which has any sound sooting either in Holy Scripture or in created Nature And yet how long and how far have these mis-countings prevailed Not only amongst Ethnick Philosophers but also amongst professing Christians and do so still unto this day There is a measure of our days and Jehovah is he who must make us for to know what it is There are divers phrases in Scripture note-worthy here As one day and days one a long one of days a day of constituted or of instituted Time a day-morrow or After To fill up the number of ones days Six days of the working days of this Earth yet the day great the day to be hot the day to descend greatly until the inclining or declining of the day until the firm preparing of the day to fill up a seventh of days to number days the strength of the day an Evening of a day the seasonable time of a day in a day the looking forth of this day days turning away or turning the faces or declining towards their end The blowing or breathing forth of that day at break or dawning of it a day of the East the days of Harvest The Spirit or wind or breathing of the day The remitting of a day to or towards the Evening The days of Heavens The days of years Days over or upon an year Also yesterday A day in a day From day unto night From the light until or unto the halfing or dimidiating of the day or the middle division of it into parts These with several other such like would have their use for the determining of divers practical cases That Wo should awaken conscience which is threatned against those who putting darkness to light and light to darkness as those do who make one half of a day from Midnight to Noon half dark and half light at Aequinox and the other half of the day from Noon to the next Midnight that light and that dark Contrary to the established order in the Law of the Creation This is the daily measure of time For we read of Time in the Scriptures Opportune time The Opportune time of the gift of the Evening the Opportune time of the going in of the Sun called the Opportune time of the Evening from the Morning and unto the Opportune time of the set season for instituted worship observe this The Sun knoweth his going in The constituted time of the days The constituted or instituted times of Jehovah a day of convention This daily time is made up of hours as hours are of minutes a minute or minute-time or moment we meet with in the Word one minute a moment in a day one a moment a minute quickly gone into a moment like as a moment like unto much even as a moment As a little of moment a moment little or a finall minute moments minutes of time An indivisible point of time a minute or moment is a very short space of time a moment one every moment That word which signifies a moment is derived from a root which is to cut off on to break asunder because it is one of the least particles and minute parts of time broken off as it were the most minute-fragment of time These minutes and moments do fill up an hour such a number of them And this kind of knowledge an ingenious enquirer doth know now to make some good improvement of is divers cases relating unto these parts of Time O how sweet and satisfactory would it be to understand even these little minute things in a Scripture-way For here we may meet with an hour an hour one That same hour The Chaldee word for an hour comes from an Hebrew root which doth signifie he looked he beheld Because Men in their actions do intend the hour as it passeth away The Teller or Nuntiatrix of Time An ascending Horologue which doth point out the degrees by which the Sun before Noon hath ascended and after Noon doth descend The ascensions of that Sun the goings up the goings in of it The measures of daily Time might in this Scripture-way much heighten there understandings O who will give that we may be Redeemers of Time The Doctrine of weeks is proved from primitive pure created nature in seven days as the Creator made them There were seven distinct days severally created in order of time and no more which being ended another week begins An whole full complete week doth consist of seven days not of six or fewer days not of eight or more days because Aelohim made all in these several distinct days He made no less and he added no more Hence those Scripture phrases of three weeks of days or three sevens of days a feast of weeks or of sevens of days a feast of weeks or of sevens of those weeks or sevens In your weeks or sevens A week or a sevenny A seven-night a seven-morn or Septiman two sevennies or weeks weeks or sevennies a week one the cut off half of the week to fill up a week this to number a seven of sevennies weeks seven and weeks sixty and two weeks seventy To compleat or fill up three weeks of days For Jehovah to keep to us weeks of Statutes of Harvest according to the Hebrew they are weeks of Ordinances relating to the feast of seven weeks or seven Sabbaths A sevenny of years and a seven sevenny of years The beginning day of the week is called one day because till a second day came there was only that one day and the last day of the week is called the seventh day because there is no further day in that week There is a great Remark and a special honour put upon this number of seven in the Scriptures as the number of perfection a complete number The seventh day pointing out the weekly Sabbath The seventh Moon was a peculiar dignified Moon the seventh