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A63820	Wisdom's dictates, or, Aphorisms & rules, physical, moral, and divine, for preserving the health of the body, and the peace of the mind ... to which is added a bill of fare of seventy five noble dishes of excellent food, for exceeding those made of fish or flesh ... / by Tho. Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3205; ESTC R34680	81,040	161

and governeth all things 313. That happy Man that doth live in and under the Divine Will and is governed by the Light and Love of Jesus Christ hath no strife about nor in Religion because in all things he hath resigned his Will unto Gods Will Countenances and Commends that which is good in all Men let their Form or Worship or Religion be what it will 314. Let no outward Opinion Form or Ceremony separate thee from having Union with thy Neighbour nor Meats nor Drinks nor any thing but Evil. 315. For there is nothing Recommends Man unto his Maker but Obedience to the Requirements of his Holy Spirit or Divine Principle of his Light and Love which leads all its Followers into Innocency and Concord 316. God is Love and he that loveth not his Neighbour whom he daily Communicates with cannot love God as the Scriptures of Truth do testify for Man is Gods Image 317. Remember that whatsoever Offence or Evil thou dost to thy Neighbour is also a Sin against God 318. There is no outward Religion or Form of Worship has power to reinvest Man again in his first Original State but only Faith in the Lord Jesus Love Humility and Obedience unto the Commands of the Lord and a peaceable innocent walking with his Neighbour 319. Therefore when thou considerest the varieties of Religion and Forms that Men do worship God in be sure to embrace that which tends most to the Glory of God and the good of thy Fellow Creatures and which most exalts Innocency and Well-doing for God will not be Invoked with Lip-service only and outward Ceremonies most of which hides the purer Pearl in the Rubbish of Formality and Hypocrisie 320. Above all things entertain and nourish good Thoughts for serious Thoughts and Meditations concerning our holy Creator are fed and increased by Divine Power and Understanding and kindles the Life of Love so that it longeth and continually hungreth after God and the teachings of his Spirit 321. Christ is the true Touchstone to the knowledge of things Divine and the Corner Stone to all Spiritual Buildings consider therefore in all thy ways whether thy Words and Actions do enter out of Love into Love and whether the Peace of God which passeth all Understanding be sought and desired 322. Remember that all Strife about the Divine Will of God whereby Men do despise one another though it may cover it self with a Mantle of Zeal doth yet in truth proceed from Self-hood and Pride for the Wrath of Man worketh not the Righteousness of God 323. Such Disputations and Contentions do generally or for the most part arise from outward Reasonings vain Imaginations and Custom for if Men dwelleth in Innocency and willeth with his Creator what need he dispute about that which he enjoys and possesseth 324. Men ought in friendly sort to confer together and offer one another their Gifts and refined Knowledge in Love to try all things and hold fast that which is good and not to stand so stiff in their own Opinions as if they could not Err. 325. Man ought to consider what a mighty strong Enemy he hath within himself which continually suggesteth strange Thoughts and Apprehensions concerning God and his Will which often occasions Men to insult over one another whence Sects Parties and Factions about Religious Matters do arise 326. He that contends furiously about Religion 't is to be feared has no true Religion at all and that will force others to bow to his poor narrow Thoughts touching such sublime Mysteries gives a great sign that he neither knows God Nature nor himself nor has felt the Operation of the Divine Dove like Spirit of Peace in his Mind 327. 'T is certain all these Reasonings Disputes and Contentions about the differing Modes of Religion and outward Formalities must be left behind us like Elisha's Hair Mantle in the Wilderness of this World and the Will and all the properties of the Soul and Life must turn it self again unto God out of whom it proceeded and forsake all vain Imaginations and Lusts or else he can never come to the Divine and Beautifying Vision 328. Remember also that all such Strife and Alterations about the Testaments of Christ do arise in Mans Heart for want of Love and the Divine sight or skill in the Heavenly Mysteries which cannot be any otherwise obtained but only by turning the Will and Thoughts unto God by Temperance and Self-denial Innocency and Regeneration which is the true Eye-salve that clears the inward sight of the Understanding 329. As the great Eye of the Material World or Sun doth with its glorious friendly Beams and sweet Influences penetrate all outward Things and Bodies and fills them with its good Vertues whereby they are generated grow and increase and become useful and most pleasant The like but in a more sublime and mysterious manner is to be understood of the holy Spirit and Light of Jesus Christ viz. he animateth cherishes and governs all that doth