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A63788	The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot / by Philotheos Physiologus, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness, &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3176; ESTC R23567	76,055	190

how many Men we have kill'd in a day And though many of you do not use nor perhaps intend these Martial Instruments for Man-slaughter but only to kill and destroy other inferiour Creatures and Inhabitants of the Elements yet I pray consider why will you arm your selves provide thus to kill those innocent Creatures Does not bounteous Mother Earth furnish us with all sorts of ●…ood necessary for Life Wherefore then will you trouble your selves to kill those Creatures who have a have a Title by Nature's Charter to their Lives as well as you Shall not the groaning of those Creatures call for Vengeance And must not there be a Retaliation Can you think the Noble Race of Man was made to be a Tyrant over and a Scourge unto the inferior Inhabitants of the World No sure he was to treat and govern them in Love and Friendliness But instead thereof he is now become their deadly Enemy Therefore though you will not fight with and kill those of your own Species yet I must be bold to tell you That these lesser Violences as you may call them do proceed from the same Root of Wrath and Bitterness as the greater do there being but one grand Fountain from whence all kinds of Evil Violence Oppression and Cruelty do proceed whether it be towards our Brother Man or any other of our Fellow-Creatures And though Custom hath made the killing and oppressing of Beasts Birds c. to be sa●…liar and consequently easie and done without any Remorse or Bowels of Pity yet it is still from the dark Root 'T is true we read in Scripture frequently of the Killing both Men and Beasts and 't is true the Lord did give the Nations liberty to kill and eat the Flesh of Inferior Creatures But note That this was not done until Mankind had departed out of his holy Law and goverment of his divine Principle into his sierce Wrath out of which wrathful Principle he permitted the killing and eating of Flesh so the Scripture saith The Wickedness of Man had corrupted the Earth and then the Lord said My Spirit shall no longer strive with Man Threescore and ten years shall be the term of his Life c. That is Man would not submit unto and be governed by his holy friendly Principle of Love and Light therefore the Lord in his fierce Wrath which man had rather chosen to precipitate himself into shortned mans Life and gave him Flesh to eat which sort of Food had the nearest Affinity to that Wrathful Spirit that had then gotten the Government in Man But in Paradise that is whilst man continued under the sweet Conduct of the divine Principle his Bill of Fare allowed by his Creator in love was only Every Herb bearing Seed and every Tree in which is the Fruit of a Tree yielding Seed to you it shall be for Meat Gen. 1. 29. Thus far the Children of Israel in the Wilderness as long as they were Obedient God provided and fed them with Angels Food pure and delicious Manna but when they grew Disobedient and Murmured and nothing would serve them but Flesh God gave them Flesh in his Wrath and Quails in his Displeasure which fitted them for Destruction Furthermors though you will not kill those of your own kind yet your Children seeing and learning these Preparations of Oppression and Violence they may come to be of different Opinions and by degrees kill one another with their Fathers Guns and Swords for we know not what sort of People will come after us nor what Spirit they may be of Therefore it will be highly convenient for us to prevent the Growth of all Fierceness Wrath and Violence even in the bud by our Laws and wholsome Customs for there is no way or means that can or will so powerfully disarm the Rage of Men and other Creaturs as Clemecy and Well-doing Has not the Lord by his divine Hand of Providence brought us into a pleasant and fruitful Country that flows as one may say with Milk and Honey that is all things necessary for sustaining Life and rendering it delightful as far as Nature desires or Innocency will admit why then should we by our Intemperance make i●… slow with Blood Oppression and Violence Will not a little Labour cause the Earth to bring forth a great number of brave fragrant Herbs Fruits and Grains which will readily supply us with both dry and moist Nourishment and preserve our Health and Strength without the use of Guns Swords Powder Shot or the like Engines and Utensils of War which have their Original from the fierce Wrath of God in Nature and let men pretend what they will of Necessity cannot be used but only by the same Spirit Wherefore should we Christians whose Laws and the Doctrines of our Saviour engage us to live in love unity that we may be rendred capable to understand and enjoy that glorious Liberty of the Sons of God which the whole Creation groans to be deliver'd into why I say should we with wrathful Weapons and breathing Death and Destruction terrifie amaze and alarm not only one another but also all the Inhabitants of the four Elements meerly to gratifie our extravagant Desires and wanton Appetites or furious Passions and all the while to suffer the friendly Law and good Principle of Gods eternal Love to languish sigh and groan under the burthens of those intollerable Evils in which slate Man often finds