Mortification, the great necessity thereof. [ 1124]
SOme Physitians hold,* 1.1 that in every two years, there is such store of ill hu∣mours and excrementitious matter ingendred in the body of Man, that (if not by Physick purged out) a vessel of one hundreth ounces will scarce contain them, so that according to this accompt in a short time the whole body would be morbus complicatus, nothing but diseases: If it be so then in the Body, What shall we think of the Soul? Certainly,* 1.2 there's a World of Wickednesse, and super∣fluity of naughtinesse, even a bed of spirituall diseases, daily gathered and got together in the Sin-sick Soul; purged therefore it must needs be by the practice of Mortification, according to that of the Apostle, Morti••ie therefore your Earthly members:* 1.3 not as those Religious Roman Bedlams that whip and lash their bo∣dies, but to dead that body of Sin, that it may not have dominion over us, nor reign in our mortal bodies.