resign their Wills unto his Sovereign Government over both Soul and Body and all Evil Inclinations and by its friendly and gracious Influences makes them grow and become pleasant Fruit in the Paradise of God and a right Branch on the good Vine in which Heavenly State God and Man are united and God dwells in this Spiritualized Man as the Sun dwelleth by its Influences in Fruits and Plants and maketh them fragrant and ripe for glory 330. For as the Material Heavens and Caelestial Bodies do by their Influences penetrate this gross lower World and all things therein giving them vertue and power so Christ penetrates the Converted Soul by his inward ruling power and resisteth the vain Lusts Wrath Violence and all other Evils that the Earthly Man is subject to 331. A Christian in all his ways must have three Guides Truth Charity and Wisdom Truth to go before him Charity and Wisdom on either side if any of the three be absent he wanders out of the way or stumbles You shall see some do hurt by following even Truths uncharitably and others whilst they would salve up a dangerous Error with Love have failed in their Wisdom and offended against Justice A Charitable Untruth and an Uncharitable Truth and an unwise management of Truth or Love are all to be avoided by him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way 332. Of making many Books there is no end saith the Wise Man but above all others Books of Quarrels and Controversies are apt to have no end for number as well as no good end or scope and effect upon either the Writers or the Readers 333. In all Disputes look how much there is of Passion so much there of is nothing to the purpose the eager Contenders raiseth such dust as puts out his own Eyes whilst he think to choke the Party he opposeth 334. Such violent Contemners works as for the most part they begin their Clamors without cause so they manage them without either Reason

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 Pythagora●'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 ● thought it might not be unuseful to some to present them altogether and hope by the Blessing of the most High these plain short Me●entoes may yield some Fruit to those that shall ●●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 Divin● 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 Sylla●bles which are but dead things and ●annot possibly convey the living Notions of Heaven●● 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

thereunto as springing from the same Root as on the other side Cain's was swallowed up of the harsh wrathful Principle by sympathy having the same basis but the Kingdom of Love could not accept his Offering because the same was an Abomination unto it nothing is wellcome there but well-doing that is innocency and good Works which makes up the main of true Religion 7. Men cannot see and distinguish the Spirit of Cain and Abel in themselves except they first come to discern and know themselves by and through Obedience to the Voice of VVisdom which gives a true Sight and Understanding All that the Lord requires of the Children of Men is to walk in his Law of Love and do unto all as they would be done unto the first step unto which sublime State is for every one to know himself and to distinguish the voice of Cain from that of Abel which are essentially in every Man 8. Such Offerings as the Blood and Flesh of Sheep and Oxon would not satisfie or appease the awakened VVrath of the Father for as the Apostle hath it Sacrifices and Burnt Offerings thou wouldst not but loe I come in the Volume of thy Book to do thy Will which was is and ever will be an acceptable Sacrifice to the Lord for if the partition wall of VVrath between Man and his Creator could have been broken down by killing and burning the inferior innocent Creatures then the Divine Principle need not have been manifested in the fulness of time viz. Christ Jesus who came to Seek and is able to Save the Soul which the Blood of Bulls and Goats could not Ransom for as the Wise Man saith the killing and committing of one Sin could not expiate another all Oppression violence and killing either Man or Beasts is as contrary to the Divine Principle as light is to darkness for one is the Principle of Fire the other of Light and Love 9. The Original of all Sacrifices and Killing of the inferior Creatures came in with Mans Transgression Fall and Degeneration from the Government of the Divine Principle for when he had suffered his Will and Desires to enter into the Fierce Wrath then his Soul felt it self in horror and very uneasie and began to think how he might appease the Divine Indignation and then and not before began Sacrifices for undoubtedly if Man had kept his first Innocent Estate he had never killed much less desired to eat the Flesh and Blood of the inferior Creatures consequently there had been no Sacrifices which as they came in upon the Transgression so nothing can period them and put an end to killing and eating of Flesh and Blood but only Obedience and a daily offering up unto the Lord the Fir●lings of our Flocks that is pious devout hearty innocent Hands and undefiled Minds and as if killing the inferior Creatures and eating their Flesh and Blood had not been there would not have been any