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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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for he that stands must take heed least he falls Rom. 11.21 and be not high minded but fear we will not however abandon our selves to it but on the contrary renew and make stronger Resolutions against it with severer Penalties annexed and so valiantly continue on the fight till it shall please God to give us the Victory Such voluntary Mortifications are likewise Efficacious not only for the taming and keeping under the body but for the obtaining also from God by our thus siding and taking part with his Divine Justice against our sins the particular Gift and Grace of which we stand in need Some unclean Lust is not to be subdued Mat. 17.21 some Devil not cast out without Fasting as well as Prayer Our sparing Self-Mortifications is like sparing the Rod to the Child but the using of them is the ready way to prevent God's Judgments from falling upon us in particular or upon our Countrey for our sakes and by reason of our sins or to remove them when begun Thus Ezra and his People fasted and besought God Ezra 8.21 and he was entreated for them And so another time Queen Esther and the whole Jewish Nation just as they were going to be Massacred Est 4.16 were preserved by the same means of Fasting and Prayer The Ninevites also were spared upon the same account of their great Humiliation Jon. 3.10 And so the Prophet Daniel attained to so great Knowledge and Wisdom and so high a degree of the Divine Favour by his long fasting and mourning and praying for God's only Church and People Dan. 1.17 Dan. 10.3 And indeed I know no other way of stoping God's Judgments even when they are breaking out upon us than by thus applying our selves to Mollify his Justice that we may not fail of his Mercy But yet the greatest Humiliation of all and most Beneficial Jam. 5.16 is the telling our sins to one another as often as we commit them particularly to our Spiritual Pastors which will be apt to awe us if not hardned from sinning in that kind any more and our Pastor by his good Directions Prayers and the power with which Almighty God hath entrusted him is able with our concurrence to administer the best Remedy to all our sins And then another Person tho' he were not more Learned being no way concerned or interested in our Affairs must needs be more void of Passion more Impartial and Consequently can better Judge of us better Direct and Guide us than we our selves O that we could thus die to all things but God and take no pleasure but in Self-denials and Mortifications for the sake of Jesus From whence flows that Humility Purity of heart Mat. 5.8 to which our Saviour hath Emphatically annexed the Blessedness of seeing God! CHAP. VII The Third Rule Of the Occasions of grosser Sins THirdly We are to avoid the Occasions of the sins of the Flesh Some of them I shall name 1st The making Provision for the Flesh to fulfill the Lusts thereof Rom. 13.14 Strong Meats strong Drinks high Sauces are not convenient as being many times very hurtful to the Memory and Understanding always heightening and disordering the Passions Be not drunk with Wine saith St. Paul to his Ephesians wherein is Excess Eph. 5.18 And in Excess a Man knows not what he does but is ready to go along with his Company and to commit with them the greatest lewdness and outrage whatsoever under the pretence of a Frolick Lev. 10.9 Wherefore Priests under the Old Law in the time of their Attendance on God in the Execution of their Function were forbidden such things And all Christians now are in some manner God's Priests Rev. 5.10 Great Caution therefore is to be taken of Invitations and publick Entertainments It is much safer to eat alone or with few and those Abstemious Persons And then rather mean Diet to be chosen than Delicacies poor Peoples Children we see thrive best often calling to mind the hard fare of our Lord and his poor Disciples whom he chose poor Who fed on Ears of Corn Barley-Bread Mat. 12.1 Joh. 6.9 Fish an Honey-Comb Water and the like and St. John Baptist upon Locusts and Wild-Honey and the holy Men of Egypt according to St. Jerom upon much harder Fare Often remembring also the All-satisfying Food promised us in Heaven which will keep us from ever hungering or thirsting any more Blessed are they that shall eat Bread in the Kingdom of God Luk. 14.15 Rev. 19.9 And Blessed are they that are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Lord evermore give us that Heavenly Bread that never perishes and that Heavenly Water also which shall be in us a well of Water Springing up to everlasting Life The great reason why we ought if we intend to avoid the sins of the Flesh to take particular care of living Temperate in our Diet and of observing frequent Fastings especially the Solemn Fasts of the Church is because by our Eating and Drinking the Flesh arms and furnishes it self as it were with new Provisions for fighting against the Spirit New Matter and Fuel is administred to Concupiscence and the Brain many times so heated as not to be able to make a right Judgment of things It was after a great Dinner when Herod for the sake of a filly Dancing Mar. 6.21 Girl consented to the beheading of the Venerable and Chast St. John Baptist as having been an open Enemy to his Incestuous Marriage It was in Drunkenness when Lot committed double Incest with his Two Daughters Gen. 19. Hos 4.11 Rom. 13.13 And we find all along in Scripture Drunkenness and Gluttony inseparable Companions of Lust And then the necessary Repairs of our Body returning so often we are obliged in a manner to be continually upon our Guard and to put a Knife to our Throat as the Wise Man adviseth that we be not overcome by our Appetite This Concupiscence in Eating and Drinking by reason of the dayly necessities of the Body is no such thing says St. Austin in his Confessions which we can resolve to cut off at once and touch no more as we may do other things Eat and Drink we must yet not to Excess The reins therefore of the Throat are to be held with a moderate hand between too little and too much And who is he O Lord says the same Father that is not sometimes transported beyond the Lists of Necessity Whoever he be a great one he is let him magnifie thy Name So that in one word our living temperate and watching over our Appetite so as to thwart it in every thing is the taking away the chief and most principal occasion of Lust and as I may say the quenching of it in its very Cause Fraena gulam c. Bridle your Appetite says Thomas a Kempie and you will the more easily bridle every Inclination of the Flesh To Temperance in Meat and Drink and frequent
