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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

us from Adams sin and ● from God and the Holiness of his fir● estate Crucifying the flesh we read of and Cr●cified to the World an Allusion to Christs death upon the Cross a painfull and tormenting death and so is Death commonly attended with pain the pains of Death at the last hour and the preceding hours and sometimes days which makes Nature look upon Death with a great deal of horrour and reluctancy And thus corrupt Nature looks upon mortifying the fleshly lusts as a sore evil it puts the flesh to a great deal of pain and misery it afflicts the Body in denying it satisfaction crossing it in its sinful desires its evil lustings and therefore it is compared in Scripture to the plucking out a right Eye to the cutting off a right Hand or a right Foot and casting it from one so difficult is it for a man to deny himself herein in the Mortification of his darling Lust This to mortifie your members c. saith one of the Fathers is the hardest Text in the whole Bible and the hardest Duty in Christianity that we can go about Mortification of sin is the giving a deadly wound to sin to the reigning and commanding power of sin which is the Life of sin subduing the Corruption and wickedness of our Natures the evil Inclinations and dispositions of man in his saln sinful state so that the heart is cleansed and purged from the love of sin sin disabled from lording it and having the dominion over us every unruly Lust overmastered and brought under This is Mortification or the giving a deadly wound to sin even as a man is said to be a dead man when he is mortally wounded or when he is inwardly decayed as to his vital parts or the breaking some principal Vein in the Body albeit in some such cases they have some remainder of life and that may continue sometimes years after or as when the main Body of an Army is routed and beaten out of field or dead upon the place though there may be some striving and strugling or faint resistance from the remainder yet it doth not hinder them from the Victory Even so it is here when the main Body of sin is subdued and beaten out of the Heart of a Christian though there be some Reliquiae or remainders of corruption yet sin is mortified for this mortifying work i● not perfect here it doth not root out sin and dispossess it wholly that we should have no sin at all left in us or sin no more and be pure from sin after Mortification For the most righteous man upon the ●ac● of the Earth hath the seed of sin the roo● of evil in him Flesh as well as Spirit a● Heart deceitfull and desperately wicked considered naturally in and of it self as well as a new heart and a new spirit formed in Christ Jesus And therefore the unregenerate part hath need to be still mortified lest otherwise it break out into those evils and abominations which we read of in Lot's Drunkenness and Incest Jacob's deceitful dealing with Laban Davia's Murther and Adultery Solomon's Idolatry and Carnality Jonah's great Impatience and Murmuring against God and self-justifying in his so doing Peter's denyal of his Master with Cursing and Swearing too St. Mark 14. 71. Which are sad evidences of the frailty of our Nature and the abiding of sin alter sanctification as Rom. 7. largely proves our indwelling sin to be soliciting and tempting and stirring to evil and we have need of continued Influences of the Spirit to carry on this work of Mortification continually it is not to be only for a time by fits and starts but when we have master●d sin and conquered its temptation at present it will renew its strength and return upon you again like that Monster Hydra's ●ead it will repullulate and find you work or repeating your assaults and reiterating ●our mortifying blows like a conquered Nation which will be labouring still to recover its former power and soveraignty and must be continually kept under with standing Garrisons so sin will be restless and striving still for the mastery taking all occasions to soil us if we do not hold up a constant work killing sin when it is reviving nipping it when in the bud least it sprou● and grow up again and bring forth its corrupt fruit But more of this in the Use for Trial of our Mortification Having shown what Mortification is we come next to shew what is meant by Members Piscator says of the Apostle Cupidi tates vocat membra and Mr. Leigh in hi● Annotations much the same Lusts some o● which he nameth afterwards Dr. Hammond understands it of our inordinate Affections Dr. Preston says by Members i● meant Sin or any foul Affection or desir● of the Heart when our Affections fix o● settle upon an unlawful Object as anothe● Man's Possessions another Man's Wife o● any acts of Uncleanness as those out of married estate are all unclean any Heathenish or Popish Antichristian Honour and Preferments Or when the Heart is set upon lawf● things in an undue measure an immoderat● distrustful care of his worldly concern● which otherwise were lawful and must b● cared for with Faith and Sobriety A Man may take some kind of Pleasure and use some sports Hunting Fishing Hawking Bowling for his Recreation while he hath the command over his Affections but if he be captivated and his heart brought under the power of any as 1 Cor. 6. 12. to love the World to love his lawful Comforts or his Child excessively if his love to any Creature eclipse his Love to God and draw away his Heart from Religion and deaden his joys and delights in God and Duty or be so predominant that a man cannot resign up that Creature that Comfort to God to bear the loss of it it becomes sin and defiles the Man Our Lusts and corrupt Affections are called Members because 1. The whole Corruption of Man's Nature is compared to a Mans Body and called the body of Sin Rom. 6. 6. and the body of Death the latter not only because it was so grievous to the Apostle as that lamentable Exclamation noteth O wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7. 24. that it was as death is to a natural Man or worse than death to him but a body of death in that sense as we are dead in trespasses and sins being the cursed fruit and effect of spiritual death the remainder of that death and called a body because of its quantity there being a mass an heap of Corruption even in the Saints though it be overpowred by God's Grace and hindered from breaking forth in their Lives in that measure as it doth in the Unregenerate Now every soul Affection is as a Member of this Body every unmortified Lust a limb in this old man of sin 2. Lusts are called Members because they do work in our Members Iam. 4. 1. Whence come wars

