awn eyes to:avoid.the danger of uncleannefs. 6'0c-rates fpeak-- eth of two young men that Rang away their Bits, when he- mg- in 'an Idol_Ternple , the lufirating wa :er fell upon 'I them, detefling, faith the Hillorian, the garment fpotted by theFiefh Alexander would not fee the woman after whom he might have lulled. Scipio Africans warring in Spain,took New-Carthage by florin, at which time a beautiful and noble A via, virgin fled to hilt for fuccour to .c)referve, her Chaffity,- he being four and twenty years old, (and fo in the heat of youth) hearing of it, would not fuffer.her- to come into his fight, for fear of a temptation, butcaufed her to be reflored in :lafety to her Father. So when Dem fikenes the 01:atour,,was'asked an exceifive C m of.money.to behold the beautiful -Lai!, he anfwer%:d, He would not buy repentance fo dear, neither was he fo ill a Merchant as to fell eternals for temporals. Nor Calar would not fearch Pcmpeyes Cabinet, left he fhould find new matters of revenge. Memorable is the Flory of the children of Sow'', ;74, that would not touch their Ball, bti. burnt it, becaufe it had touched the Toe of a wicked Here-. tical 13illior, as they were toffina and playing with it. No* tllall forne refined Heathens, ffiall civilizecrPagans abflain from the appearance devil, from occafions and temptati- ons to fin ? and !hail real Chriflians fall tbox of them? Shall blind nature do more than Grace ? Shall men fallen in the aril Adam; do more than thofe that are railed and enlivened by the fecond adam I But to prevent all nliflaicesj -let me add, though many. Heathens have abflained from the appear - ance ()frame evil, ,yet.they have not abflained from the ap- pearance of all evil ; neither have they abflained from the appearance of any evil out of a hatred of evil ; nor from any principles of laving light,. or life,: ortlove; ,nor, out, of regard to any Royal Law of God ; .nor out of any regard to the honour or gloryof God, but either out-of vain-glory, and popular applaufe, the Pole4lars by which they fleeted all their aaions, or out of Hypocrify7,, which fet a tiny ure and Dy upon all their aaions-;, what Writer bath more golden Sentences than Senecaogainit the !contempt of Gold, yet (if racism, and others of his contemporaries. may &edi- ted)
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