familiar with God For doubtlesse they that are thus Regularly dyeted if they haue but a graine of Faith as it is Written they may worke wonders and perhaps performe miâ—acles They shall see strange Visions and be rapt vp as St. Paule was into the Heauâ—ns for some small time to receiue spirituall consolations the which if these Reuelations and Consolations concâ—rne onely themselues they must not blabbe them abroad vnlesse their publication be more for the glory of God then for their owne Hypocriticall prayse For it pleaseth God oftentimes to send or infuse messages to confirme his seruants in their constant courses As I remember in the Booke of Martyres a Holy man beeing in Queene Maries dayes to be brought to the Stake for the Faiths sake the night before complayned to one Austin his Friend that since his Imprisonment hee had no secret encoâ—ragement of the Holy Ghost to continue stedfast but on the contrary hee found himselfe very heauy and somewhat loath to dye But the next day as hee was lead towards the Stake to be burned hee met the sayd Austin by the way to whom this Good man cryed out with great ioy laying his hand on his heart O Austin Austin he is come he is come meaning the Holy Ghost of whose absence hee had bewayled the night before I deny not but there may bee many Saints here in our dayes but surely they take not the right course to make their Election sure if they mortifie not their Bodies sometimes when rebellious Passions are like to breake out into combustion or else that they be endowed with this powerfull vertue of Abstinence as I doe heere prescribe Nor are they to bee counted perfect Diuines which can only discourse of Diuinity Preach eloquent Sermons or dispute of profound Mysteries but Hee is the true Messenger of God who liues according to our Saâ—iours life and his Apostles or at the least doth his endeauour to imitate them as neere as hee can And in what outward seruice can a man draw neerer vnto them then in Sobriety and Abstinence For as Faith is the inward ground of the Spirituall building of GODS Church So Abstinence I hold to bee after a sort the secondary and outward foundation of this great structure aswell because it remooues those lets which might preiudice our vnderstanding as also because by it wee meete with many singular good helpes to prepare the Faculties of the Minde to bee more cleare and ready to embrace that course of Life which best pleaseth our Creaetor Therefore as Lessius writes Seeing that our proceeding or Progresse in Spirituall maetters doe depend vpon the vse of Understanding or that intellect which is infused in the Soule and vppon Faith which resides in this Understanding wee cannot loue that which is good or prosite in that Loue nor hate that which is euill or grow in hatred of that euill except it bee first propounded and discussed in the Vnderstanding to stirre vp and mooue our Affections for that Vertuous purpose Wheâ—e hence it comes to passe that they who haue lodged Diuine matters in their Vnderstanding as the Apostles did and such as followed their steppes they shall easily contâ—mne all Earthly Goods and climbe vp to the high degree of Sanctity and Holinesse and for that cause at the last they shall obtayne for their reward a glorious Crowne in Heauen For the Will of man doth easily conforme it selfe to the Iudgement of the Vnderstanding when a matter is not there rashly and suddainly propounded but with deliberation deepely and with length of time discussed and debated Whereby it appeares that those things which doe hinder darken or make difficult the Functions of the Minde for the most part are the Causes why in knowledge or in the Oâ—â—ices of Pâ—ety or in Hoâ—inesse of life wee arriue not to the wished and illustrious dâ—gâ—ee of Perfection By the Premisses it is apparant that Temperance or Sobriety is of great eâ—â—â—cacy and power both to exâ—â—nguish those impediments which eâ—lipseour iudgments from meditating on the bright beames of Vnderstanding and the true course of our Saluation and therefore it may not vnfitly bee called The secondary Foundation of wisdome and of our spiritual progresse For what bee the lets that make vs so vnapt to spirituall knowledge are they not the superfluous limidities of the Braine the obstructions of the Braines pores and passages the aboundance of Blood the heate of the Spirits which spring from Blood and Choller or the Humors of Melancholly which assault the Head and Braine All which may be preuented by a well ordred Dyet The fifth Commodity which this Dyet brings with it against the inwâ—rd motions is that it asswageth or rooteth out the flames of lustfull desires which annoy both Body and Soule And surely next to the Grace of God nothing auailes more for a Sober Dyet takes away first the Matter which is the aboundance of Windy sperme Secondly the impulsiue Cause which is the needlesse store of the animall Spirits whereby that Sperme is expelled And thirdly the prouoking Cause which is the imagination of venereous doings This Imagination stirres vp chiefly the Passion of Concupiscence which presently mooues the Spirits to expulsion and these spirits being so mooued to expulsion doe vehemently vrge yea and doe performe the Deede vnlesse the Will chance to restrayne the same All these abhominations are chased away or at the least corrected by a Temperate Dyet The which whosoeuer practizeth shall finde himselfe free from such perturbations so that our Papists need not afflict their Bodies as many of them do with languishing Fasts Bodily labours Whip-cords Wyres of Steele going barefoote or with lying on the cold ground so benumming or making Brawne of their Carkasses that might by this manner of Dyet be sustayned with vigorous and liuely heate to sympathize and correspond with the Functions of the Minde where as in a Glasse the whole Man though outwardly made but of Dust and Ashes may behold from within him the very Image of the incomprehensible God both in Vnity and Trinity except his iudgement bee eclipsed with â—rronious motions The fift SECTION Examples of such as by Abstinence and a sparing Dyet haue prolonged their Liues to very old Age. THere was a Sect among the Iewes called the Essenâ— who when as they could not in their consciences brook to liue in Ierusalem betwixt the Pharisees and the Saducees by reason of the Hypocrisie and Dissimulation of the one and the lycentious liuing of the other retired themselues to a Desert neere the Lake of Asphaltes not farre from Ievicho and there gaue themselues to a Temperate Dyet with extraordinary Fastes whereby most of them liued aboue 100. yeares Paulus Thebâ—us about the age of 15. yeares oâ—d during the Persecution vnder Decius the Romane Emperour beeing discontented for the losse of his Father and liketo be betrayed for a Christian by a couâ—tous Hypocrite that was married to his Sister because hee might enioy his Patrimony
The Newlanders CVRE Aswell of those Violent sicknesses which distemper most Minds in these latter Dayes As also by a Cheape and Newfound Dyet to preserue the Body sound and free from all Diseases vntill the last date of Life through extreamity of Age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall Remedies against the Scuruy Coughes Feauers Goute Collicke Sea-sicknesses And other grieuous Infirmities Published for the Weale of Great Brittaine By Sir William Vaughan Knight Vbi Lux sicca ibi Intellectus multus Imprinted at London by N. O. for F. Constable and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church at the signe of the Craine 1630. