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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63895	A discourse on fornication shewing the greatness of that sin, and examining the excuses pleaded for it, from the examples of antient times : to which is added an appendix concerning concubinage : as also a remark on Mr. Butler's explication of Hebr. xiii, 4 in his late book on that subject / by J. Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1698 (1698)	Wing T3297; ESTC R10983	44,117	68

teach it better Principles than its Parents had Nor is it easie to imagin that the Parents themselves shou'd do much better in this Affair It may be they have not yet repented of their own Iniquity and if not it is hard to believe that they shou'd have any great Zeal to implant Grace in others who stiffle and extinguish it in themselves But suppose they have how will they set about a Work that shall bring afresh into their Minds all the Shame and Terror and Confusion that first followed the Commission of that Sin The Sense of their own Shame will stop their Mouths and the Rebukes of their Consciences Divert their Purpose and Prevent their Good Design So that tho' other Parents may be careless and negligent in the Instruction and Tuition of their Children these lie under almost a Fatal and Inevitable Necessity of this Neglect And who knows what great what irreparable and it may be Everlasting Mischiefs this one Calamitous Misfortune may be the Cause of Or how little is it to be wondred at if such a Shameful Spurious Brood inherit the Vices of their Parents and become Persons of Reprobate Minds and given up to Vile Affections and abominable Lusts What is to be expected from such wicked Practices but a Propagation of Vice and Naughtiness and an horrid Increase in great Iniquities that without some extraordinary Operation of Divine Grace and Mercy brings the whole Generation to Everlasting Misery and Torments These are Notorious Instances of the lamentable Evils and Mischievous Consequences of this Sin But 2. The Mischiefs of it falls oftentimes upon the Offenders themselves as well as upon their Offspring and Posterity And that in the first Place in their Credit and Character and Reputation As to Female Prostitutes they even by the Heathens themselves have ever been esteemed the most Infamous and Profligate And tho' Men are generally of a less tender Fame and Credit yet so inseparable and unalienable is Shame from Sin and Vice that neither the Commonness of the Practice nor the Authority of great Examples nor all the Pleas and Apologies that are alleged for its Excuse can give it Credit and Reputation And those who are almost ready to be Advocates for it yet in the Commission of it are generally sollicitous to be conceal'd and that not only from the Sober and Pious and Grave but from others of the same ill Life and Conversation And many of these who have made a shift to harden their Hearts and sear their Consciences against the Guilt of it find it yet very difficult after all to harden their Foreheads too against the Shame and Scandal And tho' in a very Wicked and Degenerate Age yet there is no Man of what Rank soever that continues in this Sin and refuses to be reclaimed but it will prove a Blemish to him and a Scandal to any Dignity Office or Character that he bears And tho' in Civility and Good Manners he may not discover this by any outward visible Disrespect yet he must lose considerably in the inward Veneration and Esteem of Men. Nor does it often fare better with these Sinners in their Estates of which besides the Evidence of Reason we have the Confirmation of almost every Days Experience How often do such Men Ruine and Waste their Substance and at last become Poor and Despicably Miserable Thus it fared with these Offenders above two thousand Years ago Nor has Time or Experience been able to teach such Men to escape the Mischief any other way but by abstaining from the Sin Keep thee from the Evil Woman from the Flattery of the Tongue of a strange Woman Lust not after her Beauty in thine Heart Neither let her take thee with her Eye lids for by means of a Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a Piece of Bread Prov. vi 24. c. And Prov. v. 8 9 10. Remove thy way far from a strange Woman and come not nigh the Door of her House lest thou give thine Honour unto others and thy Years unto the Cruel Lest Strangers be filled with thy Wealth and thy Labour be in the House of a Stranger and thou mourn at the last when thy Flesh and thy Body are consumed Agreable to which is that Advice to the Son of Syrach Eccles ix 16. Give not thy Soul unto Harlots that thou lose not thine Inheritance I may very pertinently add here to all the former Mischiefs the Pernicious Effects of this Sin to the Bodies of those that live in it who frequently impair their Health and wast their Strength and it may be dye Infamous Martyrs to their Lusts by the Rottenness of their Bones and the Venemous Infection of a Noisom Scandalous Disease But I am unwilling to enlarge upon so Loathsome and Odious a Subject And yet methinks 't is no small Evidence no trifling Indication of God's great Displeasure against this Sin that he has entail'd a Curse and a Calamitous Distemper even to Rottenness and Putrefaction so peculiarly upon Adultery and Fornication that it is not to be brought upon any of Mankind but one of these Detestable Iniquities must be the Original Cause of it But I pass by all these things with transient Reflections Not that they are in themselves either small or inconsiderable for an Infamous and a Wicked Posterity a Reproachful Character a Beggar'd Fortune and an Infected Body are all of them very great and sore Calamities But because there are greater Evils and Consequences more pornicious and more justly to be lamented yet behind I mean 3. Lastly The Spiritual Mischiefs and Miserable Consequences to the Soul in Grieving the Holy Spirit of God and repelling his Divine Grace which is the true Fountain of Christian and Spiritual Life in us and the Blessed Author of our Sanctification This is an Evil which a very little Consideration will convince us is inseparable from this Vice and from Adultery And at the same time more deplorable than all the Evils that can befal our Credit Estate or Life because these ill Effects will follow Men thro' the Grave and make them Miserable to all Eternity For the clearing what I intend on this Head let it be remember'd that I have already shewn that our Union with God and Christ is by the Mediation of that Holy Spirit which Resides and makes its Abode within us That this is the Principle of Grace and all manner of Goodness in us that to the joint Operation of this Holy Spirit with our Spirits we owe both our good Affections and Desires and also our Strength and Power to do what is Virtuous and Good That therefore according to the Proportion of God's Spirit in us and our own Care to Cherish and Improve it Such will be the Temper and Disposition of our Souls and the Degrees of Goodness and Holiness in us And that by consequence upon the Want and Deprivation of this Spiritual Assistance we must lose both our Inclinations and our Power of being Religious