SERMON VI. Of Temperance. z Pet. i. 6. -- And to Knowledge, Temperance.- - ALL men who have had any juft fenfe SERM. of morality and religion, whether by VI. the light of nature, or by pofitive r_-Na inftitution, have numbered temperanceamong the molt 'neceffary virtues ; by which they underftand fuch a due government of our ap- petites and paffions, as that we may not be led by them into thofe exceffes which are un- becoming the dignity of our reafonable na- ture, or which may interfere with our duty in any other refpebt. Every one is fenfible that man is a com- pounded being, made up not only of the grofs corporeal part, which we call our own body, by the organs whereof, we perceive other ob-- jeds about us, and which is moved according to the
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