Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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          <pb o="14" file="0292" n="292" rhead="The Hiſtory of Life and Death."/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9853" xml:space="preserve">Above all it maketh to the preſent Inquiſition, to inquire diligently and attentively whe-
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            ther a man may not receive Nouriſhment from without, at leaſt ſome other way beſide
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            the Mouth We know that Baths of Milk are uſed in ſome Hectick
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            evers, and when
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            the body is brought extream low, and Phyſicians do provide Nouriſhing clyſters. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9854" xml:space="preserve">This
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            matter would be well ſtudied; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9855" xml:space="preserve">for if Nouriſhment may be made either from without,
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            or ſome other way than by the ſtomach, then the weakneſs of Concoction, which is
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            incident to old men, might be recompenced by theſe helps, and Concoction reſtored to
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            them intire.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div1239" type="section" level="1" n="55">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head80" xml:space="preserve">Length and Shortneſs of Life in Man.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head81" xml:space="preserve">The Hiſt@ry.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9857" xml:space="preserve">BEfore the Floud, as the Sacred Scriptures relate, Men lived many hundred
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-01" xlink:href="note-0292-01a" xml:space="preserve">To the 5, 6,
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              7, 8, 9, and
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              11 Articles.</note>
            years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9858" xml:space="preserve">yet none of the Fathers attained to a full thouſand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9859" xml:space="preserve">Neither was this
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            Length of Life peculiar onely to Grace, or the Holy Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9860" xml:space="preserve">for there are reckon-
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            ed of the Fathers until the Floud eleven Generations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9861" xml:space="preserve">but of the ſons of
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-02" xlink:href="note-0292-02a" xml:space="preserve">1.</note>
            Adam by cain onely eight Generations; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9862" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the poſterity of Cain may ſeem the lon-
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            ger-liv’d. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9863" xml:space="preserve">But this Length of Life immediately after the Floud was reduced to a moiety,
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            but in the Poſt-nati; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9864" xml:space="preserve">for Noah, who was born before, equalled the age of his Anceſtors,
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            and Sem ſaw the ſix hundredth year of his life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9865" xml:space="preserve">Afterwards, three Generations being
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            run from the Floud, the Life of Man was brought down to a fourth part of the pri-
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            mative Age, that was, to about two hundred years.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9867" xml:space="preserve">Abraham lived an hundred ſeventy and five years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9868" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high courage, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-03" xlink:href="note-0292-03a" xml:space="preserve">2.</note>
            proſperous in all things. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9869" xml:space="preserve">Iſaac came to an hundred and eighty years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9870" xml:space="preserve">a chaſte
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            man, and enjoying more quietneſs than his Father. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9871" xml:space="preserve">But Jacob, after many croſſes
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            and a numerous progeny, laſted to the hundred forty ſeventh year of his life: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9872" xml:space="preserve">a pa-
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            tient, gentle, and wiſe man. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9873" xml:space="preserve">Iſmael, a military man, lived an hundred thirty and
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            ſeven years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9874" xml:space="preserve">Sarah (whoſe years onely amongſt women are recorded) died in the
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            hundred twenty ſeventh year of her age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9875" xml:space="preserve">a beautifull and magnanimous woman; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9876" xml:space="preserve">a
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            ſingular good Mother and Wife; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9877" xml:space="preserve">and yet no leſs famous for her Liberty than Ob-
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            ſequiouſneſs towards her husband. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9878" xml:space="preserve">Joſeph alſo, a prudent and politick man, paſſing
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            his youth in affliction, afterwards advanced to the height of honour and proſperity,
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            lived an hundred and ten years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9879" xml:space="preserve">But his brother Levi, elder than himſelf, attained to
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            an hundred thirty ſeven years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9880" xml:space="preserve">a man impatient of contumely and revengeful. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9881" xml:space="preserve">Near
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            unto the ſame age attained the ſon of Levi@ alſo his grand-child, the father of Aaron
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            and Moſes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9883" xml:space="preserve">Moſes lived an hundred and twenty years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9884" xml:space="preserve">a ſtout man, and yet the meekest upon
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0292-04" xlink:href="note-0292-04a" xml:space="preserve">3.</note>
            the earth, and of a very ſlow tongue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9885" xml:space="preserve">Howſoever Moſes in his Pſalm pronounceth
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            that the life of man is but ſeventy years, and if a man have ſtrength, then eighty;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9886" xml:space="preserve">which term of man’s life ſtandeth firm in many particulars even at this day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9887" xml:space="preserve">Aaron,
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            who was three years the elder, died the ſame year with his Brother: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9888" xml:space="preserve">a man of a
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            readier ſpeech, of a more facile diſpoſition, and leſs conſtant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9889" xml:space="preserve">But Phineas, grand-
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            child of Aaron, (perhaps out of extraordinary grace) may be collected to have
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            lived three hundred years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9890" xml:space="preserve">if ſo be the War of the Iſraelites againſt the Tribe of Ben-
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            jamin (in which Expedition Phineas was conſulted with) were performed in the
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            ſame order of time in which the Hiſtory hath ranked it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9891" xml:space="preserve">He was a man of a moſt emi-
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            nent Zeal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9892" xml:space="preserve">Joſhua, a martial man, and an excellent Leader, and evermore victorious,
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            lived to the hundred and tenth year of his life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9893" xml:space="preserve">Caleb was his Contemporary, and
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            ſeemeth to have been of as great years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9894" xml:space="preserve">Ehud the Judge ſeems to have been no
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            leſs than an hundred years old, in regard that after the Victory over the N@oa-
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            bites the Holy Land had reſt under his Government eighty years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9895" xml:space="preserve">He was a man
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            fierce and undaunted, and one that in a ſort neglected his life for the good of his
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            People.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9897" xml:space="preserve">Job lived, after the reſtauration of his happineſs, an hundred and forty years,
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            being before his afflictions of that age that he had ſons at man’s eſtate: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9898" xml:space="preserve">a man </s>
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