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A42198	One come from the dead, to awaken drunkards and whoremongers being a sober and severe testimony against the sins and the sinners, in an exact description of the nature and danger of these two soul-destroying evils : together with proper and sovereign remedies / by Richard Garbut ... ; with epistles to the reader, by Mr. R. Baxter, and Mr. William Jenkins.	Garbutt, Richard.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1675 (1675)	Wing G208; ESTC R9286	86,694	204

and Chattels you have ●…esides Men do not despise a Thief if he steal to 〈◊〉 his Soul because he is h●…ngry Prov. 6. 30. And it is not for nought but to shew the great di●…ference between the sin and sin that Naturally the Rage of a Man is far more against him that wrongs him in his VVi●…e in that Ewe-Lamb that ●…ats of his own Meat and lies in his own Bo●…om 2 Sam. 12. than in all the Flocks and Herds besides that feed and lie on Mountains and Valleys neither let any body s●…y that this was Mosaical and special to the Jews onely for special Reasons to have Adultery punished with death for ●…oth be●…ore Mos●…s and out of the Jewish Common-wealth where Moses's Law was not on foot even by the Law and Light of N●…ture they thought Adul●…ery worthy to be punished with Death as that speech of Judah's abo●…t his Daughter-in-Law Tamar Espoused to his So●… Shelah and so accounted hi●… Wi●…e 〈◊〉 Espousals his speech about her being sound with Child before the Solemnizing of the Marriage shews ●…ng her ●…orth 〈◊〉 l●…t her be burnt Gen. 38. And Job's speech This is an hainous Crime and an Iniquity to be punished by the Judges Job 31. And further the Judgment of the King of Babylon upon two Adulterers Zedekiah and Ahab Roasting them in the fire is alledged by some Jer. 29. 22. Further in 〈◊〉 's time Adultery by Christian Laws was punished with Death as may appear by that which he saith That for all that daily some were put to Death for Adultery yet Adultery ceased not And at Geneva yet Adultery is punished with Death And what more equal than Bishop L●…timer's Motion in a Sermon before King Edward That Adultery the ●…irst time if the Innocent party would speak for the Nocent should be par●…oned but the second time the Adulterer or Adultress should to the Pot Well it being plain by a Man 's own Reason by the Law of Moses by the Law of Nature before Moses that the right doom of Adultery is Death Aye if a Thief deserve a Rope no Adulterer but deserves two let them know there●…ore that please themselves with the impunity of this sin that where the Law of Man is remiss the Law of God will be severe and they scape the Roasting in the King of Babylon's fire yet there is another fire they shall not escape a fire that ●…hall nev●…r be quenched and they themselves nev●…r consumed And so I come to the third sort of Judgments The third sort of Judgments upon whoremongers and Adulterers are hereafter and First Th●…y sha●…l be sure to have no part in the K●…ngdom o●… God such uncle●… Creatures shall never put Foot over Thre●…ld there where no unclean thing 〈◊〉 in and be●… they are apt to think and ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dreams 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a Be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not deceived neither Fornicators nor Adulterers Fornicators and Adulterers these with the first and these with a Be not deceived are sure not to Inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. 21. And if one single Asservation will not serve the turn he tells them once and again that they shall Reckon of it as a Truth of the which I tell you before as I have told you in times past And because this onely to be deprived of the Kingdom of God might seem no such great matter to Men blinde●… and violently carried away with their Lusts and Pleasures if so be there were no sensible punishment to follow therefore unto the loss of the Kingdom of God the sustaining the wrath of God for such sinners is ●…dded Eph. 5. 5 6. and among them that are to be 〈◊〉 into the Lake burning with Fire and Brimstone VVhoremongers are not forgot to be sure they shall be of the Number Rev. 21. 