Art thou a Man of an Estate remember that thou art but Gods Stewart therefore do good to the Needy and let thy Farms such a Pennyworth that thy Tenants may comfortably live and pay thy Rent with chearfulness of Heart so will their Souls bless thee and thou shalt be rich both in Time and Eternity 249. Art thou a Husbandman or Farmer then shew mercy and compassion to all thy Servants and also to thy Beasts by whose Labour thou art sustained and thy Fields shall be fruitful for Mercy powerfully attracts the Divine Bounty and sweet Influences of God and his Handmaid Nature 250. Art thou an Heir or dost thou Inherit an Estate gotten by thy Forefathers by Wars and Manslaughter or any other kind of Injustice Fraud or Violence remember Gehuzie's Leprosie sticks thereunto and the Curse is near thee wherefore do not rest nor call it thy Right before thou hast made Retalliation or Restitution either to those from whom it was taken or if they were not known then by giving most part of it to the Poor seeing it is the effects of Violence and the utter ruine of many Hundreds of poor distressed People that never offended thee nor thy Forefathers fail not to make satisfaction 251. Maids and Women that are subject to Fumes Vapours and Headach will do well to forbear most sorts of fat Succulent Foods or of hard Concoction and particularly all baked Foods as Pudding Pye Crust and likewise strong hard stale or bitter Drinks 252. Sudden Frights Surprizes Excess of Joy Fear Love Hate Sorrow are very injurious to them 253. If your Stomachs be obstructed or furred eat Bread and Water-gruel sometimes with Herbs without Butter Sugar or Fruit or skimm'd Milk and Bread which will carry the offending Matter downwards and disburden Nature 254. Nothing hurts Nature more then too great a quantity of Food for it powerfully â—â—â—ds fumes up into the Head and generates 〈◊〉 in all the Body so do all Foods preperâ—d by Fire if eaten hot 255. Accustom your self to eat cold Foods espâ—câ—â—lly in moderate Seasons 256. All sorts of Wines are pernicious to the Female Sex except allayed with Water and yet more mischievous are all Brandies or other Spirituous Liquors made by Distillation 257. For all Women should remember that their Natural Heats are much weaker then Mens and therefore they ought to use double the Care and Temperance in the Conduct of their Lives as to Meats and Drinks Passions and Exercises and the like 258. The same Rules Mothers and Nurses ought to observe in their Diet for Children if they would have them healthy 259. Observe that all Foods contain three forms properties or qualities viz. a strong harsh poysonous Fire either cold or hot which in all things is the Root of Life and Motion 2dly A most pure friendly property which is sweet Oyly and Balsamick a Moderater or an allayer of all harshness and astringency 3dly A phlegmy gross Body which do cover hide or contain in its Bowels the other two the Holy Trinity is manifested in all the three Kingdoms of the Human Nature which is a most wonderful Mystery 260. But in some things or Foods the Fathers property in the Fire is most potent and then such are of a harsh bitter hot or poysonous Spirit and phlegmatick Body and of strong gross taste and smell subject to Corruption and therefore such Foods ought in a special manner to be avoided and of that fort are most Flesh and Fish as having lost all its pure Vertues and Spirits by Deaths baneful Stroke 261. For since every sort of Food begets its likeness and awakens respectively their own properties in the Body Spirits and Soul their essences never departs but incorporates themselves with the Lifes Spirits therefore all innocent simple Foods as Herbs Seeds Grains and Fruits do best suit and agree with harmless innocent People 262. All inclinations to Meats and Drinks do arise from that property that is most strongly awakened or has got the chief dominion in the Lifes Spirit 263. Thus all Beasts desires a Food proportionable to their Natures as Dogs Bears Lyons one sort and Cowes and Horses another 264. The same is to be understood in Men every thing does naturally and powerfully though as it were in an insensible way attract unto it self such Food or Matter as is capable to nourish its own Body therefore it is said by the Illuminated Moses that Adam and Eve were betrayed by eating and undoubtedly if Adam had continued in Innocency then innocent Food would have satisfied him 265. Can any thing be more unjust or unreasonable not to do as thou desirest to be done unto thou desirest the Lord to forgive thee then do thou the like to thy Neighbour 266. Thou desirest to enjoy thy peace and freedom in the worship of God then deny not thy Neighbour the like Priviledges 267. Consider that thou hast but a little while to live in this World and that there must be an account given of all things 268. Think what it is to lie on thy Death-Bed when all the pleasure of Life withdraw themselves and bid thee Eternally adieu 269. Then thou wilt be left alone though thou wert Lord over millions nor can any force of Armed Men defend thee from that