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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

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

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