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A10391	The description of fleshly lusts. Or a profitable and fruitfull sermon vpon the first Epistle of Saint Peter, Chap. 2. vers. 11. 12. Preached and penned by that famous, learned, iudicious, orthodoxall, holy, wise, and skilfull preacher and servant of God, now deceased, and with his God triumphing in Heaven, Iohn Randall, Batchelour of Divinitie, pastour of St. Andrewes Hubbart in little East cheape London, sometimes fellow of Lincolne Coledge in Oxford. And now published, to the glory of God, the edification of his church, and the honourable memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the word of God in the church aforesaid	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1622 (1622)	STC 20669; ESTC S102397	17,941	33

THE DESCRIPTION OF FLESHLY LVSTS OR A PROFITABLE AND FRVITFVLL SERMON Vpon the first Epistle of Saint Peter Chap. 2. vers 11.12 Preached and Penned by that famous learned iudicious Orthodoxall holy wise and skilfull Preacher and servant of God now deceased and with his God triumphing in Heaven IOHN RANDALL Batchelour of Divinitie Pastour of St Andrewes Hubbart in little East-cheape LONDON Sometimes Fellow of Lincolne Colledge in OXFORD And now published to the glory of God the edification of his Church and the honourable Memoriall of the Author by WILLIAM HOLBROOKE Preacher of the Word of God in the Church aforesaid LONDON Printed by I. D. for Nathaniel Newbery and William Sheffard and are to be sold at their Shops in Popes-head Alley 1622. TO THE VVORTHY AND TRVLY RELIGIOVS LADY THE LADY WELD ALL BLESSINGS internall and externall spirituall and bodily in this life and eternall Glory in the world to come be multiplied WORTHY LADY IT is the promise and worde of the Almighty 1 Sam. 2.30 that he will honor them that honour him which extendeth it selfe not onely to the time of this life but to the time of death and after also this promise it is our part and duty to verifie and make good to and vpon the heads of all the people of God both in the time of their life death and afterwards that so God may be found true in his promise and to doe what hee hath sayd This is done of vs as by many wayes so by keeping and being meanes of preserving an honorable memoriall of them that therein they may for ever be blessed and honorable according to that of Salomon Pro. 10.7 The memoriall of the iust shall be blessed Psal 112.6 and that of the Prophet David The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance The consideration whereof mooved mee to thinke and consider with my selfe how I might performe this duty to the Authour of this following Sermon which whilest I thought vpon I saw no better meanes to performe it by then by publishing some of his worthy labours that so by Heb. 11.4 and in them he might liue and speake though he bee dead as it is sayd of Abell and be had in everlasting and honourable remembrance to the ende of the worlde For which ende next to Gods glory and the good of his Church I haue published for the present two Sermons given me by his Executors which I found in his Study perfected and written with his own hand faire and legible aboue any thing which yet I find of his as if he had purposed them for the Presse and had fitted them therevnto one of which Sermons is this following which I make bolde to offer to the view of the World vnder the protection of your Ladiship It needeth not a Letter or Epistle of Recommendation from me or any other it is able enough and will speake for it selfe both for Method and Matter wherein I dare say as the Text is Methodically genuinely and naturally handled so the matter is worthy and excellent and divers passages therein not ordinary and no wonder seeing it is the worke of a skilfull Workeman who was more then ordinarily gifted from God and fitted for the Worke of the Ministery which the Lord appoynted him vnto The reason why I attempt the performance of this Dutie first to him is this because he was one that loved me dearely in his life time yea honoured me much by his high esteeme reverent speech to all of me and his countenancing and incouraging me in the worke of my Ministery for the space of nine yeares last past during all which time I exercised my Ministery in his charge with great approbation from him and comfort to him as he often confessed so that I had reason to be first in this worke and lege talionis to honour him that honoured me I haue made bolde and beene moved to Dedicate this Sermon to your Ladiship for two reasons especially first because of that honourable esteeme and respect which I know is seated in your religious heart