Mortal Stroke 270. When all thy Acquaintance shall fly from thee as if they were frighted and then thou must pass into the Melancholy Shades and enter upon unchangeable Eternity where none of thy great Men or Lovers can help thee 271. Fear thy Creator therefore and do good in this time of thy Pilgrimage that thou mayest have Treasures in the World to come for none can help thee but only the great Iehovah 272. Wait at the Altar of the Lord and pray that he would open the Gates of Wisdom unto thee 273. For Wisdom and Understanding is in the secret Chamber and not amongst the Multitude 274. Remember that God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth therefore let not forms or outward modes of Worship make divisions between thee and thy Neighbour provided he be a good Man that is one that fears God and loves his Neighbour and doth good for evil 275. Be not offended because another Man is not like thee for God is not offended at such unlikeness but our making our selves unlike him by Sin who hath made no two things altogether alike in the World and we are all the works of his Hands 276. And most true it is that the Lord hath made all Men to differ and vary as much in their Minds Inclinations Dispositions and Understandings as in their outward face of Body or Compleâ—iâ—n 277. Give 〈◊〉 allowance to all People that are 〈…〉 and educated amongst Turks 〈◊〉 or other Religions that are strange to 〈◊〉 considering that if thou hadst been educated there thou wouldst have been as they and 〈◊〉 otherwise 278. Therefore without despising or hateing them bless God that he hath more mercifully disposed of thee under greater
Wisdom's Dictates OR APHORISMS RULES Physical Moral and Divine For Preserving the Health of the Body and the Peace of the Mind fit to be regarded and practised by all that would enjoy the Blessings of the present and future World To which is added A BILL of FARE OF Seventy five Noble Dishes of Excellent Food far exceeding those made of Fish or Flesh which Banquet I present to the Sons of Wisdom or such as shall decline that depraved Custom of Eating Flesh and Blood By THO. TRYON Student in Physick and Author of Pythagoraâ—'s Mystick Philosophy Revived wherein the Mysteries of Dreams Visions Angels and Spirits are unfolded and their secret Communications to Mankind LONDON Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleetstreet 1691. THE AUTHOR TO THE READER WISHETH Health and a Sound Mind AS I have on several Occasions endeavoured to Recommend those most necessary Vertues Temperance and Sobriety to the practice of Men and to inform them according to that Talent I have received from the meer Grace and free Bounty of the Lord of the things that appertain to their peace so though many of these Aphorisms or the Substance of several of them may be found occasionally dispersed in several of our Writings yet â— thought it might not be unuseful to some to present them altogether and hope by the Blessing of the most High these plain short Meâ—entoes may yield some Fruit to those that shall â—â—ruse them if they come prepared with Minds to receive Truth in the Love thereof and practice what their own Consciences cannot but inform them is their Duty For this is the method our Saviour prescribeth his Disciples to come to the right knowledge of Divinâ— Truths viz. by the doing of Gods Will He that does my Fathers Will saith he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or no he is a true Christian indeed not he that is only Book taught but he that is God taught he that hath an Vnction from the Holy One as the Apostle calleth it that teacheth him all things I confess Ink and Paper can never make us Christians can never beget a new Nature or a living Principle in us can never form Christ or any true Notions of Spiritual things in our Hearts the Gospel that new Law which Christ delivered to the World it is not meerly a Letter without us but a quickening Spirit within us Rules Maxims or Directions could never yet of themselves beget the least Glimps of true Heavenly Light the least Sap of saving Knowledge in any Heart all this is but the Grabling of the poor dark Spirit of Man after Truth to find it out with his own endeavours and to feel it with his own cold and benumm'd Hands Words and Syllaâ—bles which are but dead things and â—annot possibly convey the living Notions of Heavenâ—â— Truths to us The secret misteries of a Divine Life of a meer Nature cannot be truly understood except the Soul be kindled from within and awakened into the Life of them A Painter that would draw a Rose though he may flourish some likeness of it in Figure and Colour yet can never paint the Scent and Fragrancy or if he could draw a Flame he cannot put a constant heat into his colours All the Skill of Cunning Artisans and Mechanicks cannot put a Principle of Life into the most Exquisite Statue of their making Men and Books may propound some Directions to us that may set us in such a way of Life and Practice as in which we shall at least find it within our selves and be experimentally acquainted with it but they