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Show The PR EFACE. Mercy, and Other Chriihan Graces, who our of His Royal lnclinations to do acts of Grace, juttice, and Honor, is always Willing to gratifie His Subjects with any thing that may tend to their good and happinels. And again, It becomes all His Subjects to fpeak their return of gratitude and obedience to His Sacred Commands, by en" deavouring by all means pofsible to approve themle1ves true Sons of the Church of En land, in being Pious to God, Loyal to the King,and Juft and The haritable to one another, and to their utmolt to maintain the truly Antient Reformed Religion of Church at the Church of England, as the molt Excellent for Purity of E"'""'"" Doctrine (accordin to Hol Writ) and Uniformity of Dill gig?" cipline, as now efla lifhed y Law, (according to the practice excellent Difcirline- of the Primitive Church immediately fucceeding the holy Apoltles) under which the Nation of England hath been ten» drecl molt happy (even to the admiration, if not the CHV' of other reformed Churches) in the Reign of Edward the Sixth, meen Elizabeth, King famer, King Claarler the Firfl, of Blell fled Memory 5 And I h0pe will continue as long as the Sun and Moon endures, under the melt GraciousProteétion of our now Soveraign Lord the King, and His Royal Succellors. TllePREFACE. XXXi 2)?" it, as they are fubi‘ervient to a prefent happinefs, which only Health and is ambulatory to that of future Glory. Althou h Natural and Chriftian Philofophy (of which Phyfic'k is a Brarch) feem to be at as great a diltance as Earth and Heaven, Nature and Grace, Grace and Glorfi , yet they may be well reconciled, Egg; 21:33::ng ralPhilofm p y' and comply with each ot er, as the Body is the Organ of the Soul, as Nature is the Subject of Grace, and Grace the Per, feé‘tion of Nature, and Glory the Confummation of both. And Piety, Morality, Life and Health, ought to be Friends and not Strangers to each Other, by reafon they are nearly allied and have joynt fubfifience and interefl: as they preferve and perfeet each other, as Art accomplifheth Nature, and Piety re, fineth Morality, and both do minifier to Life and Health as their choice and neceflary l'refirvatives. Whereupon I hope this will make myApology-nvhich beggeth the favor of the Courteous Reader to entertain with Candour my following Difcourfes of Piety and Morality (as conducive to my Faculty) of which I treat not as a Divine, 'but as a Philolopher, not only as a Phyfician, bu: as a Chriltian too, who have thereupon a peculiar obligation lying upon me, to advance Life, Health, and Happinefs, by all fit Ini'truments Natural Natural and Chriftian Philofophy, although they feem at an Chri-' 233233" firfi fight to be great oppofites by reafon of their different prin- of every Rank and Degree whatfoever. The procurement an prefervation of Health is my pro». Therr'efcr" vation of ifiiiytge' Ciples and difpoiitions, as the one is natural, and the other fu' per Work, and to promote it by all due ways . and methods, 13 31:33; isog my great Intereit and Duty, and in order 'to it to adViIe Piety , phyfizim whom". pernatural, yet upon more deliberate thoughts, they are very much akin, as near relatives to each other, in reference one be- 31:52?" own Perfons, as the beit Diateticks and great prefiervatives of the fame fubjeet, whole eiTence the do not innovate, but on» ly refine its qualifications, and hot terminate into the fame end, the prelervation and accompliihment of Man's life and Health and Life. are ellentiallly conf‘cituted, are nearly akin to each other, the 3323,32?" health. one being the Cabinet, and the other the Jewel, the one the 1,3235 °f Theology and Ethicks, as treating of Piety and Morality, The Bod and the Soul being two lubitances of which we Bodyand tural princ1ples, of the faculties and operations of the Soul as Matter, the other the Form, the one the Organ, the other a divine Particle acting it ; the one being miniflerial to the others more excellent Ellence and Operations; So that theie intimate Friends and Companions do highly fympathize in each Others . happinefs. They are both fubjeéts of Health and Life, the one natural Body and and the other i iritual, the lalt is perfeétive of the former, thefe migrgghc confined to the Bodypnly minifterial to it; and as Phyfick giveth two dear Allociates are highly compleafant in congratulating and gigs?" a methods confilhng in the'falutaryAphorilms, tending to the eafie condoling each others health and ficknels. 3111:1231?sz have elevated fupernatural principles, and refined precepts to 331$.er enoble the Soul in the fpeculative parrot Knowledge and Pral gingimf once in relation _chiefly to fpiritual actions as they tend to Eter' WC - towards God, Juftice to our Neighbour, and Sobriety to our longeth to the firué'ture, and the other to the fuperf'trué‘ture of nal felicity, which is feated in a higher fphaere, then Phyfick which is of a lower Orb, as propounding the knowledge of na: and fate adminifiration of proper Medicines, directed to the con, iérvation of Life and Health, the perfeétion and enjoym ent of ' ' ‘ ‘ dichrenr. , ‘ ‘ C2 )QClC 'J ‘ The Soul being ae'ted With {piritual graces and divme per; l feétions, doth highly improve the Body in givmg 1t filutalry ru es y |