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1. Forbearing sensual, though lawful Pleasures.
2. Avoiding at the first, as much as may be, any know∣ledge, and experience of, or skill in, them; for, by this is cutt off the longing after them.
Digr. How hardly such Pleasures can consist with Piety.
3. Especially, chusing rather, if you can live conti∣nently, a single life, than Marriage. To which the more to excite and encourage you,