Nature 47. Pear-pies being full ripe makes a fine gentle friendly Food of easie Concoction 48. Rhedishes and Bread and Butter is a very good Food and a Man may now and then make a good Meal thereof this affords a substantial nourishment far exceeding a Flesh Dinner 49. Parsley and Bread and Butter makes a noble exhillerating Food agreeable to Nature nothing more friendly to the Stomach breeds good Blood and fine Spirits 50. Sorrel and Bread and Butter makes a brave brisk Food easie and quick of digestion cleanseth the Stomach and opens the Belly and generates good Blood 51. Balm and Bread and Butter makes an excellent Food of a chearing warming Quality no sort of Food makes a better Nourishment 52. Sage and Bread and Butter makes excellent Food affords a good nourishment its particular operation is it warms the Stomach and expels Wind. 53. Milk Pottage viz. half Milk and half Water mix it and put it on your Fire when boiling hot then take it off the Fire and brew it with some Oatmeal ready tempered or mixed with a spoonful of cold Water or Milk season it with Salt and eaten with Bread makes a very good substantial Food affording a good nourishment agreeable to the Stomach But remember that it be made thin and full half Water otherwise it will be heavy on the Stomach especially if it be for weakly Consumptive People 54. There is also a brave sort of Food made of Wheat and Milk called Furmity some make it plain and others add Fruit to it the plain is the best but they are both very good affording a firm substantial nourishment of a mild friendly operation the frequent use of this is a grand enemy to the generation of sower windy Humours 55. Boiled Wheat buttered is a noble Dish and with this alone a Man may make a better and more satisfactory Meal than with Princely variety it affords a sweet friendly and most agreeable nourishment easie of concoction and generates fine thin Blood 56. Take good white Pease boil them when near done add green Sage and Onions cut small then season it with Salt and Butter but in the Winter when green Sage is not good then take that which is dried according to our Directions in The Way to Health long Life and Happiness which is to be preferred before green This is a brave strong substantial Pottage very grateful to the Pallate and agreeable to the Stomach 57. Directions to make several sorts of Herb Pottage viz. Take what quantity you please of good Water make it boiling hot then have your Herb or Herbs ready washed not cut as the usual custom is put them into your boiling hot Water let your Vessel continue on the Fire till your Liquor begins to boil then take it off the Fire and let your Herbs remain in your boiling Liquor 2 or 3 minutes after which take your Herbs out then brew your hot Infusion with a little small ground Oatmeal which you must have ready tempered with a spoonful or two of cold Water adding Salt and Butter to it which ought to be brewed with your Oatmeal This Pottage or Gruel you may eat with Bread or without as you find most agreeable to your Stomach All Herb Pottages made after this method are far more commendable for all good purposes than that made the common and usual way for the hot Liquor in a moments time draws forth all the fine spirituous mild friendly opening cleansing Vertues and leaves the more gross raw or crude quality behind even as the first hot Liquor put on Malt does attract the best and most spiritual Vertues and strength of the Malt for in most or all Infusions the fine spirituous qualities separate and do first give themselves forth into any proper Minstruum or Liquor 58. Smallage makes a Pottage or Gruel of a cleansing quality it purifies the Blood opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen this Pottage alone eaten twice a day is an effectual Remedy against all Consumptive Humours 59. Sellary does also make a brave Physical Pottage it warms and comforts the Spirits affords a good nourishment and is an admirable Remedy against windy sower Humours 60. Leek Pottage is not only good Food but it is also profitable against all Obstructions of the Uâ—iters and is good against short windedness and other Obstructions of the Breast and affords a good clean nourishment 61. Onion Pottage this eaten with good Bread Butter and Salt makes a brave Meal of it self it is also good against difficult breathing 62. Garlick Pottage is chiefly good for full Bodied Corpulent People and such as are troubled with Coughs the Stone and Gravel 63. Parsley Pottage warms the Stomach chears the Spirits and is very agreeable to the Stomach being eaten with Bread Butter and Salt a Man may make a very good Meal thereof 64. Mint makes a noble exhillerating Pottage the frequent eating thereof does not only prevent windy Humours in the Passages but it mightily strengthens the Retentive Faculty of the Stomach 65. Balm makes a Pottage of a warming comforting quality and is a gallant Food affording excellent nourishment this alone makes a noble Meal to the highest satisfaction of the Stomach 66. Water-Cresses made into Pottage being eaten with Bread Butter and Salt is not only a good Food but the frequent use thereof cleanseth the Blood and prevents Fumes and Vapours from flying into the Crown 67. Sweet Charwel makes an excellent Pottage being eaten with Bread Butter and Salt is not only a brave Food but it warms cold Stomachs and is a friend to the Lungs 68. Take Currans boil them in your Water when almost done mix a little small Oatmeal with 2 spoonfulls of