A PERSUASIVE to 



Life and Happinefs ; and particularly our 

 Sufferings for his Caufe, and for Righte- 

 oufnefs fake, with a far more exceeding 

 and eternal weight of glory. And for our 

 encouragement hath permitted us to have 

 a refpeft to this recompence of reward ; as 

 Mofes, that Man of God, and others of 

 his Servants mentioned Heb. n. had. 



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CHAP. V. 



Of Health. 



HEalth is a Blefling fo neceflary to our 

 Well-being in this World, that with- 

 out it we cannot enjoy any thing elfe, no 

 'not our own felves : And therefore the 

 common falutation among us at every meet- 

 ing of Neighbour or Friends is this, How 

 do you ? that is, are you in Health or no ? 

 And the Anfwer Well, or ///; that is, in 

 health or not : As if Health were the chief 

 or only good thing worth the enquiring af- 

 ter, in the prefence or enjoyment whereof 

 we could not be miferable whatever elfe 

 we wanted : Nor in the abfence, happy or 

 well, whatever befides we pofTefTecL In- 

 deed there is no tafle or relifli, no comfort 



or 



