Wesley Corpus

after it, we should take care to cool by degrees : otherwife we fhall catch cold. 9. The flesh -brush is a most useful exercife, especially to ftrengthen any part that is weak. 10. Cold -bathing is of great advantage to health. It prevents abundance ofdiseases. It promotes perfpiration , helps the circulation of the blood, and prevents the danger of catching old. Tender people fhould pour water upon the head before. they go in, and walk in fwiftly. To jump in with the head foremoft, is too great a fhock to nature . V. 1.Coftiveness cannot long confift with health. Therefore care fhould be taken to remove it at the beginning : and when it is removed, to prevent its return, by soft, cool, opening diet. Obflructed perfpiration (vulgarly called catching cold) is one great fource of diseases . Whenever there appears the leaft fign of this, let it be removed by gentle fweats, VI. 1. The VI. 1. The paffions have a greater influence on health than most people are aware. of. 2. All violent and fudden paffions difpose to, or actually throw people into acute difeafes. 3. The flow and lafting paffions, such as grief and hopeless love, bring on chronical diseases. Till the paffion which caused the disease is calm'd, medicine is applied in vain. 5. The love of God , as it is the fovereign remedy of all miseries , fo in particular it effectually prevents all the bodily disorders the paffions introduce , by keeping the paffions themfelves within due bounds. And by the unspeakable joy and perfect calm, ferenity and tranquility it gives the mind, it becomes the moft powerful of all the means of health and long life. LONDON, June 11 ,