2,3z, DireElioncforgetting and 'keeping such corre&ion on your Child or Servant as fhall difable them from their work, but fuch as (hail excite them co it. And umder(tand that all your Afflic}ing your bodymutt be but either Pr, veacive, as keeping the fire from the thatch , or Medicinal & Correc`.tive, and not &ri&Iy Vindictive : for chat belongs to your Judge : Though in a fitbordination co the other ends, the fmarc or fuffering for its fault, is one end, and fo it is truly Penal or Vindictive, as all Chattife- ment is : And fo T.va! faith, Beanld Pbhat Reveve, &c. 2 Car. 7.t i, Bur not as meer Judicial Revenge is. Remertaber therefore, though you mutt fo far tame your body as to bring it into fubjec` ion, that you periíhno: by pampering it ; yet not fo far as to bring it to weaknefs, and ficknefs, and untìtnefs for its duty : Nor yet mutt you dare to conceit that you pleafe God, or fatisfie him for your flu , by fuch a wrongingand hurting your own body. Such Popifh Religioufnefs (hews that men have very low and car- nal conceitsof God. Was it not a bale wickednefs in them that offered their Children in facrifice, to think that God would be pleafed with fuch cruelty ? Yea, were it no: to have dire ted us to Chriít, he wouldnot have accepted of the blood of buk and goats : It is not facrifice that he defìces : He never was blood thirtly, nor took any pleafure in the Crea- tures fuffering. How can you think then that he will take pleafure in your confirming and dettroyingyour own bodies ? It is as unreafonable as to imagine that he delights to have men cut their own throats, or hang themfelves ; for pining and confiirning ones fell, is felt-murther as weil as that. Yet E know no ßú.a than fhauld draw back from a pain'uil or hazardous 11 work
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