eR AMD. mbeys Cy nape nee Elwes) ly AR y »., Aong Lifeanb Dappinets. 549° esto remove it; all things,efpecially where ives are concerned, ought to. be done ht and judgment, and sot without Faith Payer to God, the Creator of all things, who ward Virtue,, Power and Life of every | or Faith and Prayer do Wonders,. open- ward Virtue and Centre of every mean ple Medicine. or thing, even Clay and dttle with it Shall Cure the Blind; this all: Phy- _fistaus Ought to be inwardly fenfible of, and. net { put fo much truft in their Authors; ) for many of “them have been very vain and extravagant in their Writings, telling us that fuch and fuch . Herbs and other things, were. endued with fuch - wonderful Virtues, and would cure fuch Di- -feafes, when in truth there were no fuch things ; _and alfo invented many. smproper Compofitions, even any thing they fancied, and moft of their Aayings are meer Stories, and as contrary to. truth as Light to Darknefs. Now on fuch.a tottering Foundation, what Structure of fafery ~ _can be expected to be built? Our modern Phy- _ficians are much like our Lanyers, if a man.is like tolofe part of his Eftate, and. will vindicate his -caule by Law, “tis twenty to one but he {pends — the other part to fecure that, and after abundance | of charge and trouble lofeth the whole: Juit fo Jifaman through Diforder and Intemperance hath ‘jin part deftroyed his Health, he may be fure to deftroy the other part alfo, ifhe keep clofe and follow the Phy/itéans Pre{Criptions , ane ¢ } | taxe t amas, = = =o aa cs Ebe way to bea Brine # ce od ftore of their. a ted M eae allo ® note, Shik eb atic! to Ob tun the Eyes of his mind inward, at “a¢ the Altar of the Lord for an dates to do or take any Medicine without fon ~‘yance or Faith i in the Lord Ming, ‘nor | ; -oughtany ‘tothink himfelf £00. ‘mean r limple, ~ bec ufé. 1S utilearned ; for do but read the “Scrip tures, and you may be fatishied hn Gi a ‘Lord'in all Ages has plentifully given his Gifts © 7 and Gyaces both. Divine ana Natural to the Sin ole i Vanll ‘Onlearned: Andas to the Learning of this 7 World; ' did not our ‘Lord Chritt himfelf give > his i Father the Author ofall Beeitigs, ‘thanks, That) e had hid the M; ty fberies of Salvation ‘(bothiof Soul a ‘and Body ag fiom the Wife and Lette ics ig : Retna and Mian ther unto Babes sii . | Ebdened ie ie Be double barra the Wie id - dows’ of their Souls againit the fimple Light of “Truth; ‘they have cloathed’ themfelyes with Va “nity” and Self-hood, ‘being contented with. Tra dition and a Wi orldly pafing-lip. Kpowledge,. which Ls -ferves them to fwagger with, but not todo any ‘good with, ° either to themfelves or others, o- “that there is ‘no room for the operation of the ” friendly Love and Light} God, they are fo a ' {welling proud Spirits, a and noife and boafting ; ~ hence it comes to Pe that thefe Admirers of se cha lige: a —— long aiteand Qappinets. §— s54 _. Pradition andPocket-Learning,and the ways ofthe Multitude are alwayes apt to.defpife the Simpli- Sees A ey pe eee Oe oe EOS CARER Batt ee ye _ city of the divine Power and Voice of Wifdom, not only in themfelves, but all. others; and _ therefore the Lord chufeth to-unfold his holy and natural Myfteries unto the-Poor and Needy, -and fuch who are not wife in their. own Eyes, and _~ whofe Eye-lids are, not lifted up: For nothing _ obftruéts the Work of the Lord, -and the Reve- ations of his holy-Spirit in men, more. than. 77: ward Riches, Self-conceitedne/s, and the: Babyloni- . eal Learning of the. Schools of this World, which ikea too Luxuriantand not well Cultivated Soil, produce fuch abundance of rank Weeds, as over- topand choak the good Seed that it cannot attain to any Maturity in the Government, ofa mans Life;, the fame is,to be underftood of all, out. ward Fallne/s and. Intersperances :. Therefore let none thifik themfelves unworthy .beeaufe; ghey,” have not the Learning of Babel, .or becaufe they, — ate fimple, for {uch as are unlearned and empty, — if they cometothe Lord in Humility and Faith; he will: abundantly reach. thems, and plentifully, fill, thew with all good things. a dias £ Fi £. Poe es, ak Ta vw a ele RO ln ~ Wa by) hie eee ny ee aS eae ee Sad See , TY Ai : Mie ah abe pails PR et Sk BM a Fyre h : a { RA. ey Oe SR Me) ap aa, Sh 0s GRR ie Nn en a na ay wa j : ee ; gt “a ot % ~T : pan oe a i ni We: ay Eat fs 4 : i y ae “ » * aust if ¥ ; Prey oN sy at d » i Pion Le ‘¥en re : ; tn tet :, ef ‘ < Pe Se le & sa Oe wy > Swe, e. be a's } \ ~~) ~ fn ¥f 5 ji Ye. seat to at a any a ; ne Pe: Ea eee fs 2 ; ey f ‘ Say Pea \ Wind aK ib ~& OO eB] ay +) Mckay iy 2 Pea ed vag tt ree es BX ri the fo iy : 3 has eaten: Snakes, f £10, and. find ‘shat. pres the. W ies gees te yee wih any dint ag 2 know. ‘that O iBumn ‘and Rue are: ‘good, Anti- _ dotes, againff. ote oan {omng, other, sdnineals | there. is, an. ober I and, A wedisina Art, as when, the Toad.is we tis faid, he will go ci gil Sage. OE, Ban peices’ ub . the, hee vand {fo ee Bei. sithe danger 5, Weare told:thar Swalowsfirtt Bacay us that * elandineis is. Medicinal f for:theEyes, being the fame wherewith they cure. the Eyes of their young, Oues,;\ the Pye when. fi ickputs a Bay- _ Leaf inta. her Neft ft and. recovers; fo Granes,Davs, » Patridees,. Black-birds, and.C roms. purge their fick -Stomachs .with, the fame: Ab is.reported, Jf .s Leven, be Steks he i$, recovered, by. eating of an. Ape 5 ; . The Lupwing being furfeited, cures her felf with Southernwood-, the wounded Hart runs to’ his n he - ftorative Ditany: i Sipane,, when PE Oe Sa eat the. Snakes and. are, well ; ogs bea _ wounded, ‘cure. themfelves. ‘by. continual. lick, _of the Wound,. alfo, they purge. their, naufeous Stemachs: by. eating, of Gra/s, . Cats.do. theirs » by, eating the Herb, Nipp. Phi chotomy, or Let- ting of Blood, bse (as: 1s -wiiten) anaes , this “this prathice firll of a Bealt called Hyppopotamizes living in the River Wélus, which being ofa'ra- ~. f +4 | {6 ‘prodivioufly | Yatehimfelf, tong Wife and Dappinefs. 563 venous Nature, aid therefore often over-cha rged i} with much eating, is wont to feek in the Banks | for’ fome fharp ftub of a Reed, ‘upon-which — pricking his Leg, he thereby eafeth his full Body, ftopping the bleediug ‘attehward with Mud. - $o that fome men who are curious in Obferva- tion, have learned many Medicinal Vertues of Herbs from Brutes, which they’are led unto by a natural Inclination, which we call’ lbtiad, having alwayés ‘Obeyed'the Law of God in Na- ture, and lived ‘under the. fimple Influence and Operations thereof, and'do therefore retain thofé natural Faculties aud Self-prefervations’ which _ the Lord endued them with in the Creation: But Man that was made ‘but a little lower than ~ the Angels, and fuperior to all the Creatures of — this fublunary: World, having tran{greffed both — the divine and natural Law of God, ‘has thereby | corrupted the'Earth and ‘all the Elements, and | reafon of his’ Violence and Oppréfion, by which he has depraved ‘himfelf both ofthe divine and | natural Underftanding, andhas not the common -Senfe of diftinguifhing what is for their own _prefervation, fo well’ as many Brutes have, - Which is mtich to ‘be lamented that man'fhould. fly degrade, difhonour and incapti- “‘Théte is another thing worthy to be confider- ria a - Fd 4, pe + in Ae rei ms ay et ey, ; Fees &, my 9 ed byall men, but more efpecially by thole thay apply themfelvesto Phyfick, thatthe mof cele. brated Authors of that Art,& fuch as have written of the Nature, Virtues and Ufe of Herbs, Drags, Fruits; Seeds and Grains, and whofe Rules and Prelcriptions our modern Doéfors make the foun- dation of their Skill; and the limits of their Pragtice, were born, and bred, and lived in places far remote from us in other parts of the World; and in different Climates, whofe Pro- — du€tions vary as much in Magnitude, Forms and oa % ES on pO ye MON? Fil ea ae 2% 4 that grew in'Greece, a Afia, or Arabia, a. theufand or two thoufand | Years ago, - may’ ‘be Vaftly ‘different’ in their Nas tures, Properties and: Effects,’ from’ thofé that row With us at this day ‘Nay, ” tis impoffible . it fhotild be ‘othierwife,” Ry we confider the diffe. vence of C. limates, ‘the alterations of the Cele eftinl Bodies, the WATIONS ‘Mixtares, Tranfpl: antings, In. 7 provings, Oe. of Plantsy ‘Herbs and Planers, the different ‘Modes’ of Wining and! Caltivating Ground, the’ change of Peoples C onjtitutions, the ~ tontraviety of our. Northern Bodies to thofe Conftit tutions of Afizand Greece, Ke: And yet whatever — thefe old dotilis Geeslemen have been pleafed to fay\of any’ ‘Hey, Plant of “Grain, as that itis hot atid ary, told’ and: moift, in the frp ‘econa’ “OF Piva: Degree,’ ‘that it opens, ‘binds, purges, ‘provokes Urine, tires such or fuch a Difeafe by an ocedlt Quae Ety,. Was be to Hy, da know" yarn uted is a | Laer — af K Pi ee ie TSS EOD ty SS WDA’ wo! ae ryrey - . ; ee ee i hw " , long Lifeand Pappineis. 567 | ‘Trick it has got) or whatever elfe they pleafe — jf to ftuff their Books withal, either out of Igxo- france, Mif-informatian or niter vain Glory to ~amufe their Readers; all this, I fay, muft be [vallowed svithout Chewing, and he that can remem- ber their T#z/e, counts himfelf 2 moft Learned Phyfisian. Hippocrates was a Phyfitian in his own Country, and in a degree a knower of the Virtues and Vices of fach Herbs, Drugs, Ge. as ‘his own Climate,and the Ceeleftials in that Eleva- ‘tion brought forth, but he did not know any thing of our Northern cold Countries, nor of our Beafts, Herbs, Fruits and Drugs. The very fame is to be underftood of Gatett (the, extravagant Builder and luxurious Courtier) and ofall thefe eminent Authors which our formal Phyfitians do fo much, dote on,they were great ftrangers toeur Climate, and to.all the ProduCtions and Vegeta- Rime ee wg 1 Ne ee Befides, the People in thofe times and thofe ‘Countries, .did not only differ ‘from us as to their Natures and Complexions, but alfo'in all or moft of their Cuffoms of Living, as in their Afeats, . «Drinks, and the. Preparations thereof: The _ ‘did then, and moft_of them do to this day, dink Water, and many of them go almoft Naked; the cule of foft Beds and warm clofe. Hoxfes was hardly '. known to them, except to fome few: Their "Princes and Great Men. did live more Sober and - Temperatethan the meaneft-amongft u: ‘They were contented with fuch fimple Meats and Drinks as theis 3 ee own i £ he A es We “wifelt, of them all did live in this day, wherein Vall kinds of Exxce/s and ,Réor do. reign, with the _ _danumerable Inventions of xew Difbes atid unnatural Compofitions.of Food and Drinks, they would be _ forced to take new Meafures, and alter their an- cient Rules, whieh were good and proper in | . their-time, and to their own Natives, but are ~ adapted for us or our times ; and thereforeitis the greateft of Errors for us. to appropriate fuch | . ont es a 2 A Virtues f ' .. long Life and Bappinefs. 559 Virtues and-Cares to thofe Herbs as the Antients | did, who wrote of the Virtwe and Ufe of fach . Herbs as grew in their own Climate, and appropri- ated them tothe Difeafes that were generated. in the fame place, and under the fame Elevation and Celeftial Influences. BPO ANG Lies __ And although fome will obje&t and fay, Thar msany of the very fame Herbs are ie rae $080 ONT Country. . Though the fame fhould be true, yer all men know, and daily Experience teacheth, thatina few Years the CKmare, Earth, and Ce- — deftial Influences will alter and change fuch Herbs. or Fraits into the Nature of that Country. where. they grow; as the Orenges of China, which of : late were planted in Spain, they have there in | few Years loft that finefs and delitacy of tafte, and are become more tart and fharp like the - Original Oranges of that Country ; . therefore they are forced to renew the Plants whichare brought ' from their natural Soil once in a few Years, 5 | though the difference between Spain and thofe | ‘ Climates they naturally grow in, is not fogreat ' by many Degrees as our more Northern Countries f are to Afia and Africk. Spain and Portugal are ' comparatively but a little diftant from us, and * yet, you fee what a vaft difference there is be- ’ tween our Fraitsand Herbs, and theirs, being * quite of another. Nature and Operation. *Tis * true, they will grow here, but their Fruits will ' ‘not'come to any.Maturity. Now if the Varsa- sion be fo great in Countries {fo near us, it mutt a | | Dddd needs | ; - needs follow that. thofe Herbs, Seeds, Grains, -and Drugs which grow in Greece, Arabia, Egypr, ; | Perfi ja, and the like: remote places, muft ‘be ae ' ‘more different and contrary. © a Moft of thofe Forreign Southern Cc limates hati : rally. prod uce rich fweet Wenes, Sugars, and deli- _, phate Es ruts, as Pine- Apples. 7" fi weet Oranges ‘and: Lemmons, Plantans, Coco-Nuts, Sower-Sops, &c. i which are all contrary in ‘Nature, Form and Qualities to our Fruits, and {0 are their Herbs, Seeds, Roots, kee. And *tis. abfurd to. think,’ that the Arabians, Grecians, Egyptians, &c. did ever make it their bufinels to ftudy the Virtues - and Ufe of our Herbs, Roots, Fruits; Seeds, Beafts: or. Graids, whofe Country and Produ@ions they — were altogether firangers unto, as well as to our | Conftitutions, Complexions, and the manner of - our wtving, Meats, Driaks, I 6 oe 5, sy Intem= a4 pereneess and the likes. ‘s Itisalfo to be noted, that the Coleftial Tnfles i enpes and: Oper atsons of abe! Starsand Elements, are’ * not the fame inne Country as-they are in ano- ther;butaccordingto the Elevation of the Poles & ’ the Neighbourheod. or: remotenefs of thar molt slorious Body. the Sux; Hence it is that in the” Somaber xs Ba, ern and H’e eftern Regions of this in--- habitables Globe; : thére aré great ‘numbers of: | Birdsaid: Beals ri arevnot known tous, and of different Forms; Colours, Tones, Natures and» Fnelinacions fromouts; the fameiis tobe under- - Fonds ifiadt their Eras, Fe scapes! aes geal ki 570 «= (se Map to Health. = = ae eo Ahe Sasstraland, Seminary Virtues of the Earth varying alfo.in the, predominant: Qualities from ours, there. being a concurrence im all Countries | _ and Climates between the Influences and Opera» _ tions of the heavenly Bodies and the earthy, whence it come to pafs that the People of the Sosth are black, and the Northren white, their _ Country generates Go/d, and ours Lead, Tizand © Tron; the Exit - Indies yielding precions Stones, _ which isa degree higher than Go/d, and the Weft: Indies Silver, which proceeds from the powerful Influences of the Sus and Venu, but efpecially of the Sw, its warming Beams continuing there all the Year:without much variation, and there- _ fore their Nights and Dayes are more equal,than’ in the (Vorth, where the cold harfh Properties of. Saturn, and Mars do ‘bear {way: ‘Therefore the: “Herbs, Drugsand Fruits that are brought forth in thofe remoter Regions are not Hlomogenial to. | our Bodies, as experience might teach us, by the: great Numbers of new Difeafes that have of late been. contracted by the fuperfluous Mixtures of . the Esifand Weft-Indian Ingredients with our. common Food, as Spices, Fruits, Sugars, as alfo . ‘Tabacco, &c. which have ftrangely. wafted the Healths of many: For the All-wife Creator of all. Beeings, has endued both the ‘heavenly. and earthly Bodies with -an- inward Virtue, .. Power and Naturein every Climate andCountryy {0 asall places do plentifully bring forth all mane’ > | nex of Herbs, Freits, Seeds, Drugs and Grains | Dddd 3 fuitable inh Gas ee neay to Beatty, fuitable andy roper. for the sahealibe of both ~ ‘Men and Beafts of that place, and alfo for Medi- | cine, there beirig: a Sympathetical agréeementin the Radixes between the Animals of each Coun- try and ‘the: Vegetations thereof, “both being brought forth under the fame Influences. Do not our own Herbs, Fraiesiand Grains: ‘growing — Ws {nour own Country, maintain the numerous Troops of brave Azimals amongit us, viz. Cows, «Sheep,» Horfes,’and many others in plentiful heals: es thy ftate, without the help of Forreign Vegeta- fives? And are there not a great number of Me- | dicinableslikewife of ourown growth, ” proper for’ the Cure of thofe Difeafes that are generated in” our Elevation’? And had it nor been the great Happinefsof England if men had known nomore’.’ of: Ouelandifh Win énes, Spices, Sugars, &C. either: | for Food-or' Phyfick, than our Beafts:do, which ~ would have yeidred Us more healthy, and foun- det both in‘ Body and “Mind? for in the begin- « nir.g the divine Word ‘of the Lord that (as the > Seripeuires teftifie) made all things, moved itfelf incall Places'and Climates, and formed, framed — and ofipwed all Bodies: ateording to the Degrees: ofthe Innateinftant Qualities of each’place; and” asthe Property: of ‘the feven-fold Nature and”. _Cénitellation did there: predominate, and as the © Sdlaitral Properties and Spirits ‘were: internally — Steong or ‘wéakigood or evil, fuch was the Nature, In=— cligations; Porm 0& Shapes of the Creatures in each sicher for: pati Creature: was clothed with’ a: ; 7 ele ete AP / +. dotug Wife and Happinels..... 