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
Disputations and Contendings Revilings and Persecuting of others because they cannot see or believe as thou dost or wouldst have them do arise from Self-Elevation where the properties of Nature are at enmity with each other and are contrary to Reason and Nature 372. It is a Virtue well worthy of Practice for Men to remove and put away all such Things as may at any time give occasion for Wrath or evil Words vehement Passions or cruel Deeds as all Rich Meats and Drinks costly Garments and Houshold-Stuff and the like which being by Servants imbezled and spoiled administers occasions unto many Evils both in Words and Works 373. The Heathen Emperor Augustus may in this matter read a Lecture to us Christians who being one day invited to Dinner at a Senators House that was a mighty admirer of choice and curious Drinking Glasses and spared for no cost to get such as was extraordinary rare and fine heard on a suddain a grievous dolesom Cry and inquiring the Cause understood that it was made by one of the Men Slaves who having by mischance broke a brave Glass as he was Washing it was by his Masters Command carried to be thrown into a Pond to be devoured of the Fish the Emperor caused the Execution to be stopt and calling the Senator desired to see his stock of Glasses which he so highly valued the Senator imagining he would have Admired and Esteemed them as mush as he did readily carries him into his Cabinet and shows him all his brittle Rarities which having seen the Emperor with his Staff breaks them every one saying He would prevent such mischiefs for the future as having Mens Lives taken away for a paltry Glass 374. He that takes Daniel and his Companions for an Example shall avoid many burthensom Inconveniencies of Care Passions and Labours both of Body and Mind for those Wise and Holy Youths contented themselves with Pulse and Water only and did not value the costly Foods that came from the Kings Table 375. So St. Iohn the Baptist pass'd over the greatest part of his Life in the Desart Eating nothing but Locusts and wild-Honey which Word that in our Translation is rendered Locusts do signifie as I am informed by those skilled in the Original the Buds or first Sproutings of Trees Herbs and Vegitations 376. Be not so ignorant and stupidly Vain as to say or think as I have heard some allege that insensitive Vegitations suffer Pains when cut down or gathered even as the Beasts or Animals do when they are killed since the latter are in every degre indued with Sences equal to Man and subject to Passions and to Heat Cold Hunger Thirst and all kinds of Pain even as Man is 377. He that would vanquish his outward Enemies must first overcome those of his own House viz. his unruly Desires and boisterous Passions his raging Lusts and ungovernable Apetite and Affections those being once subdued and brought into Obedience he will easily Triumph over all the Stratagems of the World and Temptations of Satan 378. Patience Humility and Innocency are the only Bulwarks that can withstand Enmity and Wrath consider that Light is the cause and medium whereby Darkness is known be governed therefore by the Light and then all the Deeds of Darkness will be manifest unto thee 379. But he that is govern'd by the dark Principle whence Contention and Strife do arise knows not the Light either in himself or any other thing 380. No Man can Judge truly of another but he that hath first pulled the Beam out of his own Eye 381. Above all Swear not rashly and wickedly by the Name of the great God that Created both the Heavens and the Earth and all the wonderful Creatures therein contained for a Man cannot dishonour and provoke his Creator more highly than to Blaspheme his Holy Name 382. Keep a continual watch against all Evils but especially against those Sins which by thy Complexion Constitution Calling Conversation or course of Life thou art most enclinable unto or in danger of 383. Let Passionate and Chollerick Men when they are in a composed frame of Spirit and the Light of Understanding shines and bares rules in their Souls oblige themselves by secret Promises that by permission of the Lord when ever they shall find themselves moved to Wrath or Passion then the better to prevent such outrages against God and their own Souls they will withdraw themselves out of Company read a Chapter in the Bible or stand still in silence for one quarter of an Hour in which time the light of Wisdom will arise in their Hearts and Souls