Dung and Piss generates various Diseases in their Blood and also in their Feet and Legs which Horses that lie in the open Air without doors are never subject to On the contrary nothing does more preserve the true Life Strength and Health of all Creatures but more especially of Horses than the open fresh cool Air and therefore at least all Stables and places where Horses are kept ought to have many large open Windows on all sides that the hot Steams may pass away and refreshing Breezes freely enter for this Element is the true Life of every Creature the Cleanser and Purifier of all things gives vigour to the Spirits unlocks the Passages and with moist and thin spirituous Vapours comforts cools and refreshes all the parts preventing Sweating and the too great Evaporations of the Spirits causing the natural Heat to become more central which does strengthen the Stomach and digestive Faculty The chief cause and use of Stables at first was for Shelter in extream Weather as when there was much Rain and then they were built like Court-houses or Hovels covered on the top to keep them dry but open on all sides that they might in such wet Weather eat their Meat dry but were loose to run at large when they pleased which was a very Judicious and Commendable way of keeping them and I am informed this fashion is to this day observed by a Gentleman in Yorkshire who has the best breed of Horses for all strong Exercises as Hunting and the like in the whole Country Now take two Horses of equal goodness and let one of them be kept according to Custom in a close Stable and the other put into a small dry Field where there is but little Grass with a Shed in it open on the sides that he may eat this Hay and Corn dry and let the Horse in the House and the other that is in the Field be allowed the same quantity of Hay and Corn only in very cold sharp Weather and Winter time that in the Field will require more than that in the House by reason the cold pleasant Air opens the Passages drives the Natural Heat more central and so causeth a greater Appetite Now that Horse that is kept in the Field will out-do him in the House in any kind of Labour and be nothing so subject to be Tyred or be Surfeited or Broken-winded c. there being as much difference between these two as between a nice Citizen or Gentleman and an honest laborious Country Husbandman the former being warmly clothed used to close Rooms and lusty Fires and instead of rusling Trees before their Windows they barricado them with Shutters and a file or two of close drawn Curtains and get soft Feather-beds into which they sink every night almost as deep as into their Graves and an heap of Coverings able to put a Russian into a Sweat with another Guard of Curtains drawn round about their heads wrapt up in thick quilted Caps as if they were afraid their Brains would be stollen away from them so that hardly a breath of Air can get to them to which in the day time they add rich and dainty Food and strong intoxicating Drinks By all which they become altogether unapt and indeed unable to endure any kind of Labour Hardship or other Accidents without manifest danger to their Health nay let them have all the care they can with the wise Directions of their Guenny-fed Doctor to boot yet never the less they are continually afflicted with inward Stoppages Obstructions and Disorders which they call Colds and the more they do indulge themselves the more subject they become to all manner of Diâ—…eases But on the contrary the Country man or whoever he be that doth accuttom himself to open Airs indifferent Clothing airy Rooms simple Meats and Drinks with proper Exercises or Labour and observes other Circumstances belonging to Health as we have taught in our general Preatise of the Nature of things entituled The Wâ—… Health long Life and Happiness c. such an one shall in all respects be healthier stronger and more able to endure Labour than the former and his Life shall be more pleasurable and delightful to him for Nature in every one is capable of being made weak feeble and tender as they shall indulge her and on the other side she becomes hardy strong and healthful if you expose her to proper Labours and Exercises in open Airs and to proper simple Food and Drink and the very same is to be understood of all other Creatures only you ought to vary your Rules and Order according to the Nature and Constitution of each It is also to be noted that such Horses as are kept in the Stable especially those that do not constantly work as Saddle-Horses and the like ought not to have Hay always lie in the Racks before them nor Provendâ—…r in their Mangers for the continual feeding or blowing on their Meat will dull the edge of their Appetites and flatten the Stomach and Action of the Natural Heat therefore they ought to be tyed back from their Racks for six eight or ten hours together which will give Nature and the innate heat of the Stomach time to rally and great Advantages to cleanse and digest all superfluous Juices and slimy Matter which dulls the Stomach stops the Passages hinders Digestion and the Generation of good Blood for nothing proves more profitable both to Men and Beasts than a proper time of Fasting which does as it were refine and purifie Nature makes the Blood thin and good whence proceeds pure and undefiled Spirits and brisk lively Dispositions and renders Food pleasant and delightful unto them Also it is convenient not to give any Cattel much Meat at a time but such a quantity as they may eat up clean so shall their Stomachs and Pallates be kept sharp and Spirits brisk Whereas the contrary viz. Fullness and continual Supplies of Food stupisies all the Senses and nauseates the Stomach heate the Blood making it thick which occasions impure Spirits whence do arise unnatural Heats in all the external parts of the Body with a wearisom Indisposition and shortness of Breath for this cause it comes to pass that most or all Horses that are kept in close hot Stables with Meat continually lying before them blowing on it c. are not only subject to a great number of Diseases but on hard Riding are apt to be out of Breath and Short-winded than which nothing in 〈◊〉 Horse is worse Note further that when your Horse has been rid hard or work't much you may conveniently give them a little Water about two or three hours before you give them Meat provided you suffer them not to drink too freely or to the full Also râ—…bing down Horses when hot with a dry wisp of Straw is to be preferred before walking of them And as for such Horses and Cows as are kept in or near great Cities where many times Granes are a great part of
little inferior to Angels and an Associate with God himself who endued him with both divine and human Wisdom Alas No. Leave off then O Man for shame leave off thy Pride and thy vain Glory and boast no more of thy Knowledge and Dominion and Authority for in truth thou art poor and blind and weâ—…k and helpless and miserably ignorant sink down therefore into Humility and cease from Cruelty first against those of thine own kind and then thou mayst come to see and abhor the Error of oppâ—… essing tâ—…y Inferiors for this is the way to retreive thine Honour and Dignity to bring back the Golden Age and that Innocent Estate which by oppression cruelty and violence thou hast lost for Mercy Innocence and Well-doing are well-pleasing to our Creator and agreeable to the noble divine Principle and attract the sweet Influence of the Coelestials so that the Merciful and the Peace-Makers and Peace-Preservers shall be filled with all good things for as Man was created after the Image of God so in him are contained the true Nature and Properties of all Elements and since God is both the Maker and Preserver of all Creatures there is no doubt but Man his Vice-Gorent here below