573 _ Body according to the Natures:and Degrees of the Spirit, whichis the Life of alli things, ha- ‘ving an innate Power .to, attract proper matter — for a Body of a proportionable Nature. » And as the Internal Powers and Qualities. are.infinitely various, fo are the External Forms, every ‘thing both in the A#imal ,~ Mineral and Fegerarive Kjngdoms, varying in Shape, Virtue and Vice. And wherethe Property of the Wrath did-predo- minate in the Ss/nitral Quality in any. Country, | there did arife, and were made fierce: ‘wrathfut wild Beafts of Prey, as Bears,. Lyoms, Tygers, &¢. On the contrary, where.the /weet, Water, and friendly Nature had dominion, there ,were gene- rated tame mild Creatures, as Sheep, Cows, &c. | the fame is to be underftood in the Vegetative | and Mineral Kinzdoms, and the outward. Body or, Szgnuature.does in all part:culars.manifeft and thew the inward. Nature oof each thing/to the énlightned underftanding, and fagacious (Vatwra- Uist; whom God and Nature have made capable of fich fublime Learning. "Tet is very Improbable Gt 1 had faid Impoffible, I had “not much over-fhot the truth). that-one Herb fhould have {pecifick virtue and power to cure-fo many various Difeafes and Defetts of — Nattire, as the Antients do appropriate, except — |\fuch an Herb, Frist, Seed, or the like, be endued. i which hath never been known; nor is it poffible © |that any grofs Herb fhould have that divine Hii tal Efficacy with and have the wsiver/al Tincture compleat, " oe ts _ Mountains ,.as dlfo witnefs the Woman that had | the bloody Iffue,fhe believed in-her heart,T bat sf (be | cond but touch the hem of Chrifts Garment, the of the Light and Love of God in’ felis Chrift,. _ which healing Virtues her earneff Faith did draw: : Efficacy tovetire fo many different Diftempers and in various Complexions, except there bea living Faith in the: Patients and alfo in the Phyfirtaz, God and multitude of evil Properties arid Incliy ” “gations, into the divine Power and Vertue of the -Wertue and friendly Nature firft in-her felf, and er Sm ig a See age bs 2" + Fiese | e kha 3 ts — , 5 by hee Dealt, Uy, “a aK: which thencan make Water Wine, and. Clay and 4 Spittle an Eye falve, and as Chritt faith, remove bewholey which enabled her to pref through the 7 Throng and Multitude to touch his Garment ; where’tis to be'noted, that this Woman did firlt._ pre{s in her felf by Faith through’the, Wrath of © | Son of God, which by a fympathetical Attra- ion and divine Power awakened’ the balfamick . ee , eye a ee ea WY PR WON A de cee ad 20 afterwards in our Lord; for then he enquired,” Who bad tonohed him? At which his Dilciples: marvelled, becaufe of the Multicudethat prefled him ;) but Chrift was fenfible of the taward K 1 dlings and of the fecret Artrattions and. I flctices, the Woman’s Faith had in'a. powerful degree awakened, and as it were drawn forth and united: or joyned it felf with the frend pee ple; » forth ; and fo ve her Cure.was' immes; diately effeCted ; for Chrift faith, Thy FAITH. hath made thee whole. gh oma ST RET . The truth is, there is but Oze Way for thadiehe f a ee eng Life and Bappinets... 475 Cure of all Difeafes, both Corporeal and Incorpo- *real, whether they proceedfrom the Body or the Mind, which is by the Virtue and Power. of the “good Quality and friendly Nature, .which the Creator hath endued every Herb and other. thing swith; foras the ficknefs of the Soul or Mind is ‘nothing elfe but the deprivation of. the divine — “Vifion, viz. mans being departed from the Go- _ “wernment and Council of the good. Light and - ‘Love of God, which cannot be remedied, nor the Soul reftored unto its firft Mate of Health, Strength and Unity with God, but only by Faith, and elevating the Soul to the divine Principle, which will reinforce all the good Powers and ‘Virtues of God’s Love, and-not only render a man found and healthy, but the fame Grace be- ing obeyed, will maintain the Soul and Spirit in Serenity ; fo the very {ame is to be underftood of i" ean of Sickneffes of the Body and Elements’. | of the outward Nature, Di/ea/es being nothing elfe but an unequal Motion, or Contrarieties of the Properties and Qualities of Nature, which ~ comes to pals through various Intemperances and. concurting Influences of the Elements and Ccele- {tial Bodies, which wound the pure volatile Spirit, and; then prefently the {weet Oyl and Balfamick. - Vertues, or Humour Radicals, turns four, and lofeth its friendly Nature and Operation, and the harfh aftringent fierce original Poyfons do roufe themfelves, raging and domineering, and put Nature into anagonious Condition, which can CAgnae erin yi o §76 «= Le MDay'to Wealth, no way pal a or or moderated, but either by the Yecret an ) divine hand of God, which ftrengthens and raifeth up the half dead or fading -Oyl and wounded Spirit, or by a balfamick Me- . ee 7 ~ SS a ee ee dicine, which may by fimite incorporate its felf with the wounded Spirits and Radical Moiftures, and fo reinforce and reftore them to their former ftrength and power,and then.immediately the ra~ ging Fury ofthe bitter aftringent & four Proper- ties become moderated, not annihilated,and then — the ftrife and contention of Nature ceafeth, and the Cure is effeCted. Therefore every Phyfitiaw fhould iedectene how to “prepare fuch a Medicine, as can by its innate power and virtue thus incorporate it felf,’ and operate in raifing up the languifhing powers of Nature, or elfe he is not fit. te be called a Dottor, The old. Phyfier-Mongers tell us, that - Mallowsand Mar{b-Mallows (which differ but very - little in their Qualities) being varioufly applied, will cure near Fifty Difeafes and Defeéts of Na- ‘tiire,” which are generated and do proceed from as varions Caufés, and as different Matters, Seeds, us Radixes ;* but how unlikely, improbable, Ne impofhible it is; that one Herb fhould effect ‘ee many difagreeing, Cures, let Reafon and Ex-. perienee judge ¢ “Infinite almoft is the. variety of | Conttitutions, ‘whence’ the fame Intemperances, that will load one man with fat and phjegmy, grofs moift Humours, occafing various Dropfical. Die, a in another ‘produce Leanne(s and. | Confamption, . tong Lifeanddappitets, Sa . €onfumption: Much drinking of Wine and S {trong Liquors puffs up fome Bodies, and wears. away others... And the fame is to be underftood of all things in the Vegitable, Animal and Minerd K ngdoms,; therefore there is an abfolute neceflity to ftudy to know the Properties and Qualities of a mans own individual and fpecifick Nature and _ Complexion, and not relie upon.and truft.to the adulterated, Midicings and fantaftique Direftions of ignorant. Phyfirrans, there being nothing that brings fo, many’ both natural and divine Benefits -untoa man, as the true knowledge.of himfelf; and is yet the leaft minded of any thing in this World.... What painsand flavery do: Youth una- dergo to learn a few’ ftrange words,» be able to tellthe Name/of-athing in Latiz and Greek, or _ three or four Languages, and when all’s done, __ they know not one Tittle more of the Effence,: _ Nature, or Ufe of the thing, than if they had , eile it in plain Englifh as their Grasszum does’?. What Drudgery do they fubmit unto, to learn fome ordinary mechanick Trade (which yet in general. are more laudable by half, becaufé more ufeful than many of thofe Crafts which. . idlé men call Sceaces) others run all forts of hazards; the Scorchings of the Trophieks,or the Ice of the Northern Pole cannot affright them; they'l venture: into new Worlds,and become acquainted with Scars that never peep’d into our Hemsi/phere, ° only to get a little ufelets uncertain perifhing, and many times harmeful-and deftructive Riches ; Ware Ga OH eee i a eV we Va hey'l be acquainted at Fava and“fapia, the Streights. of Gzbaltore, and the Bay of Mexico ; _ butall the while are meer ftrangers‘at home, to underftand their own Conftitution, to know _ what is good and proftable for the Conférvation of .their being, how to’ preferve their Body in _ Pealth and :therr Mind in Serenity, tomake — their Lives: truly comfertable} and their Deaths happy; ‘thefe are things that {carce any man ftudies: for or labours: after)» Greedy-we are to a [ amals White and: Yel/ow:Dirt; and filkour-Houfes with that: Lumber, whieh: fillily we all Goods, but: iis pith thetrue Kpowledge of God and — Nature ia aMan's Self, which does farnifh one with ‘all’kind::of profitable and “permanent _ Riches, Pleafures:ind: Delights, “both of Time and Etetiity;,and which: yer are fo'ealié to’ be \equired,-as we need not‘fervean hard Aprentice- hip, or hazarding our Health or Lifetby Sea or ‘anditacbtaiiitie.s 25 fblgncl a Bae Se «But the Minds of 'Peopleiare fetswholly upon outward Trumpery, admirenothing but Shews, and Titles, and Vanity, Money and Babylonifh: gS THe BAP to Health, ok > Learning are their Idols. fa Fantaftieal Blade’ in-a Velvet Jacket tellsthe People that-one Herb” will curean hundred various Diféafesih as many | particular People of contrary Complexions and Natures, .(theugh he himfelf with that Herb or’ any-Other, cannot :cure.one of thems) onif he’ bids:then jumble an hundred things together, moft of them. being of contrary Qualities, he Bee heieia Money by hisPrattice; Wil you queftie on fuch a BOCe 2s 7 0% and xb ‘580 — ERe uvap to Beatty) and Life af Pete whethet divine or natural. ‘Ifaman could name any particular Herb or Dif. -eafe'in an hundred feveral Languages, what would this. better him, as to the ‘inward’ Virtue | of that: Her by“or the: ‘Natare’and*Cure of that Difeafe ? “Al Languages? are but one inthe Root, and therefore’ to’ fpeak with’ feveral Torigues bas never been known to make arty’ man wife, where : KK FL a ‘good natural Genixe is wanting. — But unto the: Study and: Kno wieds e of God and ‘his divine Principle» of Love’ and Light, I recoitimend all the: Lover's-of Wifdoem, a, m, ‘which i is. fifficient to teach them -all things'div ine and. nas tural, and to heal all’ their Difea {es 3’: fo faith the: Kingly Prophet “David, Pfal. 167. Boy The Lord fent his Word and: poéled them, and ‘dilivered thens frons Defleadtion, © “Arid again, “Pals riko) vi tryed unto. theiLord, andhe healed we: So Gels 20. 1-7: Abrahams: prayed ‘wato the Lordj'an Heated Abimilech: ‘andic his® Wife: AHO? Bp ofes cryed unto the: Lord that he»would heal’ Miriam. of her Leprofie;: aud the Lordcommanded, that - fhefbould be: {hat of the Carin feven days: chile then: fhe was received .in‘again whole, Numb aSe x « And Deut. ‘32. 292: God tpeaks: thus, See wow, T,. even Lamhe, and there'is noGod with meyo1 bith, aed L. make alive; t. wound. aad heal spktaber igh , there’ any’ thapcam dehiwverout of my ia And . Mats10. 18 Chritt: gives his Servants’. “pewer t62.- ; heal the fick, is the Leaporsand raife the dead. laa word, Mul utudes of im we: ‘have i iS : ~ the | | ie at ONE oe | long Wife and Mappinets. = 581 the Scriptures of ‘Truth, that all the Prophets and — holy men of God, who were guided and direCted. by his Spirit of Wifdom in all their Troubles, “whether they were Difeafes of the Body or the . . Mind, always made t'ieir Application urito the ‘Lord, and ‘he healed them, and taught thém | ‘what means to ufe, that always proved effeCtual, though feeming never fo mean and fimple. Thereforelet every one addrefs to this grand Phy- fitian, whofe Arm is not fhortned, nor his Mercy and Goodnefs diminifhed. But if men will give themfelves up to the Spirit of Error, Ignorance -and Bdizdnefs, and live in ‘all Istemperance, Glut- tony and Superfiuity, which brings on them a mul- fitude of Difeafes, and then enquire and run after the falfe Prophets and Necromancers , _ whofe practice is meerly for Money, Honour, Pride and Eftimation, ftudying how to deceive the People by canting Words, plufh Coats, gnilded Coaches, great Houfes, ec. which do amufe the Rabble, and make them have great Thoughts of them, tho -moft that have tryed their Medicives might know that they are worfe than the Difeafes they are prefcribed againft: I fay, if you follow thefe Courfes, *tisno wonder if your Lives become _burdenfom unto you, and complicated Difeafes . torment you, andan untimely Death cut you off. For you may take a Cart load of grofs unfepara- ted Herbs ard Futces, as our Phyfitians ule, with a Tunof their fick Decoctions, and a whole Apo- thecartes Shop cf their confufed Compofitions, and , : be — ee WS » . a a ees | 4, ao | % , ad Vox ; zs Ary y : 7 iS | ~ p]28s he noab to heath ao | o. {be further off from a Cure than at firft.. ‘There- | & Mote the fafeft Courfé T can dirett my fellow. oer: } Mortals, as, Lo fear the Lord, live fober and tem- ; "porate, bosh in the Quantity and Quality of Meats, ¢ \ _Drioks and Imployments. And if Difeafes doat any. _ “time invade the body by any,Accidents,or through ‘the Male-Configurations of the Cou/feHations, or. ‘the like, then humbly to apply . themfelves by, Prayer tothe Lord, and to the Oracle of God in. a mans felf; and then, as the Mother of our, ‘Lord {aid unto the Servants that waited at the ‘Marriage where he wrought his firft Miracle, Whatever he. bids you do, that do ye; that is,, whatfoever thedivine Light or holy Spirit of the Lord direGs youto, or bids you do, that be you i fure,in all particularstoobferve. Forthe Rea/on,. Wit, Skill, and. all Kzowledge. of the. outward, ian ought te be as Waiters, Texders or Servitors f0 execute and obey the Commands of the Spirit. Bede: , Men ought toftand ftill from Rea-. ‘Oning and Imaginations, and wait at the Altar of the Lord, and hear what he will teach, which. DireGtions man ought. to follow, and to a& as, _ this blefled Light and fricndly Principle of God: does excite him 3 for in its power and virtue cone, fits the right Cure of Body and Sox, and in it is ¥ fafeto move and abide ;. Amen. e : wi P Pe ee + # Lee <5 ie We. sais at * e, i er “k , Me \ . * as + - : * = t Saal @ , , baie 2 cath eo tel yi , oy < e aon RE e . ih : o f 2 rm & yt aes + - ss aa : . Ea a ih oe 7 foe om : : / ere new. ' Weng atite ann Bappinets. 55 3 figs ie eet > . CHA Be. SV Theos: : Of BUGS, and from What Matter and Aliment they do proceed, and how to | prevent their Generation. ~ Of the exe ~cellency of clean fwees Beds, and pernis —cioulnefs of old ftinking Feather-Beds; te Allo, feveral Receipts how to kill Bugs, and Fiess, rNLeannefS in Houfes, efpecially in Beds, isa XJ Breat Preferver of Health. Now Beds for the moft part ftand in Corners of Chambers, and ‘being ponderous clofe Subftances, the refrefh- ing Influences of the Air have no power to pene- _ trate or deftroy the grofs Humidity that all fuck Places contraét, where the Air hath not its free egrefs and regrefs. In thefe Shady dull Places Beds are coatinued for many Years, and hardly fee the Sun or Elements. Befides, Beds fuck in and receive all forts of pernicious Excrements that are breathed forth by the Sweating of varie. cus forts of People, which have Leprous and Languifhing Difeafes, which lie and die on, them: The Beds, T fay, receive'all thefe feveral | Wapours and Spirits, and the fame Beds are often. — continued - H\ Ng : wae i, i . ; RN Saree . | ge rye toate wealth, li continued for’ feveral Generations, without — _ «Changing the Feathers, until the Ticks berottén. ‘Befides, we have many FeathersthatareImpor- ~ + ted from feverakCountriés;*whith.are the Dri- — | _-- vings of old Beds, the Uncleanne{s whereof is not i= confider’d. '\As'to the Nature of Feathers, they = are of a ftrong hot-fulfom Quality ; forFowds, of all Creatures, are for the moft part the hotteft ; and’ their Feathers contain the fame Nature: . ‘Fhiereforethe conftant lying on foftPeather-beds, — does: not oily over-heat the Back and Reins, weakening-the Joynts and Nerves; buttheyhave - power alfo not only to.receive but retain all evil Vapours and Excrements that proceed from, and are breathed forth by various Difeafed Peoples. Hetice it comes to pais, that fundry Diftempers are’ transferred from one to another, by lying upon or in fuch Beds, which Diftempers do fecret- ly" fteal’on a Man by fdegrees, fo thathe cannot. imagine whence the diforder proceeds,or what _ the°Caufe thereof fhould be. But I would nor _ have'the. Reader’ miftake me; all People are not .. lubje@ to get Difeafes this way: There arefome whofe Conftitutions are ftrong, and their Natural. Heat‘and Spirits ‘are. vigorous and lively, by the Power and Vertue whereof they withfrand and. , repel all fuch evil Vapours and Scents as do pro- ceed'from fuch Beds, when a Man is hot and — {wats in them, that they have no power to feife. . the: Spirit : But, on the contrary, when fuch People fhall lie on fuch Beds, WERE Ee ce | Me id wy. 2 : at 1 a — ue eo ee oP i Loe ~ fotg Life and Pappinete. 58 Heatis weak, their Spirits few, and whofe cen= _ ral heat is not able to withftand or repel thofe } Vapours and Scents which fuch Beds fend. forth. | when a maz is hot in them, this lait fort of People - are fubjeCt to receive Injuries, and contra Dil: . - eales ; for thofe evil Vapours do. powerfully penetrate the whole Body ; andif they are not» _ withftood by the central Heat and power of the . Spirits,thenthefe evil Vapours do feize the {pifits, and incorporate themfelves with their likenefles; » _ for every particular thing does fenfibly and powerfully feek out its likenefs, and wherefo- ever it finds ifs fimile, it hath power to ineorpo-_ -syate, and become eflential, ‘Chefe are the chief . Reafons why one man gets Difeafes by lying ‘with difeafed Perfons, and in unclean Beds, and others not: It is a géneral Cuftom, when men go abroad or travel, to defire cleaw Sheets, imagin-= ing them to.be a fufficient Bulwark to defend, them from the pernicious Fumes and Vapours of old ftale Beds; but itistoo fhort. For itis cers tain, that moft or all Beds do perfe@lly ftink, not © | only thofe in Inns and Houfes ofEntertainmenat; = but others; not but that every ones Bed docs {nell indifferent wellto himfeif; but whet he _liesina firange Bed, let a man put his Nofe into the Bed when he is thorowly hot, and hardly any Gemmnon Yault is like ites) °c are. yea el et _. Nowthis fort of uncleannefs, which does pro- . ceed from o/d Beds, is not only the. greateft, but _ alfo the moft injurious to the Health and. Prefer- a ih Mie ee ot : : Gas } x ae " | aid oho Le Rg a ey ae -s Nesees ft a ' , : Rote j ‘ ; : e . Re oh orate Whe noay ne Dealt, Pa vation “of Mankind, and the leaft careis fiken| td 4 prevenvit. © ‘Every: one that can, will have plenti- fil C hanges both of Lisnes and We oolen Garments, — -foriif they have nor, experience does fhew, that * _ the Excréments and Breathings of the body will “generate Verthine : : Alfo,do. not moft Peopletake ¢are that their Eurnitures'are daily brufhed and — : fubbed, and their very Floors wafhed, as though | they were ‘to eat their Food on them ?