Wesley Corpus

፡፡Duft thou art, and unto duft fhalt thou return. "" In 3. But can there nothing be found to leffen those inconveniences, which cannot be wholly removed ? To foften the evils of life, and prevent in part the fickness and pain to which we are continually exposed ? Without question there may. One grand preventive of pain and ficknefs of various kinds, feems intimated by the great author of nature, in the very fentence that intails death upon us : thefweat ofthy face fhalt thou eat bread , ' till thou return to the ground." The power of exercise both to preferve and reflore health, is greater than can well be canceived especially in those who add temperance thereto ; who if they do not confine themselves altogether to eat either " Bread or the herb of the Field ," (which. God does not require them to do) yet fteadily observe both that kind and meafure of food, which experience fhews to be most friendly to health and strength. 4. 'Tis probable, Phyfic, as well as Religion, was in the firft ages chiefly traditional every father delivering down to his fons, what he had himself in like manner