and tuition of the Body is neglected that decayes grows lean and consumptive the face grows pale the appetite abates and sleep departs or is but short and interrupted with troublesome dreams and wakings the vigour and strength of the faculties is spent in desiring and by the disquietness of the other attending Passions For a remedy and check to the impetuousness of this inordinate affection and immoderate desire take these considerations to calm allay and regulate your passion First That you cheat your self in setting too high a price upon the object of your affections and lay out more in expectation then the income of your desire obtained can possibly make a return that it is far greater in non habendo then it will be in fruendo it will be much less when you have then it seems to be now you have it not Secondly That the Delirium and fervency of your desire does not hasten the accomplishment of your aymes but rather retards or frustrates for the extremity and strength of passion debilitates and suppresseth Reason the chief contriver and manager of your design puts you upon inconsiderate immature and rash attempts and makes you more unfit incapable and unable to effect your purpose for Passion is always spurring but Reason hath its stops and pauses keeps due times for onsets and progress Thirdly That prudent and vigorous action not innane hungry volition or thirsty desire though ever so great can acquire the satisfaction of your hopes Fourthly That the ardency heighth of desire will not imbetter sweeten or add to the heighth of your enjoyment but rather abate and lessen it in your account and esteem for what thing soever you purchase and are mistaken and deceived in you will not value at that rate you first prized it but at the worth you now find it Vehement and lofty desires screw you up to such a heighth of expectation mountain high but you must descend into fruition that 's low as the valley and when you find your self in a bottom and your Sails not so filled and puft out as formerly by the fresh gailes and blasts of a strong desire your top-fails then begin to flap and flag when you come in to the still calm of fruition and your lofty spirits and high thoughts will lower amain when you Anchor in the Harbour of Enjoyment for in appearance it was great when at a distance seemingly but now you are come nearer it is much less and inconsiderable really Non ea jam mens res habenti quae desideranti erat and what swelled you full in the prosecution of attaining will not fill you now with satisfaction but prove aery when you grasp it and soon emptied in enjoyment Fifthly That statutum est it is appointed you must or you must not obtain the thing desired which to a rational creature is sufficient without other Arguments to qualifie moderate and blunt the keen edge of desire and curb the violence of an impetuous affection but not to cowardise daunt or stop a laudible active prosecution to attain a noble vertuous and lawful end with a moderate submisive desire quisquis in primo obstitit Repulitque amorem tutus ac victor fuit Sen. Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum Serò recusat ferre quod subiit jugum Melancholly Grief and Despair These Passions being neer alied we may rank them together as the Companions and Attendants upon adversity and misfortunes whose properties are to rob and steal away from the Soul that vivacious enlivening power which roborates and quickens all the faculties in the Body When these Passions are predominant the energy of the Soul is abated and all the functions insufficiently weakly and depravedly performed A dark Cloud of Melancholly overspreading the Soul suffocates choaks the Spirits retards their motion and agility darkens their purity and light these instruments in each faculty being thus disabled their offices in every part of the body are faintly executed whereby the whole body decayes and languisheth witness the common symptoms of a dejected sad condition a pale thin face heavy dead eyes a slow weak pulse loss of appetite weakness faintness restlesness a weight or compression about the region of the heart with continual sighing or palpitation these are the effects wrought in the Body by Melancholly and Grief which are to be avoided as great decayers of Nature and great enemies to Beauty Health and Strength Hope Joy and Mirth But embrace and cherish these as the supports of your life which raiseth the Soul to the highest pitch and stretcheth forth her power to the utmost These enlivening affections are the greatest friends to preservatives of health and strength In this serene state of the Soul all her endowments and abilities are advanced both rational sensitive and natural the pleasantness and delight of the Soul puts the spirits upon activity and excites them to a vigorous operation and duty in all the functions preserves youth and beauty makes the body fresh plump and fat by expanding the spirits into the external parts and conveighing nutriment to repair and replenish the utmost borders and confines of the Microcosm dum fata sinunt vivite laeti Sen. 