OCR Text |
Show ¢ Conclufion 6 has Light with Darknefs, and what concor has Chrift with Belial. Call you this Diverfi on? Can Profanenefs be fuch an irrefiftabl Delight? Does the Crime of the Perfor mance make the Spirit of the Satisfation and is the Scorn of Chriftianity the Entertainment of Chriftians Is it fuch Pleafure to hear the Seriprurescburlefqu'd Is Ribaldry fo very obliging, and At/eif fo Charming a Quality? Are we indeed willing to quit the Privilege of our Nature to furrender our Charter of Immortality and throw up the Pretences to anothe Life ? It may be fo! But then we fhoul do well to remember that Nothing is no inour Power. Our Defires did not mak us, neither ca they unmak us But hope our wifhes are not fo raean, and tha we have a better fenfe of the Dignity of ou Being.: And if fo, how can we be pleas with thofe Things which would degrad us into Brutes, which ridicule our Creed,an turn all our Expetations into Romance And after all,the Jefton't is, thefe Me would make us believe their defign is Virtue and Reformation. In good time! The are likely to combat Vice with faccefs who deftroy the Principles of Good an Evil ! Takethem at the beft, and they d no more thanexpofea little Humour, an Formality. But then, as the Matter i mapag'd, the Corre&tion i much wcl)lrf tha ju ut it it i Js Con et of i ilons, 2n ' the buln e, & o 0k, draws o & fpos 2 Cor 14 x I efechual me D 0 ema Mo A Debach they & eran'lme v ofte b vith th ment f p 28 W, gnd 1 fbeen beng |