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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

guilt ●is deadly or damning sin as Fornicati●n is named in our Letany and I am per●waded God doth not give men up to this ●n until they have provoked him very much by long neglect of holy duties and then no wonder if evil prevail and corrupt so many when there is little or no good to withstand it if they have little or no grace to overcome the temptation where the means of Grace are neglected or used very little and but in a very careless negligent manner or by much inward filthiness of long continuance or great wantonness for nemo repente fuit turpissimus And if thou beest one who hast long indulged thy self in these thou art prepared for further Guilt there is but a step between thee and this sin and therefore tremble in a sense of thy Guilt and danger of more but yet better these than the sin it self or the actual uncleanness vastantia conscientiam that lay waste and make havock of a good Conscience o● great gashes and wounds in the Conscience and sink men into destruction and commonly ordinarily hold them fast in it a Prov. 2. 18 19. spoken of a naught Woman For her House inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead None that go unto her return again neither take they hold o● the paths of Life which is true in a proverbial sense Proverbs being sayings o● common observation and so true by common experience as it is here That the● who go on thus far never return to God again and usually perish though not ever without exception Consider of this ●or prevention of sin now in time least ●hou be forced to consider of it afterwards to despair for sin A word spo●en in due season and received how ●ood is it The next word is Vncleaness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which doth comprehend ●l sorts of actual sins of this kind those ●gainst the 7th Commandment and the ●ternal Lusts against the 10th Command●ent Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours ●ife where in the Septuagint it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou shalt not have any lustful ●esire after her What ever is impure ●d unchast inward or outward natural ● unnatural Lusts this word being of a ●rge signification reacheth them all ●ough here it chiefly and more especially ●spects the outward acts there being ●njoyned in the same verse other words ●at signifie Lust within us as inordinate ●fection and evil concupiscence do I ●oke already somewhat to the natural ●s of Lust under the consideration of ●e former word I shall speak now to o●er unnatural acts of Lust that of peo●es corrupting themselves and sinning a●inst their own bodies Ah how far hath this abominotion spread it self how many have committed folly in this sort Ah this single Fornication as some call it how soon have some began to practise it out of a wantonness and lasciviousness to taste of pleasure before its time other some from their Parents fault and negligence staying their Children for a good Match so long until their patience is ti●red out And thus they who might and like enough would have been satisfie● with the true and proper remedy agains● Lust and with the lawful means fall t● unlawful when they see their Parent● provide no Portion for them and tak● no care to dispose of them Lust will no● ever be shut up in the heart it will brea● out this fire will have a vent some wa● or other If you find your Childrens inclinations strong to Marriage the tempe● and constitution of their Bodies requirin● it their corruption stirring and temptations powerful and their age competent● deny them not Marriage And if th● Match be not altogether so desireable ● to this world and so well as you cou● wish yet all things considered it may ● best least they should do worse and tak● such a liberty in this kind before Marriag● as should either make them unfit for Ma●riage or at least both Soul and Body rue it afterwards and find the sad and mischievous effects of it on themselves and their Children But because this sin may be involuntary not only after one for some time hath given himself to it to be given up thereto by God as Rev. 22. 11. Him that is filthy let him be filthy still but possibly though very rarely it may be involuntary in the first rise and occasion of it coming upon a more innocently minded person in a manner secret and undiscernable by him but then it is sent as a punishment perhaps for some guilt upon the Family a just God visiting the sins of the Parents especially if they have been addicted to this vice upon their Children or for some other more known and wilful sin which they overlook and say nothing unto though it be highly displeasing unto God and provoke him to make them vile in this manner But from what cause soever it proceed Parents must be very careful to prevent it or check it betimes And because the Devil is most busie with such when they are solitary most violent in his assaults to excite their Corruptions and set them a-work on this wickedness it is not so safe to suffer them in private or trust them to be much alone especially these that know how to d● evil There are other sorts of actual Uncleanness as by Incestuous mixtures an● Marriages forbidden as coming withi● the degrees of Consanguinity and nearnes● of Relation by the Fathers or the Mother side as Lots two Daughters Gen. 19. 32. who said there was not a Man in the Earth to come in unto them after the manner of all th● Earth and so they made their Fathe● drink Wine and lay with him when th● Wine had overcome him Judah and Tha●mar his daughter by Marriage or Sons Wife Amnons inceit with Tamar his own Sister by Father I could mention that whole Nation among the Heathens stood guilty th● Persians of lying with their own Mothers the Macedonians and Aegyptians Marrying their own Sisters and this done even a● Athens it self the Queen or Mistress of al Greece for Civility and Learning their Histories were full of them their Plays and Tragedies which they frequented every day and respected with great applause represented them as lawful and commendable Some that are more curious tha● sober in Religion are very inquisitiv● who was Cains Wife Suppose we that Adam had Daughters though thei● Names be not mentioned in Scripture as well as Sons God could dispense with the Marriage of his own Sister at that time when there were no other Virgins in the world even as under the Jewish Law he did dispense with the Brothers going in unto his Brothers wife to raise up seed unto his Brother but that would be no example for others to follow when the world was peopled Besides these we read of other unnatural Lusts for Lust is so wild a passion that it flies out into all manner of Extravagancies you read in Gen. 19. That two Angels came to Sodom at Even