year was a specially separated Sabbatical year The seven-times seventh year was a singularly honoured year for Jubilee Moons or Months took in these days and weeks Hence we read of a Moon or Month of days two days or a Month or days The Moony-Innovation of days One to the Month or one day a Month that fifth The Son of a Moon or of a Month From the sufficiency or fulness of the Innovated Moon in his Moon Behold an Innovated Moon the morrow The number of our Moons or Months is with Jehovah Aelohim three Innovated Moons or Months He or It shall touch that Moon or Month that seventh When will he pass over this Innovated Moon This an Ascension of an Innovated Moon or his Moon or Month to the Moons of the year The night-part of the day is a part of the Innovated Moon There are twelve Moons or Months these do make up a complete full year The first Moon the head of Moons There is a Moon in the year which has more of a full head for divers Evenings together then
have the first Hour of the following Day and so that Day shall take his name of that Planet As for Example suppose this day were their Sunday Sol Venus Mercury Luna Saturn Jupiter Mars S. V. M. L. Sat. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. J. M. S. V. M. L. S. J. M. S. V. M. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Luna therefore followeth whence they call the second Day of the Week Monday Munday or rather Moon-day as if it were Moons day from this ancient Ethnick Custom of ascribing all the Days of the Week to some Idol God or Planet When the most Ancient Germans were Pagans they appropriated the next Day unto Sunday to the special adoration of the Moon who was the next Idol according to the course of the Days of the Week before mentioned Hence in Teutonick High Dutch or the German Tongue it is called Der Montag from Mon the Moon and Tag a Day and in Belgick or Low Dutch Maendach often Maendagh from Dagh a Day and Maene the Moon In French Lundy Lundi jour Lunaire In Italian Lunedi In Spanish El lunes In Latin Dies lunae and in English Monday The third Day is the Day of Mars as it is named in divers Languages as in Latin in Spanish in Italian in French in British or Welch and in Greek they make this Planet Mars to be the God of battel and of strife contention debate controversie whence the High Dutch and German Tongue now calls it Dinstag and the Belgick or Low Dutch Dijnsdagh Diissen dagh Drings dagh from Dring contention or strife and Dagh a Day because they dedicate this Day of the Week to contention and strife In English it is commonly called Tuesday of Tuisco who as they affirm was chief Leader and Ruler of the German Nation from the Tower of Babel who in honour of him after his death called this Day Tuistag that is Tuisco his Day And likewise after his name they do in their own Tongue call themselves Tuytcsh and their Contry of Germany Tuyteshland as also the Netherlands using herein the D for the T do make it Duytesh and Duytesh-landt Hence in Latin they are called Tuiscones and Teutones and their Tongue Lingua Teutonica and all of Tuisco or Tuisto as Tacitus calleth him In English it is commonly named Tuesday having retained the meaning of the German denomination The Fourth Day they call the Day of Mercury in Latin in British or Welch in Greek and in other Languages in English they name it Wedensday or Wensday in Belgick or Low Dutch Woensdagh or Wodensdagh or Godes-dagh for so they called Mercuries Day as if it were Gods Day Wodans or Godans Day or as Verstegan willeth that Woden was among the Ancient Germans and Saxous a most valiant and victorious Prince and Captain and his Idol or Image was after her death honoured praised and sacrificed unto that by his aid and furtherance they might also obtain Victory over his Enemies which when they had obtained they sacrificed such prisoners as in that battel they had taken and from his Name this word Woden in their Tongue signifieth fierce furious As in English when one is in a rage we sometims say he is Wood or he taketh on as if he were Wood so of this name Woden whom after his death they honoured as a God came this name Wednesday instead of Wodensday The fifth Day they name the Day of Jupiter or of Jove in Latin in British or Welch in Greek and some other Languages which Day they consecrated to their God Jupiter or Jove as that Planet which they supposed had dominion over this day In English it is commonly bur corruptly called Thursday of Thor a name of an Idol which the ancient Germans did worship and Day a Day by them dedicated to this Idol In Belgick or Low Dutch Donder-dagh the Day of the Thunderer from Donder Thunder and Dagh a Day to which agreeth the Teutonick High Dutch or German Tongue doth agree Donners tag that is the Day of the Thunderer for the Latins do call Jove the Thundring one This Idol Thor wore on his head a Crown of Gold and round about were set or fixed twelve bright burnished golden Stars for they were perswaded that being displeased he did cause Lightning and Thunder The sixth Day of the Week they called the Day of Venus in French Italian and Spanish from the Latin In English Friday so in the Saxon Tongue the High and the Low Dutch from Friga an Idol of the Germans This Idol represented both Sexes as well men as woman and as an Hermaphrodite but more of the Female She was reputed the giver of peace and of plenty as also the causer and