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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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driving out all those mighty Nations from Canaan and destroying them and giving their Land to the Children of Israel for a possession was it not for these abominable sins See the eightenth Chapter of Leviticus Lev. 18. whereafter variety of those sins rehearsed such as are not fit to be named amongst Christians but with horror and detestation of them it follows Verse 27. For all these abominations the Name God himself there gives to these loathsome sins have the Men of the Land done before you and the Land is defiled and therefore in the Verse following this defiled Land is said to have spewed out the Inhabitants thereof who defiled it In like manner the Destruction of the Shechemites the Death of Sampson of Amnon the Judgment of God upon the Three and twenty thousand of the Children of Israel 1 Cor. 10.8 who fell in one Day at Baal-Peor before they entered Canaan were they not for such Sins as these And for the like Sins even for one luxurious adulterous Act was not the whole Tribe of Benjamin cut off Judg. 20. except only Six hundred Men I might here add the remarkable Wars and Slaughters that suddenly followed upon David's Adultery as also the rending of the ten Tribes from Solomon as a Judgment for his being seduced to the Toleration of Idolatry by his exorbitant Lusts and unlawful Marriages and many more the like sad Examples even out of the Annals of our own and other neighbouring Countries And here also I might set down more at large God's particular Denunciations against such Sins by the Mouth of all his Prophets sometimes inflicting his great Judgments Plague Pestilence Famin Sword removing his Candlesticks c. But I think what is already said is enough to shew that these Sins of Uncleanness tho seeming most excusable and natural to Man are most abominable and loathsom in the sight of God Especially since by the new Contract that is made between us and our Lord we are become in a more peculiar manner Eph. 5. the Spouse of Christ and are therefore to keep our selves Chast and Holy We are become likewise by a particular and higher degree of Sanctification the Temples of the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 6.19 and are therefore not sacrilegiously to violate 'em but to cleanse them from all Filthiness 2 Cor. 7.1 so perfecting that Holiness which becomes God's House for ever Ps 92.5 And this at our utmost Peril For these Temples saith St. Paul whoso defileth 1 Cor. 3.17 him will God eternally destroy And a great Moralist that lived at the same time with Saint Paul and probably also was made a Christian by him with some others of Nero's Houshold says in a manner the same thing according to Lactantius De Div. Instit Lib. 6. C. 25. The most agreeable Temple we can build for God is to consecrate him in our Hearts And therefore to build otherwise would be to ruin our selves to all Eternity which transcendently exceeds all temporal Punishments put together CHAP. IV. Of the Chastity of Marriage and the Purity of a single Life THus far concerning First The Impurity and Filthiness of the Sins of the Flesh with their Oppositeness to the Purity and Holiness of Almighty God and the defilement and dishonour they bring to the Persons that commit them And Secondly the severe Punishments and tremendous Judgments of Almighty God towards such Sins above others But I would not by any means be thought so to have censured in the beginning of this Discourse the present Age as if there were not many amongst the married Persons whom God hath reserved to himself even in our own Nation most inviolably constant to one another and that live strictly within the Bounds and Obligations of that honourable State And some also of the Unmarried that live single out of Choice not Necessity upon the account of Vertue and Religion not Licentiousness and Luxury And many also who after one Marriage abstain from a Second upon the same serious account as did those Widows in the Primitive times of Christianity 1 Tim. 5. who were for that very reason taken into the Charity and Service of the Church MARRIAGE Marriage is Honourable in all and the Bed undefiled with sin Eph. v. 32. So Honourable that St. Paul compares the Union of Man and Wife with that of Christ and his Church But yet doubtless conjugal Chastity hath many Degrees in it and in some is far more pure than in others More pure in those who for better performance of Holy Duties or in Times of Humiliation such as Lent Ember-Weeks c. before receiving the Blessed Sacrament and the like abstain and separate that they may give themselves to Fasting and Prayer So in the Old Testament Exod. 19.15 1 Sam. 21.4 before the descent of the Lord upon Mount Sinai the People were commanded three days Sanctification and not coming at their Wives Women kept from the Young Men for about three days and the Vessels of the Young Men Holy i. e. from their Wives And in times of more earnest Addresses to God this separation from Carnality was continually used amongst the Jews as appears from the Prophet Zechary Zech. 7.3 But Conjugal Chastity is still more pure in those who being separated for a longer time either upon the account of Sickness in one Party or by necessary absence of either of them about Worldly Affairs in Journeys