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A63820	Wisdom's dictates, or, Aphorisms & rules, physical, moral, and divine, for preserving the health of the body, and the peace of the mind ... to which is added a bill of fare of seventy five noble dishes of excellent food, for exceeding those made of fish or flesh ... / by Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3205; ESTC R34680	81,040	161

of Butter and less of Cheese 503. Bread Water and Flower without any farther preparation Bread and Milk Herbs and Bread Fruit and Bread are the most useful and necessary Foods which are ready at hand and may be obtained by every one with little labour of Body or trouble of Mind 504. All Men ought to consider that the chief cause of all Diseases and Unhealthiness to young and old is for want of Government and Wisdom and the desiring those things that are out of the ways of simple Nature 505. There are not many Diseases where Men walk in Natures Path and avoid Compositions and as much as in them lies fiery Preparations 506. The more Men imitates Nature the nearer they come to their first State of Innocency and thereby obtain Health of Body and vigor of Mind 507. An Example of this we have in all Animals or Beasts who continue in that pure Law they were made in and placed under how Healthy most of them are when Men do not render them otherwise by Oppression and Disorders 508. Keep therefore O Man unto thy Heavenly Guide that the Lord hath placed in the very Center of thy Heart turn thy Eyes inward and learn Wisdom this Divine Spark and holy Son of Light if obeyed in the Life thereof will readily shew and teach Man all things both for Divine and Human that are necessary for this Life and that which is to come 309. Study thy self for that worthy thing in thee cannot be known nor its Voice distinguished from other Voices but only by Self-denial Sobriety and Cleanness in the practise of Silence alone leaning on the Shoulders of none but only thy beloved Jesus 510. Remember that the true pleasure of Temperance and the many benefits that follow Sobriety cannot be imagined by those that lives Riotous Lives so neither can the sweet Influences thereof be enjoyed without self-denial and some trouble to old Adam 511. If thou wilt know God and the sweet Influences of his good Spirit in thy own Soul then thou must live as it were alone for there is but little Company in the ways of Virtue and Self-denial 512. There is nothing does make Men more sensible of Gods Blessings then Temperance and Cleanness in Meats Drinks Imployments and Communications 513. How ready are the sober of Mind to give the Lord Thanks for his Mercies and how sweet is every mean thing 514. Temperance is endued with Divine Power it fits the Mind for the Worship of God their Beds are easie their sleep sound not subject to Indispositions nor molested with Fevers their Heads are not dulled with Fumes nor their Stomachs oppressed with fainting Fits or windy griping Humours they rise as fresh as the morning Sun and are fit for the Exercises both of the Body and Mind their Radical moisture flowes freely through every part like a pleasant Gale of Wind which moderates the Centeral Fires that they burn not too violently This excellent State of Body and Mind is not attainable without the fear of the Lord and self denial which are the first steps to all true Wisdom both Spiritual and Natural The Benefits of Temperance and Mischiefs of the contrary Vice 1. TEmperance is the True way or Royal Road to Peace and Happiness both in this World and the World to come for without no Man can observe the Law of God and Nature 2. Temperance freeth the Body from Labour and Danger and the Soul from Cares Passions and disquieting perturbations 3. Temperance makes all Men rich for it administers Content and gives length of Days Health and a sound Mind which whosoever enjoys cannot be said to be poor 4. Temperance cuts off vain Thoughts and Imaginations and all extravagant Desires as it were in the very Bud which continually wounds the Soul and Body of the Intemperate 5. Temperance wisheth no ill to its Neighbor but is a friend to every thing that is innocent and good 6. Temperance is a perfect Cure or prevention of many cruel Diseases both of the Body and Mind 7. Temperance is a sure support to all needy Families if she be entertained and her voice obeyed 8. Temperance makes Harmony in the worst of Times and deadest of Trading because she furnishes all her followers with what Need and Nature requireth nor does any thing render a Man more like his Creator 9. Temperance is a true Guide to Mans ways cleanseth the inward Parts from uncleanness and makes the Eye or Spirit of the Soul to see with an Intellectual Sight like its Creator who maketh his Sun to shine both on the Just and Unjust 10. Temperance is a glance of the Divine Power which denies Selfhood and teach those that follow her voice to Love all Gods Creation as God Loved Man 11. Temperance envieth nothing nor coveteth no Mans Goods but is a f●iend unto all avoiding Strife Contention Controversies Oppressions Violences and Manslaughter 12. Temperance is the firmest and best Establishment of or in all Governments for she teacheth Man to Love and adore their Creator Know themselves and to have an awful Respect to their Neighbors and whole Creation of God's wonderful Creatures 13. Temperance considereth all things prohibiting no Creature that Freedom and Priviledges that their Creator hath bounteously given them by th● grand Law and Charter of Nature 14. Temperance knows what that Glorious Liberty is the Great Apostle speaks of that the whole Creation groans to be delivered into and by its sweet influences attracts all things that are capable unto that pure Fountain 15. Temperance illuminates the Soul and makes Mens Reasons Divine 16. On the contrary Intemperance is the greatest Evil on Earth because the Seed-plot of all other Evils and most unlike our Blessed Creator for the superfluous Man wants all things but God wants nothing 17. Intemperance wounds the Body with Diseases and the Soul with Ignorance and Blindness perpetually perplexing the latter with greedy Desires and the former with needless Toils 18. Intemperance hood-winks the Soul so that it cannot distinguish between what is good and profitable and the contrary thereby obstructing and violating the Way and Law of God in Nature 19. Intemperance is the Original of all evil and vain Imaginations it makes Men turn Rebels and imbroils the World with Plots and Wars that they may gratifie their own unbridled Lusts. 20. Intemperance causeth Children in the secrets of their Hearts to wish for the death of their Parents that they may enjoy their Estates Married People to desire the death of their Yoak-fellows that they may get others with more Money or that are more young and handsom to please their wantonness 21. Intemperance persuades Men to Marry old diseased and deformed Women which does neither agree with their Age and Tempers nor can answer the end for which Marrying was ordained by God which is one of the greatest Evils under the Sun because they Sin against Nature and the Light of their Understandings 22. Intemperance makes Men more unnatural than

