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2. They who over-rigorously punish their bodies. Many blinded with superstition, and besotted with idolatry,^b spare not their flesh. The^c Baalites cut themselves with knives and lances. Papists tear their flesh with whips, and sundry other ways macerate their bodies: whereof it may be said, Who required this? They who being better instructed, do, in performing such duties as are in their substance warrantable, impair their health and strength by fasting, watching, or any other kind of not sparing their bodies for duties of piety, are not free from all blame, but come too near to superstition: their devotion carieth them beyond the bounds of this Petition.

2. They who ouer-rigorously punish their bodies. Many blinded with superstition, and besotted with idolatry,^b spare not their flesh. The^c Baalits cut themselues with kniues and launces. Papists teare their flesh with whips, and sundry other wayes macerate their bodies: whereof it may be said, Who required this? They who being better instructed, doe, in performing such duties as are in their substance warrantable, impaire their health and strength by fasting, watching, or any other kinde of not sparing their bodies for duties of piety, are not free from all blame, but come too neere to superstition: their deuotion carieth them beyond the bounds of this Petition.

1. bCol. 2. 23.
2. c1, King. 18, 28.

3. They who through too eager a pursuit of what they like, waste their natural vigour, as