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CHRISTIAN
?vIORALITY,
viz.
DERM.
7kRY.
subject,_
and
bids
us
mark the
particular
effects
of
it:
Thine
eyes
shall behold strange
women,
and thine
heart
shall
utter
perverse
things,
Prov.
xxiii. 33.
That
is,
says a
learned paraphrast
*
upon
the text,
"
thy thoughts
will
not
only grow confused,
and
all
things
appear
to thee
.otherwise
than
they
are
;
but
lustful
and adulterous de-
sires
will be
stirred
up, which thou canst
not
rule;
and
thy mouth
being
without a
bridle,
will
break forth
into
unseemly,
nay,
filthy,
scurrilous,
or,
perhaps, blasphe-
mous language,
without respect
to
God
or man." Yea,
thou
shalt
be,
saith the
wise
man,
as
he
that
lieth down
in the midst
of
the
sea,
or
as
he
that
lieth
upon the
top
of
a mast, ver. 34.
that
is,
" Thou
wilt sottishly
run
thyself into
the
extremest
hazards,
without
any
appre-
hensions
of
danger, being no more able to
direct
thy
course than a pilot
who
snores when
a
ship
is
tossed in
the
midst
of
the
sea
;
no
more able
to
take
notice
of
the
peril
thou
art
in,
than
he
that
falls
asleep
on
the top
of
a
mast, where he
was
set to
keep
the watch."
They
have stricken
me,
shalt thou
say,
and
I
was
not sick;
they
have
beaten
me,
and
I
felt
it
not,
When
I
shall
awake,
I
will
seek
it
yet
again, ver.
35.
It
is
as
if
the
wise
man had
said,
"That
to
complete
thy
misery,
thou
shalt not
only
be
mocked,
and
abused, and beaten,
but
thou
shalt be
as senseless as
if
no
harm had
befallen thee
And
no
sooner
wilt
thou open thine
eyes,
but thou
wilt
stupidly
seek
an
occasion to
be
drunk, and
be
beaten
again,"
My
friends, have
ye
never
seen
a drunkard
make
that
odious
figure, in
which Solomon
represents
him
?
You
find
human .nature
is
constant
to
itself
:
It
appears
now
in Britain,
just
as
it
is
described in the
days
of
old
at
Jerusalem
in all its vicious excesses.
There
is
a
great
degree
of
likeness between
our
forefathers intemperance,
and
their
children
of
late posterity.
One
would
think
one
such
.a
spectacle
as this,
or the
mere
report of
it,
with
an
assurance
of the
truth, should
be
enough
to
for-
bid
our
lips
the
excess
of
liquor, and
to set
a
guard upon
ourselves
in
the
hour
of
temptation.
Not
only those
who
overwhelm themselves with strong
.drink,
and forget reason
and
themselves,
but
those
that
*Bishop Patrick.