and dissipate allay or moderate the Fumes of these Perturbations and irregular Motions 384. Let such as are inclined to Drunkenness speedily and at once resolve to Drink no strong Drink nor any Liquor but pure Water which will cut off all such evil Inclinations in the very Bud. 385. Those that are inclined to Women let them resolve to drink small Drink or Water use a spare Diet and Eat mean and simple Foods practise proper Exercises and Labour rise early in the Morning resist vain and idle Imaginations as soon as they offer themselves to the Mind and above all keep virtuous Men Company and refrain as much as in them lies the conversation of such Women as are subject to Lewdness 386. There is no Man by his Birth or his Estate priviledged to be idle for the Command is Universal to all the Children of Adam in the sweat of thy Brows thou shalt Eat thy Bread and he that will not labour in some kind or other for the good of Mankind is not worthy to Eat or Live therefore let all Gentlemen who too generally subject themselves to an idle Life that proves an in-let to many other erronious Evils know that they have no exemption or excuse from proper Exercises and useful Labours in the fight of the Lord. 387. Therefore to prevent the Sin and Evil of Idleness rich People should do well to divide the day and a-lot so many Hours to Meditation and reading of good Books Gardening Pruning of Trees visiting relieving and instructing their Poor Neighbours and other works of Charity and Mercy 388. Let all Men remember that they have and injoy nothing that they can call their own but all is Gods even themselves their Lands their Goods and all they possess and that he reassumes the same when he pleaseth to whom they will have a sad and dreadful account to render for the Use if they neglect to improve them much more if they waste and abuse them to gratifie their own Lusts and Vanities 389. Know for a certain that both good and evil Angels are continually conversant in innumerable Troops round about the Sons of Men alluring them to good or evil 390. Some may suppose this to be but a mere Fancy because we see them not but let such consider that the adorable Creator that has made all these wonderful Things we behold hath created many more
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
if used from Childhood exceeds all other especially for the Female Sex 140. Art thou troubled with Coughs and Stopages of the Breast or phlegmatick gross Humors then use gentle and proper Exercises sometimes on high Plains and at other times by Rivers sides also all sorts of Field-imployments 141. Let your Cloathing be moderate your Beds clean sweet hard and your Rooms airy 142. Let your Food be simple Water-gruel eaten only with Bread and seasoned with Salt cleanseth the Stomack and Breast 143. Flomery and Boniclabber eaten only with good well baked Bread are most excellent Foods to allay and prevent such diseases 144. Eat Bread plentifully and sometimes Butter with good Ale but refrain Flesh and Fish 145. Be sparing of eating of Cheese and Butter and all sorts of fat Foods for they obstruct all such People and increase their Diseases 146. Eat Herbs frequently especially raw with Oyl Vinegar and Salt or with Bread and Butter Vinegar and Salt they cleanse and free the passages and cause long windedness 147. Raw Eggs with Bread are also a very good Food for this sort of People to make whole Meals of 148. Be moderate in the quantity of thy Food which will abate the Humors fine the Blood and render the Spirits brisk and lively 149. Keep your proper times of Eating and remember that you do neither Eat nor Drink between Meals 150. Follow this regular course of Diet for 6 or 8 Months with constant and firm Resolutions and you will certainly find an alteration to your Hearts content for you will become brisk lively and strong able to perform all kinds of Exercises with far more ease and delight than before 151. Art thou troubled with the Stone then drink Water for a constancy and eat all mild and friendly Foods as Water-gruel with Onions Leeks Garlick or Dandelion infused in it according to our Book Intituled The Good Housewife made a Doctor 152. Eat all mild moderate Herbs that are of a cooling Nature both boiled and sometimes raw with Bread Butter or Oyl and Vinegar 153. Eat good store of Bread nay live a week 2 or 3 with Bread and good Ale Water-gruel only made after our Directions in the Book Intituled Monthly Observations of Health 154. Refrain all salt sharp Foods as