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A63817	A way to health, long life and happiness, or, A discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisite for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise &c., with special directions how to use each of them to the best advantage of the body and mind : shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed and how to prevent them : to which is added a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the whole treatise displaying the most hidden secrets of philosophy ... / communicated to the world for the general good by Thomas Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3201; ESTC R30173	347,235	536

done by others so that there is no boubt to be made of the matter of fact The very same sympathetical Power have all other things though in some it be more Occult. What man in the World would believe the attractive Inclination which the Loadstone has upon Iron if it did not appear to his sight All or most men of Reason believe that the Constellations Signs and Elements have a particular and also a general Influence on all Inferior Earthly Bodies which is apparent to all our Senses varying Times and Seasons Night and Day making the Earth fruitful and the contrary and do not our Bodies alter as the Elements do And as the Influences of the Sun vary so do all things under Heaven How verdent and sprightly does our Mother Earth appear in fresh and rich Emdroideries and all the Trees in new Perriwigs and Flowers springing and wanton Birds with inimitable Harmony seem to welcom the approach of that great Eye of the World when he begins to renew his Visits to us in the Spring and all Creatures look blyth and jolly and the Blood capers in Youthful Veins and nothing appears in Natures universal Face but Smiles and Gallantry On the contrary when he with draws his vivifying Beams and retreats to the Chambers of the South how dull and dejected does every thing become and Fields and Trees stript of their Ornament and Beauty languish like forsaken Lovers and appear forlorn as hopeless Prisoners and Melancholy as old Age Nay if under the Protection of Truth we might Alarum lazy Tradition with a bold Paradox without dreading Excommunication from the Vertuoso for advancing Heresies in Philosophy I would add that Inferiors counter-act on Superiors as well as Superiors on them that all things in this lower World have the like Influences on the Coelestial Bodies and Elements as the Coelestials have on Sublunaries and Terrestrials and that this mutual Influx they have one upon the other by a certain natural Attraction and sympathetical Inclination Thus the wonderful and wise Creator has endued every thing with an Attractive and Influential Vertue and hence it often comes to pass that the Sons of Men by their Unclean Conversations do awaken and stir up the Wrath of the Coelestial Bodies and by a secret and yet powerful Attraction draws down the malignant Configurations which sometimes cause Epidemical Diseases at other times Wars Famine c. all according to the Nature of the Evils or Property of Nature that was awakened As for Example If the People of any Town or City give way to Uncleannesses in Meats Drinks c. and addicted to the Impurities of Venus as most such places are then by mutual Inclination the like Property in the Coelestial Bodies and Elements are excited and by degrees contaminate the whole Atmosphere or parts of the Air next the Earth with Pestilential Poysons causing Botches Boils Venerial Diseases Fevers and Plagues all according to the degree of the awakened Wrath and the length or shortness of the time of its operation for all Plagues and Pestilential Airs caused by Uncleanness do by degrees corrupt the pure Spirits or venerial Properties in the Body for whensoever this sweet Quality is violated the Distempers thence arising will for the most part manifest themselves in Botches Boils Scabs or Leprosies and Spots in the Flesh often accompanied with general Weakness and a decay of the Radical Moisture But if the Properties of Saturn and Mars be so violently stirred up or awakned and the fierce Storms of Nature do predominate in the Hearts and Souls of Men then follow Tumults Wars Burning of Towns and Cities and such like Calamities and Devastations For Mens evil Words and Works and Unmerciful Cruelties certainly awaken the Wrath of God in the Stars and Elements and hasten on Judgments No Man or Nation can escape the great Law of Retaliation which the Creator ordained in the beginning for Moses's Law was the greatest and most excellent of all Laws because it was built and had its Root in Nature therefore whensoever the Iews observed it they were sure of being blessed for Those that were obedient thereunto did preserve the Camp of the Lord from being defiled The Camp of the Lord is Man and if Man keep himself from being defiled he will not awaken the Wrath of God in the Stars and Elements but as he keeps himself clean and from doing Violence and obeys the Voice of Wisdom and follows the friendly Counsels of the divine Principle of God's eternal Love and Light then 't is most certain that by a secret power he will awaken the benevolent Properties of the Coelestial Bodies and Elements and attract their propitious Influences For the Lord promised to such as were obedient the Dew of Heaven but when they became Rebellious Unclean and Intemperate then the Lord permitted the Evil Configurations and Influences of the Coelestial Bodies to take