cold Water stir it in and let it boil a little when done season it with Salt adding Sugar to it this eaten with Bread makes a good Meal You may add Butter as most good Housewives do but I must tell them that it makes it heavy on the Stomach and apt to send Fumes into the Head 69. Boil your Raisins in Water as is mentioned before of Currans when almost done then stir your tempered Oatmeal in and let it boil a small time when done add Salt Sugar and Bread you may add Butter especially if the Eaters thereof be strong working People This Pottage affords much nourishment and a Man may sometimes make a very good Meal of this alone 70. Take Raisins Currans and a few Pruanâ— boil them in good Water when near done thicken it with white Bread adding Spice Sugar Butter and Salt This is a rich Pottage affording a great nourishment and therefore it must be eaten the more sparingly 71. A piece of good Bread and a Pint of good Ale or Beer makes a very galant Meal it warms the Stomach is easie of digestion generates good Blood and it has a quick and pleasant operation 72. Bread and half a Pint of good Canary Wine a Man may make a noble and most delightful Meal even to the highest
unto all Creatures as they would be done unto for the highest degree of Sanctity and Religion is to imitate God who is the Maker and Preserver of all things Consider also that thy Life is near and dear to thee the like is to be understood of all other Creatures as I have at large demonstrated in our Way to Health Long Life and Happiness 1. BRead and Water hath the first place of all Foods and are the Foundation of dry and moist nourishment and of themselves being wisely prepared makes a good Food of an opening cleansing Nature and Operation viz. Take Oatmeal and make it into a Gruel as we have Taught in our Monthly Observations of Health then put good Bread into it also take Water and good Wheat Flower and make it into a Pap and put Bread into it and season it with Salt this and Bread with a Glass of Water a Man may live very well which a Friend of mine of no mean Quality have done for near Two years eating neither Flesh nor any of their Fruits neither does he wear any Woollen Garments but Linen 2. Bread and Butter Bread and Cheese being eaten alone or with Sallad Herbs washed without either Salt Oyl or Vinegar makes a most excellent Food of a cleansing exhilerating Quality easie of Digestion the frequent eating thereof sweetens and generates good Blood and fine Spirits and prevents the generation of sower Humors also keeps the Body open and all Herbs thus eaten let the Food be what it will is to be preferred before those that are eaten with Salt Vinegar and Oyl especially for Women and all Constitutions that are subject to generate sower Humors and windy Diseases 3. Bread and Butter eaten with our thin Gruel wherein is only Salt to Season it the best way of eating it is to bite and Soop as you eat raw Milk and Bread this is a most sweet and agreeable Food to the Stomack of easy Concoction and breeds good Blood and causeth it to Circulate freely and it is the most approved way of eating Water-gruel with Butter 4. Bread and Milk as it comes from the Cow or raw as they call it is a most delicate Food and Milk eaten thus is not only the best Food but the most the frequent eating thereof doe sweeten the Blood prevents sower Humors carries Wind downward and causeth it to pass away freely without any Trouble or Molestation to Nature maintaining Health and good Complexion and is to be preferr'd before all other ways of Eating or Preparations especially then boiled Milk for boiling of Milk does fix or stagnate the fine volatile Spirits and makes it of a tough Nature by which the Stomack cannot so easily separate it neither does it generate so fine Blood or Spirits for this cause if you boil Milk and then set it to Cream it will not separate or afford more than a thin Skin but remember that you do not eat your Milk before it be cold not hot from the Cow as most incline to the particular Reasons I have demonstrated in our Good Houswife made a Doctor 5. Bread and Eggs or Bread and raw Eggs as they call them is an excellent Food and it hath the first place of all Meats made of Eggs being easier of Concoction generates finer and better nourishment it naturally cleanseth the passages and the frequent eating of Bread and raw Eggs preserves the Lungs the Bellows of Life chears and warms the Stomack and frees it from Obstructions but remember that you break both ends and suck both the White and Yolk by degrees together and eat it with Bread for the White is the strong Body and the Yolk contains the Spirits and therefore they being eaten together are both wholsomer than assunder and more agreeable unto Nature a little Custom will rendr them very pleasant and delightful to most or all Constitutions 6. Eggs Parsly and Sorrel mixed or stirred together and Fried in a Pan with Butter and a little Salt and when done melt some Butter and Vinegar and put on them but you must not put too great a quantity of Herbs for then it will render it more heavy and dull in Operation this is a Noble and most delicious Dish and it affords a good nourishment provided you eat not too much in quantity 7. Eggs beaten together and Fryed with Butter and when done melt some Butter and Vinegar and put over them is also a delightful and pleasant Dish being much better and easier of Digestion than the common way of Frying Eggs as being lighter and more tender 8. Eggs poached and some Parsly boiled