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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

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

said I will destroy Man whom I have Created from the Face of the Earth both Man and Beast And you know the filthy Conversation and unlawful Deeds in this kind of the Men of Sodom as they vexed Righteous Lot at the Heart so they brought down the greatest sort of Judgment that ever was inflicted on any Sinners Fire and Brimstone from Heaven to consume Sodom and Gomorrah with the Cities of the Plain And Numb 25. 12. when Israel began to commit Whoredom with the Daughters of Moab and that led them unto the Spiritual Whoredom of Idolatry the Lord sent a Plague among them which in the 9th ver swept away four and twenty thousand with Zimri and Cozbi slain Deut. 22. 22. both the Adulterer and the Adulteress were to be put to death by the Lords own Commandment and if the tokens of Virginity were not found for the Damsel after Marriage Deut. 22. 21. Then she was to be stoned with stones at the Door of her Fathers House And so Numb 5. 14. you find the Tryal of Jealousie If the Spirit of Jealousie come upon a Man and he be Jealous of his Wife that she is Defiled the Priest shall take Holy Water and of the dust that is in the Floor of the Tabernacle and put it into the Water and charge the Woman with an Oath of Cursing saying The Lord make thee a Curse and an Oath among thy People if thou be Defil'd and this Water that causeth the Curse shall go into thy Bowels to make thy belly to swell and thy thigh to rot And the Woman shall say Amen Amen And in the 27th ver it should be fulfilled accordingly and the Woman be a Curse among her people by that extraordinary Judgment And in Jer. 5. 7 8. When they committed Adultery and Assembled themselves by Troops in the Harlots Houses Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord c. Go ye up upon her Walls and destroy Ezek. 16. 49. said of Judah That the Iniquity of her Sister Sodom was in her and in her Daughters called Sister to Sodom because she was like her in Lewdness in the 58 ver Thou hast born thy Lewdness and thine Abominations saith the Lord and that was in her Captivity as the 58 ver shows So that it doth appear this wickedness had a great hand in the ruine of that Kingdom and of Samaria likewise put for Israel in this Chapter How strangely hath this Sin encreased at the ruine of Empires and Kingdoms as of the Assyrian in Sardanapalus his time so effeminate and degenerated that he lived altogether among his Women and Concubines not suffering Men to come to the sight of him The Ruine of the Famous Troy was through an Adulteress Paris taking away and keeping Helen Wife to King Menelaus The Roman Empire declined and the Emperours came to ill ends when they became so prodigiously Lustful Nero's vile abuse of his Body with persons of the nearest Consanguinity Commodus that kept 300 Concubines and as many Boys for detestable uses Bassianus his Incestuous Marriage of his own Mother in Law Julia next to him Macrinus given over to Lust and Sensuality after him Heliogabalus who appointed in Rome a Senate of Women The matters there treated of were Inventions and means how to practise their Filthiness and Abomination at his removing from Rome often followed him six hundred Chariots laden only with Bawds and common Harlots He ordained Day-businesses to be done by Night and Night-businesses to be done by Day Maximinian of whom before Maxentius so Villanous in his Behaviour that he abstained not from abusing the Wives of Noble Senatours taking them violently from their Husbands Not one of these dyed a● natural Death Besides that the Kingly Government at Rome was ejected upon Tarquinius Superbus his forcing of that Noble Matron Lucretia Herod not Herod mentioned Acts 12. 23. eaten with Worms and Herodias that Incestuous Harlot are said to have died in great Penury and Misery at Lyons in France And alas How many Evils doth this Sin bring upon the Body How doth it weaken and enfeeble the strength of Men and Women that are much addicted to it especially those that are given to self-pollutions Insomuch that they bring that Curse upon themselves denounced in the Holy Scriptures that the wicked should not live out half their days Which sad experience shows to be true that many of these Sinners against their own Souls or Bodies shall I say or indeed against both dye in the midst of their Age or young in comparison with what they might have reached to in the course of Nature had they no ways shortned their days and brought themselves to an untimely end by their undue or excessive Lust And why should not Men be afraid of some ill Distemper so incident and common to those that make a common trade and practice of this Sin such a foul and loathsome Distemper that they are an Offence and Annoyance to others whither soever they come and can scarce be endured above ground so infectious it is that all shun such Creatures And ah How many have dyed Martyrs to this Sin Oh England that boastest of those that have been Martyrs for thy God be ashamed and confounded that the number doth so much exceed of those that have dyed in this sort of Martyrdom And O what more lingring deaths have these been put to rotting even alive and dying by piece-meal and that with Pain and Torment too burning with a consuming Fire which their Lusts have kindled here until they come to dwell with that devouring Fire or fierceness of Gods wrath and everlasting Burnings hereafter And surely the sence and consideration of everlasting burnings would have enough in it to quench the flames of Lust and make the unclean person tremble and flee from his impure and adulterous embraces so short for pleasure but in the pain and punishment following them everlasting Besides what hath been said this Sin is no less mischievous to the Souls than to the Bodies of Men by corrupting the Judgments of lewd persons with dangerous if not damnable errours and their Conversations with filthy and abominable practices scandalous to the pure Religion of Christian Many Instances may be given of this as in the first Century Cerinthus against whom and Ebion denying the Divinity of Christ some have thought the Gospel of St. John to have been more directly intended for Confutation of their Errours Cerinthus pretended to Revelations from Angels and for ought I know he might be in the right if he had Father'd it on the evil Angels not on the good That after the Resurrection from the dead Christ should have an Earthly Kingdom in this World and that the Subjects of Christs Kingdom should eat and drink and Marry and keep Holy-days for he himself was a Man given to fleshly Lusts and he imagined that the pleasures of Christs Kingdom should consist in fulfilling the Concupiscence of the Flesh Euseb lib. 3. cap. 18.