place and many sore Evils and Calamities they endured This the Scriptures of Truth do testifie and indeed it cannot be otherwise for it is the Eternal Law of God in Nature That whatsoever Property or Principle Men do awaken and enter into with their free-will whether it be good or evil the same grows strong and he is comprehended by it and swallowed up in it and made a subject unto that Kingdom and this both in the particular and in general as Experience teaches for whensoever any particular Man gives way to any particular Evil that is a sin against God and his Law in Nature and shall continue in the same without Repentance 't is certain he will pull down the Judgments upon himself but as Mens Sins and Transgressions are not alike so neither their Rewards or Punishments This is further manifested by Mens Words and Works doth not every word carry the Power of its Principle whence it had its birth For that Property that was predominate in the Word Sound or Tone the same or the like Quality it does stir up and awaken in those to whom the Words or Discourses are directed whether it be good or evil if the Words are formed by the Saturnine Property then they awaken Envy Contention and a Morose Dogged Humour If they proceed from Mars then the fierce wrathful Fires are excited and so of the rest For if it were not so an Angry Word would not have any power to move them to Anger to whom it is directed nor would Loving Speeches beget Love nor a Meek Answer according to Solomons Observation Turn away Wrath But as one Man has power to stir up and awaken Love or Anger in another by his Words and Works the same is to be understood in all other things for there is a proportionate similitude between Men and the Coelestial Bodies and Elements Man being not only an Image and Likeness of God and Nature but the Horizon of both Worlds in which the Superiour and Inferiour Natures are conjoyned and the Son of the Stars and Elements so that there is a power

only for all Uses in Housewifery and the Preservation of Health but the Saints and Holy Men of God have highly esteemed this Element by using it in the exteriour Acts of Divine Worship as having a Simile with the Eternal Water of Life that does purify and cleanse the Soul from Sin CHAP. XIX Of Marriagē and the Inconveniencies of unequal Matches SInce the main Scope of this whole Treatise is but to set before my Fellow-Mortals the means and courses whereby they may obtain Health both of the Body and Mind and shew them from whence the grievous Diseases of the one and tormenting Passions of the other do proceed And since there is nothing that more frequently brings Grief Affliction and Distraction on the Minds of People and many times lamentable Diseases in their Bodies too than inconsiderate and unfit Marriages I could not but think it necessary to add a few words on a subject so general and important THis sacred tye of Marriage was instituted by God in Paradise that the Woman might be an help-meet to the Man and each party a Comfort and Solace to each other and so propogate their Kind in Love and Peace but by Peoples corrupt manners and abuses of that holy Institution it is now to many become the greatest Plague of human Life where two unsociable Creatures are yoked together to each others torment yet cannot be separated but are forced with struggling and goring and kicking each other to drudge on a most uncomfortable days work of Misery till Death unharness them But I shall not spend time on general Complaints which are bootless but come to particulars 1. Of all sorts of Marriages the worst and most unequal'st is for Young Men to Marry Women who are through years past Child-bearing which as it is seldom if ever done but for some base hellish sordid self-ends on the Man's side and bruitish unnatural stimulations of Lust on the Womans so it very rarely fails to be attended with its own Punishment even in this Life there being few sins that people are guilty of that do more openly and shamefully contradict the Laws of God and Nature and that too which renders it ten times the worse under colour of an holy Institution of God In the Beginning after the Lord created Male and Female he said unto them Increase multiply and replenish the Earth This was the Command of the Creator which all Mankind are obliged unto and whosoever breaks this Law for any particular self-ends as Money Gluttony Honour Idleness or the like Vanities does draw upon himself the indignation of God because he has on purpose withstood the most Natural influences and Operations of Nature and turned them into Wantonness These kinds of Marriages do also contradict the whole course and progress of Nature and seems to threaten all things with a period and hereby man shews himself a hundred-fold worse and more depraved than the basest and most savagest of Beasts who will neither touch their Females when they are with Young nor after they are Old and past Breeding Which might be an Example unto us if Pride devilish Lusts and Intemperances did not possess peoples Souls All Creatures in this World even the very Vegetables do strive with highest diligence to produce its Seed wherein is contained all the Properties of the Body and then the old Body dieth This is the Bond of Nature which preserves all things and all Creatures do vehemently desire to bring forth their Likenesses which God's Law in Nature doth by an inward impulse constrain them unto and in the performance thereof all sensitive Creatures have the greatest pleasure and