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY LOuing Brother IOHN Earle of Carbery Baron of Molingar SIR Here you may behold as in a Looking-Glasse many Sickely Faces not of Heathen men but of pretended Christians with Heathenish Conditions A Glasse of Steele farre truer then that Mathematicall one whereby some haue proiected to discouer with more then Humane Spectacles Another World in the Moone of Seas Lands and Woods like Ours before it was lately dis-robed of this latter Ornament by the greedinesse of a few Iron Maâ—â—ers Here you may see what a number of Diseases haue taken Roote within vs. Yea more then euer were practized before Noahs Flood The maine Cause of their Destruction proceeded from their Carnall matches The Sonnes of GOD with the Daughters of Reprobates where we transgresse not onely in that but in many other â—â—aâ— contrary to our Christian duties who haue bin now enlightned for the space of these foure score yeares Here likewise you may find preseruatiues and Cures both to preuent the imminent plagues which we haue worthily deserued as to heale the most disordred both Bodily and Spiritually if they be not past Grace yea and to dispossesse them of Diuels without prophane Holy Water or Popish Exorcismes But before these as a Frontispice vpon a Gate I haue fixed the foure first Verses of purpose that once a day at least you may repeatâ— them ouer And for the rest if you read them once a Weeke I doubt not but you shall receiue thereby some spirituall Comfort among other Helpes to Deuotion which are not wanting in your House Howsoeuer I am assured your Cogitations shal be somewhat rouzed vp to looke about you and to make some doubt that you haue not many yeares yet vnexpired of your Pilgrimage here on Earth For our worst part must rot before it rise vp to Immortality The thought of Death I confesse is terrible and hath perplexed many specially Great persons insomuch that Queene Elizabeth of famous Memory albeit in all other matters an incomparable religious Princesse and adorned with masculine Vertues yet She could not endure to heare of Old Age nor Death For when a Learned Bishop of our acquaintance had in a zealous Sermon admonished her to thinke on her last End by reason of her great Age which few Princes had attayned vnto and of the Climactericall yeare of her Life which hapned at that time She tooke it so impatiently that the Bishop for his good intentions was not only distasted by her but put for a time to some trouble Yet God who neuer forsakes them that quit themselues like Men in his Seruice did euer sithence vntill his Decease powre downe many Worldly Blessings vpon him so that I thinke few Bishops of this Kingdome left behind them to their Wiues and Children such faire Estates as be left vnto his Wife and Children The which questionlesse were conferred vppon him to let the Cowards and Claw-backes of the times vnderstand what a sweet smelling Sacrifice in his sacred Presence is Magnanimity grounded on Faith and piety as well appeares by those Martyres in Queene Maries dayes for whose glorious sakes the Eternall Maiesty at the intercession of those Martyres Generall his dearely beloued Sonne did by shortning of those Marian dayes restore that Reformed Religion to this Kingdome which hath chased hence those False Prophets who set to sale the Bodies and Soules of Men togither with the Rabblement of Idolaters Abbey-Lubbers Fayries and Hob-Goblins and doubtlesse will continue the same vntill the Worlds end Notwithstanding these our Present and last Conflicts with the Spirituall Dragon and with those Spirits which issued out of his mouth wherein we haue much a do to escape their Ambuscadoes Quirkes and socret Stratagems practised by our Schoole-men which are farre more dangerous then their open Violences being such as it is Written Able to deceiue the very Elect if it were possible But to returne where I haue digressed the Remembrance of Death will prepare vs for th' other World What can be bâ—tter for vs then to be loosed from the lumpish clog of Flesh and Blood which must not inherite Heauen before it bee purified as the Holiest and best Patriarkes were and to liue with Christ in perpetuall Ioyes Seeing that Death brings with it so great Happinesse I hope you will not be offended with me it by Calculating our Ancestors Yeares for these three last Dâ—sâ—â—nâ—s I seeme to put you in Minde that you ought not to expect much longer time then they enioyed Our great Grand father Hugh Vaughan Gentle-man Vsher to King Henry the 7th who is Famous in our English Chronicles for the Iustes in Richmond before the sayd King agaynst Sir Iames Parker about our Ancestors Armes and Scutcheons Where the sayd Sir Iames lost his life in the first Encounter Our sayd Great Grand-Father dyed before he was fifty yeares old Our Grand-father who built our House nay yours by Birth right called The Golden Groue dyed about the fiftieth sixth yeare of his Age. Our Father likewise about those yeares payd Nature her Debt Why then should we expect for a greater Lot We want not aboue three or foure yeares of theirs But suppose we should arriue to seauenty or eighty or by the helpe of this Dyet which I here discouer to the long Age of the Swethens it would but augment our sinnes and sorrows Therefore let vs liue mindfull of that which cannot be auoyded For which purpose a Pagan King vsed euery morning to haue a Dead mans Skull brought to remember him that he was a mortall Creature So in like manuer we see in our dayes many Persons wearing Rings with a Deathes Head engrauen in the seale Others with a Posie on the inside including the Remembrance of Death Memento mori But because this Subiect breeds sadnesse I haue added some more plausible passages to profit the Body aswell as the Minde Now hauing discharged the part of a Brother in this necessary point whereto all Adams Posterity are subiect Sooner or Later I will now shew wherefore I entituled this Diminutiue rapture The Newlanders Cure more for others satisfaction who know me not and yet may by our Free Charter of Election and the illumination of Gods working Spirit meete with some passage in this Cure to confirme them sure in their Christian Calling and perhaps mooue some to lend
darken the Mind which is the great Eye or Light of the Body And this is the cause that when the one is grieued th' other is grieued and when th' one is merry th' other is so too Therefore it is a thing to bee wished that they were kept both in an equall proportion and symmetry with conuenient nourishments recreations exercise and aboue all with spirituall food Yea and other whiles if need require the Mistresse must correct her rebellions Seruant that the Image of our great Creator bee not quite defaced But to returne to the Subiect wee haue in hand the Body of Man is the most temperate of all other mortall Creatures and therefore it may bee rightly termed the Golden Rule measure and square whereby the Excesse of all other things may be obserued and their different Faculties discerned And for this cause in respect of our humane Bodies the fours Elements are noted to be Hot Cold Moist and Dry Here hence we gather that the Flesh of Fowle is hot and dry and that the Food of Fish is cold moist fit to engender flegme Betwixt these as the Meane are Earthly Creatures placed and among these Mans Body hath the preheminence as the best tempered vnder the Cope of Heauen The which also varies according to the Climate Sunt Homines alij variant vt Climata munds For our Northerne Nations are of a Colder constitution then theirs that liue within the Tropickes or neere vnto them And therefore the Ancient Phylosophers would not allow a temperate Body but with in a temperate Country Neyther is this temper so constant in our temperate countries but the inequaltity of the Soyle and Sâ—ituation controules this temper For we haue Spring and Summer weather in places at the same instant within a mile or two distant As for Example in Dales and at the foote of Hils we feeâ—e it warme whereas wee cannot endure long to stay on the Neighbouring Mountaynes by reason of Snow or furious Winds which likewise other-throw or hinder the growth of Plantes and Corne sixe or seauen weekes later then such as we finde in the bottom or lowest descent The same alteration I haue seene in the Alpes and Pyrenaeâ—n Mountaynes where I could be hold ripe Grapes and a fourishing Haruest in the Vallies and Trauailing but a League higher vp towards the top of the Mountaynes I might see nothing but horrid Rockes Hayle Snow and Windes in that impetuous manner that there a man would take September to be Ianuary Moreouer this change crosseth our Temper iâ— respect of Age for Youth is more hot and moyst then more setled yeares And that Dyet which might be properly accommodated to olde men perhaps would weaken or statue the younger sort How then shall we be able to finde out this Golden meane and Temper in mans Body when we are subiect to so many mutations Do not we perceiue the very Beasts and vnreasonable creatures to go beyond vs in some of our noblest Organs Do they not excell vs in the fiue sences viz. The Boare in hearing the Ounce in seeing the Ape in tasting the Vultur in smelling and the Spider in touching as these ancient Verses imply Nos Aper auditu Lynx visu Simia gustu Un tur â—doratu pâ—aecellit Aranea tactu This cannot bee denied in those Creatures but because I am an ill Huntes-man I will continue my conuersation with men amongst which there is much diuersity for their seueral parts Here stands a man with a most temperate Braine