himself in great Trouble and Discontent and wonders very much what may be the occasion thereof not considering the true cause viz. That their Hearts and Souls do move in the fierce Wrath and that they do not do unto all as they would be done unto nor live in Innocency and Concord with all Creatures which is the true Christian Doctrine Therefore to prevent all these Troubles Dangers and Annixities it will become us to be wise and Innocent in our Laws and Customs that our Youthful Settlements may be a means to preserve us and our Posterity and then our Childrens Children will bless our Souls and we shall as naturally attract the sweet Influences of the Coelestials and also the benovelent Aspects of all Creatnes as the Load-stone doth Iron for every Like draws to its self its Likeness for therein consists its highest Ioy. III. A Third thing I would offer to your Consideration is That you will not suffer it to become a Custom or to be lawful for any amongst you to wear any sort of Garments or Clothing save only such both Woolen and Linnen as our own Country does or may produce nor of any other Colours but such as the Woods Seeds Earths and Minerals of our own Land affords By which we shall encourage not only all Ingenious People but also our own Commodities and altogether discourage Forreigners Also let it be a Custom amongst us for all our Superiors or Magistrates to wear White Garments made of Wool which is not only more serviceable but natural whereby they will

I hope you do not expect your Horses and Cows to be better Philosophers than your selves in distinguishing the Virtues and Vices of Waters for the Pallates of Cattel are adulterated by Custom even as mens are for if you accustom your self to Food that is not well prepared or Drink that hath an ill smack yet in length of time it will be so familiariz'd and so stir up and awaken its own Property in the Body that the ill smack or scent can hardly be perceived So great is the power of every particular thing to strengthen and incorporate its self with its simile in the Body whence does proceed the Possibility in Nature of making all things in a certain sort friendly unto it self Now Pond-Water is generally the warmest of all others and those Cattel that are used to it had therefore much rather drink it than other the common use of it hiding the fulsome Taste and gross earthy Smell But still there are some Ponds that are constantly fed with good Springs and others that in Rainy Seasons are plentifully supplied with Freshes and the Water of either of these is very good and wholsom I am not insensible that these Rules and Observations will seem strange and perhaps Ridiculous to the wise Iockies of this Age since contradicting their beloved Prophet Custom and Tradition whom the Multitude admire However I am satisfied in that I have by making them publick performed my Duty to my Country and so leave them not dispairing but that there may possibly be some few found of so much Ingenuity as to make Trial of them and then I doubt not but how mean uncouth or inconsiderable soever they may now seem they will acknowledge them to deserve both Thanks and Imitation CHAP. II. Of Sheep their Natures and the best way to secure them from the Rot and other Inconveniences and preserve them Healthy SHEEP area sort of Animals highly to be esteemed as well for the Excellency of their Natures wherein they transcend most other Creatures as for the manifold Benefits they afford unto Mankind The Dignity of their Nature renders them the Emblems of Innocency and fit Metaphors for Virtue Thus not only Princes by the Heathen-Sages are called Shepherds and their obedient and well govern'd Subjects their Sheep to intimate that no other species of Creatures are more inclinable to good Order or so readily governable but even in sacred W●…it the People of God are every where denominated The Sheep of his Pasture and Christ himself likens his Disciples and Followers to Sheep and calls himself The good Shepherd that layeth down his Life for his Flock And this was for the near Affinity Sheep have to Equality and to the harmless innocent Life and Principle which Christs Sheep and Lambs do live in But on the other side he compared Evil Men unto and called them by the Names of wild fierce savage ravenous Beasts as Bears Tygers Wolves c. because that sort of degenerate men do live in and are acted by the uneven fierce and cruel Nature and Principle and have therein an Affinity with the Beasts before mentioned And thus there is as perfect an Antipathy between the friendly innocent Principle which governs and rules in the Hearts of Christs People and those that are guided by his holy Peace-breathing Spirit and those other that live in the power of the fierce Wrath and uneven Nature as between Sheep and Wolves or Foxes and the like Beasts whose very sight does afright and amaze them even more than that contrariety proceeding from their Radixes Sheep being dignified as it were with a gleam of the Coelestial Principle of Unity having no manifest Quality predominating whereas on the contrary all the before-mentioned Beasts of Prey have their predominant Quality standing in the fierce Wrath as appears by their unsightly Shapes their frightful Howlings or Noises that they send forth their cruel Inclinations and bloody Dispositions To speak more plainly Sheep are in Temperature moderately Hot and Moist and in Complexion Phlegmatick-Sanguine with a mixture of