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fome influence upon bodily Health ; Phy- 

 ficians telling us, That the excefs relaxes 

 the tone of all the Members, oppreffes the 

 Head, and fills it with many Vapours and 

 ill Humours, dulls the Wits, mars the Com- 

 plexion and Habit of the Body, diminilhes 

 the native heat, and renders all the Parts and 

 Members more fluggifli and inept to mori- 

 on. Neither is it lefs prejudicial to Wealth 

 than to Health, bringing want and poverty 

 upon thofe that give themfelves up to it, 

 < Prov.zo.i3. Love not Jleef i left thou come 

 Jo poverty : Of en thine eyes, and thou jh alt 

 be fatisfied with Bread. Prov. 6.9, 10, n. 

 I low long wi It thou Jleef , O Jluggard? 'when 

 wilt then arife out of thy Jleef ? Tet a little 

 Jlumber, yet a little Jleef ^ yet a little folding 

 of the hands to Jleef : So Jhall thy poverty 

 come as one that travelleth, and thy want 

 as an armed man ; which is repeated *Prov. 

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Thirdly, A Third thing requifite to the 

 prefervation and continuance of Health, is a 

 due government and moderation of our Paf- 

 fions, the excefs of which hath great force 

 in altering the temper of the Body, and in 

 bringing on grievous difeafes, and fome times 

 death it felf. I lhall initance in three. 



D 4 i. Anger, 



