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when all opportunities have fallen out beyond their expectation for accomplishing their ends, through some sudden thoughts which have surprized them, almost in the very act, been diverted from their intended purposes? Did ever any yet imagine that the charms of beauty and allurements of lust were so irresistible, that if men knew before hand they should surely dye in the embraces of an adulterous bed, they could not yet withstand the temptations to it? If then some considerations, which are quite of another nature from all the objects which are presented to him, may quite hinder the force and efficacy of them upon the mind of man (as we see in Ioseph's resisting the importunate Caresses of his Mistris) what reason can there be to imagine that man is a meer machine moved only as outward objects determine him? And if the considerations of present fear and danger may divert men from the practice of evil actions, shall not the far more weighty considerations of eternity have, at least an equall, |
when all opportunities have fallen out beyond their expectation for accomplishing their ends, through Some sudden thoughts which have surprised them, almost in the very act, been diverted from their intended Purposes? Did ever any yet imagine that the charms of beauty and allurements of lust were so irresistible, that if men knew before hand they should surely die in the embraces of an adulterous Bed, they could not yet withstand the temptations to it? If then Some considerations, which Are quite of Another nature from all the objects which Are presented to him, may quite hinder the force and efficacy of them upon the mind of man (as we see in Joseph's resisting the importunate Caresses of his Mistress) what reason can there be to imagine that man is a mere machine moved only as outward objects determine him? And if the considerations of present Fear and danger may divert men from the practice of evil actions, shall not the Far more weighty considerations of eternity have, At least an equal, |
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