'Tis true, our Ancestors have obliged us to some things, which may seem frivolous and vain, as not to kill any kind of Vermin, which are very offensive to the Life of Man: But indeed these Prohibitions well regarded, shew their more deep Wisdom and Fore-sight; for they did con∣sider, that their Philosophy would not only be embraced by Wise Men, but also by a great number of Fools (as the most part of all men are, in one thing or another) and if they should have permitted them to have killed any kind of Creatures, the Foolish would have concluded, they might by the same Rule as well kill others, and so by degrees come to kill men, as most other Nations do. Besides, not only our cleanly re∣gular temperate Lives free us from many of those Vermin wherewith others are troubled, but we take it for a Rule, that such as would live an abstemious separated Life from Evil and Vio∣lence, must refrain from some things that are lawful, as well as from those that are unlawful; as one of your Prophets says excellently, All things are lawful, but not expedient. Touching our Sons and Daughters, they all constantly follow our Foot-steps, and it hath very rarely been known, that any of them have forsaken the Precepts of their Fathers; being descended from a Root of Temperance and Equality, they are naturally Sober and Temperate, for they use not Tippling-Houses, nor spend their Patri∣mony in drinking Wine, Gaming, Debauchery and 0