a WOLY LIFE. 



or delight in any worldly good, Where 

 health is wanting; and therefore it is by 

 all Men highly valued and purchafed at 

 the deareft rate^ as Biihop Wilkins well 

 obferves. 



Health is fuch a jufl temper and confti- 

 tution of 'all the parts of the Body, both 

 folid and fluid, as may inable the feveral 

 Members and Faculties duly to perform 

 their natural Fundions, from whence pro- 

 ceeds not only an indolency or freedom 

 from Pain and Sicknefs, but alfo vigor and 

 aftivity, alacrity and light heartednefs , a 

 pleafant and delicious fympathy in the SouL 

 To this head I refer freedom from Bodily 

 Pain, the extremity whereof is altogether 

 inconfittent with Happinefs: St.Auguftine 

 confefles, That he was compelled to con- 

 fent to Cornelius Celfus, who affirmed Bo- 

 dily Pain to be the greateft Evil Neither 

 (faith he) did- his Reafon feem to me ab- 

 furd, <vi&. That Man being compounded 

 of two parts, Soul and Body, of which the 

 'firft is the better, the latter the worfer ; the 

 greateit good muil be the belt thing be- 

 longing to the better part ; that is, Wif- 

 dom: And the greateflEvil the worft thing 

 belonging to the worfer part ; that is, Pain. 

 Whether this Reafon be folid and conclu- 



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