8. VVell therefore if VVhoremongers and Adulterers be sure to have no part in the Kingdom of God and be sure to have a part a peppering part in the wrath of God and in the boyling Lake then let us so long as we cannot blot out these Texts Be not deceived and let no man deceive you with vain words out of the Book of God let us take heed of those sins which will blot out our Names out of the Book of Life and give us our Portions in the boyling Lake which is the second Death the Proverb is He poyseth ill that counterpoiseth not that sets not one thing against 〈◊〉 that puts all in one Seak and counterpoiseth not by putting some weight in the other Scale will not light Wares and a very Feather almost weigh down Scales where one is empty Thou theresore that do est upon thy Brutish Carnal Pleasure p●…ise not so as not to counterpoise consider what thou gettest and what thou losest thou gettest a little Brutes pleasure but thou losest Angels Joy and Pleasure for they never Marry Thou drinkest a li●…le of those stollen Waters which seem sweet Prov. 9. and thou losest those Rivers of Pleasures at Gods right hand for evermore thou solacest thy self in the bosom of a strange Woman and thou losest the solace and comfort that is in Abraham's bosom thou feedest thine Eye with the Beauty of her that e●…re while shall fall into Dust and Ashes an●… thou losest the glorious and blessed Vision of him who is Eternity of Days thou art made one with her that is but a very Fiend in the shape of flesh and blood and thou losest thy being made partaker of that Divine Nature which he that hath escaped the Corruption th●…t is in the World through Lust shall be made partaker of 2 Pet. 2. 20. And theresore Basil being asked what might be a Sovereign Remedy of Lu●… Answered Desires and Thoughts upon better things so think but pausingly and soberly of these better things and how canst thou then let a Brutes pleasure deprive thee of Angels pleasure Let the solace in the Bosom of a strange Woman c. Let the base Slavery in the thraldom of Lust deprive thee of the blessed Liberty in the Kingdom of God Here is juster place for an I will not buy Repentance at so dear a rate than it was when Demosthenes said it upon the Corinthian 〈◊〉 asking him ten thousand Drachmes for one Nig●…t Ten thousand Drachmes Aye ten t●…ousand World●… to be lo●…t for the purchasing of this pleasure will not cause such bitter R●…pentance as Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Adulterers c. B●…t if the punishment of loss will not wo●…k upon the sottishness of this sin the punishment of smart and sense let ●…t be consi●…ered ●…nd let one sire be a Remedy again●…t another sire the fire of Hell against the sire of Lust as when one hath scorched or burnt his finger 〈◊〉 the fire he holds it again to the fire that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take o●…t ●…re so the fire of Lust if it 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 let us set our selves a little nearer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 within the

is Married cares how to please his Wife c. But to 〈◊〉 ju●…t Occasion of Jealousi●… than which what more displeasing and discontenting thing in the World is this to care how to please the Wise c. God who was a Jealous God was 〈◊〉 and could not endure that those whom he had Espo●… to himself in a Spirit●…l Wedlock should come into th●… Harlots House as the Scripture calls the Temple of Ido●…s Should not cast up their Eyes Amorous Eyes to those fair decked H●…rlots Beauteous Idol●… should not dandle upon the knees as 't were and toy and play and sport an●… use any spiritual dalliance towards them this the Jealousie of God was offended at and could not endure though they committed no Actual spiritual Fornication with them in very Worshipping and Adoring them so a pari there is the like Reason with respect to Corporal Fornication to go into Harlots Houses c. Thirdly A great sin against the very Kingdom and Place where we Live because this sin of Adultery growing common and unpunished is one of the special sins for which God brings fe●…rful publick Judgments upon a place When I fed them to the sull th●…n they committed Adultery sh●…ll I not visit for th●…se things and shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Jer. 5. 7 8 9. And they are all Adulterers as an Oven heated by the Baker Ezek. 22. 11. is one of the chief sins sor which God denouncing Judgm●…nt against them says that he remembers all their wickedness Hos. 7. 2 3 4 5 6 c. And Abimelech's speech is for this What have I offended thee that thou hast brought on me and on my Kingdom a great sin Gen. 20. 