maker of Love and Amity out of which it appeareth that Friga was the Goddess which the Romans and other called Venus The Seventh day is named by the Ethnicks the Day of Saturn so in Latin because they supposed that the Planet Saturn did chalenge to himself the Dominion of this Day So in English Saterday or Saturday as if Saturns Day in Low Dutch Sater dagh from Seater an Idol of the Germans lean of Visage having long Hair and a long Beard and was bare headed and bare-footed In his left hand he had a Wheel and in his right he carried a Pail of Water wherein were Flowers and Fruits In Low Dutch this Seventh-day is called Rust-dagh from Rust Rest and Dag a Day the Day of Rest In English French Italian Spanish Portuguez Latin Greek and Hebrew it has its right Name Sabbath the Day of holy Rest and it would be one good means of reviving and of restoring the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath if it had its true name still given it And it is observable that in one place of Scripture where the LORD hath expresly forbidden the mentioning of the names of other Gods there immediately before he doth direct and lead us to the proper name of this Day the Seventh-day and a Day of Rest a Sabbath Day and so should the other foregoing six Days of the Week be called by their own Scripture names When a Reformation is throughed according to the Word amongst other Idolatries and superstitions those of Ethnick Names of Days and of Months amongst others must and shall dawn This Heathenish Anti-christian defilement has also brought in polluted Names amongst the Months The Romans appointed the beginning of the year to be the Calends of January because on the first Day of this Month their Consuls were first created when that Government was set up amongst them and from thence from that time it was a solemn day for the New-years gifts c. then also they did sacrifice for luck or for fortunes sake as they Paganishly do phrase it what they were to do the whole year and they were wont to send some sweets as dry Figs and the like as a good omen to one another This Month is called from
himself hath declared this in the second Psalm That he has anointed his King upon Zion the Mountain of his Holiness doth and will tell the Decree Jehovah said to me Thou my Son I this day begat thee Ask of me I will give the heathens thine inheritance and the ends of the earth thy firm hereditary possession Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron as the vessel of a potter thou shalt scatter them in pieces Of this Jesus doth Peter understand this Psalm and from hence doth the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews prove Christ's Call to his Office of Priesthood This Christ was the first anointed with the Spirit and with the Oyl of Gladness above his Fellows in the forty and fifth Psalm This Name Mashiach or Messias as applyed to this Son of God was well known in Israel as appears by Andrews acknowledging him to be so to his Brother Simon and by the Testimony of the Woman of Samaria who confessed this Name And hence it is that those Disciples of his who believe on his Name have this Honour from him to be called Christans both in the Old and New Testament He charged other men not to touch his Christians his Christs his Anointed Ones in the one hundred and fifth Psalm those who were thus consecrated to him and set apart to high and honourable Offices and Imployments under him by the Anointing of his Spirit which they had from him that is holy as writes John in his first Epistle Which Name was revived and received at Antioch where the Name was renewed in the Apostles times and they were again called Christians For there are the Fellows of Christ being taken into Consortship and Partnership with him in the Anointing whereby they are also made Kings and Priests as John speaks in the Revelation There oyly pourings out of the Spirits were in a fulness upon Christ not in lesser measures Jehovah possessed me saith Christ in the Book of Proverbs in the beginning of his way before his Works before them before the World was I Anointed before the beginning before the first things of the Earth when yet there was no deeps was I brought forth when there was non Fountains heavy with Water when yet Mountains were not fastned before the Hills was I brought forth yet he had not made the Earth nor Streets no not the beginning nor dust of the inhabited World When he fitted the Heavens there was I when he appointed the Circuit upon the Faces of the deep when he fortified the Clouds above when he strengthened the Fountains of the deep when he laid his Decree upon the Sea that the Waters should not pass the commandment of his mouth when he appointed the Foundation of the Earth Thus speaks the Father by the Prophet Isaiah concerning his Son Behold my Servant whom I uphold mine Elect my Soul delighteth I have given my Spirit upon him he shall bring forth Judgement upon the Nations The LORD Christ was warrantably lawfully called to this Office God the father sealed him thereunto As Christ speaks of himself in what John doth write of him and elsewhere in his Prophet Isaiah The Spirit of the LORD Jehovah is upon me therefore Jehovah hath Anointed me to preach No man taketh this Honour to himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron So also Christ did not take this Honour to himself to become an high Priest but