-But all: 7 “this While. they lie on Beds that ‘have not been © Sn or har dly aired in-feveral. years. Let. adigeuepite Perfon judge which is moft © 'p ‘aafidable and healchtuk: to. ieee clean Floor — -t6 tread on’ ( eels ‘colts: many had days labour _ ¥6 keep fo, and is dirtied ina Momenss time) or “to havea clean {wect Bed tole on?) There isno 7 “comparifon to bemade, the diterencee to great; — Sine one being eff ential either to’health or fi chanel’, ‘ the othieran indierent Bang: Tfthéere was but | the tenth part of the earé taken td’ “keep Béds clean } “and fircet, as there is of Clothing and! Furaiture, then there would be ho Matter forthe g getting of | * Difeafes nor for the senerarion of Bugs -Pwould © ~ have all Hos/ewifes and others,confi der the Rewon. a vof thefe things. Aré ‘not Lice, that croublefom | ermine, bred from the breathings ‘of the body, - ' for walnt of often change botli of. Linnen ond | Wobler? “And willtiot Fleds breed from the: very. Dott 6PChambers where People lie? - Alf, ay. Wooles that hath been wed about Beds, although — “the cold Winter hath deftroyed them, yetif hele. : ae | dong Rite and Wappinels. 587 Clothes lie in any clofe place, where the ir hath ie wotits free egrefs and 'regrefs, thefe very Gar: © ments will generate Fleas the. fummer following ; bucif thefe clothes had never been ufed about - _ Men and Women; they would never have bred |. Fleas; for thereis no matter of Elementin Wool or Cloth for the generation of fueh Creatures; but Wool, Cloth, Furs and Hair are chiefly the Ele- mentof Moths, and fometimes of {mall Worms ; that is; if fuch are kept in places where the tefrefhing influences of theAir have not their free _egrefs; for all fuch places docontract great ftore of Moifture, which when hot weather comes, eaufeth Patrifaction, whence all fuch Vermine do proceed. But if thofe things be in daily ufe, and expofed to the open Element, - they never. breed any Vermine; fo that the generation of thofe things are generally caufed by Accidents ; _mot but that there is matter in the Radixes of fuch things for the generation of fuch Vermin. _ 2. From the pernicious Smells and putrified Vapours that do proceed from o/d Beds, are ge< ferated the Vermin called BUGS, (of which, -_ geither the Antients, nor the Modern Writers of _ this Age, have taken notice) according to the degrees of wacleanne/s, mature of the Excrements, | and the clofene/s of the Places where Beds ftand; |. for fome Peoples Excrements are not fo unclean as others: Alfo, inall clofe places, efpecially in Cities and great Towns, the {pirits and thin vapours of | . the Avr. are fufocated,- which makes the fame erst ob pe PEtbe i at ies ie ings ap to Beatty, esa SO ite alge fptietou and humid, cee pied ; “Putrifaction. Therefore it is ndt to be thought a | ‘general Rule, That. all old Beds [ould breed Bugs, 4 -as fome (who are : ignorant of the operation of | “ nature) will be apt to fay, If one Bed do breed them, 4 “why not all ?'No, itis ‘accordin ‘tothe nature of — “the wncleapne/s, and other accidents that do hap- “pen:. for where, '(as is faid before) the thin pure © ers swith the rere efhing influences of the Suz — “and Elemerits, have their free egrefs and regrefs, val. fach matter is deftroyed, whence fuch Vermin — are ‘produced. ‘The Original of thefe Creatures — called. Bugs, ‘1s. from’ Putrifattion, occafioned by — ang {cents and Vapours, which do proceed | ‘from the bodies and nature of men and women, 1 -and the mixing or ‘incorporating of thefe vapours ~ with moiff arid fulpherous Airs; for where there — ; _/ is no heaf.nor, yplgeli , there canbegin no putri-_ t ‘fattion..- 'Thetefore’all that have’ dttribured the — «generation ‘ofthis Vermin to Wood, as Reifeads, | "and the like, ‘are grofly miftaken in’ the Nabe a “Stions of Nate, “for there is no matter in Wood. US that’ cai aera fuch a Fi ermin, it- being pro- dudive t dnly of chiefly of ‘two Creatures in Exg- “Land, vit Of Wood-Liceand a fmall Worn: Thele OW oak ra ‘ite never’ ‘generated but ‘in places © where the Sa and’ 4ir have: not theit‘free influ- BS “ences, | {o that there is'ftore of humidity contra@- ged" ‘and when theSuh comes to fuich degrees’ of ‘the Zddiack;' this creature is penerated,which is of as different a ‘Nature ftom Bas as ‘weet Wood is Jrcm, be Gin RE A ee ee ek i TOT TRY Pe ROL) Coe wore Vee eS CU he ae : long Lifeand fbappinets. —-*589 } from a Sinking Bed. _Alfo Wood does breed a certain {mall Worm, but never till the Salts'Na= ture and Power is decayed. through length of — time; then the Air enters it, which does pre-_ fently caufe it to contract a humid Quality, from — whence proceeds Purrifaction, whereof-when | the Sun-is powerful, this ‘Worm is bred.” Bue, fo long as Wood continues found, and 1s‘kept dry, the Air having its free Influences on it, I affirm, That no fort of Wood ever breeds any. WEN DS (he a SEO ake 3. There are many alfo that attribute the Ges -neration of this Creature to Hogs Hair,’ which -being mixed with Liwe, and‘ Houfes Plaiftered witht, doesocesfion (fay they) the Generation of — Bugs. Now it is moft certain, that there is no } poffibility in Nature for this Production: For no ‘kind of Hair ever breedsany Living Creature, ex- |. cept it be put intoWater or Mud when the Sun is _ powerful, and then this Creature,thus generated, retains its firft Species, vix. a Hair, with a live _ Head, which was its Element whence it pro- ceeded; but if you take it out of the Water, it prgfently dies: Soalfo it doth when the Suz de. clines in Heat, as moft forts of Vermin that are | bred through Heat and Moifture do. But Hur _ being mixed with Lime,all Matter of Generation — _ isthereby totally deftroyed : ForLime does chiefly “containa harfh, fiery, keen, fharp, corroding Quality ; it is fo fharp, that it does deftroy all _ Life, and is as contrary to it, as Light is to Dee LON PRA aaa | nels 5 a \ { Vig 3 , kes el Niet Bee: ie cS mye noap t to a Bealtl. EN nels ;.. ‘he predominant Quality in it is Lit Salts Nature, from which no Living Creature can be produced, . Befides, if there were never fo much — matter in Hair for the Generation of fuch Ver. min, Lime would deftroy i it; fori in Time there i is ; | only a Salnitral fiery Vertue. ( Me cak Ah the Reafons befote- mentioned tie not 1 | fufficient t to convince the Ignorant of their erro- gcous Opinions in this particular, then I hope : the following one will, which is more familiar toeveryone. It hath never been known, that this troublefom Vermin was ever {een in Ware-— houfes, Kitchins, Parlours, ~Dining-rooms , 5. Ory ‘any places where Beds have never been, exeept “they have by accident been brought into’ fuch Rooms.or Warehoufes, by Furniture’ of Cham- pers that have been troubled with them, though | all fuch Places have the fame Furniture as Cham-— | bers, except Beds. _ i s. From, the fame Subftance or “Matter, whence Bugs are bred, is alfo occafioned the Ge- -heration of many. nalty Difeafes in the Blood ; _ fo that the deftru@tion of the Matter that Breeds) them, is of greater Confequence than moft) Peopleare fenfible of: And if thefe following Rules be obferved, I-dare aflirm, ‘That the Ge- -neration of Bugs will:ceafe, and alfo many 0: her Ht ‘Inconvenien: ies and Diftempers, ‘that are got by this fort of UncleannefS, will be avoided. Firft, You’ are to deftroy all Pre/s- et ‘which ‘fland in Corners of ROU si mad ey a, We pelea * -. jong AiteandBappinets. = 9 sot up with Boards foclofe, that the Air cannot pe- _metrate or dry up and confume the moilt filphe- | rous Vapours that are contracted.» ‘Thefe forts of Beds, that ftand fo, are apt to have them } more thanothers.. Alfo, you are to fer your - other forts of Beds as near as you.can inthe molt | Airy Places of your Rooms, expofing them to the Air the moft part of the day, with your | Chamber-Windows open, that the Air may freely pafs, which isthe moft excellent Element that _ does fweeten all things, and prevents Putrita- &ion. In the Night alfo you ought not'to have your Window Curtains drava, nor your Curtains that are about your Beds; for it hinders the {weet refrefhing Influences of the Air, fo that _ the Air ofall clofe Places becomes of a hot ful. _ pherous: Nature and Operation; the thin pure Vapours, which do wonderfully refrefh Nature, are as it were fuffocated: And this preventing the Influences of the 4/r, is in an efpecial man- ner obfervable, when People are fick, or out of order ; asthough the /weet pleafant Air had been the Caufe of their Difeafe: fuch Rooms being fo _ very clofe, with great Fires inthem, thatifa healthy Perfon do bur continue three or four Hours in them, the fwl/om Steams and thick Va- | pours will much diforder him, and take away the edge of his Appetite: And if fo, what will the Operation be on thofé whofe Spirits are weak. and difordered with Difempers? Wijat is more plea‘an: and healthful than ARO De, 7 good ee Ce ae eee let Cy eaee > Ae bs Lah Uk pie a Cae, TP ee age et is See La Fy hy + ; Bt te > SP, Meet oA 4 Bae Che tay to wealth ae on he a te Shears and comforts ial ac © _ opens the iPaflages of the Joynis and Nerves, 1 - purifies the:Blood, creates’ an Appetite, ingréa q fing Strength. and Vigour : “But, on thé contra- a ty,bor, thick, (ulpherous Airs do not only: obftruc the Pallages of the Spirits, but fuffocate. them, ! ~Joading the Joynts and Nerves with evil Juices; | whereby the Limbs and Members become full of x pain, caufing a general ‘Tendernefs to poltels the’ -,. whole Body,and deftroying the Appetite, andthe — Power of the Digeftive Paeulty in the Stomach: | _ Alfo, do noe all Hoxfes and Places grow mney, and contraét too great ftore of Moiffure, if che 7 Air be any, away prevented by Window-foutters, a | the like, that it cannot have its free egref and "7 regrefs?, Therefore maderate Clothing, ord Beds, q Floufes. shat fiand fo as that the pleafant Briezes of Wind way, air and refrele them, and alfo. Honfes 4 _ thar-ane full of Window;, are to. be be preferr’d: For where the 4x hath not ‘its free Influences, the Spirie becomes dull and heavy, this being — the true Life of the Spirit in every thing, ae 7. Now the certain meaus and way notorily td prevent the generation of this Vermin,but alfo to * -preferve Health and Strength, is Straw, of rather _ Chaff-Beds,with Ticks of C anvasand Quills made of. Wooll or Flocks to lay or. them; which certainly. - is the moft eaiie and pleafant Lodging that can 7 be invented : and a litle Cuftom will make it | appear friendly to Nature, and in every refpeet | far beyond the sone £ cather-beds on which, » when | 4 NT hae bil Vee eee a igi Life and pappinets, — 1 1h OS \ : ¥ y te een eames ’ Bia i a0 Shee a i sik Rg pt ye STD ~ awhen a Man lies down, ‘he finksirito them, as ~ ipto an Hole, wish Banks rifing on each fide of | him} efpesially if two’ lie together; when firft - ‘they go to’ Bed* they hie -clofe, and after a little - ‘time,when they begin tobe hot or {weat,they are - - ‘generally willing to lie alittle further ‘off, that _ they may cool themfelves, but eannot do it with- out ereatdifficulty and trouble, by-réafow of the ~ | foftnefs of the Bed, and thofe Banks that rife on "each fide: ” Befides, fuch © foft “Feather-Beds ‘do _- Over-heat the Reins and ‘Back, ‘making ‘all the _ ‘Parts ‘tender, and caufing Sweating ‘and: many _ “other Inconveniencies to attend the Bodyy 1 Fea. | “ther-Beds alfo are nothing {0 eafie'as Quilts; after “alittle time being accuftomed tothemp they are sf | alfo extreantfulfom, and by their‘Heat-theydo => |, ‘powerfully dry up the Radical Moifture caufing = ‘a general Faintsnefi to attend the whole Body. But on the contrary, bard, even Beds, that lic/mooth, ‘are ‘not only eae through cuftom, ‘as is menti- ‘oned before, but a Man may turn freely, both. fleepingand waking: They harden ard firenethem _ ‘the whole Body, efpecially the Back and Reéas, 1 make the Nerves and Stxews /trong, preventing Ci _ ‘the ~ zvemoderate Evacuations by Sweating, and . fj __ ‘keeping the Body in a temperate Heat. Befides, > Ff fuch Bedsmay be oftenchanged with but little § = if . ‘Trouble, and lefs Coft; they fend forth no ftink- _ -ing Bumesor Steams, as Feather-beds do; but are fweat andelean. Certainly aothing is more Sa Gees _ healthy, Ta ‘ 2 aK 7 oh Seay es , ee Wl vip e ‘ a roe ‘ea aunt : wef eat a q 7 ® ¥ + | ‘ : iy ee’ iy A 495 ~.ti(i“e OHewap to health, = healthy, next to Temperance in Meatand Drink, © ‘thanslepa dard Beds, ia.) eee, ee Bec All forts of Beds, efpesially Feather-beds, ought -to be changed, driven or wafhed, at the | deaft-three.or four times in a Year; or elfé itis — @ impoffible to keep them {weet and elean, and to — Q prevent the Generation of Vermin, or the other every oneicondemn a'Man, ifhe fhould wear a’ Shirfa Year, and liein.one pair of Sheets feven. — ——- Xears? Which ifany fhould do, it would not . © - {fo muchendanger his Health, nor bring half the _ In@onveniencies.on.his Body, as old fPinking Fea- _ ther-beds.dos. which. poffibly ftunk before ever they were lain on, ‘by,reafon_ of the fulfom Ex- RY crements that the Quills, of the Feathers contain. Alfo Beathers docertainly contain an unclean putrified Matter, that hatha nearaffinity with ' the Nature .of Bags ;.and therefore .Feather-beds — are more apt to breed them, than Meal or £ioned, Rules be not obferved Ros But if you are agt willing, or fo lowly-minded, as.to have Stram or Chaf-Beds under your. Quilts, then you may} have Flock-Beds, with Canvas-Fickings, which may be both aired.and wafhed as oiten as you | pleafe, with little Trouble and Charge: If any Shall queftion the Truth of what Ihave alledged concerning Beds, I de “ire they would pleafe but ‘ totry the:Experimeat, by filling a Bed with the — ee Ss SG ic ei A IS IE ag Ni PO ee i cae nl ee ae ee - : Sig Li f{mell very pleafant ;~ and having fo done, det them lieon it halfa Year, inacorner of aRoom, as Beds’ generally ftand, and then {mell coat; and inftead of fending forth a pleafant Scent, as at did at firft, it will fend forth a fs fullor, may Steam or Fume. And if this will do fo, ean {trong Quality ¢ Therefore they have the grea- ‘ter power not only to attraét and fuck into them- | ‘felves the fulfom Excrerents that:are breathed forth of the Body by Sweatings, and the like ;_ _ but they have alfo power to retain fuch evil Ya- pours: and when others cometo lie on them, -andare throughly hort, it awakens thofe perni- cious Steams, which often bring many Incon- veniencies on the body, Befides, it isvery un- | - pleafant to liein fuch Beds; a Man muft always be forced to keep his Nofe above-board. Indeed ‘each Mans own Bed does not ftink or {mell - ftrong to himfelf, becaufe he is accuftomed to it; neither does a Lallow-Chandler {mell thofe horrible Scents and pernicious Fumes that old Tallow | fends forth when it is melted: But let any other things, and it will be very offenfive to him. Even fo it is in all other ftinking Trades, and _ things of this nature: fo that the greateft S/ut in the World does hardly fmell her own Hox/e or Bed ffink : For in Man is contained the true Na- Gggg z ture mat Will Feathers do, that in the Reot of Na “ture ‘are ‘unclean fulfom Excrements, of a hot _ ~Perfon, that isnot aceuftomed toit, be near fuch dong Lite and Bappinets. 594 frelbeft and cleaneft Stray or Chafy which will shee, but they are bred. from the. falfom. Scents’ Amd, 596 i, Abe map te Health, poe Teen ; ture and a of all things, both: of Good and Evil; therefore he is both liable, and alfo apt to receive all Impreffions, and to be, wrought: a on by all things he fhall either: communicate with or joyn himfelf co, whether it be Cleannefs,or the contrary. Alfo by. Meats, Drinks, and Commu. q | pication, all things have power, by aSympathe- | tical Operation, to work on Man, beeaufe heis like unto all, bearing a proportionable Nature unto all things. If People. did undgftand. this, <4 _ they would. prefer Sobriety and Temperance, with Cleanne{s, fax beyond what they do;.and then ‘7 Men would not be fubyeeh to fo many) Disab 4 as now they are... ingee Oh a Qs Heat and Moi ifure ig tas Reot af ‘all hoe faétion ; and therglore Bugs are bred in, Summer: butthey liveall the Wimrery; though they: are MOt - then is troublefom: ‘Tivey harbour;.in Bed. | | se Holes arid H lansing Nistngand breed- -ing as Lite.do in Clothes: »'But all Mea know, | that Wollen: and Linner “are not.thé.Element of | sland Foctraia tate that aré breathed,forth from the Se ~The very. dane, een bats) fee a and igh $4: : fom iitinking Creature cu a, Bey tg ae yt 1 4" s Oe m ius os é : ¥ aie 4 | Several rere a ai i lat cia LO BANE fh } 7 Oy vf oe Sir Lites x Pi ge Vs RR % i A ie bk y le," _* if 1 } % Yong Hife and Bappinets. © 579 ° pai : | as ah a 8 me ie hofh BI: fe Several Receipts to deftroy Bugs and Fleas. ‘T) Ake a convenient quantity of unflaked Lime , _ *~ and put it into fome Water, and let it ftand - _- three or four days, then pour off your Water, and add to it a quantity of common Salt, more or lefs as you think good, (but the ftronger the Water _ | ‘ismade, both of Lime and Salt, the better it will - _. perform the cure;) then take this Liquor and — _ -wafh the Fleor and the fides of the Wall, and the ‘Bedftead yery well two or three timesa week for. | aMoneth or two together, (not forgetting to _ give your Room as much Air as you can, by fet- ting your Windows open moft part of theday) - this’ Liquor will deftypy both Bugs and Fleas, if other Circumftances of good Hos/ewifery and Cleannefs be obferved? 