Publick Employments Embassies or being taken Captive by an Enemy and the like yet both continue constant and faithful to one another and this perhaps for many years notwithstanding the many strong Temptations the world presents So in the Case of Divorcement or of a resolved Separation by consent many there are who take from hence an occasion of being more diligent in the Service of God and afterwards perhaps of removing themselves out of all danger of being ensnared and ruined by the Sollicitations of Sense And so likewise after Espousals some there have been tho' not many who according to the Transcendent Example of our Blessed Lady and her Espoused Husband St. Joseph have never proceeded any further but instead of Consummating the Marriage have transferred their Love and Affection to our Lord. So St. Austin treated with his Spouse and after having once vanquished himself and his exorbitantly Incontinent Desires of which himself so much complains and in his Confessions Laments so as to be content even without Marriage it self became a most Holy Bishop and one of the most Glorious Lights in the Church of God that ever the World saw since the times of our Saviour and his Apostles And in our own Nation King Edward commonly called the Saint lived together with his Queen a holy Virginal Life as Surius shews out of a very Ancient Manuscript As did also Henry the First Emperour Bolislaus the modest King of Poland Alphonsus II King of Castile Peter Vrceoli Duke of Venice with may others And St. Austin
grant unto us O Lord The Vertue of Humility Mat. 18 Luk. 21 Mark 5. Heb. 13. and Patience Spiritual Poverty and Meekness Longanimity and obedience to those that are set over us Grant unto us O Lord A quiet mind and contented with our present Condition 1 Pet. 3. Heb. 13. Rom. 14. true peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Grant unto us O Lord Temperance and Modesty Gal. 5. 1 Tim. 2. Sobriety and Chastity a true love of Thee and our Neigbours Mat. 22.38 the Contempt of our selves and the things of this World 1 Tim. 6 17 2 Cor. 9. Bounty and Compassionate Affections 1 Pet. 3.8 Grant unto us O Lord Diligence and constant Vigilancy 2 Pet. 1.5 1 Pet. 4.7 Mat. 5.6 1 Cor. 7.11 Acts 28.15 Mat. 10.22 a Hunger and Thirst after Holiness Zeal and Fervour of Spirit Christian Fortitude and Perseverance to the End Grant unto us O Lord. We Sinners beseech thee to hear us O Lord. Rom 5.10 That being reconciled to God Col. 1.20 by the death of Christ we may present our selves Holy Jam. 1. Unspotted and Unblamable before him that we may walk worthy of God 1 Thes 2.12 Phil. 4.18 in all things well pleasing fruitful in good works and encreasing in the knowledge of God Col. 1 10. We Sinners beseech thee c. Col. 3.10 That whatsoever we do in word or deed we may do all to the Glory of God that we make not void thy Grace 2 Cor. 2 21 or receive it in vain We Sinners beseech thee c. That we be careful to sanctify our Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts 1 Pet. 3.15 Phil. 2.21 that we seek not our own things but before all the things of Jesus Christ We Sinners beseech thee c. That looking up to Jesus who suffered Heb. 12.2 3. we be not wearied and faint in our minds 1 Tim. 6.11 but considering the Conversation of the Saints imitate their Faith and Patience We Sinners beseech thee c. That as Souldiers we entangle not our selves in the things of this World 1 Joh. 2.15 but having Food and Rayment let us be content therewith 1 Tim. 6.8 We Sinners beseech thee c. That by good Works we make our Faith and Election sure 2 Pet. 2.10 that we do good whilst we have time Gal. 6.9 and faint not for that we shall reap in due season We Sinners beseech thee c. That we forbear one another in love Eph. 4.2 being careful to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Gal. 6.2 that we bear one anothers burthens and so fulfill the law of God We Sinners beseech thee c. That being Strengthned in all Vertue through the power of his Grace Col. 1.11 we give thanks to God with all Patience and Longsuffering We Sinners beseech thee c. 2 Pet. 3.14 That waiting for the coming of our Lord we be careful to be found in him pure and unspotted in Peace 1 Pet. 1.9 that we may receive the end of our Faith even the Salvation of our Souls and in the mean time work out our Salvation with fear and trembling Phil 12.12 We Sinners beseech thee c. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World increase our Faith O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World infuse Hope O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World enkindle Charity Our Father which art in Heaven c. Let us Pray O God who justifiest the ungodly we humbly beseech thy Majesty Graciously to defend with thy Heavenly Grace and assist with thy continual Protection us thy Servants relying on thy Mercy that constantly running in the Course of Vertue we may at length receive the Crown thereof and by no Temtations be withdrawn from serving thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ame● ERRATA PAge 3. Line 4. Almighty God P. 27. l. 7. many p. 29. l. 5. Primogeneal P. 34. l. 4. Blessings P. 38. l. 19. but that P. 40. l. 19. Fig-leaves P. 43. l. 9. deteriora c. P. 74. l 15. plainly P. 92. l. 21. Rational into Natural l. 23. Natural into Carnal P. 98. l. 21. frequent P. 103. l. 1. cherish P. 118. l. 21 exquisite Tortures l. 23. Almighty