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A63799	Miscellania: or, A collection of necessary, useful, and profitable tracts on variety of subjects which for their excellency, and benefit of mankind, are compiled in one volume. By Thomas Tryon physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing T3185; ESTC R220931	73,089	207

great Real or Personal Estates which have been partly gotten by Oppression or Violence or after great hazards at Sea where others have deeply suffered but more especially in cases of Estates acquir'd by Man-Slaughter though priviledg'd by Worldly Custom and Laws for every Hundred Pounds per Annum or its equivalent in Money or Goods to give Fifteen Pounds per Cent that is Three Shillings in the Pound For though I cannot allow that uncharitable Proverb That every very Rich Man is either an unjust Man himself or the Son of one Yet I must joyn with that other Estates that evil gotten are Seldom Descends to the third Heir And I know no better Conveyance or Security to Intail them than by Works of Mercy and Alms● giving which are the likeliest Expedients to Antidote against the secret Canker and give your Posterity a lasting Title and obtain a Blessing thereon and upon all other your Lawful Endeavours for want of which how often do we see vast Estates blasted and suddenly transferred to new Owners and the most moyling Industry defeated Nor would it be of small Advantage both to the Health of the Body and the good of the Soul for Persons of Estates at least such whose Callings are not Laborious to set apart a Fasting-Day once a Weeek or at least to eat meaner Foods then than ordinary and to appropriate the Expences thereby saved to Charitable uses viz. To the Relief of the Poor to whom he that giveth lendeth to the Lord a Debtor that will never prove Bankrupt as likewise towards the maintaining of useful● Schools Hospitals for the Aged Lame or Diseased for the amendment of publick Bridges or High-Ways or the Planting of Common Walks of Fruit or other Trees and many other Accommodations especially in the Country that would be both Ornamental Delightful and Profitable and of far more Advantage and Honour than what is now profusely squandred away in wanton superfluity that opposes all Christianity and Moral Vertue This is somewhat of that which I thought fit to remind the stupid World of on this occasion wherein let my Good Will at least be accepted though some of my Notions should happen not to be approved for he that contradicts inveterate Customs though never so unreasonable or impious may justly expect to meet with Censure Opposition and perhaps Derision But I am long since Arm'd against such rude Attacques being conscious of no other Aim than the discharge of my Duty and to persuade Men to be really what they nominally profess themselves viz. Disciples and Followers of IESVS CHRIST in whose Service I am Your well-wishing Friend T. T. Ianuary 2 1687 8. CHAP. VI. Good News for the Poor and better for the Rich c. WAR is ever at the best even to those that are most successful a very disastrous Calamity And what through the Judgment of God the misfortune of our Publick Affairs and the present Discouragement of Trade the Cries of the Poor are exceedingly raised in this Nation and are like to be a great deal more without the the Interposition of some preventing Relief I would not say any thing that should give Offence but it cannot be unknown that many hundred of Families in and about this City suffer extreamly upon that account 'T is therefore that I propose this easie and convenient Method of raising Fifteen or Twenty Thousand Pounds per Week towards the supplying those that really want Retrenching the Luxurious Superstuities of those that abound And teaching those whose Extravagance would carry their Inclinations beyond their Ability the Art of good Husbandry Which things effectually pursued and practised would be unconceivably beneficial as well to the Rich as the Poor and in a great measure engage a Blessing from God Almighty upon our Publick and Private Undertakings 'T is the best use we can make of Heavens Liberality and will assuredly stand us instead if Providence should be pleas'd to turn up the Reverse of our Condition 'T is making the Lord of the whole Earth our Debtor and laying an Obligation upon him of seeing us repaid since he that gives to the Poor lends to the Lord. This indeed is laying up for a Wet Day and securing a Treasure that no Body can rob us of No Man alive is exempt from accidents and Casualties whereby it becomes of important Concernment to be prepared for them A Wise Man fits his Mind for every Chance And whilst he doth in Vertues paths advance Each promis'd Good increaseth by his Skill And kindly lessens every threatned Ill. There are at this time thousands of very many Trades in and about this Populous City that have little or no Work at their Callings whereby to support themselves and supply their perishing Families with Bread And can those whom God hath intrusted with plentiful Estates gorge themselves with overcharged Tables even to a Surfeit and Riot in Excess of Wine forgetting the Afflictions of Ioseph whilst their Brethren languish and almost die for want of Necessaries Do they not think that God at such a time calls upon