there another with a sound Liuer some are long breathed some excell in the Temper of their Hearts and in many of these wee might behold Actions which tend vnto Vnity as to their Center But in generall of late yeares wee degenerate from that which by our Baptisme we vowed to be as in like manner wee haue crackt our Braines shortned our breathing faculties corrupted our Liuer inframed our Blood and all with excesse of varieties of meates and drinkes We pâ—ate of the Holy Ghost of the Temple of God but let euery man examine his owne conscience whether it bee possible that such a sanctified Guest could remaine in such an impure Body which hath receiued into it so great store of Victualls and the choysest which the Ayre Earth and Sea could yeelde and of the strongest Wines euen vnto vomiting If after this inquisition wee finde that the Spirit of God requires an vndefiled and purer seate to lodge in then let vs sweep cleane and do our best to purifie and prepare our Bodies to be tolerably meete to entertayne this sacred Messenger for if hee knockes at the doore of our hearts and we slight his Call it is to bee feared hee will returne no more to such a nasty Roome where the Master of the house neglects his dearest Land-Lord To reduce the World vnto a better Temper the Body as well as the Minde I had recourse to many Cures I read Marsilius Ficinus his Worke concerning a Heauenly Body here on Earth but there meeting with nothing but distractions at the last I lighted on two Treatises the one Published by Lodouico Cornario an Italian and th' other by Lessius of Bruxels a learned Iesuite out of whose Precepts I collected this admirable Dyet which whosoeuer hath the power to practise hee shall quickly apprehend the difference betwixt a Table furnished with variety of meates whose nature in digestion are contrary the one to th' other and betwixt that simple Cheere which conrented our Sauiour here on Earth with his Disciples By the former spring all our sicknesses By this latter of Sobriety we stint Concupiscence and after one quarter of a yeare our Bodies being accustomed to a set measure of meat and drinke wee shall confesse that saying of the Heath'nish Phylosopher to iumpe aright with a reformed Christian Turpe est homini non nosse mensuram ventres sui It is a shamefull thing for an vnderstanding man not to know the measure of his owne Belly To wind vp this my Preparatiue in a word when I had compared Lessius his obseruations with Daniels and his three Companions Dyet and how by reason of their slender fare being but Pulse they were in better state then those that fed on dainties I concluded this new found dyet to be acceptable to Gods spirit and if it awaites on Faith it will serue for a Christians Purification before Glorification The second SECTION The Description of a New found and cheape Diet to preserue the Body and Minde from all sâ—cknesses and Passions and how a man shall find out the true Proportion what will content a reasonable Creature BY the former Discourse it is apparant that the Well-being and Health of Mans Body consists in obseruing the Golden Meane which is Temperance in our Dyet that is cating and drinking no more then the Stomacke can well digest and that thereby the functions of the Minde bee not hindered nor made obscure by the excessiue Quantity For this reason and because
the Spanish Author in his Triall of Wits was of opinion that for many Generations after it did reduce their Bodies to a more Temperate Constitution then my other Nations in so much that their Seede did multiply and their Minds were more purified and prepared capable of Gods miraculous blessings to inherite the land of Canaan which their Fathers whose longing thoughts were altogether set on the Onions Garlike and flesh-pots of Egypt wherewith from their Infancy they had accustomed to feed on were debarred off for their hardned hearts I prescribe not this Dyet though solide and substantiall to Labourers and Hindes for their stomackes are like Ostridges which can digest Iron and by their Violent motion can better away with Bull-Beefe Ram Mutton Beanes and Bacon then with the daintiest meate in the World As I hard that a Clownish Boore told my Vncle Sir Iohn Perrot who on a time comming to visite him being his Tenant and sicke aduised him to eate some der meate as Chicken or sucking Rabbet he answered him Alas Maister what shall I doe with such kinde of Meate when I cannot eate the Bacon which is as yellow as the Golden Noble I limit no such persons no more then Galen did when he Dedicated his Worke for the preseruation of Health De sanitate tuenda not vnto the strong Complexioned and the Barbarous as the Germanes who were so accounted in those dayes but vnto the ciuill and nice-bâ—ed Italians I present the discouery of this Secret and the Practise of it to them that make a conscience of their Calling not to wallow like swinish Epicures in sensuall beastly pleasures but as men resolued to liue soberly like Christians who must acknowledge that the Holy Ghost cannot long reside in fat foggy Bodies that make a God of their Bellies and who for that cause doe still pamper themselues with delicacies and continue more houres at their gluttonous meales swilling of sugred Sacke and many cups of strong drinke then they doe at their Prayers or in the seruice of God St. Paul as likewise the first Christians did often vse to mortifie their Bodies for feare of Temptations I tame my Body sayth hee to bring it into subiection least while I Preach to others my selfe become a Cast â—way But wee are so faâ—ie from such mortifications that wee cannot spare one meaâ—e in the Weeke though it were to faâ—â—â— a Neighbours life or to conuert the expence of that meaâ—e to defend the Publâ—cke State from ruine or from Antichristian Tyraâ—â—y And yet we must passe for reformed Christians None must say Blacke is our Eye or that wee haue the least skarre aboâ—t vs. O that men would looke within them and see whether that place bee fit to receiue the holy Comforter If then they finde that my words be true and that their Gurmandize and Intempetance â—aâ—e obscured their Iudgements whereby they were not able by reason of stupidity and dulnesse to fall to the Practise of a Sober Liuing let them out of hand beginne to make some experience of this Dyet if not continually yet on those Fasting dayes which our Church hath ordayned of Christian Policy to purifie a loathsome Carkases and not as meritorious for satisfaction of Gods Iustice Thus the Israelites of old time were aduised to fast and commaunded to Purifie their Bodies in another manner The which the very Turkes and Iewes doe put in Practise at this day And wherefore stands this Purification but to prepare â—oome for the spirituall Bridegroome yea and perhaps this Abstâ—â—ence may serâ—e for some qualification of his Iustice although not for any satisfaction Yet helpe to couer a Multâ—â—ude of sinnes As Saint Peter and Saint Iames wrot speciaâ—ly if the estimate of what is spared be conferred on pious vses The third SECTION The Commodâ—â—ies which this New-found Dyet brings to the Body IT remayneth now that I propose what Commodities this set Dyet produceth First it preserues a man free from all sicknesses for it keepes backe all the Humours and watrish spirits which arise from the Stomacke to the Head It cures the Goâ—t the Dropsie the Astmaticke Passions the Cough and Catarrhes it hindereth Crudities and raw fâ—â—gmaticke humours which indeede are the ingendring causes of all diseases It bridles and keeps all the Humours in such an equall temper that none shall offend eyther in Quantity or in Quality for indeede all our sicknesses proceed from Repletion sauing some few which proceede of Famine in taking more sustenance then Nature requires or the Stomacke can well digest For manifestation whereof we see that all Diseases are cured by Euacuations Blood letting is vsed to â—ase Nature And so are Purgatious taken to free the Body of that insupportable load of filthy matter which by Gluttony was ingendred Nor will one Purge sustice But before an ordinary sicknesse be remooued the Apothecary must minister many Nauseatiue and bitter Potions able to weary the strongest Nature For at the first the first Region as Physitians call it must be purged that is the Guts and entrailes Secondly the Liuer And lastly the Veines must bee emptied of their watrish Humors and excrements And it is holden for certaine that in euery two yeares there is such store of ill humors and excrements ingendred in the Body that a Vessell of one hundred