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A55473 A sovereign balson to cure the languishing diseases of this corrupt age By C. Pora a well-wisher to all persons. Pora, Charles. 1678 (1678) Wing P2966A; ESTC R233075 195,614 671

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when they are in Bed or at the Table in consulting their Looking-glasses combing and plating their false Hair or some other way trimming and making themselves fine The Devils second Daughter was called Vsury and her he bestowed upon Citizens Burghers of Great Towns and some Rich Chubs in the Country that look't after her His Third call'd Felony and Robbery he bestowed upon Highway-men casheer'd Souldiers and Cadets Men commonly of high Spirits but low Fortune His fourth Daughter call'd Simony he commended to certain Church-men whom he knew much more willing to hold the place than to discharge the Office of a Bishop Cure c. The fifth called Hypocrisie he bestowed upon Bigots and Professors a sort of People successors to the Old Pharisies in outward behaviour and Shew very Demure and Seeming-Good but inwardly in Heart and private Practice far otherwise His sixth a Meager Girl call'd Envy he could not tell what to do withal she was so ill favour'd that he thought none would receive her unless she could change her Countenance so he sent her to the Universities to be bred up ●mongst Young Students whose Emulations pass for Vertues and are not counted Vice till they be come ●o full Age. His seventh was named Luxury or Carnal Lust and her he bestowed upon all sorts of People knowing that she would be welcome to all of what condition soever and to Women as well as to Men. You will easily moralize the Fable and learn by it how general and over-spreading this sin is and that whereas other Vices are as it were peculiar and proper to some persons and more frequently observed in some sort of People than in others the Vice of Lust and Carnal Concupiscence possesses all sorts pursues and molests all sorts and finally masters and prevails upon all sorts insomuch that as I have already intimated above it is the Opinion of some Considerative and Good Men exercised in the Care and Conduct of Souls that by means thereof our Ghostly Enemy intraps and gains more Souls than he does by any other or even by all other kind of sin notwithstanding it is so expresly forbidded by God and so much spoken against by all that ever spake to the World in Gods Name that is to say by Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Evangelists Ancient Fathers Bishops and all Good Pastours of the Church Avoid it therefore repent of your sin break off your abominable custom of sinning as many as are concern'd in what I speak least ye perish with the rest Sect. 2. By Carnal Concupiscence the Temple of God is defiled Domum tuam decet sanctitudo Domine in longitudinem dierum Psalm 92. 5. Of the Temple of God the Psalmist saith Holiness becometh thy House O Lord for ever And the Apostle adds 1 Cor. 3. 16. Siquis templum Dei violave rit c. If a Man defile the Temple of the Lord him shall God destroy That which is Holy must not be profan'd and when it happens to be so God threatens to vindicate the Profanation Now we have been taught above that our Bodies no less than our Souls are the Temple of God even of the Holy Spirit The Apostle tells us so 1 Cor. 6. 19. Know ye not that your Bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in you Doubtless therefore to defile this Body of ours by Lust and Uncleanness must needs be a great and grievous sin Why Because it is a great and grievous Violation of Gods Temple which is a thing so Holy and whereof he is so tender and chary that it be kept Holy Upon this Ground the Holy Doctor Saint Augustin observing to his great grief and sorrow so many of his People addicted to Carnal Concupiscence and plunging themselves daily in the deep mire of Lust he could not refrain crying out in his Admonition to them and saying What do you mean ye unhappy ones what do you intend to do with the Temple of God which you do so pollute and profane by your lustful Concupiscence It would trouble you much you would be offended if a Church Chappel or any other Place dedicated to Gods Worship and Service should be taken and made a Brothel-house or Stews a place for the publickly-known and free committing of Adultery Fornication and other like Carnal Lasciviousness You would think it hugely strange to see the Actions of wicked unlawful voluptuousness openly perpetrated and done in any part of the Sanctuary You would be ready to say What can be compared to such Wickedness to such abominable Practices And truly you judge not amiss for nothing can be more detestable in the sight of God than to see his Holy Temple so hrribly polluted and profaned But why then will you not remember why will you not lay to heart what the Apostle tells you 1 Cor. 3. 16. Templum Deo es tu You your selves are the Temple of God Your Bodies and Souls are the Temples of Holy Ghost wherein he delighteth to dwell Why will you defile these Temples of the Living God and make them Temples of Satan by your sins and uncleanness How much ought you to fear and dread least the Holy Ghost displeased with your abominations and turpitude should forsake you for ever Saint Isidorus for this only reason concludes Luxury to be one of the chief or the chiefest Capital sin because that by all such Transgressions the holiness of Gods Temple is so greatly violated And indeed what can be more injurious and contumelious to Christ than to take his members to wit your own Bodies and make them the members of a lewd Woman a Harlot For he that is joyn'd to such a creature becomes one Body with her as if it were in lawful and holy marriage Qui adhaeret meretrici unum corpus efficitur saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 16. Shall we dare to commit such a vileness God forbid Or can we do it and not expect the plague and vengeance of God to fall upon us Flie therefore Fornication Flie Adultery Flie all sins of Carnal Concupiscence as you would flie from a Serpent that bites and stings to death Abominate hate abhorre that foul Spirit of Belial that haunts you Bless your selves from him resist him by the grace of God and he will flie from you It is the absolute will and command of God that you do so and if you will not hear and obey wrath from God attends you and will find you out first or last to your shame and confusion according to what he hath in all ages from time to time comanded the holy Prophets and Apostles with all their lawful Successors to proclaime and publish to denounce and threaten in his name to all offenders to wit that under pain of his displeasure and of judgments Temporal and Eternal we forbear all Carnal Uncleanness whatsoever whether in Expressions Words whether in Imaginations Thoughts and whether in Actions or Works that we abstain from all Carnal Sensualities Wantonness of Behaviour