"And as Inferiour Persons, when they are advanced to Power, are strangely Insolent and Tyrannical towards those that are subject to them; so the Lusts and Passions of men, when they once get the Command of them, are the most domineering Tyrants in the World; and there is no such Slave as a Man that is subject to his Appetite and Lust, that is under the Power of irregular Passions and vicious Inclinations, which transport and hurry him to the vilest and most unreasonable things."
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;