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watching,fometimes to fleep ; But to fleep oftnelt ■ again, that he fhould fometimes give 

 himfelf to fafting, fometimes to feafting ; But to fealhng oftneft : That he fhould fome- 

 time3 in-ure himfelf to great Labours of the Minde, lometimes to Relaxations of the 

 fame, but to Relaxations oftneft. Certainly, this is without all queff ion, That Diet well 

 ordered bears the greateft part, in the Prolongation of hfe ; Neither did I ever meet an 

 extrearo long-liv'd man ; But being asked or his courfe, he obferved fome thing peci liar; 

 fome one Thing, fome another. 1 remember an old (JKan, above an hundied yeares of 

 T Age a whp was produced as a witnefl'e, touching an ancient Prefcription ; when he had 

 fimfhed his Teftimony , the Judge familiarly asked him, How he came to live fo long ; 

 He anfwercd , befide Expectation, and not without the Laughter ot the Hearers ; By 

 Eating before 1 was Hungry % and Drinking before I was Drie. But of chefe things we 

 (hall i'psak hereafter. , 



A Life led in Religion, and in Holy Sxereifes, feemeth to conduce to long life. There 

 are in this kinde of life, thefe things 5 Leifure, Admiration and Comtempltaion of hea- 

 venly things ; Joyes not fenfual ; Noble Hopes ; Wholfome Fears ; Sweet Sorrows ; 

 Lafily, continual Renovations, by Qbfervanees , Penances, Expiations'; AH which are 

 very powerful to the Prolongation of life. Unto which if you adde that auftere Diet, 

 which har.dneth the Maffe of the Body, and humbleth the Spirits, no marvel,if an extra- 

 ordinary length of life do follow ; fuch as was that of Paul the Hermite, Simeon Sti/eta 

 the Columnar Anchorite ^and of rftany other Hermites and Anchorites. 



Next unto this,is the life led in gx>od letters ; Such as wasthat of Philofophers, Rheto- 

 ricians, Grammarians. This life is alfo led in leifure ; And in thofe thoughts , which, 

 feeing they, are fevered from the affairs of the world, bite not ; But rather delight through 

 their Variety, and Impertinency. They live alfo at their pleafure ; Spending theirtime 

 in fuch Things->as like them belt ; and for the raoft part in the company of young men ; 

 vyjbich js.ever the molt cheerful. But in Philofophies , there is great Difference betwixt 

 the fe&s, asltouching long life. For thofe Philofophies, which have in them a touch of 

 .Superlt itjon,arid are converfant in high Contemplations, are the beft ; As the Pythago- 

 rical, andPlatonick : Alfo thofe,which did inffitute a per-ambulation of the", world, and 

 conflder^d'theVarkty of Natural things j and had Reachlefs, and High, and Magnani- 

 mous Thoughts , (as of Infinitum, of the Stars, of the Heroical Vertues, and'fuch-like; ) 

 were good, for lengthening of life ; fuch wcrethofe ofDemotititMs, PhiIeIaat,Xe/fopha* 

 »«,the Aftrologians,andStoicks : Alfo thofe, which had no profound fpeculatiori in 

 thetp ; but difcourled calmly on both fides , out of common feple, and the Received O- 

 pinions, without any fharp Inquifitions were likewife Good ; Such were thofe of C*r<- 

 npades,zn<X the Academickj ; alio of the Rhetoricians, and Grammarians. But contra«- 

 rily, Philofophies converfant in perplexing fubtilties ; and which pronounced peremp- 

 torily ; and which examined and wrefted all things , to the Scale of Principles- ; Laftly, 

 which were Thorny* and Narrow, were Evill ; fuch were thofe commonly of the Perc- 

 pateticks, and of the School-men. 



The Countrey Life, alfo, is well fitted, for long life : It h much abroad., and in the 

 open Aire ; It is not flothful , but ever in Employment : It feedeth upon Frefh Cates, 

 and un-bought : It is without Cares, and Envy. 



For the Milttar Life-, we have a good opinion of that whilrt a man is young : Cer- 

 tainly, many excellent Warriers have been long liv'd ; Covinta , Camillas Xenofhon t 

 Agefilaw, with other*, both ahcien t , and Modern: No doubt, it furthereth long hf e , 

 to have all things from our youth, to our Elder age, Mend and grow to the' better ; That 

 a youth full of Croffes may minifter fweetneffe to our Old Age. We conceive alio, that 

 Militar Affections, inflamed with a Defire of Fighting, and Hope of Victory , do in- 

 fufe fuch a Heat into the Sfirits-, as may be profitable for long life. 



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