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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

THE NEW HELP TO DISCOURSE OR WIT MIRTH and JOLLITY intermixt with more serious Matters Consisting of pleasant Astrological Astronomical Philosophical Grammatical Physical Chyrurgical Historical Moral and Poetical Questions and Answers AS ALSO Histories Poems Songs Epitaphs Epigrams Anagrams Acrosticks Riddles Jests Poesies Complements c. With several other Varieties intermixt Together with The Countrey Man's Guide CONTAINING Directions for the true knowledge of several Matters concerning Astronomy and Husbandry in a more plain and easie Method than any yet extant By W. W. Gent. The Second Edition That Author best of all doth write Who mixeth Profit with Delight London Printed by T. S. and sold by the Book-sellers of London and Westminster 1680. THE NEVV HELP TO DISCOURSE Quest WHat is the chief end of writing Books Answ For instruction and information whereas idle Books are no other than corrupted Tales in Ink and Paper or indeed Vice sent abroad with a License wherein two are guilty of evil he that writes them and he that reads them being in effect like the brutish sin of Adultery wherein two are concerned in the same sin and therefore his resolution was good who said That for bad Books he would write none lest he should thereby hurt others in the reading of them nor would he read any of them for fear the Author should answer for his sin by being corrupted by them Quest What Book of all others is the best Answ The Holy Scriptures contained in 〈◊〉 Old and New Testament wherein the Mysteries of our Salvation are contained being the Book of all books and in compa●●●on of which no book is comparable Qu. Of how many chapters doth this Book consist An. In the Old Testament or Bible there are 777. In the new Testament 260. In the Books of Apocrypha 173. The total being 1210. And for the number of Verses in the Old Testament the Jewish Rabbins have computed them thus In the Books of the Law Verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. and in Haggai 8064. Total 23203. Q. Are there no other Books mentioned in the Old Testament but those which we have now at this day A. Yes there were the Books of Iddo and Gad the Seers besides Solomon wrote three thousand Parables and five thousand Songs with a Book of the Nature of all Herbs Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hysop upon the wall Samuel also writ a Book of the Office and Institution of a King There were also Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel besides those we have in the Scripture being as is judged written far larger all which Were supposed to be lost in the Jewish Captivity at Babylon Q. What was St. Augustine 's answer to one who demanded what God did before he made the World A. That he was ordaining a Hell for such kind of Enquirers Where the Scripture hath not a mouth to speak we ought no● to have a tongue to ask Q. What was the greatest love that ever w● shown in this World A. The love of God to poor sinners wh● gave his only begotten Son to dye for us of which one thus writeth God is my gift himself he freely gave me Gods gift am I and none but God shall have me Q. In what things had woman the Preheminence of man in the Creation A. In these three First that whereas man ' was made of the dust or slime of the earth woman was made of that dust or slime refined Secondly man was made out of Paradise woman in Paradise And thirdly when God is said to be about to make woman he is said to build her as being about to make a curious Edifice or more excellent structure than that of man Q. What Book next to the Holy Scripture would you chiefly desire the rest being taken away A. Theodore Beza being asked this question answered Plutarch an excellent Author for his Lives and Morals Another said Seneca whose divine Sentences in his Book are so squared by the Rules of Christianity that St. Hierom concluded him amongst the Catalogue of Divine Writers Another preferred the Thesaurus Historiarum being a Compendium of most Histories and worthy Examples And that Ornament of History Dr. Heylin gives the preheminency to Sir Walter Rawleigh's History of the World which he calls Primus in Historia Q. St. Bernard a learned Father of the Church greatly wondred at three Conjunctions the like whereof never was nor never will be and what were they A. 1. Conjunction of God and man 2. Of a Mother and a Virgin 3. Of Faith and the heart of man to believe the same The first whereof is most wonderful that the Deity should be joyned to the Humanity Heaven to Earth Majesty to Infirmity The second also very wonderful that a Maid should be a Mother and yet remain a pure Virgin The third though inferior to the two first yet wonderful that a mans heart should have power to believe the same Reason doth marvel how Faith tell can That a Maid should be a Mother God a man But cease so to marvel and believe the wonder For Faith is above and Reason is under Q. How long according to the opinion of some men shall the