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rarifies and volatizeth a gross coagulate blood opens the pores for transpiration of putrid and offensive vapours acuates and sharpens the Appetite and helps digestion The best Air and most agreeable to temperate bodies is in temperate Climates for heat cold wet and dry not subject to sudden and violent changes as in some parts of America and other Countries very frequent not gross and turbulent infected with putrid vapours and noxious exhalations from stinking Ditches Lakes Boggs Carrions Dunghills Sinks and Vaults for which causes great Cities and the adjacent places are not so healthful nor the people so long liv'd Change of Air sometimes is very necessary for the conservation of health and the recovery of it declining and lost for temperate bodies by an intemperate Air shall gradually and in time become intemperate intemperate bodies by the contrary intemperate Air shall be reduced to temperature at least shall conduce much and be very Auxiliary for the reduction Therefore bodies declining from exact temperature are best preserved in that Air opposite to their declensions as cholerick hot and dry bodies in a moist and cool Air Phlegmatick cold and moist bodies in a dry and warm Air. It is not therefore of small moment in what place you live and more especially such who labour of or are more subject to any pectoral infirmity for the Lungs being of so tender a substance and porous continually drinking in the Air is most apt to receive impressions from it according to the properties it is pregnant with and infested and many diseases of the breast arise from this sole cause and many exasperated by it and continued hence it is Asthmatick Phthisical and Consumptive persons shall not be cured in some places but may have cure in another Be cloathed according to the clemency season and temperature of the Air your Age and habit of body lean thin bodies and pervious corpora rarae texturae and whose skin are loose and lax may wear thicker cloathing because such are more perspirable do magis emittere transpirare and are also more penetrable and subject to injury of the Air. Fat and fleshy people and whose bodies are solid firm and hard are more impenetrable and impervious and may wear thinner Garments Infants and Children lately cherished in the stove of the Womb being of tender soft bodies are easily exposed to the prejudice of the Air. Vigorous youth and middle Age being accustomed to all weathers whose spirits abounding do strongly resist and keep out the assaults and injuries of an offensive Air may best indure hardship Old Age whose natural heat is abated and spirits exhausted stands in need of good defensatives against external cold and to cherish internal heat Observe the seasons and changes of the Air and be then most careful for at such times you are in most danger to exchange health for sickness hence it is that Spring and Autum abounds most with Diseases the Air then assuming new properties opposite to its former constitution sets new impressions upon our bodies which occasions the various aestuations and turgid fermenting of humours producing divers symptoms according to the variety of their nature the organical difference office and constitution of the several parts The Sun being risen and the Air clear open your Chamber-windows that the fresh Air may perfume your Room and the close Air and inclosed Vapours may go forth Bad smells and putrid vapours being drawn in with the Air are very injurious to the Lungs and vital parts contaminating the spirits and impressing upon the Crasis of those parts their tetrid nature are oftentimes the original of a Consumption and if the Lungs be weak and infirm are more apt to receive the prejudice then others But fragrant smells refresh and chear the vital spirits and are very wholsom breathing forth the vertue of those things from whence they do proceed Be not late abroad nor very early before Sun rising and after setting the Air is not so good being infested with noxious vapours until the radient influence of the Sun dispells and purifies and those whose custom it is to be often abroad at such times are most frequently molested with Rheums and Rheumatick Diseases which their declining years will more evidently manifest the prejudice Likewise in moist foggy dark weather 't is better being within then abroad and if it be a cool season good fires and fragrant fumes are then both pleasant and very wholsom Be frequent abroad in the Fields when a clear Skie invites you forth and let the fresh Air fan you with its sweet breath but more especially in the morning the Air is softer and more pleasant then your Bed and sure I am far more wholsom Temperie Coeli corpusque Animusque juvatur Ovid. In the choice of places to live in and abide The choice of places to inhabit these things are to be considered principally First The Climate that it be temperate and suting with the nature of the person for some persons may agree well with one Climate which another cannot cold and moist bodies agree best with a warm and dry Air hot and dry bodies with a moist and cooler Air. Secondly The scituation of the place and soyl is to be noted for as much as low wet and marrish Lands is not so wholsom to inhabit as gravelly Plains and dry high-land Countreys Thirdly In relation to Countrey and City regard is to be had and here the Countrey does prevail over the City for Health and is to be accounted the best place of abode The continual smoke and anoyances that are inseparable from great Cities make those places to abound more with infirm people Fourthly The Waters that supply a place do make it better or worse to live in as they are good or bad Water being of so constant and general use is much to be regarded though little taken notice of and procures many diseases from the variety of its nature being impregnated variously fâ—om the Earth it passeth through or accidents that happen to change it from its natural properties by the admixture of any filth carrion or what else shall fall into it and therefore River Waters that lie open to such injuries are much to be suspected of unwholsomness And this is a great procurer of the Scurvy in many places as Pliny relates that Caesars Army by drinking of bad Water but a few dayes had the symptoms of that Disease The commendations of a place in reaâ—on to health and long life are these A â—â—mperate Air Best place of abode dry serene and clear Champion or high Lands a gravelly dry soyl watered with pure good Springs remote from the Sea Lakes or Marshes not frequented with unwholsom Winds and stormy blasts So considerable is the Climate and Air in relation to our Being that it not only changeth and altereth our bodies but also our minds are wrought upon by it in as much as the wit inclinations and manners of a people are different upon this score
