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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

its Followers the ways of Wisdom and Virtue 176. The third Principle or Property is the Spirit of this World whence do arise and proceed all mixed thoughts words and works which are both good and evil but when this Spirit is joined to the first Original Principle or harsh Fire then all is poysoned and such are subject to all vain idle Jesting Jearing Scoffing mixed with all kinds of Wantonness and wicked Discourses as also such as are between Jest and Earnest and all Plays and Games and whatsoever do tend to Vanity and Lenity but more especially as is said before when such shall be joined to the Principle of Wrath then such become of evil cunning Natures and subtle Inclinations having two Faces viz. Good with the Good and Evil with the Evil and are of very pernitious Dispositions whosoever is found in this fault as many 1000 are it goes very hard with them and their Souls are beset with a great company of Enemies both within and without 177. So that every Man doth speak from a threefold Spirit or Property and which soever hath gained the Dominion that forms his Words but the Will is the Primum Mobile and governs the Principle and therefore in which soever it immerseth it self that Property obtains the highest degree in the Thoughts Words and Works for this cause Men can at one and the same time Smile and Frown be angry with one and friends with another and be offended at one thing and not at another but some Men do suffer their Desires and Wills to enter so deeply into the first principle of fire in their Passions that they are angry with all the World and all things they have to do with all their Fires are so poisonous and fierce 178. The ground and true cause of this every one ought to Learn and be sensible of and to call all his Desires into the Second Principle for as a Mans chiefest Enemies are those of his own House and his greatest Friends dwels also in himself 179. Therefore learn thy self the operations of thy own Nature and follow the middle way and good Genius for that will never lead thee to Evil but to all Good and make thee a friend to God thy Self and thy Neighbours 180. The proper way to obtain this great Good and high Calling is Separation and Self-denial to follow the voice of Wisdom and not regard the Multitude nor their Customs 181. For every degree of Separation and Self-denial does teach Men some Virtue and true Knowledge and prompt the Intellect to some new or excellent Notion in Gods own way 182. The continual pressing on in Self-denial and Temperance does not only strengthen the Soul but it attracteth the Angels and the sweet Influences of Orion and the Pleiades and all the Heavenly Host. 183. For as Christ saith the Angels of God do mightily rejoyce at the Repentance and Return of a Sinner 184. Fear not therefore but separate thy self from all Beastiality and Sensual Apetites both in Meats Drinks Words and Works 185. Hearken unto Wisdom in this Matter for she will lead thee into the secret Chambers where there is no noise of the Crowd nor of the Oppressions of Egypt 186. Sometimes if thy genius lead thee deny thy self of all things that proceed from the Animal Life as Wisdom shall direct thee viz. from Flesh Fish Butter Cheese Milk Eggs and the like and live on Bread only and simple and harmless Gruels and let no Considerations of what others will think hinder thy perseverance therein 187. But when Wisdom gives thee leave then return to thy ordinary Food as Bread and Butter Cheese Milk Eggs and the like 188. Such separation from the Animal Beastial and Savage Nature and all Foods that proceed from thence and to be contented with innocent Vegitations do increase both Humility and Humanity and make the Body clean chaste and healthy 189. Talk no longer of self-denial and separation but enter into it in good earnest for the Lord has perpetual regard to the Souls that are warm in their Affections and real 190. Awake awake all you that sleep in Uncleanness Gluttony and Intemperance or else do not dare to call your selves any longer Christians 191. For the true Life of a Christian consists in Love Mercy Purity and Separation from Evil and mortification of Lusts and Self-denial 192. And whosoever doth with Faith Earnestness and Prayer to the Lord for his assistance and continue in the paths of Vertue and separation from Evil shall be happy in this World and Crowned with Eternal Bliss Amen 193. The reason why most Men fear to dye is because they have not obeyed God and lived in simple Natures Path. 194. Whereas he that lives in the simple Law of God and Nature is not only freed from common fears but Death it self is n●t terrible unto him 195. Sin against God and his Law in Nature cannot be past by except Men repent and acknowledge and forsake them 196. Sin against Men are blotted out no other way but by Repentance Retalliation and Acknowledgement for that is the great Law of God in Nature 197. Be at Peace with all Men and Creatures and all things