in the, Soul of Man. 69 of pleafure, we are fo ·much wedded that it will be like cutting off the right– lland, or pulling out the right eye, to a– bandon them. But n1ufl: we therefore fit down, and wait till all difficulties be over, and every ten1ptation be gone? This \vere to imitate the fool in th~ poet, who fiood .the whole day at the ·river-fide, till all the ~ water fhould run by. We mufi not in· dulge our inclinations, as we do little chil– dren, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to lc::t go. We n1uft ·not continue our finful pracrices, in hopes that the qi\ipe grace will one day over– power our fpirits, and make us hate them for their own deforn1ity. Let us fuppofe the wori1, that we are utterly deftitute of any fupe~na~ural prin– ciple, and want that ta(te ~b~ · ~hieh we fuould difcern and abhor pefver.fe things; yet fure we are capable of fome ~ con(idcra– tiona which n1ay be of force to p~rfnade us to this reforn1ation ofour lives~ , I f the inward deformity and heinous rfature o£ fin cannot affect us·, at · leafi we· n1ay ~e frighted by thofe dreadful cot1fequences that attend it. The fame felfiih principle which pufheth us forward unto the pur• fuit of finful pleafures, will make us loath to buy them at the rate. of everlafl:ing mi.. fery. 4
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