The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present…

And the same absurdity it would be to indulge to themselves an unbounded liberty of sensual pleasures. For that looks like a despair of futurity; as if a day were a mighty gain for eating and drinking, because to morrow we must dye. An abstemious shyness here is comely. A tasting only the delights, whereof others suffer themselves to be ingulfed. A prudent reservedness and restraint, so as that what shall cause with others an unbeseeming transport, ⟨p. 105⟩and diffusion of themselves, be entertained, not with a Cynical morosity, but a pleasant composure, and well ordered complacence; keeping a due and even distance between levity and sourness.

And the same absurdity it would be to indulge to themselves an unbounded liberty of sensual pleasures. For that looks like a despair of futurity; as if a day were a mighty gain for eating and drinking, because to morrow we must dye. An abstemious shyness here is comely. A tasting only the delights, whereof others suffer themselves to be ingulft. A prudent reservednes and restraint, so as that what shall cause with others an unbeseeming transport, ⟨p. 105⟩and diffusion of themselves, be entertain'd, not with a Cynical morosity, but a pleasant composure, and well order'd complacence; keeping a due and even distance between levity and sourness.

Yet there is a natural retiredness in some mens tempers; and in others an aversion to pleasures, proceeding only of a rational estimate of their emptiness and vanity in themselves; which may, however, much fall short of wha• the present case requires: The exigency whereof is no way satisfied, but where such a moderation to the product of a comparative judgment between the delights of the present, and those of the future state: When one so enjoys any thing in this world, as to be under the power of nothing, because of the more prevailing influence he is under from the power of the world to come: When his Faith is the Parent of his Sobriety; and his denial of worldly lusts flows from the expectation of the blessed