Chapter 2

CHAP. II.

Producing one Dictate or Rule of right Reason respecting Morality, allowed by Mankind; and passing current through the World without one Negative Voice, except only from those Men whose Reasons are utterly captivated by their Lusts.

SECT. I.

Such is the degeneracy and deep Corruption of some Mens Natures by ill Education, base Company, and long Custom in Sin; that abandoning and casting away the bonds and restraints of right Reason, as well as Religion, they give the full scope and Liberty to their Lusts and Passions, reckoning their chief happiness to consist in the Gratification and Satisfaction of their Sensitive Appetites. They affect a soft, delicate, sense-pleasing Life, reckoning it the only real Heaven to be desired and sought by them; and any other Heaven beside that, to be merely notional and fantastic. This is the Element they desire to ⟨p. 20⟩live and sport in, fitly described, Tit. 3. 3. […] serving divers Lusts and Pleasures. Hence it com•• to pass, that their Bodies serve only to be straine•• for Meats and Drinks, and Channels for filth• Lusts to stream through. In this stream the•• Masculine Agility melts away, and all publi•• Hopes and Expectations from them are totall• defeated and disappointed. Appetite is the Maste and Reason the Slave.