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Ifjfer, 2. Secondly, Have a care thou doft not 

 by any vicious Pradice deface, marr, or deftroy 

 the Workmanfliip of God ; fo ufe this Body as to 

 preferve the Form and Comelinefs, the Health 

 and Vigor of it. 



I. For the Form and Beauty of the Body, 

 whiph Mankind generally is fond enough of, and 

 which muft be acknowledg'd to be a natural En- 

 dowment and Blefiing of God, a thing defirable, 

 which all Men take Complacency in, which ren- 

 ders Perfons gracious and acceptable in the Eyes 

 of others -, of which yet we do not obferve that 

 brute Beafts take any notice at all : Of this I (hall 

 obferve, that outward Beauty is a fign of inward; 

 and that handfome P^erfons are naturally well in- 

 clin'd, till they do either debauch themfelves, or 

 are corrupted by others, and then with their 

 Manners they marr their Beauty too ; for a Man 

 may obferve, and ealily difcern, that as Perfons 

 are better or worfe inclin'd, the very Air of their 

 Vifage.v^ill alter much -, and that vicious Courfes, 

 defacing the inward Pulchritude of the 

 Soul, do cha?2ge even the outward Coun- * Z?r. Morft. 

 tenance into an abhor r d Hue "* ; as is 

 evident in the Vices of Intemperance and Anger, 

 and may, by fagacious Perfons, be obferv'd in 

 others alfo. No better Cofmeticks than a fevere 

 Temperance and Purity, a real and unaffedted 

 -Modedy and Humility, a gracious Temper and 



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