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soul_n	body_n	bread_n	nourish_v	4,911	5	10.6386	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66483	Mnemonica, or, The art of memory drained out of the pure fountains of art & nature, digested into three books : also a physical treatise of cherishing natural memory, diligently collected out of divers learned mens writings / by John Willis.; Mnemonica, sive, Reminiscendi ars. English. 1661	Willis, John, d. 1628?; Sowerby, Leonard.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2812; ESTC R24570	62,111	192

it properly relateth or if you had rather cause clean paper to be bound between every leaf to receive such Comments Or which is better have plenty of white Paper bound at the end of the Book in which write your Interpretation and relate them to the text by like numbers or letters prefixed before the Notes and Text. CHAP. V Of remembring long Speeches NOw lastly I will treat of Speeches A speech according to my acceptation is any large Treatise composed of many sentences of one kind such are Sermons Orations Declarations Heads or Sections of Books or finally any long Treatise or memorable Speeches are either such as are framed by our selves or by others Again Speeches of other men are either extant in Books or are delivered by word of mouth If the Speeches to be remembred are already extant in print it is sufficient to set down their Titles in your Common-place-Book under their proper Heads to advertise you in what Chapter or part of a Book this or that Argument is more largely handled As for example In the first Book of Calvin's Institutions and thirteenth Chapter the three persons of the Godhead in one Essence is proved by divers reasons to transcribe which Treatise though in Epitome would be very laborious Therefore it is better under the title of Trinity among other common observations pertaining to the same purpose to write down these words That three Persons are contained in one onely Essence of God Cal. Institut Lib. 1. Cap. 13. By which Citation you are directed to that place of Calvin whensoever you please If the Speech you desire to preserve be verbally pronounced you must take it in short-hand if you have skill otherwise in long hand with as much celerity as you can If you be at any time left behind through nimble volubility of the Speakers tongue it will be sufficient to write onely the essential words of every Sentence as for the most part are Substantives and Verbs leaving vacant spaces in which either words of less weight may be interposed which must be supplyed immediately after the Speech is ended Four things must be observed that speeches contrived by our selves may be deeply fastened in memory Method Writing Marginal Notation and Meditation the Method ought to be so disposed that every part of an entire Speech and every sentence of those parts precede according to their dignity in nature that is that every thing be so placed that it may give light to understand what followeth Such a method is very effectual to ease the memory both of Speaker and Hearer for in a speech methodically digested each sentence attracteth the next like as one link draweth another in a Golden Chain therefore Method is called the Chain of Memory For this cause let every former sentence so depend on the latter that it may seem necessarily related thereunto In writing a Speech let your first care be that your Lines extend not too far but that space enough be left in the Margent In the next place that your whole speech be distinguished into heads for a distinct mind apprehendeth better then one confused After you have compiled a Speech you are shortly to deliver do not transcribe it though it be both blotted and interlined lest you lose as much time in new Writing as would suffice to learn it Besides the blots and interlining do more firmly fasten in mind the sentences so blotted and interlined then if they were otherwise This is also to be noted that although it be necessary to write over the intire Speech or at least brief notes thereof before it be publikely pronounced yet ought that Transcription by no means to be seen publikely unless Memory languish and be weak For the mind doth better recollect it self in the absence of Notes and by united force is better prepared to speak Marginal Notation is when one or two chief words of every sentence is placed in the Margent which so soon as seen which is with the least cast of an eye revoketh the whole sentence to mind As if this ensuing small Treatise of the Resurrection were to be learned by heart I distinguish the sentences thereof by words placed in the Margent by which means they are speedily remembred That there shall be a Resurrection of the dead at the last day