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CHRISTIAN- MORALITY,
VIZ.
CHASTITY,
&C. ESERM.
xXVIf.
of
nature. The
holy
apostle
in
his
prohibitions,
cou
pies chambering
and
wantonness, with
a rioting
and
drunken
practice.
Rom, xiii.
13.,
and
calls them all.works
of
darkness.
It
is
a
good
remark
of
Kempis,
a devout
papist
in
former
days,
"
Bridle the
appetites of
the
pa-
late, get
a
sovereignty over
them,
and
you
will
be
better
able to
master
every
other
appetite"
3.
Always
employ yourselves
in
something
innocent
and
useful,
that
may
engage
the powers
of
the body,
or
the
mind,
or
both,
that
so
temptation
may
never
find
you
idle.
The
springs
of
the
sin
of
Sodom-
were fulness
of
bread,
and abundance
of idleness; therefore
they grew
haughty,
and
committed abomination before the
Lord.
Ezek.
xvi. 49,
50.
This
is
an
advice of Jerom,
one
of
the christian fathers
:
Be
still
doing some
work,
that the
devil, when he
comes
to tempt, may always find
thee
busy.
Where
you
are
in
danger
of
these
sins,
put
your-
selves
upon
a necessity
of
diligence all the
day,
that
you
may have no time
nor
room
for
wild
imaginations nor
impure
indulgencies.
4.
Avoid
the
seasons,
the
places, and
the objects
of
temptation,
as
far
as
it
is
consistent
vt'ith
the necessary
duties
of life: For
he
that
bath
no
caution about
him,
and
is
not
afraid
of
being tempted, he
is
not,acquainted
with human weakness,
nor
is
the
so
much afraid
of
sin
as
he
ought to
be.
5.
tIaintain
an everlasting and
awful sense
of
the
pre-
sence
of God
thy
Maker,
thy
Governor, and
thy
Judge.
Remember the Lord beholds
the
secret
workings
of
the
heart, and the
foul
practices of darkness and midnight,
There
is
not
a
place
where the
eye
of God cannot
come,:
What
an
honourable character hath.young Joseph
ac
quired
in the word
of
God, and
his
name stands
recorded
with .renown in divine history
through
all
ages,
for
his
flight from
the
allurements
of
an immodest woman
The
guard
which
he
continually placed upon
his
virtue,
was
the
all seeing
eye
of
heaven.
How
can
I
do
this.
.great
wickedness,
and
sin
against
God
?
Gen.
xxxix. 9.
G.
Get
those
scriptures written
in
your
hearts, and
ready
at
all
times in
your
memories, which
may
be
the
most
effectual antidotes
and
preservatives against
all
for-
bidden pleasures.
This
was
the ancient practice
of
the
saints.
Vs.
cxi,Y.,
1.1...
Thy
word have
I
hid
in
my
heart,