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A37316 A Check to debauchery, and other crying sins of these times with several useful rules for the attaining the contrary virtue : to which are annexed some directions and heads for meditation and prayer, taken out of Holy Scripture ... Oct. 26. 92 ... L. D. 1692 (1692) Wing D51; ESTC R23020 47,625 168

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and wicked Courses and seem obstinately resolved so to do Because our siding and herding with such is plainlly the declaring our selves on the Devils side open Enemies to God and all goodness And for this reason it is that the Church of Christ like a most wise Mother hath in all Ages taken strict care to secure her obedient Children from the Infection of the Disobedient by making severe Canons against Praying Communicating and in some Cases speaking with the Perverse whether their Errors were in Faith or Practice Because she not discerning the hearts of her Children can only level her Censures against their External Profession as she perceives them faulty either in Doctrin or Manners and those that will not be restrained must blame not her but themselves if they incurr her Anathema's instead of her Blessings Can. Apost See Can. Apost 11 12 13. Conc. Laod. Can. 33 38 39. Concil Carthag 4. Can. 72 73. St. Aug. Ep. 48. and Ep. 152. To Lewd and Debauched Company we may add lewd Books as the worst and most dangerous Companions of all Because they usually take us alone and when perhaps least upon our Guard By lewd Books I mean nasty Ribaldry Novels Poems Songs Pictures Romances and many of our Modern Plays which of that kind are so much the worse as their Language is better the Authors whereof even when they become Penitents can never ordinarily speaking make a sufficient Satisfaction to God and the World without a Solemn Retractation of them Many unwary both Men and Women have been ruined by them none bettered because indeed they with all the Pomp imaginable recommend the Debauchery they pretend to expose and if you observe it always speak more wittily for than against the Vice they are describing But as bad Books are the worst so good Books are the best Companions in the World The safest retreat from ill Company more advantageous than the best and the greatest Felicity on this side of Heaven In omnibus requiem quaesivi c. I sought my quiet in all things of this Life but could not find it only in Angello cum libello with a little good Book in a convenient Nook 3ly Infamous Places infected with the whole herd or any one of these abominable sins notwithstanding their being grown almost into a Fashion amongst us are to be most watchfully avoided by us whether they be single Houses or whole Cities No trusting to the smooth words of an Harlot who layeth in wait at all the Corners of the Streets Prov. 7.5.10.16 enticing whom she can to her house pretending all things are made ready for them when at the same time she intends only to make a prey of them And the same Wiles Crafts may be observed in common Drunkards and all profligate Sinners who are also very dexterous in using their Witticisms and little Artifices to deceive and draw in others Thomas a Kempis adviseth against too great Familiarity with any especially Women how good soever much more with lewd Persons or Cohabiting with them No safe venturing into their Houses where this Leprosie hath been spread No secure coming into Sodom even for an Angel Righteous Lot or any good Man must not stay there when he cannot convince them least he be consumed with them And I suppose Tyre and Sidon and the other Cities about them to have been in the same condition And yet we find our Saviour pronouncing greater Woes upon some other Cities in his time of Conversing visibly upon Earth that had received greater mercies greater means of Salvation We to thee Chorazin Mat. 11.21 wo to thee Bethsaida If the mighty works that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented long ago sitting in Sackcloth and Ashes Therefore it shall be more tollerable for those Cities in the day of Judgment than for you And I pray God those Woes may not reach our ungrateful Cities which have seen so many of God's mighty Works and felt so many of his Fatherly Corrections yet are still so over-run with all sorts of uncleanness and sensuality as too many profligate Wretches will tell you without blushing that we cannot expect less than that the utmost of the Divine Vengeance should forthwith after an extraordinary manner as lately upon Jamaica be poured out upon us God's ordinary dreadful Judgments such as Plague Fire Sword Poverty have not reclaimed us and nothing now as it seems to me but a speedy Exemplary Repentance like that of Nineveh can avert our ruine Our good Lord give us such true universal over-prevailing Repentance before it be too late Before I conclude this Chapter give me leave to add one Caution more concerning Discourse as being the most dangerours Occasion of the filthiest sins All levity therein foolish Talking Jesting Buffoonery Superfluous Facetiousness Affectation of Wit and the like must be avoided because they tend wholly to the pleasing of men and that many times not without grosly offending of God and woe to them that in such manner Laugh now for they shall eternally weep hereafter Luk. 6.25 It is good Advice therefore which is given by a very Learned Person upon this Point to use an Holy Reservedness in our Conversation even with intimate Friends and not to turn our inside outward or to speak all that comes in our thoughts Because having many imperfections most of our thoughts must needs be weak and unrefined and we apprehend at first sight according to Nature not Grace unless some Preconsideration be used And in much Company we are to accustom our selves rather to silence sometimes imposing it upon our selves if given to talk much so far forth as is consistent with our Duty and Common Civility And not to permit the lewd or idle Discourse of others to interrupt as little as may be our Praying continually 1 Thess 5.17 always giving thanks rejoicing always in the Lord which is the true Life and perfection of a Christian The Guarding thus our own Tongues well and Watching other Mens cuts off perhaps the greatest occasion of our corrupting or being corrupted As may be seen more at large in the many particular Discourses upon this Subject to which I referr the Reader Subjoining only the warning our Saviour hath given us That of every idle word we speak much more of our Perjuries Mat. 12.36 37. Obstinacies palpable Lyes and Blasphemies we must give an account at the day of Judgment and that according to our words we shall either be Condemned or Justified God grant we may not out of our own mouths be condemned in that terrible day CHAP. VIII The Fourth Rule Of Divine Assistances and the means of obtaining them FOurthly The last Rule I shall mention is The being mindful of the Powerful Assistances afforded Christians above all others in the Conquering their Lusts and of the means also of obtaining those Assistances For it is to be noted 1st That no one Sin is Pardoned but by the