ought to imitate his Soveraigne therein but instead thereof he sets himself to destroy not only those of his own kind but also all other Creatures so that through Sin and Vanity he is become a professed Enemy to all the Host of Heaven How many thousands of our innocent kind have been murthered by Guns Traps Snares c and many thousands both of our Males and Females have lost their loving Mates by the like Stratagems and no Pity or Compassion taken by Man on our miserable Sufferings but rather they encourage each other to our destruction and cry Hang these scurvey Birds shoot them destroy them they are good for nothing but to eat up our Corn As if God that created us had done it in vain as if he intended us not a subsistance and Food What right I pray has Man to all the Corn in the world or why should he grumble and repine if we take a few Grains to supply our Necessities whilst he squanders away such Heaps upon his Lusts Wherein I fear he has so much besotted himself and by continual Practice is become so harden'd and has so powerfully irritated the dark Wrath in himself that all our Remonstrances to him to move him to Merey and Compassion and to forbear polluting himself with the Blood of the Innocent will be but in vain and that we must still sigh and groan under his Cruelty and Tyranny which as long-run will return seven fold upon his own guilty Head The B ds Supplication OH Thou Great and Immortal Creator Cause of Causes Fountain of Beeing God of Nature Author Preserver and Upholder of this glorious Universe Parent of Angels and Men and all other Animals inhabiting the vast Deeps or the spacious Earth or the unbounded Air Thou hast given a Well-beeing and Self-Preservation unto all thy Creatures but Man whom thou hast made our Lord having east off all Affectioâ—… towards us disobeying thy holy Commands has plunged himself into the Fountain of fierce Wrath and therefore above all things desires and delights in Violence and Killing for nothing will satisfie the hungery Wrath but Slaughter and Blood for every thing must be maintained by its Likeness so that his Rage is now grown so active that we have no place that can secure us from his Violence but he continually pursues seeking to take away our innocent Lives The ungrateful and terrible Noise of his Guns drowns our sweet Melody the whole Air is infected with the stinking Fumes of his murthering Powder no place is free from his Ambushes Nets Glns Pitfalls and Snares so that the sight of a Man is become most dreadful and terrible unto us whereby our Lives being always in danger and fears are made grievous unto us Every Noise we hear we are afraid our fierce Hunter is near And tho' we cry and make our mournful Complaints no Mortals will hear us or take pity on us but divert themselves with our Death and laugh and sport at our Destruction So that we have no Friend no Patron on Earth to help or â—…ommiserate our miserable estate and rescue us from their Treachery and Cruelty none to fly unto but thee O holy Fountain of Light Life to whom we send our dolorous Cries and mournful Complaints for we proceeded from thee and then art the Lord our Maker preserve us thy poor Creatures in that natural Liberty and Safety wherein thou hast placed us restrain the hands of Violence inspire all that profess thy Name with the Spirit of Meakness Tenderness Mercy and Compassion both towards each other and all thy Creation that their Sworde may be turued into Pruning-Hooks their frightful Guns into Instruments of Melody and there may be no more Fighting Wounding or Killing in all thine holy Mountain Amen FINIS Advertisement THere is lately publish't by the Author of the Country Man 's Companion a Treatise entituled The Way to Health long Life and Happiness or a Discourse of Temperance and the particular Nature of all things requisit for the Life of Man Wherein is contained 1. A Description of the four grand Qualities and how every man may know his own Complexion whether Chollerick Sanguine Phlegmatick or Melancholly and what Diseases they are most subject to also what food is most agreeable to Persons of every Constitution 2. Of the excellency of Temperance and the Benefits of Abstinence and Sobriety 3. A Discourse of the several sorts of Beasts and of their Flesh in particular 4. The Proper and most Natural way of preparing viz. Boyling Roasting Baking Stewing Frying and Broyling of Flesh and other Food 5. The Seasons of the year in which most People are liable to Diseases and Mortality and the Reasons thereof and what Food is best to preserve Health at that time Shewing also the Seasons of the year in which most sorts of Flesh are unclean and apt est to contract Diseases and what times men may eat Flesh with least danger to their Health And of the Nature of Summer Fruits 6. Of Waters Ale Beer and Tobacco also of Clothing Houses and Beds and what great Benefits arise from Moderation and Temperance in those things 7. Of each particular Trade as Shop-keepers Carpenters Joyners Sea-men c. 8. Of Herbs Fruits Grains and the nature and operation of each 8. The Mischief of Variety of Meats and Drinks and the inconveniences of improper Mixtures and on the other side what Foods are fit to be compounded Of Colours and how with seven perfect Colours to imitate and represent all the Appearances and Colours in the whole Universe 10. The Reasons in Nature why Cities and great Towns are subject to the Pestilence and other Diseases more than Country Villages 11. Of Infection or Catching-Diseases and how they are transferred from one to another 12. Of Women their Natures Complexions and Intemperances c. 13. The cause of Surfeits and how to prevent them and keep the Body in Health The danger of drinking after superstuous Meals And what it is that chiefly breeds the Scurvey in the Blood Of Suppers and what sort of People may use them without prejudice to their Health 14. Of Windy Diseases the Reasons thereof and why English People especially Women are so much troubled there-with The Evils of eating drinking Food too hot And Mischief of eating and drinking between Meals Of Fatness and what sort of People are subject thereto as also how to prevent it 15. Of Bugs and from what Matter they do proceed and how to prevent their Generation 16. The Vermin-killer being several easie sure Receipts to destroy Vermin 17. A short Discourse of the Pain of the Teeth shewing from what cause it does chiefly proceed and an experienced easie way to prevent it 18. How to cure all Cuts Wounds Bruises c. without Salves Oyntments or Plaisters 19. Of Marriage and the Inconveniences of unequal Matches that they make no Harmony and the Evil consequences that follow more especially for Young Men. With several other most useful Observations too large here to be enumerated convenient for all that are Lovers of Health and Strength to observe To which is added A Treatise of most sorts of English Herbs either Physical or fit for common use shewing 1st The apt times to gather them Astrologically when the Planet that governs them is strong and well aspected the same being there calculated for 19 Years 2dly How to preserve and keep them without losing their Virtues And 3dly The best way of using them iâ—… Posset-Drinks Decoctions and Cordials so as not to destroy the pure spirituous of them Printed and Sold by Andrâ—…w Sowle at the Crooked Bilâ—…t in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch ☞ ☞