3 ie Another. “ies / “Take Coliquinto Seeds, a fufficient Quantity - » to make Water ftrong, boylthem one quarter of — -anhour in Water,and wath the Walls, Floor and + Bedftead with this Water twoor three times in a week in the hotteft feafon, for a Moneth, or asyoulfee occafion. This will alfo prevens _ the breeding both of Bags and Fleas, [But do not forget to les into your Rooms your friend she - Aird | | Di SMO | lew Another. eee Take Wormwood in its proper feafon, ‘dry it “according to our directions, and flip it from the bE | | ftalkes, 598 ) Chenoay to Dealt ¢ ads | eT a Coe a} sae nee, A, SR a ee ee ee Rg ee oe nae x" ae I is eta eb 1 teas lee a) lg AUR elie Rare Wg Sih, ’ ¥ t .. } Z i: N ‘a voy + 2 rea? - hy can 4 as ct ihalel tt ae ” tae “t Ba) SU { 2 RRR ioe Vac " Na ele ‘4 * -— ftalks, and put ‘it into white Paper Bags made, ‘flat, and prick Holes in them to let the Fumes _ them under your Bouliter; and alfo under your — bedon the floor, and forne of the fame Worm: — i, whelfom. ‘ A ‘ek eee a ee quantity you pleafe, (the ftronger the better) _ then wath the fides of the Walls; Bloor and Bed-' : _ftead with this Water two or three times a week, | Pe eh oe TY eet) Ga “*» » Take the Rinds or outfides of green Wall-nuts, - obruife them'and fteep themin; Water threeor four days, and wath your Rooms and Bedftead with “ittwo onthree. times a week, and itiwaill werk prthedarne effetti ys pf hols, Satay cn oe % Take ermwood a nd Mu ftard-Seed bruifed, boy! them in Water a quarter of an hour, thenadd ~bedf{tead. with it, which» will prevent the } » Beneration: Of all kinds of Vermain, if the {weet fumes and {cents of this Herb doth not only pre-- _ Vent the generation ofall kinds of Vermiz,. but it, | makes the Air of fucly Rooms,, where: it hes, out, and put fome of thefe bags between your: Bed and the Sacking,Mats or Boards, and fome of — wood loofe on the Tefter of your Bed. Tha. | st a j _ Take Wortavood and. Rue, a good quantity, - boyl them aquarter of an hourin Water, then take Common Salt andadd toéthis Water what 4 and it will kill both Bags and Fleas, _ Anopher. A Fi er Wh . M3 Ps . ; _ os Another. Salt to the Water, and wafh the wall, floor and ’ | ins | . / 2 teos shite and Sappinets. ° ‘hegg | ee caadte of the ‘Sun and Air » be not Pe : vents? me ‘dhe Take the ne of Sope after } you. have Boe Re i Patsing and boyl Onions init, then add a little Salt to it, and wafh your Room and Aviticns pocht Wea at ; Another. “Take ftrong Vinegar, and mix feare Sante a and fprinkle your Room; this doth not only. _ prevent and kill Bugs and ‘Fleas, buti it is other- | aways wholfom. | ee | Fane ‘Take Brimftane, and burn tt on a Chafing dit _ of Colesin the middle of your Room (but re- member to fhut your, Windows) this de two _ orthree times a week, or as often as you pleafe, the oftner you do it, the fooner the cure will be peering | Another. Take three or four Ounces of Genny Pepper, ‘more’or lefs, burn it on a .Chafing-difh of Coles inthe middle of your.Chamber, fhut your win- _ dows and doors, and go out, or-elfe it will _ *ferve you as it will the Bugs and Fleas.. Ifyou -dothis two or three times a week fora Moneth _ -Or two inthe hot Seafons, it willdeftroy all kind Ee _ Vermini in the bud. bx Another. To Conichydes there is nothing better to pre- ‘vent the generation of Bags and Fkas, and to \ keep your Bed- clothes, and fo let it continue foures five hours, in which ‘time the Excremeitious. Fumes,’ cand ‘grofs- humid Steems, ‘which the body breathed forth ia the foregoing night will is “ B “He Laer abie Pains “id Difealks of the’Teeth. oe Bais areas ee baa a “ ee yeh cae oe ee keep your bed {weet, than every Morning, wii » yourife to fet! opert your: Windows, ‘and lay: Grabbit by: the help of the Air; this.j IS avery good way to keep the bed fweet, and to prevent: the breeding of Vermin, it being impoflible for 7 any to keepttheir bed fweet, if ea set ne sik | uF ig —— eis Rule. See aaa i baaee Pap lake ae nS 2 Dee Gay tye i, 3 weil as 2 ae f ’ ai Ret ees 4 AY CHAP. xvi of he ss age C A thot ‘ere of che Pain dt ae Tuth, _ fhewing from what: Canfe jt doés. ~~ chiefly PrQcteie: and sae Prevent Celt. aa Me a) anes Se a aad gey ea “ ie Py ce a mt. Wi Ae _'do chiefly proceed from two. Caufes: The liners is from/certain filthy phlegmy Matter which ‘the Stomach and Veflels do continually breathe and’ fend’ forth, which does lodge or center in “the Mouth, efpecially. between. thei Teeth, and on the Gums; and fome People tiaving- foules Stomachs than others,.fiich do breathe forth very | 4 ov eae, pulceny Bia nc gore Lai ee} ing Knee 4s a ee Rat ones ‘tt tn = - gontinual. cle =, _ ff. pent Ree gee 5 a a tes a i rh aa < - is ; . % wd erase ae forig wife and Pappiucts. ox ok See oe ee We, hee mee: ih opts oh " Cae the is ain, but caules thé Teeth fe and rotten: And for want of - to become jloofe and rotten.:. Ot want of wal cleanfing and wathing. thofe Breath. ings and,, this .phleginy- Matcer turns ‘ro Putri. fadtion, “which, does, eat. away, the Gums,’. a5 oa % i { PF Sea AF iallg al | Se SOS ead be KP Lea ae ” DA Sapte Oe ve though Worms had eaten them: ‘And this De-_ fect is generally attributed to the Difeate called f ; te Pe tina } at al oy a 8 aN ee ey 4 4 rm eR ah the. Scaraey;, but it i8.a.miftake: the Caufe is chiefly, as is mentioned before, from the Sto- ) mach, or for,want of Cleanfings. 2. "This Diftesiper of the Teeth and’ Gum does alfo proceed from the various forts of Meats and Drinks, and imore efpecially from the contiaual eating of Flefh, Fith, and fat fweet. w things, compounded Of various Ingredients of difagreeing Natures, which do not only ob. ftrruét the Stomach, but fur amd foul the Mouth, part thereof remaining upon the Gurhs, and between the Teeth, For all fueh things do quiekly turhnto Putrifaction, which does:by de- | Brees corrupt both the Teeth and Gums... Be- fides, our Beds take up near half the time of our Lives, which time the Body is not only without motion, but the Bed and Coveririgs do keep it — much hotter than the Day-garinents,” efpecially of thofe thar draw the Curtains of their. Win- dows and Beds {fo clofé, that the pure Spirits and thin refrefhing Vapours of the Air aré hindred of having their. free ecrefs and reerels,, which: oes dull and flatten the AGtion of the Stomach: erefore the Night does foul tlie Mouth moré ie 602 ChewaptoBealth, | —-thanthe Day, furrfng is with a grofs flimy Mat- 7 ‘ter, efpecially thofe that have foul Stomachs, © andare in Years; for. whatfoever are the dif- ~ orders ofthe Body, the Mouth does always par: | ‘take of them, which ought to be cleanféd every © | Morning. oa PRP Te Rte nite j “hd aN q ~ gdtisto be noted, That moft People do alfoat- tribute the Difeafes of the Teeth to Colds, Rhumes, ‘and other outward Accidents. It is true,outward © Accidents will further this Difeafe, but then © there muft be Matter before-hand, otherwife | - outward Colds can have no power to caufe this © Pain. The fame is to be underftood in all Stop- © pages of the Breajt, and other ObftruGtions, as Coughs, and the like. For, ifany Part be ob- © Ttruéted, or there be Matter for Diftemper, then, © onevery {mall occafion ofoutward Colds, or the 7 like Accidents, Nature complains, If your Teeth and Gums be found, and free from this Mat- | ter, take what Colds you will, and your Teeth © will never complain, as daily Experience doth | fhew. — For all outward Colds, and other Acei- | dents of the like nature, have no power to feize | any part. of the Body, exceps firft there be fome inward Defect or Infirmity ¢ Suppofe the Teeth be _ defective, then the Difeafe falls on that Part ; or — ifitbe the Head, Eyes, Breaft, Back, or any other’ Part or Member of. the Body, that is ob« - ftruéted, the Evil is felt in that parts Theres fore if the. Mouth be kept clean by continual: Wafbings, it will prevent all Matter _ Putre ee | actoon » s r* ‘ - . ” 4 Bo A ’ ‘ ‘ H ‘ ees “tong as and Savvinete. 603 ; fattion'; and then Colds, and the like clbeis: ~ Gwill have ‘no: power to “feize this Part, or caufe this terrible Pain. Even {0 i itis in all other Parts of the Body. hy Ae! ‘There’ are e many various things, of divers i Avasare< prefcribed by Phyficians, and others, - as Wafhes, &c." to preferve the Teeth and Gums ; but moft of them, ‘if not all, to little or Peer purpole, as daily Experience - teaches : For, ) all high,’ fharp Salts, and things of a four or” ‘keen’ Nature, do rather caufe thé Teeth to pe- ‘gif, than the contrary; as do all hot ‘Spirits, be they what they will: “Many have’ deftroyed _ their Teeth by the frequent ufe of fuch things, andit hath hardly ever been known that any. fach things have ever cured or prevented the aking Pains of the Teeth, but Water only. ‘Many: Examples T could mention to demon- ftrate this; but too tedious for this place’ _ §. The “be, most fure, and. never failing way. OV oo. the Difeafes and Pains in the Teeth Gums, is every Morning #6 mafb your Mouth | igh: at the leaf ten. or twelve Mouthfuls of pare Water, cold from | the Spring or River, gently rub- | bing your Mouth with your Bee or 4 Cloth, and fo again after Dinner or Su ae _fvvallowing down a — Mouthful of Water ‘after eac bing * There be- ing no fort of Liquor in ie" World fo pure and. 4) clean as Water; and nothing“doth cleanfé and ® free the Teeth and Gums from ‘that’ foul Matter. 5 | which does eh from the Breathings and Bi 20TTs Aivhh 2 a . 7 a in a ee Ss ss Anal ye Pe be ee i rn y oar ee way, to speaiti ca Purgings of the Stomach;,. and from, the: sig forts of Food, fo well: as Water: "The. ule o other, Wafhes is to little or no parpofe; but. - whofoever do conftantly wafh their., Mouthes -with Water, as is before mentioned, . fhall find an. effential Remedy. . All hard. Rubbing and Picking -of the Teeth ought by any means to be — avoided; for that is injurious to. them. _ And whenfoever.you find your Mouth foul, - OF fabs jet-tobe flimy,as fometimes it will more :than at _others,according to the good or evil ftate of the Stomach; though it be. not. after eating ; at, all . fuga stimes.-you ought. to. .wafh your Mouth, _‘This'Ralgall Mothers.and.Nurfes ought to obs ferve,. wafhing the Mouths of theit Children two or three times a,day.;, and alfo to canfe their Children,to fwallow down alittle. Water, which | will. be very tefrefhing'to their Stomachs: For ~ Milk does naturally foul.and fur the Mouth and’ “Teeth, and if. they. be not kept clean. by conti- nual wafhing,.. it caufes. the Breeding. of Chile drens ‘Teeth to. be more. painful tethemi.) .6..To keep, your ‘Teeth. white, one. of the bef, things i is.a piece of a. Chiva Difh, or a’ piece ofa. fine Detch Karthen Dith, made Anto fine Powder, and the Teeth.rubbed. with it. ~~ . Few there be that: nadetne: or cone den’ the exce llent Vertues‘of Water, “it being an Ele: acent ofa gnild:and cleanfing Nature and Ope; rations friendly unto. all things, and of Dniverfal Ule: hy due pecanies it 1s fo common, and fo eafily br e aie f procured; | song alite and appinets. = 505 | srocured, Tam. afraid that many P eople willbe | ike Naaman the Syrias, when the Prophet Ezjbz _ advifed him to. wah feven times iw the River of — Jordan to cure his Leprofie sit being the Ignorance _ and Folly of moft People, to admire thofe things | they do not know, and, on the other fide, to” _ defpife and trample under foot thofe Things and |) Myfteries they do know; which the Learned ia | all Ages have.taken notice of: For, {hould fome | People know what Apothecarzes and. others give | them, they would defp:fe the Phyfick, and have but lietlerefpect fortheir Doftor. 2 es All Houfewifes do know, ‘that no fort of Li- } ‘quor, be it what) ie will,.:wall cleanfe-and {wee. -ten theit Veflels, .but only Water; allcother ~ Liquors leaving a fower: ftinking Quality. be- hind them, which wilk quickly caufe Putrifa@y- jon: But Waterin its own aatureis.clean and pure, not enly for all Ules in Houlewifery, and | the Prefervation of Health; but the Saints:and | Holy Men of God have highly efteemed this Ele- | ment, by ufing it in the exteriour Acts of Diving Worfhip, as having a Simile: with theEtefnal | Water of Life, that does puriile and cleantfe the i] aa |i } 4 COAP, a th Si. A “CHAR. xi | ae Of Marriage, and 1 the Iaconveneacie of “unequal, Matches. Batata Cie ites main Scope Oe this. lhe Tresifei is fled to fer before my Fellow-Mertals the means and. cow fes whereby they may obtain Healeh bath of the Body and Mind, and [bev them from whence the Erievous ‘Difeafes Of the one, andt tormenting Paffions ve oe C ee * bei tay ae Foe tia a9 “wilt: “ag . Gea. eye sage to seit! + oe : : Marriages: do alfo contradict the: ‘w hole saa : sand progrefs.of Nature,. and feems tO via [ wall things with a Period; and hereb uy an fhews | Ainafelf, an hundred-fold worfe and’ tote .< f ved than-the bafeft and moft Savageft ‘o Bealts, who will neither touch ‘their. Fate when | ~ they are wath young, nor after they are old, and” “ypalt, breeding: ‘Whieh. might ‘be an Exain le | -unto fus, af, Pride, * devilifh Lufts’ and*In- 4 stemperances.did not poflefs Peoples. Sotils: ie ‘ » Creatures inthis World, even the very Vegitabl es ‘do: ftrive with highelt, diligence t6. prodyce : its feed ,. wherein is ‘contained alt the | Pro- 7 ; perties, of the: Body, Daa ‘thie old body © -dyeth., ‘This. is: the. Bond of “Nature , | - which. prelésyes all. things, and all. Creatutés” :do ‘vehemently defire to bring: ‘forth’ their Likeneffes, which Gods Law in Waritte doth by | an inward impvulfe conftrain them untd, ‘and in | -the’ performance thereof all fenfitive. ‘Creatures: have the greateft’ pleafire ‘and= ‘farisaétion: ‘Every Mayand Woman in the, World, except | ‘a fome few, awho have depraved themfetves, has 4 natural defire to.railé up uito- thie elves Pofte- gity; for without ic Nature cannot be fatisfed, | but fomething feems always wanting, ‘they have | “pot dichareed one great end of their Beeing, and | will dye extreamly in the Worldsdebt, how, tich | foever they may be accounted. © ~ A > “When Hews and Old intermarry, here} is an snward; natura and therefore. unappeafable ¢ con- ba ee ihe: H | 1 _ fto the Health; a _. sforifa Young Man-couid attain a Young Virgin _ Lwiththelfame' outward Advantages,oés. Money, __ Honour,fdlenefs, oa.as he can have with an Old hat i ; i] ~ F *wulgar Proverb) appear like az Oxton with a Gray Head and a Green Tail; too pregnant Symptoms ssf | -that they have not forgot their YouthfulVanitiés + and Lufts,. but would fainaét them over again, y _ though Nature refufes them’ the means; their | Minds being asi much: vas-ever inflamed) with fenfual Fires, though their enfeebled Bodies ‘can- “not keep pace with them to bring ‘their léofe ex- travagant Defires into atti: Sach Matches there» aT | | fore Ms fore, however they may be cloaked with the 7) ‘Title of oly Matrimony, aré indeediRapes upon | _Natute, and /fjul Sellies of a debauched Tinagipa- © tion, which alwayes prove very prejudicial to the — Health of the body, and, obftru&’ the wayes of 9 | .Martué and Piety. - Befides, if the Wives of fuchy | "doting old\men happen’ to be ftrong, youthful | and aimable, they aré frequently tempted by © -rude young Gallants, to defile thezr Nuptial Beds, and finding: at home only Dalliance,, (enough to — » Stir up wanton Defires) without Ability to fatisfie 7 - and allay them, they thereupon are too’ often’ | ded away ‘to take wrong meafures abroad, tothe deftruction of their own Souls,’ and many gimes of their Bodies too, tothe grief and difgrace of 7 their too late repining titular Husbands, andthe — difhonour and confusion of Familiés.: Therefore, — if mer; on whom Age hath fnowed her Silver 7 ‘Locks; (which ought to be the Enfigns of Wif- — dom) willenjoy Health, and Strength,and Peace, — and live a-virruous quiet Life, let ‘them: beware of embarquing themfelves in fuch'unfit Mar- | riages, which if they fhall prove tolerable ‘to’ 7 themfelves, as rarely it happens; yet if they have | Children by former Wives, "tis great odds, but it 7 provesia great Mifchief to Them,’ and anocca- — fion of fuch unnatural Heart-burnings and Anni- — | mofities, ‘as every prudent mam would willingly — 3. There are another: fore of Youngffers that are for an equality ia Eftates and pics 1 ; Ing’ . ; ‘ ae ee WO. Voy MOR re ¥ ? et i ee, aks Re eg wage ie Wee ‘ 5 * ) 4 i 7 ety ae a . it 405 -s my a) ‘ a fit for Emperors to get.Princes — ‘upon, ‘fooner ‘than amtongf) the Daughters of ‘Shepherds; sor the unputor’d» Troops of -aipeor Countty-Villiage?.i Did Men live inthe Power » and Operatiomof Gods Laws, and thedictatesof | _ Nathre,* none of themwould delide theSimpli- 7 it mies), SP: ad iy Gracy ees az A 3, 3 Pe eon ae i” Bi Mh f tay ar * ; J 1S. op amg ee ae Ras 20s On MON i Pa CaP ORE Sree ee & 9. 