cold with Bread but in the Winter warm it 17. Take a pint of Ale or good Beer sweeten it with Sugar then put it on the Fire make it boiling hot but not boil then take one or two Eggs beat them with a little Water then brew them well with your hot sweetened Ale or Beer this is a noble comforting sort of Food or rather a rich Cordial which do wonderfully replenish Nature with both dry and moist nourishment 18. Rice and Water boiled and buttered is a fâ—iendly Food and easie of Concoction and affords a good nourishment 19. Rice and Milk is also a noble Food affording a subâ—tantial nourishment especially if you put Sugar in it and remember in what Spoon-meats soever you put Butter let no Sugar come and where you put Sugar let no Butter be 20. An Egg or two beaten and brewed in a pint of raw Milk as they call it either cold or warm according to the season of the year is a Noble substantial Food affording a most excellent Nourishment the frequent eating thereof prevents the generation of sower windy Humors which are the original of many cruel Diseases more especially in Women and Children and gives all good healthy Complexion 21. Milk made boiling hot and then thickned with Eggs is a brave substantial Food of a frienly mild Nature and Operation agreeable to most or all People 22. There is also made of Milk several other sorts of Food viz. Cheescakes Custards VVhitepots all which are much of one Nature and Operation they nourish much and are substantial but are not to be eaten too frequently 23. Spinnage boiled or stewed and butteeed and eaten with Bread makes a brave cleansing Food easie of Concoction and generates good Blood and sweetens the Humors moves and opens Obstructions 24. Spinnage and the young buds of Colworts boiled in plenty of good VVater with a quick brisk Fire and eaten only with Bread Butter and Salt is fine pleasant delightful Food affording a good clean nourishment 25. Spinnage boilnd with the sound tops of Mint and Balm seasoned with Salt and Butter and eaten with Bread makes a Noble Dish of a warming Quality and gives great satisfaction to 〈◊〉 â—tomach affording an excellent nourishâ—â—â—t 26. Spinnage Endive and young Parsley boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt iâ— a brave friendly exhillerating Food generating good Blood and fine brisk Spirits cleanseth the Passages and loosens the Belly 27. Boiled Cabbedge Collyflowers and Collworts being eaten with Butter Vinegar Salt and Bread the last of the 3 being the best for they loosen the Belly purge by Urine and are easie of Concoction but remember that you boil them in plenty of good Water with a quick Fire and not too much which is to be observed in all the preparations of Herbs and Grains 28. Asparagus boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt is a most delicious Food they afford a clean nourishment and are friendly to the Stomach opens Obstructions loosens the Belly and powerfully purges by Urine 29 Artichokes boiled and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt are an excellent Food and generates a substantial nourishment a Man may make a noble Meal of them 30. Green Beans boiled and eaten with Salt Butter and Bread is a most pleasant Food they gently open the Belly affording a good nourishment if you eat temperately of them for they are an entising Food Let all People subject to windy Diseases eat them sparingly 31. French or Kidney Beans boiled in plenty of Water with a brisk Fire and eaten with Bread Butter and Salt makes a brave delightful Dish of Food of a cleansing opening nature and operation they purge by Urine and gently open the Belly affording a good nourishment provided they are eaten temperately which is chiefly to be regarded in all green Foods 32. Green Pease boiled and seasoned with 〈◊〉 and Butter and eaten with Bread makes a 〈◊〉 pleasant Dish of Food their nourishment is 〈◊〉 strong they are windy if not sparingly eaten 33. Dry Pease being boiled in plenty of good soft Water being seasoned with Salt and Butter makes a substantial Dish of Food and affords a strong nourishment and are good for all strong labouring Men. 34. Boiled Turnips makes a very good Dish of Food being seasoned with Salt Butter and eaten with Bread especially for all young People they open and cleanse the Passages and are easie of digestion and may with safety be eaten plentifully their colour declares their excellent Vertues 35. Parsnips boiled in plenty of good Water seasoned with Salt Vinegar Butter and Mustard makes a brave substantial hearty