This chapter conversely explores the use of sluicing as a metaphor for chastity in early Stuart thinking about the integrity of communal (figurative) bodies. Tracing theological debates about the nature of the Visible Church, the chapter proposes that to Puritan thinkers the sluiced or purged Church was the most chaste body of Christ. This view is then compared to that of tragicomedy and Laudian/Catholic arguments for penance and forgiveness over purging. In these debates, unchastity emerges as a form of pride or tyranny. In its analysis of the play's of John Ford, the emblem tradition, and the medical controversies surrounding William Harvey's demonstrations of the circulation of the blood, this chapter explores the equation between pride and tyranny from both of the period's opposing theological, political and textual perspectives.