Ounces wil scarce contayne them These humours being let alone will corrupt in processe of time and wil cause a man to fall into some deadly sicknesse And commonly most people which dye in their Beds before they arriue to extreamity of old age doe perish by these ouer-abounding Humors which they heaped within them through their excessiue Feasts and Belly-cheere The second Commodity that comes by this orderly Dyet is that it doth not onely defend a man from those superfluous Humors within the Body but likewise it fortifieth him agaynst outward Causes for hee which hath his Body pure with temperate humors shall easier endure the iniâ—ries and discommodities of cold or hot weather and of â—oylesome labour then he that liues licentiously Yea and if he be wounded in his body he will speedily recouer The reason is because very little fluxe of any offending humor can fall into the wounded part which in other bodies is wont to inflame yea and sometime it will cause a griping Convulsion or a violent Feaâ—er An which our temperate habit of bodily Mould shall neuer once bee affected with for there is as much difference betwixt them as theâ—e is betwixt a perfeâ—t Châ—â—ensian Procellane and our roughest earthen Vessels Lastly it preserues a man from the Plogue for there is nothing heere to spaâ—â— no matter to worke vpon which was verified insober Socrates who notwithstanding that the Plagâ—e had oftentimes wasted Athens yet hee was neuer sicke eyther of that or any other disease The third Commodity is that it causeth not onely Health dut aâ—so Long Life in so much that when hee dyeth hee feeles no such pangs and torments as other men
vse to haue for hee falls like an Apple fully ripe euen by meere resolution mildly and gently away The bond of a Temperate mans Body and Soule is dissolued onely when the Radicall moysture is spent like vnto a Lampe which is extinguished when the Oyâ—e is quite consumed For euen as a Lampe may bee put out three manner of wayes First by outward violence as by vâ—hement wind Secondly by powring too much water vpon it wherewith the pure Liquor of the Oyle is oppressed Thirdly by the vtâ—er consumption of the Oyle So Mans Life which is compared to a burning Lampe may bee extinguished three wayes First by the Sword Drowning or such like violent death Secondly by the superfluity or depraued quality of the Humours wherewith the naturall moysture is corrupted Thirdly when this moysture is spent by the length of time If a man dyes by reason of eyther of the two former wayes there must ensue a great commotion in Nature and therefore he feeles extraordinary grieâ—ances when the bond of Nature is thus â—â—oâ—ently before the day and ripe time compelled to bee dissolued But by the third manner of dissolution a man feeles no paine at all because the Temperature is all by leasure dissolued from within him and because the gentle moysture which feedes the Body becomes wasted together with the naturall heate at the same instant when the Soule departes And thus shall our Dyeted persons dye except they beeâ— forced by some outward Accident The fourth Commodity is that it makes the Body Actiue Light Liuely and ready to all motions and exercise For heauinesse lazinesse and the oppression of Nature proceede from the aboundance of Humours which destroy the passages of the Spirits and besiedging the â—ovnts they ouer moysture them at last Therefore when this aboundance of Humors is diminished or taken away by a Regular Dyet the very cause of dulnesse and heauinesse is also taken away and then the pores and passages of the Spirits are made broad and more open The fourth SECTION The Commodities which our Dyet brings to to the sences and Minde and how it may helpe to build there a more conuenient Temple for the Holy Ghost AS the Body feeles seuerall benefits by this admirable Dyet so the Minde partakes of no lesse commodities First it brings Health and Vigour to the outward sences for the sence of Seeing becomes darkned in aged Persons by reason that the Optick nerues are ouer-charged with superfiuous humours or vapors whereby the animall spirit which serues for the vse of the Sight eyther is obseured or else is not able to minister asmuch matter as is sufficient to make the Sight perfect This impediment is remooued or at least much diminished by Sobriety and Abstinence from those things which fill the Head with fumes of which kinde are all fat things and Buâ—ter excessiuely taken raw Onions Garlike strong Wine omuddy Beere or Aâ—e Or if at the worst their sights bee somewhat dimme or reddish the Oynâ—ment of Tuâ—â—â— with a i. t. e. Aloes wiâ—â—auayle them Or if the feare a greater griefe the Iuice of Stonecrop will 〈◊〉 the pin and the Web. The sence of Hearing is hindred by the defluxion of raw Humors from the Bâ—aine into the Organ of Hearing or into the sinewes which serues it By which meanes a man becomes thicke of Hearing or deafe on that side where the Defluxion hapneth A temperate Dyet will preuent this Defluxion and with a few locall medicines vnlesse the deafenesse be inueterate it will quite expell it As for the Sence of Tasting it is certayne that the Taste of a Temperate man is farre more quicke sharpe and pleasing then it is in the Glutton and Drunkard who by reason of Chollericke or brackish Humors whether they bee ingendâ—ed in the Head or in the stomacke takes all Meates otherwise then they are in deede Another Commodity which a Temperate Dyet brings to the Soule is that it mâ—tigateth Affectors or Pâ—ssions chuâ—flâ— melancholly and Anger Wee see by experience that they in whom Choâ—â—r and Melanchoily beaâ—e Dominion if they bee not in conuenient time pâ—â—ged of those Humors they fall into strange and violent sicknesses as Lunacy and Freâ—zy especially if they bee suffered to get footing in the Braine and there to ensâ—ame If it bee sharpe and falls into the tunicles of the Stomacke it causeth a man to become very Raâ—enous If there be aboundance of blood it makes a man Leacherous chiefy if there bee some windy matter crept into it The Reason is because the Affections of the Minde do follow the apprehension of the Fantasy and the apprehension of the Fantasy is conformable to the disposition of the Body and to the Humours which beaâ—e rule in the Body Hence it is that the Chollericke doe dreame of Fires Flames Warres and Slaughters The Melancholick dreame of Darknes burialls Sepulchers Sprights of deepe pits fearefull flights and of the like troublesome things The Flegmatickâ— dreame of Rame Riâ—ers Lakes Shipwracke drowning c The Saâ—guine dreame of Banquets Loue Ioyes c. All these with their Causes are auoyded by a sober Dyet for insteed of bad there are ingendred nothing but true and good Blood Choller Flegme and Melancholly so that their inward conditions are wel composed gentle Milde Demure and quiet neuer ministring any cause of Debate but with Sobriety and Patience taking all things in good part The third Commodity which a sober Dyeâ— brings with it is the safety of memory which is wont to be impayred and huâ—t by reason of cold Humours which haue seized on the Braine and is very ominous to the intemperate or aged person This inconuenience is speedily cured by an orderly Dyet with abstayning from hoâ— liqâ—â—urs and fuming drinkes vnlesse it be in sinâ—â—l quantity For although Wine and strong drinke bee hote yet it causeth colde sicknesses beeing often taken as Coughes Distillations the Pose the Apoplexie or Palsie The fourth Commodity is the liuely Vigour of the Minde in Reasoning Iudging in Inuention and in an apter Disposition to conceiue or receiue Diuine Mysteries Heere hence it comes to passe that they which obserue a sparing Dyet are watchfull circumspect prouident and sound of Iudgement Whatsoeuer spirituall or mentall exercise they take in hand they commonly excell in that kinde of knowledge which they undertake The reason is because their thoughts are abstracted and seuered from this base earthly mould to Heauenly Contemplation and to those high Angelical raptures of which fâ—esh and blood can hardly enter into the Consideration I beleeue very few in these dayes may be sayd to be thus Diuinely disposed for I will stand vnto it that except they haue some power of Abstinence together with that vnspotted Faith which the Protestant Church holds they shall neuer passe for men truely Religious nor shine with that bright Light of Vnderstanding to contâ—mne the Vanities of this seducing World nor receiue that solace in their spirits to conceiue themselues as it were in Paradise