Dish of Food and are friendly to most Constitutions 36. Carrats boiled and seasoned with Salt and Butter and eaten with good Bread is a fine Dish of Food very pleasant and wholesom and are of easie Concoction the deep red are the best 37. Roasted or boiled Potatoes eaten with Butter Salt and Vinegar makes a pleasant Dish 〈◊〉 Food very grateful to the Stomach and are â—asie of digestion now and then a Meal of them â—â—may do well 38. Apple-Dumplins eaten with Butter or Butter and Sugar hath the first place of most sorts of Puddings they are easie of Concoction and afford a friendly nourishment 39. Plain Dumplins made very small viz. with with good Flower Milk Eggs and a little Butter mixed or work'd up in them and made thin like small Cakes about as large as a Crown Piece and put into boiling Water which will be boiled in a little time this is a noble substantial Food very sweet and pleasant of a warming nature of an easie friendly operation 40. Plain Puddings made with Eggs Flower and Milk well boiled and buttered makes a firm Food agreeable to the Stomach being eaten temperately is both wholesom and healthy 41. Boiled Dumplins made only with Flower Milk or Water with a little Ginger which is the best Spice for Puddings with Yeast or Barm and when done buttered is a very good wholesom Food and of easie digestion of this alone a Man may now and then make a good Meal 42. Boiled Puddings made with Flower Milk and Eggs and Raisons or Currans and buttered makes a pleasant Food and a Man may now and then give himself the liberty to make a Meal thereof without prejudice 43. There are also several sorts of light Puddings made of Bread and various sorts of ingredients which are pleasant to the Pallat and not ungrateful to the Stomach if sparingly eaten 44. Rice Puddings both plain and made of Fruit which for the most part are a pleasant sort of Food easie of digestion and may be freely eaten 45. There are also several of Baked Puddings which to most young People are delightful they afford a good strong nourishment and are best for such as labour 46. Apple-pies made with Fruit that is neither too green or unripe nor too old or far spent are a very good Food especially for young People they afford a good nourishment and are friendly to
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
Sweet in which Sugar Spices or Spanish Fruits are mixed 93. Be strangers to the East and West-India Commodities as Nutmegs Cloves Mace Cinnamon Ginger and the like 94. Keep your self as â—â—ch as may be from eating fat succulent Food 95. Refrain also Foods in which many things of contrary Natures are mixed or compounded 96. Be careful the quantity of your Food be not too great for most of this Complexion are free Eaters and for the most part the pleasure of the Palate in Eating and Drinking does continue many degrees beyond the necessity of Nature 97. Refrain eating of Eggs and rich Broths but eat freely of all mean simple Foods as Water-gruel Herbs Bread and the like also Milk as it comes from the Cow but Flesh Cheese Butter and the like be sparing in 98. Apple-Pies where there is no Butter in the Crust is a good Food eaten with Butter 99. Flower and Water Flower and Milk Flower and Milk and Water prepared as we have taught in the Good Houswife made a Doctor are excellent Foods 100. Many sorts of Herbs in their seasons if mixed and prepared as we have Taught are very suitable Foods 101. Bread and good Drink eaten alone without either Butter Cheese or Flesh is a most excellent Food as also all moist cooling Foods are proper for all People but more especially for this Complexion and young People in general 102. But remember to eat dry Food once a day especially in Winter for then the Air is moist and subject to Humidity 103. In the heat of Summer eat Gruels and other Spoon-meats as frequently as you will it hurts not 104 For in that Season the Natural Heat is not so potent as in Winter or Cold weather and therefore the Foods ought not to be so hard and strong but more mild and easier of Concoction 105. Accustom your self to Order and it will become easy 106. Use Exercises that are gentle especially in the Morning before you Eat or Drink for one Hour or two 107. Take example from Wise Men and not from Fools 108. Gaze not on the Multitude but turn thy Eye inward 109. Be diligent and learn the Nature of Things and to know their intrinsick Virtues especially of those Things you Eat and Drink because the Great Creator hath endued all things with a certain Power to beget