their Food there ought to be some Salt now and then mixed amongst the Granes which will dry up the moist Humours and prevent Windy and Watery Diseases or the Rot Salt being of a warming drying Quality Remember also that Stables are more than ordinary pernicious to Mares with Foal as likewise that their Colts when foaled ought to run in the Fields with their Dams until they wean themselves which will be near a Year If the before-mentioned Rules be observed your Horses will seldom want Bleeding or any kind of Drenching but if you find your Horse proves too fast on the change of Pastures or Food be the Season of the year what it will or be the occasion height of Keeping or little Work then the safest and surest Course to preserve them from Diseases and also to cool and lessen their Blood is to give them moderate Labour and with-draw or alter the quality of their Food which will digest all 〈◊〉 Matter and out off the causes of Diseases in the very bud whereas both Blood-letting Purging and most such unnatural means are for the most part done at a venture without the true or certain knowledge either of the Disease or Physical Vertue and Operation of the Medicine so that thereby many times the Malady or Disease is increased for though the common Practiâ—… of Physick as to men be very dangeroâ—… and uncertain yet there is still greater uncertainty in Medicines as to cure wheâ—… administred to any sorts of Cattel for men are capable to judge in some degree of the Nature and Operation of Medicinâ—… and to express what they find in themselves of their Virtues or Vices but the dumb Beasts cannot do any of this Besides most Purging Compositions and Drâ—… used for Cattel come from other Countries which are of a contrary or differeâ—… Nature and Operation from those of oâ—… own growth And since all our Cattel dâ—… constantly live on the Grass Herbs Seedâ—… Grains and Fruits that our own Country produces therefore those forreign Ingredients are more strange and disagreeing 〈◊〉 them than they are to men because Maâ—… through Vanity and Custom hath enur'd himself to them by the constant or frequent eating of Outlandish Productions either entire or at least by mixing them with their other common Food Of Horses Food ONe of the best Meats or Foods for Horses is good Rick-Hay that is about half a year or three quarters old which has heat in the Mow and so cut in fresh every day out of the Rick for that is to be preferred before Hay out of the Barn or Houses and will make all Cattel thrive and prove better First because the pleasant spirituous thin vapours of the Air have their free Circulation and Influences in and about it which does powerfully penetrate all parts even to the Center of such Ricks or Stacks and keeps the pure spirituous Quality and Balsamick Virtuâ—… of such Hay living and causeth the said Hay to settle closer and harder together than it will in Houses therefore Rick Hay has a finer smell or scent than the other which all Horses much delight in and this proceeds from the briskness of the spirituous and balsamick Virtues for this cause if Rick-Hay be well â—…ured or made all sorts of Cattel will chuse it before others especially Sheep who have the nicest and best Pallates to distinguish All that can be alledged against this son of Hay is That there is some waste which is inconsiderable if the Season be dry and care taken as ought to be For the contrary Causes or Reasons House or Barn-Hay is not so good viz. because there the sweet influence of the Air has not so free ingreâ—…â—…nd egress nor can the more spirituoâ—… parts thereof penetrate such Hay which does in a degree suffocate the Spirit thereof and therefore it will not settle so closeâ—… for when the spirituous and balsamick Virtues of Hay are wounded or hurâ—… either by Suffocation or Evaporation thâ—… the same becomes of a light hollow substance and is of a dry Nature of littâ—… heart or vertue the Spirit being the trâ—… Life and moving Power of every thing and the Air is the blower up thereof which does keep the Spirit living I dâ—… not mean the gross Element but you aâ—… to understand that in this gross Elemenâ—… of external sensible Air there is containâ—… a pleasant living spiriâ—…us Power which is the true Life of all things and its Rayâ—… do more or less penetrate all Bodies bâ—… if by any accident or on purpose its Influence be hindered or prevented then such things or places do presently contract great store of Humidity and such Air becomes hot thick and sulpherous whence are generated several sorts of Vermine and Insects more especially when the season is hot for Heat and Moisture are the occasion of the Generation of all such things but where the Elements have their free Influences the generation of all such Vermine is prevented as Mâ—…ths never breed in Wollen Clothes that are daily woâ—… nor Buggs in open Houses but only in close places as in Beds and when packt up in Chests where the Sun and Air are hindered from having free Influences and so there is Humidity contracted and when hot Weather comes there are generated such Creatures according to the Matter and that Quality which does predominate which if it proceed from the Animal Life then the Creature so producted is of a stinking Nature more offensive than any of those Insects or Vermin that are generated from the Vegitative Kingdom But the chief and great Food for Horses is Corn viz. Corn in the Straw which is to be preferred before Corn that is either only Thresht or both Thresht and cleansed from its Chass For all sorts of Corn when cleansed from both Straw and Chaff are too hot and gluttenating and over-heat the body and blood and obstruct the Passages whence Short-windedness and many Inconveniences proceed But on the contrary Barley Pease Fetches Beans or Oats given in the Straw are not only a firm dry strong hearty Food but the Straw of each sort of Grain eaten there-with does open and cleanse the Stomach from all Supersluities drying up the moist Vapours and keeps all the Passages and the Bowels clean and free from hard tough or sharp Humours and slimy Juices which often obstruct Nature and cause griping Pains or Plague in the Guts Also this sort of Food does resine the Blood and generate pure Spirits whence proceeds Strength Courage and Vivacity and lively sparkling bold Spirits and Dispositions and makes them drink freely which much helps to the equal distribution of the Food for this cause Oats of all sorâ—… of Corn are accounted the best and healthiest Food for Horses because two third parts of them are Chaff for should the Chaffie parts be separated from them aâ—… is done in Oat-meal and so given to Horses it would prove as hurtful as any viz. 〈◊〉 the common green Wheat and more iâ—… would so
stop and heat the Blood for the Flower of all sorts of Grains is gluttenating and obstructive for in the Flowerie parts does consiâ—…t the hot Nurtritative Quality and in the Straw Chaff and Bran is contain'd the opening cleansing and digestive Property so that there seems to be a necessity that both should be eaten together being most natural and helpful to each other The Chaffie Brannie parts of Corn and the Flowerie parts thereof may not unfitly be compared unto the Whey and Curd of Milk when separated In the Whey is contain'd the opening cleansing parts in the Curd the Nurtritative Quality the Whey being eaten is too hungry and opening to be taken as Food and the Curd alone is too hard heavy and apt to obstruct Nature and will afford but a bad Nourishment therefore both Butter and Cheese must be eaten with Bread or something that is like it or else it will prove of evil Consequence But it is to be noted that Threshed Corn of any sort is an excellent strong hearty food for Working-Horses that go at Grass especially all the Winter let them lie out a Nights and give them Corn in the Mornings before they go to work and again at Night It is very convenient that all Stable-Horses should be put to Grass from the middle of May till the latter end of Iune or until Iuly for all Cattel delight much in Grass after a long Winter besides Grass in the Spring is full of Life and Vigour of an opening cleausing Quality therefore good to