a HOLY LIFE. 



I anfvver, To fecure the great end of 

 continuing the Species, and carrying on the 

 World: For had they been weak and lan- 

 guid, it might have come to pafs, that through 

 inadvertency, or to avoid the labor and 

 trouble of bringing up Children, and main- 

 taining of Families, the greatelt part of men 

 might have abltained from fuch Aftions , 

 and fo the Race of Mankind by degrees 

 have been extinft, and the World dif- 

 peoplcd. 



That thefe Appetites are- fo extravagant 

 and irregular, and not without great diffi- 

 culty to be moderated and ruled, or kept 

 within- bounds, is an effed of the Apoltafy 

 of Man: That God permits them fo to 

 continue, one caufe may be, that they may 

 be matter wherein to exercile Virtue : For 

 were thefe vicious Inclinations, and inordi- 

 nate Appetites taken way, were men left 

 in abfolute indififerency to Good and Evil, 

 there could be no fuch thing as Virtue and 

 Vice, nothing praife, or blame-worthy, no 

 place for Rewards or Puniihmerits. For the 

 exercife of Virtue confiits in refilling, and 

 {hiving againfl vicious Appetites, iiibduing 

 Paffions-, and mortifying a of Lulls; and 

 thofe that labour herein, are virtuous Per- 

 fons. Thofe that are flothful, that lay the 



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