Of the imitation of Christ : four books . ch seems good isimmediately to be followed; nor on the otherhand is every contrary affection at the first to beavoided. It is sometimes expedient to use a restrainteven in good desires and endeavours, lest throughunseasonable effort thou incur distraction of mind ;lest by thy want of self-government thou beget ascandal unto others; or again, being by othersthwarted and resisted, thou become suddenlyconfounded, and so fall. 3. Sometimes however thou must use violence,^and resist manfully thine appetite, not regardingwhat the flesh would or would not; ^
Of the imitation of Christ : four books . ch seems good isimmediately to be followed; nor on the otherhand is every contrary affection at the first to beavoided. It is sometimes expedient to use a restrainteven in good desires and endeavours, lest throughunseasonable effort thou incur distraction of mind ;lest by thy want of self-government thou beget ascandal unto others; or again, being by othersthwarted and resisted, thou become suddenlyconfounded, and so fall. 3. Sometimes however thou must use violence,^and resist manfully thine appetite, not regardingwhat the flesh would or would not; ^ but rathertaking pains that even 2:>erforce it may be madesubject to the Spirit* And so long ought it to be chastened and to be Ihil. ii. 2\. - Ihil. ii. 11. Rom. Mil. I -13 ; 2 Cor. i\-. 10 ; \. 3. i Cor. ix. 27. IMITATION OF CHRIST. 177 forced to remain under servitude, until it beprepared for every thing, and learn to be contentwith a little, and to be pleased with plain andsimple things, and not to murmur against
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