Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Health, is the Salt and sweetest Sauce of Life. 'Tis Sin, (Peoples own, or their Ancestors, or both) that ordinarily is the working cause, as well as deserving cause of sickness. The Spirit, and Grace, and Service of God, every way make for Health. Particularly, Temperance and good Conscience are the most benign of all things unto your Blood and Spirits: And Converting Grace is not it self without them. Go ask Physicians, they will tell you; Luxury and Lechery do make them an hundred Patients, for every one that is made them by Fasting and Prayer. No Precept of Christ is for any Duty, (Fasting it self,) unto Sickness; if his precepts were observed, they would prevent more, than ever his Miracles healed. If a good Man be at any time so weak, as to hate his own Flesh; he is not led to it by God's Spirit. He ought indeed to beat it down, and keep it in subjection to Gods Law; and from the Usurpation of ⟨image 199⟩sinful Lusts. But withal, 'tis those Lusts he is to mortify, and not his Body. A Convert's Body, is the Holy Ghost's Temple. And if so, be sure God will be kind unto it, and his Servants ought to be duly careful of it.

Health, is the Salt and sweetest Sawce of Life. 'Tis Sin, (Peoples own, or their Ancestors, or both) that ordinarily is the working cause, as well as deserving cause of sickness. The Spirit, and Grace, and Service of God, every way make for Health. Particularly, Temperance and good Conscience are the most ben•gn of all things unto your Blood and Spirits: And Converting Grace is not it self without them. Go ask Physicians, they will tell you; Luxury and Lechery do make them an hundred Patients, for every one that is made them by Fasting and Prayer. No Precept of Christ is for any Duty, (Fasting it self,) unto Sickness; if his precepts were observed, they would prevent more, than ever his Miracles healed. If a good Man be at any time so weak, as to hate his own Flesh; he is not led to it by God's Spirit. He ought indeed to beat it down, and keep it in subjection to Gods Law; and from the Usurpation of ⟨image 199⟩sinful Lusts. But withal, 'tis those Lusts he is to mortifie, and not his Body. A Convert's Body, is the Holy Ghost's Temple. And if so, be sure God will be kind unto it, and his Servants ought to be duly careful of it.