Sacrifices thought on but vain Man imagining that God was even such an one 〈◊〉 himself that would be pleased and attoned by the Flesh of inferior Creatures and hoping ●hereby to divert the Wrath which he himself had most terribly stirred up though still he conti●ued in the practise of Unrighteousness and 〈◊〉 promoted throughout the World the cu●●om of Sacrificing And some thinking the 〈◊〉 the Victim was the greater must be its 〈◊〉 and merit proceeded so far as to offer up their own Children to their Idols but the true God abhorred all such Inhuman Cruelties and ●hough he prescribed the Sacrificing of Beasts to 〈◊〉 Iews yet the same was for the hardness of their Hearts for as the Scriptures of Truth do ●●stifie such as the People such is their God that 〈◊〉 if they live in Violence and delight in kil●●ng then the Lord is in the midst of them in his ●●ngry Jealous or Wrathful Power for when Fierce●●ess and Wrath do predominate in Mens Hearts ●●en they promote all cruelty as well in Religious Worship as in their daily practises and the Peo●le that live in the power and operation of the 〈◊〉 angry Spirit cannot be satisfied without 〈◊〉 such Bloody Rites Of the Original of most Human Inventions 1. FRom the Kingdom of Cain joined with the outward Principle of this World that is from the first and 3d Principles does proceed and arise most Arts and Inventions and not from the Nature of Abel or second Principle of Gods Love which therefore we find complaining that Man was made Upright but had sought out many Inventions 2. It may easily be observed that most Inventions or curious Arts in Man do proceed from an ill Ground or Root viz. from the high proud fierce Principle this is manifest in the generality of Arts and new Inventions that are brought to light in our times and the same is to be understood from the beginning else the Lord had not complained of them 3. Few and easie are the things that serve for the support of Humane Nature and to supply its Necessities as plain Plowing keeping of Sheep and the like which every Man is taught by his Natural Genious or Instinct without being beholding to a Master of Art but on the contrary those innumerable Arts and needless Inventions that stand Man in no stead but lead him to vanity and evil are very hard difficult and chargeable to be obtained and if any of such Inventions do chance in some respect to assist Man it was not the intention of the Inventor so much fixt on the general Good as on Ambition Covetousness and the like that he might get Money by it be esteemed Famous and have the Praise of Men. 4. If you Read over Polidore Virgil Books of the Inventions of things or Paucicolus of things lost and found or were it possible to number up all the Inventions since the beginning of the World there will not perhaps appear one of a thousand that was needful or indeed beneficial unto Mankind and clear of Evil in the Root 5. Therefore Cain is mentioned to be the first that built a City as signifying that he was the Father of needless and harmful Inventions which Cities and great Towns have chiefly applied themselves unto for nice Inventions and superfluous Arts are not promoted amongst Plowmen and Sheepherds for they are plain down-right or rather upright honest Men and imploy themselves equally Innocent and Necessary thus were all the holy Patriarchs plain simple Herdsmen and Sheepherds in whom was contained the Royal Line of the Divine Principle or holy Seed of the Woman that can bruise the Head of the Inventions or Serpentine Nature as Abel Abraham Isaac and Iacob and at the Manifestation or Birth of Jesus the Grand Shepherd of Souls the same was first proclaimed by the Angels to those that were innocently tending their Flocks 6. Not to insist on those black Arts which are generally decried as Negromancy Conjuring the Skill of mixing and preparing Poysons and the like What do most of the rest

such as live on Animal Foods for great thirst is a kind of a Disease and though such People find Drink very grateful to their Pallates yet afterwards it does not only swell the Body but makes it uneasie and also unfit for Labour which inconveniencies those that live on Vegitables are not subject unto for such Foods being more equal in their parts and easier of concoction and of a middle nature and mild friendly operation having as it were a certain Minstruum of their own does thereby agree with and help the digestive Faculty and being always light and readily separated pass quickly away and cause neither drought nor heat having no occasion to attract or draw the pleasant moisture from the remote parts therefore such as use this Diet do always find themselves brisk light and fuller of life and strength presently after eating than before whereas those that stuff themselves with Flesh Fish and the like are dull heavy and indisposed for a considerable time after eating which is a signal demonstration of the excellency and agreeableness of such Foods with the Stomach and Nature if Reader thou wouldest be assured of the truth of what is said here then go home and practise for there is no other way to be satisfied as for my own part I am never droughthy as those are that eat Flesh yet I can drink freely with pleasure and refreshment the simplicity of such Foods