world continue from the Creation to the end thereof A. The Thalmudists were of opinion that it should continue six thousand years of which opinion also were some of the fathers and others of our Modern Writers because that as God created the World in six days and rested the seventh so in six thousand years which are in account of God but as six daies it shall again be annihilated when shall follow an eternal Sabbath of rest to all the Faithful Others reckon it after this manner two thousand years before the Law two thousand years under the Law and two thousand years under the Gospel But this account agreeth not right with the Calendar of Time and therefore we may conclude that those who account not right the years which are past must needs be ignorant of those which are to come Besides our Saviour saith that of that day and hour the very Angels in Heaven themselves are ignorant Let us therefore rather labour to prepare our selves against that day than curiously seek to pry into such hidden and unrevealed things Q. In what part of the world was it where the Cock crowed so loud that all the men of the world heard it A. In Noah's Ark. Q. What is the Anagram for the name of the Virgin Mary A. MARY Anagramma ARMY And well her Name an Army doth present In whom the Lord of Hosts did pitch his tent Q. What answer gave Queen Elizabeth when being a prisoner in the Reign of her Sister Queen Mary she was by one of the Bishops demanded her opinion concerning the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament A. Christ is the Word that spake it He took the Bread and brake it And as the Word did make it I do believe and take it Q. Who are those that cannot will not

plantae tantopere indulgent in Barbarorum naturam degenerasse videntur The two chief vertures ascribed to it are that it is good against Lues Venerea that loath some disease the Pox and that it voideth Rheum for the first like enough it is that so unclean a disease may be fitted with so unwholesome a medicine for the second good quality attributed unto it I think it rather to consist in opinion than truth the Rheum which it voideth being only that which it self ingendereth We may as well conclude that Bottle-Ale breaketh wind for that effect we find to follow the drinking of it though indeed it is only the same wind which it self conveyed into the stomack I confess in some respects being moderately taken it may be serviceable for Physick but Tobacco is by few taken now as medicinal it is grown a good fellow and fallen from a Physician to a Complement He 's no good fellow that 's without the POX Burnt Pipes Tobacco and his Tinder-box Hear his farewel to it who once much doted on this heathenish weed Farewel thou Indian smoak Barbarian Vapour Thou enemy to life foe to waste paper Thou dost diseases in the body breed And like a Vulture on the purse dost feed Changing sweet breath into a stinking loathing And with three pipes turn two pence into nothing Grim Pluto first invented it I think To poyson all the world with Hellish stink And though by many it hath been defended It makes men rotten ere their life 's half ended Base Heathenish weed how common is it grown That but a few years past was scarcely known When for to see one take it was a riddle As strange as a Baboon to tune a Fiddle Were it confin'd only to Gentlemen It credit were to take Tobacco then But Bedlams Tinkers Coblers Water-bearers Your common Drunkards and most common Swearers Are them that use it most which makes me muse That men of quality the same should use Things common commmonly are most neglected Saving Tobacco that is still respected If Mans flesh be like Hogs as it is said It sure by smoaking thus is Bacon made Then farewel smoke good for such things as these Gainst Lice Sore heads Scabs Mange or French Disease Qu. What Country in all the whole world is most commended for the equal and just manner of the Rule thereof An. England wherein there is referred to the King absolute Majesty to the Nobles convenient Authority to the People an incorrupted Liberty all in a just and equal proportion a rare mixture of government a perfect and happy Composition wherein the King hath his full prerogative the Nobles all due respects and the people among other blessings perfect in this that they are Masters of their own purposes and have a strong hand in the making of their own Laws Qu. Who was the first that planted the Christian Religion in England An. Ioseph of Arimathea whose body is affirmed to be buried at Glassenbury in Somersetshire in which place grew a Tree that on the 24 of December would be bare and naked as other trees but on the next day being Christmas day it would be full of blossoms and flourishing as other trees in Summer This Hawthorn for such it was by ignorant zeal in the late times of Rebellion was hewn down I have heard also of an Oak in Staffordshire that every year on the same day would bring forth green leaves fresh and flourishing though the day before it were sear and dry an evident argument of the truth of Christs appearing in