It prolongeth life vntill extreame old Age. It makes one sleepe quietly and pleasantly It makes our meate taste the more sauouring and acceptable It brings soundnesse to the Sences quicknesse to the Memory cleare iudgement to the Wit it asswageth the rage of vnruly Passions beates downe and breakes the fury of vnlawfull Lust and driues away anger and sorrow To conclude it conioynes cements and as it were glues and scrues together the Soule and Body with such an harmonicall admired temper that with a quiet Conscience Apostolicall patience and with a Magnanimous sparkling spirit partaking equally of Mirth and Grauity hee shall soone perceiue himselfe metamorphozed and changed of a sensuall Creature to bee a man of Reason of a darke besotted apprehension now suddainly become one of the hopefull Children of God illuminated with Vnderstanding to ponder iudge discusse of Caelestiall matters touching the Mysteries of our Saluation of Faith Grace the Resurrection Beatitude and the difference betwixt Humane and Diuine policy betwixt Saint Michael the Archaâ—gell and the Spirituall Dragoâ— betwixt the Heauenly Ierusalem and the most reformed Common-Wealth among mortall men And lastly hee shall be able to apprehend how Sinne and the Prince of the Ayre are linked in one to confirme Mens hardned hearts in their owne accursed Courses The seuenth SECTION How necessary the Bodies Purification by a Temperate Dyet is for the Soules health The suddaine Cure of the Cough the Tisicke and other Diseases by some Medicines intermixt with this Dyet PVrification must go before Glorification For before a man can assume a Glorified immortall Body in Heauen it is necessary the whole man bee purified heere on Earth the Soule by Faith and the Body by Abstinence After this life we must not relye on Apocriphall dreames of a third place by Capriccious Schoolemen called Purgatory like to the Poets Elizâ—an Fields But at our departure out of this World we must repeate the same Words which our Sauiour spake at the giuing vp the Ghost Consummatum est it is finished Wee haue fought in this World a good fight wee haue abstayned from Carnall and worldly Temptations Otherwise wee go out but as halfe Christians and being luke-warme Christ will not know vs if wee stand on bare Faith without the fruites of Faith which must not onely spring in vs towards our owne Bodies but by example and good workes towards our fellowes the members of Christ. O how much do the Capuchins and Carthâ—sians goe beyond vs in Abstinence and in contemning the World And if they had the Faith which we professe and did not too much macerate and deface the handy-worke of GOD vppon a meritorious Baalish hope surely they might bee sayd to see with two eyes and we but with one eye and being better purified then wee they were assured of that Glorification which wee expect I doubt noâ— but some heere will taxe me that I sauour a little of Pharisaicall Popish leauen because I insist on the Bodies Purification as if I derogated from Faith which onely iustifieth and that all meates are tollerable let a man eate and drinke neuer so much as long as they are sanctified with our ordinary Graces of thanksgiuing though sayd by roat or cooled zeale And that wee cannot transgresse in what enters into the Body seeing that all things were purified and made cleare by Christ according to St. Peters Vision about Cornelius These Libertines would faine couer their Epicurean excesse with Sophisticall daubings but they heede not my ayme who with St. Paul professe that all things are cleane to the cleane It is the Quantity and not the Quality of the Meates or Drinkes which I reprooue If I should tell them further that the cause why Moses forbad the Israclites the eating of Swines flesh was for that hee fore-saw that the same in those hote Countries would breede Itâ—h and Scabs and that it did become the Hely Nation to keepe their Vessells better purified then to appeare in the House of GOD so polluted surely I beleeue they would take me for â— Iew aswell as a Romanist Why were Lepers and those that had running Issues debarred from the Temple insomuch that their King so diseased was repulsed to enter Was it not because God loued a purified cleane Body â—ather then a mangy person Specially if through his owne disordered manner of liuing or the Diuine Vengeance he became so defiled In respect whereof it is conuenient that we doe our best endeauours to purifie that place which is destinated for the Holy Ghost by abstayning from alluring meats of diuerse natures at the same Meaâ—e Go to the Physitian before thou be sicke saith the Wise man Before Gluttony and Drunkennes hale vs into the Prison of sicknesses let vs take heede of their causes and not finde fault with Friends who without Fee or rewards haue opened them the way to Purification and a sober liuing Because Lessius and Cornario being Papists lateâ—y renewed and brought to Light this admirable Dyet shall wee disdayne their wholesome Counsell This vncharitablenesse leads to Errour what we finde among Papists Praise-worthy and not repugnant to Faith we ought to embrace and cheerish By that reason we should haue no Discipline no Canon Law nor any ciuill Order for the gouernment of the Church against Refâ—aâ—â—aries and gyddy headed Heretickes if we condemne all that wee borrow from them For our Religion it selfe though afterwards eclipsed was propagated and sent into this Iland from the Bishop of Rome Because their Mine yeeldes not the finest Oare shall we not refine the Oare and purifie the Gold that comes from them yea though it came exsterquilinio out of their Dunghill with many dregs and filth we must not reiect and altogether debase what we receiued from them as long as it tends to our profit or edification We ought to commend them for their laudable Fasts their Almes-giuing and their continent liues I meane some few of them which were indeed most continent and not minister occasion of scandall in our Christian calling to make them the more obstinate and obdurate St. Paul could haue wished neuer to eate meate whilst he liued if hee thought that that kinde of meate offended his Brother where as some of vs on the contrary would eâ—te Flesh on Good Friday euen to dispite them By this indiscreete and vncharitable carriage towards them in things indifferent many Soules haue fallen away from our Church and left those skars which will continue I feare to the worlds end So tractable in this indifferent course was Peter Moâ—lins that Religious Minister of France when hee heard how some of our English Preachers chose rather to bee silenced then to weare the Surplice O I would to God sayth he that I were bound to go in a Fooles coate through Paris all the dayes of my life so that I were Licensed to Preach the Gospell there And so an English Coâ—ntesse heretofore was content to ride through Couentry starke naked at Noone day so
that she might gayne freedome for that Towne which for their common and future good shee afterwards most zealously performed Now to aduance forwards and thereupon to conclude our worke of Purification to be brought to passe by abstinence and our newfound Dyet it is lookt for that I should first cuâ—e some of those infirmities which are already growne through Repletion and disorders Among which I behold the Lunges which waxe old sooner then the rest of the members as Aristotle affirmed And the reason is because they are subiect to all kind of excrements For they receiue catarrhes coughs and other fiâ—thy matter from the Braine besides excrementicious blood which is ingendred there and turnes to purulent matter which render them foule filthy as our late Aâ—atomists haue found asâ—ve â—as that which comes from the head and what ber is made so impure must needes grow soonest old For which cause those Persons whose breath doth stinke by reason of the impurities of the Lunges shall waxe old sooner then others As on the contrary those whose breath smells well or doth not stinke whilest they are Fasting may liue much longer For the abating or correcting of this viscous clammy and mattry stuffe which is there ingendred or fallen from the Braine nothing anayles more then this our Dyet after that the same hath bene practised and vsed two or three Moneths such impurities will cease of their owne accord But for feare the Diseased party may in the meane time suffocate and perish like the Horse that starued while the Grasse grew let him that is troubled with a violent Cough which is accounted but a Symptome mingle some Manna well sifted and a little Saffron with his Panade Broth or Grâ—ell