430 A Sermon ·at the Funeral pearan.ce of thofe impuri ties which are the reproach of the Chri!lian .\vorld. How g-reat an example was.he ofChriftian conti- . nenc~ and celibacy to all that knew him ? , I-Iis very air and converfation !hewed how 1nuch he was n1ortjfied to the world in this refpeCl:. He had no fi11all abhorrence of all difcourfes and actions that favoured - any thing of in1pu -~ity; and could not . endure the obfc:ene wit of thofe who were apt to<wrefi: the talk of n1.ens or.dinary dif– i:Ourfe that way. · As the pleafures and pomp of the wodd could never bewitch, fo the hardiliips ·and trotibles of it qid never opprcfs and over– come his fpirit; but, in all conditions, _ his mind feetned always equal, and conftant to itfelf. When he ·lived in the country, the hardfhips and inconveniencies he then· -endured, were the con1mon talk of all that~ knew hitn: his coarfe fare, and hard lod– ging, and unwqnted folitude, the extr~me coldnefs of the feafon, and the con1fortlefs fhelters he had ~rrainfi: it, did excite ·the L~ compaffion of others, but never ldfened the quiet and contentednefs of _his fpirit; and .he fuffered them with as much patience, , as if he had been bred up f\l"on1 his infancy in the Turkijb gallies. Any travei{e's that bcfd
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