5. But if the poet judged the enticement of
worldly pleasure and licence destructive of men’s minds and a
sure cause of shipwreck, what ought we to think, for whom it hath been
written: “Train not the flesh in
concupiscence”? Rom. xiii. 14—“Make not provision for the
flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”—A.V. And
again: “I chastise my body and bring it into servitude,
lest whilst I preach to others, I myself become a
castaway.” 1 Cor. ix. 27.