shall have Unity and Peace with thee 198. Be free and speak the Words of Soundness that thy Companions may not go away untaught 199. Get proper Furnitures against the day of Death that thou mayest be defe●●ed against the Evil Genus 200. Forget not that the good 〈◊〉 of the Lord are Ministring Spirits read● 〈◊〉 assist all that fear him and deny them 〈◊〉 o● the Worldly Vanities 201. They accompany them by day and visit them by night and manifest the mysteries both of God and Nature 202. But Evil Angels are always ready and prompts Men to Evil and powerfully draws thereunto by simily for every like begets its likeness both in the Good and Evil. 203. Be serious and consider the nature of thy Dreams and Visions of the Night and from what Property they take their Birth so mayest thou Judge what Genus attends thee and also what Property has the upper dominion in thy Soul 204. There is an hidden mystery in all things and nothing comes by chance as some vainly imagine since therefore there is a Cause for every thing eye the Mystery 205. Consider thine own high Graduation how that thou art the Image of God 206. Therefore believe that Wisdom can and is able to teach thee all things convenient and suitable to thy Degree 207. Be vigilent in the Study of thy self and the mysteries of thine own Nature and thou shalt as certainly obtain Wisdom as a young Man shall a common Trade if he do incline and take pains therein 208. For all things are brought to maturity through desire and seeking the Will being able when strong to make something where nothing is 209. Consider the great Mystery of thy Soul that Eternal Fire the Original of Thoughts and the innumerable company of Imaginations which can penetrate all

not himself or what is a Man the better if he have himself and wants all others or what is he the nearer if he have himself and others and yet want God or in fine what boots it me to be a Man if I be either Wrathful Proud or Envious 352. He is Rich enough that wants not Necessaries he is great enough that is his one Master and he is Happy enough that Lives and Dies well 353. Even the best Things ill used becomes Evil and on the other side the worst Things used well turns to Good a good Tongue used to Deceit a good Wife used to defend Errors a strong Arm to Murther Authority to Oppress a good Profession to Dissemble and Cheat People are all Evil contrariwise as Poysons may in wholsome Medicines Afflictions and Sins by a good use proves of great Advantage 354. There is nothing more easie than Lipp Divinity and Breath Religion to discourse of Spiritual Matters from the Tongue of others but to hear it spoke from the Soul to feel the Power of Religion in our Hearts subduing our Affections and mortifying our Lusts and to express it out of the Truth of Experience is both rare and hard and yet without this the other is nothing worth but will rather increase our Condemnation 355. The Soul of Man through Evil and Disobedience has broken it self off from Gods Holy Will whence Darkness and all Misery doth overwhelm him and seperate him from that Equallity and Temperature he was made to live in and so becomes Blind as to God and Virtue 356. Nor can any way or means restore him but the Love of God viz. by being Obedient unto the Spirit of Iesus Christ which opposeth all Fierce Wrath Violence Oppression and other Poysonous Influences of the Serpent and leads Man into Humility Love Innocency Self-Denial which are the Fruits of the New-Birth 357. Note that all Things do most ardently covet a suitable Food so that neither Body nor Spirits can subsist without it hath proper Aliment and according to that Principle that predominates either Good or Evil so are clean innocent Meats and Drinks or their contraries desired or used 358. In all the fierce savages of the Desart and Beasts of Prey wherein the Poisonous Wrath doth predominate yet is not this wild and untamed Nature any Evil or Perplexity to them because such their fierce Inclinations and Beastial Dispositions are all according to their radix so that they enjoy as much Delight and Pleasure as the more clean and tractable Animals do 359. But still the very sight and looks of these fierce Creatures are a terrour to the more gentle and friendly Natures of clean Beasts so that what is an evil or terrour to one thing is the cause of Delight and Joy to another for every Creatures highest Satisfaction consists in its living and continuing in the Power and Operation of that Principle wherein it was originally made or brought forth 360. Therefore Man being made in the Image of God all Uncleanness Wrath Violence Oppression and Beastiality are the Troubles and Snares of his Soul because he was made in and to another Principle viz. to live in the Divine Power and Operation of the Holy Light and Love of God 361. The same is to be understood of the fallen Angels their Evil and Misery is that they have through Pride Envy and evil Inclinations immers'd themselves into another Principle than what they were made for they were formed by the Divine Powers to live in the