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CHRISTIAN MORALITY, vLZ.
CMA-STITY, &C.
DERM.
RX1r.
Au]
I
not
made
for nobler things
?
Made
to
a
cend on
angels' wings?
Viral] my
best powers
be
thus debus'd,
And
part with
heaven to
please
my
taste
Can
I
forget the
fatal
deed;
Itow
Eve
brought death
on
all
her
seed,
Sire
tasted the
forbidden
tree,
Auger d
bey
Crud,.
and
ruin'd
me.
Was life
design'd
alone
to
eat?
What
is
the mouth, or what the meat
?
Both from
the ground
derive
their
birth,
?
And
both shall
mitt with common
earth.
reat God,
new
-mould
my sensual
mind,
And
let
rey
joys be
more refin'd
;
Ittaise
me
to
dwell among
the
blest,
And
fit
me
for
thy
heavenly
feast.
SERMON'
XXVII:
CHRISTIAN MOIIALITY,
viz.
CHASTITY,
&e.
PHIL/P.
iv.
8.
Whatsoever things
are
pure,
&c.
think
on these
things.
Oax
ayvcf,
&C.
PURITY
of heart
and
life, in the
perfect
beauty
of
it,
belongs to no
man
since
our
original apostacy.
That
foul
and shameful
departure
from
God,
has
rendered
us
all
unholy and unclean.
But
we
are re-
called to seek
our ancient
glory,
by
the messengers
of
heaven,
and
the
ministry
of
the
gospel.
The
apostle
exhorts
us
to
it
in
the
text.
If
the
word
pure be
taken
in
its largest extent,
it
may
include
in
it temperance
in
meats and
driliis,
as
well as
chastity
in
behaviour.
You
have heard
already
a discourse of temperance,
with
so
hateful an
account
of
the crimes
of
gluttony and drunkenness,
that
I
hope
my
hearers
have conceived
a sacred aversion
to
such
sensua.lities.
Let
us
now
proceed
to the second
sense
implied
in
the
word, and
that
is,
modesty and chastity
of
speech
and
behaviour.
This
is
a most eminent, and most undenia-
ble
part
of that
purity,
which
St.
Paul
here
requires;
and
this,,
in
many
of
his
epistles-,
he insists
upon
as
ne-
cessary,
in
order
to make up
the
character of
a
christian,
and
render it honourable;
and
St.
Peter
recommends
it
to
the pious
women
in
his day,
as
a
means
of
the
con-
version
of
their
husbands, who were
gentiles:
That
they
who obeyed
not
the word
of
the gospel, might be
won
to
a
good esteem
of
christianity,
while they
beheld the chaste
t
ouversation
of
their
wives,
1
Pet.
iii.
1,
2.