and consequently the punishment diuturnum and beyond that aeternum not only long but Eternity long Thirdly Consider how unlike this is to the Purity of the Primitive Christians instead of finding pleasure and being drawn to Sin under that Notion they looked upon it as one of the severest punishments to be prostituted and exposed to the Lusts of Men by Rudeness and Violence This Tertullian urgeth in the close of his Apology c. ult p. 40. While you choose to Condemn a Woman that is a Christian to the Stews then to the Lyons ad Lenonem quam ad Leonem you plainly confess that the Violation of Chastity is accounted by us an heavier penalty than any punishment or kind of death which you can inflict upon us St. Hierom relates an eminent instance hereof Vita Paul Eremit Tom. 1. p. 237. In the Decian Persecution a young Man a Christian in the Flower and Beauty of his Age was carried into a Garden that had ●● things conspiring to make it a place for Pleasure and Delight being laid upon a Bed of Down and fastned to it with silken Cords the Company withdrawing a Beautiful Strumpet was sent in to him who caressing him and treating him with all the Arts of wantonness not consisting with modesty to name the young Man finding the Temptation beginning to prevail presently bit off his Tongue and spit it in her face as she attempted to kiss him Origen at Athens when put to this unhappy choice either to Sacrifice to Idols or suffer his chast Body to be defiled with a filthy Aethiopian chose rather to commit Idolatry than Fortification though that too was rather his enemies Act than his own they thrusting the Frankincense into his Hand and haling him up to the Altar For which Fact or the scandal of the report he was Excommunicated and Disowned by the Christians However this showed his Abhorrence of Uncleanness c. Oh! Then flee from and fear the killing smiles and flattering Lust dally not parly not with them least the deceitful and tempting pleasure of this Sin beguile and corrupt thee Give not place to the Devil while he is feeding thine imagination with the pleasures of the Flesh and perswading thee to tast of his sweet Dish Resist the Devil and then he will flee from you Principiis obsta is a good Rule in this case stop Sin in its first onset then it is weakest but gets ground and gathers strength as you give way to it and entertain it in its motions The pleasure of this Sin to a considering Man must needs be inconsiderable such as commonly all things considered even in this Life brings more grief and disquietment than Satisfaction Such pleasure as we shall be more Spiritual and better without it than with it and such pleasure as to be sure will be bitterness in the latter end Alas wee look upon Sin only in its specious posture coming towards us Fair and Beautiful to behold in a goodly dress recommending it self to us with Profit Pleasure Honour or the like Allurements but could we see the hinder parts of Sin it would appear like the Father of it the Devil when he is taking his leave and Vanishing ugly and Deformed When Sin is going from us after the Commission of it it is black and Melancholly hanging down its head with Sorrow or hiding its Face for Shame or Fear or like those that gnawed their Tongues for pain or with gnashing of Teeth for very madness and Vexation of Spirit with Scorpion stings at the tail of it to Torment the Sinner and the Fire burning towards him to come at him and catch him within its flames This sight indeed would cool the Sinners Courage and make Men flee from Sin as from a Serpent Again some there are to whom this Sin holds forth its two fair Breasts of Profit as well as Pleasure to allure them within its Embraces These are chiefly of the other Sex Those who keep publick Houses and so the keeping of a naughty Woman brings custom to the House and they say encreaseth their Trade and those who are kept as Misses to great persons and I suppose look upon themselves to have attained great Preferment besides those that prostitute themselves to the Lusts of any comers in a common promiscuous manner perhaps making a Trade of this Sin and getting their Maintenance this way Other some perhaps by promiscuous Lusts to hinder Conception and so for prevention of more Children and to save the charge and cost that is required in the feeding and cloathing and portioning of them To which I answer First how vile a thing is it to let out themselves to hire to fell as it were their Souls for the possession of the Devil that unclean Spirit and their Bodies to the filthy Lusts of Men. O shame upon those that renounced the World Worldly gain so far as Sinful the Flesh and the Devil thus shamefully to Apostatize How near doth their Sin approach to that wicked Ahab who sold himself to work wickedness and hath it set as a Brand or Mark of Infamy upon him and whose Sin was so notoriously great that it could not be cleansed without the Destruction of his Family Secondly Others there are that find this a very Chargeable Sin putting them to the charge first of a Treat or Entettainment then for the Act of Naughtiness and a third charge many times for the Cure after it The keeping of lewd Women and providing portions for their base Brood Adulterous issue hath wasted great Estates and been the ruine of many Families or at least what vast expences hath it put many to so that what the one party gets the other loseth and more besides Even some among the other Sex have been losers in this World sometimes by Marrying such as were too well known by them before in the days of their first Husband and who hath spent all and brought them to Poverty or if of meaner Rank by getting such a noisome Distemper as hath made them abhorred by all that none would imploy them for a livelyhood none Receive or Entertain them or which made them unfit for work or so weakned and impaired their strength that they could do but little when their old Age came upon them or their Trade failed Thirdly All such Gain as is gotten in this manner is accursed it will defile the rest of your Substance even contrary to what is said of Alms Give Alms of such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you that is cleansed from Sin Sanctifyed Blessed so as not only to have them with Gods leave but with his Love But such filthy lucre in the literal downright Sense of the words will make all polluted and unclean all under the curse if such gain at the last will not be separated from the rest even the clean from the unclean When did you ever know any enrich a Family by this means with an abiding Wealth Is it not likely