light and love of God Fierceness and Pride was not manifest in their first State therefore Wrath and Darkness is their Pain and Torment 362. But wild Beasts of Prey were made and derive their predominant property from the Wrath of the outward Nature which hath its Original from the inward and to live in and to it and consequently have as much Pleasure and Delight in their Being as the more friendly tame Beasts have who were made from the more benign and equal Nature and though some Beasts are wild and cruel yet they are not to be despised or too cruelly used since they were made so in the Roots of their Natures by the All-wise Creator and are not fallen from their first Estate 363. He that entertains Violence in the Centre of his Heart is comprehended in the Fierce Wrathful Nature or Principle of Darkness be his Form of Religion what it will 364. No Man can Honour God nor bring Glory to him in his Love principle of Light but only by bringing down his Will and Desires even from the Centre of his Heart into Innocency and Well-doing 365. But all Men in the World do Honour and Glorifie God either in his Love or Anger according to what Principle they live in For as the Apostle saith The Sober and Virtuous are a sweet savour unto the Lord of Peace in the Holy Power of his Kingdom of Love and Light and on the other side the Wicked are a savour of Death in the Kingdom of Wrath Fierceness and Eternal Woe 366. As Earthly Princes cannot possibly punish so they cannot prescribe Laws to Mens Souls nor does it concern the Temporal State of this World how Men do Worship their Maker provided they yield Obedience to the Civil Laws of their Country and pay their Tribute and live innocent sober Lives for such Subjects are so far from being dangerous to the Governments that they are the grand preservers of the Peace and Happiness of those Countries wherein they live 367. Man knows very little of the wonderful Work of God in the outward visible Nature but much less of the invisible Mystical Spiritual Kingdom from whence all the external Forms Figures Shapes Bodies and Virtues proceed 368. He that is Angry or Contends with his Brother about outward Forms and Ceremonies in Religion provided Men be Virtuous and fear the Lord does really fight and contend with their great Creator who hath made all Men and all Things to differ and vary in their Colours Shapes Inclinations and Dispositions 369. Consider what great Impressions and almost invinceable Prejudices Education and the Modes of Countries or Places do make in the Hearts and Souls of Men so that what is esteemed a great Evil in one Country is not in another nay especial Evils comes to be esteemed no Evils at all especially in such as are not govern'd by the in-shining and in-dwelling Light of Jesus Christ. 370. Behold and learn Wisdom Charity and Moderation from the Beasts of the Field they are contented to Feed together in one Pasture though they are of various Kinds and will all Drink of one Fountain without complaining or quarrelling about their Meats Drinks Colours Shapes Likeness Greatness Fatness or Leanness but all live in Peace and Union obeying the great common and Universal Law of God in Nature and so answer that end for which they were made to the Praise and Glory of their Creator 371. Know therefore and conclude for certain that

wander after many things most of which are not needful nor natural 451. Consider that the often Tilling and Dunging of Land especially with Soil that proceeds from variety of Creatures both Dead and Living do as it were suffocate or wound the pure falniteral Virtues and sweet Qualities of such Earth and in all particulars endues the Fruits with those Ranci● Properties which the Dung did in it self contain and convey thereunto 452. The like holds Good in the Human Earth or Nature and indeed in a far higher Degree for all Foods do as it were consist of Body and Soul that is of a gross and of a spirituous Property the First answers to our Bodies and the finer or spiritous Parts to our Spirits and each from each receives its Aliment respectively for from clean Meats and Drinks is generated well tempred Blood and of the goodness of that the Spirits depends in a great measure the Dispositions Inclinations Words Works and Actions for their Essences do not depart 453. Great are the Powers of Meats and Drinks which if understood together with the secret Sympathetical Operation of Things Men would more desire and endeavour after mean simple Food and Drinks than they do 454. Temperance is a Divine Gift and the Foundation of all Wisdom and right Knowing is within a Mans Self 455. Sobriety and Self-Denial do always fortifie the observers thereof against many Evils and prepares the Mind to be the Temple of God 456. All the Prophets and Holy Seers as Moses and Elias who through Temperance and the great benefit of clean Foods Moses could guide his Body as if he had been a Spirit and made his Face to shine 457. Those that would preserve the Body and Mind in Health ought by simple Innocent Meats and Drinks preserve their