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Fifthly, There is an evil of soul-abasement, they make men become vile. Cicero a Heathen, thought not that man worthy of the name of a man, who spent a whole day together in sensual pleasures. And Plutarch tells of Agesilaus, that he cast off voluptuous pleasures to his slaves, as better beseeming a base quality and servile nature, then himself. Thou mayest think to live in pleasure is a brave life, but it is the basest life that is; so God judgeth it: Hence the same word which the Scripture useth for the sensual glutton, Deut. 21. 20. is used for a vile person, Jer. 15. 19. the word is the same in the Hebrew. Luxurious sporting people have high conceits of themselves, as if they lived the only brave lives, but 2 Pet. 2. 13. they are called spots and blemishes, for they are indeed base, the most base spirited men that live. These do most vilely lower mans nature, they are infinitely beneath the happiness of an immortal soul.

Fifthly, There is an evil of soul-abasement, they make men become vile. Cicero a Heathen, thought not that man worthy of the name of a man, who spent a whole day together in sensual pleasures. And Plutarch tells of Agesilaus, that he cast off voluptuous pleasures to his slaves, as better beseeming a base quality and servile nature, then himself. Thou mayest think to live in pleasure is a brave life, but it is the basest life that is; so God judgeth it: Hence the same word which the Scripture useth for the sensual glutton, Deut. 21. 20. is used for a vile person, Jer. 15. 19. the word is the same in the Hebrew. Luxurious sporting people have high conceits of themselves, as if they lived the onely brave lives, but 2 Pet. 2. 13. they are called spots and blemishes, for they are indeed base, the most base spirited men that live. These do most vilely lowre mans nature, they are infinitely beneath the happiness of an immortal soul.