[ 1408] Men by Nature, desirous of things unlawfull and prohibited.
IT was the saying of an Ingenious witty Divine,* 1.1 that our Grandmother Eve got such a cold in Paradise, that all her Posterity have ever since had a cough of the Lungs, nothing will down with them but forbidden fruit; Would you have a Book ••ell well? the Stationer will soon find a way for that, let it be but prohibited and call'd in by Authority; The onely way to make a Woman be a blab of her tongue,* 1.2 is to bid her keep Couns••l. Venison is nothing so sweet (they say) as when it is stollen, and then it comes to be dear many times with a Wit∣nesse: Thus it is, that nothing more enflames the Natural affections of Men, then the prohibition of things they desire; they long to be medling with the for∣bidden morsels of sin; they love to eat that on Earth, which they may chance to disgest in Hell. It is quite against the Nature of Man to be confin'd, to be limited; he will have his own Will, though it be contrary to the Will of God; though he get Hell for his Will, he will have his will. And so much the stronger the in∣terdiction is of any thing,* 1.3 so much the more (such is the exorbitancy of his Nature) he is enflamed with desire, till he have accomplished it.