upon Religious Subjects. 367 returned to his vomit again, and the few that S E R M. was wafted to her wallowing in the mire. It XIV. is really amazing to what a height of infen- fibility men will arrive who allow themfelves time after time, in a repeated violation of their confciences, making breaches in the ingenuity of their natures, and calling off the refiraints of fhame. Things, which would have been fhocking to them at the firfi, and they could not have borne them without an inward confufion, become fa- miliar at !aft, nay, and perfetly eafy to them. The men, whofe God is their belly, who are wholly devoted to their fenfual ap- petite, which is the lowefl, the moll un- manly, indeed brutifh, of all human cha- ra Iers, they even glory in their fhame. What appears to an ingenuous fpirit fenfible of the excellence of the rational nature, the moil deformed and vile, to have an unfufferable turpitude, and greater odioufnefs to the mind than the moil abominable things in the world have to the outward fenfes, they are per - fe &ly reconciled to, and take pleafure in them. The moll fublime and important things of religion, which, to an unvitiated fpirit,
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