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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63791	Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3179; ESTC R203819	70,066	226

Sea should swell a little higher and wash the tops of your Sugar-Canes I might not then lawfully swim Home to my own Country without being beaten to a Jelly for a Run-away Master Out you Rogue Are these your Contemplations nothing but studying Mischief to your Master Your Bones shall presently pay for the busie Idleness of your Brains and the Sauciness of your Tongue Slave O boon Master I beseech you be not angry I meant no harm in the World This is a Day on which you do not Work therefore I hope you will not Fight which I conceive is ten times worse for I had rather work all the Sunday then be beaten once If you will be pleased to lay by your huge Cudgel and vouchsafe to answer me a few harmless Questions I doubt not but I shall divert you as much to your satisfaction as if I had danc'd two Hours Mast. Though you are an Impudent yet since you seem to be an ingenious Raskal I am content for once to hear your Prate What is your wise Question Sl. I desire first you would lay that frightful Cudgel a little further off and then begging Pardon for the Presumption since this is the Day you observe to serve God in I would crave leave to be a little instructed touching that Service and wherein it consists Mast. Why It consists in being Christians as we are But what should I talk to such a dark ignorant Heathen scarce capable of common Sense much less able to understand things of such an high and mysterious Nature Sl. I confess we are poor silly dark ignorant Creatures and for ought I find so are many of the Bacchararo's too as well as we but that you may not grudge your Time or Pains I will assure you that I will attend very seriously to what you say and possibly may prove somewhat more docible than some of our Complexion For I was the Son of a Phitisheer that is a kind of Priest in our Country and Way he was also a Sophy and had studied the Nature of things and was well skill'd in Physick and natural Magick I have heard him often discourse of a great and mighty Beeing greater far and brighter too than either Moon or Sun which framed both Land and Sea and all the glittering Glories of the Skie and he was wont to say Men were the Children of the great King who if they were good would take them up but I think it was after they were dead here into spangled Regions where they should do no Work nor endure any Pain nor Fight one with another but remain in Ioy and Peace and Happiness 'T is so long ago that I was taken from him and sold hither that I have forgot much of his Talk and yet I remember some of his Skill whereby I have Cured several of my Country-men since I came hither of Diseases that your Doctors could not help either so surely or so suddainly Mast. I have heard something of your suecess that way and since thou art the Son of an Heathen-Philosopher and pretendest to more Wit than the rest of thy Fellow-Brutes what is it thou wouldst be at Sl. Sir I desire to be informed what a Christian is or ought to be Mast. Though I think it will be to as little purpose as to go about to wash thy Skin white to inform such dark stupid Heathens as you are nevertheless I shall endeavour to gratifie your Curiosity 1 st He that is a Christian ought to believe that God made the World and all things therein Sl. O then Master I am a Christian for I believe that as well as you Mast. Hold your Tongue there go many other things to make a Christian besides that for he must also know and believe that Man being thus made did by transgressing the Law of his Maker fall from that good and perfect State wherein he was made into a sinful estate and thereby was liable to the Wrath of God and so to be Damn'd forever or suffer everlasting Punishment But God out of the unspeakable Riches of his Grace and Goodness to his Creatures thus become miserable determined in his own secret Counsel and in fulness of time did actually send down his most beloved and eternal Son Iesus Christ to take upon him mans Nature who after a most unspotted exemplary Life and laborious Preaching the good Tidings of Remission of Sins to all that should believe in him and enduring many Persecutions and Affronts here on Earth was at last put to Death without the Gates of Ierusalem by the cruel Hands of the Iews and being buried rose again to Life the third day and ascended into Heaven by which Death of his he satisfied the Wrath of God for the Sins of the whole World as the Scripture witnesseth Sl. If Jesus Christ dyed for the Sins of the whole World or satisfied God's wrath for the Sins of All Mankind then we that you call Heathens may justly challenge equal priviledge with your selves Mast. O no you do not believe in his Name nor observe his Commands and Precepts Sl. As how I pray Mast. You are not Baptized in the Name of the Holy Trinity nor do believe the Merits of Christ's satisfaction or that he hath taken away your Sins Sl. This is a brave Religion that by the Death and Suffering of one all men that in after Generations believe this shall have their Sins pardon'd and be blest with eternal Happiness Mast. Still Sambo you are too quick there is more required then a bare Faith or verbal Belief that such a thing was done Christ is our Prophet to teach us and our King to rule us as well as our Saviour to redeem us They must yield Obedience and do a Christian's Duty that shall have an Interest or Benefit by his Death Sl. I pay then tell me the duty of a Christian. Mast. The Gospel of Christ or the Doctrine which he taught and we profess instructs and requires us 1 st To fear the Lord that created all things 2 dly To be Merciful and do unto all men as we would be done unto 3 dly To be Sober and Temperate in Meats Drinks and Exercises mortifying the Lusts of the Flesh and avoiding all kind of Superfluity that so we may not waste or abuse the good Creatures of God 4 thly To avoid evil Communication because it corrupts good Manners and vain Words but especially wicked Ones 5 thly To observe the Rules of Purity and abstain from all appearance of Evil both in Words and Works 6 thly To free our selves from Envy Strife Malice Back-biting and Slander not to accuse men behind their Backs of what they will not speak to their Faces or cannot prove 7 thly Not to judge of things we understand not lest we be judged nor condemn those things of which we have no certain Knowledge or Experience 8 thly To be sensible that the Lord by his all-seeing-Eye and divine Principle beholds all our Wayes and that to

