Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 279 Religion, andGod had a pleafáre to fee his people 'Torment themfelves I. I confers is is very few that ever I knew to have erred far in Auftexe ufage of their bodies But fume I have and e,pecially poor Melancholy Chriftians that are more eafily drawn to deal rigoroufly with their fleib then others be. And fuchWrittings as lately have been publifhed by tome EnglifhPopifh Formalifts, I have known draw men into this fnare. I would have all filch rememe ber, r. That God is a Spirit, and will be worfhipped in Spirit and in Truth : and fuchWorfhippers doth he feek. z. That God will have mercy and not .facrifice ; and that the Vitals.of Religion are in a .Confumptïon when the heat of Zeal is drawn too much to the out - fide ; And that placing rnoíl in ex- ternals is the great charac°cerof Hypocrific, and is thatPharifaical Religion to which the doeirine and pradife of the Lord jefus was molt opposite, as any that will read the Gofpel may loon fee. 3. That God bath made our bodies to be his Servants, and Inflruments ofRighteonfnefs. Rom. 6.13. And help- full and ferviceable to our fouls in Well doing: And therefore it is Difobedience, iris Injuflice, it is Cru- elty to difable them, and cant-idly to vex and tor- ment teem , much more to deffroy them. You may fee by lickmen , by Melancholy men by Mad men and Children, how unfit that foul is to know,or love, or ferve God, that bath not a fit bo- dy to work in and by. The Serpent knows this well enough : Ifhe can but get you by exce4five,f f}ings, watchings , labours , fludies or other auflerities efpecially fadrefs and perplexities of mind, to have a fick body, a crazed brain, or a ihort life , you Willi X4. b,
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