satisfaction Every Man and Woman in the World except some few who have depraved themselves has a Natural Desire to raise up unto themselves Posterity for without it Nature cannot be satisfied but something seems always wanting they have not discharged one great end of their Beeing and will die extreamly in the Worlds Debt how rich soever they may be accounted When Young and Old intermarry there is an inward natural and therefore unappeasable contrariety loathing and dislike between them whence ariseth Aversion Hatred Jealousie and Irreconcilable Discords and causeth the Young Man to long after forbidden and unlawful Beds It takes away all the true Natural Delight and Pleasure and renders the Mind uncapable of all Spiritual Duty polluting the Soul and Body whence doth proceed both Ruin and Destruction to the Health and also to the ill-gotten Estate for if a Young Man could attain a Young Virgin with the same outward Advantages viz. Money Honour Idleness c. as he can have with an Old Woman this latter sort might go without their Young Gallants But how base a thing it is and how unnaturally it looks that men should value Money more than the Law of God and the satisfaction of Nature and the raising up of Seed unto themselves which is a thing of so great moment that the Lord commanded That the Brother of him that died Childless should Marry the Wife of his deceased Brother that he might raise up Seed unto him for he that dies Childless seems to have lived to no purpose and not to have answered that End for which he was made Nor have we any Example in the Scriptures of Truth that ever any such Unnatural Marriages were celebrated Furthermore Children do encrease Love and makes the Affections more warm between men and their Wives encouraging lawful Care and Diligence both in the Father and the Mother Nor is there any thing can make a Marriage-State tolerable but True Natural Love and Affection not to be altered with Troubles when Sickness and the like Accidents happen there being few Married People but meet with many Troubles and Crosses which true Love to Wife and Children makes more easie and encourageth each Sex to go through them with cheerfulness of Spirit But on the Contrary when Men meet with Disappointments and Crosses Abroad and their Love is Cold at Home then all 's out of Tune and the Phantasie is set on wandering after Vanity which gives occasion for the Wife to do the like And thus there is caused an Unequal Disharmonious Life and is the Fruit of the Tree of Wrath which Mankind has stirred up through their Unnatural Lusts and Passions which cannot escape the Divine Hand of Retaliation for if all the Hairs of our Head be numbred and that a Sparrow cannot fall without Divine Providence how then should those great Sins which are absolutely against God's Divine and Natural Law and against the Right of Nature must they not be taken notice of by his Divine Hand For every Principle both in the Evil and the Good doth comprehend its own Children and also their works and if men by superfluity of Naughtiness and Devllish wantonness have kindled the fierce Wrath then they must not receive their Reward from another Principle But sew there be that are truly sensible or do consider how great a sin it is for men

which Man must justly bear the Fault for if he had not transgressed the Divine Law we never had had any such inclination at all our Battels are sudden and not premeditated Murthers nor are our Numbers unequal but one to one and prefently are reconciled and again in Peace But though we live thus innocently in the obedience to God's Law in Nature and have not done any thing whereby to awaken his Wrath or draw down Judgments on our selves yet we suffer many and great Miseries Oppressions and Tyranny which comes to pass through the Transgression and Fall of our Prince and Governor viz. Man he has violated the divine Law in Nature and is become disobedient whereby he hath opened the Flood-gates of Wrath and enthralled himself in many Miseries and inured himself to all kinds of unjust Cruelties and makes us groan under heavy Burthens and all we can do is too little to give him satisfaction We COWS give him our pleasant Milk which is not only a most Sovereign Food of it self but being altered and variously dressed makes a great number of delicate and wholesome Dishes but this will not content them for after we have for several Years twice a day yielded them plentiful Meals of Milk and every Year for the most part a Calf which they have rended away from us before its time to our great affliction for 't is unnatural to take away any Creature 's Young before it can provide for it self when they have thus bercaved us of the Fruit of our Wombs and killed and eaten them yet sometimes through Covetousness notwithstanding all these Benefits they will half starve us and if it chance that any one of us do not give good store of Milk and bring them forth as many Calves as their Avarice expects then our cruel Egyptian Masters cry Hang her knock her o' th' head what is she good for Counting nothing good but what brings in great profit to satisfie their Lusts and when thus through many Miseries we have sustained from them divers Years then what Reward do they give us Why truly they will put us into a good Pasture and then we think this is pure kindness and begin to forget our former Injuries but assoon as we have gathered our Flesh and begin to be plump and fat then they swap us away for a little Money to the Butcher and he knocks us