Melancholy and if they exceed in any of the four Humours it is in Moisture their Radical Fires burn but gently being of a good equal Temperature whence their sweet and amicable Natures and Dispositions do arise For this cause all Inequality is an utter Enemy unto them especially excess of Moisture For they are very porous by which the moist vapours of the Air do powerfully penetrate them on all parts which causeth such Quantities of Wool and does supply them with store of Moisture which when the Air is humid or too much wet weather happeneth proves prejudicial unto them for this cause Sheep can live longer in times of Drought than many other Creatures without Water and receive less prejudice by the want thereof though all Creatures are more or less nourished by this way and do suck in their spirituous moist Nourishment like Spunges on all parts if this were not so no Creature could subsist For the attractive Quality and natural Heat do in a hidden way draw in the moist spirituous Vapours which the Element of Air does plentifully afford and the more Humid the Air is the greater Quantity of Moisture is received into the Body which Nature performs in a Magnetick Insensible way but the same does more manifestly appear when the Season is wet the Element of Air being then more imbib'd with Humidity than in drier times and therefore most or all Creatures will then live with and desire lesser Quantities of Water than when the Weather is dry though the Meat and Labour be the same This may also appear in Man If he shall live temperately in his Diet Exercises so as he do not sweat nor any other way affront Nature to put her to the Expences of too great a Transpiration then let him drink a pint or a quart in twenty four hours space which is a sufficient Quantity for such whose Labours are easie then observe that such an one shall make more Urine in quantity than he drank and if the Season be moist and the Air humid he will make near double the quantity provided he do not eat Foods that are over Salt for such do naturally heat the Body and consume the thin moist cooling Vapours which serve for the help of Concoction and do comfort and refresh Nature But on the contrary if a man shall drink two or three Gallons in a day as many do though to their shame and the Injury of their Healths especially if their Drink exceed in strength then it is to be observed that such an one will make but half or no●… half the quantity of Urine as he swallowed down Liquor And also it is to be noted that the more Temperately any shall live and the smaller the quantity of Food they eat the more Urine they will make that is proportionably to their Drink for Abstinency cools the Body opens the Pores and Passages sets the Natural Spirit at liberty and

these New Habitations I apprehend measuring your Sentiments by my own to have been 1st The desires of a Peaceable Life where we might Worship God and Obey his Law with freedom according to the Dictates of the divine Principle unincumbred with the Mouldy Errors and Fierce Invasions of Tradition Politick Craft Covetous or Ambitious Cruelty c. 2dly That we might here as on a Virgin Elysian Shore commence or improve such an Innocent course of Life as might unload us of those other outward Cares Vexations and Turmoils which before we were always subject unto from the hands of Self-designing and Unreasonable Men. 3dly That as Lot by flying to little Zoar from the Ungodly Company of a more Populous Magnificent Dwelling we might avoid both being grieved with the sight and Infections as well as odious Examples of Horrid Swearings Cursings Drunkenness Gluttony Uncleanness and all kinds of Debauchery continually committed with greediness and also escape the Iudgments threatned to every Land polluted with such Abominations 4thly That as Trees are transplanted from one ●…oyl to another to render them more Thriving and better Bearers so we here in Peace and secure Retirement under the ●…ntiful Protection of God and in the Lap of the least adulterated Nature might every one the better improve his Talent and bring forth more plentious Fruits to the Glory of God and publick Wellfare of the whole Creation 5thly And Lastly That in order hereunto by our Holy Doctrine and the Practical Teachings of our Exemplary Abstemious Lives transacted in all Humility Sobriety Plainness Self-denial Virtue and Honesty we might gain upon those Thousands of poor dark Souls scattered round about us and commonly in way of Contempt and Reproach call'd Heathens and bring them not only to a state of Civility but real Piety which effected would turn to a more satisfying Account than if with the proud Spaniards we had gain'd the Mines of Potosi and might make the Ambitious Hero's whom the World admires blush for their petty and shameful Victories which only tend to make their Fellow-Creatures Slaves to those that are already the Devil's Vassals Whereas hereby we might release Millions from the Chains of Satan and not only teach them their Rights as Men and their Happiness when Christians but bring them from the Power of Darkness into the Marvellous Light and the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of the most High These Thoughts those Designs My Friends were those that brought you hither and so far only as you pursue and accomplish them you obtain the end of your Journey If these be neglected tho' your Ports and Rivers were full of Trading Ships your Land never so Populous and loaden