7 oe ' r os 5 . + 4 oa, a + meso eity of Virgins by deceitful Kindneffes, and when they have gotten their lewd. defites: of, them, then leave them, and their own, Off-{pringto beg their’ Bread,'expofed to. fhameand.wanty afid allthe Bvils imaginable}; making nothing. to tut off the Thred of “Love,,.and bury.Affection: ~ through ‘the: power. of their» depraved. Walls 7 " | which oe Jong ca tite i sabanines: sty Gi. | hich is a ibid Nyst and next Door. to Mur- there ; Gey join 7 | The eeathij ig Phekei is cae one Perfo oe an | trandrech that: make his’ or her - dom; ora night Underftaiiding, and to anf{wer “inthe beginning ; but ifaman have but an Eftate, : tough: otherwile never {0 difvafed,’ infirm or unfit, a'l isoverlook’ cand excufed, Money covers all Infirmities; where the heart is degenerated — | from Truthand Virtue, making that ther Maer; which if welleufed would be a good ‘Servant, - molt Reople being {fo blind and flupid, ‘that they - dare not caft their Care and repole their Truft in‘ | him, who by his bountiful divine hand of Pro- } vidence taketh care forall,’ and preferveth all; and from whom every good Gift proceeds, both: | Temporal and Spiritual; this trufting and rely-_ | ing on.the Creature moré than the Creator, is | the greateft- Idolatry, and that which the Lord | abominates;. for a Cur{S does follow all thofe who prefer their Devilith Lufts; and foolifh Paf- | fions, and greedy Defires of Money; before the | good and holy fear of the Lord; and his Inno- | cent Law, Themfelves, Wives and Children be-: ing afflicted with a numberlef$ Number of Di- i feafés and Infirmities; and what Fruit can be — expected from fuch corrupt’ Trees? Whence think ye proceed Leprous Scabby Difcales, - } Joint-evils, and that which they call the Kéags- Evil; wherewith many-Thoufands in this Na- | Kkkk : tion hoice. from Wit - | the’end for which'tli- Lord inftitured: Martiage ae. mo temas all eee ar afflited, as alfo the Gox 7 ee i 618 ie. Hoa’ to » Bealth, .% Youth, | Con/uzsp tions, and other ; inc urable De. : feafes? Are not i or all thefe Evils the effeéts ’ of undue Marriages, Uncleannefles, and Intempe* — | rances - And yet ifa mah. ask: them, h c¢ 4 ~ fueh or fuch a Difeafe, they will confidently y Ane | fwer, We do'nor know, even as it pleafeth Coke oe q know nothing ve have done which fbould occafion i 2 Thus laying the Caufe on the Lord, of all thei dk infirmities arid Evils; never eonfidering that it is ” the Reward of their own Tranfgreffion, andof 4 their own ‘evil. Courfes, which have awakened — ae poy fonous Properties i in the Elements of the Bos - “ ae fourth fort. of Blame-worthy;. are thofe j - who do Marry without any due Confideration of 7 the weight & 1 importance of what they go about; ~ {ure a thing i in which the Happinefs or Mifery ofa mans whole future Life is involved, and | which can be done but Once, fhould be Confident: 7 ed Tnice, before we undertake it: But many: People ate fo Kurried away with the Heat and — Fury of youthful Lutts, Paffion and Wantonnefs, 4 as they mind nothing buta prefent fatisfa€tion — cf their Bruitifh Defires, vainly ase i ning hae they fhall never be otherwife ; butalas! asfoon ~ as thofe fiery Tranfports are ailayed, their Love: | Janguifhes, ‘grows cold and flat; and,thofe very | Embraces wherein they placed their higheft Haps pinefs, become wearifom, naufious, and per-~ 4 Bist aN and then, thefe hotslovers bes. » tome 7 ee ae Ba cite te a a er ee a eae S/F plete We Pins site a ath 5 Happiness. | by a Gothe rude, Sordid, fublore,, bold, Snr and ine eed having no true natural Affection untos nor taking any honeft Care for Wife or Childrens _ but grow diffolure, druwken ind idle; as they Bee: Children! the heat of Drink and. ‘Luft; fo _ they make: not thie leaft:Provifion to. prefetve _ them. - How: many Thoufands of poor Women ahd Children! are more miferable than any Crea« tures on the Harth, if we do but confider. the | - sBlapber: Cold, Difeafes, Gricfs, Vexations and ‘Diftractions, which they endure from! the into- lerable Idlenefs, Debauchery, Crofnefs, or othee ill Carriage, Words and Communications of fome | brutified things; whom. they are obliged. to call - Busbands and Fathers? . .. . The Fear of the Lord being the ee of all Yifdom., both Divine and Humane; onght to be the principal Obje& of every Manand Wo- man’s Thoughts, Words and A@tions, and then — | sf would be taught by the Spirit of Truth, how they may chute ‘unto themf{elves faitable Wives and Husbands ; For Marriage is at it were the Foundation. either. to Virtue or Vice, and : nothing can make a Conjugal Life happy, but. ~ fuitable » Difpofitions aad Virtue, ‘and where their coming together is from a well grounded Love, and natural AffeCtions mutually combined. : to. anf{wer the End of that ftate, that is, to raife up Seed in the fear of the Lord, and then the | - Bileffing. of the moft Highis with and upon them, in all their Affairs; and whether they have mae: Kkkk 3 j Bi \- i or little of the world’s Wealth, they. _-@s knowing: ‘that it isnot’ Riches, but that can make a matried Life pleafan Made eafies 3°. aT sive > SA. A. oo. ‘a wk etm fn nd : r? aR Px Sey ; ip : Teg 8 y ate ee Ft Re oh ge me ae a ae ; - or 4 io ee aif ‘sage Induftry in the Man- and Wife? ‘Equality in ‘Tempers; Years and Virtues meet, it “makes this Society the:moft happy-of ‘allo hers, . ‘there Love coversa multitude of infirmities, “Te doubled, - ope divided, and all Trou mri ? Tis? true, every: ‘Married Eftate ‘ followed 4 “more or lefs with Inconveniences ; for it forceth a manto.appear in the World, and thruft him. fell into Bufinefs, and attend and bow himfelf’ to ) thofe that perhaps he doth:not much ¢are for; or 9 _ ¢efire their company, becaufe they often {pur © “him to Evil, or to do that, which if Intereft «were not at. flake, hhe.w sould. not do ;,.and where there are fix or: fevén more ina) ‘Family, there “will unavoidably. be: committed many Diforders, 7 -fometimes by. Servants, fometimes by Children, and feldom is ic that they are.allin Health long © togethers: «And: if ic. happens that the Wife have © a poodiéfteem of her Do¢torandihis Phyfick,then | ifhe will do aot without his Advice, which’ > proves not only chargable,. but many. times con-) tinues their ilb HabitsofBody, and. this is apt to ~ make men grumble, fretand repine 5 and there- unto the orlier, Crofs-aceidents 0 ofually. attending married Perfons, aséncreafe of Charge, the uns » .certain;Gains, »and. the’ certam» hice e the " accep of Child- vr ae bese and: noife.o! a9 io pce, t SR SOAS IO BI EIRT n i gia, ea leptin a ana adie Tong iis and Pivpinecs,. Wicedc!) “ehilesen, and their Death, the Lamentation’ of. der loving Wite, refufing’ to be. comforted: - r ¢ hildren, becaufe ' they are not;, Orif there be no Chil dren, then the Diftontents “of Seren & Rachel's s Out-cry, Give me Childres;- reife Tdye. All thefe Troubles, Inconveniencts, an many others too tedious ‘to na are 2 pe to hover round the Marriage-Bed ; and therefore - it ought to be well fortified with a fixed ‘and un | alterable Love, founded oa Virtae, Piety ath ~ Fudgment, for want of which, Multitudesof bo: h Sexes as foon as the Hoxey-Moox is paft, and the’ | firft fervous of their Paffion glutted and flipe a- way asa Dream, do become bar thened and un-_ eafie, and fpend: ih vain athouland Wilhes, . Thae they were fingle again, For in trarks Marriage does very rarely anfwer the Ends of thofe that chiefly propofe ela Moxev, or the farisfacti- on of any particular Lj? or Paffon : ; Therefore | wiéne are happy, or can anfwer the End for which Marriage was ordained, but only thofe who chufe their Yoke-fellows in the fear of the Lord, and from a well-campofed Difpofition, and pure natural ens not having an Hye to Money, Honour, Idlenefs, Exnfts, ora ‘petulant abufe of the Creative Power of God ; for. Man is _the Image of God, ald his Son and OFpring, therefore they ought not.to take unto themfelves : Wives of all that they like, as the Sons of God are complained of to have donee Gen. 6. They fam the Daughters of wen ware fair ana they wes auto ie € wes a Se "Che wap to bealth, © | Be ae Aa felucs Wives of all that they J liked; Not wine the q "Lord ed, nor in his fear, but ‘what themfelves Liked; that i 1S, for Luft, Honour, Self-ends, which | “was. all contrary to God’s Law and Command-_ ment; Therefore the Lord was provoked to | ‘ Wrath, and they brought forth Gyants, Mon- ; fters and. FR tOy eS and the Lord cut fhort © their Dayes---My $ pivit foall not abayes firive q with Man, noveribelefs his days foal be « Hundred and 20 Years.’ Here you fee man’s Life was ‘abridged by reafon of their unfit Marriages, and. | the Corruption of their Converfatior, whereby Mankind became corrupted in the very Root, © whence proceeds not only fierce beaftial Inclina- _ tions and Difpofitions, but a great number of — Difeafes which many bring into the World. with 7 them, of which moft areIncurable. 4 % 6. There are but very few Perfons that do e | ~ keepto, or obférve the Rules of Temperance in 4 the ufe of the Marriage-Bed, but are generally — too indulgent and immoderate in the Plea/ures of | Venus, which of all others aré moft inticing, | | and feems n more natural than any other Superflu- © ity ; but it is alfo the moft dangerous both to the. 7 health of the Body and Mind, tor when men give § themfelves up thereunto, ‘it ‘deftroys the vigour of the Wnderftanding, makes the Mind poor, — bafe and effeminate; and as to the Elements of © ~ the Body, it weakens and confumes them, and. by degrees Contraéts fuch Difeafes as ftrike at, and corrupt: the ron Root of Nature ; oes | Z wor d Baers ae PR ASS OMEN Pe RAM ea Oat hiye eo | lang shite a and pRappincts. ey. s) | word, nothing more Us-%205 a man, than shi ; | fort of Intemperance; ‘Therefore the following | Rules and Obfervations will be beneficial to all that fhallobferve them. - | aff,Every oneought to be Temper: te in Meats I and Drinks, and to eat thole aie as are natu- } rally equal in their. parts, and to avoid all rich | Cordial Drinks and Spiced Cormpofitions, {for fuch ‘things over-heat the Blood, and open all the. | Gates of the Vezerial Property, whence proceed } irregular aud vehement {nclinations, which > ought to be avoided : Inftead of, fuch Axcefles, | | you will do well.to entertain proper Labour and Exercife, which will prevent the Generation of | | fuch § oo Matter, and this will be the | more.effectual, if foretimes you will be fo kind, | as by Abftinence,to give Nature time to concoet her Crudities, and Fait ac the ke ait 8 or 10 hours | between your Meals. For in truth, were Peo- | ple but fenfible what Benefits attend moderate _ Fafting, there would not be fo many fecret Glut. tons in the World, and a great part of that De- bauchery, whereby fo many Eftates are fwal. | lowed, fo many Families difhonoured, and {0 | many. perfons Bodies weakened and decayed, would be prevented. | | edly, All young People oughe to refrain the reading the Books of Romances, Plays, Gc. w hole. _ chief fubjectis to treat of wazton Lowe-Sreries, and | alfo to avoid idle Venerial Difcourfes, and Lafciy _ vious Pritares, which do feel and ape r iE } a Oe ee “624 Che waptoWealeyer ftir uparid frengrhen the Veneriul Qualitiesof Nature, and‘caufe Youth to think and dothat - ~ 'yvhich otherwife would never have fallen within ‘their Imagination, andhaving once got poffeffi- on in the Soul, they will foon wholly fubdue and captivate it ; for when once a youngPerfon of | ‘either Sex, has baffled Modefty, the Life-guard of Chaftity , or if once they have fuffered the Fort of their Virginity to be irregularly. ftarmed, though they fhall never fo much repentof, and refolve againft fuch Folly for the future, yet they ’ will find it a very hard Task to obtain the Giit | ~ or Power of Continency again, though they /eek it with Tears, as Efau did his Birth-right. ?Tis ea-/ fier to Prevent than Repext, and not fo hard for thofe who never viblated their Integrity, to pe- 7) tifh therein, as for thofe that have once tran{- 9 -«greffed, to condu& the reft of their Lives accord- @ ing to the Prefcripts of Chafticy and Virtue; for 9 the Jatter, are forthe moft part fubjected by eve- @ ‘ty Snare toall the inferior Powers, and the Va- nities and Wantonnefs of the Fleth, whereby @ - they commit great Out-rages again{t God’s Law 7 ‘in Nature. Add to this, that Lafcéviou/neff does. © much leflen that efteem :which Men ought to’ have for Women, and brings Contempt upon 4! ~ Matrimonial Life, “and withal contra&ts many_ ~Yncurable Difeales, and confumes the outward: 3aly,As the firft Krrors in any kind are general- ly of fatal Coxfequenceo mot Young People zew- 9 “S X tA _ Sh ight Diet tts kere (iY \ ees 2” f Fy fers iy oes vaeae she i AR a Teas i testa 4 bg | Jong Mate and Pappineis. 62g) | mayryed, inconfiderately lay. a Foundation for: | their future Difcontents «and. Miferies, (like ill ’ Horfe-men, ‘they whip and {pur ioat vheir firft | fetting out, that “tis no wonder if they: Tyre be- | fore they arrive at their Journey’s: end»>contra: | ting Surfeits, Gouts, general Wealkmnetles, alt | teration of the Complexion, Confumptions, and | other languifhing Dileales, as may: appear by. | many young Men and Women, efpecially Men, |. who grow Pale, and their Flefh waftes, and § their Joynts grow feeble, and their Nerves |. tremble, and an univerlal Indupofition feizes } and {fpreads it felf through the whole Body ; and then what can be-expetted, but that their Chil- dren fhould become weakly, and fubjeéct to Di- | feafes? Nay, many times for this very Reafon, they are Radically tinttured with Infinitis, and branded with Difeafes even in the very - Womb, and thence by way of Rebousd or. Reta: Jiation variety of Difeafes refult back again to . their Mothers, before they areyetdisburthened, or can imagin from what Caufe thofe Diftur. . bancesarife; Thus many that were brave hea!- thy Virgins seo fooner Married, and become | Child-besrers, bwi they grow weak,. feeble, and - full of Difeafes and Diforders, which is the more ~ remarkable, fince the fame, or the like is not to be inftanced in any other Creature: This fhould teach men to behave themfelves friendly, and with as Even and Plesfant a Temper as poflible ~ they can, to their: young Wives, becaufe no- oh. Pith: Oe thing NE SIR ga Re a Be al 626 | he waptoHealth, — thing does fo much Injury ta Women (efpecial: — ly when Pregnant, or great-with-Child) asa © .. rofS furly Carriage from thofe, from whomthey 7 expect Indulgence and a pleafant Humour: For — Jet us complain never fo much of Shrews and — | Molds, yet 1 muft do Truth that. Juffice, asto — avow, That the Crofse/s and Ib-carriage of the — Wives has not the hundredth part ofthat power - tohurt and wound: the Healths of Men, asthe — nkindnefs and ill deportment of Husbands have — ’ to prejudice the Women; Ror that Sex being of — a weak tender..Nature, their Fires burn but — weak, and their predominant Quality ftands in — the meek Element of Water, fo that every little | Affront from thofe they love, wounds them toa — thevery Heart, and does very oftenawaken,even — the very Central Spirits, whereby Nature is put — into an agonious trembling. condition, whence, | proceed Suffecations of the Spirits, amd Stop. pages of the due Circulations, and thence variety, of Difeafes. de. "Rae ee ee Furthermore, Zfarried habe ought not by _ _ any kindof Arts, of compounding or preparing. 