purge and carry off those thick Juices and Humors which the Winter and other Inconveniences have left behind likewise the open Air and lying abroad all night does wonderfully clear and purisie the Blood dis-lodging many Impurities which the Winter and those Stables have contracted and cures the Feet and Legs of those Diseases and Maladies which hot Stables have caused for Horses naturally abounding in heat and standing in those hot steams and Vapours the same are apt to over-heat and sret the Blood especially in the Feet and Legs which occasions Putrifaction which is the principal cause of the Diseases in those parts wherewith Multitudes of Horses are more or less insested What Water is best for Horses to drink RIver-Water deservedly challenges the first place of all others and is much to be preferred before Spring or Pump-Water it being made more friendly and fat by its running through various sorts of Earth for the surface of the Earth does contain a fat saline Quality which the Water sucks into it self whereby this sort of Water becomes of a soft slippery Nature opening and cleansing far wholsomer for all Creatures to drink and performing all uses in Housewifery better and to more advantage than any other Water except Rain-Water Moreover River-Water has the benefit of the Air and sweet Influences of the Elements and Coelâ—…stial Bodies which do as it were purisie and open its gross earthy Body so as it becomes more spirituous and airy than either Spring or Pump-Water not so harsh and blinding The next Water in Goodness to this is Spring-Water especially such as runs near the surface of the Earth and proceeds from a good Mold as Sandy Chalky Grounds which for the most part are of a warming soft Nature Pump-Water follows which where better is to be had I cannot commend by reason of its â—…ld Saturnine Nature whereby it binds the Body and the constant use of it obstructs Nature nor is it so good for any uses in Housewifery as the former There want not some who do much applaud Pond-Water for Cattel counting it a strong warm feeding Water and indeed it is so in some sence but much inferiour to Running or Rain-Water for its constant standing without Motion does thicken and condense it and renders it of a gross fulsome Quality the thin spirituous cleansing Property thereof being as it were suffocated for want of freâ—…h Supplies Motion and where these two things are wanting no water can be good For Motion cleanseth and destroys the gross thick parts thereof which advantage Pond-Water has not therefore does commonly send forth gross offensive Smells and Vapours and to Taste is dull and earthly unpleasing to the Pallate and senses which proceeds from a muddy Quality and Excrements which do happen to such Waters not having vent or motion to purge it self which all Running-Waters have And this want of motion and supplies do not only cause them to smell strong and become of a thick slimy subâ—…ance but also causeth putrifaction whence are generated various sorts of Vâ—…rmin which Running-streams are not subject to It is also to be noted that that Water that hath any manifest smell or taste more than an Aiery taste and smell is not good For good Water has no strong or manifest smell or taste or if it have 't is only a fresh pleasant Aiery Sweetness and therefore if you find any other seent or â—…usto you may be sure that such Water is defiled by Accident or else is not good in its own kind all such Waters are unhealthy either for Man or Beast to drink being of a heavy dull Nature and Operation for that pure thin spirituous Quality before mentioned which all good Water does contain is here destroy'd or suffocated and then presently the dark gross earthy Phlegmatick Nature is awakened even as it is in all other things viz. When the pure Oyl and Spirituous parts are by any Accidents wounded or destroyed the strong fulsom Natures of Saturn and Mars appear sorthwith in their malevolent Forms But so long as the Spirituous Qualities and Balsamick Vertues in any thing remain intire not violated the strong fulsom Nature lies as it were hid or unmanifested being incorporated in the Embraces of those good Vertues for the Friendly Quality does mix it self with every thing according to its Nature which is called and really is the Essential Virtue of each thing but if the good Vertue be any way destroyed or impaired by external Violence or by improper Preparations be it either in Meats or Drinks or the like then that thing becomes of little use or vertue but rather a loathing to Nature and if such things are frequently eaten or drank they prove prejudicial to Health loading Nature with Obstructions and cause dull Indispositions as daily Experience shews For these Reasons Pond-Water is not so good as that of the River and the continual drinking of such stagnated Waters will generate thick Humours and gross Blood hindering the Circulation thereof dull the Appetite and occasions many occult Diseases the rather for that such Waters are subject to various Excrements of the Cattel that frequent which cannot there as in Running-Water be purged away but proves of evil Consequence and causeth Putrifaction and Diseases But here some will object and alledge That both Horses and Cows will chuse rather to drink Pond-Water than River To which I Answer This doth often happen to be true and no wonder for
A serious Revolving of these Questions and examining your selves and your unbosom'd Hearts touching these Queries will be a most useful as well as pleasant Exercise and under the shade of an Hedge more enlighten your Minds than some years spent in a sweaty Library the Chat of a Coffee-House or even the empty Documents of the Schools And when your Spirits begin to languish under the weight of these severer Contemplations then refresh your Bodies either with the Harmony of your well-chosen Instruments or by being diligent in Planting Inoculating and Grafting Trees of various kinds of Fruit than which I scarce know any Labour more delightful or in setting Hedges which may prove not only Ornamental but very Beneficial to your selves and Flocks to secure both from the Injuries of the Elements And those that do thus mannage their Flocks with Wisdom and Discretion shall answer a good Conscience towards God improve themselves to a Praise-worthy degree of Knowledge and Happiness and preserve their Sheep to a far greater Health and Profit than others Of Sounds and the Benefits Musical Hramony yields to Men and Beasts and in particular to Sheep HAving in the fore-going Chapter occasionally mentioned the Musick that Shepherds use to have I think it will not be improper here to add a few words on that subject since the same does not only conduce to the sole Delight of the Shepherd himself but is also of good use in respect of the Creatures which he tends who are much delighted thereby and 't is certain that by how much any Creatures Life is rendered more delightful by so much the faster it thrives and is the less subject to Diseases 'T is agreed on all hands That it was a general Custom amongst the Antient Shepherds to use and play on Musical Instruments as in ruder times on Oaten Reeds and afterwards on Hawboys Bagpipes Flagolcâ—…s c. He is wholly a stranger to the Poets and never so much as Travelled Arcadia even in the Romance that can be ignorant of this Noâ—… was that â—…ice only amongst the Heathen-Swains for we find that great King and illuminated Prophet David being bred a Shepherd had by use and his curious Genius and Industry attained unto an Excellency therein even in his Youth whilst he followed his Fathers Flocks as was afterwards manifest not only when by his curious skill in playing on the Harp he moderated the Rage of King Saul but afterwards by his continual Inclination to Harmony whereof his sweet