±. 164 Of Temperance. S>sxivt. fideration, that the time is fhort, the apoftie VI. exprefsly ufes as an argument for mode- t"'"ry rating our affe Lions to prefent enjoyments IF. How unreafonable is it that men fhould ea- gerly purfue thofe gratifications which are of a perifhing nature and momentary duration, which muff quickly depart from them, and be loft for ever ? If men will at all ufe their reafon in the choice of happinefs, fhould they not value that molt which is of the longeft du- ration ? But the gratifications of fenfe, as they perifh with the ufing, leave no abiding enjoy- ment, nor anycomfortable reflexion, fo the ut- inoft poffibility ofpoffeffing them reaches but to a very fhort time. Meats for the belly and the belly, for meats f. There is an eftablifhed rela- tion between them for the purpofes of this animal Rate; but it is of a fhort continuance, for as the apoftle adds, God (hall deroy both them and it. And this (hall be fucceeded by ano- ther unchangeable andeternal condition of ex- iftence, in which there (hall be no ufe of meats and drinks, nor any thing of a parallel kind which belongs to lefh and blood, the prefent animal coniitution ; there thall, I fay, be no ufe of them, nor any appetites for them. + t Cor. vii. 29. fi i Cor. vi, r;. It
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