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soul_n	able_a	body_n	destroy_v	4,435	5	7.8202	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14301	The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24619; ESTC S111506	55,728	158

vse to haue for hee falls like an Apple fully ripe euen by meere resolution mildly and gently away The bond of a Temperate mans Body and Soule is dissolued onely when the Radicall moysture is spent like vnto a Lampe which is extinguished when the Oy●e is quite consumed For euen as a Lampe may bee put out three manner of wayes First by outward violence as by v●hement wind Secondly by powring too much water vpon it wherewith the pure Liquor of the Oyle is oppressed Thirdly by the vt●er consumption of the Oyle So Mans Life which is compared to a burning Lampe may bee extinguished three wayes First by the Sword Drowning or such like violent death Secondly by the superfluity or depraued quality of the Humours wherewith the naturall moysture is corrupted Thirdly when this moysture is spent by the length of time If a man dyes by reason of eyther of the two former wayes there must ensue a great commotion in Nature and therefore he feeles extraordinary grie●ances when the bond of Nature is thus ●●o●ently before the day and ripe time compelled to bee dissolued But by the third manner of dissolution a man feeles no paine at all because the Temperature is all by leasure dissolued from within him and because the gentle moysture which feedes the Body becomes wasted together with the naturall heate at the same instant when the Soule departes And thus shall our Dyeted persons dye except they bee● forced by some outward Accident The fourth Commodity is that it makes the Body Actiue Light Liuely and ready to all motions and exercise For heauinesse lazinesse and the oppression of Nature proceede from the aboundance of Humours which destroy the passages of the Spirits and besiedging the ●ovnts they ouer moysture them at last Therefore when this aboundance of Humors is diminished or taken away by a Regular Dyet the very cause of dulnesse and heauinesse is also taken away and then the pores and passages of the Spirits are made broad and more open The fourth SECTION The Commodities which our Dyet brings to to the sences and Minde and how it may helpe to build there a more conuenient Temple for the Holy Ghost AS the Body feeles seuerall benefits by this admirable Dyet so the Minde partakes of no lesse commodities First it brings Health and Vigour to the outward sences for the sence of Seeing becomes darkned in aged Persons by reason that the Optick nerues are ouer-charged with superfiuous humours or vapors whereby the animall spirit which serues for the vse of the Sight eyther is obseured or else is not able to minister asmuch matter as is sufficient to make the Sight perfect This impediment is remooued or at least much diminished by Sobriety and Abstinence from those things which fill the Head with fumes of which kinde are all fat things and Bu●ter excessiuely taken raw Onions Garlike strong Wine omuddy Beere or A●e Or if at the worst their sights bee somewhat dimme or reddish the Oyn●ment of Tu●●● with a i. t. e. Aloes wi●●auayle them Or if the feare a greater griefe the Iuice of Stonecrop will 〈◊〉 the pin and the Web. The sence of Hearing is hindred by the defluxion of raw Humors from the B●aine into the Organ of Hearing or into the sinewes which serues it By which meanes a man becomes thicke of Hearing or deafe on that side where the Defluxion hapneth A temperate Dyet will preuent this Defluxion and with a few locall medicines vnlesse the deafenesse be inueterate it will quite expell it As for the Sence of Tasting it is certayne that the Taste of a Temperate man is farre more quicke sharpe and pleasing then it is in the Glutton and Drunkard who by reason of Chollericke or brackish Humors whether they bee ingend●ed in the Head or in the stomacke takes all Meates otherwise then they are in deede Another Commodity which a Temperate Dyet brings to the Soule is that it m●tigateth Affectors or P●ssions chu●fl● melancholly and Anger Wee see by experience that they in whom Cho●●r and Melanchoily bea●e Dominion if they bee not in conuenient time p●●ged of those Humors they fall into strange and violent sicknesses as Lunacy and Fre●zy especially if they bee suffered to get footing in the Braine and there to ens●ame If it bee sharpe and falls into the tunicles of the Stomacke it causeth a man to become very Ra●enous If there be aboundance of blood it makes a man Leacherous chiefy if there bee some windy matter crept into it The Reason is because the Affections of the