composed Psalms the most Musical Poems ever extant in the World will be as lasting as Irrâ—…fragable Witnesses There is no doubt but Musical Harmony is endued with wonderful Excellencies and equal parts not only of the Terrestrials but also of the Coelestials and its Harmonious Sounds and pleasant Consorts do powerfully yet quickly as by a most Natural Inclination and Simpathetical Attraction allure all Creatures to its own Property what ever in their Radix stands near or is capable of its Influences So that it does not only change the Affections Intentions Gestures Motions Actions and Dispositions of men and impose its own Harmonious Property on them but also allures many sorts of Beasts and Birds to delight in hearing its pleasant Tunes Thus some sorts of Birds are inveigled by Pipes and Harts may be caught with the same Nay the Fishes themselves are not insensible of its Charms Musical Notes causing Friendship between Men and Dolphins as the sound of an Harp doth lead up and down the Hyperborean Swan and some Authors relate that Melodious Voices are the best means to tame the wild Indian Elephants yea further That the Elements themselves submit to its Power for 't is storied of the Halesian Fountain which is otherwise calme and quiet if a Trumpet be but sounded shall presently rise up raging and swell over its Banks So wonderful is the Power of Musical Harmony that it appeaseth the Fury of the Mind raiseth the Spirit calls them back that are desperate and refresheth the Weary insomuch that the Arabians say That Camels carrying heavy Burdens in tedious Journeys over the vast and barren Deserts are much cheared and will go more stoutly for the singing of their Leaders and hence perhaps it is that all our Carters Plow men generally Whistle to their Cattel when at work and even of men themselves those that carry great Burdens and most sorts of Labouring People do commonly sing in their Imployment and thereby are strengthened and their work goes the more delightfully forward for Harmony chears and refreshes the Annimal Spirits and Senses and causeth equal Operations which do much for tific Nature and chaseth away Melancholly and vain and troublesom Imaginations For this cause Democritus and Theophrastus affirm that some Diseases both of the Body and Mind may be cured thereby which we read was actually done by the Musical Hand of Therpander of Lesbos on many of his Country-men the Lesbians and Ionians their violent Feavers and other Diseases giving place to the Salutiferous strains of his Harp which bid desiance to all the Medicaments of the Man-Lâ—…ch of Chios and all his Tribe of Physitians Orpheus Amphion Pythagoras Empedocles Asclepiades Timotheus c. all meer Heathen-Artists as well as the heavenly-inspired David have performed Wonders by Musical Consorts sometimes stirring up dull Spirits to an active briskness by melodious and familiar Sounds at other times restraining wanton furious or angry Heats by the sweet Violence of their graver Airs for by no other means did Pythagoras reclaim a Luxurious Young man from immoderate Lust. Since such are the effects of Musick it was not without great Understanding and a deep In-sight into Nature that Shepherds in former Ages did apply themselves thereunto and endeavour to Charm their Innocent Flocks with the pleasant Concords of their well-tuned Layes for Sheep are Creatures of a most excellent Composition as to the Elements of the Body and Spirits and therefore all Harmony and Equality has great Assinity with their Natures and they are therewith wonderfully delighted and pleased especially in times of scarcity when Pasturages are hard and scarce as also in cold rainy wet Weather for aâ—… such times Musick does as it were compose and moderete their discontented Minds and Spirits and gently allures them to quietness which does much suit with the Humour and Disposition of this Creature and affords them great Benefit Nor is it any wondâ—… that Musical Harmony should have greater Power over and 〈◊〉 Affinity with many sorts of Beasts than it hath in respect of man because they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first pure Law of Nature given them by the Creator in the beginning whereas man through the power of his depraved free Will hath prcipitated himself into Inequality and â—…ll kind of Discord so that most men take delight and pleasure in Oppression and Violence destroying the Peace and Concord not only of those of his own Species but also of all other Creatures being become an Enemy to the
strengthens the Attractive Faculty for this cause a proportionable time of Fasting makes all the Members and whole Body light and airy But to return to our subject The more Sanguine and equal any Creatures are in their Qualities the more apt they are to be put out of tune when any affront or disorder is offered unto them for this cause Sheep cannot endure any kind of Extreams without manifest danger to their Healths they being sensible of every Inconvenience whether it be from their Keepers or from the Elements by reason of their tender Spirits and natural Heats so that every disorder wounds their Health as if they be but driven a little too hard when the Weather is hot or if they be coursed with a Dog or the like which puts them into an heat in any such case if their Keepers suffer them to lie down whilst they are yet hot and this â—…e done often it will make them break out with a Scab or Mange when they come into fresh Pasturage or about Michaelmass Also if they are Folded too close it will occasion the same Disease or if in Summer time and hot Weather the Shepherd do move them too often out of one place into another as the custom of some is who do not understand the Nature of this delicate Creature especially if it be in the heat of the day it will keep them from proving or thriving and also cause the same Distemper So likewise much wet will Rot them therefore Shepherds ought to be the most knowing and careful of all Husband-men since they are to preserve so timerous and tender a Creature whose Nature cannot endure any Inequality without danger It will be convenient that all Shepherds in dry Summers who keep their flocks in common Fallow-Fields or Downs when Grass is scarce and that they have no keeping for them but what such miserable Commons will afford should let their Sheep out of the Fold betimes in the Morning not that they naturally delight to feed early but in times of Drought and where Water is not near at hand then early in the Mornings the Air is moist and full of humid Vapours which powerfully penetrate and are suckt in through all parts by the way of the Pores which Nature has more advantage to perform when they are out of their Fold because they spread themselves into fresh open places where the Air is more humid thin and spirituous than in Folds where the Breathings and Heats that do proceed from the Sheep do make such Airs thick and hot rather suffocating heating the Blood and drying up the cool refreshing Moisture for this cause if they are pen'd close it gives them the Scab or Mange as is mentioned before You are to take notice of the Scituation of your Field or Downs and in the Morning walk or slait your Sheep gently on the highest and and driest parts or if there be Corn-fields or humid Pasturages then feed them by the edges thereof for three or four hours till they begin to be weary and the heat of the day comes on But remember that you do not use any Violence towards them for violent Motion will heat and spend their Spirits and dry up their Radical Moisture and stir or awaken the Central Poysons and Original Heat which ought not by any means to be awakened and yet the same is sooner done in them if care be not taken than in other Creatures by reason of their weak timerons Spirits and tender natural