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things, >f beut. 2.8. 47. God doth not prohi- 

 bit us the ufe and participation of thefe or 

 any other fenfible Pleafures, that are agree- 

 able to Reafon, or our true Interefts ; but 

 only our Miitakes and Excefles, in and a- 

 bout them (as the Bilhop of CA^rfpeaks) 

 teaching us fo to regulate our felves in the 

 life of them, that they may truly deferve 

 the name of Pleafure. 



As for thofe Appetites and Aftions 

 which tend to the propagation and conti- 

 nuance of the Sfecies and the Pleafures 

 that attelid them, God hath not denied 

 us a moderate and regular fatisfaftion and 

 ufe of them ; nay, in fome cafes comman- 

 ded it. 



Now the mod fincere Pleafure proceeds 

 from fuch a moderate, regular, feafonable, 

 well circumilantiate ufe ; fuch an enjoy- 

 ment as may be reflected upon without hor- 

 ror, fear of Punilhment, or confcioufnefs 

 of guilt, which attends the exceffive, irre- 

 gular, unfeafonable ufe, or rather, the abufe 

 of them, and renders the thought and me- 

 mory of them very bitter and grievous: 

 But of this particular I have written in a 

 former * Treatife. 



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