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The Hiftory of Life and Death. 



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Above all, it maketh to the prefent InquifiUan ; To inquire diligently, and Atten- 

 tively whether a Man may not receive Nourishment from without ; At leaf! fome other 

 way, befide the Mouth? We know, that Baths of Milke are ufed in fome Hitltct^Fe- 

 vers^nd when the Body is brought extreme low; And Phyfcians doe preicribe No- 

 nfiling Gljflers : This Matter would be well (tudied; For if Nounfhmeut may be made, 

 either from without,or fome other way , than by the Stomach : Then the weaknefle of 

 Concoction , which is incident to old men , might be recompensed by thefe Helps ; 

 And Concoction reftored to them,intire. 



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Length and Sbortneffe of Life in Man. 



The Hijlorie. 



Efore the FW,asthe Sacred Scripture relate,^* lived many Hun- 

 dred yearsiYet none of the Fathers attained to a fullThoufand.Nei- 

 ther was this Length of /.//^peculiar only to Gr*«,orthe Holy line- 

 For there are reckoned of the Father s>\\r\u\\ the Floud eleven Gene- 

 rations; But of the Sons of Adam, by Cam , onely eight Generati- 

 ons; So as the Pofteritie of Cam may feem the longer-Tiv'd. But this 

 Length otLife, immediately after the Fl ud,wzs reduced to a Moitie; But in'the Poft- 

 Nati: For Noah, who was borne before, equalled the Age of his Anceftours-and Sem 

 faw the fix hundredth yeare ot his life. Afterward , three Generations beino run from 

 the Fhud ; The Life of Man was brought downc , tea Fourth Part of the^rimitive 

 Age; That was,to about two Hundred years. 



^ Abraham lived an hundred fcventie and five yeares : A Man of an High Couraoe 

 and profperous in allthhigs.//^ came to an hundred and eighty years of A^; A chalie 

 Man,and enjoyning more Quietneffc, than his Father. But Jacob after many Croffes 

 and a numerous progeny, lalkd to the Hundredth forty feventh yeare of his Life ; A Pa- 

 tient, Gentle,and wile Man. ljhm*eli a Military, Man , lived an Hundred thimeand 

 feven yeaies. Sarah(whofc years only amongft women,are recorded) died in the Hun- 

 dred twenty feventh year of her Age: A Beautiful!, and Magnanimous Woman ; A 

 lingular good Mother, and Wife ; and yet no lefie Famous, for her Libei tie, than Ob- 

 fcquioulnefle towards her Husband. Jofeph alio, a Prudent s and Politick Man : Paffin° 

 his youth in Affliction, aftej wards advanced to the Height of Honour and Piofpcrity' 

 lived an hundred and ten yeaies. But his Brother Levi, elder than himfelfe , attained^ 

 to an hundred thnty ieven yeares ; A Man Impatient of Contumely , and Reven^ful 

 Near unto the lame Age,attained the Sonne of Levi; Alfo his Grand- (fhild; The W 

 t her of haronj and Mofe s. 



Mofes lived an Hundred and Twenty yeares A Stout Man,and yet the Meekefi up- 

 on the Earth * And of a very Slow Tongue. Howfoever Mofes, in his P/Ww*,pron un- 

 ceth,That the life of Man is but feventy yeares; And if a Man have Strengthen eigh- 

 ty; Which Terme of Mans Life fiandeth fume, in many Particular, even at this Day 

 AW^who was three yeares the Eider, died the fame year, with his Btpt^¥>> A Man 

 of a readier Spe(ch,ofa more facile Difpohtion, and lefle ConHant. But Phineas Grand- 

 child of A«™» (Perhaps, out of extraordinary Grace,) may be colled , \o have 

 lived three hundred yeares; if 1*6 be, the War of the IfraeffMpgimR the Tribe of Ben- 

 jamin (In which Expedition, Phineas was conlulted with) were performed in the 

 fame order of 7 ime,in which the Hi/lory hach ranked it : he was a Man of amoft Emi- 

 nent Zeale. Jofhua, a Martial Man, and an excellent Leader, and evermore victorious 

 lived to the Hundred and Tenth yeare of his Life. Caleb was his Contemporary ; And' 

 feemethto have been of as great yeares. £hud the Judge, feemes to have been no 

 leffe than an hundred yeares old; In regard , that after the Victory over the Moa- 

 bites, the Holy land had reft , under his Government, eighty yeares .• HewasaMan 

 Fierce.and undaunted; The one,that in a fort, neglected his Life for the <>ood of his 

 People. 



Job lived, after the RehWation of his Happineffe , an Hundred and Fortie yeares; 

 Being, before his Affiictions,of that age, that he had fons at Mans Eftate .• A Man Po- 

 litick, 