and cut small and mixed with some Butter and Vinegar melted makes a very fine Dâ—sh and gives great satisfaction to the Stomack supplying Nature with Nourishment to the highest degree and is very grateful to the Palate 9. Eggs boiled in their Shells and Eggs roasted the last being the best and eaten with Bread and Salt or with Bread Butter and Salt is a good substantial Food also Eggs broken and Butter'd over the Fire is a good Food being eaten with store of Bread 10. Eggs being mixed with various sorts of Fruits with Butter and Bread made into Pyes is a sort of delicious Food that a Man may give himself the Liberty to Eat now and then to great satisfaction and no detriment to Natture provided it be not too often 11. Eggs poached and eaten with a Dish of boiled Spinage Buttered is a good Food and affords agreeable Nourishment being eaten with plenty of good Bread 12. Eggs with Flower and Water made into a Pap on the Fire as we have directed in the forementioned Book The Good Houswsfe made a Doctor is a Noble Food affording a brave clean nourishment being eaten either alone or with Bread 13. Raw Eggs broke into our thin white Water-gruel and brewed well together with some Salt to season it and then eaten with Bread or Bread and Butter makes a most exhilerating Food being of a warming Quality and agreeable unto the Stomack generates good Blood and fine brisk Spirits this Gruel is very good for all young People and Women for the frequent use of this and others of our Spoon-meats do naturally sweeten all the Humors and prevents the generation of sower Juices frees the passages from Windiness and Griping pains 14. Milk Water and Flower makes a brave substantial Pap or Food this affords a strong nourishment and such as eat frequently of it shall not be subject neither to the Gripes of the Stomack nor Bowels and cuts off the generation of Wind in the bud makes the Spirits brisk the Body plump fat and of good Complexion also it allays heat and drought this being as friendly a Food to Nature as any Composition made by Fire with Milk 16. One Egg broke into a Pint of good Ale and brewed well together and eaten with Bread makes a brave Meal and it hath a vigorous and quick operation in the Stomach in the Summer you may drink or eat it
cold with Bread but in the Winter warm it 17. Take a pint of Ale or good Beer sweeten it with Sugar then put it on the Fire make it boiling hot but not boil then take one or two Eggs beat them with a little Water then brew them well with your hot sweetened Ale or Beer this is a noble comforting sort of Food or rather a rich Cordial which do wonderfully replenish Nature with both dry and moist nourishment 18. Rice and Water boiled and buttered is a fâ—iendly Food and easie of Concoction and affords a good nourishment 19. Rice and Milk is also a noble Food affording a subâ—tantial nourishment especially if you put Sugar in it and remember in what Spoon-meats soever you put Butter let no Sugar come and where you put Sugar let no Butter be 20. An Egg or two beaten and brewed in a pint of raw Milk as they call it either cold or warm according to the season of the year is a Noble substantial Food affording a most excellent Nourishment the frequent eating thereof prevents the generation of sower windy Humors which are the original of many cruel Diseases more especially in Women and Children and gives all good healthy Complexion 21. Milk made boiling hot and then thickned with Eggs is a brave substantial Food of a frienly mild Nature and Operation agreeable to most or all People 22. There is also made of Milk several other sorts of Food viz. Cheescakes Custards VVhitepots all which are much of one Nature and Operation they nourish much and are substantial but are not to be eaten too frequently 23. Spinnage boiled or stewed and butteeed and eaten with Bread makes a brave cleansing Food easie of Concoction and generates good Blood and sweetens the Humors moves and opens Obstructions 24. Spinnage and the young buds of Colworts boiled in plenty of good VVater with a quick brisk Fire and eaten only with Bread Butter and Salt is fine pleasant delightful Food affording a good clean nourishment 25. Spinnage boilnd with the sound tops of Mint and Balm seasoned with Salt and Butter and eaten with Bread makes a Noble Dish of a warming Quality and gives great satisfaction to 〈◊〉 â—tomach affording an excellent nourishâ—â—â—t 26. Spinnage Endive and young Parsley boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt iâ— a brave friendly exhillerating Food generating good Blood and fine brisk Spirits cleanseth the Passages and loosens the Belly 27. Boiled Cabbedge Collyflowers and Collworts being eaten with Butter Vinegar Salt and Bread the last of the 3 being the best for they loosen the Belly purge by Urine and are easie of Concoction but remember that you boil them in plenty of good Water with a quick Fire and not too much which is to be observed in all the preparations of Herbs and Grains 28. Asparagus boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt is a most delicious Food they afford a clean nourishment and are friendly to the Stomach opens Obstructions loosens the Belly and powerfully purges by Urine 29 Artichokes boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt are an excellent Food and generates a substantial nourishment a Man may make a noble Meal of them 30. Green Beans boiled and eaten with Salt Butter and Bread is a most pleasant Food they gently open the Belly affording