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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80577	An antidote against lust: or, A discourse of uncleanness, shewing its various kinds, great evil, the temptations to it, and most effectual cure. By Robert Carr, minister of the Church of England	Carr, Robert, fl. 1686-1696.	1690 (1690)	Wing C629A; ESTC R231166	82,048	192

your selves from the sins of Sodom according to those words Ye Rulers of Sodom Ye people of Gomorrha and verse 21 How is the faithful City become an Harlot may be compared with that before be literally understood and argue their guilt even in this kind Further the 2 Tim. ● 22. Flee also youthful Lusts but follow Righteousness Faith Charity Peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart the words import as if none did follow after Righteousness but such as call on the Lord out of a pure heart others are not mentioned in the number nor their Services of any account not accepted as the works of Righteousness If I regard Iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear my prayers saith David David was an Holy man God himself gave him that Testimony yet while his Lusts remained unmortified after his Adultery with Bathsheba and like enough some time before it his Prayers were not heard it is plain enough by that instance of his Murther of Vriah adding Sin unto Sin If his Prayers had been heard as no doubt but he did pray in the Interim between the Adultery committed and the Prophet Nathans reproof of him by the Parable God would never have left him to fall further not into so crying a Sin as the Murther of the Husband This seems too to have been the case of Solomon while his lusts remained unmortified as during his many Wives all his religious performances availed little or nothing as 1 Kings 11. where you find him drawn away by his Women to Idolatry in the 4th verse it is said his Wives turned away his heart after other Gods building high places for their Idols Even thus it is with Good men while their lusts remain unmortified their Services remain unaccepted In Malachi 2. 13. ye read of those that covered the Altar of the Lord with tears with weeping and with crying out but the Lord regarded not their offering nor received it with good will at their hands yet they said Wherefore Answered because they dealt treacherously with the Wife of your youth vers 1● explaineth it the Lord saith that he hateth putting away This I urge in no wise as an● argument against prayer and other duties as if people should cease to pray and leave serving God because of the naughtiness of their hearts for that were running farther and farther from God and that grace which should reform and better them But only for this end that people should pray more and even turn the chief force of their prayers against their Lusts and labour more to bring their Lusts in subjection that so nothing remain to hinder their prayers from being heard or to defile and pollute their Services Third Argument for Mortification Unmortified lusts argue a man to be dead in Grace such as remain unsubdued when constant and permanent and not only temporary as in good men Titus 3. 3. For we our selves also were sometime foolish disobedient serving divers Lusts and pleasures sometime that is in their unregenerate Estate 1 Tim. 5. 6. She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth even as those 2 Tim. 3. 4. Who were lovers of pleasures more than lovers of ●od And those Eph. 2. 1 2 3. before they were quickned or received the spirit of Life from God were ●ead in trespasses and sins dead as to the ●piritual Life the life of Gaace which ●● the most sad and deplorable kind of death they are said to have had the● Conversation in the lusts of their Flesh fulfilling the desires of the Flesh and of the mind and were by nature or their corruption of nature since sin and the fall children of wrath even as others all others are while they walk in the lusts of the flesh Rom. 8. 13. If ye live after the flesh ye shall dye stand Condemned by the word of God and adjudged to eternal death But if ye through the spirit do mortisie the deeds of the body ye shall live When any of Pythagoras his Scholars had degenerated in their Morals from the sober modest and vertuous precepts of their Master and let themselves loose to all kind of Vice and brutish sensuality there was set a Bier as for dead mens Corps in his Room to signifie that the man was dead though the Beast was alive Among those that were invited to the Gospel Feast Luke 14. 20. you find one made his excuse he had Married a Wife and could not come not come and serve God in his Ordinances or at least not heartily his heart was after his Lusts Not to be so taken as if a Married State were inconsistent with Religion or that they did ill in Marrying which is an Ordinance of God but the laying Religion aside then as if it were not a time for Religion and indulging their Lusts and giving themselves up to their Marriage pleasure without any regard to God for to serve him which must be our main business in every estate of Life Fourth Argument for Mortification of our Lusts Because we vowed to God and Covenanted in our Baptism to renounce the sinful lusts of the Flesh The Devil the World and the Flesh are the enemies of our Salvation mentioned in our Church Catechism and in holy Scripture as Eph. 2. 2 3. St. James ch 1. 4. Lusts are said to War in our Members and in 1 Epist of Peter c. 2. 11. Abstain from fleshly Lusts which War against the Soul and the Soul must War against them for ever renouncing all the sinful lusts of the Flesh that is disowning rejecting them their motions and temptations with an hatred and abhorrence of them in our hearts or at least such a dislike of them as may prevail against them Now if Covenants made in worldly matters as Bonds and Leases bind their Heirs and Successours even the Children yet unborn so in Spirituals when Parents Covenant for their Children in Baptism desiring it for their Children and procuring others as Sureties to be bound with them for the greater assurance of the Childrens Religious Education and performance of the Covenant Duties and Conditions no doubt but it binds them as much in Spirituals to stand to and perform the Religious as well as the Civil Contracts and Covenants And he is Perjur'd who breaks this solemn Vow and Covenant that lives at peace and at friendship with the World or the Flesh loving his Lusts without that hatred and enmity which he is bound to by Baptism to strive and struggle with them for the Mastery to Watch and Pray and use all good and holy means for their Mortification and so long as ye hold out this good fight of Faith resisting this Spiritual Enemy and praying against your Lusts so long you keep your ground and quit your selves like men and are Conquerours if you are not Conquered though you may not have that full Victory that triumphant satisfaction in your Spirit and that inward peace which some others have But if once they