7 of Meats or Drinks, endeavour to heighten and — {train Nature, whereby they may be the. better — able to gratifie their Lufs and extravagant Wan- yonne/s; for all fuch things are an affront toNarure, and force her out of her fimple way ; and though for the prefent, by fuch Arts, the Party feems — wore vigorous, yet he fhall foon find thatthe . iame decays, and renders him much more weak. : Pete. tag q ‘and * 4 ga oa BME ee en ee Lic te ee a eee ere ee ee i i beta vi fs 4 } — long Life and Happinefs. E27. | and impotent than if he had never medled. | with fuch Abominations. Nor ought any to | faffer their Imaginations, Wills or Defires to en- | ter too violently into the Venerial Properties ; for the meepipaion of mankind is fo ftrong and | powerful, that itcan kindle and awaken all the | lewtral Properties, whereby many particular Per- . | fons, though by their Conftitutions, cold and | but weakly, do yet through Imagination and | ftrong Delires ftir'up Nature to a great height, evento the Ruin of their Healths; for Nature | never ought to be fpurred or ftrained, but fuffer- | ed gently to goon in her own Pace, and her own | Way: The lawful ufe of the Marriage-Bed is. | pever hurtful to mature Age, if Nature be not ~ . Stimulated on by fome unnatural Courfe or Su- perfluity, either of Imagination, Meat, Drinks, | Idlenefs, or the like, but rather makes People more lightfom and pleafant, as being a thing - purely Natural; but if raifed, or forced on by Art, then there is no Intemperance or Superiluity _ does fo foon wound the Health, or bring fo many, Seah ’ Poc® by aie \ { i H Inconveniences on both Body and Mind. | athly, The mott proper Age for Mex to Marry at,is from tweaty fix Wears of Age to thirty,or there- abouts, for then Nature has attained to the higheft degree of Maturity, fo that the mcderate ’ ufe of lawful Sheets will not hurt; befides, at _ thofe Years, it is to be fuppofed, Perfons will (if ' ever) be come tofome degrees of D:/cretion, Ux- | derfkanding, Statdnefs and Moderation, to know eee LIT 2 oar”. Cem ) Py OER “chen nea to viyeateyy a their Bikes Oe’ how to behave ‘themfe ives | toe ‘their Wives and Families." There is’ ‘nothing “more Injurious to the Health of the Body, than ‘a too early Acquaintance” “with Venus, or ‘immode- | rate ufe of her in Youth, whilft Nature isa grow- 4 ‘ing, it does in fome Conftitutions weaken the §j _ Spermatick Veffels, and the retentive faculty, fo. that Nature is never ableto out-grow it. For ‘the q Female Sex from eighteen to pwenty fix, ‘is avery — proper time to alter their Condition, and of Vir ‘gins commence Women. *Tis a very ill cuftom People have got to match their Daughters, al. i as foon as they are out of their Hanging. mo Sleeves, and 1 know no excufe for it, but the Lz- sentiouf{ne(s of the Age, which is fuch, that if Pa- | rents do not provide Husbands for their Daugh> | ters at fourteen, they are ready to provide them | themfelves,or do worfe: The Proverb is certainly ‘true, and in more Senfes than one---He that . Wipes a Girl, warrs a Woman; It fpoils their ‘Growth, haftens on Difeafes, caufes ‘a breed of {mall fickly puling Children, makes her a Mi- - ftrefSbefore fhe under ftands her felf, whence ill management of the Family, and forty other : Mifchiefs, too tedious to enumerate. shly, As Nature, Reafon,and the"Law of God require ‘Women to féparate ‘themfelves when — their Uncleannef, or Moncthly Vifits are upon them, (for Conception at fuch times is unnatural, and fails not to intail Leprous and Filthy Difesfes b pn the UREN then begat, as Boils, Botches, Kine Eu e) A-d Gre + © ture does imprefs and reign in eachother, fend" — ing forth Hymas and Hallelujahs, and Everlasting. — Songs of Praifes unto the God of Unity and ~ Order. co Mo. tees Sek bees ae Laftly, Tt is to be noted; that the Lord and: ~ great Creator of all Beeings, has fubieCted all — Creatures unto his unalterable Law. of Nature; — and therefore they keep and obferve.their proper: _ Times and Seafons for, Geweration ,\\ and confes — quently are more healthy. and. found: than Kee ‘ : phe pas * Ee ih i fh is my So long site and b Wabpinets: 63 ra “Wad; but man being made greater than any other Creatire-vifible; viz, God’s Image, and -endued with diviké and humane Wifdom, and . afree uncohtroulable Will) which héecan im- “Omerfe either into Evil or Good; the Lord for this ~seaufe faith, P Aeve fer Life pa Death before you, . ‘ebufe ye. Now mot men inélining to tne Left- | Hlandiway), } are thereby precipitated into all Us- -gleannefs, Unchajtiey and Intemperance, and in all Evil doas much éxceed moft forts of Beafts, as Men dovexcel Beats in Wildom :- for the Lord é@ndued Man with the Spirit of Underftanding, “pyawhich he mixhe be a Guide and Law unto himfelf ; but hie hus degenerated; and witliftood the good counfel of Wifdom, dnd chofen the. Weft- "Hand-way, which leads 1 into all kind of Evil “and Superfluiry ; Whereas if this had act come to pais, but inftead thereof, if mén had chofen the right way, and lived in the Power and Ope- ration of God’s Law, then there would have been no need of a Lays and Magiftrates, but every one would have done what was Right ~ and Juft in the fight of the Lord, frov an innate Power and Virtue in himfelf; and not for fear of external Laws, neither wou Id he have leaned on the Shoulders of the Mudritude, nor complyed avith Tradition and Cuftom, againft the dictates ‘of Nature and Reafon. The Bez/s of the Field being under the driving and impulfe of Gods na- tural Law, they are wholly a€ted by it; fo thar When Nature ftirs and prompts them on, thea OM mmm. ona a 2 al a i a hs - they move, and when, Nature ftands ffill, ‘they the power of his Free-will, always in¢lining to ey \ eR ees oS Maa} * ey r O34 y RRM Gy Webs!) Se ‘ nd , * hy es Uo a ays ae’ SUPE Sy Ce ae paeoms ote Che Wap t ae Pie we coed Wi f eh > are quiet: This is the Way of God, and his un-) _alterable Law in the courfe of natural things ~ but man has fo greatly depraved himfelf throug! Evil, that he forceth Nature out of her fimple }) way, Violating the Law of God, tothe great _ hurt of his Soul and Body. But few there be _ that are fenfible of the fublime Virtues and Bene- fitsthat accompany Sobriety and Chaffity, though’ the Pleafures that attend them are fo many and great, and moft eafily attainable, if we will hearken to the Voice of Wifdom, which is the bef Phyfitian, and the beft Law-giver, and the only Theology; ‘ua word, The opener of all Seals.and Myfteries, both divine and humane, and Happy, yea, © thrice bleffed are all they that ave acquainted with, and ~ Bs obey tt. a | : . oe .* v con we Fe BAe ne gee Ne ba oad a 4 ‘ 5 + NY «3 a asd E m" c ‘/ . f pad fi « fi 7 : he u ' ‘How to Cute | Thorns, and other Accidents, without. ' la Salves,. Cyntments or Plaifters . Alfo, if. | any pare of the Body or Flefh be Poy/on- bed, it isa certain Remedy. ey —Aotig Wifeand Dappinels, = 635. ald eur 24 e oe Sw Pe ye OE & % AG ey » « xX ne : . a 3 V5 Wis? P, ; aw? 1) xy , q : £5 7 ‘ ; Ry ” Tounds, Cuts, Pricks of fi Any Perfons happening to Cat, Or prick. / 4 with Thorus or splinters fome parts of . their Bodies, or being troubled with Rixg-werms, Tettors, Fellozs on their hands or fingers, or with commo# Bruifes, or any the like Accidents, run-. aing prefently to Chyrureions, who for gain put’ them to much pain and mifery, or otherwife tampering therewith, fo far encreafe thofe JZa/2- dies, that many times they grow to Gazgreens and Mortifications, and their Fingers, Arms, Legs aré often forced to be cut off, and not a few have their Lives thereby fhortned: ‘To prevent which — Mifchiefs, I think my felf obliged, in Charity to my Country-men, torecommend to them an eafie ‘yeady courfe of Remedy, without any Charge, by manifold Experience, will not failto heal and care allfuch Defeéts; and let none flight it for its plainnefs and meannels, for all the ways of God Mmmm 2 ah AS ge sy nap t to 0 Beale” a and pare are fo; but the Inventions of a i Mant aregenerally obfeure; fearce,. ear a8 t “4 difficult. VE Ae ‘a bbeat which I advile i is only this; 7 “AS foon as” you have cut or prickt your felf, or perceive any ‘of the before-mentioned AR denes to trouble - you, and ‘that your flefh is envenomed, fuck it with jour Month, and fpurt out what: you draw from it, and continue foto fuck ever now and then; the more conftantly you doit, the fooner the Cure will be effe@ted. Butifthe hurt be reat, J or dangerous, then for the more fpeady andcer- 7 -tain Cure, you ought to put Mik or Milk and \ Sugar in your. Mouth, and fo fuck the part affli- ~ éted, i then {purt iPout and zepeat it feveral — times, and then let it refta while, and afterwards | dothe {ame again ; and if your Wound be great, or the flefh raw, or fome flefh cut off,’ then whert you have done fucking of it one time, in the | interim, till you come to fuck it again, Jaya Poultice of Bread and Milk on the place; and — next timeyou have fucktit, lay frefhon again: — This is a certain Cure, ifyou continue it, and it will perform the work in’a fhorter time than “any Plaiffers, Oyatments, or any fuch things: But — fometimes the Venoms of fuch Sores are fo préear | that it will Tequire a proportionate time, and, if fuch cafes it will be requific to fuck it the oftner, 7 ~ and you need not difpair of healing itto admiratis on. ‘The fameis tobeundeftood of Wens & Moles. fe Sf i 31 Attratiive Hiei fe the Mouth and Stomach an . =" Sed ¥ : OF nad Pe =f et | —- long Life and Bappinels. «637 | Stomach is fo ftrong, that it does by a Tecret | power and vertue draw away the inward poyfon | that is kindled or awakened by fuch Accidents, | and prevents the flux of Haniors ; for when any | part of the Body is hurt’or wounded, the Vio- defies does certainly ftirup or awakem the Jim | turial Poyfons of that part, which donot: only caufe the flefh to burn and heat, ‘but thofe origi _ nal Pyofons do fo violently attra&: matter. unto —themfelves, that the Wound or Hurtwwilb quickly. | fwell and putrifie ; for the Attradive Faculty of | Nature’ ftands in, and hath its power irom the Poyfons of Saturn and Mercury: Now thefe | venomous fpirits that are {fo violently awakened | by the Wound, the conftant fucking with the Mouth does in a fecret and moft hidden, but real and certain way, draw forth from the part affil- Ged, which does not only cool it, but hinder§, and totally prevents the flowing of the Humors, _ from the adjoyning part, and alfo diflodges the | ‘poyfonous matter from that very part, fo thatby this way of Swckizy,the Member,or part wherethe Wound happens, is rather made le{s than bigger ; for that which caufeth any Wound to {well and putritie, is a certain fpirituous Poyion, which . this attrattive Faculty of the Mouth does draw forth, and fpits it away, fo that then the feih ~ will not heat, {well nor purtifie. For the fame -Reafons, Dogs, and fome orher Creatures do cer- tainly eure any Wound they: receive, or other Accident of like Nature, by their cowtiaual Lick- 2” 18 id a) 2 Eo er ¢ a Aaa Yar x a9 ‘ E 2 anaes Le, BA eee. ae 2 A eee ee ee ie ae cae Fe dian iy ES Bis) eee * : : ea aS PIL a, Che way to Bealthy = SS (eis tae : = > A oe Ae sb 43 Ai a af es v a . . ul ASGSMAS. f+ 5 beer ing of their hurts; for when thofe hot: Venoms — _areremoved, Nature needs no other Remedy, | but can help her {elf by her innate power. There: fore in mannaging the Cure of all. Hurts or Wounds, the Artists chief work fhould be tq — allay or draw forth thofe original ER RAPES 4 fulpherous Spirits, that are fo violent ia their — operation, that they caufe that part to burn, — {well, and rage with great extreamity of Pain. — For when, in any part of the Body the pureeffen- — tial Spirits and balfamick Virtues are wounded, © _or hurt by any kind of Violence, prefently the — original or fierce brimfteny Spirits are awak- — ned, and then they appear in theirown Form, © whieh fo long asthe pure Spiritsand balfamick — _ Oyl remained entire, were hid, or rather mode- 7 rated and Burned gently and friendly, and gave — Life and motion to Nature, butas fonn as the © pure Oyl and Spirits are wounded, theaforefaid ¥ latent fierce Spirits break forth, and fhewthem. 7 felves, and become of a. furious Nature and’ ¥ Operation. ee ‘The very fameis to be underftood in the Vege. table Kingdom ; if you deftroy the pureSpiritsand fweet Oyl, or balfamick Vertues, inany thing § then the original Forms of Saturzand Marsap- — pear, as'is manifett in Charcoal and Brandy. For — all things, both Vegetables, Asimalsand J vnerals | have but one only ground and foundation, and — he that underftands one, by the fame Spirit may | {ee into the Grounds and-Reafons of "them all; — | hay 2 i Salat q ne Ge Pe ee ay - 5 ae UN ate I fog Wife and Happinets. and Diftempers in the body is from the fame the pure: natural Spirits and {weet Oyl in the body fuffers Violence, be it in what part of the body it will, then: prefently the Poyfons in that | part are ftirred up, and then there is pain felt there, and thence follow thofe terrible Feavers and Difeafes that deftroy Life ina moment. ~ Bruife or Sore, green or old, the poyfonful Spi- xits which caufe Patz and Swelling, but by aiie- -eret Balfamick Virtue heal fuch Muts: »Bat» where the ert is full of Matter, and fubjétt to | Putrify, then it will be convenient to put the Juice of Limes, Lemmons, or {ome fuch keen | fharp Juices into your Mouth, and fo fuck-your Mound, and f{purt it out, and-then take more into your Mouth feveral times, for feveral, days | fogerher and not be weary ina day a5 fome are ;_ for. Nature cannot deftroy thofe kindled: Poyfons inan inftant, but it will certainly do stim a Shorter time, than cither Sa/ves, Plaifters or Oyat- Night and the Day. - ee | intg fuch ill Accidents, asCuts, Pricks, Thorns, Splinters, | 639 | may, the chief caufe and foundation of all Difeafes ground; for when by Accidents or Intemperance _ ments, viz. intwo, three, orfourdays, moftor- _-dinary Hurts willbe cured, if you apply your Mouth tothe fucking of it often, bothin the And therefore 1 commend this way of ‘Cure, . elpecially to the Country-People, who often fall — 1 4 |. The Mouth and Attractive Faculty of the Sto- wash does not only draw torth of the d¥owd, you may get fome Body elfeto doit. “Alfo, itis: convenient that all Wounds, Pricks or Cuts, when me ~ -pafs away, and then’ the Cure Is effe€ted much © -. Fowls or Fish, asare killed to‘be eaten, ifthey 640 Whe Way to Health > Splinters} Bruifes, andthe like, which often coft | them dear, viz. the lofSof an Hand’or a Leg? Nay, many times in finall Awres in the Flefh, ‘relying upon other unskilful People, many have not only loft their Limbs, but ‘their Lives: But ~ fuch as fhall:ufe the means before-mentioned, fot any Suffocation of the pure Volatile Spirits, | -or atleaft wife, not in that degree, as when it that are ftrangled in their Blood; as‘many Land- | . Creatures are commonly, and Fi/b in gerieral, _ which is Uncleannefs in the -highe? Degree,’ ad ae ei ae having no underftanding to help themfelves, but : fhall by Gods Bleffing preventvall fuch dangers. If the Wound.or Hurt happen in a place where you cannot come at it with your own Mouth, | firft made, fhould be made to Bleed as much'as_ may be, without prejudice to the Body 5 forin the Blood the fiery wrathful poyfonous Spirits | the fooner: But fuch as do not Bleed, nor can | be made Bleed, ‘are more dangerous, and not fo” foon oreafily healed. Befides, itis to’ be under- 7 ftood; when the:Mound bleeds freely, there is doesnot bleed: For which caufe, all fuch Beafts bleed freely, their Flefh becomes fweeter "and. pleafanter to the Pallate, and eafier of Coneocti-_ -on,:.and breeds better Nourifhment, aad is far’ Wholfomer and Healthier than thofe Creatures © and: Nene 6 Ee we 1 4 : tong Life and Pappinels. 6 yy and proves Unhealthy to the Eaters theres y ‘ © Bat becaufe this Remedy here prefcribed, is fo ~ eafily procured without Money or Price, and {6 truly Natural, Tam ftill afraid that not only. the Learned, but many of the Vulgar will defpile this fimple way : For Man is fo depraved frou - | ‘the Innocent Wayes of God and Nature, that he defpifeth alf in comparifon of his own Art, and moft men efteem and give place to thofe “¢hings they do not underftand ; and on the con: ‘trary, defpife and flight the things that they do know; and fo long as any particular thing re- mains a Myftery, they admire, but a5 foon as | ‘they come to kaow it, they trample it undee their Feet with difdain. Therefore all the P4y- - Sofophical’ Antients hid the Divine and’ Natural _ -Reafons of things, becaufe they could not find any, or very fewcapable of thet Doctrine, ‘OF Harmony andthe Power thereof; the -feveral forces of Mufical Inftruments,and -—-undet:what Planet: and Sign each of them is. A, : AA Sthe end of natural Motions is Ref, and 2 ‘nothing more refrefhes a Mind wearied beet ae Ser eh . baz Che uaay to Health, . with Labours than the fweet Airs: of Nafck an afk: | Harmony ; fonow drawing towards a Conchufion | of this Treatife, I fhall puta period thereto with — fome unvulgar Confiderations of, the.. Naare of | Sownds and Melody, oi iol _ Ofall kinds of Harmony as well Vocal ‘as Ie. firomental, whofe variety is beyond any humane “Number, together with the various Notes, Cries — and Tozes of Birds and Bea/ts, the Number Seven af js the Radix, viz. the feven Properties or Con- 1 ftellations, as is manifeft by the ake {Votes Or Diftances on Mufical Infiruments ; for thole feven Notes are the Batis of all Miufical Compofition., ‘The ~ Number Eight } isa beginning again, ora repli- q cation or repetition of the, fame. feadagtactalir 4 a ever of thefe feven Forms. or Conftellations does _ carry the upper dominion, either in amy. Tafirn- poent of Mufick, Words or Votes of Men, ‘Sounds, ; "otes or Crises ok Birds or: Beafts, that. Tome Pro- perty « doth imprefs irs Signature thereon’: The fame is-to-be underitood of the variety of Shapes, Figures and Forms in the, Animal, Vegetable and * Mineral Kingdoms ; and alfo of Colours, there be- ing but feven peifect Colours, from: which.a skil- ful Painter can very lively imitate all Appearances, i Shapes or Colours in the Univerfe, the Number _ Seven being the fountain whence all the Wonders of the Creater do proceed, it being the higheft a Number in the outward Principle. _ ae Thus when the S«turaine Property, Shall have aa the chief dominion or BASU rah in any Crea~ se Ae ture. * tay 7. ; 2 gcd bod 4, & 3 Pre | fev ake oes" i ’ eo" ! i AE fe ar, rn | dong Wife aud Bappineis. = 64. ture or Inftrumenc of Mufick, then the Words Votce, Cries, Tone or Sounds thereof are fad,joarfe, heavy, flow, melancholy and wnpleafant, as if they were prefied to the Centre. But when Mars fhall | bear fway, then their Notes, Words, Cries or | Sounds are rough, lod, fierce, (arp, threatning and ‘jarring, as if the Centre of Wrath were kindled; for this caule alt Words of Men, Sounds of Infiru- . ~ ments aad, Notes or Tones of other Creatures, in- _ whom the Properties of Satwrz and: Mars do pre- dominate, are dalorous, melancholy and frightful, aSis manifeit by all forts of wild favage Beafts ' and Birds-of Prey, as Wolves, Swine, Bears, Lyons, Owls, Kstes, Ravens, oc, all which are chicfly he Tae Eee of Starz and Mars, But all | Creatures and Inftruments, in which Fupéter is predominant, their Soznd, Words, Notes and T ones | are grave, conftant, [weet and friendly. Where | Sol rules, they are venerable, fillea with Muyefty, and a certain kind of /ofty Grace, When the Pro- __ perty of Vexws bears {way, the Voice or Notes are | delicate, fiment, merry, charming and voluptuous, | “carrying with thema /weet Violence. It Mercury. have the greateft Intereft, then they are more _ remifs and various, but very feet and pleafant. And lafily, when the 4400 fhall have dominion, the Tones, Sounds or Voices are loud, {brill, wanton and anconftant, yet fluent, pleafaut, merry, and ‘fit for Revelling. eee oe) a It is to be noted, that every particular Creature, but more efpecially Man, does contain the true ee Bros e ae “paren Ae