he that spake unto him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee gave it him As also in another place he saith Thou art a Priest for ever upon my word O Malchi-tzedek Hence it is that Christ is called by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews the Apostle and high Priest of our profession and by Malachi The Angel of the Covenant So that Christ had a Testimony from his Father for his being appointed unto this Office not often after he had taken Flesh of the Virgin Mary when a Voice came from Heaven saying This is my well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and when the holy Spirit descended as a Dove out of Heaven and abode remaining on him but long before under the Old Testament Dispensation And before that also even before the World was he the anointed This LORD Jesus Christ was Administrator under both Testament Dispensations of Grace He chief in Office and all others that were lawfully called and rightfully sent forth were such as did minister and serve under and for him He was the LORD God of the holy Prophets as John calls him in the Revelation and as the Father sent him so did this Christ send his Apostles It was this Christ who so often appeared to Moses as has been shewn Christ was Faithful to his Father who constituted him in Office and who was Heir of his own House In which House he imployed Moses to be his Servant who was also faithful to and under Christ It was the Spirit of Christ who did witness in the Prophets of Old as Peter mentioned in his first Epistle He was the chief one in Sion as Isaiah calleth him who did declare the things that were to come to pass and this is the same Son of God in whom the Father hath spoken to us in the last days Him hath God made LORD and Christ and to him was given Dominion Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Tongues should serve him The Father hath given unto him dignity to execute Judgement he hath given all Judgement to the Son All must obey and stoop at the command of this ever Blessed LORD of Glory who has proclaimed this of himself that all Authoritative Power is given him in Heaven and upon the Earth God hath committed all into his hands He shall reign till he hath put all Enemies under his feet This is he that is appointed of God the Judge both of the Living and of the Dead In this was the Love of God manifested towards those whom he chose in Christ and gave to Christ that he hath sent his only begotten Son into the World that they should live by him so loved he the World that he thus gave Christ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life O how much hath he commended his Love to such He was first in the Love him hath God set up for a Prepitiatory-covering an expiatory reconciliation Thou LORD art worthy to receive the Glory and the Honour and the Power for thou hast created all things and through thy will they are and were created This Jehovah Christ was the Creator of all things as the Father is Creator and as the holy Spirit is Creator They the Creators Jehovah was the Creator of all things This Aelohim was he who gave his Creatures their Being as Moses hath delivered to us the History thereof To this do others bear witness in the Scriptures Praised be Johovah Aelohim that made the
other Creatures whereby they also are serviceable to man When it is dryed it becomes Hay this also is Food to Beasts and Cattel Herbs were given unto men to feed upon the green Herbs which was bestowed for this end both before and after the Fall of Adam Man had the Herbs of Paradise before and the Herbs of the Field Thus it was also after the Flood Nebuchadnezzar was sent a grasing for a remedy and it might not be altogether unworthy of a learned Physicians inquiry whether if there were a discrete choice of Specifick-Herbs for the cure of that Distemper it would not prove one of the most proper Medicinal Foods for such as are overgrown with bestial Melancholy or deprived of Humane Rationality as to the use and exercise of it for the present The Wise-Kitchen-Herbalist is one of the most successful Doctors and Practisers of Physick It is a sore Judgement when the LORD for sins doth send either such Hail as spoileth the Herb or the Locusts Palmer worm or other hurtful Creatures to consume the Herb. Or when the Herb doth wither or doth fail this is a sign of the barrenness of such an Earth As in a time of great drought it useth to do Thus also when the Earth doth not bring forth tender Herb when the Mildew which hath the name in Hebrew of paleness is a plague upon the Corn and other tender Plants and Herbs through too much moistness as blasting is with driness whereby the natural greenness is gone before it be ripe and the colour is faded when that which was given to be food for Man Beast and Cattel is corrupted It is a great benefit from Jehovah when there are Herbs in the Mountains when the Pasture fields and the Habitacles of the Desert are stored with Herbs this is a singular favour of God towards his people it is a blessing when there is a budding Grass in the Fields pleasant Pastures and Leas where green and tender Herbs do spring When this Earth doth bring forth Herb commodious for the Tiller of the Field and so when God doth give the Herb. The Leaves of some Trees are for healing or for stamping or beating as we use to stamp or beat Leaves or Herbs small to use them in Medicinal