their Similes in the Body and Mind for the Body and Spirit of every Man is daily Generated made and sustained by those things he Eats and Drinks and their Essences departs not from him which is a point highly to be considered 110. Be your own Cook and trust not a Blind Man to prepare your Food 111. Be able to give a Reason for all you do for Tradition is a blind Guide 112. Esteem not a thing because a Friend did it but learn to have Eyes of your own 113. Say not in your Heart that my Grandfather Father and Mother did so and so and I believe they were as wise as you and therefore I will do so too for such Sayings are Tokens of stubborn and incurable Folly 114. Keep a proper weight and measure in all things 115. Refrain the frequent company of Women especially such as have outlived Shamefac'dness 116. Water is the most kindly and natural Drink especially for all young People 117. Frequent not Alehouses nor Taverns nor let your Voices be heard in any such places except upon urgent occasions 118. Spend your leasure time in Reading good Books for they beget the Image of Virtue in them that peruse them 119. Meditate on the Law of the Lord and the wonderful things that are as you are about your occasions and the good Genius that the Lord hath granted you shall open such Mysteries as you are capable of 120. Be diligent in Exercise spend no time in waste for Idleness is the Mother of many Mischiefs 121. Consider the Heavens the Sun Moon and wonderful variety of Stars all busie in that Motion and comely Order that the Blessed Creator set them in the beginning 122. Look upon the Earth and the vast variety of its product all is in a comly Order every thing putting forth its Virtue in harmony without grudging or envying the beautiful Form of each other 123. Suffer not therefore thy cholerick Fire to burn so furiously but allay it with the sweet Influences of the Waters of Shiâ—ock or the Love and Light of the Lord that enlightneth every one in a Measure 124. Consider that Passion is thy greatest Enemy stand still therefore when thou feelest such Fires begin to kindle and take Wisdom to thy aid 125. Be not too quick in speaking or answering a Question but remember that your Fire burns fierce make a pause therefore that you may Speak and Answer with Wisdom 126. Do not entertain high or proud Thoughts of your Self or your own Doings 127. Despise not thy Inferior for you are both made of one and the same Matter 128. Suffer not dark and melancholy Thoughts to perplex your Soul but consider the Cause and how by Wisdom to prevent and cut them off in the bud 129. Neither be affrighted at terrible Dreams or Visions but consider the Root and what Property of the Sevenfold Nature do carry the upper Dominion in your Complexion and endeavour to moderate it by Wisdom and Order for all such Dreams and Visions arises and proceeds from the dark Root 130. Art thou subject to the Head-ach Vapors or the like then be moderate in Exercise and take such gentle simple Meats both in quantity and quality which may allay such disorders for there is greater power in Food and Drink than most imagine 131. Wound not thy Self with thy own Arrows by imagining Mischiefs which perhaps may never happen nor bring thy Souâ— into Sorrow for that which is above thy powâ—er to help 132. Consider that God doth all things by his wonderful Providence therefore Fight not against him 133. Take not the death of Friends Children and the like too deeply to Heart for it is the Will of God in whose good pleasure are the issues of their own Lives nor canst thou thy self preserve it one Hour but must bow to that Great Hand when thy appointed time is come 134. Moderate thy Passions therefore by Wisdom and sound Reason and suffer not thy Soul to be captivated in the House of Mourning and Sorrow 135. Give off all hard Labours before your Spirits are too much spent or wasted 136. Be cautious how you drink any kind of strong Drink for they are an Enemy to your Constitution and increase Diseases 137. Be content and use your self to all mean and simple Foods as Water-gruel Bread and Butter various sorts of Herbs both boiled and raw sundry sorts of Food made of Milk Fruits Applepies and the like 138. Raw Eggs with Bread is an excellent Food it being the best way of eating them a little use will render them very pleasant 139. Mild Ale and mild Beer are the most simple Drinks except Water which