to all the faithfull Ministers of God and was to the Author of this Sermon in particular and speciall whereupon I perswade my selfe that you will esteeme and respect a Fatherles childe of his now tendered vnto you by me a friend to the dead and the living and affoord it all the countenance you can by kinde receiuing of it and other wayes as you would haue done to the Author of it whom you oft desired to haue bin familiarly acquainted with and to haue entertained as you long haue done and still doe many of Gods faithfull Ministers and Servants The second reason is that I might take occasion hereby publiquely to acknowledge my vnfained thankfulnesse to your Ladiship for all the kindnesses you haue shewed and done to me and mine This I thought to haue acknowledged long before this time by publishing some worke of my owne and dedicating it to your Ladiship but haue hitherto kept back for divers reasons known to my selfe notwithstanding continuing my resolution so to doe if God will and permit life and opportunity Having thus rendred my reasons why I dedicate this little worke to your Ladyship I beseech you accept them for excuse of my boldnes in so doing and accept this worke as the labour yea the childe of a faithfull servant of God and one that put vp many a hearty prayer to God for you especially considering it will requite all the countenance you can shew it by the good which through Gods blessing it will doe to your Soule which I heartily wish to your Ladyship and all that shall reade it from him that is able with the showers of his grace to make it fruitfull to you and them Pro. 10.22 His blessing onely maketh rich both for Soule and Body without his blessing wee Preach and Print and the people heare and reade in vaine To him that is the onely true God one in Essence three in Person I doe and dayly will commend your Ladyship in my dayly prayers for attaynement of all needefull blessings for Soule and body in this life and eternall Glory in the world to come through our Lord Iesus Christ In whom I am and ever will be at Your Ladyships Commaund in the worke of the Lord WILLIAM HOLBROOKE THE DESCRIPTION OF FLESHLY LVSTS 1 PETER CHAP. 2. ver 11. and 12. Dearely beloued I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrimes to abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the Soule And haue your conversation honest c. THe Church of God hauing suffered a great Eclipse of her glory having beene exceedingly diminished by the falling away of the whole Nation of the Iewes a people which the LORD had chosen peculiar to himselfe was soone after supplyed partly through the preaching of Iohn the Baptist and partly through the teaching and myracles of Christ himselfe and partly through the ministery of his Apostles and Disciples together with the happy

that evill Spirit which the Heathen say takes possession of euery man but sure I am that it is the proper lust of our owne Nature whether caused by the infection of our Parents or by the temperature of our complexions or by some celestiall influence in our conception or birth or rather indeed wrought in vs by the power of Sathan after wee are come into the world it is I say the proper lust of euery mans owne nature whereby he is inclined to one vice more then to another One hath a touch of Envie another hath a touch of Lying another hath a touch of evill speaking in one is a spice of pride in another a spice of wantonnes in another a spice of covetousnesse I speake euen of the best for in others it is more then a touch or spice it raignes in thē in euery one a speciall inclination to some one speciall sin and this is that lust which fights against euery ones Soule after a speciall maner as here is implyed and therefore hee would haue vs as to abstaine from all sinnes so to make speciall provision against that speciall Lust which is most rife and busie within vs. Aske thy owne Soule and examine thy selfe well whether thou art not more inclinable to one vice then to another search it out throughly in the bowels of thy Nature and when thou hast found what principall sinne thou feelest the power of Sathan and the desire of thy owne flesh most often moving thee vnto thou must consider that this is that fleshly lust which of all others fights most fiercely against thy Soule and thou must know that thou art bound to labour especially against that lust refraining from all occasions and meanes which may any way tend to the cherishing of that sinfull and wicked humour and lust in thee 2. Seeing he diswades vs here from lusts we may obserue that he would haue Christians not onely to abstaine from all sinnes but also from the lusts of sinnes that is the very first motions and inclinations to sinne for if we doe not stop and drie vp the fountaine of Sinne we shall hardly stay it in the Channels If we would kill a Serpent wee must crush him in the head and if wee would destroy Sinne wee must smother it in the very first conception As David when hee fought against Goliah did smite that vncircumcised Philistine in the forehead and so slue him euen so must wee deale with sinne wee must smite it in the forehead and destroy it in the first motion and the first lust that wee feele within vs. For so doe they that are Christs as the Apostles shewes Galat. 