Drinks or Plaisters Herbs are also given unto the bruit Beasts for Aliment and Food for Physick and Medicine before the Fall and also useet the Fall The Herb is the Aliment of the Elephant and of Beasts and of Cattel of the Ass of the Ox of the Heifer or Cow Green Bows of Trees have their use also for this And hereby these living Creatures do become the more serviceable to man Herbs have a concreated Virtue to flourish much and to be green Hence greenness is attributed to them which greenness for the cause of sin doth sometimes fail Hence to flourish as the Herb of the Field to be tender as the tender Herb to germinate as the Herb. The tender Herb has a splender after Rain it has a comely floridness and a lovely decor The Herb quickly withereth and soon dryeth especially the Herb that is struck or smitten with the scorching of the Sun then its Flower Falls and its beauty perisheth The Moorish Fenny Herb the Reed or Sea-grass groweth not without Water and is soon withered in dry places God takes care of the Herb though to day it be and to morrow it be cast into the Oven There are different divided sorts of Herbs both in respect of the efficient cause For some are swon and come from Culture and others are unsown voluntary and growing without the use of such Art naturally spinging up without any skill of man laid out about them The sown Herbs are expressed by such as are seeding of Seed the other is the Fruit-tree yielding Fruit whose seed is in it both are budding grass And also in respect of their Native place For there are Herbs of the Field Herbs of the Mountains Herbs of the Moors or Fens Also in respect of growth and of age Some Herbs are younger and tenderer others are more grown and ripe the distilling shower doth make them fruitful also in respect of their quality for some Herbs are bitter with which the Paschal Lamb was to be eaten Others are satish Herbs There are Pot-herbs all kinds of such Some whereof are of the Fields gathered for Food others are of the Gardens Gardens do afford Fruit for Food The Kings themselves did use Garden herbs and Orchard fruits The Gardeners Work is to Till and to Dress Gardens for such Herbs Tythe of them was to be paid as proper healthful Food for Labourers in the Work of the LORD There is both Food and Medicine in them too Some of them are proper for those who are weak Daniel chose this kind of Dyet and preferred it before lushious dainties of the Royal Table and it put him into the more healthful state Some are greater than others as that of the Mustard Seed is one of the least What is weak is compared to the green Herb which doth quickly perish The place of Grass is the Earth the Mountains not dry but moist places It greatly flourisheth for a time the Spring is usually the Season of its greatest flourishing when it more buds forth in its beauteous verduxe though withal it quickly fails There is green Grass and there is Grass that is withered and they have both of them their several usefulness for several purposes The LORD has ways of smiting of the Grass in which case much of its Virtue is lost It was Aelohim who created the Planets He alone gives them power to encrease He adorned the Garden of Eden with them Such a Garden is one of the pleasantest places for earthly delights for a studious searcher into these secrets of Nature here below It was Solomon's Wisdom that he excelled in this Science He treated of Plants from the Cedar to the Hysop or Rosemary rather and most mens concluding upon the loss of that Book doth feed a gross mistake as if now this Art were not to be searched after in the Word of Truth Whereas there is more of this in Solomon's Writings came to our hands than passeth under through exact Observation but in taking in the rest of the Scriptures concerning this there might be found an admirable fulness on this subject matter The budding Plant doth put forth its boughs The most pleasant of Plants do not profit without the blessing of Elohim Olive-plants are always green and they are of a growing Nature The LORD Jesus himself is compared to a tender Plant and so is his Church and People It is healthful as well as delightful dwelling to be among Plants and Hedges There are some Plants that are green Plants of the Valley There are some Plants which are called
Delights of Aelohim an high Honour put upon this low Creature There is a Plant to renown or celebrity Some Plants are not planted of Christ's Heavenly Father which with the Plantation it self shall be rooted up There is a time a fit Season of Planting and there is a time of plucking up what is planted Plants do prosper much near the Rivers of Waters Every one of these little hints have useful Directions given unto those who would make a complete knowledge of the Herbal Science It is Aelohim who doth plant them even when they are set by the Art of Man or without the industry of Man and it is he who doth bless them Though Earthly-mindedness must be watched against yet earthly Plants mâ—st be carefully look'd after It is Aelohim who did plant the Ear and it is he who planted the Heavens He is the great Planter There are many Scriptures that do speak of this wonderful Secret in Nature even when they have a further meaning in them to set out other things by these plain similitudes from such common Creatures It being one great part of the Mystery of Christs Wisdom in his Word to instruct