The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Direct. 5. Look often to the grave, and observe those skulls into which once the pleasant meats and drinks were put; and those jaws that were so oft employed, in grinding for the belly: And remember how quickly this will be your case, and think then whether such a carcass deserve so much care, and cost, and curiosity, to the neglect and danger of an immortal soul.

Direct. 5. Look often to the grave, and observe those skulls into which once the pleasant meats and drinks were put; and those jaws that were so oft employed, in grinding for the belly: And remember how quickly this will be your case, and think then whether such a carkass deserve so much care, and cost, and curiosity, to the neglect and danger of an immortal soul.

Direct. 6. Lay a constant Law upon your appetite, and use it not to be pleased without cause and benefit; but use it to a wholesome, but not a full, a costly, a curious, or a delicious food: And use will make intemperance to be loathsome to you, and temperance to be sweet.

Direct. 7. Learn so much reason as to know truly what is ⟨p. 474⟩most conducible to your health, both for quantity and quality; and mark what diseases and deaths are usually caused by excess: It is more reasonable to be temperate for prevention of diseases, than under the power and feeling of them; when pain and sickness force you to it, whether you will or not. If you will not obey God so carefully as your Physician; yet obey the preventing counsels of your Physician, before you need his curing counsel.