precipitate them into great Evils and many Snares and Diseases 474. O how happy would it be if Men would take but half that pains care and diligence in self-denial and in the innocent simple ways of God and his Law in Nature for the procuring and obtaining the Noble Treasures both of Time and Eternity how knowing seeing hearing tasting and feeling would Men be in the Divine Mysteries to the praise of the Lord and Eternal Comfort of themselves 475. Be not offended or think the worse of right hand way because it is very uneven narrow and but little Company and those that are but poor and mean most or all of them Footmen for the Apostles themselves was forced to leave their Horses and travel on foot after a little entrance into this way 476. Some of the Wise Men when first entred into this Divine Path or Right Hand way have kept their Horses and Coats but such as continued them long was either forced to leave them and go on foot or else turn into the Left Hand way 477. For all the Men and Women that are Travellers in this innocent Path or Way their Cloaths are mean plain simple and of their Natural Colour their Meats and Drinks very simple such as are easily procured 478. In this way there are no Inns nor Ale-Houses but a few poor Cottages their Beds are clean Straw and the most currantest Money that goes amongst those poor People is self-denial and content and their Watch-word is Let all Flesh be silent 479. There are not many Trades amongst them that travel in this way for they need them not because a few things will sustain their wants 480. Most of these Men have each of them two Gardens which they spend their whole time to Manure and Dress one is Internal and the other External the Herbs and Fruits that grows in the Internal do by their blessed Juices and most fragrant Scents replenish and nourish the Soul and the Herbs Fruits and Seeds of the External Garden do not only imploy the Body in that pleasant Labour of dressing and manuring of its Fruits but it also supports it with Food that affords both dry and moist nourishment to the highest degree of Innocency in this World therefore those that enter into this way needs but a little Land and less Money and though every Man must have two Gardens yet he needs buy but one for one is his Eternal Inheritance which ought in an especial manner be looked after and Dressed or else it will be quickly over-run with bitter Herbs and sower harsh Fruit. 481. If thou keepest thy Internal Garden free and clear of those harsh bitter Weeds which are very apt to overspead the good Herbs then it will afford most blessed Fruits which will be Cordials unto the Soul on a Dying Bed and raise the Soul to Eternal Life 482. Let God be thy Teacher and look not outward nor lissen after other Teachers but learn and know the inspoken word of the Lord or the Divine Principle in thy own Soul who is the true Preacher of Life 483. Let that Scripture be fulfilled where the Prophet saith The time shall come when every Man shall be taught of the Lord in the center of their Hearts 484. Learn to know thy Teacher in thy self and then thou wilt need no Houses of Brick Stone Timber or outward Temples to meet for Gods Worship but every Man shall withdraw himself from the noise of Men and worship the Lord alone in the Center of their Souls 485. Above all things learn to know the power and vertue of lowness and silence from Words for when Man ceaseth from speaking then the Lord ariseth and teacheth the Soul the ways of Wisdom 486. The true Worship of the Lord is innocent and simple in the ways of Nature which is his Handmaid 487. Consider and look with an inward Eye into the wonderful variety and great Beauty of the Vegitations of the Earth how pleasant they are to thy inward and outward Eyes and how they all praise their Lord in meekness and silence and bear Fruit to the Creators praise and thy Comfort they grudge not nor grumble when thou usest them for thy necessity 488. Learn by all to know and praise the one only Fountain whence all proceeds and have their Being 489. Withdraw thy self from the many and entertain profound silence and the Lord will arise in the Center of thy Soul and shew thee the Truth which is not seen but felt on the opening of the Intellectual World 490. Know that all Ceremonies Forms Modes and Mediums in Religion the Lord have suffered by reason of weakness and want of true sight in Divine and Human Mysteries 491. As the Saviour of the World faith Not in this Mountain or the other place but the true Worshipperâ— are those that worships the Lord in the inward part of the Heart in loneness and siâ—ence 492. Remember and let it be one principal