with the most vendable Commodities yet I would be bold ●…o say That your Plantation were in a most unthriving Condition that like men in a Feaver tumbling from one side of the Bed to the other you have shifted your Dwelling but not recovered your Health nor are one Inch the nearer your proposed Happiness in America than in Europe and have travelled some Thousands of Miles to as little purpose as the Iesuites into Iapan and China or foolish Pilgrims in their tedious vain Journeys to Compostella Loretto or Ierusalem Our business therefore here in this New Land is not so much to build Houses and establish Factories and promote Trades and Manufactories that may enrich our selves though all these things in their due place are not to be neglected as to erect Temples of Holiness and Righteousness which God may delight in to lay such lasting Frames and Foundations of Temperance and Virtue as may support the Superstructures of our future Happiness both in this and the other World In order to these Great and Glorious Ends it will well become nay is the Indispensible Duty of all that are Superiours amongst us to make Laws and imitate Customs that may tend to Innocency and an Harmless Life so as to avoid and prevent all Oppression and Violence either to Men or Beasts by which we shall strengthen the Principle of Well-doing and qualifie the Fierce Bitter Envious Wrathful Spirit which as 't is said of Fire and Water in their Extreams is a good Servant but a bad Master Be pleased therefore to give me leave or whether you are pleased and will give leave or no I must because 't is my Duty take it to nominate some Particulars which in my Opinion will be convenient for us to observe and may be as so many Pillars to sustain our New-Building and prevent those Deluges of Evil that otherwise will in time unavoidably break in upon us I. Since Temperance is the firmest Establishment of a People and most sits them for all the Duties of a Civil and Religious Life since Strong and Heady Drinks are no way necessary to Humane Life but rather their at first perhaps innocent and moderate use is most apt to degenerate into Excess and the Example of those that use them most sparingly tends to encourage others to partake therein who have not so much discretion as to use them properly which indeed should be only in certain cases as Physick as is apparent in our Neighbouring Indians whose Wellfare we ought in Christian Charity to tender as much as our own and not lay Stumbling-blocks before them whereby both our Holy Religion becomes scandaliz'd as well as our future Temporal Safety endangered I would humbly and I hope may justly piously and prudentially Advise That we should either wholly prohibit or lay very large Impositions on all sorts of Brandy Rum distill'd Spirits and Wine so as to render the common ●…se of them impracticable For much better it is that the Merchants that deal only therein and the Distillers should los●… their Trade and the Vines for that use be neglected than that We and our Posterity and Neighbours should by such a Temptation perish and commit all kind of Outrages and Uncleanness in the use of them For what if all such amongst us either Young or Old Rich or Poor that are found to drink of them unless in case of Sickness and prescribed as Physick were punished with Servitude for a certain time and the Offence not to be bought off with Money What would the Publick or any sober Person be the worse for this Hath not woful Experience taught us the evil Consequences of drinking such Liquors in our own Native Country Are not such Practises the Leading Cards to all Vitiousness They precipitate Young Men into all kinds of Fury Madness and Folly and besides weakening the already exhausted Natural Heat of the more Antient they render Gray Hairs which ought to be the Ensigns of Gravity and Wisdom ridiculous and contemptible In Women they destroy and corrupt the very Radix of Nature and intail a great Number of incurable Diseases on Posterity add to this that they not only Spend and impaire the outward Substance most unnecessarily but at the same time drown the Mind and debilitate all the Intellectual Faculties and by

of that innocent Law God had placed him in and giving way first to the Insinuations and by degrees to the Tyranny of the fierce violent wrathful poysonons Spirit which has not only captivated his Soul to all Evil and exposed his Body to innumerable Diseases but also enslaved all the vast Multitudes of the 〈◊〉 Worlds for he being our Angel and Governour therefore we partake in the ●…ad Consequences of his Transgrssion 〈◊〉 Fa●… but none so much as himself because none sinned nor broke God's pure Law but himself se●… not only those of our kind but all ●…thers except Men do still return 〈◊〉 truly Noble and universal Language which our Creator endued us with in the beginning and though carried or voluntarily flying into remote Climates many hundred Miles distant can as intelligibly understand those of our own kind as nearer home where we were bred but it is not so with our Prince Man for if he travels but four or five hundred Miles or shifts three or four Degrees of Latitude he must have an Interpreter or else he can no more comprehend the Language of those of his own Species than he can do ours And yet what a clutter does he make about Languages and Scholarship spending the prime part of his Life which ought to be entirely imployed in the Study of Nature and Wisdom in