his board; you must not desire _Nero's_ effeminate baths, nor
_Tiberius_ his naked Pictures to incite your lust; you must not hunt all
grounds, draw all seas, search every {20} brook and bush, or dispeople the
four Elements to please your wanton lusts, and try experiments upon your
judicious palates; but as you must abstain from [21]things _unlawful_, so
also from _lawful_ too: You must not onely take care you transcend not the
_Bounds_ of _Temperance and Moderation_, but you must sometimes abridge
your selves of your necessary repast; assuring your selves, _That the more
_[22]_you deny your selves, the more you shall receive from God_. 'Tis
storied of _Richard Nevil_ Earl of _Warwick_, (stiled also _Make-King_,)
that in the great Battel at _Ferrybrigg_ between _Henry_ the Sixth and
_Edward_ the Fourth, when he perceived his side almost worsted by _Henry_
the Sixth, he slew his Horse with his own Sword, and then uttered these
Heroick expressions, _Let all that will fight stay with me_; and then
(according to the Ceremony of those times) kissing the Cross upon his
Sword, he fought with singular courage and prowess: So in the conflict
between our Lusts and us, let us kill and mortifie our Bodies, which (in
the language of _Socrates_) are our Soul's Horses, and then excite every
Faculty {21} of our Souls with these words, _Let all that will fight stay
with me_; and when we have done thus, let us kiss and take up our Cross,
and fight stoutly under Christ the Captain of our Salvation against our
Lusts; it being impossible to keep the Spirit pure, whilest 'tis
overburdened with too much Flesh, and exposed to all entertainments of
Enemies by fomentations and pamperings; remembring the divine counsel of
the [23]Philosopher, _That we must not take care for the Body simply as the
Body, but as subservient to the Soul._ And that you may be the better
induced to do this, remember (as the fore-cited Author [24]has well said),
_That your Soul is your self, but your Body yours; for 'tis the Soul which
uses, but that which is used by it is the Body_: And by this separation of
the Soul from the Body, you will preserve your nature from confusion, nor
think that things [Greek: ta entos] which are without concern you, nor
contend for those as for your self, and so consequently avoid too much care
of your body; not resembling those, that, so that Sumpter-horse the Body be
hung with gaudy Trappings, and pamper'd, {22} care not with what rags the