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The planter's speech to his neighbours & country-men of Pennsylvania, East & West Jersey and to all such as have transported themselves into new-colonies for the sake of a quiet retired life : to which is added the complaints of our supra-inferior inhabitants.
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Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
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Land of the Living that defileth himself with Blood Consider also O Man how unpleasing dollerous and frightful would it be to thee in the pleasant Moneths of March April and May when thou walkest in the delightful Fields if thou shouldst not hear the pleasant and refreshing Charms of those of our kind would thou not fear say and think that the Creator was angry and that some Judgment was near at hand Why then dost thou thus endeavour to bring all our joyful Tones Notes Sounds and melodious Harmonies into Mourning and Silence and to root us from off the Earth and that we should have no Beeing or Habitation in the Elements which are as much our Right by Elohim's great Charter as they are thine Also how Monsterous Cruel yea and every way Ridiculous doth Man behave himself to all those of our kind for though many do not cannot delight themselves with the best Instrumental Harmony those of their own Species can make yet all men love and delight in our pleasant Tunes and Harmonies and yet neither our Innocency nor our Ravishing Notes will appease his Fury towards us but many of them in the hard and severe Winter will rise betimes and spare no pains to kill us and on the other side when Spring comes the very same men will rise as early to walk in the open Fields Groves and Meadows to hear our Melodious Songs and pleasant Harmonies Oh! manifest unparallel'd Contradiction and Cruelty Does this look like Man in his innocent estate who was made but 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 weak 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 oppressing thy 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-Gerent 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 thâ—se 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 be come so harden'd and has so powerfully irritated the dark Wrath in himself thaâ— all our Remonstrances to him to move him to Mercy 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 at 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 Vpholder of this glorious Vniverse 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 cast off all Affection 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 â—errible 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 Gins 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 commiserate 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 thou 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 Meekness Tenderness Mercy and Compassion both towards each other and all thy Creation that their Swords may be turned 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 Beast 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 aptest 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 Vniverse 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 superfluous 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 in Posset-Drinks Decoctions and Cordials so as not to destroy the pure spirituous of them Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked Billet in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch ☞
they become putrified rank and stinking therefore in all sorts of Foods and Drinks there ought to be great care and diligence used not to destroy this friendly Quality or middle Nature which is in every thing the Uniter and Preserver as it were of Soul and Body it being that which gives the most fragrant Smell and pleasant Taste to all Drinks and Foods and is the true Life Light and Splendor of every thing in the Annimal Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms And in what thing soever be it Annimal or Vegetable this friendly Quality is either naturally impotent or impaired by pernicious Art or other Causalty thenceforwards that thing is neither good for Food nor Drink except the Venoms of the Martial and Saturnine Properties which then are altogether predominant be first corrected for if it be in Animals then such Beasts are fierce cruel ravenous and unclean If in Minerals they are high Poysons if in Herbs or Fruits they are rank and fulsom and also in some degree Poysonous and all this by their natural Constitution and Quality And the very same is to be understood when the Essential Virtues of things in themselves most wholsome and pleasant come to be hurt or destroy'd which being done in the Preparation of Rum Brandy and all such sulpherous Spirits 't is evident how destructive the use thereof must be to Nature 2 dly Limes are an immature Fruit wherein the Martial and Saturnine Poysons are so powerful that the Sun and Elements have not had power to awaken the Balsamick Vertues or bring the Properties 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 Coagulating Nature in Operation like the raw cold Saturnine Airs of Winter which congeals the Water and hardens all things 2 dly a sharp keen Martial Property of a sower harsh fretting 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 Belehes 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 Superfluity 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 fit 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 Abstemious Conversation we shall make them Tenfold worse and teach them the grand Sin of Drunkenness which is the In let Parent and Nurse of the most Monstrous Enormities as Vncleanness 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 scarce a 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 call 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 fomented by the fierce Wrath for as they have been always used for Destruction so indeed they can have no other use but onlv to awaken and encourage