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{ watching, fometimes to fleep; but to fleep oftneft: again, thathe thould Toit ; 
| give himfelf to fafting, fometimes to feafting ; but tofeaftine oftneft + that he thot 
| eating before 1 was hungry, ana drinking before [ was drys But of thi fi : hings we thal 
) {; peak hereafter. 
| are in this kind ‘of life thefe things, Leifure, Admiration and Contemplation of Hoe 
| venly things, Joyes not fenfual, noble hopes; wholfome Fears, {weet Sorrows ; laftly; } 
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{ometimes inure himfelf to great labours of the mitud ; fometimes’to relaxations of | — 
the fame; butto relaxations oftmeft. Certainly this is withont all queftion, that Dit . 
well ordered bears thegreateft part in the prolongation of life : neither did L ver mect | 
an extream long liv’d man, but beingasked of his courfe, ‘he obferved' fomethi 
culiar ; fome one thing, fome another. I remember an old. man; ‘above an hu 
years‘of age, who was produced as witnels touching an attcient Prefcription. We 
he had finithed his teftimony the /ugde familiarly asked him ho. he came to live fo fon: 
He anfwered, befide expe&ation, and not without the laughter of the hear ap PS 
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A Life ted in Religion andin Holy Exercifes feenieth to conduce to lone fife. Phere. ‘- 
continual Renovations by Obfervances, Penances, Expiations: ‘all which are very pow. 
erful to the prolongation of life: Unto which if you add that auftere diet which harde | 
neth the mafs of the Body, and-humbleth the Spirits, ro marvel ifari extraordinary | 
length of life do follow ; fuch was that of Paul the Hermite, Simeon Stélita the (Colwmaar \ 
Anchorite, and of many other Hermetesarid Anchorites. Fh Qipao aaa 
Next unto this isthe life led in. good Letters, fuchas’ was that of Philofophers, Ries | 
toricians, Grammarians. This-life is alfo fed in leifure, and in thofe thoughts, which, | 
feeing they are fevered ‘from the affairs of the world, bite not, ‘but rather” delight 
throughtheir Variety and Impertinency : They live alfo at their pleafiire, {pending their | 
time in fuch things as like them beft, and for the moft partin the company of young 
men; which is ever the moft chearful. But in Philofophies there is great difference | 
betwixt the Sects as touching long life For thofc Philofophies which haveinthema | 
touch of Superftition, and.are converfant in’ high Contemplations, arethe belt's asthe | 
Pythagorical and Platonick : alfo thofe which did inftitute a perambulatioi’ of the | 
world, and confidered the variety of natural things,’ and had reachlefs, and. bteh ane 
magnanimous thoughts, ( as of Infinitum, of the Stars, of the Heroical Vertues, atid | 
fuchlike } were good for lengthning of life; fuch were thofe of Denzocritus Philolans, 
Xenophanes, the Aftrologians and Stoicks : alfo thofe which had no profound Speca: | 
lationin them, but difcourfed calmly on both fides, out of common Senfe, andthere. | 
ceived Opinions, withoutany fharp Inquifitions, were likewife'good ; fach were thofe | _ 
of Carneades and the eAcademicks, ‘al{o’ of the Rhetoricians and Grammmarians, yee 
contrary, Philofophies converfant in perplexing Subtilties, and which pronounced pe: | 
remptorily, and whichexamined and wrefted all things to the Scale of Principles, laftly, an 
which were thorny and narrow, wereevil - fuch were thofe commonly of the Yeripa: | 
teticks, and of the School-men. “he anal 
The Country lefe alfois well fitted for long life: itis much abroad, and in the open ae 
air, it is not flothful, but ever in employment; it feedeth upon frefh Cates, chai ba 
bought ; itis without Caresand Envy. lola Sane Fee 
For te Military life, we have 2 good opinion of thatwhilfta manis young. Certain- | 
ly many excellent Warrzors have beenlong-liv’d ; Corvinus, Camillus, Xewophon, Agefi. | 
laus, with others both ancient and modern. No doubt it furthereth long lifeto nave | 
all things from our youth to our elder age mend, and grow to the better, thata Youth | 
full of croffesmay minifter fweetnefsto our Old age. We conceive alfo that A4dlitary | 
affeltions, inflamed with a defire of Fighting, and hope of Victory, do infule fucha | 
heat tuto the Sperits,as may, be profitable for long lifer f Quien 
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