is confirmed by these reasons Because it is imperfect First that which is imperfect is uncapable of perfect felicity in its kind but the soul separate from the body is imperfect and therefore not capable of perfect felicity Thence followeth a necessity of the Bodies Resurrection that by the conjunction thereof with the Soul the Elect may enjoy perfect felicity How are they happy Tertullian saith Tertullian if they shall perish in part Seals of Salvation Secondly If the Body by Christs command ought to be as well partaker of the seals of salvation as the Soul then it shall as well participate of Eternal Salvation but the Body according to Christs institution ought to partake of the seals of salvation For the Body is washed with water of Baptism and nourished by Bread and Wine in the Lords Supper Ergo c. As Seeds Thirdly Like as Seeds cast into the Earth dye and revive again so humane bodies buried in the ground dissolved and corrupted shall rise again at the last day by the quickening virtue of Christ Paul brandeth him with folly 1 Cor. 13.35 who cannot conclude the resurrection of the dead out of the vivification of Seeds buried in the ground 1 Cor. 13.35 whence Augustine Augustine He which vivisieth dead and putrified Seeds by which men live in this world more facilely will raise you up to live eternally Revolution of things Fourthly The Revolution of all things is an argument of the Resurrection as Day followeth night Waking Sleep Rest Labor and Winter Summer so Life followeth death and Resurrection Sepulture That which Tertullian speaketh in his Book Of the Resurrection of the flesh Tertullian is pertinent hereto Day saith he dyeth into night yet is enlivened again with glorie all over the world Fiftly It is evidently proved by the Resurrection of Christ seeing Christ which is our head is already risen it is a testimony that we also who are his members shall live after death Where the head is thither will the members be gathered Christ our head 1 Cor. 15.20 in this respect Christ is termed the first fruits of the dead 1 Cor. 15.20 Resurrection of others Sixthly The particular Resurrection of some to a temporal life in this world was a sign of the general Resurrection to eternal life to be at the end of the world These were raised again after death 1. The son of the widow of Sarepta 1 King 18.22 2. The son of the Shunamite 2 King 4.33 3. A certain man by the touch of Elias bones 2 King 13.21 4. The son of the widow of Naim Luke 7.15 5. The daughter of Jairus Luke 8.48

grief too much bashfulness covetous hope Jealousie c. XI Filthy desires as avarice envy thirst of revenge lust love of harlots and the ardent Passion Love XII Rash answers XIII Disorderly reading of Books imitating Children in trivial Schools XIV Night study XV. Wearing head-hair over long XVI Dipping or washing the head in cold water XVII Distraction of mind about severl studies at one time as if a Schoolmaster be intent at his private study when his Schollers attend and repeat their lessons CHAP. II. Of things corroborating Memory OF this kind are these that follow 1. Wholsome Air that is clear light sweet open milde speedily growing warm with the rising sun and cold with his setting 2. Sweet sents for they comfort the heart brain and mind in some sort nourish the Spirits and indue the brain with a tenacious quality whereby it is more apt to retain Idea's This is experimentally proved in hony composed of the breath of flowers mingled with morning dew the substance of hony being gummy 3. Of meats First All such as ingender good nutriment that is which procreat pure bloud full of Spirits such are Capons Partridges Pheasants Weather mutton Goats flesh and like meats as administer pure aliment to the Bodie Secondly Brains of Partridges Sparrows Hares Conies and Hens which being dryer then the brains of other creatures are thought to profit Memory very much if Wekerus may be credited brains of Hens frequently eaten hath recovered diverse persons of the Phrensie Thirdly These herbs used in sauces Bawm Bugloss Watercresses in commendation of which there is extant a Proverb Ede nasturtium Savorie Beets Penniroyall Hysope Tyme Nigella Rosemary flowers Cardnus Benedictus these are not onely beneficial to exacuate the Memory but do also exhilarate the minde and eaten last at supper procure pleasant dreams 4. Washing the feet once a moneth in water moderately heated wherein Bawm Cammomill Bay leaves and other odoriferous hearbs have been boyled V. Exercise 1. If If it be moderate thereby unproficable excrements are expelled natural heat augmented the motions of the Spirits rendred free the body recovers vigour and the soul made more apt to perform its functions 2. If it recreate the Spirits and all parts of the body