, joute~exalting humiliation. arid morrall precifendfe, as it were,ofvery heathen men, ledonelybythe light ofreaion and common · notions ofright and wrong. · · , Fo~Iying ; whicb the very book ofGod w'i!l hot bearedowne in many, even ·.Arijlotle an heathen philofopher ·tells us,' that alie if lewd of it felfe and Arl~.~th••. c.1difcommendable ·- Kc~& a.t~otaJ.t Obfcrenitie ~f fpeech, wherein many wicked wits ;:~:v~J'~ and wancon tongues wallow, without any checke .fsK.7tiv; · or remorfe, was odious and abominable to the e·ye ( ofreafon : thus fa1th another heathenHh Philofo- ~ ·· pher; ~r 'is dangerous to digreffe into o~fcrenitie Em~fl~"i' ~ · oflpeech : therefore whenariy fuch thing falls out ~ 70 e'~ <U'')(e9 "-o;f dJI :fif op·porrunitie ferve) reprove him that lets fall "~ \.J ~ili?.vE11'o any fi1ch frothy filth: or c~t leafr, by 6lence, b!ufb- Epilfet. li.nchir. · ing, or feveritie ofcmmtenance, difcover thy dif~ cap. 5>· . like offuch unmanly talke. _ Wben any image or refprefent~tion of fenfuall ~vn.fui11 i~~opleafure: {ball .come into thymind~ fairh the fame· rev p(t)v_ 'i,v~x.,e9h d r: • fl b b l . h All!, 1(!!.':1 5 , 7i . aut or; pon er tenou y upon or t 1e trmes, t at !wro"ttuE1~ -rik , · wherein thou·ilialr enjoy ·rhe pleafure , and that ~Jb~;;~, r.g] '@e· wherein thou fbalt grievefor the pkafure enjoyed ; J~:"::;0_ And~ &c. »O'FI(, ~dt-,.nr . Mofr menwouldfarre raiherflecpe in an whole ~d,tiTC,; AOido- . \skin, than ~ith agood confctence, and will yeeld fll~lJ. cap 5~· · i ro any thing rat her than hazza-rd, efpecial1y dther jiife, or lively-hood .: but rhe very Hfe of reafon 1 lead Ari[fotle to that rnorr:1ll precifeneffe and per" 1 :Ev,'"' J: ~nv~ ,. I ~rnptorindfe:, that he y'ouldha~e.u~ rather die and ;;~:u~~~d~~ I endure the ntmofr, anci eJttremme of the mofr ex- ,td~V~ov Ct:nroj (quill re torment~, th?? be drawne to fome things. ~~!11 ~"';6~: \ The wor1d thmks,(m thefe lafr dayes fodrown~d n. Eth. P · · J E e m /'
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