fl COtttt'rcbátt;q Man',V 3d.tbcrttptíOtt: 351 Ames into. :the`Wiild, !andfome lower operations of' the Spirit, 'whereby they were reduced from Intemperance, -incontinency and,other grofs Vices, to the praóice of feveral Vertues that.refpeet the Civil Life. Andofthis we have an eminent inilance I. record- ed %f 1i alem ilium fuiíerúnt, qui de- byDiogenes aertius;That Polemo 2 btitt.s úntientts, redimitus floiibns, half-drunk,crown'd with,Rofes, and fubnxus met etiicibus, antelucano po- in thedrefs ofa Harlot .rather than to eb,ius, & diurno Cc:cot um comi- tatus lemine Philufophi auditorium ofa Man, coming into the School of difputantis ingrcffus eft, quo auditout the fevere zenocrates, hearing him Mum, - Coronas fenfim detraxerir, un- "senta deterferit fcortis valedixerit, difcotïrfe of Temperance, as by a Phíaurophus poftea tantus evaferit, ut Charm was fo erfeól changed, eifet fobrietatis exemplum, qui fueras that calling away the Garland from area elmietatisludibrium 4mbrgr. de Err &Yejun. his Head, and the lafciviousOrna- ments that wereabout him, and which was more con- fidirable, his vicious, Habits fromhis Soul ; he that en- tered in a Reveller came forth a Philofopher, fo cor- re6ted and compofed in his manners, that he was called theDorick tone, which ofall others was the moil folemn and majeflical in theMufick:of thofe times. Now this alteration was wrought by the forceof natural Reafon, which prevailed on him torenounce .thofe fenfual and bafe lulls, that were inconliiflent.with the Honour and Peace of a Man in this prefent Life. But ílill he was ei ceedingly'diflant,fro.ii the Purity of a true Saint; who partakes ofthe Divine Nature, and is inclined in all his motions to God. All the Precepts of Morality, to ufe the Similitude of Plutarch, are like flrong Per - fumes that fometimes revive thofe that are in a Swoon by the Falling"Sicknefs, but never heal them: So?they may recover thofe that are debaucht from the outward praaiceof thofe ignoble Vices which violate Natural Confcience, but theycannot retifie and; tci.ire the cor- rupt Nature. The highefl`,Pailofophical Qhañge was only from thofe Vices which were fcandalous in the view
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