learning a few Ca●…ting words of the Basis and true Root whereof he knows nothing whereas we need no tyrannical Schoolmaster to lash us into the knowledge of Grammer or teach us the use of Letters since we can by our Natural Tones communicate whatsoever is needful for the Relief or Preservation of each other still varying that Tone according to our Necessities Do not therefore boast O Man nor grow proud of thy great Knowledge and Parts nor usurp to thy self a License to oppress and domineer over both the weaker of thine own kind and all other innocent Inhabitants of Air Earth and Sea From whence didst thou derive thy Authority for killing thy Inferiors meerly because they are such or for destroying their Natural Rights and Priviledges Is it not from thy Fall Has not Transgression been the occasion thereof And is it not the Effects of the fierce Wrath where every form hath its motion and operation in Discord And h●…st not thou by adhearing thereunto and being govern'd by the Serpentine Nature attracted unto thy self a thousand Evils and Calamities For what inferior Creature in the World is afflicted with so many Diseases of Body and Perturbations of Mind as thou art Also art not thou the most helpless and forlorn Creature of the Universe and more subject than any of us to receive Impressions from the Injuries of the Elements For art not thou beholding to the in or Graduates for thy Cloathing and a great part of thy Food And art thou not continually assaulted with inward and outward Enemies with perpetual Plagues of Suspitions Fears Jealousies and unsatisfied Desires And dost not thou fear those of thy own kind more than all the fierce Savages of the Deserts What Authority dost thou retain over the Elements or what savour or kindness will they shew unto thee more than to us poor Inferiors When once they get the Mastery will not the Water drown thee the Fire burn thee and the Earth swallow thee up Nor hast thou any more command of the Air How hast thou lost those spacious Dominions the Creator invested thee with in the beginning Examine thy self O thou Two-Leg'd unfeather'd unthinking Thing What canst thou truly boast of now according to thy common way of Living more than we A Crane hath a longer swallow and therefore 't is like takes more delight in receiving its Food and Drink and yet many of you make the pleasure of your Throats your business I may almost say your godd The Eagle can vastly out-see you the Vultur out-smell you every one of us hear more nimbly for Chastity our Turtles vye with the very best of 〈◊〉 for Paternal Affections towards their ●…oung our Pelican exceeds you and for returning Love towards helpless Parents our Storks may shame you Dare any of your Songsters Musick-Masters Choristers or Organ-Players compare with the ravishing Notes of a Morning Lark or an Evening Nightingale What more certain Knowledge have you of the Times or the changing of Seasons or any the like secret Operations of Gods Power in the internal external Nature Are not thy Astrological Predictions generally false and thy Prognostications of the Weather scarce so significant or certain as the Chattering of our Magpies or the Screaking of a Peacock Are not all thy Methods of Physick as fallible And dost thou not venture blindfold at these things by Cuess and Chance Consider therefore O Man that tho●… art the unhappiest of all Gods Creatures and that thou dost excel all others in Cruelty for if thou hadst thy Will thou wouldst hardly leave one of our innocent kind alive to sing forth the Praises of our Creator and to wellcome in the great Eye of the World and the delightful Spring at whose Approach all things r●…joyce and chaunt forth Hyms and Praise to the Creator every thing according to its kind and nature Man only excepted whose Teeth are imbrew'd in Blood which will not be for his good but hath thereby broken the holy Commandments of his Creator as the Scriptures of Truth do testifie I will saith the Lord cut off that Soul from the La●…d of the Living that d●…fileth himself with Blood Consider also O Man how unpleasing dollerous and frightful would it be to thee in the pleasant Moneths of March April and May when thou walkest in the delightful Fields if thou shouldst not hear the pleasant and refreshing Charms of those of our kind would thou not fear say and think that the Creator was angry and that some Judgment was near at hand Why then dost thou thus endeavour to bring all our joyful Tones Notes Sounds and melodious Harmonies into Mourning and Silence and to root us from off the Earth and that we should have no Beeing or Habitation in the Elements which are as much our Right by Elohim's great Charter as they are thine Also how Monsterous Cruel yea and every way Ridiculous doth Man behave himself to all those of our kind for though many do not cannot delight themselves with the best Instrumental Harmony those of their own Species can make yet all men love and delight in our pleasant Tunes and Harmonies and yet neither our Innocency nor our Ravishing Notes will appease his Fury towards us but many of them in the hard and severe Winter will rise betimes and spare no pains to kill us and on the other side when Spring comes the very same men will rise as early to walk in the open Fields Groves and Meadows to hear our Melodious Songs and pleasant Harmonies Oh! manifest unparallel'd Contradiction and Cruelty Does this look like Man in his innocent estate who was made but