The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

To take bitter Physic, to corrode or cut off ulcerated parts, to use hard diet and Exercise, &c. may be ungrateful in themselves to sense, and yet commended by Reason, and commanded by the will (I yet forbear all higher instances.)

To take bitter Physick, to corrode or cut off ulcerated parts, to use hard dyet and Exercise, &c. may be ungratefull in themselves to sense, and yet commended by Reason, and commanded by the will (I yet forbear all higher instances.)

¹§. 12. My sense and bodily faculties, are naturally to be subjected to the guidance of my Reason, and the command of my Will, as the superior faculties.

¹§. 12. My sense and bodily faculties, are naturally to be subjected to the guidance of my Reason, and the command of my Will, as the superiour faculties.

1. 1Animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur: Alterum nobis cum Diis, alterum cum belluis commune est. Salust. Cat.

For one is common to Brutes, and the other proper to Rational creatures: And rational Agents are more excellent than Brutes: and the most excellent should rule. Reason can see further than Sense:¹ And the wisest is most fit to govern. They that deny this, should claim no government or power over their beasts, their dogs, or sheep. If Reason ruled not Sensuality, most persons would presently destroy their lives: Even as swine would kill themselves with eating, if the reason of man did not restrain them.