to its like therefore a Wise Man can only be said to be a Priest a Lover of God and fit to Pray for he only can Worship that confounds not the Qualities of them he is to adore but first making himself the Sacrifice erects a Statue of God in his own B●east and builds in his Soul a Temple for the Reception of the Celestial Light 35. Hence it follows that he is truly Pious who having attained the knowledge of things Divine returns his own Perfections as his greatest glory unto the cause from whence it flow'd wholly resigning himself to a desire of enjoying that which is able to satisfie him 36. These 3 last Aphorisms I have borrowed from the Comments of Hiracles on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras writ in Greek more than 2000 years ago which may shew that what I Recommend is no Novel but asserted by the Wisest Ancients Of REASON from whence it proceeds and Cause of its variety in Mankind 1. THere is scarce any thing wherein Man is more proud of himself than in a certain Faculty which he calls Reason hence Aristotle defined Man to be a Rational Creature though Yet according to his own method of Logick which is the Art of Reasoning it is thought several undergraduated Animals may fairly put in for a share in that Epethite or Difference And still what this Reason is where it exists and whence it proceeds is a Question 't is certain it does not unfrequently take up Arms against it self witness Mr. Hobbs a Person that might claim as great an interest in that Indowment as most our Age has known who lays it down as a Maxim That as oft as Reason is against a Man that is against Advantages and Inclinations so oft would a Man be against Reason witness also that Prodigy of Wit the late Earl of R who with the highest colour of Reason wrote a virulent Satyr against Reason it self endeavouring to expose it as the greatest Plague of Human kind and which rendred them both more absurd and miserable than the most brutish of Beasts 2. I alledge not this as partaking with or justifying either of these Authors but only to shew how variable some Mens Conceptions are about this matter which will further appear if we consider that what one Man asserts and contends for as the most Rational thing in the World another no way his inferior for parts shall explode and laugh at as most absurd and contrary to Reason and this Contradiction is not only seen in particular Men but between great and numerous Parties Sects and whole Nations in things of the greatest importance and daily in practise amongst them as their Customs Laws Rites and Ceremonies both Civil and Religious The Story is well known of that Eastern Prince who having got in his Army some Indians that were wont to eat their Parents Bodies when dead and other Europeans that buried theirs in the Ground demanded of the first what they would take to quit their Custom and suffer their Fathers to be interr'd who cryed out Unanimously Let the Gods forbid that we should commit such unreasonable Impiety as to expose the dear Corps of our Ancestors to rot in the vilest of Elements but when to the other on the contrary he proposed the Eating of their Friends Bodies they rejected it with horror as the most unreasonable Overtures in the World 3. Since therefore the Reason of Mankind appears to be so different I shall endeavour briefly to penetrate into the Original Grounds of such its variety in order whereunto it will be requisite to consider the three grand Principles or Fountains the Understanding and distinguishing of which will render us capable to know the Root whence the variety of Mans Reasoning doth arise and proceed for to whichsoever of those each Man hath devoted himself or entred into with his will sutable thereunto will his Reason be 4. The first Principle or Fountain is the Original Fire or Fountain of all things the Cause of all Life and Motion which in its own Nature devoid of the Sons Property is a dark Poysonous Fierce Consuming Fire as the highly worthy Moses saith The Father is a Iealous Angry God and a Consuming Fire that is without the qualification of the Divine power or Son of God for it is the Son that influences qualifies enlightens and reconciles the dark harsh Father and unites the Soul to its Creator for from this dark harsh Principle the Soul of Man takes its Original being an unbounded Fountain having in it self a Free Will and though it be fallen out of that glorious Estate it was first Created in and forsaken its beloved Spirit or Sons Property yet it is fallen into the Human Nature and therefore stands in the possibility of being made better if the Will enter into the Divine or second Principle but worse it cannot be then it is in its own Nature for this cause the great Light of the World said he came to seek and to save that which was lost viz. the Souls of Men which had departed and separated from the guidance of the holy Principle and lived in the operations of its own Nature and fierce harsh Fires now if Man enters with his Will into this fierce poysonous dark harsh Principle and separates himself f●om the Light and suffers his Soul to its operat●ons in its own nature so that this fierce pr●perty comes to be predominant in the Center of his Heart then all the Reasonings of such a Man does arise and proceed from it and unto such People Injustice Covetousness Pride Domineering Oppressions Violence Outraging Envy Backbiting Fighting with and killing not only our own Kind but all others seems to be natural and therefore the highest of Reason with them for they account those things and practises to be their rights and priviledges and that God justifies them in doing the Voice of the Fierce Wrath as Captain Vratz the German that was Executed here some years ago for the Murther of Esquire Thin being a little before his Death urg'd with the hainousness of his Crime and what deep and sincere Repentance ought to be found in him before he could expect a Pardon from God he answered That he knew indeed that killing a Man was always amongst little People counted a great business but in many Circumstances lookt upon by Persons of Quality under a far different Aspect and that he did not doubt but God Almighty would regard him as a Gentleman And if others that make profession of Human Butcheries do not speak out altogether so plainly we may reasonably suppose they have yet ready the same Sentiments or else they could never follow such Courses without the least shew of Remorse and from this Principle as devoid of the second does proceed not only amongst Heathens Turks and Jews but even amongst those that call themselves Christians all their bad Reason Laws Pollicies Customs and whatever else is of the nature of evil in Man one to another and to