"For a wicked Man is a Slave to as many Masters as he hath Passions and Vices; and they are very imperious and exacting, and the more he yields to them, the more they grow upon him, and exercise the greater Tyranny over him: and being subject to so many Masters, the poor Slave is continually divided and distracted between their contrary Commands and Impositions; one Passion hurries him one way, and another as violently drives him another; one Lust commands him upon such a Service, and another it may be at the same time calls him to another Work."
The Present and Future Advantage of an Holy and Virtuous Life
Finding in EEBO, ECCO and ESTC (1700, 1704, 1712, 1717, 1722, 1735, 1739, 1742, 1748, 1757, 1759, 1772).<br>
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Text from "Sermon CXII. The Present and Future Advantage of an Holy and Virtuous Life," <u>The Works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson</u>, vol. 2 (London: William Rogers, Timothy Goodwin, Benjamin Tooke, and John Pemberton, John Nicholson and Jacob Tonson. 1712).<br>
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Found also in EEBO. See Sermon VIII in <u>Several Discourses of Repentance by John Tillotson; Being the Eighth Volume Published from the Originals by Ralph Barker</u> (London: Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 1700). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:9597988">Link to EEBO</a>&gt;