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Now every Fighter (says our Apostle, and so say all Agonistick Writers,) is to keep a strict Diet. S. Paul 's words are, He must be temperate in all Things. Alluding plainly to the Olympicks, in which the Combatans were dieted for forty Days. Every Man had his Lent, whereby to fit him for his Encounter; and his Abstinence was his Armour, whereby to guard him from a Defeat. And if They were so Abstemious, to gain a corruptible Crown, how much more should we abstain, for the gaining of a Crown which is not liable to corruption? not onely an exceeding, but an aeternal weight of Glory? Such was the Logick with which S. Paul argued, |
Now every Fighter (Says our Apostle, and so say all Agonistic Writers,) is to keep a strict Diet. S. Paul is words Are, He must be temperate in all Things. Alluding plainly to the Olympics, in which the Combatans were dieted for forty Days. Every Man had his Lent, whereby to fit him for his Encounter; and his Abstinence was his Armour, whereby to guard him from a Defeat. And if They were so Abstemious, to gain a corruptible Crown, how much more should we abstain, for the gaining of a Crown which is not liable to corruption? not only an exceeding, but an Eternal weight of Glory? Such was the Logic with which S. Paul argued, |
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