a HOLY LIFE. 



work, as a Mill that is fed too faft, and in- 

 ilead of a well concodied and benign Chyle, 

 tranfmit to the other Veffels a Crude and 

 impure Juice, full of many heterogeneous 

 and noxious Particles or Qualities, that 

 breed an univerfal Diflemper and Dyfcrafie 

 in the Body, and lay the foundation of ma- 

 ny future difeafes ; an error in the firft con- 

 coftion (as the old Phyficians well obferve) 

 being feldom or never correfted in the 

 fubfequent. 



Thatmoft difeafes owe their original to 

 excefs in eating and drinking, appears in 

 that they are cured by blood-letting, purg- 

 ing vomiting, fweating, and other Evacua- 

 tions, whereby the abundance of fuperflu- 

 ous Humours is exhaufted. It is a Prover- 

 bial Saying, T lures occidit gula qttam gla- 

 diits : The Throat hath Jlain more than the 

 Sword. Rioting and drunkennefs offer fuch 

 violence to Nature, do fo inflame the Blood, 

 the vehicle of Life, wafte and diflipate the 

 Spirits, that Men guilty of them feldom 

 live out half their days : Infomuch that (as 

 Biihop Wilkins well obferves) no Man of 

 ordinary prudence, who is to take a Leafe 

 for Lives, will be content (if he can well 

 avoid it) to choofe one whom he knows to 

 be vicious and intemperate. 



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