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For how can it be otherwise, that the soul (of so high and celestial a creation) should thrive with the gross and homely diet of vanity? ^oMan is, saith the Philosopher, [Greek or Hebrew], Gods kinsman. And Paul taking such a sense from the^p Poet, makes of a conceit of nature a sanctified truth, [Greek or Hebrew], ^qFor we are also his offspring. And Peter saith, that (though not really, but in regard of renovation) ^rWe are partakers of the divine nature. Why then contemn we not with a holy disdain, the rude, crude and unwholesome morsels of the world; sensual pleasures? I• we considered aright the natures; either [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew], of the things nourishing, or things nourished, we would strive (aut non admittere, aut cito emittere) either not to let in, or soon to throw out such unsavoury repast. For the nourishment of the body, if it be alienum, it is vene•um, if strange and contrary to nature, it is as poison to him that eates it, Quae nutriuntur, familiaribus & naturalibus rebus nutriuntur, contrarijs corrumpuntur: for creatures that live by nourishment, with natural and familiar things are nourished, corrupted with their contraries. Otherwise the food makes work for the Physician and his elder brother death.

For how can it be otherwise, that the soule (of so high and celestiall a creation) should thriue with the grosse and homely diet of vanity? ^oMan is, saith the Philosopher, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Gods kinsman. And Paul taking such a sense from the^p Poet, makes of a conceit of nature a sanctified truth, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ^q