o' th' Head and cuts our Throats and our kind Masters perhaps devour a piece of us and if our Flesh prove not so delicate as they would have it which is their fault then they curse us again when we are in their Bellies And we that are Oxen do they not in our Youth cruelly cut us and deprive us of the benefit of Generation Do they not gall our Necks almost to the Bones with their hard and heavy Yoaks Do not we draw their burthensome Carriages through the deepest Dirt and stubborn Clay And do we not help to Till the most stubborn Earth that it may bring forth the Corn and Fruit for your sustenance And many a hard days work do we endure until our very Hearts ake whilst our unmerciful Drivers prick us with us their sharp Goads and beat us without pity or humanity and at last when we are able to do their Drudgery no longer they being not yet satisfied with our Labours will fatten us up for the Slaughter and feast themselves with their Carcasses and accommodate themselves with our Skins for Leather to make them Shoes and Boots and other Necessaries Nay our Males whom they suffer to remain capable of Generation besides being as it were Pimps to them and making them serve all the Cows in the Parish or Lordship for two-pence apiece They have another wicked Trick to bait them with Dogs and there the Rabble more Beasts than those they come to see meet and shout and are merry to see the poor Creatures tear and worry and kill one another and this they call Sport and Pastime Nay of late in some Countries as in Spain the Men have no more Wit nor Grace but they will venture to bait us themselves and this Fashion they are bringing up and setting on foot in other Countries and if when by their rashness and ill practice they have enraged us we do with our natural Arms send off Dons and Gallantillo's packing 't is no more than they deserve since they are so willing to expose themselves to die Folly's Martyrs Thus all of us live in great Slavery most part of our Lives far below that generous Liberty wherein our great and good Creator had estated us by his grand Charter of Nature and at last we die both untimely and unwillingly many of us cut off in Youth or in the prime of our strength to please the Palates of extravagant People whose Lusts nothing but Flesh can satisfie Have we not then just reason O Man to complain of thy Injustice Have we not cause to keep back and restrain those daily renewed Fountains of liquid Crystal wherewith we sustain you to shake off your Yoaks and inspired with Rage and Revenge tear you to pieces with our Horns Yet we do none of these but continue our drudging Services and perpetual Tribute to the Milk pail and submit our selves to your Knives and your Axes and yet neither your own Cruelties nor our submissive Patience can mollifie you into greater Moderation and can we chuse then but send up our Complaints against you in a silent Eloquence to Heaven And can you expect any thence in return but Showers of Judgments upon your Heads since you have thus presumptuously opened the Fountains of Wrath and brought in War and Destruction upon us The Sheep's Complaint If Benefits might expect other Returns than Injuries and Innocency be thought worthy of Indempnity and Protection we should certainly enjoy as much Felicity as any part of the Creation whatsoever For can there be any Creature that more liberally contributes to the Life and Accommodation of Man or that is of a softer and more gentle Temper or behaves it self more innocently towards all the rest of its Fellow-Creatures For our Creator hath indued us with a meek friendly Nature and we are contented to live as we were made the various sweet Herbs and Flowers that grow on the tops of the Mountains afford us ample satisfaction and we are delighted in Solitariness and Cleanness hence all the good and wise Men of old always compared good-natured Men unto us We are free from Covetousness for our Desires exceed not the Necessities of Nature Our Imaginations do not wander after the Varieties of foreign Regions nor have we any occasion to travel out of our own native Countrey into other Climates but sometimes we are compelled and forced away by our covetous Keepers but it hath always been the worse for those that transported either us or our Wool so that it seems where-ever we come we are a Blessing yet whithersoever they carry us we need no Interpreter

the Bone or a piece of the Garment of a Man who is himself many Years agone dead and rotten can Cure them of Diseases or preserve them from Dangers But especially when we give them a piece of Bread and tell them 't is Flesh Blood and Bones they think 't is Bread still and are so impudent as to believe their own Eyes before the Dictates of our Priests Heathen Why Do you your selves believe and practice these Absurdities French-man Ye marry and would burn you too if you were in some parts of Christendom and durst say you did not believe them as well as we Heathen Then I bless the good and infinite Being that I have no business in such a Christendom But pray proceed with the Story of your Hugenots French-man We endeavoured to suppress and root them out by severe Laws and open Wars but finding that Course ineffectual we resolved upon a Stratagem to cut them off pretended to be very kind to them and that we desired a perfect Reconciliation and to that purpose made a Match between one of the chief of that Party and a great Lady of ours to solemnize this Wedding the principal Hugonots repaired from all parts of the Kingdom