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

Ease and Pleasure and the ●ait and allurement to this sin is the pleasure of it James 1. 14. you read Then is a man tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies baited as Men do bait for Fishes with somewhat alluring and pleasing to the tast of the silly Fish so doth Lust ba●● and allure idle voluptuous Persons wit● the pleasure in it This is the reaso● why great Persons are more addicted t● this Vice and Wickedness because the● living idly and loving their Pleasures th● Devil as he finds them much at leisure t● be tempted and to hearken to his sugge●stions so he knows they look upon them selves as born for their Pleasures an● therefore he hath commonly more succe● with his Temptations of this sort on s 〈…〉 as they are whereas those busied abo● their honest Calling cannot so well tu● aside and leave their employ to follow t● Works of the Devil and be so ready ● his beck to fulfil his pleasure they havi● other work to do their minds must be ● a great measure taken up with that a● so have not that opportunity besides tha● they have not that plenty of Money ● spend upon their Lust and are in Go● way and in some measure in his protec● on while they are about their law● works and worldly business but Tem●tations come with doble the force to idle ●ich Epicures If persons will not set themselves to work some way or other about their worldly concerns or the concerns of Religion the Devil will be sure to set them on work about that which is evil God having made it the Duty of all religiously or usefully to employ themselves and their precious time so as either God may be glorified or the World benefited by them Another Means for the Mortification of our Lusts or at least a good Preventive and Preservative from sins of this kind is ●o have a due regard to Restraining Grace ●abour to see your need of it and to live ●n a sense of your weakness and in a con●inual dependance on God for his Grace ●or scarce any other means will take effect ●ntil Persons have learnt this lesson Igno●ance and Unbelief of Restraining-Grace ●r disregard of it hold People under ●he power of this sin and cut off from ●hem the means of their Recovery and ●hat power which should rescue them They that think they have no need of God and his Grace to keep them back ●om this kind of Wickedness as if they ●ould keep from it of themselves it is just ●hat God should leave them to some temptation from the Devil or some alluring and ensnaring Beauty captivating them or in some measure let loose the Corruption of their Natures that so they may find that by Temptation or sad experience in their own falls which they might● and ought to have learnt from the Word that they are weaklings in the spiritual warfare and their strength is not their own that they stand not alone of themselves but that it is God's hand that bears them up and that the frailty of their Natures is such as without him they cannot but fall The Devil is much in Temptations o● this nature those that never discerne● the Devil tempting them never wer● throughly convinced of their need o● Grace to restain him The Devil is called an Vnclean Spirit not falsly but becaus● of his instigations to this sin The evi●dence from History is too apparent to b● denied or satisfactory at least that th● Devil hath taken up the dead Bodies of som● beautiful Women and walked some wa● with them and when lustful Persons hav● met them and courted them and lay● with them in the morning when they a●wak'd they have sound nothing but a dea● Corps by them And the Devil or D●vils they being many indeed but all conspiring as one are reported credibly enough in bodily shapes to have had carnal Knowledge of some Witches it is not new to talk of Incubus and Succubus Spirits There is never a Christian upon Earth but the Devil desires and labours all he can to corrupt him many evil thoughts rise up in your minds through his injections or suggestions though he conceals himself that you can but seldom discern him directly in the Temptation and when the Temptation continues long and you are followed with it and haunted with these Lusts from day to day 2 Sam. 13. 4. Amnons Case that you wax lean are ready to consume or pine away by that means then you may gather the Devil is in it and sets them on and hopes by perseverance and long continuance of the Temptation to prevail against you When also the Temptation is very sudden and unthought of and unexpected and you are carried out to this or any other sin with double the force that at other times then he is in it that filled the Heart of Ananias Acts. 5. 3. and that worketh mightily in the Children of Disobedience Eph. 2. 2. As we have need of God's powerful restraint in respect of Satan so in respect of the tempting Objects and the corrupting Beauties as Gen. 6. 2. When the Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were fair they took them Wives of all which they chose The Sons of God that is the holy Seed of Seth's race the Daughters of men of wicked men of Cain's race or such as were common and prostitute to men as some think the Sons of God were taken with their Beauty when they saw that they were fair then they chose them and took them for Wives and were corrupted by them as the 12th v. God saw the Earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth Tamar was a fair beautiful Woman and therefore Amnon loved her 2 Sam. 13. Our indwelling-sin is as ready to catch at a motion of Satan Lust within to be set on fire as Tinder is to catch at a spark of fire lighting upon it so vile and corrupt is the Nature of Man and exceeding prone to this evil yea carrying us out to work all Vncleanness with greediness Ephes 4. 19. And our Blessed Saviour tells us From within out of the Hearts of men proceed evil thoughts Fornications Adulteries Swarms of evil thoughts are naturally in our Hearts Out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh its corrupt things the Eye looketh on a Woman to lust after her and the Ear attends such rotten and filthy Communication and the whole Man acts It is the evil within that brings forth the Fornications and Adulteries even all sorts of naughtiness therefore there is an absolute need of God's Grace to suppress the evil of our Hearts and great need have we to Pray Lead us not into Temptation for no Temptation of this sort whether from without or from within but what is common to Men Saints as well as Sinners their Nature is unclean and full of evil lustings