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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

work you off from Prayer and you cannot pray against them or no otherwise than St. Austin before his Conversion Domine da castitatem da Continentiam sed non modo Lord give me Chastity give me Continence but not now If people are loth that God should hear their prayers but if they pray really and the heart truly desire what they pray for so long it looks well and no longer or if a man means to make a Truce or Cessation of Arms and Hostility for any time during the heat of Summer or the presence and Company of this or that beloved Body he throws away his Weapons he yields and is overcome and if he live in a continual Peace and League with them and do not recover himself and renew his Spiritual Warfare he is utterly lost and undone for ever Fifth Argument We must Mortify our Lusts or if you will lustful Members according to the literal sence of the words because our Bodies are Members of Christ and this Argument the Holy Ghost urgeth 1 Cor. 6. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the Members of Christ Shall I then take the Members of Christ and make them Members of an Harlot God forbid I must snew in what sence our Bodies are the Members of Christ and then how that argues for Mortification of our Lusts Christ and Christi●ns are one Body one Spiritually as 1 Cor. 6. 17. and Eph. 1. 22 23. Christ is said to be head over all things to his Church which is his Body c. Christ the Head and Fountain of Spiritual Life Sense and Motion and Christians Members of that Body influenced acted and enlivened by one and the self-same Spirit which Christ received without measure or infinitely in perfection that so he might abundantly communicate it to his Members enabling them to mortisie the evil Concupiscence in their hearts and the Lusts of the Flesh that Flesh and Blood or Bodies of Sin which they carry about them Now since there is such a Spiritual Union between Christ and us and we are taken into such a near Relation unto Christ as Members in that Mystical body whereof he is the Head of Influence should not the Members bear a Conformity to their Head If he was pure even to perfection ought not we to resemble him in that Purity by a Mortification of Uncleanness And as it is in the Marriage Office Keep your selves undefiled Members of Christ's body Again Our Bodies are Members of Christ as they are Members of the same Flesh and Blood or bodies of the same kind with that which Christ ●ook upon him in the days of his Flesh as it is expressed Hebr. 5. 7. Chap. 2. 14. For as much then as the Children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also took part o● the same and so exalted our Nature above the nature of Angels by assuming it and uniting it to his Divine Nature He was God-man or God manifest in the Flesh 1 Tim. 3. 16. And thus he honoured it in the highest Nature and made it adorable in that Hypostatical Union with the Divine Nature Again He honoured it by the Purity of his immaculate Conception through the power of the Holy Ghost and not after the ordinary manner of men in their fallen and corrupt State by a sinful Generation and by the pure manner of his Birth of a Virgin undefiled and free and pure from men The force of this Argument consists herein If Christ so highly exalted our Nature above that of Angels shall we abase it to the Beasts that perish by living to sense and the sinful cravings of the Flesh Shall we make that Flesh vile by our Lusts and so contemtptible which the Son of God made Venerable by his Incarnation and which is glorified in Christ as in Capite and which we expect hereafter to be made like unto Christ's glorious Body Can we expect this corruptible subject to corruption in the worst sence of the words should put on incorruption unless it put off all its corrupt Lusts before it dyes on this side the grave that so it might be sit for that Inheritance which is incorruptible undefiled c. Sixth Argument for Mortification of our Members or Lusts Because our Bodies are Temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God Our Souls and Bodies were Dedicated to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost in our Baptism and thereby Consecrated and become Holy even Temples of the Holy Ghost through his gracious presence and Inhabitation But by Lust these Temples are polluted and profaned and become the Habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird as it is prophesied of spiritual Babylon Rev. 18. 2. Conceive we of Mens Lusts flying up and down in their Minds and Imaginations as Birds do in the Air or shut up in their Hearts as Birds are cooped up in a Cage ready to fly out upon opportunity and break loose as the Lusts of Mens hearts are almost upon every Occasion and Temptation You have heard in time of our Domestical Wars of turning Churches into Stables and polluting them but it is to tur● these Temples of the Holy Ghost into worse than Stables if we prostitute them to our vile lusts You read in Eph. 4. 29 30. a Caution Let no Corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth and it follows in the next verse And Grieve not the holy Spirit noting to us that the pure and holy Spirit of God is grieved afflicted and as it were made sad by naughtiness of our discourse thoughts or actions and so provoked to withdraw from us and to leave us The most nasty Kennels or Gutters and Sinks that receive the filth and off scouring of things the very Excrements themselves and the worst dunghils are not such an Annoyance and Offence unto us as our vile Lusts and corrupt Affections are to the Holy Spirit of God these are more loathsom and a greater Abomination unto him than the most stinking unsavoury smells are unto us The last Argument shall be taken from the tremendous Judgments that the Lord hath Denounced and Inflicted on Sinners in this sort Heb. 13. 4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will Judge and that severely too punishing them commonly in this World and in the World to come Gen. 6. 2 3. shows you that it had an hand in drowning the World When the Sons of God that is the holy Seed of Seths Race saw the Daughters of Men wicked Men and the Children like the Parents wicked too according to the sence of the words that they were fair they took them to Wives their Lusts within was smitten with the others Beauty and betrayed them to that graceless Match then it soon follows even in the next verse My Spirit shall not always strive with Man and after it The wickedness of Man was great in the Earth and it repented the Lord that he had made Man And the Lord