and had the greatest Assurances given them of Friendship But one Night whilst they suspected nothing Souldiers being drawn together at a certain Hour fell upon them in all parts of the City destroying Men Women and Children so that in two or three Hours time there were above Ten thousand of their dead Bodies flung naked into the Streets and the Channels flowed with their Heretical Blood And at that time Messengers were sent to other Cities and Towns to do the like so that in a few days there were above Forty Thousand of them slain Was not this a noble Expression of Zeal for Religion Heathen God keep such bloody Zeal still from our Indian Territories Do your Priests allow of such doings French-man Allow Yes and applaud them too they are the Men that excite us to these gallant Exploits and for a Reward for these Services do forgive us all our Sins and assure us of Heaven Heathen I know not what they may pretend but this I know that God is Love and that such barbarous Cruelties are to him an Abomination And to speak truth so long as men continue Obstinate Revengeful and Contentious and suffer the wild savage Nature and bitter Spirit to reign in their Hearts neither Men nor God can forgive them for Inequality and Discord cannot move Equality such a Spirit is contrary to the Divine Nature and therefore cannot expect Forgiveness till 't is changed and transformed For men cannot draw nigh to the Fountain of Benignity nor be heard of the Sovereign Being but as they become like unto him for every like is moulded by its likeness Blood requires Blood but the Merciful shall find Mercy from the God of Peace and Compassion whose Mercies never fail For this cause we have for many Generations totally abstained from all Violence Oppression and Killing either of Man or Beast for the Groanings and Miseries of those Creatures that suffer Wrong are the beginnings of Trouble and Sorrow to those that do it and do certainly stir up and awaken the fierce Wrath in Nature as the Loadstone attracts Iron French-man These are pretty Nations but methinks impracticable For if we Europians should live the Life you talk of and lay aside Arms and not vindicate our Religion and Liberties by the Sword we should be over-run and be made the greatest of Slaves Have not you heard of the Inroad made at this instant by the Turks into Germany Now would you have us stand with our Arms across and suffer them to over-run all Christendom Heathen I pray what do you account the occasion that moved the Turk to this Expedition French-man Why the Emperor of Germany in certain of his Territories had some of those Hereticks that I described to you but now and he would force them to be of his Religion and to compel them therereunto seized on their Priests and clapt them into Dungeons and Prisons where they were starved and pined away in Want and Misery and others he sold for Slaves and sent Soldiers amongst them to kill and destroy all that would not conform to his Ceremonies Hereupon they took Arms in their own defence and observing their Brethren to live free from such Violences and enjoy their Religion under the Turks paying only such Tribute they desire the Turk to protect them which offends the Emperor and so the Quarrel encreasing the Turks sends an Army against him Heathen This confirms and illustrates what I assert for here you see this Deluge of Calamity had not happened to Germany had they not first stirred up the Wrath and causlesly vexed their Neghbours It appears plainly these Flames arise from Sparks of their own kindling besides Experience shews that none are such Vassals and subject to so many Miseries as those that give themselves to the use of Arms viz. to Guns Swords and the like Weapons of Wrath and most of them perish by the use of them For our own part 't is true we do live in subjection and under the burthen of many great Taxes which are levied on us at the pleasure of the Princes we live under but then they protect us from the Injuries of the Multitude allowing us our free Egress and Regress through their Dominions and unquestioned Liberty for the Exercise of our Religion and manner of living They do not endeavour to peep into our Breasts or examine our Opinions or punish us for not thinking as they do We go freely about our Occasions nor do they permit every Idle Fellow to take away our Goods nor give us abusive Words or hurry us to loathsome Prisons nor are our Sons forced into the Wars They threaten no Punishment to us provided we do not offend the Civil Laws for they matter not what gods we worship nor after what fashion so we are just to men and live peaceably and pay our Tribute If they have our Money they know they cannot want Men that will fight for two Pence a day But we value our Health our Lives Liberties and Religion more than Money We all drink Water and the fragrant Herbs wholsome Seeds Fruits and Grains suffice us abundantly for Food Our Stomachs are clean our Appetites sharp so that we taste the inward Virtue of each thing and sing Songs of Praise to the Creator who affords unto us the plenty of the Earth and the pleasant Dews of Heaven so that as Fish live in the Salt and Brackish Ocean and yet their Flesh is fresh and sweet so we in the midst of a tempestuous troublesome World live Calm and as it were in Paradise French-man I am glad to bear you esteem your selves so happy there are few Mortals that are so content with their Lot but are whining repining complaining and always on the Tenter-hooks of new Hopes and Desires Heathen