Minde do follow the apprehension of the Fantasy and the apprehension of the Fantasy is conformable to the disposition of the Body and to the Humours which bea●e rule in the Body Hence it is that the Chollericke doe dreame of Fires Flames Warres and Slaughters The Melancholick dreame of Darknes burialls Sepulchers Sprights of deepe pits fearefull flights and of the like troublesome things The Flegmatick● dreame of Rame Ri●ers Lakes Shipwracke drowning c The Sa●guine dreame of Banquets Loue Ioyes c. All these with their Causes are auoyded by a sober Dyet for insteed of bad there are ingendred nothing but true and good Blood Choller Flegme and Melancholly so that their inward conditions are wel composed gentle Milde Demure and quiet neuer ministring any cause of Debate but with Sobriety and Patience taking all things in good part The third Commodity which a sober Dye● brings with it is the safety of memory which is wont to be impayred and hu●t by reason of cold Humours which haue seized on the Braine and is very ominous to the intemperate or aged person This inconuenience is speedily cured by an orderly Dyet with abstayning from ho● liq●●urs and fuming drinkes vnlesse it be in sin●●l quantity For although Wine and strong drinke bee hote yet it causeth colde sicknesses beeing often taken as Coughes Distillations the Pose the Apoplexie or Palsie The fourth Commodity is the liuely Vigour of the Minde in Reasoning Iudging in Inuention and in an apter Disposition to conceiue or receiue Diuine Mysteries Heere hence it comes to passe that they which obserue a sparing Dyet are watchfull circumspect prouident and sound of Iudgement Whatsoeuer spirituall or mentall exercise they take in hand they commonly excell in that kinde of knowledge which they undertake The reason is because their thoughts are abstracted and seuered from this base earthly mould to Heauenly Contemplation and to those high Angelical raptures of which f●esh and blood can hardly enter into the Consideration I beleeue very few in these dayes may be sayd to be thus Diuinely disposed for I will stand vnto it that except they haue some power of Abstinence together with that vnspotted Faith which the Protestant Church holds they shall neuer passe for men truely Religious nor shine with that bright Light of Vnderstanding to cont●mne the Vanities of this seducing World nor receiue that solace in their spirits to conceiue themselues as it were in Paradise

It prolongeth life vntill extreame old Age. It makes one sleepe quietly and pleasantly It makes our meate taste the more sauouring and acceptable It brings soundnesse to the Sences quicknesse to the Memory cleare iudgement to the Wit it asswageth the rage of vnruly Passions beates downe and breakes the fury of vnlawfull Lust and driues away anger and sorrow To conclude it conioynes cements and as it were glues and scrues together the Soule and Body with such an harmonicall admired temper that with a quiet Conscience Apostolicall patience and with a Magnanimous sparkling spirit partaking equally of Mirth and Grauity hee shall soone perceiue himselfe metamorphozed and changed of a sensuall Creature to bee a man of Reason of a darke besotted apprehension now suddainly become one of the hopefull Children of God illuminated with Vnderstanding to ponder iudge discusse of Caelestiall matters touching the Mysteries of our Saluation of Faith Grace the Resurrection Beatitude and the difference betwixt Humane and Diuine policy betwixt Saint Michael the Archa●gell and the Spirituall Drago● betwixt the Heauenly Ierusalem and the most reformed Common-Wealth among mortall men And lastly hee shall be able to apprehend how Sinne and the Prince of the Ayre are linked in one to confirme Mens hardned hearts in their owne accursed Courses The seuenth SECTION How necessary the Bodies Purification by a Temperate Dyet is for the Soules health The suddaine Cure of the Cough the Tisicke and other Diseases by some Medicines intermixt with this Dyet PVrification must go before Glorification For before a man can assume a Glorified immortall Body in Heauen it is necessary the whole man bee purified heere on Earth the Soule by Faith and the Body by Abstinence After this life we must not relye on Apocriphall dreames of a third place by Capriccious Schoolemen called Purgatory like to the Poets Eliz●an Fields But at our departure out of this World we must repeate the same Words which our Sauiour spake at the giuing vp the Ghost Consummatum est it is finished Wee haue fought in this World a good fight wee haue abstayned from Carnall and worldly Temptations Otherwise wee go out but as halfe Christians and being luke-warme