Heats But when the Sun draws near the Meridian viz. about ten or eleaven of the Clock you ought to turn them from off the edges of such Pasturages or Corn-fields into the lowest Vallies or Clayie Grounds that your Field will afford and there let them lie at large and at the greatest ease you can and as scattering as your Valley will afford till folding time which ought if the Drought be great to be late otherwise not You ought at all times to use Tenderness and gentle Behaviour to your Sheep but more especially in dry times and when the Grass is scarce for a far lesser quantity of Food will supply Nature's wants when they are still quiet and lie at ease and a less quantity of Water than when they are hurried out of one place into another for Motion especially in hot seasons and in the heat of the day does cause sweating and too great an evaporation of the Spirits whence follows faintish Indispositions that bring very ill Effects This Order all Shepherds ought to observe from the latter end of May till August if hot dry Weather continue so long and being duly follow'd will preserve your Sheep from many Inconveniences especially from breaking out with the Scabb or Mange towards Michaelmass or when they come to fresh Pasturage As for the time of Shearing of Sheep there are various opinions amongst Shepherds some will have it sooner others later but for certain the best is to unclothe them betimes viz. in the latter end of May or beginning of Iune and many of the Sheep-masters and Shepherds are of the same judgment but out of a certain Policy they will not shear them then because they should sweat in their Wool which makes it watery heavy and consequently more for advantage but that is not any part of my Work I only aim to inform you the best and most Natural way and means to preserve them sound and free from Diseases and for that purpose it cannot be denyed but that the Shearing them betimes is best especially in hot Summers for their Wool is so thick and hot as it causeth them to sweat much which evaporates the Spirits and causeth saintiness weakening the Natural Heat which hurts the digestive Faculty of the Stomach and that by degrees disables them to go through an hard summer for after shearing is commonly the hardest time for Sheep especially for all Fiâ—…ld-Sheep which are the subject of my present Discourse whether it be a seasonable time or not for Sheep will prove better after they are shorn than before And if the latter part of the Summer be dry and hot then there is but little Grass if wet the Sheep being newly unclothed are cold and uneasie and also hungry but the Grass is then of a gross substance and but of little Vertue it being the Declination of the Sun all things fade and decrease in Power Vertue and Strength And such Sheep as are by good Order well kept in the beginning of the year shall be far better able to go through an hard time which generally happens in the latter end of Summer viz. in Iuly August and September than those that are out of heart for want of good order and keeping even as a Cow which is well winter'd will give a far greater quantity of Milk the following Summer than one that has been hardly kept When Summers prove Wet especially when the Rains come in about Iune or Iuly then these following Rules ought to be observed whether your
Field be subject to the Rot or the contrary for Wet is a far greater Enemy to Sheep than Drought as daily Experience does testifie though all Extreams are bad Therefore the Shepherd in all such Seasons ought to let his Sheep continue in the Fold till seven or eight a Clock in the Morning or longer if the Morning be very moist in which time the comforting Beams of the Sun with the help of the Air will in part or wholly have exhal'd and dry'd up those moist slimy Vapours the night distill'd down on the Grass which being gone the Grass is much more wholsom Besides their lying long in the Fold doth beget a sharp piercing Appetite for Fasting does naturally digest and clean the Stomach and Vessels thereof from all superfluous flegmie matter which is contraâ—…ed by that too much moisture which Grass in wet seasons does plentifully contain for the action of the Stomach and Natural Heat is never idle if the Creature be in health so that when it is not supply'd with its usual food then it powerfully attracts or draws unto its self all such gross matter and supersluities and casts it forth both upwards and downwards thereby preventing matter for the generation of Diseases and when the Stomach is thus purged and prepared by due fasting then a little inconveniency in food will not hurt whether it be in quality or quantity for a vigorous well prepared Stomach does not seldom make good Nouriâ—…hment of very ordinary food Further the Sbepherd is to observe to fold his Sheep before the Dews fall whereby he may avoid many Inconveniences nor need he fear that the long Nights lodging will hinder them from proving for all Cattel that have clean sharp Appetites will eat as much in two hours as others will in four whose Appetites are imperfect and Stomachs foul and obstructed through flegmatick Juices and supersluous Humours Besides Sheep do not naturally care for feeding in the Morning whilst the Dew is much on the ground except in times of scarcity which seldom happens in wet seasons the Passages of Sheep are then furr'd with a moist slimy matter which ought always to be cleansed either by Fasting or by some drying food as Hay Corn or the like If Shepherds observe these Rules they may prevent most of the Diseases Sheep are subject to since for the greatest part they are occasioned for want of good Order and skill as Heats Colds Over-wet weather being folded on New-plow'd moist grounds or for want of a little Hay in the latter end of summer viz. in Iuly August and September when the Weather proves wet and cold And though your Field or Pasturage will not Rot your Sheep yet it may and does oft-times cause a great number of Diseases many of which prove satal to them as the Diseases of the Gall and Iaundies Choller and sickness coming of tough Flegon Blinding Stoppages Water in the Belly Red-Water Coughs turning Evil Pains in the Ioynts Lameness in the Feet and the like Evils and Distempers Shepherds should likewise observe that after an hard Summer and great scarcity when they put their Sheep into fresh Fields and Pasturages where there is plenty of Grass if then he intends to preserve them free from Disorders he ought not to let them eat as much as they will but only bait them as they call it and when they have eaten pretty well to take them out and let them have a sufficient time to digest it and then turn them in again and continue this order for a Week or two or three as â—…ou shall see occasion and though your Sheep do not look so full and pâ—…ove so fast as others that lie at Rack and Manger as the Proverb is yet in conclusion they shall gradually attain to the same or better Proof and Well-liking with others and be abundantly sroer from Disorders and Diseases This the Shepherd may remember That from Midsummer to Michaelmass is the most dangerous season in the whole year and therefore then he ought to be most careful and circumspect And of this I shall now proceed to give the true Grounds and Reasons in Nature The most hazardous time for occasioning the Rot in Sheep is from Iuly to the last of September especially if there be Floods or constant Rains or moist foggy Airs There are many Opinions what the matter is that does breed the Rot in Sheep some sâ—…y the cause is their licking up of small white Snales which much Wet does generate others think that it is occasion'd by great Dews and others have other Fancies which I forbear to mention being all besides the business For most certain it is that the true cause of this