a HOLY LIFE. 7? 



it felf more agreeable to Reafon, and more 

 eafy and eligible than Vice ; and it pro- 

 ceeds from the pravity and corruption of 

 our Natures, that we do not chufe it ac- 

 cordingly. 



Befides, in all Pleafures we are to confir 

 der, whether the fubfequent pain and for- 

 row do not outweigh the prdent enjoy- 

 ment; which if it do, the voluptuary Philo- 

 fophers themfelves advife to abdain from 

 them. Now the Pleafures of fin, (as the 

 Scripture calls them) as Intemperance and 

 Impurity do often bring upon the commit- 

 ters of them Pain and Sicknefs, and fome- 

 times noifome Difeafes in this Life ; but, to 

 be fure, eternal Mifery and Diftrefs in the 

 World to come: Between which, and a 

 Ihort and tranfient Pleafure, there is no 

 proportion. I might add hereto the Judg- 

 ment of Seneca, concerning the filthinefs 

 and unmanlinefs, of theie Vices of Intem- 

 perance and Lull : Nulli (faith he) turfit- 

 es occuf&ti funt : No Men are more for- 

 didly employed. Etiamji vand gloria ima- 

 gine teneantur, fpeciose tamen errant: Li- 

 cet avaros mihi, &c. If Men be taken 

 with a vain image of glory, they err, but 

 yet fpeciouily. Should you enumerate to me 

 covetous Perfons, or angry Men, or fuch as 



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