so that then Nature is not so well able to perform her Kitchin-work in the Stomach by a perfect Concoction or Separation of the Meats and Drinks and so all the Senses are dulled and the Intellect stupified and not a few seeds of diseases are thereby sown throughout the Body Besides the long Mornings Work or Exercise has by that time pretty much wearied dulled or evaporated the brisk lively Spirits which are alwayes the main supports of Concoction and Digestion and so Nature is still rendred the more uncapable of doing her work with ease But in the Morning after Nocturnal Repose has recovered the wasted Spirits and made them Brisk Airy and full of Life the digestive faculty is fortified and rendred able to digest the same quantity of Food with much more ease and safety The same is to be understood in the Afternoon or towards Night for then the heat of the day being over and the Body becomes Cool Airy and full of Life and being a sufficient time before sleep as at Four or Five a Clock such Suppers will not Incommode Nature nor hinder Rest as late eating is apt to do especially in hot Countries and still the more in maturer Age or such as begin to be striken in years to whom such Meals are most injurious 5. Such as have due regard to their Health and Strength ought for the reasons aforesaid to Rest from Eleaven a Clock till Two in the Afternoon which will wonderfully recover their Spirits and render them much better able to go through with their Labour with a lively Vigour and to do more preparation of each of them together with the Nature and Operation of various drinks as most sorts of Wine Ale Beer Syder each spoken to distinctly by themselves c. 8. They ought to avoid the frequent eating and drinking of all Foods or Liquors in which the Sweet Quality is too highly predominant for sweet Foods are of far more dangerous consequence as to Health than most People imagin for all Sweet things when fermented in the Stomach do turn to the highest Sowerness viz. into a keen sharpness which does not only spoil the digestive faculty but infects the Blood with a Mangie Scorbutick Humour causing stoppages in all the external parts whence proceed Indispositions and akeing Loyns and feeble Joynts For the same cause it is that such as eat much Sugar or sweet food are extreamly troubled with rotten decay'd Teeth and Gumes for those dullified foods cause such a sour acid Quality as generates putrifaction which centers on the Teeth and between the Gumes and so destroys them And it were far better and more healthy for People if they would accustom themseves to Foods and Drinks in which the Bitter and Sower Qualities were more predominant especially in hot Climates where most sorts of Fruits are sweetish for the Root of all Motion Opening and Cleansing consists in the Bitter Quality for which reason the Sophys or Wise-men both of the Southern and Eastern Countries have taught the People to moderate all or most of their foods with Herbs and Fruits that are of a Bitterish Quality which does wonderfully support Nature and preserve Health whereby they attain to very great Ages as we noted before of those in Guinea and the same may be observed elsewhere for those Patriarchs whose Longevity we find Recorded did all of them live in very hot Countries But their Temperance supported Nature and so it will in a proportionable degree all that practice it And therefore if these Rules of Health be seriously regarded and followed those causeless scandals on the Climate the Heat c. of these happy Western Southern and Eastern Regions not inferior for Health or Pleasantness if rightly understood to any in the World will cease and the English Traders or Inhabitants may there extend their lives in Comfort to as good an old Age as they would have promised themselves in their Native Country But without Discretion and Temperance in Diet Drinks Exercises and Affections of the mind Diseases will certainly attend us wherever we reside and an immature Death be apt to seize us There is no Region so happy no Elevation of the Pole so temperate no Air so salubrious as to keep People in Health whether they will or no and those that obstinately violate Nature and wilfully persue courses absolutely destructive may justly be rank't amongst the number of Self-Murtherers for it matters not much whether a man kill himself all at once or by repeated Acts and degrees only the latter seems less excuseable since it has not the pretext of a sudden Temptation or Passion but seems a more deliberate design of destroying both his Body and Soul against all Cautions and Arguments from time to time offered to him both by Reason and Experience to the contrary Those therefore that would avoid the Brand of being Felo's-de-se let them before it be too late abandon Riot and Excess and embrace Temperance and Sobriety so shall they have Health of Body and Strength of mind and length of dayes here and a blissful Eternity hereafter A Caution LEt no sober well minded men nor any that profess the honourable name of Christianity be so frequent in those places of Debauchery viz Taverns and Ale-houses the first whereof being the only places of all manner of wickedness where all the high lofty state of Superfluity is practised being the haunts of evil Spirits and where their chief work is done Women are defloured and Estates spent the Soul made uncapable of Salvation the Health destroyed in a word the whole Macrocosmical man ruined and is ●he very Radix of devilish Fewds and cruel Murders Therefore let no good Christians dare to be seen in any such places for tell me I pray what pleasure or delight can a sober well-minded man take in being amongst such a devilish Croud where there is all kinds of wicked lewd Behaviour as Swearing Lying baudy Songs drunken Healths and roaring Huzza's where a man can hardly hear himself spake like the fiery unequal operations of the Elements or Sea-Tempests and Storms Now if Christian men scruple the wearing of needless O naments and Garments with other things of Gallantry and State wherefore should they not shun and avoid the greater Evils And although it be lawful to drink Wine in a Tavern and Ale in an Ale-house in cases of necessity as Travelling or the like ye● they ought in Cities and Towns to avoid drinking or frequenting such places whereby you will discountenance the Evils thereof and preserve your selves Harmless and Innocent 2. All sober People ought to refrain drinking between Meals especially all Gentlemen Merchants Shop-keepers c. who are the men that drink the brave noble exhilerating Liquors in Superfluity which a little custom would make most pleasant and easie besides it would free the Passages and disburthen the Stomach from all superfluous matter by which the Blood would become fine and cause it to circulate freely whence will proceed pure