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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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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.
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 purifie 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, discipate and concoct indigested matter, excit natural heat, and expels excrements.
As to Diet, it must as Physic be fitted to the case of the body.
As to Diet, it must as Physick be fitted to the case of the body.