a good nourishment if you eat temperately of them for they are an entising Food Let all People subject to windy Diseases eat them sparingly 31. French or Kidney Beans boiled in plenty of Water with a brisk Fire and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt makes a brave delightful Dish of Food of a cleansing opening nature and operation they purge by Urine and gently open the Belly affording a good nourishment provided they are eaten temperately which is chiefly to be regarded in all green Foods 32. Green Pease boiled and seasoned with 〈◊〉 and Butter and eaten with Bread makes a 〈◊〉 pleasant Dish of Food their nourishment is 〈◊〉 strong they are windy if not sparingly eaten 33. Dry Pease being boiled in plenty of good soft Water being seasoned with Salt and Butter makes a substantial Dish of Food and affords a strong nourishment and are good for all strong labouring Men. 34. Boiled Turnips makes a very good Dish of Food being seasoned with Salt Butter and eaten with Bread especially for all young People they open and cleanse the Passages and are easie of digestion and may with safety be eaten plentifully their colour declares their excellent Vertues 35. Parsnips boiled in plenty of good Water seasoned with Salt Vinegar Butter and Mustard makes a brave substantial hearty Dish of Food and are friendly to most Constitutions 36. Carrats boiled and seasoned with Salt and Butter and eaten with good Bread is a fine Dish of Food very pleasant and wholesom and are of easie Concoction the deep red are the best 37. Roasted or boiled Potatoes eaten with Butter Salt and Vinegar makes a pleasant Dish 〈◊〉 Food very grateful to the Stomach and are â—asie of digestion now and then a Meal of them â—â—may do well 38. Apple-Dumplins eaten with Butter or Butter and Sugar hath the first place of most sorts of Puddings they are easie of Concoction and afford a friendly nourishment 39. Plain Dumplins made very small viz. with with good Flower Milk Eggs and a little Butter mixed or work'd up in them and made thin like small Cakes about as large as a Crown Piece and put into boiling Water which will be boiled in a little time this is a noble substantial Food very sweet and pleasant of a warming nature of an easie friendly operation 40. Plain Puddings made with Eggs Flower and Milk well boiled and buttered makes a firm Food agreeable to the Stomach being eaten temperately is both wholesom and healthy 41. Boiled Dumplins made only with Flower Milk or Water with a little Ginger which is the best Spice for Puddings with Yeast or Barm and when done buttered is a very good wholesom Food and of easie digestion of this alone a Man may now and then make a good Meal 42. Boiled Puddings made with Flower Milk and Eggs and Raisons or Currans and buttered makes a pleasant Food and a Man may now and then give himself the liberty to make a Meal thereof without prejudice 43. There are also several sorts of light Puddings made of Bread and various sorts of ingredients which are pleasant to the Pallat and not ungrateful to the Stomach if sparingly eaten 44. Rice Puddings both plain and made of Fruit which for the most part are a pleasant sort of Food easie of digestion and may be freely eaten 45. There are also several of Baked Puddings which to most young People are delightful they afford a good strong nourishment and are best for such as labour 46. Apple-pies made with Fruit that is neither too green or unripe nor too old or far spent are a very good Food especially for young People they afford a good nourishment and are friendly to
satisfaction of Nature 72. Bread and a Pint of good Cyder do also make a good Meal it breeds good nourishment and makes a Man full of life and spirit 73. Bread and half a Pint of Cherry Wine Goosberry Wine or Currans Wine with this alone a Man may make a brave Dinner it affords a noble brisk spirit and nourishment 74. Flummery is an ancient Food the Britains used to eat and the use of it is still continued amongst the Welsh The Britains and those that now eat this sort of Gruel had and have various ways of eating it viz. to mix Ale with it and so eat it with Bread others Milk Cream and the like which mixtures do very well This Gruel I commend to all weak Stomach'd People and especially to such whose Breasts and Passages are furred and obstructed by sweet tough and phlegy matter it being an excellent remedy against all such Infirmities 75. Bonniclabber is a sort of Milk Meat and though last spoken of deserves the first place for its excellent Vertues Bonniclabber is nothing else but Milk that has stood till it is sower and become of a thick slippery substance this is an exceellent Food being eaten with good Bread in hot Seasons especially for Consumptive People and such as are troubled with any kind of stoppages of the Breast it naturally opens the passages it 's easie of concoction and helps to digest all hard or sweeter Foods it also cools and cleanseth the whole Body and renders it brisk and lively quencheth thirst to admiration And with this or any one of the forementioned Dishes of Food any Person may make a hearty Meal thereof with great satisfaction But remember always this grand Truth viz. That Nature undepraved is simple and innocent and is satisfied with a proportionable Food a few things supplies all her wants therefore seek not many Dishes nor variety of Foods especially at one Meal for most Diseases and Distempers are contracted through excess and inordinate living nor doth any thing preserve the Body and also the Mind in perfect health so much as sobriety and temperance and not to heap together various sorts of Foods beyond the necessity or the digestive power of Nature The ancient Wise Men that lived to great Ages in perfect health were contented with simple Food and mean Drink and it would be our happiness to imitate them I wish I might be an Instrument to persuade my Countrymen to such Moderation FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for and sold by Tho. Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple in Fleetstreet viz. A Most Compleat Compendium of Geography general and Special describing all the Empires Kingdoms and Dominions in the World shewing their Bounds Situation Dimensions Ancient and Modern Names History Government Religions Languages Commodities Divisions Subdivisions Cities Rivers Mountains Lakes with their Archbishopricks and Vniversities in a more Plain and Easie Method more Compendious and perhaps more Vseful than any of this bigness To which are added general Rules for making a large Geography very necessary for the Right Vnderstanding of the Transactions of these Times Collected according to the most late Discoveries and agreeing with the choicest and newest Maps By Laurence Eachard of Christ's-Colledge in Cambridge Pr. 1 s. 6 d. Arithmetical Rules digested and contracted for the Help and Benefit of Memory very necessary and useful as well for Gentlemen and Tradesmen as for Youth and Apprentices in Mercantile Affairs With Examples Illustrated upon the Rules By Arthur Leadbetter Schoolmaster in the Whiting-street in Bury St. Edmonds in Suffolk Price 1 s.
and more applauded Crafts tend unto but either Violence Oppression and the Destruction of Men or to fraud and Cousenage or to Gluttony Drunkenness Luxury and Effeminacy or to Pride and Vanity 7. What kind of Property or Principle was that in Man which first invented and daily improves the use of Warlike Weapons to kill murther and destroy those of their own Kind as well as oâ—her inferior innocent Creatures that raked into the bowels of Hell for Brimstone Nitre Saltpetre to furnish them with Gunpowder and Studied the Art of Mining and Blowing up their natural Brethren by Hundreds at a blast Did not all such things originally arise from the Bottomless Pit that deep dark poysonous Abyss of Fierceness and Wrath And still from the same horrid Fountain do proceed all new Inventions that tend to the Destruction of Man wherein it may be observed that Christians have been more unhappily Ingenious than those they call Heathens which is much to be lamented though the latter have so far learnt of them that now they are grown no less expert in the mischievous uses of those Inventions and not seldom do therewith plague and destroy the Original Authors 8. From what Principle in Man did the Invention of Ships arise or what real Necessity was there for the same has the most merciful and bounteous Creator planted Man in any Country which does not afford sufficient to supply all the necessities of Nature For Did not those millions that inhabited those vast Regions since called America subsist without the Art of Navigation any further than meer Nature taught them for many Ages before Columbus could boast of discovering a new World how many have been swallowed up by the vast Ocean through means of Seafaring Attempts which seldom had better aim than either to Disquiet Conquer and Roâ— Innocent peaceable People or to obtain such things as are not at all needful but serve only to please the vanity of the multitude and procure Diseases 9. Considering the certain and inevitable danger that attends Navigation we may justly say that all things brought from remote parts by Seâ— are the price of Blood Now if a Prince cause a single Man to be put to Death or one privately kill another or if a Man hang or drown himself here on shoar then what a great deal of trouble it makes amongst the Relations and also the People which indeed when done by the Hands of Justice is much to be lamented that People should live so contrary to Human Society that there should be any kind of cause for killing of Human Creatures but there do daily many thousands expose their Lives in going to Sea to fetch superfluities that serve only to promote Vanity and Diseases and when they loose their Lives and perish through their own Folly and ill Conduct little or no notice is taken of it as in one Storm thousands of Men sink to the bottom of the Sea in their Ships laden with Spices Wines and the like which if they had brought to Land they nor no others could not have sustained their Hunger and Lives one Week but could have done abundance of hurt to the Eaters and Drinkers thereof 10. What Tongue or Pen can express the hazards the horrors the miseries that People expose themselves to in Tempests at Sea and to what purpose to fetch Wanton Men Pearls to hang at the Ears of their more Wanton Mistresses to bring Pepper to strew over our Cucumbers Mangoes for our Mutton or Claret Florence Wine Brandy and a thousand other Strong Liquors to Intoxicate our Gallants and make them spend their Means ruine their Healths shorten their Lives be mad quarrel kill one another and so to be hang'd for 't Certainly did our friendly courteous Women and nice Ladies and others pretending to Piety and Conscience consider all this they would not be so fond of these foreign Need-nots but rather be of David's mind touching the Water his Soldiers procured which he counted the price of Blood