5.24 they crucifie the flesh with the affections and lustes thereof they crucifie the flesh there the Tree of sinne is taken downe they crucifie the flesh with the affections there both the sapp and the heart of sinne are perished they crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof there the roote and all is withered and quite dried vp In the first chapt of Exodus verse 16. Pharaoh tooke this course to destroy the Male Children of the Israelites hee commaunded that when their mothers had brought them forth death should bee their midwife they should presently bee killed and made away as soone as ever they began to liue Let vs learne Pharaoh his pollicy for a better practise seeing wee are to subdue sinne let the midwife of sinne bee the death of sinne as soone as ever wee feele it quicken within vs and begin to liue wee must presently stop the first breath that ever it takes and destroy it in the first motion Learne we this same lesson of our Saviour In the 4. chap. of Luke verse 5. the Devill came to him and shewed him all the Kingdomes of the world in a twinckling of an eye it was onely a shew but our Saviour could not abide a shewe of sinne it was but in the twinckling of an eye but our Saviour could not abide one glimpse of sinne it was I say but a moment of time but our Saviour could not abide that temptatation should liue so much as one moment of time but so soone as ever it began to stirre and to moue presently hee destroyed it Now as here is matter of exhortation teaching vs to beware of the first motions of sinne so here is matter of reproofe of an errour in Popery that denies these first motions of sinne to bee any sinnes at all they acknowledge Lust or Concupiscene to bee the cause of sinne but that it should be a sinne of it selfe this they will in no wise acknowledge But if it be a sinne to transgresse the Law of God then lust must needs be sinne Now Saint Iohn telles vs 1 Epistle Chap. 3. vers 4. that sinne is nothing else but the transgression of the Law and it appeares plainely out of Rom. 7.7 that Lust is the transgression of the Law for the Law sayth Thou shalt not lust so that Lust must needs be sinne The Law requires that thou shouldest loue the Lord thy God with all thy thought Luke 10.27 therefore if euer thy thought be enclined to sinne as Lust takes her first hold in our thought thou hast transgressed the Law and sinned against God It was but a flying thought which the Devill suggested into the hearts of the Scribes that Christ blasphemed when he sayd to the sicke of the Palsie Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee for so wee reade Mark. 2.6 they onely reasoned so in their hearts as if they did not throughly consent vnto it but it was onely a conceit that runne in their heads and yet our Sauiour checkes them for it and calles it by the name of euill as appeares Mat. 9.4 Why thinke you euill in your hearts And if it be euill consequently it must needs be sinne How light soeuer these men make of Concupiscence or Lust I am sure that Paul felt by his owne experience and to his great griefe acknowledged it to be sinne as Rom. 7.20 Not I sayth he but sinne that dwelleth in me Their answere which here they alledge that Lust is indeed sinne yet not properly but onely after a kinde of improper sense if Salomon should heare it he would condemne them of foolishnesse The foole sayth he Prou. 14.9 makes a toy of sinne and surely it is great foolishnesse to make so small account of Lust and to esteeme so light of sinne and to vse such a toyish and frivolous distinction in such an earnest and serious matter 2. Now concerning the flesh which is the second thing here to be spoken of By the name of flesh we are here to vnderstand our whole nature for as Lust is most proper to one sinne aboue the rest as namely to Adultery yet is it rightly applied to all sinnes because euery sinne is a Lust so the flesh doth most properly signifie our matter our carnall and bodily part as it is opposed against our soule or spirituall part yet is it rightly