cillow in intermix thet cad: sal Tones in fubferviency therewith, that {0 in fome, _where the Properties are near an Equality, *tis a difficult matter to ju ip dge what Quality is chief; _but thofe that can to dete AO Be the Complexion,and what Property has the chief dominion over it. But ftill, itis to be noted,. That each Creature can alter anc vary its Words. Kor oice, Sounds and Notes by. an innate Power, according to. the {tate of the Mind; for : the Will in all Creatures, according tothe ca ci 4 les 4 city and nature ofeach, isthe Primum M liftinguifh the Forms, and | what Souads each gives, may, with regard had to the fhape and figure of each Creature, be capable — having power as it pleafeth, and.as. Octafion and — neceflity tequires to ftir up and < awaken other _ Centres or! Natures, éither for the better or the -worfe, as the Will {hall give It {elf unto, or be _ precipitated in any. of the Sevew Forms or Proper- ites, Whence often do proceed Various geflures, — motions, words, founds and. vaices, which do. vary _and differ from the predominant Quality of the ( omplexton, being. at, fometimes more fangeine, ; mild and friendly, but at~ -cther ‘ times fierce ann gegry, Or dull, heavy, venomous and melancholy, or gallo and /frained, as if Nature were forced 0 of her Ww she Thus *tis a ipparent maa may. ie Srieniy, edn ‘ ty elk Saree Pe Wi’ 4 song Hite atte appinets, 84 Friendly to’one, and fierce and doggedly to another» atthe fame time, a5 his occafions,: paffions and in+. teveftsare; for every word, found, voice, note or ery of Men: and other Creatures, does not only declare what Centre and: Property it proceeded from,and which does predominate in them ; but — does alfo ftirup the like Centres or Properties, . | and thereby excite thofe oftheir own kind tovari- } ous Paffions, according to the eqnastity or snequatity of the Fountain, Spirit’ or Form whence they were genérated, cither to Lowe, Trouble, Foy, Grief, Pleafure, Anger, Concord or the contrary, § and fo make Impreffions,and impofe their Proper: » ties‘on thofe'to whom thiey aredirefted: Every | Word,. Sound, Tone or Nore having the Key tn at -felf to open the Gate of its like Property,and there, _tojoyn Or incorporate; for this caufe,, dagry’ words beget Anger; and on the other fide, 4 /oft Anfwer turneth away Wrath.» Whence is manitett-' _edthe great. power and efficacy of words, founds. _ and harimony, efpecially if the Compofition fhall _ beagreeableunto, and follow the Celeftial Ha- mony, it will not only impofe its own Properties on the Hearers, but besets /riewdline/s and con=. cord, powerfully attracting the benovelent hid. fluences both of the Celeftials and Terreftials,. changing the Affedtions, Intentions, Geftures, Mo- tions, Actions and Difpofitions of the Auditursy * _ quietly alluring them to itsown Property. The graveconiorts of Mufick, both woral- and ivftrs<. mental, aretrue fimilitudes of the Harmonical fare | aman Ne A RS I ee) Se CP Un Ae nan ere) ec ite ae : : ; viet SRR oa i ay. ying ve tan wasersated in, if he had got fallen theres _ from, and fuffered his defires to enter into Ine< - vality; where every Form and. Property does | ‘ftrive with allits might to be Lord over the other, . and fo deftroys all Harmony, and isthe true Ori- . _ ginal of all Inequality and Difcord; which is the Root of all Violence and Oppreflion:’ Whereas: on the contrary, Harmony and Concord, whether.” it be external or internal, is in its own Nature. innocent and friendly, the true fountain whence proceeds all Foy and Plesfure, both in Angels, Men and all other Creatures, becaufe they all _ originally were derived from Unity, = All Isftrumental and Votal Mufick,works various, — effefts on the Hearers, according to the Equality: or Inequality of each: The grave Conforts of — Organ, Viol and Voices beget Gravity and compofed — Difpofttions, and work {o powerfully on fome — _ Sanguine-tempered People, as to make them for- © get all Troubles, Sorraws and Perturbations, rai- ~ fing up the hidden Properties of Nature & Phan- ~ tafe toa ftate of Unity, thatis, abfolute Felicity, — during the time of hearing fuch Harmonies: But others, who are of unevener Tempers, and fure ther from Equality, both intheir Humours and Elements of their Bodies and: Minds, it makes — _ worfe condition’d, melancholy, fad and dull after — ’ a little time of hearing... This new change or ~ alteration of Difpofition, feeming burdenfom to © them, therefore. fuch never care tohear Mafick — long, but had rather be entertained with the — i Ye Nee oS ee, an jong LifeandHappinefs. | cay. _ Noife of the Multitude, the Cries of deep- — Mould Hounds and Difcourfes of Vanity. There axe other mufical Harmonies that are light and wanton, as of Violins, efpecially when they Shall play fuch Tunes or Leflons as are compofed by and-procced from the wild airy Phantafies of Venerial Mufisians, which the prefent-Ageis pe- — ftered with, whofe Imaginations are vain, lafci- vious and.extravagant, and when fuch Airs meet with fuitable wild, wanton, amorous, youthful Hearers, they have'power to ftir upand imprefs their own Properties on them, by incorporating © with their fimilies. a _ Manis capable by his Will to work and to be _” worked upon by all things, as he immerfeth his Willeither into Eqnality or thecontrary ; ifthe firh, then his actions, words, che. incorporate with, all things that ftand inequal weight and meafure, which is thejoy and folace of Nature: And fo, on the contrary, Inequality and Difcord move by fimile likewife; and therefore the holy Scrip- ture faith, The Prayers of the Wicked are an Abo- mination tothe Lord; for the God of Love and Mercy cannot be moved, nor the divine Influ- ences attracted, but only thofe that do imitate dum by living in Unity and Well-doing ; and. ~ fuch as live under the Government of the evil, unequal fiery Nature, cannot, either by their ‘Words, Prayers or Works move or attract any other Quality, but what is aliketo their own Nature; And confequently the act of Ls patie isked = «f { - | | % - | ; ‘ A eee see ase . eee * Ay eee ed fl oe Pt eee ee A ea ts SHS Metin a 2 Fe OR Oye ky | eae MMR e Og eg , fra i } 7 ‘ ij f Paes are ae aor a * bad | Che wap to Health Wicked move God in the Principle of his Angér | by fissile, becaufe all theit wordsand prayers — . ‘proceed from an evil Root. oath. AIOE | Thus Défcord is the Root of all Evil, and the -. - ‘corruption of every Life, both externalsandin- ternal, Death it felf béeingnothing but'a Contention, Strife, Di{-harmony and unequal operationof Nature, where the {trong original Forms of Satarz and Mars do rage and domineer,;and withafiercehun: — ger deitroy and ravenup the friendly Properties and Prefervatives of Life. All Difeafes and Infir- — mities; both of the Body and Mind, arifefrom the — unequal operations of Nature; and Heaithisno- thing but Harmony, or an Agreement of the parts. It is alfo to be noted, that Aarmonyand Co#- — ¢ord docontain thetrue Properties ofallHlements, Forms and Conftellations, even thofe firong — fierce forms,of Satura and: Mars, whencearifés Exvy, Strifeand Contention; >but whenthefe are — united unto; and evenly managed bythe friendly ~ powers of Nature, they are the'caufé of all Foy © and pleafant Melody, there being no-Evil but Ix equality, where Nature is;divided; sand every — property is in Rebellion, and endeavours tobe Matter: ‘Therefore the Lord faid inthe begins ning, That all things that weve created, were goods for neither the Name nor the Nature of Evil © wasexiltant, nor fhould ever havebeen known, © af. the Angels and Men had: continued. in that © Harmony they werecreatedin. ‘Therebeingno 7 Bvil where the Forms and Properties of the 7 | ‘ divine | ~ gS alia: sj to «Sorte anal a ae: ., j Tout Lite and Bappitiets: 4 bith 4 | divine and humane: Nature. are united, norany. . good, where they are! {eparated from: the diving Principle, which is the;friendly Fountain that _ qualifies and moderatesthe venomous‘ferce ray _ ging Properties of Saturn and Mars >So thatthe. _ very fame Qualities that are the Root of Sorrow: : and Mifery,both of Men and Angels,that live in, _andunder the dominion of the divided: Forms and Properties, are the true caufe of all Joy,Plea-. fare‘and Content to others that live in Unity and - Concord,where all Forms and Properties embrace. - & court each other, whenee doth arile & proceed _ the moft harmonious Conforts and heavenly Foy: - Thisis manifeft in all Vocal and In/trumenral Mu< fick, (whichis a lively and true Similitude of the - internal and mental Harmony, as that is the Root of thisoutward Melody) Are no¢ the Satur- nab and Martial Strings and Notes as materia! and ufeful as the Fowsal and Veserial? the firft being the Bafe and Radix of all Compofition, and _thelatterthe Zreb/es; the Bafis gives Majefty and the Trebles Sweetnels : theone being the Male, the other the Female, and by’ their incorporating or Embracing each othery is begotren the true Harmony both of corporeal and incorporeal Bodies; nor can it fubfift or continue where there’ isa feparation of thofe Properties; if there were nO Fire, there wouldbeno Light. Hence it appears that every thing i is either | Good or Evil, as it draws near, and unites it felf, or is fevered from that Fountain of Unity and | Oooe Harmoay, -in Oe : ops Pee eee ee Hoge 6 a. sony to Healthy. a; | aaa ralene it: proceeds ; > for this pila | 7 .. tion is that which is called the Degenetation » or : Evil. And as every Creature, bothin the da- mal, Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms, ftands — near, or afar off the Unity; fo are they cither Good or Virtuous, or Evil and Poyfonous, ae- cording to the degrees of the Forms and. Proper- : ties of the feven-fold Nature, which being near — _ the Equality, denominates mento: be Sanguine; as thofe who are more. unequal in their Compo- fitions, in feveral refpeéts, are called Cholerick, Melancholy ov. Phlegmarick, And fo in Beafts, Birds and. Fifh, thofe that ar¢ unequal in their — Frame, are fierce, crueland ravenous; but thofe ; wherein the Properties.are more. mild, friendly, tame and better tempered, are galled Gleamé and — the others Daclean ; ‘Thefameis tobe underftood — of all Vegetables and Fraits; not but that the evil | and venomous. Qualities. in themfelves, and — r ghtly managed, are alrogether.as uftful as the Pure, being the original of Life andcaufe of Mo- tion; fo that thereasxiothing Bedthat the Lord: has made, but as it becomes ‘feparated from its Original ftate of Unityand Harmony... Emo | ' 2, Ofall forts of external Harmony, iron has the higheft Graduation, and ishotonly beft li- ked, but makes the greateft Impreffion on the: - Hearers’ forafmuch as it arifetlybyan Harmo~ — ‘nious confent of the humane Soul, havinganear-— er Affinity to their Fantafies, than the Sounds. of Infiruments, by whichit pie penetrates. by; its ~ I ee NR RI tong ite and Mappinets. 51, “its Motions the well-tempered Air, and fo into _ thé airous Spirits of the Hearers, transferring the _ Affe€tions of the Singer, and piercing even into _ the Inwards ofthe Soul. For all Harmony,both | Vocal and Inffrumental (but efpecially the former) _ Bavea certain fecret Power to moderate various _ Paffions and Difeafés, efpecially when they hap- pemto be more Mental than Corporeal; for then - ifthe Leffons, Compofitions, Inftruments and Geni- ws ofthe Mafitian, hall by {ympathy correfpond, and agree with the difmayed Property of the | Dittempered, it will by degrees” raife and | ftrengthen the weak Properties, and bring Na- _ ture into a more equal Operation. Great,various. and wonderful are the Ufes, Effe€ts and Benefits of Harmony, Unity and Concord, it is certainly _ the true & real Paradifical Life ; The Inftramental _ and Vocal being a fhadow or fimilitude. if the In- ward or Heavenly ; andas it contains many great Secrets; {0 if ufed in the fear of God, its Effeéts _ then prove beneficial ; but if contrariwife it be pracifed, it becomes thegreateft Curfe; forthe higher any thing is graduated in Nature, if not well ufed, the Evil whereof becomes the grea- Qooos eo no Whas { : W ba Sonn Bint owes pier pe the four os ments refpettively, melancholly Tones and Sounds, rather a Noife than Harmony, mournful and unpleafant; She never infnareth any by her Charms. ae ‘From the Water, flow various, mixed, wan-. ‘ ton Tones. ‘and Sounds, as it were. dacotiltantss ; iia * ve x From, the Earth, proceeds heavy dull, flow, -Froin the Fire, {parkles upa brisk lively Har- — ‘mony, ‘but ‘fierce ae Penett ogee loud and jarring. | coe . Prem abe Vien are bre sathed i in yoo ae | a harmonious Tones and Sounds, Sanguine and delightful; this Element bese Seoes al 3 all Sounds ye Harmonics. . What Planet and Coiiftdltation® governs each | 3 - Taftrument of Mufick ick ae , eth a ; re hs eg pated Bell areunder Mare-and Suen and the Sign © Aries: They afford a Melancholly harfh fort of _ Mufick, ‘loudyand ‘penetrating ; their dolefome Tones are from Saturn, fuirable to accompany © » dying: Groans, and attend Mourners at Funerals, a their harfh jarring Sounds. proceed from Mars; | They are ‘aott adopted to Robuftick Natures, who generally take the greateft delight i in their — Harmony : Ringing, moderately ufed, is a good Exercife for ftrong Bodies, but rude, anid hor fo. delicate a a iis a ie eae bo. eae “tong Wife a and D Bappincts. | 6a L AP ee a te fe én) “y 7' on celicate and genteel, as the praétice of other fores of Mufick; and is alfo < apt to be prejadicial by | too much Violence. Drums are under ‘the dominion of Sature and Mies in the Signs Capricorn and Aries, which their dull, heavy, melancholly, rattling, jarring Sounds” do manifeft; for as they arife from ie dark wrathful Centre j in Nature;. fo they carry withthem the power of the fame Properties, and \ therefore do encourage Wrath and Violence, the ~ _pleafant Element of Air, which is the Life of all Harmony, is here encompaifed or penned up fo __clote, that it cannot have its free Egrefs. and “Regrefs, which fuffocates the thin fpirituous Va- -pours thereof, and that caufeth Sounds, heavy 4 dull and frightful, The Air being the pleafant Life inall things, and the original ‘of all Sounds, Voices and Harmony ; and in eb hiat Things, In- ftrument or Creature foever the Properties of Saturna and Marsare ftrong, and the {weet Influ- ‘ences of this Element obftru@ed, from that “Thing or Creature can proceed no delightful Sounds or Melody, but dull, heavy, dolorous, Jarrings, Noifes or Sounds ; for there is nettue ‘Life, Light, Harmony, or pleafant Sound can arife from any, in which the Properties of Na- ture are unequal in their qualifying or operation; for then the Wrath of Nature becomes fierce and ' taging, and deftroys the Moderator or friendly _ Quality, and fo Nature can no longer continue r ie oy Weight and Meafure. Trampets * ao Moe \ 654. ae , 7 vdeplaei ate “ittder' te ‘denials ih aoe but their Sounds'and Harmonies are of a two- fold” q Nature and Operation; they have their fierce — encouraging wrathful Sounds from Mars, and — their lo ty Maj eftical Harmonies from. Sol; they afford a. Mafeuline Mufick, which ‘encourages | ‘War-like Inclinations and ‘Difpofitions,"anima- 4 ting both Men and Beatfts, with a certain delight | and War-like Charming. _~ tage, _. Bag-Pipes are under the pre 66: Ve- “nus & Mars, in the Sign Scorpio ; this fort of Mu- fick is fometimes noel in Wars, but the Sounds & Harmonies thereof are more Effeminate & Vene- rial, than Martial, fitter for Peace than War, and* for tee Shades of Venus than the Fields of Mars, — _being an excellent fort of Harmony for Shepherds, — to entertain their innocent Flock with, which Sheep much delight in: q ‘Organs are under the Ginpire of Sa biter wit f Sol, inthe Sign Leo; the Sounds and Harmonies | of this Inftrument atte Great, Noble, and full of © Majefty, Sweetne{s and Gravity ; they feem to be as much Divineas Humane, or to afford fome Glimpfe or Simile of the heavenly Joy and. Con- fort; in this Inftrument the 4r, andthe pure | thin Spirituous Vapours thereof have their free — Influences, whence thofe. lofty brave. ficngy Sounds and Harmonies doproceed, 4 Waits are under the dominion of Supiter, i ine ‘ed q the Sign Libra; the Sounds and-harmonious Con- forts ot this Inftrument are great, noble and plea- ce Fie ge abe yd ea ag le “tong ite a and Bappinets. pes 55 hes to. Nature; butif the Players thereon be. 45) not well skilled,they quickly awaken Mars’s pro | | " perty; which caufeth the Sounds.co. bea little too - oud, rough, rattling or jarring. » Flutes or Recorders are a brave noble Tn fice. open Fields, and near Rivers and Fountains of- Water, being under the dominion of Jupiter and > Mercury, inthe Sign Sagittary.. . ) Flagolets are under the Comiiaant of Mercury and the Moon, in the Sign Cancer; this Inftru- ment is not fo noble as the former; its Sounds _ and Harmonies are more Youthful than Grave, - being a good Field-Mufick, more proper for . Shepherds and Herds-men, or Carters, and dri- vers of Horfes, and the like, than for Conforts in Houfes, being shrill, loud, penetrating and violent; but if well handled, itsamakes pleafant Harmony i in open clear ftill Airy Places. Howboys are much of the Nature of the laft, being underthe dominion of the Joon and Mars, in Cancer, a good Field-Mufick, for fuch as look after Cattel; but not proper for Houfe-Conforts, i enent, being skilfully handled, and make fome.