Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush].

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date:
1772
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Credit: Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E285 2} Lent, are very poor, and upon feveral accounts unfit for food; but the chief reafon upon which this canon is founded, and. which ferves our prefent purpofe more immediately, is, that, by confining them to fifh only, there is lefs danger of their eating to excefs, Nature, we fee, not only inthis, but in another fenfual enjoyment *, feems to have fet a guard over our health, and, inftead of roufing our fenfations by variety or novelty, kind- ly keeps them fufpended, till appetite and pleafure are awakened together, which to the fame object they never will be oftener than is confiftent with the health and vigor of the conftitution. This wife ceconomy in the make of our bodies cannot be too much admired, efpecially as we are en- ~ * Let thy fountain be blefed, aud rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleafant roe; let her breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravifhed always with ber love. And why wilt thou, my fon, be ravifbed with a firange woman, and embrace the bofom of @ firanger ? Prov. v. 18, 195 20, ee abled .