and that being vsed for fiue or sixe dayes together will by gentle Purges by little and little consume away the cause yea and will supply the place of an Expecterall aswell as any of those Medicaments which they call Becchica or else they may use three or foure drops of the Syrupe of Tobacco in two spoonefuls of Hysop water or in default thereof a peece of Tobacco it selfe rowled and chewed in the Mouth before meate for foure or fiue dayes together will performe the Câ—re or in case of necessity let him drinke but once an Oâ—nce of the Iuyce of the Blew-Flower-de Luce root called Irâ—s newly gathered beaten and strayned with sugâ—ed Water and some Saffron and though the Party were at the very poynt ready to bee choaked with these sâ—â—my and grosse hâ—mours and could not rest but sit vp wheezing and without sleepe yet within two or three houres as it were by Miracle hee shall auoyde by Vomit and Stooles the causes of his deadly distemper Or else let him take twenty or twenty fiue graines of Pantomagogon in Pils with the Powder of Lycoras once euery second day for a weeke and these will gently purge aâ—l the Humours And these Piâ—s I hold to bee singular good to preuent many other diseases and not so loathsome as most Medicines be Next the Braine presents it selfe to my View the indisposition whereof may be discouered by the Heate or Coldnesse If it be ouer hot it causeth distillations into the Lunges Lunacies c. For the Cure whereof some Lettice may bee boyled with our Dyet or the greene leaues of Poppy and in defaulte thereof their seedes or their Syrupes In that case Diacodion which is composed of white Poppy with sugred Water alone or mixt with our Diet is of admirable operation both to coole and to procure sleepe To which as a Cauâ—at I wish such distempered persons to beware how they keepe their Heads too warme with Night-Caps for thereby I haue obserued that many haue vnaduisedly miscarried For the cold distemper of the Braine accompaned with Moysture the smoake of Tobacco with a drop or two of the Oyle of Anny-seed is expedient if the Party be not too narrow breasted or else troubled with the fits of Asthma But oftentimes the Braine may suffer by reason of outward Causes as Frost or Cold windes in the same manner as the Lunges are for both alike are impayred by Cold that they might the sooner become weakned and old and that by reason of respiration For both these Members doe breath and respire the Braine for the perception of smells and the Lunges more aboundantly for the recreation of the heart Therefore both these Members doe secretly through their Pores and passages draw in the Ayre and do receiue their impressions which happen not to any of th' other Members For this discommodity whereto our Northerne Nations are much subiect thet haue lately armed themselues with Hoodes agaynst Raine Snow and Tempests and if before their iournies they annoynt the soles of their feete with that excellent Oyle of Euphorbium or of Pepper and stop their â—ares with Cotton or bumbase dipt in Oyle of Anâ—â—seed or with Cyuet They neede not feare distempers through Cold as long a so as Englands Golden Fleece is able to furnish them with Outward Defences But wee haue cause to doubt a greater inconuâ—nience then a momentary cold which commonly with the weather for sake the hold for if it prooue an extreame Frost or blustring Windes specially after â—ainy Weather which occasion the cuils aforenamed that treacherous guest the Scâ—ruy the store-house of al diseases Farrago omnium morborum which some haue mistaken for a spice of the Catholick Disease may get possession within the Body And this happens both by the Sunnes absence and for that the skinne and all the outward Pores are stopt thickned and congealed with Cold so that there is no place left for the venting of Euaporations and Exhalations out of the Body And therefore they are driuen backe coagulated where those Vapours are forced for want of vent to assault the inward parts and at length they domineere and cause Oppilations and stoppages so that the liuely Spirits cannot performe their Offices Heere hence it fals out that some of these tainted exhalations are carried vpwards to the Eyes Eares Nose and to the Teeth and Gummes and other-whiles to the Breast or else they descend downe to the Legges A spoonefull of the Iuyce of Lemons at a time or the luyce of Scuruy-grafâ—e or the salt of it as I shewed in the former Section mixt with our Panade will remooue this Suruy-baggage And for the putrified Gummes a drop or two of the Oyle of Vitrioll or some Vnguentum Aegyptiacum applyed vnto them will speedily cure them I neede not correct the Stomacke but with the owne simple Dyet yet if at first by reason of the suddaine alteration which I haue notwithstanding here expresly forbidden and on the contrary aduised them to proceede by degrees from twenty ounces to foureteene or twelue and by so many or a little more of drinke to bee diminished within a moneth Then if the Stomacke should become somewhat fainting a cup of Wine and Sugar added to the Dyet or in extremity Cinamon water Anniseed
with sufficient mans meate and Horse-meate that all such as frequent these infamous Houses especially within seauen miles of their dwelling places or vpon the Lords Day may bee bound to their good behauiour and that during the time of their Bonds they to be debarred of bearing Witnesse betweene party and party seeing that it is likely common Drunkards care not what they sweare Secondly that they shall not vexe their Neighbours with Law-suites vntill they be released and become new men Or else that they shall stand as persons Out-lawed or Excommunicated out of true Christians Society Thirdly that those Officers in whose diuision these offences shall bee committed shall without delay see the Penaltties ordayned by Law inflicted and thaâ— the negligent as accessary bee seuerely-punished Fourthly and because Seruants in most of our Gentries Houses are also infected with this Pestilent abhomination it were fit that they build new Cellars neere their Parlours where their Maisters Eye might curbe them if they meete not with sober Butlers to restraine them In these latter times people are become so besotted with this abhominable Vice that no Admonition can preuayle to with-draw them from it Whereas in times past the very sight of a Drunkard was as rare as a Goblins Yea and if it chanced that any one were but seene reeling in the Streetes the very Boyes would whoote and laugh him to scorne vntill such time as the Magistrate or the Gouernour came and brought him to the Stockes or committed him to prison But now it is growne so common that they account it a glorious Act and the Musick must play while the health goes round It is recorded that the godly Mouica the mother of St. Augustine beeing but once vpbrayded by a Seruant in the house that she loued the Wine bottle she took it for such a disgrace that neuer after shee dranke one drop of Wine more as long as shee liued Platerus makes mention in his practize of Physicke that hee knew a Noble-man who being diseased of the Goute and informed by his Physitian that his drinking of Wine and strong Liquor had caused his infirmity he made a vowe neuer to drink any such Liquor more which hee religiously kept and in the stead thereof drank nothing but small Cider or Veriuice Whereby he was quite cured of the Gout without any other Medicine The like I haue heard of an Hydropicke person who hauing experimented that drinke produced and augmented his Disease hee resolued neuer to drinke more but contenting himselfe with Broathes and the like moyst suppings hee was neuer after-wards troubled with the Dropsie To draw our Newlanders Cure now to a Period let mee intreate all them which haue any feeling of Sobriety and of the necessity wherein our Christian Common wealth stands at this present time to lay aside their captious Criticismes and carping censures together with their needlesse Feasts and in good earnest to embrace my Counsell in some measure if they cannot as yet apply their wills to the stint which is heere prescribed I know the impediment proceedes of Custome and this Custome can hardly bee altered except the Spirit of God will co-operate without some offence to concupiscence Such is the lamentable obstinacy of many hare-brain'd worldlings now a dayes that Parents cannot without great difficulty with-draw their owne Bowels from following their boone Companions and roaring Gallants whose conuersation but for a few dayes they haue frequented How much harder then is it to