Cheese Flesh Fish which later may with advantage be wholly left off 155. Abandon all Foods in which any kind of Spices Sugars or other sweet things are mixed 156. Are your Children afflicted with the Rickets Blotches Boils Scabs or Leprous Diseases then give them good tendance and let all their Linen Woollen and Beds be kept very clean and Sweet 157. Let their Bed-cloaths and Apparel not be too hot but moderate and have a special care that they do not exceed in the quantity of their Food 158. Let their Foods be clean as thin Water-gruel with Bread and Salt but not Butter Fruit Spices nor Sugar in it for all such things are pernicious and increase such Diseases 159. Raw Milk and Bread after it hath stood 5 or 6 hours or more as is mentioned before also Milk Water and Flower seasoned with Salt Flomery and Bonny-clabbor are rare Foods for them 160. Let them eat good store of Bread and drink small Ale 161. Use them to eat raw Sallets seasoned as aforesaid but remember that they do not meddle with Flesh nor Fish and eat both Butter and Cheese very sparingly for such things increase their Diseases 162. Let them not eat Water-pap Sugar-sops or the like but Bread soaked in good Water is an excellent cleansing and most grateful Food for most or all Children especially for such distempers 163. If they Suck let their Mothers or Nurses observe the like Order and Temperance in Meats Drinks and Exercises which being observed will either prevent such Diseases or cure them 164. If thou art in a wasting Consumptive Condition then I refer thee to the practice of these Foods set down at large for that purpose in our Good Housewife made a Doctor 165. Those that would prevent and Cure the Gout may proceed a great way towards it if the before-mentioned Rules be observed and for young People that are subject to Bleeding the same will prevent or remedy it 166. The like abstenency from superfluity and unclean Foods and strong Drinks and using proper Labours and Exercises are the only means under God to prevent all sorts of Fevers and Agues by cleansing the passages from evil Juices and superfluous Matter it also thins the Blood and makes it Circulate freely generates pure brisk Spirits whence proceeds good Dispositions and clean Inclinations making the Body strong and powerful and the Mind and all the Sences fit for the Study of Wisdom and Virtue 167. Therefore let none disdain this simâ—â—e Child-like way of living and Self-denial â—â—fore they have either well considered or 〈◊〉 these Rules into practice 168. But it is the custom of the multiâ—â—de to Read by rote and judge without â—xperience so fond they are of their Master 〈◊〉 Tyrant Tradition 169. Know this for a certain Truth that â—â—mperance and Self-denial are the Chamâ—â—on-virtues of a Christian. 170. Therefore remember to be moderate 〈◊〉 Eating and Drinking especially Eating 〈◊〉 thô not esteemed so it to most is 〈◊〉 one of the most difficult and hardest 〈◊〉 for a Christian to observe 171. So rare it is that any escapes free of 〈◊〉 Natural and Insinuating Evils of Intemâ—â—rance in Meats and Drinks and so few that 〈◊〉 by experience and practice know and are 〈◊〉 of the excellency of Temperance 〈◊〉 the advantages it brings to the Body 〈◊〉 more especially to the Mind and all the â—â—â—ellectual Powers of Nature 172. The Thoughts and Words of Men 〈◊〉 three-fold and are all generated and 〈◊〉 by a three-fold Spirit one of which 〈◊〉 always predominant in each Thought 〈◊〉 and Work 173. The first is the Original dark 〈◊〉 or property of the Fire whence all 〈◊〉 Wrath Envy and Revenge do proceed 〈◊〉 the Root of all Life and Motion and if this property do predominate in a Mans Soul it is both dangerous and pernitious 174. The second Property or Principle is the most gracious friendly aimable Love and Light viz. a Spark of that Holy Word that hath made and do always make and generate all that is made which the Man of God saith Enlightens every Man that comes into the World which our Lord Christ calls the Tallent and some the Conscience 175. Now from this good Principle do arise and proceed all good Thoughts Meditations Words and Works it is the Witness that condemns in every Man the evil of his way and Judges them and leads Men out of evil into good and by its friendly Influences and Councel it mightily endeavours to allay all the Furious Harsh Passions Pride Vain-glory Covetousness Envy Back-biting Fighting Killing and all Violence which do proceed from the dark Original or unregenerated Principle or Wrathful Nature and is the Blessed Genius that leads and teaches all