the Earth and Sea giving up their Dead and a particular Examination of them according to God's unerring Books which will then be opened Consider 4. The Difference that will then be between the Good and Bad. The Good having Co-operated with God's Grace shall be Cloathed with Glorious Bodies and placed on Christ's Right Hand The Bad not Co-operating with God's Spirit Cloathed with Corruption and placed on Christ's Left Hand And the Consciences and Thoughts of all hearts will be then laid open Reflect What shame confusion will it then be to the Impenitent when out of their own Mouths and Consciences they will be both Accused and Condemned Consider 5. How astonishing it will be to the Wicked to hear the Sentence of the Judge Go ye Cursed into everlasting Fire And how joyful to the Righteous to hear Come ye blessed possess the Kingdom prepared for you c. Reflect Make firm Purposes to live well and in vertuous Circumstances and intreat the Judge to be propitious to you and that you may always bear in mind this terrible Judgment and Sentence to escape it which is said to have occasioned the Institution of the severest Order of Christians in the World Saturday Of Hell Consider 1. What a Punishment it would be to be bound Hand and Foot and cast into a hot fiery Furnace there to remain burning and unconsumed tho but for a short time And as every Member of the Body so every Power and Faculty of the Soul receive its peculiar Torment Consider 2. How hard and unsupportable it must needs be to be Slaves to the Devils and Companions of the damned amidst the most exquisit Tortures and incessant Blasphemies and Cursings of Allmighty God Consider 3. How long these Torments will last If after some Thousands of Years there were to be an end it would somewhat lessen them But after an Hundred thousand Years succeeds an Eternity that cannot be measured Reflect How foolish is it to chuse such endless Torments for a transitory Pleasure Endure any Punishments here to avoid them Here cut here burn but save me in the World to come was St. Austin's Prayer Entreat Almighty God that you may be so awed by them whilst living that you may not deserve to experience them when dead Sunday Of the Joys of Heaven Consider 1. The Place and the Company How great Joy it must needs be to inhabit in the City of God the heavenly Jerusalem and converse with the holy Angels and all the Saints which have been from the beginning of the World Who having the same Charity one for another being all filled with the same holy Spirit rejoyce in every ones Good as if it were their own Consider 2. The greatness of the Reward The Body it self will be spiritualized and all its Senses and Powers exalted and adorned with most admirable Gifts And the Soul enabled to see and know God as he is and to love and enjoy him to all Eternity which is the only true Blessedness And though there be far different degrees of Glory yet no Envy but on the contrary Rejoycing See the preceeding Discourse Reflect Give God thanks who hath given you to hope for and made you capable of this Glory and humbly implore him mercifully to preserve you though ungrateful in true Vertue and holy Living that you may at length come to that glorious Place and there praise and magnify him to all Eternity CHAP. III. Heads of Meditation for the Second Third and Fourth Weeks Second Week MOnday Of the Incarnation of our Saviour His leaving the Bosom of his Father and taking upon him Humane Nature Voluntarily and yet by consent of the whole Trinity A Mercy denied to the fallen Angels And a Mystery which the good Angels desired to look into Tuesday Of the Visitation of the ever-Blessed Virgin and the Salutation of the Angel Hail c. Wednesday Of the Nativity of our Lord in a Stable yet honoured with Miracles Thursday Of the Shepherd's Vision the Angels Hymn the coming of the Three Kings by the Guidance of a Star or Angel Friday Of the Offering up of our Saviour in the Temple The Humility of the Mother of our Lord being not obliged to any such Oblation Old Simeon's Prayer Lord now lettest c. He could not die till he had seen the Lords Christ Saturday Our Saviour's Baptism and the Testimony the Father and the Holy Spirit then gave of his Divinity Sunday Of our Lord's Transfiguration and the Consolation the Three Disciples also took therein It is good for us to be here c. The Third Week MOnday Of the Eight Beatitudes the Sum of Christian Perfection placing happiness in things seemingly most contrary to it such as Poverty Persecution c. But yet the true and only way to Blessedness declared to be so by him who is Wisdom it self and who himself also became our Example in sufferings Tuesday Of the Lord's Prayer containing all the good things we are to pray for and all the evils we are to pray against Wednesday Of the Rich Glutton and the ten Virgins The difference between Dives and Lazarus both in this World and the other And between the ten Virgins in the other World notwithstanding their seeming equality in this Thursday Of the Conversion of Mary Magdalene and the Woman of Samaria Both of them great Sinners The former possessed with seven Devils and the latter lived in Fornication But their Repentance was as remarkable as their Sins And their after life as Vertuous as their former had been Vicious Friday Of the Paralytick at the Pool of Bethesda and of the Man born blind Both cured by our Saviour And both afterwards openly Confessed him To leave our sins and follow Christ takes away the Cause of Sin For there is a Lameness and Blindness also in the Soul Saturday Of the Prodigal Son and the Man that fell among Thieves The Prodigal was received by his Father upon his returning and repenting The poor Man fell among Thieves by his leaving his right way Jerusalem for Jericho God for his pleasure the Church for the Company of Thieves and Robbers Reflect Conversion to God's Church and Repentance the only Remedy Sunday Of our Saviour's raising from the Dead Lazarus the Son of the Woman of Naim the Daughter of Jairus One of them was newly dead the second carried out the third three days buried The newly dead immediately upon our Saviour's speaking rose and walked was perfectly cured the rest not so soon Reflect So it fairs with Sinners More difficulty for habituated Sinners to rise to a Life of Grace The Fourth Week MOnday Of the Institution of the Blessed Eucharist He that Eats worthily of this Bread shall live for ever shall overcome his Lusts be filled with Celestial Joys c. But he that Eats unworthily eats his own Damnation if he dies in that condition not discerning the Lord's Body Tuesday Of our Saviour's Passion in General Who it was that suffered The Son of