the body gives a ready and free passage to any feculent or excremental matter that ought not long to be retained Fourthly Exercise opens the Pores and gives a free transpiration which otherwise by too much rest are occluded and shut up contrary to the intention of Nature having appointed these vents and secret way of evacuation to ventilate and cleanse the habite of the body which in a short time would be very foul and impure by congestion of superfluous humours if not purified and transpired by these exhaling ports Fifthly Exercise promotes and adds much towards the nutrition of the body For this we find generally that active stirring people are more fresh in countenance more vegete and lively in spirit more firm and solid in flesh and stronger in their limbs then other persons that live a sedentary idle and sluggish life And that it should be so there is good reason in as much as exercise gives a free passage for nutriment to arrive at every member and part of the body and also excites the Archeus or ruling principle in each for a more vigorous assimilation and likewise does expedite and send away the superfluities of every digestion all which promotes and sets forward a good nutrition Exercises are various and commonly chosen as each person phansies or the Company invites as Dancing Running Ringing Tennis Hand-Ball Foot-Ball Riding Fencing with many others some whereof are purely pastime as those named others necessary labours as Digging Sawing and such like Exercise is to be chosen such as sutes best with the Nature of each persons body Some require exercising of upper parts most others of the lower parts and some equally both those Exercises which generally are advantagious in using and stretching all the parts and which I prefer before others are Tennis Hand-Ball Fencing and Ringing Yet I would not impose upon any contrary to their inclination for in these cases that which is most delightful will probably prove most beneficial Observations and Cautions to be remembred in exercising are such as these 1. Exercise daily in the morning chiefly with an empty stomach alwayes and after excremental evacuation if you can procure it 2. Vary exercise according to the condition of your body and season of the year the stronger phlegmatick bodies and in cold Weather admit of stronger and swifter motions Cholerick hot bodies weak and the Summer season more mild and gentle 3. Be not violent in exercise nor continue it longer beyond a pleasure but desist with refreshment not a lassitude and weariness 4. Put on some loose garment until your body be cool and setled in its natural heat and temper the Pores being opened by exercise the cold is more apt to enter from whence a greater prejudice then you could expect benefit from your labour or pastime 5. Walk gently after Exercise and settle by degrees no suddain changes are suteable or profitable to Nature 6. Eat not untill you be fully reduced to that temper and moderate heat as when you began and when the spirits are retired to their proper stations By this rational course the advantages that will accrue to you are these Exercise rouseth dull inactive spirits gives ventilation opens obstructions by the motion attenuation and penetration of the subtile spirits agitates and volatiseth feculent subsiding humours abates superfluous moisture increaseth natural heat promotes concoction distribution and conveyance of aliment through the narrow Channels and Passages unto the several parts of the body procures excremental evacuations strengthens all the Members and preserves Nature long in her vigour and virdure Having set out the times for Exercise and Motion the remainder is allotted for Rest and Ease with such refections and repast as Nature requires Quod careâ— alterna râ—quie durabile non est Ovid. Rest is as necessary to preserve Health and continue mans body in strength and vigour as Exercise These two although much opposite in themselves yet both in their order and seasons are very suteable and agreeable to humane Nature and both contribute to the being and long being of Man Nothing constant is liking and congruous with our Nature but vicissitude is most acceptable and delightful When the body is wearied with Labour then rest is refreshing and renews its strength but when satiated with rest does then thirst after motion pleasant exercise Interdum quies inquieta est quoties nos male habet inertia sui impatiens Sen. Rest is a burthen if forced upon Nature longer then Nature does require and that is but for a short space So that the due timing of Rest and Motion and limiting them to their hours and seasons most agreeable and delightful to humane Nature is that which preserves him in Health and prolongs his Being Avoid idleness and a sluggish sedentary life for want of due action and wholsom motion the body like standing Waters degenerates and corrupts If Rest exceeds the vigor of Nature is abated digestion not so