the flesh though of late some more nice than wise reject all such things accounting them no other than meer superstitions the rags and reliques of the Smock of the Whore of Babylon Qu. Who first erected Charing-Cross An. Edward the first in honor of his wife Queen Elenor whom he loved so dearly that dying in his company in the North Countrey intending to bury her in Westminster-Abbey in every place where her Corps rested he erected a most magnificent Cross the last of which was this at the end of the Strand commonly called Charing-Cross which having stood the space of 350 and odd years it was by avaritious blinded zeal commanded to be pulled down Thus Charing-Cross which lasted many lives Was turn'd to Salt-sellers and Hafts of Knives It being built of fine Marble there were many useful things made of the same else had not the profit thereof been more than the superstition it might for ought I know have stood there still Qu. What was Diogenes's opinion concerning Marriage An. That for young men it was too soon for old men too late So that by his rule men should not marry at all Qu. What was the Epitaph or Writing upon Diogenes grave An. Epitaphium Diogenis Cynici in cujus Sepulchro pro Titulo Canis signum est Dic Canis hic cujus tumulus Canis At Canis hic quis Diogenes obiit Non obiit sed abit Englished Diogenes Epitaph written on his Tomb with a Dog standing over it Tell me Dog whose Tomb is this A Dogs What Dog Diogenes Diogenes why died he Because no honesty he could see Qu. How many Letters are there in the holy Tongue An. As many as there are Books in the Old Testament of which one thus further observes that as two and twenty Letters forms our Voice so two and twenty Books contains our Faith Qu. What is the difference betwixt Art Fortune and Ignorance An. I shall tell you in the words of the Poet. When Fortune fell asleep and Hate did bind her Art Fortune lost and Ignorance did find her Sith when dull Ignorance with Fortune's store Hath been enrich'd and Art hath still been poor Qu. In what place was it wherein there was together a whole world of men and Languages An. In Noahs Ark. Qu. What said Budoeus concerning Plutarchs Books An. That if all the learning in the world were lost it might be found again in his Works Qu. What do you finde to be abominable superstition in the Papists An. The carrying about of their breaden God or the Hoast as they call it being of the Sacrament reserved which is carried of a couple of Priests under a Canopy ushered with Torches and attended by a company of people which have no other employment Before it goes a Bell continually tinkling at the sound whereof all such as are in their houses being warned that then their God goeth by them make some shew of Reverence those which meet it in the street with bended knees and elevated hands doing it honour The Protestants of this Bell make a use more religious and use it as a warning or watch-peal to avoid that street through which they hear it coming This invention of the Bell hath some what in it of Turkism it being the custom in all those Countries where the Mahumetan Religion is professed that at their Canonical hours when they hear the Cryers bawling in the Steeples to fall prostrate on the ground wheresoever

An. They are of the same Tenets with the Graecians excepting only that that they celebrate Divine Service as solemnly on the Saturday as the Sunday They take their denomination from Melchi which in the Syriac● signifieth a King because in matters of Religion the people followed the Emperors Injunctions and were of the Kings Religion a● the saying is Qu. What Sect of Christians are those calles Maranites An. They are a People found onely in Moun● Libanus their Patriarch is alwayes called Peter he hath under his jurisdiction nine Bishops and resideth commonly at Tripolis They held heretofore divers opinions with the Graecians but in the Papacy of Clement the eighth they received the Roman Religion which they do still adhere to Qu. What different Tenets are those of the Armenian Christians from the rest of their Neighbours An. Four 1. In receiving Infants to the Lords Table immediately after Baptism 2. In abstaining from unclean Beasts 3. In fasting on Christmas-day 4. In holding their Children over the fire as a necessary circumstance in Baptism because John the Baptist told the people which followed him that Christ should Baptise them with the Spirit and with fire This Sect is very numerous and is governed by two Patriarchs whereof the one hath under his jurisdiction all Turcomania a great Province in Armenia the greater comprehending 150000 Families besides very many Monasteries and the other hath under him the two Provinces of Armenia the lesser and Cilicia comprehending 20000 Families or thereabouts Qu. What are those Christians called Georgians An. They are the inhabitants of Georgia and consent in most Doctrinal points with the Grecians onely they acknowledge not the Patriarch of Constantinople but have a Patriarch of their own who is for the most part resident in his house on