them for his Quit-Rent out of those vast Revenues that they hold meerly by the Tenure of his Bounty Shall the Heavenly Magnificence be so extensive towards them and theirs Contracted towards their Brethren His Majesty has already shewn us the way and as I am informed given large Demonstrations of his Charity and Compassion How Honourable would it be then for such who would be esteemed good Christians and Loyal Subjects to follow a Generous and Royal Example One would think this should Encourage them to be willing to Contribute freely to the Relieving the Common Necessity and Succouring those who labour under the Burden of insupportable Distress and Want Which they might do with the greatest Ease and least Dammage imaginable As for Example Let us resolve one Day in the Week at least during the deadness of Trade and dearness of Corn to refrain from large Eating retrench the Superfluous Exorbitance of our Tables abstain from our Customary Excess of Wine and strong Drinks I dare promise it would be never the worse for our Health but much the better and likewise for our Business and what we so save Employ in Charitable Uses for the Service of the Poor By this only means within the Bills of Mortality might easily be raised Twenty Thousand Pounds per Week and no Man a Farthing the worse but infinitely the better both in his Estate and his Health which is more valuable than the greatest Estate in Christendom There are without Dispute within the above-mentioned Circuit near an Hundred Thousand Families whose Dinners one with another cost them Three Shillings a day I mean extravagantly in Fish Flesh Fowl strong Beer Ale Wine c. when a little Pap Pulp or Grewel would do much better Or if they like not that Bread Butter Cheese Milk c. I am sure will supply Natures wants in all things needful if People would be so wise as not suffer false Opinion and

both personal and Real Security Neither do I believe there is any firmer or better way of Conveying or Intailing Estates on our Children and Posterity than by Works of Mercy and Almsgiving being assured according to the Word of God that they are the likeliest Expedients and Antidotes against the secret Canker and give our Children a sure and lasting Title to their Inheritance For Retaliation of Rewards and Punishments is the Indispensible Law of God which will have its Execution either in this World or that which is to come This our Saviour further exemplifies in the Parable between the Sheep and the Goats when he says to the Sheep on his Right Hand Come ye blessed into the Kingdom prepared for you for I was hungry and you fed me naked and ye cloathed me sick and in Prison and ye administred unto me But to the Goats he says Go ye cursed into everlasting Darkness prepared for the Devil and his Angles for you have neither fed cloathed nor administred to me And further when they expostulated with him saying Lord when did we see thee hungry naked sick or in Prison His Answer was Insomuch as ye did it not to one of these little ones ye did it not to me Hence it is Evident in so many plain words what Christ's Sheep were justified for and for what the Goats were condemned the first had Charity the latter not therefore to do good and communicate those Gifts the Lord hath intrusted us with is one of the most Binding and Fundamental Precepts in the Christian Religion Charity being therefore the first true step to all Vertue that we may obtain the Blessing of the Almighty upon the Publick Undertakings and all our Private Lawful Endeavours let us resolve to go on chearfully and lay up a Treasure in Heaven by being Liberal to the Poor and Needy upon Earth And for the better and more singular performance of these Duties our Holy Religion and Interests obliges every one in his Station avoiding Covetousness and Expensive Sensuality to betake our selves to Sobriety and Temperance which are the great Promoters and Encouragers of Charity with proper and due Fasting which is none of the least Vertues for they all proceed from the Fountain of God's Grace and an inward Ground or Divine Principle in the Soul This is what I have given my Mind to think of and do believe it my Duty to Recommend the same to my Fellow Citizens wherein I humbly Pray That my good Will at least may be accepted though it should happen that some of my Notions are not altogether approved of for I am conscious to my self of no other aim than the discharge of my Duty to persuade Men to be really what they profess themselves nominally viz. Disciples and Followers of Jesus Christ in whose Service I am Gentlemen Your Well wishing Friend Thomas Tryon The Vse and Vertues of several Sorts of Gruels and Pottages viz. Water-gruel and Milk-pottage have the first place not only for their Excellent Qualities and Friendly Agreement they have with the Stomach but also they are easy Come at able by the Poor and Meanest of People next in Rank do follow many other sorts of Brave Exhilerating Pottages viz. Pap made with Wheat-flower and Water or with Milk Water and Flower Barley-gruel Herb-pottage Pease-pottage Furmity Buttered Wheat Possets Bonny-clabber Flummery Caudles made of Beer Wine Cider or other Liquors with Oat-meal also with Eggs and Chocolate all which are the most agreeable friendly Foods to Nature being easie of