good distribution of aliment to the several parts retarded and impedited by reason of an obstructed foul body excrementitious superfluities not freely transmitted and emitted the spirits dulled and all the faculties of the body and mind heavy and slow to action Ignavia corpus habetat labor firmat SECT VIII Sleep and Watching Limited and Cautioned THE Life of Man being conversant in vicissitudes spends its whole course in these two different states Sleep and Watching the one appointed for Rest and Ease the other for Action and Labour Nemo dumdormit alicujus est pretii nonmagis quam si non viveret Quidam If he were constant in the first his life were but the shadow of Death not worth the nameing if in the latter he could not hold out long but be tyred and worn out Therefore Nature hath wisely contrived that he should not continue long in either but should be transient from one to the other and weave out his life by these short intervals Watching Action and Motion Sleep Rest and Cessation are equally requisite for the well-being of man So that these two changes relieving one another both become a defence and support of humane life Sleep is a placid state of body and mind bringing refreshment and ease to both Sleep takes off the Body from action and the Mind from care thought and business and gives a cessation and quiet interval from their Labour That sleep may prove most advantagious answering the intentions and designment of Nature it must be regulated in these four particulars the Time and Limits the Place and the Manner The Time most proper and fit for Sleep and according to the appointment of Nature is the Night when most of the Creatures also do take their rest At the shutting up of the day and the Sun departed from the Horizon the spirits are not so active and lively but incline to a cessation and then it is fit to give them their repose and rest and not constrain them longer upon duty in the morning again
present calamity the suggestions being received and the Soul sinks under them make a pressure upon the Soul as really afflicting as the evil it self Multos in summa pericula misit timor ipse mali Luc. Such fears as these ought to be chased away and manfully resisted that which may be is as far from us sometimes as that which never shall be The fear of things that never come are ten to those that come to pass Quid juvat dolori suo occurrere Satis citò dolebit cum venerit Sen. As Anger swells the Soul and thrusts forward the spirits into the exterior parts to oppose and to revenge the ill On the contrary Fear makes the Soul to shrink and the spirits to give back By this contraction of the Soul her wonted vigorous emanations in all the faculties are suspended whereby the functions of the Body are remisly and depravedly performed the spirits retire inwards the face grows pale wan and thin and the Soul pines and languisheth with the apprehension of a seeming future evil and the prospect of a dubious impending fate Plura sunt quae nos terrent quam quae premunt saepius opinione quam re laboramus What if the evil threatned be too great for you to encounter with now yet either your power may be enlarged before it comes or that may be lessened and reduced within the compass of your ability to resist and power to contend with Quic quid humana ope majus est Diis permitte curandum Symach Care Care is a mixt passion made up of Desire and Fear There is in Care a desire of getting and a fear of losing the anxiety between these two enervates and weakens the strength of the Soul she spends her self in projection to acquire and get and labours continually also under the fear of loss either of that already gotten or of that which is in possibility and likely to be obtained Being thus disquieted and alwayes in an unsatisfied condition the Body is enfeebled and checkt from thriving Meat and Drink will not nourish if they be not changed duly in the digestions and assimilated into the substance of the Body by the energy of a vigorous Soul in a placid state of government not drawn off unseasonably and constantly with perplexing thoughts Alwayes plodding in mind is not good if your purse gains and thrives by it I am sure your body looseth and grows worse The Poet's advice in this condition is good sometimes being discreetly used Nunc vino pellite curas Hor. And another well admonisheth from perplexing your selves with future contrivances and provisions Hodierna cura tantum Qui cras futura novit Anacr An indisturbed free mind not loaded with the thoughts of many years to come but bearing onely the burthen of the day holds out much longer and preserves the faculties in strength and vigour but immoderate care and a thoughtful life wears out the faculties much sooner tires the spirits by denying them their due times for refreshment rest and ease disables them from duty and the true performance of their Offices heats and wastes the spirits and exsiccates the nutritious juces of the Body which changeth a fresh countenance into paleness degenerates a good Constitution and pines the Body but most injurious to thin lean and cholerick Persons Those too much thus addicted and cumbred with careful thoughts may sometimes imitate this example for a Remedy Nunc potemus laeti jucunda confabulantes Quae vero post erunt diis sint curae Theog Revenge Jealousie and Envy These Diseases of the mind are as painful Ulcers continually lancinating corroding or inflaming they gnaw and eat like a Cancer they take away the nourishment from food and refreshment from sleep the anguish of these sores render every thing unpleasant and unserviceable for the wellfare and support of