...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton, who, in his Comus, thus sings : — " When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being." And how graphic, yet how revolting, the description of his own character, before his conversion, given'...

...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton, who, in his Comus, thus sings : — - "When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrulcs, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." And how graphic, yet how revolting,...

...act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The ssitl grows clotted by contagion, Imtodies, i"1ch are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulehres 47 Lingering,...

...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. I in boilie<> and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being, Such are those...

...region, and therefore t 3ye of man can still behold them ;"' which is copied by Milton, when he speaks of Those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by .1 new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved. Which idea seems...

...and therefore the eye of man can still behold them ;"1 which is copied by Milton, when he speaks of Those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved. Which idea seems...

...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foal talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepuichres Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave As loth to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd...

...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, & foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...property of her first being. Such are those thick & gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, ' Lingering, and sitting by a new...

...save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. 4. But when Lust .... Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear ; the headstrong...

...conception which its eternal author taught it to form of his moral character. For in such savage eras " The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her firat being, " and history accordingly informs us that men have believed...