diswade men from those prouocations which from their Childe-hood they haue continued The most part presuming on their Constitutions and present strength suppose that all the Meate which they ordinarily feede vppon and the Carouses which they swallow cannot much impayre them Nay they will constantly auouch that it is a signe of Health to drinke Healths or to eate soundly whereas they bee but baytes of Pleasure so that Greedinesse knowes not where Necessity should â—e ended or Nature limitted as Saint Augustine agaynst Iulian Lib. 4. Cap. 14. Existimantes nos adhuc agere negotium valetudinis cum agamus potius voluptatis It a nescit cupiditas vbi finiatur Necessitas But men of vnderstanding will consider that most of the Bodies sicknesses and vnruly Passions doe arise from the wanton Palate and that whatsoeuer enters into the Body which the Stomacke cannot perfectly concoct must needes exceede the true Quantity which Nature allowes and so turne to noysome Humours at the last in despite of Nature Yee that bee Parents shall heere learne to weane your Infants with a better Dyet then with Flesh and Fish which will rotte and corrupt their tender bodies Yee that be Rich accept of this Treasure Diuine Sobriety which will infuse into your hearts modest contentment Yee that be Poore shall heere learne Frugality at a cheepe rate Yee that bee Young shall bee taught Continency Yee that are Elder and therfore should be wiser shall meete here with health and long life Heere yee shall finde all your Sences refin'd aswell the Inward as the Outward Heere from temperate heate issue temperate Effects The Blood spreads gently through the Veines the Spirits through the Arteries And the Soule by Vertue of this Heauenly Gift beeing as it were discharged of her Massie load and loathsome Lumpe hath now some experience of her Liberty aud that by this Purification shee is not farre from Glorifications In a word Deare Country-men condemne not this Cure before you Read or make some tryall of the Substance The time requires it For the Misery of Iniquity is permitted to acte the last Tragedy of Spirituall Wickednesse in Heauenly matters But yee who are enabled to liue temperately neede not feare as long as yee continue stedfast in Faith Your Olde men shall dreame Heauenly Dreames your Young men shall see Visions your Sonnes and Daughters shall Prophesie your Seruants and Maides shall bee inspired with the Holy Ghost according to the Prophesie of Iâ—â—l Authoris Epilogus de Repletionis Ebrietatis incommodis ECce Nouae Terrae Fructus mensura Diata Lux reâ—ouata salus spes et medicina doloruÌ„ Pone modum ventri Deus imperat accâ—pe sanum Consilium compesce gulam suspeâ—de furâ—res Heu quantes qualesque facit Repletio morbos Ex hoc Fonte flâ—unt animi deliria Motus Corporis hinc omnes aâ—gores Asthmata Tusses Multiplices Febres Hydrops nodosâ— Poâ—agra Et quot quot memorare horret mens sana meatus So fertè obstruerent mixti cum Bile vapores Ni stellaâ— numerare velis lateremque lauare Curridere solent Nebulonum turba profaâ—a Scurrilâ—busque socis Sanctorum corda graâ—are Dum ceuet Damocles vâ—as saeuire Cyclopas Post cyathos in Membra Det potosque Thrasones Consilij latebras Parasitis pandere nouâ— Cur iurat Mars iuris inops Cur iurgia Lites Et pugnas Lapithae de lanâ saepè caprinà Iâ—miscent saturi phantasma volubile Baccâ—â— Crede malos Gentos in tanta pericula ferre Aerei ludunt sic inter
are those Who Worldly Fortunes so dispose As if our God were fast a sleepe And did not see what rule they keepe Me thinkes I see our Fluttring Foes Watching their time to breath in woes Vnder pretence of seeming Good Like him that beares vnder one Hood A double face with fained Grace They blow a pace till they get place Within the Spirits and the Blood Where they worke Gall of humours good This poysn'd Gall the Soules blacke laundies Prickes so that Man on Cocke-horse bandies Against his God and Natures Law That Grafts this Rule with filiall aw Who lets not sinne if so he can Consents to it a wicked man Some yearely rayse a greater Rent By Interest for Mony lent Then Maltaes lew of Foes did take For to the Bones these Men doe rake I blame not lawfull Permutation But with a sober limitation Vtopian-like to barre Commerce But common scandals I rehearse To them who sell their Goods too deare Or them that sheare Christs sheepe too neere More Lay-mens griefes I could reueale Which shame from Muttring bids conceale Yet wants there not some Nightingall Like sweete Saint Paul to touch them All. Those Practises now passe for Good Which Noah saw before the Flood Some Build some Buy some cheate and borrow Whilst the next Morrow steales on sorrow The third SECTION That the most part of our pretended Christians are infectea with some of the afore-sayd infirmities and that all carnall pleasure shall end in paine THese Mad Conceites bewitch vs all Yet Luâ—atickes who dare vs call These I doll lusts wee hugge in Spirit Yet doe we boast of Zeale and merit Like bawling Curres we barke at Vice VVe Rayle on Brâ—bes and Auarice VVe Blame the Whore and idle Drone But who throwes guiltlesse the first stone Many finde fault with swinish Drunkards Themselues rebellicâ—s vnder Placards The Blind-mâ—n cals his Brother Blinkard The Pockey 〈◊〉 his fellow stinkard Thus others Bâ—ots wee quickly score When we deserue correction more When Iudgement Conscâ—â—â—ce shall controle The purest souls will prooue but foule Here lurâ—es a Toad a Sâ—rpent there Sharpe stings and poyson eu'ry where The Preacher wrot all is but Uaine But I dare Write all ends in paine What cares haue wee what toyle what paine These seeming pleasures to obtayne And once obtain'd what 's then our Minde But Neighing new and more to finde No Earthly thing brings much content But afterwards breedes discontent Which Aâ—ams Apple wee may call Both bitter sweete and Honey'd Gall. Ioy surfâ—its some some pine with Paine Yet the partake in Sinne and Raine Death spares nor Rich Poore Poole nor Wise For All must fall before they Rise The Crowne which Royall browes adornes Within is Nettles Prickes and Thornes Feares Discontents want of Treasure Iealous of Neighbours Leagues vnsure Nor liue our Grandes without trouble Their Pompe to double though a bubble The Midling and the Lowest sort Grieue to maintayne the Lawyers Port. Thus Christians as a Tennis Ball Tost by themselues are prone to fall Yet None beginne to looke for ease But thinke of Iarres instead of Peace The fourth SECTION The Description of the Catholicke Scuruy ingendred by the Mystery of Iniquity the Glorious manifestation whereof had beene restrayned and sealed vp by the Angell vntill 1000. yeares were expired for the hardnesse of our Fore-fathers hearts NOt onely these doe vs disease But onely Ills disturbe our ease T is found that most Diseases tend And to the Scuruy power lend To torture Slugs who nastily Were Cloath'd or fed too greedily Great Fâ—ends likewise and Men Soule-sicke Hell 's Scuruy make a Catholicke With Murthers Lyes Hypocrisies Idolatries and Blasphemies As doth the former Scuruy beate For want of Sunne and Motions heate Vpon the Spleene the Breath and Skinne So doth that old and Scuruy sinne With Purple spots go on to stayne Both Soule and Body all for Gaine Mens want of Faith and Scriptures Light Enwrappes them in blind Aegypts night Fond quirkes and quillers Schooles inuentions Doe hinder them to vse preuentions But how comes this grosse Sinne to passe In those who say Christs Blood doth wash And heaâ—â—al Plagues and cancred Lust By vertue of his Merites iust When Men distrust the safest way They cannot châ—se but goe astray When Fabells Tower and Asaes Hopes When 〈◊〉 Gâ—d and Baâ—lish Popes When Mans posâ—â—ons â—rring Braine They trust as if Christ dy'd in vaine When they refuse Gods tendred Motions And wil carouse false Prophets Potions Their â—oules so giutted salla reeling Like drunâ—en Tosse-pots without feeling Then Iudgement Wid and Memory Depriu'd of Faiths strong Armoâ—y In blacke Despaire conclude their wayes And neuer after see good dayes Or they Presume a Plague as bad With too much Learning running mad These two Extreames like scorching Sunne And hideous darknesse wee must shun The middle Course with Modesty Yeeldes some content to Maiesty To which adde Faith then Grace will couer Our brittle Knowledge and discouer What vengeance more hangs on the Scuruy Which Christendome turnes topsie turuy With blood Fraud Dreames Ambition feares Regardlesse of poore Christians teares Till He that Rockes with Thunder teares He that controules the Wandring