the Body so that these sicknesses of the mind make the Body to pine and languish introducing a secret Consumption wasting the Spirits and nutritious moisture and enfeebling all the faculties Revenge besides the trouble and disquietness of spirit exposeth a man to a greater mischief Multis ◠injuriis obiicit dum una dolet Sen. then what he hath received Jealousie is a secret tormentor that gauls the mind with continual suspition and raiseth suggestions that afflict the Soul with anxiety and restlesness Envy is a Wolf in the Breast that must be satisfied or it sucks the blood and feeds upon the vitals This Disease pines and starves a man in the midst of plenty and he withers away in the Sun-shine of anothers prosperity Invidus alterius rebus marcescit opimis Hor. These perturbations and Diseases of the mind will not let the body thrive for if that be sick the Body cannot be in health Love and Desire These two although they seldom go alone and desire follows close at the heels of Love yet they may be separated and distinguished thus Love is a delight complacency and suteableness with the thing loved Desire is the longing for or stretching forth of the Soul to obtain procure and bring into enjoyment Desire gives wings to the Soul and seemingly transports and brings her to the thing desired so that all her strength is spent in out-goings and stretchings forth to obtain and joyn with the object of desire Quò non possum Corpore mente feror Ovid. Love and Desire being inordinate and impetuous seldom goes alone but is attended with other Passions as Hope Fear Melancholly Despair one or more for their consorts with which the mind is racked and torn and variously affected as the several Passions acts their Parts by turns Sometimes Love is bold and venturous at another time cowardly and fearful sometime hoping and sometimes despairing sometimes brisk and sometimes sad and heavy So that the Soul is tossed up and down and filled with the disquietness of successive mixt Passions attending upon Love and Desire Nor is the Soul onely disturbed and hurried away by this Passion of Desire but the Body also is restless and unquiet going from one place to another being not satisfied Here turns away hoping to find more content There Desire is very sollicitous and troublesom and importunate at unseasonable times so that the bed does not give rest and quiet sleeps but is tossing and turning there from side to side and when up cannot stand still or sit still this thorny desire is alwayes spurring on from one place to another but which way to take this giddy Passion cannot well resolve notwithstanding these perplexities the doubts and difficulties of obtaining the Soul is led away with an ignis fatuus of fervent zeal deserts her own mansion the Body and follows after with an eager prosecution of enjoying never at home but as a Prisoner and Prisoners are but bad house-keepers the body needs must languish and decay when the Soul thus delights and strives to run away By the continuance of these Passions interfering and complicating with each other the regular oeconomy
And for long life we find that in some Countreys the people are longer lived by much then in other and this from the wholsomness of the place and purity of the Air therefore the choice of places to live in is of great concernment and much to be regarded by those whose Fortunes permits them to pitch in any place for the advantages of health and long life SECT V. Preservation of Health in the choice of Meats and Regular Eating THat which properly may be called Food or Aliment is of that nature as may fitly be transmuted and changed into the substance of the body which receives it so that what ever will not be reduced and subdued by the digestions for such a transmutation and assimilation is not proper nor convenient food for that body because the intention of eating is to repair the loss that Nature sustains daily and if food will not be converted into the substance of the body it answers not that intention and is frustraneous so that every meat which enters mans body is not aliment does not nourish but that which yeelds obedience to the digestions and is assimilated And that which may be accounted proper food for the species mankind may be unfit for some individuums this or that man as common experience shews the reason of this is from the peculiar properties of mens bodies that differ Idiosyn Crasia else the choice of Meats need not to be insisted on In regular eating you are to consider First The substance and quality of the food Secondly The fit quantity and proportion Thirdly Convenient and due times for eating Concerning the first That every one may be something instructed in the election of meats this or that most proper and sutable take these observations for a general guide First Paulo peior sed suavior cibus potus meliori at ingrato praeferendus Try by your Pallate eat no meats that does displease the Gust for a common food Secondly Examine your Stomach whether such meats do not oppress or rise in the Stomach and cause a trouble or is long in passing off and flatulent If any such symptom as these do follow and not upon other meats then such food is not convenient because it puts a difficulty upon the Stomach to digest the consequents of which are bad Thirdly Inquire into the constitution or condition of your body and have some respect to that in the election of meats for Phlegmatick cold bodies and cholerick hot and dry bodies will not well be dieted both alike but as commonly they have different inclinations to meats so Nature hath appointed and is furnished with variety to sute such