and though he had need of it yet he would not receive nor drink it 11. What Principle or Property in Man was it that first invented all Strong Intoxicated Drinks which do chiefly serve to destroy Mens Souls and Bodies Did not he that first invented the making of Wine commit one of the greatest Evils through Drunkenness which is still the grand cause and in-let of Adulteries Whoredom Murders Blasphemies and all kind of Diseases and Oppressions both of Body and Mind whence it is clear that this Invention did proceed from the Bitter Root 12. From whence did and do the daily Inventions Compositions and Preposterous mixtures of Foods proceed which merely serves to stupify the Intellectuals and distemper the Body with incurable Diseases doth not all such pernicious Inventions proceed and arise from the Poysonous Root as also all Plays Games Fine Cloaths Rich Furniture Stately Buildings as Pyramids and a thousand sorts of stately Structures of vast Charge invincible Labour and Hazards to those that build them Will any body say that such things are necessary to the Life and well-being of Man Are they not rather contrary to the Command of our Lord Having Food and Raiment be ye therewith content The Excellency of clean Foods especially of Bread 1. AS a Medicine drives its Qualities from the Ingrediencies as a Building is weak or strong according to the proportion of the materials and good Workmanship in joyning them together So Meats and Drinks whereby Men are nourished and sustained in this mortal State have a far greater Influence and Operation not only on the outward Body and Senses but also on the Intellectual Faculties or Soul than the vulgar does imagine for the Spirit makes all things Essential 2. Bread being the equallest aâ—e cleanest of all Foods as wherein the four Grand Qualities stand at the nearest harmony deserves to be stiled the Staff of Life because it affords a firm clean nourishment and pure Spirits excelling any other particular Food whence the Great Light of the World has honoured it so far as to pronounce it the Symbal of his Body For as the Divine Principle or Human Friendly Nature will incorporate qualifie and allay the out-goings of the harsh wrathful bitter Spirit and bring all into Concord and Equality whereby the inward Sences of the Soul and intellectual Powers taste fâ—el and imbrace each other in Love and Harmony The like is to be understood of Bread it qualifies and allays the Discord and Inequality of all other Foods and so renders it fit for the health of the Body and Mind 3. Bread was the principal Food the Creator ordained for Man after the Fall it having the first place before all other Foods therefore the Lord said In the sweat of thy Brows thou shalt eat thy Bread for all other things that Man needs to feed on can be prepared without Labour or with very little as Herbs Fruits c. but there goes considerable pains to the procuring of Bread and
hence too we are taught to Pray for our Daily Bread as including under that Name all things necessary for the support of Human Life 4. Outward cleanness in Meats Drinks Cloathing and Exercises is of great use and prevents and as it were cuts off in the bud many Diseases and Inconveniences both from the Body and Mind therefore the Light of the Gospel or Divine Principle makes that part of Moses Law touching Cleanness Essential when it opens its self in the Center of Man's Heart and it is a Ceremony to none but such as are ignorant of Gods Law and the Sympathetical Operations 5. Frequent Bathing or Washing in pure Running Water is highly convenient for all persons especially after easing themselves for the same will in a great measure prevent the pernitious Diseases of the Fundament some of which are incurable 6. Be careful that you do not sit on Common house of Easement which oftentimes proves of evil consequence and infects the Party with Diseases of various kinds according to each Mans Constitution or Complexion therefore those in Cities that would avoid such Dangers ought to ease themselves in a vessel of Water and when the Excrement is cold then to put it into the House of Office particular Reasons in Nature I have shewn elsewhere 7. Have a care of Compositions use and Desire Simplicity for Wisdom In the preparation of Food preserve Unity that is prepare but one thing at a time for things of differing Natures cannot be prepared together because some requires a longer some a shorter time besides the Spirits and inward Virtues of each thing do mix and incorporate and mightily strive with each other for Victory by which the pure parts of them all are wounded for in the Combat the weaker suffers Violence and the Spirit is Suffocated 8. Flesh and Herbs Roots and Puddings are not to be prepared together in one Vessel but each alone because of their different Nature and times of preparation for Water after it hath boiled an hour more or less will not prepare any sort of Food to that degree of Excellency as at first 6. Let Seafaring Men and others that Travel when they go ashore beware of Venus as also of lying in soft warm Beds especially Feather-beds As also of eating of fresh Flesh and Fish too immoderately lest they fall into Fluxes for Nature cannot endure suddain Changes and where Wisdom and Temperance is wanting People are subject to various Diseases on such occasions as Fevers Fluxes Colds c. 10. The chief occasion why Mankind is so subject to frequent Fevers is the variety of Foods improperly compounded especially the common eating