exercised also the Breast and Lungs by vociferation such are shooting bowling hunting hawking but stool-ball playing is by Gallen preferred before them all 3. Such as is done upon an empty stostomack 4. In delightfull places not subject to wind Exercise must be moderate at first more vehement in the middle more remiss at lattet end Moreover let preparation precede exercise by evacuation of the belly bladder nostrils c. and extension of the members in like manner after exercise there is required stretching of the members modederate friction of the body with warm linnen and cohibition of the Spirits Finally your apparel close fitted walk leisurely abroad if the winde breath a gentle gale otherwise within doors Such persons as are of exceeding hot and dry Complexions must abstain from laborious excercises using such as are moderate and provoke sweat less CHAP. III. Of a prescript order of life NOw in the next place I will deliver some precepts or Rules of well ordered living chiefly regarding Students for whose sakes this work was undertaken in such sort that the Memorative faculty may be benefitted The Rules are these Rule 1. Divine assistance is to be diligently and frequently implored in Prayer to sanctifie our souls with Celestial grace for as the milde influences of Celestial bodys immediatly transfused into our corporeal contribute much to the good estate thereof so Divine influences of grace infused by God into our souls recreate and restore them much more And seeing divine irradiations are alwaies voluntary there is doubtless no Rule more powerful or efficacious to procure the Lords good will towards us then pious supplications-made to God in Christ as James testifieth in his Epistle 5. Chap. ver 16 17. nor is it imprudently said Cedunt astra Deo precibus Deus ipse suorum The Stars give place to God he to his peoples prayers Rule 2. Comb your head every day backward to loosen excrements from the hair roots let it be done fasting so soon as you are ready in a morning Combing the head the stomack extended with meat is very dammage able by alluring humors into the vains Rule 3. Excrements of the mouth are to be vacuated by spitting of the lungs by hauking of the nostrils by wiping as oft as there is a motion It is more healthy to eject such superfluities by the mouth and nostrils than than to lade the stomack with excrements of Gormandising the brain also is much impaired by impure exhalations ascending from unclean stomacks Rule 4. Urine Ordure and Winde must be exonerated at the first motion many by retaining Urine and other excrements have been seized by dangerous and mortal diseases Rule 5. Wholly abstain from all Evacuations by virtue of Phisick as Purges Vomits Blood-letting unless very urgent necessity compel you Phlebotomy and Purges as well as they do expel evil humours exhaust the good and profitable yea the Vital Spirits whereby naturall virtue doth decay Therefore Plato in Timeo forbad the use of Purgations when the cure of the body might be otherwise accomplished Rule 6. To eat twelve Raisons of the Sunne stoned every morning without drink instead of breakfast conserveth Memory comforteth the stomack and Liver diminisheth Phlegme augmenteth blood and preserveth youth Rule 7. Let your Supper be larger then Dinner because the subsequent distance of time is longer but such as are incumbred with nocturnal distillations as old men and cold constitutions must eat more plentifully at Dinner then Supper At meals hot things are to precede before cold things of easie digestion before things of hard and liquid things before solid for their better concoction in the stomack All solid meat requireth long chewing Drink must be swallowed leisurely by degrees Beware of consuming much time in eating and drinking Eating too slowly is as noxious as eating overfast Conclude your meat with a piece of Bread Coriander Confects Marmelade of Quinces dryed Pears or the like Lastly let the quantity of Food be proportionable to the takers strength not his appetite for as Varro saith It is one thing to suffice a man another thing to suffice humanity Rule 8. Observe constant accustomed hours of eating Nature coveteth to perform her office of concoction at certain limited hours as is manifestly seen in sits of intermitting Feavers Moreover after Supper drink not at all ensuing sleep will moisten sufficiently nor between Dinner and Supper unless you be very thirsty or so accustomed by long use yet such vicious customs are to be omitted by degrees Rule 9. Refrain from labor both of body and mind after meats spend about an hour in delectable discourses with company sitting standing or walking gently Sitting near the fire after meat doth much impede digestion by revocation of the internal