several bodies and appetitions Therefore make choice of such for the most part as is commended to you suting commonly and convenient for that constitution you are of as you will find prescribed in the several Constitutions or Conditions of body following Now by these three Rules every one may make a good choice of meats in a state of health and reasonably instruct himself for the preservation thereof Next the quantity is to be considered that you do not exceed such a proportion as is agreeable to your Nature for a due supply and not overcharge the body And here I must commend to you temperance and moderation in eating as a great preservative of Health not a Lessian diet to pine and enfeeble the body not so precise but a moderate allowance proportionable to the strength and ability of the Stomach to digest considering also other conditions of body and manner of life whether active and laborious or sedentary and idle Plures gula quam gladius The contrary irregular practice hath destroyed the lives of many Some may think the more plentifully they eat the better they shall thrive in body be more nourished and the stronger for it but it will not prove so a little well digested and assimilated shall maintain the body in a stronger and more vigorous condition then being glutted with superfluity most of which is turned to excrementitious not alimentary juyce and must be cast out else sickness soon after will follow For quantity your own stomach must measure to you what is convenient which is a certain rule of proportion if you observe not to eat to a satiety and fulness but desist with an appetite being refreshed light and chearful not dulled heavy and indisposed to operation and action either of mind or body A set quantity or measure of meat or drink cannot be prescribed as a general rule and observation for all to follow in regard of the variety and great difference of persons in Constitution Age strength of Nature condition of Life and infirmities that what is convenient for one is too much for another and too little for a third the strong and healthy cannot conform to the sickly weak and infirm in quantity nor the labouring man to the sedentary and studious or the idle therefore every stomach is to be its own judge and every one ought to moderate themselves by the cautions before mentioned Indulge not the cravings of an irrational sensitive appetite but allow such a supply of daily food as will support and maintain bodily strength Quicquid plus ingeritur gravat naturam non juvat and not over-load it thereby the spirits will be vigorous and active humors attenuated and abated crudities and obstructions prevented many infirmities checkt and kept under the senses long preserved in their integrity the stomach clean the appetite sharp and digestion good But by the surplusage and over-charge the stomachical ferment is over-laid and its incisive penetrative faculty obtunded the appetite and digestion abated the stomach nauseating fluctuating and belching with crudities from whence Gripes Fluxes and Feavers the spirits clogged dull and somnolent by their indisposition and inactivity humors subside degenerate incrassate obstruct from whence various symptoms and depraved effects throughout the body debilitating and decaying the senses Noxa etsi ad tempus fortasse delitescit temporis tamen successu sese exerit enervating and stealing away the strength of the body by defrauding it of good nutriment hastning old age and shortning life In Winter you may eat more freely but in Summer the spirits are dilated exhausted and drawn forth by the external heat opening the pores wherefore the appetite is not so sharp nor digestion so quick And the Rule is true though heat be not the principal cause of concoction yet it is a necessary Agent Excitor and Cooperator Change your dyet according to the seasons of the year the variation of your body and inclination to this or that distemper in Winter more meat and less drink in Summer less meat and more liquids in Summer meats oftner boiled in Winter roasted a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist diet a cold and moist body a hot and dry dyet temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodies are rectified and reduced
are its vacation from trouble Separation now is not so good the excrementitious and nutritious part walk hand in hand together and pass without contradiction or due examination the watch now is not so strict at the Ports and privy passages to discern what is fit to pass this way and what the other or what to reject and keep out but promiscuously receive what presents it self Distribution now is not so good Aliment tires by the way wanting spirits to convey and bring it to its journeys end and exercise to jog it on through the angust Meanders and more difficult passages Sanguification is now degenerated and vitiated the preceding requisites and fit praevious disposition in order thereto being wanting Membrification or Assimilation is now changed for a Cachectick and depraved habit Excretion and Evacuation of what is superfluous and unfit longer to be retained in the body is not sent away in due time but stayes for a Pass the Governess is now taken up with other matters neglects due orders and commands to the expulsive faculty for their emission All necessary and wholesome Customs are now neglected and disregarded the Soul too oft is wandring and gadding abroad and best when she is roving from home but neglects the airing of her Cottage and perfuming it with fresh aetherian breath The Soul is now alwayes restless and disturbed nor shall the Senses her Attendants take their due