Concoction and do afford greater Strength and generates better Blood and finer Spirits than most do imagine which are the Sinews of Health and they may be eaten freely without any danger of Surfeits either with Bread or without for these Liquid Regions do as it were contain the Sominary Vertues both of dry and moist Aliment contributing a more Sublime Nourishment than strong hard salt Foods being tempered with such equality of Parts whence do proceed such an Innocent Power and Ravishing Balsamick Vertue that the frequent Eating thereof do fortify strengthen and refresh Nature to the highest degree being endued with a certain innate Power and Vertue not only to help to digest harder Foods but they cleanse and open all the Passages and are a Powerful prevention of Obstructions and gross Phlegmy Humors and at the same time supplying Nature with a substantial brisk Nourishment and sweet friendly Moisture provided they are mixed and prepared with Judgment and all that Love their Health ought to Eat them at all times of the Year but more especially in Summer and hot Seasons they make no noise nor cause any insurrection in the Body so that after a Meal of such Foods there is felt no inequality or indisposition the Body doth not Burn with an unatural Flame nor the Crown is not pestered with Fumes and Vapours in a word they are endued with all the good united Vertues both of the Vegetable and Animals Kingdoms besides these Pottages have such a Sympathetical Agreement with the digesting Liquor of the Stomach called the Menstruum Whose Office is to fit qualifie and prepare the Food for separation and digestion being of a mild gentle Nature and Operation imitating the Dew of Heaven which doth bow apply and incorporate its sweet Dews and moist Vapours to all its Off-spring whence all things become impregnated with Life Power and Vertue For this cause all Pottages do not only strengthen the Appetite and the A●tractive Facultie● and Powers of Nature but they are easily melted into Chyle without any manifest trouble or molestation to the Stomach for the nearer affinity the Foods have to the Menstruum the easier they are digested and sharper is the Appetite because the sweet Vertues of such things are drawn forth into all the Members and Parts of the Body gently and mildly supplying them with a fit and proper Nourishment with far more ease and pleasure to Nature than from hard strong salt Foods neither doth our Friendly Homogenial Pottages heat consume or dry up the Menstruum or Radical Moisture as gross Flesh Fish and Cheese do from whence do proceed after the eating thereof Indisposition and an unatural Drought which renders the whole uneasie and unfit either for the Business of the Body or Mind therefore it is observable that in the Eastern and Southern Parts of the World where the Natives drink Water their Foods being most or all made into Pottages where they never or very seldom eat any Flesh Fish old Cheese salt Butter and but little Bread in gross as the Custom is in the Northern Parts of the World therefore the Gout Stone Scurvy and many other Cruel Diseases are not known which Distempers do for the most part proceed and are generated by the constant feeding on strong hard salt crude Foods and the drinking of strong harsh sharp Drinks being all of a disagreeing Nature to the Menstruum of the Stomach and therefore they do mightily obstruct Nature stop the Passages begetting sharp windy Humours thick Blood dull and heavy Spirits which are the Original Causes of the Gout Wind Stone Scurvy and many other Diseases For this Cause when any Languish under those forementioned Distempers the Learned advise them to live on some of the above-mentioned Gruels and Pottages for if such Foods recover lost Health pars ratione consequently it must maintain and promote it Thomas Tryon FINIS

its free Circulation causing the pure natural Spirits whose habitation is in the Blood to become impure whence arises a general indisposition over the whole Body Therefore all that love their own Health or the good of their Children ought to refrain such hurtful Food and learn to know that Brandy Tobacco and all such things are to be taken sparingly and no otherwise than as People take Physick CAAP. II. Of Flesh and its Operation in the Body and also on the Senses That the continual eating thereof without the due distinction of proper Times and Seasons does darken the Spirits and distempers Nature Likewise of the Exellency of Herbs Fruits and their inward Operation on the Body and Mind THE eating of Flesh was not allowed or practised in the first and purer Ages when Men gave themselves to the Study of Wisdom viz. To the Knowledge of themselves and were partakers of God's Secrets in Divine and Humane things and enjoy'd Health and long Life drawn out to the Age of many hundred years For thus the Holy Scripiure tells us Gen. 1. The Lord said Behold I have given to you every Herb bearing Seed which is upon the Face of all the Earth and every Tree in which it the Fruit of a Tree yielding Seed to you it shall be for Meat And in another place it is said Flesh with the Blood thereof you shall not eat It is not said That the Lord made all Creatures for Man to eat as I have heard many affirm but he made them for his own Glory and Eternal Honour