hence too we are taught to Pray for our Daily Bread as including under that Name all things necessary for the support of Human Life 4. Outward cleanness in Meats Drinks Cloathing and Exercises is of great use and prevents and as it were cuts off in the bud many Diseases and Inconveniences both from the Body and Mind therefore the Light of the Gospel or Divine Principle makes that part of Moses Law touching Cleanness Essential when it opens its self in the Center of Man's Heart and it is a Ceremony to none but such as are ignorant of Gods Law and the Sympathetical Operations 5. Frequent Bathing or Washing in pure Running Water is highly convenient for all persons especially after easing themselves for the same will in a great measure prevent the pernitious Diseases of the Fundament some of which are incurable 6. Be careful that you do not sit on Common house of Easement which oftentimes proves of evil consequence and infects the Party with Diseases of various kinds according to each Mans Constitution or Complexion therefore those in Cities that would avoid such Dangers ought to ease themselves in a vessel of Water and when the Excrement is cold then to put it into the House of Office particular Reasons in Nature I have shewn elsewhere 7. Have a care of Compositions use and Desire Simplicity for Wisdom In the preparation of Food preserve Unity that is prepare but one thing at a time for things of differing Natures cannot be prepared together because some requires a longer some a shorter time besides the Spirits and inward Virtues of each thing do mix and incorporate and mightily strive with each other for Victory by which the pure parts of them all are wounded for in the Combat the weaker suffers Violence and the Spirit is Suffocated 8. Flesh and Herbs Roots and Puddings are not to be prepared together in one Vessel but each alone because of their different Nature and times of preparation for Water after it hath boiled an hour more or less will not prepare any sort of Food to that degree of Excellency as at first 6. Let Seafaring Men and others that Travel when they go ashore beware of Venus as also of lying in soft warm Beds especially Feather-beds As also of eating of fresh Flesh and Fish too immoderately lest they fall into Fluxes for Nature cannot endure suddain Changes and where Wisdom and Temperance is wanting People are subject to various Diseases on such occasions as Fevers Fluxes Colds c. 10. The chief occasion why Mankind is so subject to frequent Fevers is the variety of Foods improperly compounded especially the common eating of Flesh and Fish As also Butter Cheese and the use of strong Drinks for always fat Foods do fur the Stomack and are hard to be separated either by the natural heat or by the Liquor that is drank especially strong hot Drinks Water being the proper Minstrim or Liquor for the Stomach for this Cause Obstructions and Fevers as also hot Diseases are so common and griping Pains and Fluxes such Meats and Drinks do awaken the original fierce Fires 11. All Foods proceeding from the vegitable Kingdom are innocent more equal in there Parts easily dissolved affording fine Spirits therefore those that live chiefly on such innocent Foods are more airy pleasant cool and full of Delight in Body and Spirit which none can know or understand but such as have experienced it for some considerable time 12. All that would prevent Fevers and many other Diseases and keep themselves in harmony should apply themselves to simple Foods viz. Bread Fruits Herbs and the like forbear all sorts of Flesh Fish and eat sparingly of Butter Cheese and Milk and eat but little Fat besides Oil for this you must always remember that every thing begets its likeness 13. Bread Herbs Seeds Fruits and most or indeed all vegetative Foods do represent unto Man the Divine Principle of Light and Love but Flesh be it of what kind it will does denote the harsh wrathful Principle and Mans Desires so much after it is a true sign that he lives in that harsh fierce killing Principle 14. For now-a-days if any Man should be condemned to live only on Bread and Water and what might be made thereof he would think himself hardly dealt with which do demonstrate the high degree of Mans Depravation and Separation from the Divine Vision or first simple State 15. Many of the Holy and Wise Antients have declined and decried the eating of Flesh and Blood especially of such Creatures as are unclean and that will