34 A PERSUASIVE to 



faith , are given up to a reprobate mind ; 

 Men without natural affeffion. 



6ly. \ might add, That this Vice is in- 

 jurious to poiterity, entailing Difeafes upon 

 them: Children do very often inherit the 

 Diftempers and Infirmities of their Parents, 

 as well as the Shape and Lineaments of 

 their Bodies.. And therefore let men, as 

 they love their Children, and tender their 

 eafe and well-being in this World, have a 

 care left by their debauches and excefTes 

 they contrad difeafes and ill habits of body 

 on themfelves, and derive them to their 

 IfTue ; which if of the more painful fort, as 

 Gout or Stone, may give their Children 

 (1 will not fay juft) caufe to curfe the day 

 wherein they were born, and the Parents 

 which begat and brought them forth. 



This Vice blafts a Man's Reputa- 

 tion, Honour and Efteem in the World. 

 As Virtue is honourable in the fight of all 

 Men, there being fcarce any Nation fo fal- 

 vage and barbarous, but pays fome refpeft 

 and veneration to it : Sp is Vice reproach- 

 ful, and vicious Perfons defpicable ; and 

 among other Vices, efpecially Drunkennefs, 

 which makes a man a laughing-itock , a 



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