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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63817	A way to health, long life and happiness, or, A discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisite for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise &c., with special directions how to use each of them to the best advantage of the body and mind : shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed and how to prevent them : to which is added a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the whole treatise displaying the most hidden secrets of philosophy ... / communicated to the world for the general good by Thomas Tryon.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3201; ESTC R30173	347,235	536

to fear to oppress or do unto any Creature that which he would not have done unto himself for Oppression Killing wrathful Words and Works do belong to the Egyptians and not to those that travel towards the Land of Canaan An Instance of which we have in St. Iude who said That when Michael the Arch-Angel disputed about the Body of Moses with the Devil he did not dare to bring any railing Accusation not but that the good Angel might as to Justice have done it but he did not dare do it because he must first have entred with his Will into the wrathful fierce Principle or hellish nature and awakened it in himself therefore he only said The Lord rebuke thee And for the same Reason our Saviour Christ commands Men not to be angry nor call their Brethren Racha or Fools that is any Name of Wrath Malice or Contempt If this were rightly understood and regarded Men would not dare to abandon themselves to such Heats Passions and Furies as every day we behold they would not make it a Trade a Sport a Pastime to kill murther and use all kind of Violence We read in Genesis of Lot's Wife that she looked back towards Sodom for which she was turned into a Pillar of Salt she entred into the fierce Anger and Wrath of God and Nature which she was forewarned of so that she was precipitated into and comprehended in the grand Fountain of Wrath that is the original Forms of Nature of which Salt is one and therefore the Prophets and all those whom the Lord enlightned with divine and humane Understanding and whose chief business was to reclaim men from the Snares and Evils of Oppression and Violence and teach them the Ways of Mercy Clemency and Love often threatned them with the same Judgment which befel Lot's Wife it being the portion of all that live and die in the Spirit of Oppression Nay was not that great Man Moses prevented from entring into the Holy Land because he was wrath with the Children of Israel when they murmured and complained for want of Water saying Ye Rebels must we fetch Water out of this Rock for you Whereupon saith the Lord to him and his Brother Aaron Because ye believed me not to sanctifie me in the Eyes of the Children of Israel therefore shall you not bring this Congregation into the Land which I have given them Here Moses and Aaron had suffered their Desires and Wills to enter into the Wrathful Centre and Self-hood whence the Word Rebel was formed for the very Sound thereof demonstrates from what Principle it does proceed And hence probably it may be that the evil Angel did so dispute about or claim a property to the Body of Moses This therefore is a principal Point in Religion for every one to understand and distinguish in himself from what Principle every Thought and Word does proceed for otherwise Men may and do precipitate themselves into the wrath and fierce original of the hellish Nature which if once it get to reign in the Heart it quickly blisters out its Venom at the Tongue in such leud Words as Rebels Rogue Dog Devil and horrid Oaths Curses and Execrations the very sound of which is enough to declare whence they proceed whereas from the divine and truly humane Nature do arise and slow Words of Comfort and Consolation those soft Answers that turn away Wrath and all those delightful sociable obliging Charms of friendly Conversation wherein consists one of the greatest Felicities of this mortal Life and which for ought I know will be one main occasion to our Happiness in Heaven And wheresoever such Words are entertained they strengthen and increase their own Principle both in those that speak them and in those that hear them Of that great Man King David who is sometimes stiled A Man after God's own Heart the Scripture saith That the Lord did not admit him to build the outward Temple which was a true Figure of the internal and spiritual Temple And what was the Reason Because he had been a Man of Violence and Blood which had so awakened the Principle of Wrath and Fierceness as did very much impede the divine work And this it will do not only in David but all others in whom it is kindled No Man can do the Work of Wrath and not awaken and strengthen the Principle which leads to such Acts as is farther manifested by all those that are of violent Trades and killing Employments although such People do not kill the Beasts in Anger or in a way of Revenge for any Injuries pretended formerly to be done but do it meerly as it is their Occupation whereby to get a Livelihood yet nevertheless insensibly and unknown to their Reason and Intention they do by degrees irritate and corroborate the fierce Properties of Nature and become rash fierce hot and cruel No wonder then if most of the holy Men and Prophets who by a divine Eye and Understanding did pry into the hidden Mysteries of God and Nature were strict Abstainers and separated themselves from the Uncleannesses Oppressions and Violences that the superfluous worldly Belly gods do subject themselves unto whose chief care is to procure such Meats and Drinks as will gratifie their Palates and Appetites for pleasing of which they regard not whom they oppress be they Men or Beasts some of them spending as much in one day as an hundred Men can get by their hard Labour and all to please the wanton Lust and momentary Pleasure of the Throat they having but only the meer Forms and Shapes of Men and being really void both of Humanity and Christianity From this ground doth proceed all violent Courses and Contentions both publick and private which Evils will never be remedied except Men take up the Cross and deny themselves and follow the Counsel of the divine Principle and hearken unto the Voice of Wisdom which continually cries in the Gate of every Man's City and happy is he that hearkens unto her for she is a sufficient Guide to lead every one into the pure simple Way of Truth and teach us from what we ought to separate our selves whereby we may acquire Health to the Soul and Body and the Treasures both of Time and Eternity But none are or can be sensible of those Advantages but such alone as are got through thé Red Sea and the Howling Wilderness and have entred into the Land of Canaan for it seems too mean a thing and the Ways that lead to those holy Virtues are too plain for the great People of this World But our Lord and Saviour Christ saith My Kingdom is not of this World and therefore when Peter in the most just and pious Cause that can be imagined viz. to preserve his innocent Master from unjust violence drew his Sword our Lord calmly bid him put it up for the Sword cannot be drawn but by and through the Power of God's Wrath which does predominate in most Men's Hearts and this Christ