pernicious and fatal Disease in Sheep is too much Moisture at the season before-mention'd for they very rarely Rot at any other season of the year though there be the same occasion as to the Weather which all Shepherds and Sheep-masters ought well to consider As for Example Suppose Wet weather comes in after Michaelmass viz. in Decembâ—…r or Ianuary and hold so most part of the Winter yet this shall not Rot Sheep except some few in low Marshie Moorish Grounds where they have store of Grass and lie nights and days and have no Hay given them Or if Rains and floods come in Ianuary February March or April and hold dripping till the latter end of May or beginning of Iune and then cease and a dry Summer follow this also will not cause Sheep to Rot except as is said before in some certain low Grounds a few may be infected Hence it appears that from the latter end of Iuly to the last of September or October is the time for generating this Disease and wherein it reigns amongst Sheep if that season happen to prove wet Now the Reasons why Sheep are not so subject to this Disease at other times of the year are 1st If Rains or wet Weather come in after Michaelmass in December Ianuary or the like the season then is cold which does check and consume the raw indigested flegmy substance or matter which all grass is filled with in the latter end of Summer viz. in August September and October as appears by the Latter-Math or Hay made in those Moneths what poor feeble stuff is it in comparison of that Hay the first Spring produceth And how little heart it affords to those Cattel that feed thereon 2dly In this Winter-season most Sheep are in part kept with Hay which dries up â—…d consumes all that superfluous Moisture which is so injurious to Sheep 3dly The Coldness of this Winter-season causeth the natural Heat in all Creaâ—…res to become more Central which gives â—…rength and power to the Stomach and â—…igestive Faculty to digest and throw off â—…ll raw cold superfluous matter which at the other before-mentioned season gives â—…ccasion for the generation of this Disease for all cold weather strengthens the natural Heat sharpens the Appetite and make the Spirits strong and powerful
you may about the middle of the day feed them in the lower grounds for two or three hours and when it draws towards Evening put them again on the higher places always observing to fold them before the Dews fall and let them be folded on dry grounds it being injurious to Sheep to be out late at night by reason of the humid Vapours which then arise 2dly If it do chance to rain a considerable part of the day then you ought to give your Sheep a little Hay at night and in the morning which is the surest Remdy against this Disease and also many others for dry Food is proper at all times for Sheep especially in wet seasons and ought to be given them once a day all the Moneths before mentioned There are likewise other sorts of Food which are admirable for this purpose viz. When the Weather is very wet and the Air humid with great Dews to give them three or four times a week either at night or morning Oates in the straw or Pease and Barley this will prove an absolute prevention of the forementioned Disease or if your Oates or other Grains be Thresht then mix some Salt with them and so give it them If this be continued and the afore-mentioned Observations followed it will certainly prevent the Rot and other Distempers for this dry Food does afford such a firm Nourishment that it dries up and consumes all superfluous Moisture in the Body Now the Rot in Sheep is a Dropsical Disease or the overflowing of gross Flegmatick Humours which in a little time spoils the Complexion that it becomes of a pale waterish Colour It also generates hard congealed matter or knobs corrupting the fountain of Blood and causeth the Body to become cold for the Bodies of all Creatures have their Original from the Watery and Earthy Qualities as the Spirits have theirs from the Element of Air But in what thing soever the Element of Water does too violently predominate there all is poysoned the Natural Heat loseth its power and proper Action and Nature is put out of her way and all the Humours and sweet Oyl or Balsamick Vertues turn sower or become of a stinking Rankness whence proceeds Melancholly and a sad heavy Spirit which is the beginning of Sorrow and end of all Pleasure which nothing will so well prevent as continual supplies of the before-mentioned Foods viz. Hay Corn in the straw or Thresht Corn mixt with a little Salt This will certainly cut off the causes of this Distemper in the bud if other circumstances mentioned before be duely observed There is another thing which will very much help to prevent the generation of this Disease the Rot in Sheep viz. to have large sheds or low wide Houses like Barns but open on all sides to house your Sheep in during wet cold Weather which is a general Rule in Flanders and when the day proves wet many times they will keep them in the House all day and give them Hay but at all times they observe not to let them out before the Sun and Elements have exhaled the moist Dews and Vapours and to house them again at Night before the said Dews and Humidity falls by this means they preserve their Sheep from the Rot whereas otherwise their Land being low their Sheep would almost every year be swept away thereby But note that these Rules and Observations must be Timed for a little Industry and small Charge may prevent the Mischief but if once your Sheep be tainted then it will be an hard matter to recover them you may possibly preserve them with a great deal of care and charge till spring but then most of them will dye Therefore be sure use these Preventive Remedies as soon as you perceive the Weather begin to require them But when there happens three or four days or a week of dry Weather then you need give them Hay but once every other day or a few Oats or other Grain either in the straw or thresht mixt with a little Salt as you see occasion I would by the permission of the Lord be he that with four or five Loads of good old Hay viz. Hay one year old and a few Oates or other Grain preserve and secure three or four Hundred Sheep from the fore-men tioned Disease in a general Rot and I would not take any other measures than what are before specified Those Sheep-masters that live in places subject to the Rot may do well to change their Sheep every two three or four years for Hill-Country Sheep which will on the change of Pasturage thrive much better and not prove so subject to Diseases for change of Pasture for Sheep and Air for Men generally proves Healthy In all Hilly poor Grounds where Sheep do work hard for their Living they do thereby become healthy strong and hardy for Nature in all Creatures does use highest diligence to Arm and defend her self against those Inconveniences hard keeping and labour bring on her But those Sheep that are bred in Rich Pastures where they have Grass in superfluity lying at ease filling their Bellies without much labour or motion like idle People who feed to superfluity and to sleep such Sheep I say are subject to many Diseases for no Creature can attain to Fatness except they have Ease and superfluity of Meat and Drink which consequently renders them full of gross Phlegmatick Humours and Juices which do in a degree deprave Nature of its innate Heat and as it were suffocate the pure natural spirits and strength and stop the Passages and contract the Vessel of the Stomach and give much flesh and little spirit and that too very impure Hence the Flesh of such Creatures that are large and bred in low Marshie grounds loaded with fatness is nothing so sweet and pleasant as that of smaller Cattel that are fed more moderately on high dry Grounds Nor will their Flesh take salt or keep so well or long nor breed so good Nurtriment more especially in the said Moneths of August September and October for then the flesh and sat not only of Sheep but all other Annimals is far more gross and fuller of flegmatick Juices than at any other times of the year and that 's the Reason it will not keep so long or take salt as at other times for where the Phlegm abounds in any flesh or fat there the pure Spirits and balsamick Vertues are weak those few that are are impure therefore such Flesh presently turns to Putrifaction the gross Juices and Humidity hindering the Salt from incorporating with it for where the spirituous part of flesh is hurt or wounded either by over-fatness and phlegmy substance or the Creature surfeited or the flesh kept too long after 't is killed c. then such flesh will not take salt nor keâ—… as others do If you think this strange ask the Tallow-Chandlors whether the Tallow be not fuller of gross Phlegm in Summer than in Winter but more especially Iuly August