people in divers profitable knowledges at once Some are planted in a pleasant place Those that are planted by the Waters do prosper most some other Plants are in a dry thirsty ground There are some whom God doth plant and establish and there are others whom he will pluck up by the roots There is a co-planting a growing up of two into one Tree Here comes the Art of Ingrafting and of Inoculating It is planting that doth lay the first foundation There is a Faith that can plant in the Sea Aelohim maketh the Hay to germinate he causeth the Mountains to bring it forth It doth grow near the Waters near Fountains or Torrents on the Mountains Some on House tops The very place of their springing doth give some light to Science of Herbs Here is growing matter of further discovery to be made by those who are discerning Inquirer into Natures Virtues and Operations and faithful observers of experiences productions and successes It would be a great undertaking and a glorious performance to perfect this Work The use of Hay is to be Aliment to bruit Animals to Horses to Oxen which feed sometimes on the Herb sometimes on Straw and for want of these they perish The Herdsmen should be wised in this what is proper food when where and in what measures How little skill is there herein Hay is a small light thing It is that which doth quickly wither and is soon cut down There is a season for its Mowing There is a second growth after the first cutting down There is a time for the gathering of Herbs and a way of drying them for use I was entring upon the Doctrine of Trees and of their Fruit as described in the Word But it is so large that a distinct Treatise might profitably be published to the World from the Scripture about it I point out the Word-way for others to travel further on in whose profession doth lead them more on in this path Only let me add somewhat more about Herbs The Scriptures do mention a time of gathering Herbs especially the Herbs of the Mountains when the Herb is revealed and the Grass-plant appeareth they are fittest food for man those of them that were appointed for food When they first spring forth and are well and full sprung up to be fit for that end And it should be inquired whether then also they are not in their prime for medicinal use when the Herbs thrust forth in their verdure strength fulness and choiceness of Juyce I pretend not to any deep insight into this part of the Medicinal Art but do put upon the inquisition whether that part of the Spring time when Sheep use to be shorn which is mentioned in the Verse immediately following that which you have in the Margin-above Then when men use to sell off their Goats when Bread is put into Goats Milk and is eaten the young Kids of the Goats being weaned when there are blastings by Lightnings or by East wind whether this be a good time to gather Herbs The green Herb has its name from a Root that signifies to spit It is a kind of spittle of the Earth its radical moisture shewing it self upon it It comprehends all green moist Herbs for Food Smell or Medicine A Word comes from the same Boot which doth signifie mildew or paleness a disease of Corn and of Men. This may be improved by a skilful Physician Many Herbs are not eaten but whilst they are green and moist then are they proper and good for Food When Herbs wax palâ— wan and withered much of their Virtue is lost as to some purposes their greenness and moistness being gone There is a word in Chaldet from the same 〈◊〉 which doth-signifie paleness arising from sudden fear or terror as doth make the face pale and livid the blood going off from that part and leaving a yellow colour behind Thus herbs are sometimes yellow either through overmuch moisture and so losing their verdure do degenerate into paleness and cannot so ripen or when they are struck with over drought or with rust From the same Root there is a word in Arabick and it is used by some Hebrew Rabbins which doth signifie the yellow Jaundies and the Dropsie when the Gall doth diffuse it self into the body Of what use and vertue such pale yellowed parched herbs may be for the curing of these Distempers I leave Physicians further to enquire These green herbs are good Food every day though they be thinning-leaner dyet especially in a Journey when this is more proper There is another word in that Verse which is victual for the way a Viaticum the Food of wayfairing-men of Travellers This with Love that holy affection would much sweeten such a meal and is one cure of distempered affections and of some bodily diseases which over-much eating of fat beeves doth cause Some leafs are for healthfulness and curing for bruises and fores Proper leafs and herbs stamped and beaten are of specifick vertue in Physick drinks and Chyrurgical Plaisters I could speak somewhat of my own experience in this but let the Learned search it further out by studying the Scriptures Here may we find many particular Herbs mentioned with their special use The Paschal Lamb was to be eaten with bitter Herbs such as wild Lettice Cichory and the like Here may you read of the Bramble or Bryer Here we may be instructed how to correct the wild gourd by Meal Brushes or Shrubs among the rest Lavender Spike is judged by a skilful Herbalist to be here spoken of The Natural abstersiveness and the efficacious cleansingness of that Fullers herb which taketh away spots in Cloth Borith