of Flesh and Fish As also Butter Cheese and the use of strong Drinks for always fat Foods do fur the Stomack and are hard to be separated either by the natural heat or by the Liquor that is drank especially strong hot Drinks Water being the proper Minstrim or Liquor for the Stomach for this Cause Obstructions and Fevers as also hot Diseases are so common and griping Pains and Fluxes such Meats and Drinks do awaken the original fierce Fires 11. All Foods proceeding from the vegitable Kingdom are innocent more equal in there Parts easily dissolved affording fine Spirits therefore those that live chiefly on such innocent Foods are more airy pleasant cool and full of Delight in Body and Spirit which none can know or understand but such as have experienced it for some considerable time 12. All that would prevent Fevers and many other Diseases and keep themselves in harmony should apply themselves to simple Foods viz. Bread Fruits Herbs and the like forbear all sorts of Flesh Fish and eat sparingly of Butter Cheese and Milk and eat but little Fat besides Oil for this you must always remember that every thing begets its likeness 13. Bread Herbs Seeds Fruits and most or indeed all vegetative Foods do represent unto Man the Divine Principle of Light and Love but Flesh be it of what kind it will does denote the harsh wrathful Principle and Mans Desires so much after it is a true sign that he lives in that harsh fierce killing Principle 14. For now-a-days if any Man should be condemned to live only on Bread and Water and what might be made thereof he would think himself hardly dealt with which do demonstrate the high degree of Mans Depravation and Separation from the Divine Vision or first simple State 15. Many of the Holy and Wise Antients have declined and decried the eating of Flesh and Blood especially of such Creatures as are unclean and that will eat the Flesh of their Fellow Creatures but never did any of the Philosophical Men forbid the eating of such harmless things as Herbs Bread and the like but have recommended them as most agreeable to Nature and Health 16. A time shall come when the Lyon shall eat Hay with the Ox and the Wolf lye down with the Lamb that is the fierce savage beastial Nature in Man shall be thorough shined and bowed before the Divine Principle or Lamb-like Spirit and whosoever comes to know that time will be contented with innocent Herbs Bread and the like harmless Foods 17. For if the Wolfish Dogâ—sh Nature did not predominate in Man they would not so much long after the Flesh and Blood of Beasts but whatsoever Principle do Reign in the Center of a Mans heart whether Good or Evil he will desire Food suitable thereunto Some particular Notes whence Consumptions proceed and the occasions thereof 1. THE Compositions of sweet fat Foods and Spices all mixed together do destroy the innocent ways of Nature especially when done without understanding the Principles of Nature clog and obstruct the Stomack and too much open the Gate of Venus 2. The frequent eating of Flesh and Fish and such as are Rapacious mixed with the richest vegetations do open and manifest the hidden internal Properties of such Flesh and Fish thereby increasing Lust and evil beastial Inclinations 3. The great quantities of Food wherewith most People overchange Nature which do generate superfluity of gross Juices and if such Foods be from the Animal Kingdom as Flesh Fish Butter Eggs Milk or various sorts of them mixed together then they do so much the more provoke Inclinations to Venus for Flesh and Fish do much more strengthen the Venerial Property than simple Vegetations especially when joyned with strong intoxicating Liquors 4. The frequent or overmuch drinking of strong fermented Drinks especially when the Foods are fat rich spicy and succulent then if there be not great temperance in quantity Nature is set into an unnatural Flame 5. The too frequent visiting the shades of Venus with the before-mentioned Intemperances do extremely promote to the utter ruin of many thousands this is the secret Enemy that wounds the bravest Gallant and strongest Nature and send them down with Sorrow to the Grave betimes 6. The common Lying of Men and Women together on hot soft Feather-beds which do hinder Rest keep
the spirit then also the Oyl does with the true spirit become either suffocated or evaporated for this very cause all Herbage that has lost its spirit does neither smell well nor weigh heavy for that fragrant smell proceeds from the Essential spirits and the weight and ponderousness is from the Oyl the very same is to be understood in all Grains as Wheat Barly Rye and the like the true colour also do arise and proceed both from the Essential spirit and Oyly quality 2. Therefore all Vegitative Foods especially such as are made of Corn as Wheat Rye Barly or the like are far more agreeable and harmonial than Flesh and Fish easier of digestion affording a finer livelier and more brisker spirit and less phlegm or gross Juices which the Natural heat and sharp pleasant Minstruum or Runnet of the Stomach can easily digest and send down into the passages and so free the Joynts and other parts of the Body from Inconveniencies This is manifest by External Operations for how quickly will Bread dissolve being put into Water nay the whole dry Corn it self being infused grows soft and tender in a little time but how long may one infuse Flesh Fish Cheese or Butter before they dissolve or grow more tender Vegetative Foods do also keep the Body cool