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Verse 22. A joyful heart causeth good health: but a sorrowful mind drieth up the bones.

Verse 22. A ioifull heart causeth good health: but a sorrowfull minde drieth vp the bones.

A Joyful heart] especially that which is refreshed and made merry with godly joy, [causeth health] is many times as good as physic and wholesome medicines for the restoring of health to weak bodies, and keepeth the healthy in very good temper, by a certain vital vigour which it conveyeth into them: [but a sorrowful mind] an heavy spirit, which is cast down without just cause, or beyond just measure, [drieth up the bones] causeth the body to be out of tune, and greatly diseased, by consuming the radical moisture, and filleth the bones with aches, and wasteth the marrow that is in them. See Chap. 13. verse 13.

A Ioifull heart] especially that which is refreshed and made merrie with godly ioy, [causeth health] is many times as good as physicke and wholesome medicines for the restoring of health to weake bodies, and keepeth the healthie in very good temper, by a certaine vitall vigour which it conueieth into them: [but a sorrowfull minde] an heauie spirit, which is cast downe without iust cause, or beyond iust measure, [drieth vp the bones] causeth the body to be out of tune, and greatly diseased, by consuming the radicall moisture, and filleth the bones with aches, and wasteth the marrow that is in them. See Chap. 13. verse 13.

Verse 23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.