point of thy unfeigned Religion to desire no more of the things belonging to the Body than is needful and natural for whatsoever is more beclouds the Intellectual powers of the Souls spirit for the Essences of all our Meats and Drinks departs not from us but becomes Essential as is mentioned before 493. The true Religion is for a Man to know God in the Center of his Heart and to obey the Voice of Wisdom and regulate himself in all inward and outward things 494. The Life of a true Christian is to depart from all Intemperance superfluity uncleanness in Meats Drinks Cloathing Imployments and Communication and to withdraw into loneness and Silence and to will as God his Guide wills 495. And remember that he that lives as he ought needs but a few things and those easie to be procured a small Cottage a little Garden a Spade Corn and Water white Garments a little Wood a Straw-Bed which are the most useful and necessary and will support Nature to the highest degree and a little labour and less care will procure them 496. Straw-Hats will serve instead of Beavors and Castors 497. Wooden Shooes instead of Leather for their Journeys are but small 498. White Linnen and Woollen instead of rich Colours for there is no need of rich Garments to cover the outside when the inside is arrayed with Virtue 499. The Fire of Wood supplies the want of Candles made of the Fat of the Beasts no Violence enters into their Tents 500. A little Corn and a few Herbs do bountifully supply Nature with both drie and moist nourishment to full satisfaction there is no need of the trading with Butchers 501. A few Vessels serves their Drinks is brued to their Hands by the preserver of the World A piece of Bread and a spoonful of Oatmeal or Flower mixed with a pint of Spring Water makes a Breakfast or a good Supper 502. Milk as it comes from the Cow is highly esteemed and counted great Food being eaten with good Bread there is but little need
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
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 Herbâ— â—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 imaginationâ— 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-letâ— 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
of Butter and less of Cheese 503. Bread Water and Flower without any farther preparation Bread and Milk Herbs and Bread Fruit and Bread are the most useful and necessary Foods which are ready at hand and may be obtained by every one with little labour of Body or trouble of Mind 504. All Men ought to consider that the chief cause of all Diseases and Unhealthiness to young and old is for want of Government and Wisdom and the desiring those things that are out of the ways of simple Nature 505. There are not many Diseases where Men walk in Natures Path and avoid Compositions and as much as in them lies fiery Preparations 506. The more Men imitates Nature the nearer they come to their first State of Innocency and thereby obtain Health of Body and vigor of Mind 507. An Example of this we have in all Animals or Beasts who continue in that pure Law they were made in and placed under how Healthy most of them are when Men do not render them otherwise by Oppression and Disorders 508. Keep therefore O Man unto thy Heavenly Guide that the Lord hath placed in the very Center of thy Heart turn thy Eyes inward and learn Wisdom this Divine Spark and holy Son of Light if obeyed in the Life thereof will readily shew and teach Man all things both for Divine and Human that are necessary for this Life and that which is to come 309. Study thy self for that worthy thing in thee cannot be known nor its Voice distinguished from other Voices but only by Self-denial Sobriety and Cleanness in the practise of Silence alone leaning on the Shoulders of none but only thy beloved Jesus 510. Remember that the true pleasure of Temperance and the many benefits that follow Sobriety cannot be imagined by those that lives Riotous Lives so neither can the sweet Influences thereof be enjoyed without self-denial and some trouble to old Adam 511. If thou wilt know God and the sweet Influences of his good Spirit in thy own Soul then thou must live as it were alone for there is but little Company in the ways of Virtue and Self-denial 512. There is nothing does make Men more sensible of Gods Blessings then Temperance and Cleanness in Meats Drinks Imployments and Communications 513. How ready are the sober of Mind to give the Lord Thanks for his Mercies and how sweet is every mean thing 514. Temperance