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want of digeflion, Hafmodai and her govern the night.
And fay that Children^ if they fuck a Bitches milk^zre . as bad conditioned as Pog/jand that they fuck their out- ward fhapes and inward manners with the Milk they re- ceive, as I have feen Fools in Africa^ which by fucking Omc/j^are made more painful then their kinde,fwiftand healthful for it:and enough fuch like Examples might be brought if time would fuffer. To come to our bodies left us by our ParentSj if we fee manners ingrafted and inbred in ftock, aindred aid Children, and Nephews, ftill down, to take one after another (a long time) by kinde and Nature, as that curfed father beating down jkindredjfet down in Ariftotk and other pilfering Stocks; which though tliey have no need^muft needs ileal: to let pafs Lechcrj^ and other evil qualities; and r^/o^r, and other good qualities, which we fee daily defcend oti kindred : whence are thf^Ccl not from the Parents mndes and ofF-pring, which cannot be left nor ingraffed, but mull return ftraight and whole, and all at once, when they flit out of this life to that Heavenly place from whence they came ; neither are all their Witj; alike fraoi'd by ufe and cuftom, but brought up fome- times contrary.
Therefore to cut the giddy, reeling, drunken opini- on, and the whimfies of T/?oJw^/ Street^ and that igno- rant bold impudent Nativity-monger, Leech^ as ftringa too much difcording thofe manners fprungout from the Parents feeds, which is a part of their bodies, purchased by meat and nourifhment ; which bodies if they ufe good and temperate D;V?, are ever like the firft, otherr wife they follow the nature of Meats, and their diftem- pers, as Cardan in a few of the wqrft Diets^ hath moft notably marked, that drunken, or over-ftudious, or fQQ great fallings , ox large Onion-Bating Parents , do
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beget and bring forth for the moft part Mad and Fran* tickle hildr en.
To clofe up all this third part, with this one little proof: If we fi;ide our felves to do many things againft our will, as when a fearful thing is offered, our hearts pant and fail with fear : when as fair lufl and his parts willarife, whether we will or no, and all incontinency fp rings from that root, then fure the body muft lay this force upon us.
But how is this > you may ask (faith the Genius) and which way doth the body fo violently over-rule and carry away the Will and Mimie after her ? when any (hape appears in the thought o(man , the doing Miiide takes it ftraight (we muft wear thefe words with ufe, and make them fofter) and laying it with good and bad> and matching, and comparing all things by degrees, determines ; and then her Will and Reafon , which Plato placeth in the Head, follows deiires ; but at the fame time fteps in another doubt , Will and Appetite, lent from that unreafonable and perceiving SohI^ which is common between us and Beafts; and fitting one part in the heart, defiringoutwardgoodsof the body : and look which ofthefe is ftrong, that is, which hath the ftronger Houfe, either by defcent or purchafe, orelC^ bafer. Mould be ftill the weaker and obey the better, that prevails and moves the Angels unto it, and thofe the finefs, and thofe again by other middle means, the whole body or part thereof, as is the pleafure of that Gommander.
Wherefore to come to the point more namely^ we fliall never he c^ood ^ and tn]OY Uappinefs y long Life^ Healthy Touthy w'nh BleJJednejs^ and IVifdome^ unlefs we follow the advice of thefe vertuoits -Angels^ that is mean and reafon in our deiires, and a doing before thefe two parts, the Heart and the Lmr^ be firft by kinde and then
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by Vht ill order fquare and temper, apt to obey the Laws and Rnles of Fveafon : for to begin with the Root, if the fieart be very hot and moi\}^ the man is contagious and liberal, deiiring Honour and great outward things ' Ifhotanddry^cruel, angry, deceitful , but if it keep a mean, and be temperate in quality; keeping a mean and obeying Reafon in that kinde of manners forthe Liver^ if it be hot and moift , likewife it followeth i/e- nery and glutto?2j : if hot and dry it doth the fame, but crookedly and out of cour(e ; but if cold and dry , the man is very chafte and abftiiient ; and if cold and moid:, fomewhat chafte and abftinent; but outwardly, whereas a temperate Liver^ holds ameaninboth, and following the race of kinde deli'res to live foberly in (Company, and honeftly in Marriage ; a life as far from Jefuits^ Monk/ and Hermit es ^ as Gluttons and Letchers,
We fee therefore that the genius (aith all Qualities proceedeth from the Temper of thofe two parts ( nay the underftanding alfo) if it varieth ft ill according to the divers iffe^^j and Moifiures of the Bratn\ and if thefe two parts be the fprings of all the heat and moifture in the body 5 fothat all goqd ^Mities and^II veftue bud forth from the good, equal and middle te.T:i- peraidmixtiueof thefame parts, and all our labour and travel (if wefeek vertue) it miift be to bring by. the Angels dind Telefmesof the /^t; twain into fquare and Trwz/^er j that is, equality asneac as may be of the four ^aliiies 5 not oiiely by Aurutn ptdhile^ ufeandcuftome, though P/ bis time, when he will have all long Livedo Healthf^.1^ BleJJ'ed and ^^i/e, and none lewd by his Will : Thfire- fore I have (hewn you th*: truth of thefc thi igs clearly, that MoTiks and Fryars did cover in dark pitchy Gioad} ^n4 how to cure an ill difpofed Nature, by the know*
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ledge of theft Telefms ; and their names being found ac- cording to the Stars account,you rr.ay call them by thcfe names aforefald, although unknown to you in (bund and fignification j yet I confefs you may do more by them then with fignificative names, vjh\\(k the mlnde being aftoniflied at the obfcurity of them, and deeply intent, firmly believing, that fo.Tiething Divine is un- der them, doth reverently call then by their names, although not underftood, to the Glory of G^^, captiva- ting himfelf with a fpiritual affeftion of Fiey, in the obedience of him.
CHAP. XXVIIl. Of the Temple of ^i [dome.
I Have a defign to walk on into The Temple of Wif- dome^ and to difcover what I finde there oi the Soul^ of (jod^ and his Creation. I have no guide or con- duftor ; onely I may fay thus much, that I follow no mans Path to weary my felf with fruitlefs labour j but that I might the more freely pafs and write the eafie Emanations of Mine own Minde, and not run through Wilderneflcs by diredions , or be drawn off from what ftiould naturally fall from my felf, by prepof- fefling my thoughts by the fancies and inventions of o- thers.
Behold in this Temple ofWifdome^ there is fuch mat- ter which is of a different fort , and has its peculiar fer- viceablenefs : I followed no mans example , yet quote Authors 5 what I write is from the Temple ofVVifdome^ and the eternal Chara&ersofthe mindoi man , and the known ^b^nomena of Nature^ &c.
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