saith Every Green Herb shall be unto you for Food And in the first Age of the World though their Food was scarcely any thing else but Green Herbs and pure Water yet when was there any Generation since that time who has lived in so perfect Health and to so great and flourishing an Age The great and illuminated Prophet Moses did endeavour to wean as it were the Children of Israel from eating of Flesh in their forty years Journey in the Wilderness and gave them Laws to distinguish between the Clean and Unclean Creatures but you could never read of any Laws forbidding the use of green Herbs Now the best Ingredients to mix and eat with Raw Sallets are Oyl Salt Vinegar Verjuice Oranges c. These make them warm in the Stomach and pleasant to the Taste but you are not to use these Ingredients when you eat at the same with them Flesh Butter and Cheese for so many Mixtures are not agreeable to Nature Some love Sugar in their Sallets which is better left out if you eat Flesh c. with them for Sugar does not well agree with fat Meats nor with Oyl except in way of Medicine As to Boyling of Herbs or Sallets I shall give you an account of the best way of their Preparation and how they shall be most conduceable to Health which will appear by the Observation of these following things First Your Herbs and Pulses must be fresh gathered for if they be kept two or three days before they are used or if they lie too close together the pure Spirits which are very tender in them will be destroyed and exceedingly diminished the evaporation of the Spirits make them dull and heavy affording little or no Nourishment and that none of the best Secondly The Vessel or Pot in which such things are boyled ought to be large that it may contain a good quantity of Water for Water is an Element so friendly and clean that it helps to preserve the Spirituous Parts and Balsamick Body and to digest the gross phlegmatick Substance it is the Sweetner Preserver and Purifier of all things Thirdly You should have a quick Fire and are not to put in your Herbs into the Pot until the Water boyl and then increase your Fire not suffering it to stand too long before your Pot boyl again when that is done let there be no Intermissions in the boyling for there is nothing that does more deaden and flat the Spirits especially in green Herbs than slack Fires and such Intermissions Fourthly So soon as your Pot or Vessel boyls then you should presently uncover it that these Sulphurous Fumes and Vapours may evaporate which are awakned and forced into the Food by the Fire and also that the fresh and friendly Influences of the Air may have its free egress and regress for the Air is the essential Life of the Spirit No Food can be well prepared if the Vessel be covered Fifthly Your Herbs and Pulse should not be over-boyled for then the spirituous parts and balsamick body will instantly evaporate and your Food will become flat and heavy losing its pure natural Colour Smell and Taste and is nothing so pleasant and wholsom it were better that it be under than over done because of the tenderness of the green Herbs If these fore-mentioned Rules in boyling be not observed then such Food will lose its proper Vertue and lively Tincture and will afford but a very dull thick and gross Nourishment and begets bad Blood and many other ill Effects but if they be thus prepared you may the more boldly venture on eating of Flesh with them for they will purge and cleanse the Stomach and help the digestive faculty to concoct that Food which appears more difficult to be digested Of Colworts Cabbage and Colly flowers Colworts are the best of the three being of a more lively opening and cleansing Nature and Operation than the other two because they grow open so that the Air with the Sun has its free Influences upon them and this is also the Reason that they look of a greener and fresher Colour than many other Vegetables they are also more wholsom If you boyl green fresh Colworts and keep them till next day and do the like with a Cabbage keeping it likewise till the next day your Cabbage shall smell more gross and fulsomer than your Colworts Also the Juice of green Colworts is of a thiner Substance and more penetrating than that of Cabbages Cabbages are so close compacted that the Air cannot penetrate them neither can the Sun have so free and powerful Influences upon them as on Colworts so that they become of a grosser thicker Substance fuller of Phlegm and gross Juices and more subject to Putrifaction for the Air is the true Life of the Spirit in all Vegetables By this and the Saline Quality in the Earth they are preserved in their greeness and freshness but that which is earthed up and hid from the Air cannot be so wholsom and is more fading where the Saline Power is strong the Vegetables are also lively and strong For Example lay a heap of Dung in the Field and let it lie a Week in the Rain and then move it and leave no Dung on that place and you shall presently see that the Grass in that place where it did lie will be strong and of a deep green fresh Colour far beyond the Grass in the place where the Dung was spread and the Reason is very apparent for the Rain did wash a salt oily kind of Liquor into the Earth The same Reason will hold in other things as in your low Grounds that lie between Hills and River-sides which are more fruitful than other Fields because the Rain does wash a certain Fat and Saline Quality from the Hills which drains down to the lower Grounds and Vallies also the Rivers sometimes over-flowing their Banks and reaching the adjacent Grounds do leave when the Water retires back a certain fat saline Quality behind which makes it more fruitful than otherwise it would be Colliflowers are somewhat of the Nature of Cabbage only they are a little sweeter they afford but very gross Nourishment to the Body they generate abundance of windy and flatulent Humors and send a great many Fumes up to the Head our Soil commonly is not Rich enough for them they are more forced by Art and Dung than they grow naturally they being a Phlegmatick kind of Food or rather more subject to Putrifaction than Cabbage yet both the one and the other should be eaten very sparingly But as for fresh green Colworts they may be eaten liberally especially by those that eat fat Flesh plentifully Of ROOTS Turnips are a Root of a very innocent and mild Nature it has several good Properties it removes Obstructions which lie in the Passages makes the Belly soluble and mightily helps Concoction by its moist and slippery kind of Quality one may eat plentifully of this with a great deal of safety but of