° of the beft Harmonies.of Pipes, being agreeableto; ’ bothVocal and Inftrumental Mufick ; their Sounds: and harmonious ‘Tones are erave, and full of: Majefty, attractive and-delightful, -efpecially in, unlefs the Player have greater skill, anda better handtthan is common ; its Sounds being wild, : Joud and penetrating. » The baci jel is under the dominion of Sy piter : ration, ye a ge ® 656 pats “the way to ‘Healthye i iter and Sol,°in the Sign Libra ; ite Souda” anal 4 armonies ‘are grave, noble, great and delight: fal, pleafantAll men do ptteaiour bya fecret and natural ’ Inclination, to draw all things unto their own peepee Ohderitansing and Life, whether it be good or evil, equalor unequal; aud into what Property or Principle foever he doth: precipitate . himfelf, “that fame Quality does reign in his Thoughts and Will, and hath the Key in its felf to unlock all Natures {ecret Cabinets, and by its Rays can penetrate into the Depths ; and where- foever it finds its Simé/e, there it incorporates and joyneth Forces, and fo becomes {trong and powerful, ‘and its contrary is difmayed and weakened : This is manifeft in all unequal paf- fionate Words and Difgourfes, and alfo in friend- ly Harmonies and Speeches ; every Word, - Sound or Cry firsup to Love, Anger, Concord or Difcord, according to the pringiple of that ~ Root, or ‘predominate Power from whence it proceeded. And thefle Syparhetick Operations of Nature, and their Antipathies, have far greater Power and Efficacy in and upon the humane Pppp Nature (68 Che manta Healthy _. ‘Nature, or Minds of men, than on Inanimates,, they having a nearer Adinity an their, Baits, _ therefore Concord and Difcord, or Love and An- ”~ “get, do move by Simie. more quiok than light: — ‘ning ; for all things do naturally incline tothe _ Centre, and as Men by Words and Aftions can. | and do move each other to Friend{hip or Hate, the fame is to be underftood of all other things, according to the capacity of each, as all robu- ” @ick rough killing Imployments, dofecretly ftir — them up to Wrath, Difcord and Inhumanity, as the contrary Trades do beger more humane © or traGtable Difpofitions, And fo in the fame ~ manner, and more efeCtually,does Mufiek work — upon the Mind and Paffions ofman: This the | Kingly Prophet David was fenfible.of,, when he harmoniz’d and play’d on his Harp.toKing Saul, | in whofe Soul he perceived was kindled the Wrath, and the unequal Powers of Nature; | which the Mertal and Jnfrumental Harmony of — David did aflwage or mitigate, by awakening — and ftrengthening its Siwile, and by its friendly . Influencés compofe, and as it were by a {weet Violence, chafe away Inequality, Difcord: and - Enmity. For there is as great a powerin Har- mony. to kindle and beget its hkenels, as in’ | - Wrath toftirup Difeord. Thus Sauhas it were © unawares fuffered'his Will.and Spirit, toenter- | tain the internal-and external Harmonies, that ~ proceeded from. David, which did by a-certain | Gleam or Ray penetrate Sau/, arid incorporate © ‘with its Stale, and moderated the Dif-harmo- — . | | nious, Pi Sie aes * Wie Mie y) A ee fate and Happineis. s59/ - “aious envious evil Spirit in Saud, raifing thofe’ | ' Properties that were too flat; andon the other = - fide letting down thofe that were too fharp and fierce, even asa Mufitian tunes his Inftrument — there being a Smpathetical Operation betweemr - the inward and the outward Harmeny, as ap- — pears, 2 Kyngs 3. where the three Kings and their Hofts were like to perifh for want of Wa: - ter, whichvcame to pafs through the Dif-harmo- _ ny and Inequality of the Elements and Con{te!- ; for whenfoever any Element or Pro- Tations ; perty does too violently predominate, it deftroys _ the Harmony and Well-being of the whole, and - Nature Becomes like an Inftrument: out of tune: For this caufe the Prophet F/ba called for a | Minftrel or Mufitian, that is, for Harmony, vz. . for a quiet {till {tate of mind, ‘not only to fhew the three Kings what Life they ought to live, who were departed from Unity andConcord, but _-alfo the Prophet defired to be tuned and com- _ pofed, which would render him fit for, and ¢a- pale of that divine Work which he was to dos For when the King of J/rae/, and the other two, came firft to him, ‘he feemed to be fomewhat angry, Or in wrath with him, faying to the King, Get thee to the Prophets of thy Father ; what. _ have Ito do, with thee? As if he fhould fay, . _ Thou art in the way of Wickednefs, Idolatry, . Violence and Oppreffion. ‘This anfwer was un- even, as ifit proceeded from fome Paflion or In- temperance of mind; butthe King of J/rae? not | being moved to any degree of Inequality, bur an- Pppp.2 {wered, \¢ deal’ es ‘he way fa to Bealeh, kee fivered mildly and friendly, witha rpabiite. ah | _ penitent Voice; Ob! Nay, the Lord bath called — __ thefe three Kings together to deliver them into. the at band. of Moab. This ‘Humility and ‘Temper. ia the King begetting i its Own property in the Pro- phet, he then calls for the Mufitian, viz. for’. Concord and Harmony; and in the time of this. ~ heavenly Confort, the hand of the Lord came 4 upon him, and the divine Power did arife i in . him, and he prophefied from an equal 1 motion, | & holy driving both of the divine & natural Pro- pertics, as well. of the External as the Internal Nature; then there followed a_ fympathetical 4 operation of the Forms, an Incorporating and Harmonizing with each other; and fo the Ele- ment of Water was excited and ftrengthened, which before was weakened, and. made as it. were to difappear by the predominancy of, the. Element of Fire; for when the Elements have | their. Qualifyings and Operations in Equality. and Concord, this is the true Mufick of Nature, — the Harmony of the Aegoco/ys. Harmony be- © ing the true Centre of all external and internal © 7 Felicity, wherein all things rejayce ; as the con- trary, isthe Difpleafure, the Vexation , , the ‘Terror and the Torment of the whole. In the firft of Chroxicles we read Sha four -Thoufand of the Pricfs and Levites praifed the q | Lord on Inftruments of Mufick by Davia’s ap- — pointment: And 2 Chrov.5. one hundred and — twenty Priefs blowed’ with Trumpets, and fo. apices, wath the Voices, that it feemed me one — Oice ip fee / Fe if et Pe eee Ree | Yo rage ng it Se TDS J Rg phe Wt ce sali Sah Ss st ve rary. % F ‘ POPS PCAs ee Pie Ga fs we } “ sie a i ; Fray eye | dy 1 , . ‘ rh Ped) a ¥ j ' Voice, and when they lift up their Voices with the “Trumpets and Cymbals, and other Tnfruments of " Mufick, the Hon[e of God was filled with « Cloud, fo that the Priefts sonld not endure to minifier, by rea- fon of the Cloud ; for the Mayefty of the Lord filled the Houfe. Here the Mental, Vocal and Inftru- ~ mental Harmony of the People did by a feeret | Attraction draw forth and incorporate its felf - with the inward and holy Harmony, {fo that the — Glory of the Lord appeared externally; there . -wasan inward Life, Power and Agreement in | the minds of the Mufitians, and whole Congre- | gation; all was done intlic Unity of the Spirit, -andto the Glory of the Lord. But on the con- trary, as Amos has it, Chap. 6. Thofe that fit on the Stool of Wilfulne/s, and lieon the Beds of Eafe, ana prattife Wastonne/s upon their Couches, and eat the beft Lambs of the Flock, and laughter the fattef Calves of the Droves, and that fing to the Lute; long Lite atid Bappinels. 661 om and in playing on Inflruments of Mafick compare | | themjelves to David, and drink Wine in Bowls, | (that is, to Superfluity and Excefs) and anoint thenefelves Effewsinately with Oyl, and yet have xo Bowels of Compaffion, nor Commsiferate the Afflicti- ons of Jofpeh (that is, the Miferies of their Bre- threnand fellow-Creatures) but crucifie the Lord _ of Life, (that is, the divine Principle, by their Difeord, Oppreffion, and Intemperanees) — fball be the fir ft thar [ball be led away into Captivity : | For every Thought, Wordand Work follows | the Principle from whence it proceeds; and_as every maa hall apply Mofick, or any i as Gees Bye ater ate rise UNG 5 oc : : s SMT OME wt ‘4 Pena a hy ¥ ? » . . {¢ 6 2 _» Ghe Way toDeaith, thing, either to the glory of God, or to $a Glory, Vanity or Luts, fo it becomes either 9 PT ee me RT el nr mae rae "Jong Wifeand Happinels, 66 | a fore moft convenient it is for every’ particular -Manand Woman to fearch and examin them- felves, that they may come to underftand what. Spirit and. Principle.has* dominion. in and over them ; ifit be the divine Principle and Voice of Wifdom, then it will lead them into the heaven- ~ |ly.Harmony, where.all the various Properties — and Qualities of Nature do in friendly manndr — _ embrace each other, whenee proceeds an eternal Peace and Confort. But they that fhall find the _ Spirit of Envy, Strife, Back-biting, Jeering, Seof- fing, Uncleannefs, Vanity, Oppreftion,Killing, and _ the like, to bear fway in their Minds, and reign in their Hearts, fueh cannot make any pleafant - Harmony, but altogether the contrary, a mofk unpleafant Noife, burthenfom to theimfelves Lana the whole Civatione (ont. eae one But by the way, it is'to be further confidered, that there is:no poffibility that any fhould ob- tain that fublime flate of Unity and Concord, | and to have Peace and’ Good-will for the whole |} Creation, except there be a ‘continual Self-' | denyal; no Obfervations or Medium, though | they beagreeable feemingly to Scripture will do; - Men mutt not ftand ftill in the Wildernefs, but | prefs on towards Perfection in perfeverence. ~ Many in this Age have been taught this by | ‘woful Experience; At firft, when the Day did | begin to dawn, andthe Star of Gods eternal Love. . | tofhine in them, whereby they faw the Errors. | of their Ways, whence did arile Se/f-desyal and io | vpanure stat citation aw. ’ | 66 -. Che wavite Bealtyel through the unequal waysof this World, andthe — themfelves the Superfluities and Vanities of the forts of Plays and vein Exercifes, and riding ix 7 fying their fenfual Appetites with various fortsof ~ -Meatsand Drinks, both in Quantity and Quality; ‘but beeaufe they. did ‘nor perfevere, ‘but looked . back towards Sodom and Ag;pt, became Pillars of Wack by degrecs, and before they. were fenfible,: ‘Heathenifh Cuftoms. thereof, and»arrivedatthe | Celefial Canaan, a Land flowing with Milk and Honey, and entred into the ravifhing Harmonies — ef the New ‘Ferafalem. But toe many, after a 4 few fteps in this holy fourney, having denyed — ‘World, as; fome would.not eat Fleb, becaufe it 7 could not be procured witheut breaking the Hars — mony and Unity of Nature, and doing what one © would not be done unto, and refrained many ~ Coaches and Charriots, and xnece[farily on Horfes; — for fear Pride fhould get the dominion, going on foot, being generally efteemed: poor and :ba/e, as though the Creator had: not given manideet and ~ legs for that ufe; and alfo were wary of grati- © Salt, and fell in the Wildernefs;.« And the Rea- fon is, they gave themfelves liberty, andfo went: were Penn gia se ash sagt de By Seeded ae SY ee 2 , wie tong site and Dappinets: _ 665 / | - grere again en{nared and entangled in the Vani- | ties of the World, and fo deprived of thofe blefled | Talents, which heftte they: enjoy’d. > A wife confcientious Scruple and Self denial are always the fore-runners of true Wifdom, if dili- | gently purfued and improved, being the ways _ by which the Spirit of God hath dealer with man Gn all Ages, thereby giving him a right Under. — _ ftanding and Diftin&tion of what things are good wholfom and profitable, and what not, Ane this tendernefs hath generally the pisptel power and vigour inthe beginning, as all that have tra- velled i in this way can witnefs ; but in procefsof _ ‘time, if there be not great diligence ufed, this givine Seal becomes defaced, and the Scruple: grows | lefs and lefs, and a certain Freedom ap- | ‘pears to the Underftanding, which is the only time of Trial, and the hour of. Temptation, Moft lofe eround when they cometo this {tate,by _ purpofing to themfélves the ufing of thofe things moderately and temperately, which formerly they have fpent in fuperfluity, and of Jate have - altogether declined: But with colour of ufing : moderately, many are enfnared, and by degrees ~ Jedagain into Captivity. It being, for Example, more difficult to drink Wine with a juft Moder- ation, than to drink no Wine at all, And’tis the part ofa Wife man, if he yess qn hundred - things lawful, to deny himéelf o ninety of them, being certain of this, that every inferiour thing a man toucheth, or communicateth with, has a.’ Q4999 " fpecial ae eek eee = sa Pe ae _ orl a Tt en # es ns A ; ts Dee | ey, A “ he oe ee a vi ‘She noap to Bea e if e, <” 666 Hoap to Dealty, atural Inclination tobe {i Apc _ do incorporate and imbrace eacly other in an holy Confort of Love, and where there is no defpifing, enyying or perfecuting of one another, becaulé they are of different Forms, Shupery Figures; Com | plesxiows, Iuclinations or Under ftandings, of which — Focal and Inftrumental Harmony is a true firnili- tude. Eheretore it is much to be pitied, that thofé that are Players on Inftruments and skilled in | Mufick be not more Temyerate, Sober, Grave and Wile; iorthe wicked Wantonnefs and vain Lives of fomeofthem, have brought a Scandal — on Mufick, and moft ‘People being ignorant of: | z eee aay God, Big ea aie fo - Law of Nature... But this i isa grand Miftake; - for the original Caufe of all Evil and Sin. pro cecds from 2 a. mans own Luits and Paffions, and “not from any outward thing. *Tis trues. man “hath the two Secds and Tinétsres in hirafelf, and -ashe fhall give.bis Will up unto either Evil or ‘Good, fo he has power to attraét unto himfelf ‘either Virtue or Vice out of all things, and-alfo to ufe them either to the praife of his Creator; ‘or profit of himfelf, or the cotitrary; as the Apoftle faith, Uzto the| Pure all things are Pure § but to the: Petverte the contrary ; ; for the Lord _appeats.to every man; either in his Love or _ Auger, according to what Principle. he, hath -fuffered his Will to entet into, , as the Scr ipture faith, Tht the Lord is aw angry jealous God, and 4 confuming Fire; And. yet againit faith; That he is a merciful gracious God, full of Love and Pity; and will foew Mercy unto the third and fourth Ge- weration of thofe that fear his Name, and live ip Unity. ‘Therefore Mufick is not at all to be con- temned or flighted for the badnefs of fome th: ¢ » pretend to its outward Prattice, for they fill are ftrangers | to its inward Power and Efficacy ; For Cozcord and Flarmony. are the beft Accoms ‘Bes: and fublimest Gifts that cari-be attain- ed in this World; the pleafures of Time and Es Qqqq Sipe tersity; | i : | £ | : on We. ‘i sek ax ve : ag \ ” : ae en, a Che tony to Heal | “ternity, eaduing both Soul and Body with pet- > petual Health, it being that happy ftate which } _ ‘an, and all other Creatures do travel with ~ great Defires and Groanings to be delivered uri- a. eventhatholy Unity whepes all proceeded.’ > But Unity, Coscord and IytelleEtual Harmony, 7 “have hardly any thing in the Hearts of men; for — ' .ifthey had, then there would be Peacéand Love,’ | “net only amongf men,’ but to the whole Grea- « “ton; fér thar Paradifieal flate'in/ this World,’ | which many “have hoped to fee, and d6 expec — “fhall come, vz. that all Mankind’ fall’ live tir: i jo perfedt Kove, Concord and Harmdsy, can never © be expeéted to come to pals, except men do take - Other meafures than’ hithertd they have done: — For before any can attain to fuch a’ blefféd har=.. -Monious condition, he muft firft livein'the obs — fervation’ of Gods La'w.in’ the outward Nature 3 _ _ forthe greater cannot be underitood, if the leffer - be not put into pragtite. Man cannot by his. _ Prayers move the Lord in his holy Fountain of ~ Love, except helives inthe Power and Operation - of the fame Fountain ; nor can‘attra@ the fweet — Influences of the: Elements and Ceeleftial Bodies any other way, but by living and obfervirg the — Simple innocent Law of Nature.’ For thiscaufé _ _ thofe that live under the dominion of the Spirit = -6f Difcord, Pride, Envy afd Contention, their Devotions cannot move’ the Lord in this princi= ~ ple of his Love and Mercy; but onthe contrary, moves himin the itera Wrath, and ‘therefore is” » i eee J in ie Sap = a ee ‘ Mies ; Ga OE Oe RL ’ , dy with p : a ey eres Se Le ee - eek faid a Bea --Reafon there ought to be more care in every one 3 Yo know what Spirit reignsin the hidden Ground . i of the Heart, than about outward Forms: Every — one that feareth God and workethRighteou/ne/s, faith » theApoftle, # és accepted of the Lord; who makes no | ‘difference of Forms; for every ‘Form is either good or evil, as the People aré either virtuous, or the contrary. ‘Thereforeé it is highly neceflary - for every one to fludy the knowledge’ of hivalely _ that he may underftand the differences of Spitits, : ‘and’ from what- Fountain or. Property. every _ Thought, Word and Work doesiproceed;. and | to. recommend and promote fach Se/f- ‘ftudy and | Hleart-knowledge, is the {cope of this whole Treatife, mony, without which there is no. Satisfaction dither inthis World, or that which is to come: m -skill'd in, and prattife. This is both: the Glor? Eccho of Heaven, the Bufinefs of Seraphims,. and pee tealeyent of Ere vit Ve ; Amen, 28, - by) } i 7 fb : F LN se ety . ; Pn was - § Panak Smee 4 ms & re Eee a), Ve Pa aie + » ~% van ot 4 > ) — ia ite w an sbesaets, | i 659 \ . hid to he" an Abomination unto him. . For this” » = o z *s s “ a ; . Pape at ay tee TEER St ee.) ee a eee a eT £ » which being once attained unto, 4 man may be. Able to correct himfelf, and Tune his ows Inftru- een, whence will proceed Concord,Lowe and Har- | For to fear God, and keep his. 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