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CHRISTIAN
MOR
ALITY,VIZ.
[SEAM. XXVI
e,
not
provision for the
flesh,
to fulfil
the lusts
thereof.".
Put
on
the
spirit,
of
the
gospel,
and
the ornaments
of
christianity, and then
you
cannot
for shame seek
the
pleasures
of
the brute,
nor
sink down
into
the., base iw
purities of
the animal
nature
:
If
you have
put
on the
Lord Jesus
Christ, and are
his disciples indeed,
then
look like christians
;
let the
very life
of
Christ
he
mani-
fest
in
your
lives: Live above these animal desires, these
lower designs
of
the
flesh,
which
is
not
the chief
nature
of
the man, much
less
should
it
be
the chief
end
of
chris-
tians
to
gratify
it.
II.
Let
christians consider,
that
the
original
ruin
of
their
natures, soul and
body,
arose
from the
indulgence
of
a
foolish
appetite.
When
our
mother
Eve
saw
the
fruit
of
the forbidden tree, she
thought it
was
pleasant
to
the
eye,
and
good
for
food:
She
tasted it
herself,
and tempt-
ed
Adam to the
sin
that ruined
him
and
all.
his offspring.
When therefore
a
temptation
to this
sort of
guilt appears,
let
us
think of
all the
miseries
of our
fallen state,
and
not
dare
to
repeat
that
crime, which
had
-such dismal
consequences.
It
brought
iniquity, pain, and death
in-
to
human nature,
and begun
all
that
dishonour
to
God,
and
all
that
mischief among
men,
that
ever
was
found
in
this lower
world.
.
III.
Every saint
ought to have a mortal
quarrel
with
the
flesh,
because he.carries
about
the seeds
of
iniquity
in
it,
and
the springs
of
perverse
appetites,
which
ought
always to
be
kept under, lest our
very
spirits become
carnal, and
we
lose
our
heavenly
crown.
Therefore
saith the apostle,
1
Cor.
ix.
27.
I
keep
under
my body,'
and bring
it
intó
subjection,
and
endeavour
to be
tem-
perate
in all things,
that running
in the
christian race,
I
may
obtain
the
prize.
It
is
the business
of
a
christian
to
eat
and drink
in
due
season,
for strength and refresh-
ment,
not
for
luxury and
drunkenness,
which Solomon
forbids
to
princes
;
Eccles.
x.
17.
It
was
an
excellent
saying
of
that
holy
man, Mr:
Joseph
Allein,
"I
sit down
to
my
table not
to
please
my
appetite, or
to
pamper
my
flesh,
but
to
maintain
a
servant of Jesus
Christ,
that
he
may
be fit
for
the
Lord's
work."
IV. The
saints should
be
pure and
holy;
even
in
the
affairs
of
the
natural
life;
for they have
meat
to eat,
that
the world
knows
not
of;
they
drink
of
the.
pleasures