eat the Flesh of their Fellow Creatures but never did any of the Philosophical Men forbid the eating of such harmless things as Herbs Bread and the like but have recommended them as most agreeable to Nature and Health 16. A time shall come when the Lyon shall eat Hay with the Ox and the Wolf lye down with the Lamb that is the fierce savage beastial Nature in Man shall be thorough shined and bowed before the Divine Principle or Lamb-like Spirit and whosoever comes to know that time will be contented with innocent Herbs Bread and the like harmless Foods 17. For if the Wolfish Dogâ—sh Nature did not predominate in Man they would not so much long after the Flesh and Blood of Beasts but whatsoever Principle do Reign in the Center of a Mans heart whether Good or Evil he will desire Food suitable thereunto Some particular Notes whence Consumptions proceed and the occasions thereof 1. THE Compositions of sweet fat Foods and Spices all mixed together do destroy the innocent ways of Nature especially when done without understanding the Principles of Nature clog and obstruct the Stomack and too much open the Gate of Venus 2. The frequent eating of Flesh and Fish and such as are Rapacious mixed with the richest vegetations do open and manifest the hidden internal Properties of such Flesh and Fish thereby increasing Lust and evil beastial Inclinations 3. The great quantities of Food wherewith most People overchange Nature which do generate superfluity of gross Juices and if such Foods be from the Animal Kingdom as Flesh Fish Butter Eggs Milk or various sorts of them mixed together then they do so much the more provoke Inclinations to Venus for Flesh and Fish do much more strengthen the Venerial Property than simple Vegetations especially when joyned with strong intoxicating Liquors 4. The frequent or overmuch drinking of strong fermented Drinks especially when the Foods are fat rich spicy and succulent then if there be not great temperance in quantity Nature is set into an unnatural Flame 5. The too frequent visiting the shades of Venus with the before-mentioned Intemperances do extremely promote to the utter ruin of many thousands this is the secret Enemy that wounds the bravest Gallant and strongest Nature and send them down with Sorrow to the Grave betimes 6. The common Lying of Men and Women together on hot soft Feather-beds which do hinder Rest keep
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
unto all Creatures as they would be done unto for the highest degree of Sanctity and Religion is to imitate God who is the Maker and Preserver of all things Consider also that thy Life is near and dear to thee the like is to be understood of all other Creatures as I have at large demonstrated in our Way to Health Long Life and Happiness 1. BRead and Water hath the first place of all Foods and are the Foundation of dry and moist nourishment and of themselves being wisely prepared makes a good Food of an opening cleansing Nature and Operation viz. Take Oatmeal and make it into a Gruel as we have Taught in our Monthly Observations of Health then put good Bread into it also take Water and good Wheat Flower and make it into a Pap and put Bread into it and season it with Salt this and Bread with a Glass of Water a Man may live very well which a Friend of mine of no mean Quality have done for near Two years eating neither Flesh nor any of their Fruits neither does he wear any Woollen Garments but Linen 2. Bread and Butter Bread and Cheese being eaten alone or with Sallad Herbs washed without either Salt Oyl or Vinegar makes a most excellent Food of a cleansing exhilerating Quality easie of Digestion the frequent eating thereof sweetens and generates good Blood and fine Spirits and prevents the generation of sower Humors also keeps the Body open and all Herbs thus eaten let the Food be what it will is to be preferred before those that are eaten with Salt Vinegar and Oyl especially for Women and all Constitutions that are subject to generate sower Humors and windy Diseases 3. Bread and Butter eaten with our thin Gruel wherein is only Salt to Season it the best way of eating it is to bite and Soop as you eat raw Milk and Bread this is a most sweet and agreeable Food to the Stomack of easy Concoction and breeds good Blood and causeth it to Circulate freely and it is the most approved way of eating Water-gruel with Butter 4. Bread and Milk as it comes from the Cow or raw as they call it is a most delicate Food and Milk eaten thus is not only the best