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| nent: Zeal. fo(bua, a martial man, and-an excellent Leader, and evermore victorious, | — 
: | , g, he Hiftory | of L ife and D cath, 
Above all it maketh to the prefent Jnquifition, to inquire diligently and attentively. 
ther a manmay not receive 2 o#ri/bment from without, at leaft fome other way befide 
the Mouth. We know that Baths of Milk areufed in fome Heétck Fevers, andwhen 
| the body is brought extream low, andPhyficians do provide Nourifbing clyfters. This 
matter would be well ftudied ; for if Nowrs/bment may be made either from without, 
or fome other way than by the ftomach, then the weaknefs of Conco@tion,; which | 
incident to oldmen, might be recompenced by thefe helps, and CoricoGtion reft 
them intire. Maga 
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Length and Shortnefs of Life in “Man, i ey 
The Hiftory. 
1 
Efore the Floud, as the Sacred Scriptures relate, Jen lived many hundred 
yeats; yet none of the Fathers attained to a full thoufand. Neither was this 
) Length of Life peculiar onely to Grace, or the Holy Line ; for there are reckon- | 
ed of the Fathers until the Floud eleven Generations ; but of the fons of | 
Adam by Cain onely eight Generations ; fo as the pofterity of (iz may feem the lon- 
ger-liv’d. But this Lengch of Life immediately after the Floud was reduced toa moiety, 
but in the Poff-nati ; for: Noah, who wasborn before,equalled the age of his Anceftors, 
and Sem faw the fix hundredth year of his life. Afterwards, three Generations being 
run from the Floud, the Life of eMan was brought down to a fourth part of the pri- 
mative 4ge, that was, toabouttwo hundred years. 3 Beaty 
Abraham lived an hundred feventy and five years: aman of an high courage, and 
profperous in allthings. J/aac came to an hundred and eighty years of age : achafte 
j man, and enjoying more quietnefs than his Father. But facob, after many croffes 
and a numerous progeny, lafted to the hundred. forty feventh year of his life : a pa- 
tient, gentle, and wife man. Jfmael, a military man, liyed aa hundred thirty and 
feven years. Sarah ( whofe years onely among{t women are recorded ) died in the 
hundred twenty feventh year of her age : a beautifull and magnanimous woman ; a 
fingular good Mother and Wife ; and yet no Iefs famous for her Liberty than Ob- | 
fequiou{nefs. towards her husband, _ofeph alfo, a prudent and politick man, paffing 
his youth in affliction, afterwards advanced to the height-of honour and profperity, 
lived an hundred and ten years. But hisbrother Lev, elder than himfelf, attained to | 
an hundred thirty feven years a man impatient of contumely and revengeful. Near | 
unto the fame age attained the fon of Levis alfo his grand-child, the father of Aaron | 
and Afofes. tek iy i‘ : ih 
_ Mofes lived an hundred and twenty years: a ftout man, and yet the meckes? wpon | — 
the earth, and of a very flow tongue. Howfoever eMofes in his Pfalw pronounceth | — 
that the life of man is but feventy years, and if a man have ftrength, then eighty; | ~ 
| which term of man’s life {tandeth firm in many particulars even at this day. aren, | — 
_who was three years the elder, died the fame year with bis Brother : a man of 
| readier {pcech, of a more facile difpofition, and lefs conftant. But Phzneas, grand. 
child of Aaron, (perhaps out of extraordinary grace) may be collected to have 
lived three hundred years; if fo be the War of the //raektes againft the Trsbe of Ben- i 
| jamin. (in which Expedition Phineas was confulted with) were performed in the} 
fame order of time in which the Hffory hath ranked it: He was aman of a moftems- 
lived to the hundred and tenth year-of his lite. Caleb was his Contemporary, and | 
feemeth, to have been of as great ycars.. Ehud the Judge feems to have been no | 
lefs than an hundred years old, in regard that after the Victory over the <4 cas | 
bites the Holy Land-had reft under his Government eighty years: He was a f I 
fierce and undaunted, and.one that in a fort neglected his life for the good o: 
Peo lei; i- 1t SOE: ss ; . i g ma 
"ob lived, after the reftauration of his happinefs, an hundred and fo 
being before his, afflictions of that age that he had fons at man’s eftate : a mi 
