The Lust of the flesh he could not reconcile ⟨p. 30⟩himself to the least pampering or indulging of but he persecuted it when a continual […] by being upon higher principles than Fully was acquainted withal, of his mind, Non est d•gnus […] qui unum dwin •otum volt •sse in […] genere voluptat•s. The Sleep that he allow himself cheated him not of his Morning-hours but he reckoned the Morning no less a friend us to the Graces, than unto the Mases. He would call upon Students, I pray look to it that you morning-Birds! and for many more than a scorn of years before he dyed, he removed his Lodging into his Study, on purpose that being there alone, he might enjoy his early-Mornings, without giving the disturbance of the least noise […] any of his Friends, whose Affections to him else might have been ready to have called, Master spare thy self. The Meat upon which he live was a Cibus simplex, an homely but an wholesome Diet. Rich Varieties, costly Viands, and p•• nant Sauces, came not upon his own Table, […] when he sound them on other mens, he rare tasted of them. One Dish and a plain one, […] his Dinner; and when invited unto a Feast, have seen him sit Magnifying of God, for […] Plenty which His people in this Wilderness we within a few years arisen to; but not […] than a Bit or two of all the Dainties taken into his own mouth all the while. And for a Supper he had learned of his loved and blessed Patro• old Mr. Cotton, either wholly to omit it, or […] ⟨p. 31⟩make a small sup or two the utmost of it. The drink which he still used was very small; he cared not for Wines or Drams, and I believe, he never once in all his life, knew what it was to feel so much as a noxious fume in his head, from any of them; good, clear water was more precious as well as more usual with him, than any of those Liquors with which men do so frequently spoil their own Healths, while perhaps they drink, those of other men. When at a strangers House in the Summer time, he has bin entertained with a glass, which they told him was Of water and wine, he has with a complaisant gravity replied unto this purpose; Wine, 'tis a noble generous Liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for it; but as I remember, Water was made before it! So abstemious was he; and he found, that, Carere […], his Abstinence had more sweetness in it, than any of the sweets which he abstained from;
The Lust of the flesh he could not reconcile ⟨p. 30⟩himself to the least pampering or indulging of but he persecuted it when a continual 〈…〉 by being upon higher principles than Fully was acquainted withal, of his mind, Non est d•gnus 〈…〉 qui unum dwin •otum vol•t •sse in 〈…〉 genere voluptat•s. The Sleep that he allow himself cheated him not of his Morning-hours but he reckoned the Morning no less a friend us to the Graces, than unto the Mases. He would call upon Students, I pray look to it that you morning-Birds! and for many more than a scorn of years before he dyed, he removed his Lodging into his Study, on purpose that being there alone, he might enjoy his early-Mornings, without giving the disturbance of the least noise 〈…〉 any of his Friends, whose Affections to him else might have been ready to have called, Master spare thy self. The Meat upon which he live was a Cibus simplex, an homely but an wholesome Diet. Rich Varieties, costly Viands, and p•• nant Sauces, came not upon his own Table, 〈…〉 when he sound them on other mens, he rare tasted of them. One Dish and a plain one, 〈…〉 his Dinner; and when invited unto a Feast, have seen him sit Magnifying of God, for 〈…〉 Plenty which His people in this Wilderness we within a few years arisen to; but not 〈…〉 than a Bit or two of all the Dainties taken into his own mouth all the while. And for a Supper he had learn'd of his loved and blessed Patro• old Mr. Cotton, either wholly to omit it, or 〈…〉 ⟨p. 31⟩make a small sup or two the utmost of it. The drink which he still used was very small; he cared not for Wines or Drams, and I believe, he never once in all his life, knew what it was to feel so much as a noxious fume in his head, from any of them; good, clear water was more precious as well as more usual with him, than any of those Liquors with which men do so frequently spoil their own Healths, while perhaps they drink, those of other men. When at a strangers House in the Summer time, he has bin entertained with a glass, which they told him was Of water and wine, he has with a complaisant gravity reply'd unto this purpose; Wine, 'tis a noble generous Liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for it; but as I remember, Water was made before it! So abstemious was he; and he found, that, Carere , his Abstinence had more sweetness in it, than any of the sweets which he abstained from;