Spirits potent which cannot be done but by Temperance and Cleanness 458. The Prophet Daniel and his Companions was sensible of the great Power and good Virtue of clean Meats and Drinks when they were threatned with the Kings Displeasure if they would not Eat of the various sorts of Meats that came from the Kings Table but they contented themselves with Fruits and Grains and pure Water for Drink 459. Was not the Sobriety and Cleanness of the Racobites well pleasing to the Lord in that they had Faithfully observed the Commandment of their Fathers as to Moderation that Ionadah should never want a Man to stand before the Lord. 460. Did not the Prophet Iohn content himself with Locust and wild Honey which our Saviour Christ saith That there was not a greater Prophet Born of a Woman 461. And Iames the Brother of our Saviour was eminent for his Sobriety and Abstinence as Eusebius Reports He Eat no Flesh Drank no Wine nor strong Drink and wore no Woollen Garments 462. Was not the Mother of Sampson commanded by the Angel of the Lord to abstain from Wine and strong Drink during the time of her being with Child and so was Sampson her Son who the Lord indued with great Strength which continued with him so long as he observed the Rules of Temperance and Simplicity 463. Temperance Cleanness and Abstinence have wonderful Power to preserve both Soul and Body none can be sensible of the excellent Virtues thereof but such only as live in the practice 464. Some of the Wise Antients have delivered it as a Maxim That none could understand God and his Works and enjoy perfect Health of the Body and Mind but those that abstain from Flesh Wine and Vices 465. Know for a Truth that there is no other way to preserve the most pure friendly principle of God in Man but only by Temperance Cleanness Gentleness and to avoid Passions 466. For the Divine Light and Guide of Mankind cannot nor will not endure any kind of Violence or Oppression without great prejudice it is in its own Nature so tender gentle meek and friendly all Passions Cares Perturbations violent motions of the Body Covetousness Intemperance in Meats or Drinks either in quality or quantity robust Imployments evil Communications or too often visiting the Shades of Venus or any other irregular motion either of the Body or Mind do powerfully oppress violate keep under and hinder the operation of this bonus Genius or good Principle of Gods Love and Light which is the true quallifier and moderator of the harsh dark or evil Nature in all Things as well as in Man 467. The very same is to be understood in all Vegitatives Animals and Minerals the Virtue and good Power in every thing is so meek friendly and aimable that it will not endure any harsh motion or violent Operation without manifest prejudice as is most clear in all preparations both of Food and Physick the best Properties in all Things do suffer first by reason of its Meakness 468. It is very easie in all preparations of Food and Physick to evaporate suffocate or wound the good Virtues in a thing and increase harshness but very ha●d and difficult to advance the Divine Principle or Properties and on the other side abate or moderate the dark harsh Properties 469. For the harsh Bitterness or dark Form are the Root viz. the first and last in all Things therefore the strong fixed power of the Salts property cannot be destroyed in any thing being a branch of the Original as witness Lott's Wife being precipitated into a Pillar of Salt that is into the original dark Principle for she looked back that is into the Root 470 But the Sons property or Holy Light which is generated out and from all the Powers of the Father do shine back into all the Powers of the Father and enlighten them that they become joyful which is the Holy Glance or Light or Divine Principle and good Power in all Things which Mankind ought to have regard unto and to chuse unto himself all those things that stands in the nearest Affinity with it 471. This principle as is said before is mild meek and most full of all Virtue and Divine Power therefore all things both in the Animal Vegitable and Mineral Kingdom that stand in their quallifying and operation nearest equallity and are most simple meek and friendly all such Things are the nearest and most agreeing to this Divine thing in Man 472. For this very Cause the Holy Prophets and Philosophers in all Ages have so much recommended the most innocent simple Meats Drinks Exercises Imployments and Communications for all such things stands nearest unto the simple meek Principle of Gods Love in Mans Heart and they do powerfully stir up and increase their likeness both in the Body Soul and Spirit and have far greater power to excite the good than the unseeing can apprehend the like is to be understood of their contraries Good begets Goodness and Vertue and the Evil begets Evilness and Vice 473. Consider the great care and trouble Men do take in the getting of Money even to the hazard of Body and Soul which when obtained do very frequently

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