Food but the most the frequent eating thereof doe sweeten the Blood prevents sower Humors carries Wind downward and causeth it to pass away freely without any Trouble or Molestation to Nature maintaining Health and good Complexion and is to be preferr'd before all other ways of Eating or Preparations especially then boiled Milk for boiling of Milk does fix or stagnate the fine volatile Spirits and makes it of a tough Nature by which the Stomack cannot so easily separate it neither does it generate so fine Blood or Spirits for this cause if you boil Milk and then set it to Cream it will not separate or afford more than a thin Skin but remember that you do not eat your Milk before it be cold not hot from the Cow as most incline to the particular Reasons I have demonstrated in our Good Houswife made a Doctor 5. Bread and Eggs or Bread and raw Eggs as they call them is an excellent Food and it hath the first place of all Meats made of Eggs being easier of Concoction generates finer and better nourishment it naturally cleanseth the passages and the frequent eating of Bread and raw Eggs preserves the Lungs the Bellows of Life chears and warms the Stomack and frees it from Obstructions but remember that you break both ends and suck both the White and Yolk by degrees together and eat it with Bread for the White is the strong Body and the Yolk contains the Spirits and therefore they being eaten together are both wholsomer than assunder and more agreeable unto Nature a little Custom will rendr them very pleasant and delightful to most or all Constitutions 6. Eggs Parsly and Sorrel mixed or stirred together and Fried in a Pan with Butter and a little Salt and when done melt some Butter and Vinegar and put on them but you must not put too great a quantity of Herbs for then it will render it more heavy and dull in Operation this is a Noble and most delicious Dish and it affords a good nourishment provided you eat not too much in quantity 7. Eggs beaten together and Fryed with Butter and when done melt some Butter and Vinegar and put over them is also a delightful and pleasant Dish being much better and easier of Digestion than the common way of Frying Eggs as being lighter and more tender 8. Eggs poached and some Parsly boiled and cut small and mixed with some Butter and Vinegar melted makes a very fine Dâ—sh and gives great satisfaction to the Stomack supplying Nature with Nourishment to the highest degree and is very grateful to the Palate 9. Eggs boiled in their Shells and Eggs roasted the last being the best and eaten with Bread and Salt or with Bread Butter and Salt is a good substantial Food also Eggs broken and Butter'd over the Fire is a good Food being eaten with store of Bread 10. Eggs being mixed with various sorts of Fruits with Butter and Bread made into Pyes is a sort of delicious Food that a Man may give himself the Liberty to Eat now and then to great satisfaction and no detriment to Natture provided it be not too often 11. Eggs poached and eaten with a Dish of boiled Spinage Buttered is a good Food and affords agreeable Nourishment being eaten with plenty of good Bread 12. Eggs with Flower and Water made into a Pap on the Fire as we have directed in the forementioned Book The Good Houswsfe made a Doctor is a Noble Food affording a brave clean nourishment being eaten either alone or with Bread 13. Raw Eggs broke into our thin white Water-gruel and brewed well together with some Salt to season it and then eaten with Bread or Bread and Butter makes a most exhilerating Food being of a warming Quality and agreeable unto the Stomack generates good Blood and fine brisk Spirits this Gruel is very good for all young People and Women for the frequent use of this and others of our Spoon-meats do naturally sweeten all the Humors and prevents the generation of sower Juices frees the passages from Windiness and Griping pains 14. Milk Water and Flower makes a brave substantial Pap or Food this affords a strong nourishment and such as eat frequently of it shall not be subject neither to the Gripes of the Stomack nor Bowels and cuts off the generation of Wind in the bud makes the Spirits brisk the Body plump fat and of good Complexion also it allays heat and drought this being as friendly a Food to Nature as any Composition made by Fire with Milk 16. One Egg broke into a Pint of good Ale and brewed well together and eaten with Bread makes a brave Meal and it hath a vigorous and quick operation in the Stomach in the Summer you may drink or eat it