A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

And though the Disease begin in the mind and Spirits, and t•• •ody be yet sound, yet Physic even Purging often cureth it; ••ough the Patient say that Physic cannot cure Souls: For the Soul and Body are wonderfully copartners in their diseases and c•re, and if we know not how it doth it, yet when experience te••eth us that it doth it, we have reason to use such means.

And though the Disease begin in the mind and Spirits, and t•• •ody be yet sound, yet Physick even Purging often cureth it; ••ough the Patient say that Physick cannot cure Souls: For the Soul and Body are •onderfully copartners in their diseases and c•re, and if we know not how it doth it, yet when experience te••eth us that it doth it, we have reason to use such means.

I. Right usage and diet are a great part of the Cure: Of the first I spake before. The Patient must be pleased, delighted; dealt with as capable, kept from solitude and from musing, and from sad and troubling words and things, and their objections wisely answered; and their judgments in Religion kept from troubling mistakes, by right information, especially they must be kept in diverting business, and if it could be hard labour, even to good transpiration and sweat, to actuate, contemperate, and purify the blood, and excite the igneous spirits (which are the instruments of the motion and purification of the blood, and of life it self) it would greatly help the Cure, especially such exercise twice a day, before Dinner and Supper, an hour or two together, dissipate and concoct indigested matter, excite natural heat, and expels excrements.