is endued with Divine Power it fits the Mind for the Worship of God their Beds are easie their sleep sound not subject to Indispositions nor molested with Fevers their Heads are not dulled with Fumes nor their Stomachs oppressed with fainting Fits or windy griping Humours they rise as fresh as the morning Sun and are fit for the Exercises both of the Body and Mind their Radical moisture flowes freely through every part like a pleasant Gale of Wind which moderates the Centeral Fires that they burn not too violently This excellent State of Body and Mind is not attainable without the fear of the Lord and self denial which are the first steps to all true Wisdom both Spiritual and Natural The Benefits of Temperance and Mischiefs of the contrary Vice 1. TEmperance is the True way or Royal Road to Peace and Happiness both in this World and the World to come for without no Man can observe the Law of God and Nature 2. Temperance freeth the Body from Labour and Danger and the Soul from Cares Passions and disquieting perturbations 3. Temperance makes all Men rich for it administers Content and gives length of Days Health and a sound Mind which whosoever enjoys cannot be said to be poor 4. Temperance cuts off vain Thoughts and Imaginations and all extravagant Desires as it were in the very Bud which continually wounds the Soul and Body of the Intemperate 5. Temperance wisheth no ill to its Neighbor but is a friend to every thing that is innocent and good 6. Temperance is a perfect Cure or prevention of many cruel Diseases both of the Body and Mind 7. Temperance is a sure support to all needy Families if she be entertained and her voice obeyed 8. Temperance makes Harmony in the worst of Times and deadest of Trading because she furnishes all her followers with what Need and Nature requireth nor does any thing render a Man more like his Creator 9. Temperance is a true Guide to Mans ways cleanseth the inward Parts from uncleanness and makes the Eye or Spirit of the Soul to see with an Intellectual Sight like its Creator who maketh his Sun to shine both on the Just and Unjust 10. Temperance is a glance of the Divine Power which denies Selfhood and teach those that follow her voice to Love all Gods Creation as God Loved Man 11. Temperance envieth nothing nor coveteth no Mans Goods but is a fâ—iend unto all avoiding Strife Contention Controversies Oppressions Violences and Manslaughter 12. Temperance is the firmest and best Establishment of or in all Governments for she teacheth Man to Love and adore their Creator Know themselves and to have an awful Respect to their Neighbors and whole Creation of God's wonderful Creatures 13. Temperance considereth all things prohibiting no Creature that Freedom and Priviledges that their Creator hath bounteously given them by thâ— grand Law and Charter of Nature 14. Temperance knows what that Glorious Liberty is the Great Apostle speaks of that the whole Creation groans to be delivered into and by its sweet influences attracts all things that are capable unto that pure Fountain 15. Temperance illuminates the Soul and makes Mens Reasons Divine 16. On the contrary Intemperance is the greatest Evil on Earth because the Seed-plot of all other Evils and most unlike our Blessed Creator for the superfluous Man wants all things but God wants nothing 17. Intemperance wounds the Body with Diseases and the Soul with Ignorance and Blindness perpetually perplexing the latter with greedy Desires and the former with needless Toils 18. Intemperance hood-winks the Soul so that it cannot distinguish between what is good and profitable and the contrary thereby obstructing and violating the Way and Law of God in Nature 19. Intemperance is the Original of all evil and vain Imaginations it makes Men turn Rebels and imbroils the World with Plots and Wars that they may gratifie their own unbridled Lusts. 20. Intemperance causeth Children in the secrets of their Hearts to wish for the death of their Parents that they may enjoy their Estates Married People to desire the death of their Yoak-fellows that they may get others with more Money or that are more young and handsom to please their wantonness 21. Intemperance persuades Men to Marry old diseased and deformed Women which does neither agree with their Age and Tempers nor can answer the end for which Marrying was ordained by God which is one of the greatest Evils under the Sun because they Sin against Nature and the Light of their Understandings 22. Intemperance makes Men more unnatural than