Christ will not know vs if wee stand on bare Faith without the fruites of Faith which must not onely spring in vs towards our owne Bodies but by example and good workes towards our fellowes the members of Christ. O how much do the Capuchins and Carth●sians goe beyond vs in Abstinence and in contemning the World And if they had the Faith which we professe and did not too much macerate and deface the handy-worke of GOD vppon a meritorious Baalish hope surely they might bee sayd to see with two eyes and we but with one eye and being better purified then wee they were assured of that Glorification which wee expect I doubt no● but some heere will taxe me that I sauour a little of Pharisaicall Popish leauen because I insist on the Bodies Purification as if I derogated from Faith which onely iustifieth and that all meates are tollerable let a man eate and drinke neuer so much as long as they are sanctified with our ordinary Graces of thanksgiuing though sayd by roat or cooled zeale And that wee cannot transgresse in what enters into the Body seeing that all things were purified and made cleare by Christ according to St. Peters Vision about Cornelius These Libertines would faine couer their Epicurean excesse with Sophisticall daubings but they heede not my ayme who with St. Paul professe that all things are cleane to the cleane It is the Quantity and not the Quality of the Meates or Drinkes which I reprooue If I should tell them further that the cause why Moses forbad the Israclites the eating of Swines flesh was for that hee fore-saw that the same in those hote Countries would breede It●h and Scabs and that it did become the Hely Nation to keepe their Vessells better purified then to appeare in the House of GOD so polluted surely I beleeue they would take me for ● Iew aswell as a Romanist Why were Lepers and those that had running Issues debarred from the Temple insomuch that their King so diseased was repulsed to enter Was it not because God loued a purified cleane Body ●ather then a mangy person Specially if through his owne disordered manner of liuing or the Diuine Vengeance he became so defiled In respect whereof it is conuenient that we doe our best endeauours to purifie that place which is destinated for the Holy Ghost by abstayning from alluring meats of diuerse natures at the same Mea●e Go to the Physitian before thou be sicke saith the Wise man Before Gluttony and Drunkennes hale vs into the Prison of sicknesses let vs take heede of their causes and not finde fault with Friends who without Fee or rewards haue opened them the way to Purification and a sober liuing Because Lessius and Cornario being Papists late●y renewed and brought to Light this admirable Dyet shall wee disdayne their wholesome Counsell This vncharitablenesse leads to Errour what we finde among Papists Praise-worthy and not repugnant to Faith we ought to embrace and cheerish By that reason we should haue no Discipline no Canon Law nor any ciuill Order for the gouernment of the Church against Ref●a●●aries and gyddy headed Heretickes if we condemne all that wee borrow from them For our Religion it selfe though afterwards eclipsed was propagated and sent into this Iland from the Bishop of Rome Because their Mine yeeldes not the finest Oare shall we not refine the Oare and purifie the Gold that comes from them yea though it came exsterquilinio out of their Dunghill with many dregs and filth we must not reiect and altogether debase what we receiued from them as long as it tends to our profit or edification We ought to commend them for their laudable Fasts their Almes-giuing and their continent liues I meane some few of them which were indeed most continent and not minister occasion of scandall in our Christian calling to make them the more obstinate and obdurate St. Paul could haue wished neuer to eate meate whilst he liued if hee thought that that kinde of meate offended his Brother where as some of vs on the contrary would e●te Flesh on Good Friday euen to dispite them By this indiscreete and vncharitable carriage towards them in things indifferent many Soules haue fallen away from our Church and left those skars which will continue I feare to the worlds end So tractable in this indifferent course was Peter Mo●lins that Religious Minister of France when hee heard how some of our English Preachers chose rather to bee silenced then to weare the Surplice O I would to God sayth he that I were bound to go in a Fooles coate through Paris all the dayes of my life so that I were Licensed to Preach the Gospell there And so an English Co●ntesse heretofore was content to ride through Couentry starke naked at Noone day so