2. If you would be cured of the Fever of Lust, into which the _Strange Woman_ will endeavour to cast you, use a moderate, slender and ascetick Diet. Be content with that with which Nature her self wil be contented, and then [19]a little will suffice you; and if you do this, [20]you will act according to the Rules of Discretion and Prudence. Use Fasting and severe Abstinence, which are the proper Abscissions of the instruments and temptations of lust. And to this is reducible a restraint from all morose delectation, and looser banquetting: You must not desire to be fed at _Vitellius_ 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