Spheares Doe by his Light expelling Night Remooue the Beame that dimmes our sight And tame the Force of this great Fury Which wilfully true Faith would bury The Diuellâ—s loose from Bâ—bilon And waâ—ches whom to worke vpon Old Heresies hee bringeth in So faire without and foule within Some Starres beginne to loose their Light Which on the Saints shin'd lately bright And t is most true some States will rue If the last Earthquake doe ensue Proud Gog and Magogs Horne with eyes Haue pitcht their Tents to Tyrannize And Gyant like doe threaten those Who Lyes and false-hood shall oppose Those who serue GOD in Unity And in the Persons Trinity They persecute with Fire and Sword And vow to raze his Written Word Which now hath flourisht many yeares In spight of Balaam and his Peeres And make vs bow to Romes Mark'â— Rabble Their Mazzims God and Masses Bable A thousand Yeares by Treachery And iuggling Trickes this Mistery Shut vp and seal'd gul'd faithlesse slaues But now against Gods Church it â—aues That Church which then for few assign'd To Deserts fled for feare confin'd And acts the last red Dragons part With open Force and cunning Arte Let vs say they with all our Might Their consciences at length affright If our false Fire and wonders faile Our three Frog-spirits shaâ—l preuaile Whom Caâ—phas curs'd with Booke and Bell Wee 'le sacrifice their Blood to Hell But before this Desolation We must bâ—nd the strongest Nation You heare the Plot now to preuent These latter Plagues watch and Repent For if they bind the Valiant Men What will become of weaklings then When God remoues his Candlesticke Hells darknesse more will make vs sicke The fift SECTION The emminent Dangers of this great and Mysticall Disease ouer Great Brittaine by a Reflection of those
Tâ—ibulations which our Fellow Members haue lately endured beyond the Seas and may hereafter light vpon vs if wee preuent them not by speedy Repentance BEhold the sad and riuel'd Face Of Rochell once the strongest Place Of Christendome now made a slaue And forc't for Light to câ—ye and craue Behold the Land of Casimire On Khines faire Bankes whom France did hire To saue her Church New-Built from fire Now poore disrob'd of her Attire In like manner see how many Bright Uirgins Lampes in Germany Extinguisht lye whose glorious Rayes Like Carbuncles made Nights seeme Dayes Our Fellow-members reape this Curse And wee deserue the same or worse Their Fatall losse concernes vs neare And ought to strike a trembâ—ing feare For if Our Sauiour giues vs ouer The Cut is short from France to Dâ—uer God may permit the Spanish Nation By Land and Sea to worke vexation Or those that are now Friends to langle Or out of Trading vs to wrangle Or let o de Sathans Sorcery Preâ—aile to bring in Popery which if He doe how stand our Liues Our Church our Children States and Wiues In stead of Milke our Younglings lucke Would bee empoys'ned whay to sucke All then must to the Shauen Crowne With the Beasts marke fall prostrate downe None Iust but who to Babell tunne No Maid made Saint but a faire Nunne And shee for Penance must submit To her Confessours veniall fit But first Mortmaines must be repeal'd And Praemunires quite expell'd If this great Earth-quake shall preuaile And the Old Dragon with his Taile Draw twinckling Starres from Heauen downe And forme them Fire-drakes of his owne Oâ—r Watch-men then should heare Brauadoes And turne or burne or feele Sâ—rapadoes Our sinnes deserue this darke Eclipse To kisse the Pax with Whoâ—â—â—â—â—lips Wee felt of Warre the discontents The Pestilence sackt our chiefe Tents A Famine new creepes in through Raine From which Lord keepe our Soules againe VVhat dangers more may vs oppose I haue no warrant to disclose I dare not to me arrogate Of Prophesie the certaine Fate But I could wish that Harmony Suppli'd the place of Simony That Iustice Loue and Godly zeale Did raigne in Church and Common-weale And for those Perills which I feare Let euery Knaâ—â— his burthen beare And iustly too if they allow For currant Good the ill they know They who feele not these Offences Nor looke helpe haue lost their sences But let them get Soules spectacles And they shall see Gods Miracles How with a strong and mighty hand Hee still protected this our Land Against Romes subiects eu'ry where VVhile we in Faith couragious were The fift SECTION The imminent Dangers of this great and Mysticall Disease ouer Great Brittaine by a Reflection of those Tribulations which our Fellow Members haue lately endurea beyond the Seas and may hereafter light vpon vs if wee preuent them not by speedy Repentance VVIthin my time I can record How God kept vs from fire and Sword From Treasons hatcht in Sathans Den Beyond beliefe of Mortall men In Infants Yeares I well remember Hee sau'd our Churches Royall Member Elizabeth from Parries Blow VVhich though a Child I then did know For that my Father stood ingag'd For him to Hare whereat enrag'd Because my Father for his Debt Three thousand pounds was su'd hee set Vpon Hâ—gh Hare within his Study Gaue diuerse stabs and left him bloody Then in despaire hee went beyond Sea VVas reconcil'd to the Romish Sea And there by Comoes Cardinall Put on to play the Canniball For comming home hee hunted further Scorning Hares the Lyon to Murther But God did keepe our Lyon Queene Whom Parry meant to â—ill vnseene About that time the Pote did muster And out of Ireland thought to thrust her By Peters Keyes and Paul his sword With Desmonds helpe a pow'rfull Lord. But God lookt downe and saw their spleene Hee fought for vs and for our Queene Then Foureteene â—raytors thought to throw Downe Englands Starre for they did sow Their seedes of foule Conspiracy To yoake vs to the Papacy But God himselfe with hand vnseene Confounded them and sau'd our Queene In Eighty Eight his Elements Scattred Spaines Fleete and Regiments So that for their Atlaâ—tides They sought the Pole at th' Orcedes Thus God preseru'd a Maideâ— Queene From Nembrodâ— spite and Giants teene When Forces fail'd Bulls went about And cunning Iesuites they sent out They Lopez hir'd with Poâ—sâ—ncaskiâ—l Both Her and some great Peeres to kill But God protected though vnseene Our Faiths Defendresse Englands Queene After these stormes the Traytor Squire By Friers Counsell did Conspire But â—e Tyrone and all our Foes Had ouer-throwes with Tragicke Wees For on themselues God turn'd their spleene And still defended Englands Queene Againe the â—paniaras sought Sea-ports In Ireâ—ana where they wonne some Forts And marching on they thought to boast But God by Mountioy foyl'd their Hoast And gaue their Dous vnto our Queene Oâ— whom they meant to wreake their teene O Peerelesse Queene belou'd of God! Who for thy Zeale wert made his Rod To chastize Gogs and Tyrants bold Which more then him did worship Gold Thou didst Spaines Fleetes and Carracks shalâ—e Thou mad'st the Groine and Lisbane qualâ—e And mak'st vs tell vnfeigned tales How God for Thee subdued Cales How He for Thee did scourge New Spaine Brazil the Ilands and the Maine God gaue the Flemings liberty By thee and all Prosperty By thee great Burbâ—n got his Right I◠〈◊〉 and in the Leagues despice By thee were ships and Trades sustayned By Thee at home wâ—s Peace maintayned By thee God wrought for his great Glory This to be writ in after Story A Queene debarr'd of Bodies Breed Of spirit left true Christian seed Scarce to her Orbe our Virgins Starâ—e VVas gone but by a Ciuâ—â—l VVaâ—re Some Papists thought to worke a side And our â—oyn'd Kingdoms to diuide But Watson and his Complices Payd deare for these Confedracies Heere is not all which I haâ—e knowne Done by our God for Brittaines Crowne VVhat Poets pen or Wit of Man Is able to expresse or scan The meanes how in Nouember wee On the Fift day escaped free When many Papists dâ—d consent To blowat once our Parliament With Powder vp into the Ayre In hope to make our Church despaire They swore vpon the Sacrament To keepe full close their Blowes intent The Iesuite Garnet vnder hand And others of his Learned band Allow'd it for a pious deede A Christian King and his Male seed To murther with his Royall Mate And all our Peeres by suddaine Fate O Piercy Catesby what meant yee With other Brittaines to agree To pierce Christ through his seruants sides In hope of Pardon from blind Guides Guy Faukes by all the damned Crew Was set to play the boute-feu Hee had his Match and all things ready Alasse that Christians were so heady To blow them vp out of the Mine Fierce Nero like and Catiline Thus to the end their Treason brought God counter wrought what they had