9. And David's Prayer Praying in the latter end of that 51 Psalm a Penitential Psalm for his Adultery Praying that God would do good to Sion shews no less Sion and Jerusalem the Church and the Kingdom Sion being the place where the Temple was built and Jerusalem the chief City of the Kingdom may feel heavy Judgments for Adulterers and Adultery and I pray God this be not a sin with some others among our selves at this day that may make the Patience of God at this day break out against us with a Shall I not visit for these things If Confession were now a foot it may be Erasmus his Confessor might be so blabbish and so Foolish as to say it in some publick invective Sermon against Adultery that were now stoning to death a Law against Adulterers the Rocky Mountain hard by would soon be spent Adultery said he that knew it by Confession was grown so common Whoredom and Adu●…tery therefore are to be avoided considering the grievousness of the sin it self Use 1. Are Whoredom and Adultery such grievous sins and such Judgments also attending them then this m●…y let us see the full meaning and evident Reason of those two Texts The mouth of the strange Woman is a deep Pit he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall th●…rein Prov. 22. 14. And I find more bitter than Death a Woman whose Heart is Snares and Nets and her Hands as Bands who so 〈◊〉 God shall escape from her but the sinner shall be taken by her Eccles. 7. 26. Secondly This may teach Mothers to imitate that good Mother Prov. 31. sc. to be careful to teach their Children that which she Imprimis and first of all was careful to teach her Son Lemuel What sc. what shall I say my Son and what the Son of my Womb c. Give not thy strength to Women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth Kings And so the Wise Man intimates that Parents Care and Instructi●… about their Children one point chiefly should be about Discipline and Instruction against this sin My Son keep thy Fath●…rs Commandment sor the Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is Light and Reprooss of Instruction are the way of Life to k●…p th●…e from the strange Woman from the Flattery of the tongue of the evil Woman Prov. 6. 20 21 22 23 24 c. Thirdly This may let us see that it was Material and main Divinity enough and so would go sor no less among the Papists but that Fornication is counted for so slight and venial a sin among them material and main Divinity enough I say which the Apostle Paul taught 1 Cor. 7. 2. Nevertheless to avoid Fornication let every Man have his own Wife and let every Woman h●…ve her own Husband If Fornication w●…re counted the sin which it is this Ghostly Couns●…l of his would not be counted such a poor rag of Divinity but material and main Divinity enough and it may be considerable that there is not such a particular punctual passage again in all the Scripture where the Holy Ghost is so particular and so punctual in applying it to ev●…ry M●…n and every Woman and to th●… Hus●…d and to the Wife vice vers●… the Holy Ghost knew a Natural Modesty and ashamedness towards this Remedy of Fornication even in them perhaps who stand in need of it and therefore perhaps was so particular and punctual therein Fourthly Let it make us more Circumspect and Watchsul against these sins if they be such great sins and such great Judgments att●…nding th●…m and that we may watch against them l●…t us know there are some things w●…ich dispose thereunto in Gods Judgment and some in the Nature of the things again●… both whereof heed and watchfulness must be had a●… we desire the avoiding the sins themselves In Gods Judgment First Pride disposeth unto these sins for just it is with God that they who are so possessed with Pride that they think all Honour too little for them that would be half gods upon Earth and not M●…n and not have their Names mentioned without Admiration and half-worshipping of them just that God should let these Men fall into thi●… sin that is the most dishonou●…ing sin abasing and aviling them in the sight of all and bringing them into open Contempt and Disgrace thu●… Pride was one of the things that led So●… to that dishonouring sin of unnatural Uncleanness This was the Iniquity of Sodom Pri●… c. Ez●…k 16. 49. Not that these were the great sins of Sodom but the make-ways for that great sin of unnatural Uncleanness and more especially in Gods just Judgment their Pride they were haughty and committed Abomination And thus for them that have a secret Spiritual Pride in them to be vainly puffed up by Reason of Spiritual Excellencies And they that think the Apostle Paul's Thorn in the Flesh 2 Cor. 12. was some molestful strivings with Temptations of the Flesh they agree hereunto for that Thorn in the Flesh was given him lest he should be extolled above measure by Reason of his so many Revelations and no presenter Remedy of being sick with Spiritual Pride than to be humbled and buffetted with Molestations from this dishonouring sin Secondly Profaning Gods Honour by Spiritual