of Nature into an equal Operation as it hath in other Fruits The Iuice of Limes therefore contain two siery Qualities viz. a Saturnine churlish Fire which is of an hard Coâ—…gulating Nature in Operation like the raw cold Saturnine Airs of Winter which congeals the Water and hardens all things 2dly a sharp keen Martial Property of a sower harth sretting Nature and Operation And though in that Drink called Punch these Extreams are some-what allay'd or moderated by the friendly Ingredients viz. Water and Sugar which do not only render it pleasurable to the Pallate but also more tollerable to the Stomach Nevertheless it must be granted that no Extreams can be made altogether Homogeneal by any Artificial Mixtures or give Nature such ample Satisfaction as those things that are equal in their parts For the first leave the Stomach and Desire always either Craving and in want or disordered For when such improper Compositions of Mature and Immature Fruits and Unwholsom Liquors come into the Body Nature's Limbeck the Stomach quickly separates them as sometimes you may perceive after you have eaten or drank such things by the sower Belches and keen sharp matter the Stomach sends up into the Mouth as when any shall eat Pyes Tarts or other Food made of unripe Fruits tho' never so much sweetned to deceive the Pallate if one make a Meal of them he shall find those sower distasteful Belchings and also that they leave his Stomach unsatisfied The same may also be said even of Ripe Fruits when too great a number are jumbl'd together of contrary Natures There are but few that are truly sensible of the many sore Evils and Dissatisfactions improper Mixtures in Diet brings upon the Body and Mind of Man But certainly My Friends and Country-men you cannot but be sensible how freely how bountifully the Creator hath given us all those things that are truly Natural and Necessary to support Life and are they not familiar and procured with little Labour and less Hazards either to the Body or Mind But on the contrary are not all these Needless things hard to come by so that oft-times the Acquest of them tends to the Ruin of the Soul and Body And yet when all 's done the enjoyment of them gives neither Satisfaction to the one nor Health to the other but makes our Wants the greater for presently we shall want Doctors and Physick to repair those Ruins which our own Intemperances have made such improper Meats and Drinks being the original Causes of those cruel Belly-Akes and griping Pains in the Bowels Feavers Fluxes and Dropsical Diseases both here and in the West as also in the East-Indies where our English inhabit all according to the Nature of each place and as other Circumstances of Intemperances shall concur But besides Diseases there are many other Mischiefs that do attend all those places and Countries that accustom to give themselves up to Supersluity and especially to the drinking of strong Liquors for they deprave both Superiors and Inferiors and are the Nurses of perpetual Crimes Confusions and Disorders on both sides rendering the first Fierce Rash Tyrannical and unfit for Government and the latter Rude Bold Surly Inhumane and more apt to Contemn all Authority than Obey Nor is this Prohibition more sit and requisit in respect of our selves than in regard of our Neighbours so that if once we admit the common drinking of such Heady Intoxicating Liquors we may justly expect the same Inconveniences to befall us as have done New-England For the Venom of such Liquors by our fatal Example will quickly spread it self amongst the Indians and so instead of making them better or more humane and tractable by our Christian Vertues and Abllemious Conversation we shall make them Tenfold worse and teach them the gâ—…d Sin of Drunkenness which is the Inlet Parent and Nurse of the most Monstrous Enormities as Uncleanness Murders c For all People who have not the true Knowledge of God and his divine Principle and the Understanding of the hidden Natures of things are terrible greedy and desirous after such fierce wrathful Liquors as also after Food wherein the Blood is it being the Original of every Life which is the forbidden Fruit that man ought not to have eaten nor awakened there being searcea more evident Token of his depraved state and that the fierce wrathful Spirit does bear sway and carry the upper Dominion in mens hearts than their violent Inclinations after Blood and fierce strong Liquors which two things have a simile to and with each other and the Devilish Nature and Wrath is nourished by the use of them which is further manifested by all the Savages of the Desert as the contrary appears in Sheep and all tame humane and tractable Creatures which therefore we â—…ll Clean Beasts II. Another thing my Friends and Country men which I desire you to consider is the innumerable Evils and cruel Miseries man draws upon himself and the whole Creation is the common use of war-like destructive murthering Weapons and their Appurtenances viz. Guns Swords Powder Bullets Shot Drums and the like Devilish Instruments I may properly so call them for no doubt the invention and use of them all did originally proceed from and is still someâ—…ted by the fierce Wrath for as they have been always used for Destruction so indeed they can have no other use but only to awaken and encourage Wrath and Blood-shed Therefore let not our Streets the Temples of Peace and Tabernacles of Love and Innocence be encumbred with such mischievous Tools let not our pure Air be disturbed with their ungrateful Noises Clashings Ratlings and â—…ouncings nor poluted with the Sulpherous Steams they send forth as if so many Devils had marcht through the Skey and lest the stench of the Infernal Regions behind them Wherefore should we give wild Indians that do not know the use of the Messengers of Death such a bad and fatal Example as to shew a new Method how to kill one another which no doubt in process of time they will improve so far as to make War upon us and kill us with our own Weapons witness the Evils that by this very means have attended our Neighbours and the like we or our Postenity may justly expect Besides tell me I pray what Affinity there is or can be imagined between a Christian and Guns Swords Powder Shot Drums and the frightful noise of Armed Troops marching on to Manslaughter Desolation and Spoil does such Imployment of Wrath and Blood look any thing like the pure peaceable meek innocent Christian-Life which teaches to do unto all as we would be done unto and to love not only our Friends and our Neighbours but also our Enemies which assures us that those that use the Sword shall perish by the Sword that commands us if we are sâ—…ote on the Left Cheek to turn the Right c. Can any thing be more Opposite to all this than swaggering in Buff and Armour and boasting