and pleasant preventing Fumes and Vapours from flying into the Head because such Foods do not generate them as all fat Victuals does for their crude obstructive phlegmatick Juices that lodge in the Stomach and Vessels that cause Fumes and Vapours as also Fevers for the principal cause that Fevers are so frequent is that surplusage of matter that proceeds from Intemperance in Foods both in quantity and quality for when People over-charge Nature then the digestive faculty cannot make a perfect separation but the gross Juices does load stop and fur the passages whence is generated thick Blood and impure Spirits so that Nature becomes stagnated which does immediately stir up and awaken the Centerial Fires in all parts of the Body and makes the whole burn with an unnatural heat uneasie and burthensom which is that we call a Fever 4. Therefore in a special manner after full Meals of Flesh or Fish or other fat Foods Men ought to be cautious of drinking too plentifully of strong spirituous Drinks a cup of good Water to most Constitutions has had far better success to carry off a full Meal of such Foods than strong Liquors for good Water is endued with a mild friendly quality of a dissolving dissipating digestive nature and therefore helpâ— Concoction better than Spirituous Drinks as may be gathered from most or all External Operations for Water especially River Water or Spring Water such as will Wash Boil and Brew well will dissolve and dissipate hard Coagulated Bodies sooner than strong Drink or Spirits as Water will dissolve Sugar sooner than Beer Wine or Brandy for in the last especially it will lie a great while before it dissolves 5. Vegetative Foods affords not only the greatest and most vigorous spirits in the Bodies of either Men or Beasts but more fine and innocent free from the seeds of violence passion and inclinations to Beastiality 6. For the forementioned Reasons those that live wholly on Vegitations can drink more strong spirituous Drinks and with far less prejudice than those that live on Flesh and Fish for they will not so soon fume up into their Heads nor so much heat their Bodies finding their Stomachs free from those Crudities and flatulent Juices wherewith the others are pestered and consequently the digestive Property more powerful the Drink is presently dispatched and the grosser parts evaporated by the Uretors without any let or hindrance but the case is otherwise in the Stomachs of such as eat Flesh and fat Foods the truth of this may further appear by Men that do drink much strong Drink after full Meals such will be made drunk before and also sick before those that take the like quantity whose Stomachs are rather empty than full and the latter are in far less danger of Surfets it being seldom known that such that are both great Eaters and great Drinkers too do live long but on the contrary great Drinkers that eat but small quantities of Food do often live to old Age or if a great Eater chance to out-live Youth they seldom but have the Gout from all which it follows that Animal Foods which are for the most part fat are nothing so Excellent or Commendable as Vegitations which none can understand or know but Doctor Experience talk will not convince any Man no not Men of the greatest Reasons Obj. Some will be apt to object and say that it is nonsence to discourse after this manner viz. to affirm that fat Animal Foods are not so good as poor lean Vegitations and Victuals made thereof for we see will they say that fat things are desired by all or most and if Flesh be not fat it is counted worth little because fat is counted to be of a brave healing nourishing Nature and Operation and therefore our Nurses endeavour to make sucking Children to take it even against their Stomachs Answ. To which I answer that I am not ignorant that this is indeed the vulgar Opinion but for that very reason to be suspected nay if you will hearken to the Voice of Wisdom utterly to be expelled for Doctor Experience and that most excellent Phylosopher Right Reason will tell you that it is a grand mistake to think that Vegitations and Foods made thereof though they have not gross greasy qualities as Animal Foodâ— have are therefore to be counted poor lean and of but little Nourishment for are we not every day taught the contrary though not in Man yet in all other Creatures Will not a little cold Grass and dry Hay and especially Corn make several sorts of Beasts fat and that too very firm and substantial And what is your brave Butter and Cheese but the digested Juice of Grass and Vegitations all dried Grains as Wheat Barly Rye and many other sorts are endued with an excellent Spirit and pure Oyl much finer and freer from grossness and phlegm than Flesh or the product of Flesh the Oyl of Grains being as it were vollatile like a Spirit so that when it comes into the Stomach it is brisk and lively most easily separated and digested as being turned into an Unctious substance from whence the fatness of these Creatures that live on Corn does proceed which Unctious quality does also contain a bright lofty exhillerating spirit that makes all such Creatures so strong lively and brisk that they have no need of the fat either of Flesh or Fish The very same would happen to Man if he could content himself with Vegitative Foods and good Drinks made thereof 7. Such as live on Vegitative Foods are hardly ever subject to drought though they can when they eat drink with more pleasure to the Stomach though not so much to the Pallate as