cannot teach us Virtue like a Mechanick Art or Trade no no there is a Spirit in Man and the Inspiration of the Almigthy giveth this Vnderstanding but we shall not meet with this Spirit any where though it be near to every one but in the way of Obedience therefore whatever Rules or Advices thou meetest with here of the truth of which thou art convinced immediately up and be doing put in practice and continue therein with Constancy and Resolution and then thou shalt be able to taste and feel and witness the Excellency thereof not from any Words but from the Evidence of their own Souls and so become capable and disposed to entertain the rest and other more sublime Virtues Despise not the Rules for promoting Health and Temperance the ways of God and Nature are plain and simple but mighty in operation and effects the Body is as an Instrument to the Soul and being out of tune no harmony can be expected in the Microcosm The Curious may expect these Axioms should be more methodically placed but as I wrote them down as they sprang up in my Mind so I have observed Pofies That a careless mixture makes the whole more pleasant to the Eye and Radolent then if every sort of Flowers and fragrant Herbs were put together by themselves Read and practice turn thy Eyes inwards and wait at Wisdom's Gates separate thy self from the Ways of the Multitude and the Lord from whom alone proceeds every good and perfect Gift give thee understanding in all things Farewel Wisdom's Dictates OR APHORISMS Physical Moral and Divine c. 1. THe first step to Wisdom is to know thy self the Consummation of it to know God thy Creator 2. Nature is the Art of God or that Distinct property wherewith he hath endued every thing in the Universe 3. There is not a greater Note of Folly then to be Ignorant of the true Value and Knowledge of the Things that are 4. Therefore follow not the Opinions of the Vulgar for they generally slight and despise things precious and excellent and admire things vile and pernitious 5. Take not the Name of thy Creator in thy Mouth except thou hast some inward sence of His wonderful Power Virtue Strength Beauty and Majesty and that He is thee all the sustainer and preserver of thy self and all Beings 6. Honour not the Sepulchres of the Saints and Wise Ancients and at the same time Stone the present Prophets that appear in the same Spirit of Wisdom 7. Imprison thy Tongue lest it imprison thee Nature knows it was an unruly Member and therefore barrocadoed it in with Teeth and for one Mouth gave us two Eyes two Ears two Hands to teach us that our Business should be to see and hear and do good Actions rather then only to talk of Wisdom and Goodness and the Heart to remain in the harsh Fire and under the operation of the divided forms of Nature 8. 'T is not Words but Things not Names but Reason not Resemblances but Realities not Sublimeties but Simplicities that the Sons of Truth doth seek after 9. Seek not the splendid Drudgeries or High Places and Offices of this World for they often draw the Soul into Perdition and the Body into Distempers 10. Entertain Charity and seek Peace with all Men and be helpful to thy Friends and kind to
the Body too hot causing many silly Discourses and sometimes wanton ones exciting Venus on both sides whence proceeds weak Limbs feeble Joynts and poor low effeminate Spirits 7. It is very hurtful to many Constitutions to lye on Beds with or immediately after deceased People especially Women for thereby many a lusty Man contracts languishing Diseases unknown to themselves and no less to their Doctors and then their Cure is as unknown to them both 8. The aforesaid Intemperance and Uncleannesses do not only generate or occasion Consumptions but in many Constitutions terrible Fevors Stone Gout Palsies Scabs Itch and various other unclean Diseases according to each Mans Nature and Complexion for this cause more People are afflicted with Consumptions Fevers Stone and Palsies and dye thereof than of any other Diseases 9. For it is to be noted that most or all People that have wherewithal do with great desire live on Flesh Fish Eggs Butter Cheese and Milk mixing the richest Vegitations with them as Spice Sugar Raisons Currants and the like and at the same time drink strong Cordial Drinks which do strongly provoke Nature and awaken its hidden Properties and Centeral Fires and put all into Discord and Confusion one Property or Quality endeavouring to overeome the other in which Combat the Malus Genius do generally obtain the Victory and then the poor Soul is captivated and overwhelmed in the Sea of Wrath and Uncleanness and the Body precipitated into Fevers Consumptions or some other cruel Distemper according to the Nature of each Mans Constitution 10. That which is the hardest Vice in Mankind to overcome especially in the Males most People do with all Cunning and Art endeavor no less to indulge than hide viz. The inclinations to Venus which if Men by Prudence and Temperance can subdue such especially as are naturally inclined thereunto it will not be hard for them to vanquish all other Vice but instead