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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thou wrongest. thy body. Vermin abound, as •ats and mice, where there is much corn; and Diseases abound in bodies given to excess. Too much wood puts out the fire. Meat kills more then the Musket; The glutton digs his grave with his teeth, and the drunkard drowns himself in his cup. Stratonicus spake fitly of the Rhodians, They build their houses as if they were immortal, but feed as if they intended to live but a little while.
Thou wrongest. thy body. Vermine abound, as •ats and mice, where there is much corn; and Diseases abound in bodies given to excess. Too much wood puts out the fire. Meat kills more then the Musket; The glutton digs his grave with his teeth, and the drunkard drowns himself in his cup. Stratonicus spake fitly of the Rhodians, They build their houses as if they were immortal, but feed as if they intended to live but a little while.
Spare diet is the best cordial of nature; Moderate fasting is the best physic. He that riseth with an appetite, 1secures his digestion: It was said of Queen Elizabeth, That she ever rose with an appetite, and that Edward the sixth was wont to call her, his sweet sister Temperance, and she lived seventy years. Galen lived 140 years, and almost all the time without any sickness, and this natural reason is given, that he did never eat his fill.
Spare diet is the best cordial of nature; Moderate fasting is the best physick. He that riseth with an appetite, 1secures his digestion: It was said of Queen Elizabeth, That she ever rose with an appetite, and that Edward the sixth was wont to call her, his sweet sister Temperance, and she lived seventy years. Gallen lived 140 years, and almost all the time without any sickness, and this natural reason is given, that he did never eat his fill.