Mount Sinai in Palestina and hath under his jurisdiction eighteen Bishops Qu. What were the different opinions of the Indian Christians before such time they imbraced the Doctrine of the Church of Rome An. 1. To administer the Sacrament with bread season'd with salt 2. In stead of Wine to use the iuice of Raisons softned in water one night and so dressed forth 3. Not to baptize their children till forty days old unless in danger of death 4. To permit no Images in their Churches but of the Cross onely 5. To debar their Priests from second marriages And sixthly to paint God with three heads on one body denoting thereby the Trinity Qu. Wherein do the Copties or Christians of Egypt differ from other Christians An. In these four particulars 1. They confer all sacred orders under the Priesthood upon Infants immediately after Baptism their Parents till they come to sixteen years of age performing their office for them 2. They allow marriage in the second degree of Consanguinity without any dispensation 3. They observe not the Lords-day nor any other Festivals but onely in the Cities 4. They embrace and read in their Liturgies a Gospel written as they say by Nicodemus Qu. What special Sects were amongst the Jews An. These four Scribes Pharisees Essenes and Sadduces Qu. What were the Scribes An. Their office was double first to read and expound the Law in the Temple and Synagogues and secondly to execute the office of a Judge in ending and composing actions Qu. What were the Pharisees An. The Pharisees owe their name to Phares which signifieth both interpretari separare as being both interpreters of the Law and Separatists from the rest of the Jewish Church besides the Pentateuch or five Books of Moses they adhered also to traditions They denyed the sacred Trinity and held the fulfilling of the Law to consist in the outward Ceremonies They relyed more on their own merits than Gods mercy attributing most things to destiny and refused commerce with Publicans and Sinners Qu. What were the Essenes An. The Essenes had their name from Ascha that is facere because they wrought with their hands They lived together as it were in Colledges and in it every one had their Chappel for their devotion All their estates they enjoyed in common and received no man into their fellowship unless he would give all that he had into their Treasury and not then under a three years probationership Qu. What were the Sadduces An. The Sadduces received their Name from Sedec●● which signifieth Justice They believed not the being of Angels or Spirits the resurrection of the body nor that there was a Holy Ghost and received for Scripture onely the Pentateuch or five books of Moses Qu. Wherein doth 〈◊〉 Fundamentals of the Mahumetan Religion consist An. The whole is delivered in the book of their Religion called the Alcoran and is but an Exposition and Gloss of these eight Commandments 1. Every one ought to believe that God is a great God and onely God and Mahomet is his Prophet 2. Every man must marry to encrease the Sectaries of Mahomet 3. Every one must give of his wealth to the poor 4. Every one must make his prayers five times in a day 5. Every one must keep a Lent one month in the Year 6. Be obedient to thy parents 7. Thou shalt not kill 8. Do unto others as thou wouldest be done unto thy self Many other Injunctions he laid upon them as forbidding them Wine and the eating of Swines-flesh Fryday he ordained to be the Sabbath day to distinguish his Followers from Jews and Christians who solemnize the days following To those who observed his Religion and faithfully kept his Laws he promised Paradise spread here and there with Silk Carpets adorned with verdant flowery Fields watered with Christaline Rivers and beautified with trees of Gold and Arbors of pleasure in whose cool shade they shall spend their time with amorous Virgins whose mansion shall not be far distant The men shall never exceed the age of thirty years nor the women of fifteen and both shall have their Virginities renewed as fast as lost Thus whereas men no knowledge have within them This was the onely way to take to win them A carnal heart minds onely sordid pleasure And never looketh after Heavenly Treasure Many idle ridiculous Opinions do they hold concerning the end of the world that at the winding of a Horn not all flesh only but the Angels themselves shall die That the Earth with an Earthquake shall be kneaded together lke a lump of Dough That a second blast of the same Horn shall after forty days restore all again That Cain shall be the Captain or Ring-leader of the Damned who shall have the countenances of Dogs and Swine That they shall pass over the Bridge of Justice laden with their sins in Satchels that the greater sinners shall fall into Hell the lesser into Purgatory only That all those who professed and practised any Religion should go into Paradise the Jews under the Banner of Moses the Christians under the Banner of Christ And that himself should be metamorphosed into a great Ram and all those of his followers into little fleas