repose but keeps an unquiet house at midnight In the second Case The regular and due order of government in the Body is subverted and changed when the Soul in the forementioned passions of Fear Anger Hatred and Revenge is disturbed and alarum'd by the assault approach or appearance of some evil or injury the Soul then summons the spirits together and commands them from their common duties calls them to her aid and assistance for security from danger to repulse the violence offered or revenge the injury hurrying them here and there from one part to another in a tumultuous manner if the assault be suddain and surprizing sometimes inward to support the heart to give courage and resolution which by their suddain concourse and confluence to the Center causeth great palpitations and almost suffocation or else commanding them to the out-works into the external parts to repel the invasion and violence of the evil presenting or approaching or to revenge the quarrel the Hands and Arms then receive a double or trebble strength the Muscles being full and distended with agile spirits for their activity strength in motion The Eyes then are staring full and stretch'd forth with a croud of inflamed spirits darting forth their fury and spending their strength upon the Adversary and Object of their trouble The Tongue then is swelled with spirits and big words that wanting a larger room for vent tumbles out broken and imperfect speeches and scarce can utter whole words The Legs and Feet then have an Auxiliary supply and double portion of spirits conveighed into their Nerves and Sinews to increase their agility and strength to come on or off But in the mean time the Heart perhaps is almost fainting so long being deprived of and deserted by those lively vigorous spirits which did inhabit and quarter there for its Life-Guard protection and support but are now called off their Guard and common duties imployed in Forreign Parts commanded here and there as the emergent occasions presents it self to the Governess of this Microcosm In the third case mentioned the due order government and necessary execution of offices belonging to the wellfare and maintenance of the body and preservation of life is neglected and weakly performed When the Soul being darkned and overspread with a cloud of sadness betakes her self to a sullen incurious recumbency and retiredness willing to resign up and cast off the government and tuition of the body and as a burthen which she now delights not to bear about begins to loose her hold who before had embraced and clipt so close suspending the virtue of her energy and vigorous emanations acting faintly and coldly those necessary mutual performances without regard to their former friendship or their future conjunct preservation The Body now begins to sink with its own weight and press towards the Earth the natural place from whence it came That aetherian spirit which before had boyed it up and took delight to sport it to and fro is now ready to let it fall and grovel downwards to leave it whether it must go The wonted pleasures of their partnership and society is now disgusted and rejected Food now hath lost its relish and is become unsavory Sleep which before was pleasant as a holy day in the fruition of rest and ease is now composed of nothing but troublesome unquiet dreams linked together with some fighting intervals to measure out the weary night by Exercise and sporting Recreations is now accounted druggery and laborious toyling unwilling is the Soul to move her yoak-fellow farther then the enforcing Law of Nature and necessity commands and urgeth Their joynt operations which before were duly and unanimously performed are now ceased abated or depraved by the retraction reluctance and indisposed sadness of the Soul to act the wonted vigorous emanations of the Soul and her radiant influence upon the spirits is now suspended subducted and called back These ministring attending Spirits and nimble Agents which at a beck were alwayes ready agile and active in the execution of her commands now want Commands to stir and Warrants to act by but in a torpid and somnolent disposition unfit for action and the exquisite performance of their duties and in a sympathizing complyance with the Soul the excitrix and rectrix of their motions are ready to resign their Offices and give over working that what they now do is faintly and remisly performed with much deficiency and depravation When the Soul is pleased and merry the spirits dance and are chearful at their work but when she droops and mourns the spirits are dull heavy and tired the Functions weakly and insufficiently executed From the preceding Discourse may easily be collected that the Distempers and Alienations of the Soul from her genuine Crasis of serenety and quietude is of great disadvantage to Health for as much as the necessary Functions of the Body from hence are disordered and insufficiently performed these perturbations also impressing upon the Body various preternatural effects forming the Ideas and Characters of Diseases upon the spirits are by them communicated implanted and propagated in the body likewise the morbifick Seeds and secret Characters of Diseases which lay dead and inactive are by the oeconomical disturbance and perturbation of mind awakened moved and stirred up to hostility and action which otherwise would have layen dormant as by grief fear anger hysterical passions swoonings epilepsies c. are often procured and it is evident and commonly observed by infirm and diseased people how passion agravates and heightens their distempers and according to the temper of