thereof most Men do in one degree or other promote and advance it viz. By the common eating of Flesh Fish and various sorts of compounded Sweet Fat Spicy Foods and strong Drinks which do wound Nature to the very Heart and this Intemperance and Uncleanness is much more practised in England than any other known Country especially in Cities and Towes than in the Country and therefore more do there dye of Consumptionâ— c. The danger of Fat Foods as Flesh Fish Butter Eggs Cheese and the like 1. IT is to be noted that all sorts of Vegitations or Vegetative Foods are much easier separated and digested by the tart pleasant sharp and yet not sower Liquor or great Menstruum of the Stomach and natural heat than such as proceed from the Animal Kingdom as fat Flesh Fish Butter Eggs Cheese Milk or the like the understanding thereof is only obtained by Experience for nothing but Practice makes a Doctor 2. Such fat succulent Foods do Oyl and fâ—r the Stomach and Passages and are difficultly disgested or dissolved lying longer in the Stomach and heavier than such as are lean or not fat or which arise from the Vegitative Kingdom as every bodies experience may easily convince him and besides when mixed with Sugars Spices Fruits or the like they do not only obstruct the passages and generate bad Blood and impure Spirits but also for the most part causes great heats to attend all the External parts whilest the Center is cold and disordered and then the disgestive faculty requires a dram of some Cordial strong Liquor the truth of this thousands of living Witnesses can attest whence do arise a further Debillitation of the Stomach Venerial Inclinations great heats and uneasiness Consumptions Gout and a thousand other Evils both to the Soul and Body 3. Such Foods are endued with great plenty of gross phlegmatick Juices very pernicious as being too hard for the Natural heat to dissolve and dispatch away downwards into the Bowels but remaining behind do infect the Blood obstructing its Circulation and renders the Spirits foul thick impure and dull which People feel in their Limbs and Joynts after great Meals of such Food which do by degrees sow the Seeds and lay Foundations for Diseases especially Consumptions and Fevers 4. These Inconveniencies are much increased by great drinking of strong Spirituous Liquors which the natural heat of the Stomach does quickly separate for the spirituous parts of all firmented Liquors are on the wing and when such Drinks comes into the Stomach the more pure and volatile spirits thereof do as it were in an instant join and incorporate and draw them forth so that in a little time they spread themselves into all the External parts and cause them to burn with heat whereby the whole Body becomes uneasie and disordered 5. But the colder gross phlegmatick parts of such strong spirituous Drinks remain in the Stomach and Vessels mixed with the grosser undigested Particles of the Food which do after coagulate or as it were knit together and does still so much the more heat and oppress the Stomach occasioning Surfets Fevers and other Diseases seldom curabâ—e 6. For Strong Drinks do contain all properties but more especially two vâ—z a quick brisk lively spirit that is volatile and penetrating which through fermentation presently puts into motion and a dull dead heavy phlegmatick Liquor which by degrees falls down into the Uriters in such Constitutions as are hot and vigorous but not without leaving some dregs on the Stomach but in such as have but weak heats and are of colder Compositions the same incorporates with the Juices of the Food and hinders Concoction by fouling the Stomach and Vessels which do quickly destroy the Natural tone of the Stomach and so prove the original of various Diseases for this cause there is greater danger in superfluous or excessive Drinking after full Meals of fat Flesh Fish with Butter c. then on an empty clean Stomach for though the latter will sooner intoxicate the Head the former is more prejudicial to Nature in its Consequences for most Surfets by over-drinking are gotten after full over-plentiful Meals of the before-mentioned Foods Of Foods that are Easie Innocent and most Healthy 1. ALl Vegetative Foods are not only wholsom but easily concocted for the pleasant Ferment or Menstruum of the Stomach can with much more facility dissipate dissolve and disgest Vegitations than Flesh or Fish and the reason is because the former are not only more innocent and equal in their parts but more sharp and less Oyley and withall more Spirituous 't is true they are endued with an Oyly Body but it is as it were a Spirituous Oyl as it manifest in several sorts of Vegitations in whose preparations if due care and prudence be not used both the spirit and also the Oyl will evaporate and then the thing becomes of no use nor true virtue the Oyl in all Vegetations being the ponderous quality and also is the house or dwelling place of the Volatile spirit and if any violence be offered to
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
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