is wonderful delightful to the Pallate as well as the Stomach after a little use and practise far beyond the compositions of Flesh and Fish or any Foods that proceed from the Animal Kingdom 8. By Vegitative Foods I mean all such as are made of Grains of Corn especially of Wheat which is the King of all others as Bread Flowered Water or Pap with Bread in it Gruel Cakes made of various sorts of Flower Gruels with dried Herbs infused or green Herb● ●allats with Oyl Sallats with Vinegar Good Ale made with Malt these are the most material Foods the Vegitable Kingdom affords they be not many but they are excellent There are also several sorts of Fruits as Apples Pears Cherries Grapes and the like which may now and then with Bread furnish thee with a Meal but a few will serve thy turn the best use of them is to make them into Drink as Cyder Perry and the like Moreover there are a great number of Roots as Turnips Carrets Parsnips and others but they are not so proper to be eaten by those that live wholly on Vegitations because they are too cold and earthy affording but a small nourishment and not firm besides they are apt to loosen the Body too much on which account they are profitable for those to live on now and then that eat Flesh and other Animal Foods especially such as are subject to Costiveness but then they should live on them and Bread only 2 or 3 days together or so long till they find a change and that they answer the end they do it for and not eat any Butter with them 9. Live on innocent harmless Foods first for the Health of the Soul and the Benefits of Intellectuals and not for the Health of the Body for all Dispositions are made and continued in their full strength and vertue by Meats and Drinks and according to the Nature of them clean or unclean good or evil such are the Desires Inclinations Words and Works 10. Custom hides the truth from all Men in one degree or another and 't is no small part of Piety and Self-denial to overcome the Inveglements thereof especially the usages of those Places and Countries a Man has been bred up in Some general Observations touching the Vanity of Men in contending about Things that are of little use the Constitutions of Men and Women the most savage Beasts and the true Worship 1. THE Spirit of Wisdom leads all her Children into the Universal Temple where there is no Jangling nor Contention about Words and outward Forms of Religion but they all imitate their Creator by doing Good and living Innocently 2. Rejoyce in the Gifts and true Prosperity of thy Neighbor and in so doing thou wilt imitate the Good Angel who rejoyce at the Repentance of a Sinner on the contrary there is no Vice more devilish than Envy 3. Abstract thy Self from the Sensuality of the Multitude which is one true step towards Regeneration for he that needeth but few things approacheth nearer unto his Creator that giveth all things freely and needeth nothing 4. The ways of God and the Observations of his Law are plain and easy but the Inventions and ways of Men are hard and difficult both to the Soul and Body 5. Content not thy Self with the Image or Likeness of Virtue but keep close unto the Universal which will lead thee to the true Mother and then all Strife and Contention will cease to have a Being in thy Soul 6. As Intemperance degrades a Man and renders him worse than the worst of Beasts so no Man is capable of Regeneration so long as he lives in and under the Savage Nature whence the desiring after Evil and the longing imagination● after the eating of Flesh and Blood do arise for what is it that Men should desire to be Regenerated from is it not from Wrath Fierceness Envy Malice Bitterness and doing Evil or the thing one would not be done unto Wherefore does Man call the Beasts of the Forest Wild Ravenous and Cruel Is it not because of their preying upon killing and eating the Blood and Flesh of their fellow Creatures And wherefore does Man esteem himself in a better state or more highly graduated than they If he himself be the fiercest most ravenous and insatiate Creature of Prey in the whole World for he does not only prey upon kill and eat the Flesh of other Creatures but most inhumanly murders and worries those of his own kind which few or none of the Savages of the Wilderness will do Consider therefore O Man Whether whist thou continuest in this State thou art not as bad nay far worse than the fiercest of Beasts 7. Intemperate Desires and the want of Regulating our Affections are the grand In-let● and cause of all Domestique and publick Evils for most or all Contentions and Troubles in private Families do thence arise the Master is angry with his Servant because he doth not get so much Money as he would have him the Husband would fain be rid of his Wife because he thinks he could get another with a great Fortune the Wife is discontented and quarrels with the Husband because she hath not so fine Cloaths as some other Neighbors the Mistriss is in Arms like a Fury beating her Maid because she hath broke some Knick-knack which was not worth a Farthing only it cost dear In brief all these Fudes which People have when they Scold Fight go to Law Forswear themselves and act all the Devils parts are generally about needless things and whose Estimation only foolish