and for the manifestation of his Wonders and that Men should have Dominion over all Creatures and Created things which Man hath lost by suffering his desires and imaginations to enter into the Bestial Nature which does by degrees captivate the Noble parts in Men. But the Wise Ancients for divers Ages of the World did know but little of the variety of Flesh and strong Drinks or of compounded Dishes of twenty sorts of things most of them of disagreeing Natures No their Food was simple and natural easie to be procured without oppression to themselves or to any of God's Creatures as Herbs Fruits and Grains and pure Water for drink which things are endued with a most simple Nature and Operation which neither dulleth the Head by Fumes nor stupifies the Senses by Surplusage of Nourishment but being well prepared and eaten moderately do nourish by way of Simile its like qualities in the Body being of lighter digestion and of a more Airy Operation than Flesh being also void of all Inclinations Senses or Passions of Love or Hate whose Original is more clean and nearer the Unity in Nature therefore the Philosophical Antients in former Ages incouraged the eating of Herbs Fruits and Grains but on the contrary made Laws against the common eating of Flesh without distinction The Great and most Illuminated Prophet Moses did not admit the Children of Israel to eat any Flesh during their forty years March through the Wilderness 'T is true when the People did Murmur the Lord being provoked gave them Flesh in his Wrath and afterwards when they were admitted to eat Flesh it was with such distinctions and with so many circumstances as could not be performed but by abundance of labour and trouble and other inconveniencies by which Laws and Observations many of God's Creatures became of little or no use in the Creation as Swine and the like if indeed they had only been made for Men to eat But the Lord never commanded his People in any Age to abstain from any thing but it was always for their preservation for Abstinence Cleanness and Sobriety in Meats Drinks Exercises and Communications do work wonderful Effects and have a Sympathetical Operation both in the Body and Senses rendering the Observers thereof Healthful with brisk powerful Spirits watchful prndent of good forecast able to give Council and for matters of Learning they do easily grow to an Excellency in the knowledge of themselves and in all other things whereunto they do apply themselves And as for Prayers Meditations and Contemplations they do perform them with great Facility Pleasure and Spiritual delight being always fresh in their Minds and free from Diseases in their Bodies By this way of Sobriety Cleanness and Temeperance many of the Antients became admirable both in Divine and Humane Wisdom 't is well known how Scrupulously the Pythagoreans one of the most Learned and Mysterious of all the Sects of Gentile Philosophers abstained from Flesh. The Divine Writer and great Prophet Moses testifies that God made Man in his own Image and that he should have Dominion over all things or Creatures not that he should eat all things or hurt himself by devouring them nor suffer his desires to enter into them nor theirs into him for Man is a Prince in this World and in him is contained the true Nature of all the inferior Creatures for it it were not so he could not be their Prince nor be sustained by them And tho' Man was made greater than other Creature that is visible and to be Lord over all yet nevertheless he having a Simile with the Nature of all things is thereby rendered capable to be wrought on by every inferior thing he shall suffer his desires to enter into and by degrees he is liable to become captivated unto that thing be it either good or or evil for every like as I told you before works on and awakens its likeness This was the reason why Moses commanded that unclean Beasts should not be eaten that the Humane Nature might not mix or incorporate in it self the Beastial qualities for every indvidual Man has essentially in him the true Natures and Essences of all the Beasts of the Field and Fishes of the Sea as also of all Herbs and Fruits Stones and Minerals and whasoever else can be thought of for it this were not so then Man would not be subject to be wrought on by all neitheir would the various sorts of food agree with him or nourish him The wise Antients understanding this and that every thing had power to attract unto it self such matter out of all things as is capable to nourish its own Body therefore in those days the eating of Flesh was not in such Reputation as of late years it hath been especially as it is in England who do make it their chief Food all Vegetables and Fruits being in themselves of a clean simple Nature and Operation which being well prepared and temperately eaten have only power to waken their Similies in the Body and Senses as foresaid But on the contrary all Beasts especially unclean Beasts are endu●d with all kind of Beastial Passions as Anger Revenge Covetousness Love and Hate which Dispositions and Passions of the Flesh but especially the Blood doth retain after such Animals are killed and for that reason it was that the Blood of all sorts of Beasts was so strictly forbidden for the essential Spirits dwell in the Blood