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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

reject the Word as those Ps 81. 11 12. But my people would not hearken ●o my Voice i. e. the word of God Where●ore I gave them up to their own hearts Lusts God will make those vile in whose eyes ●is Word is vile or any other Ordinance ●f God Rom. 1. 25. Who changed the truth ●f God into a Lie and Worshipped and served ●he Creature more than the Creatour who is ●lessed for ever For this cause God gave ●em up unto vile Affections unnatural Lusts ●nd so in the 23. ver and all this for dis●onouring God in his Worship If thou ●alt lye like a Logg in the presence of ●od in in such a c●reless irreverent Bru●sh Posture as manifesteth a downright ●ontempt of Gods Worship thou dis●nourest God in this Worship and God ●ay punish and make thee as vile by thy ●usts and Dishonourable We read of polluting the Sabbath Is 56. 2. ● the Ordinances of God when we al●w and indulge our Lusts in the very ●emple of God and Acts of Worship ●r upon the Lords Day follow our Lusts ● do any thing which makes the Lords ●ay vile this may provoke the Lord to ●ave us to pollute our selves But as the Word of God and the Or●nances of God duly performed promote Purity so there are other things as contrary to it to be carefully avoided as fearful Temptations and Provokatives to Lus● such are lewd Ballads Plays Stories an● Lascivious Songs of Love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Chrysostom calls them Songs of ● Devils compos●re which vitiate and co●rupt the minds of Youth it being nat●ral for the Heart and Mind to be wroug● upon by those things which are much ● the Mind and the Tongue until they r●semble and are made Conformable un● them as the word to work Purity oth● things frame the Mind into Wanto●ness The last means is Prayer and this I p● in the last place because Prayer must g● Gods Blessing upon all the other mea● Every thing is Sanctifyed by the Word a● Prayer The Word put in as bringing ● to the knowledge of Christ in and throug● whom all things are Blest to us Eph. 1. 3. ev● our Prayers accepted being offered up ● his Name which the Word teacheth us● do but Prayer that especially begs a● obtains Gods Blessing Grace to flee tho● Evils which may Corrupt us and to pr●ctise those things attend those Ordina●ces which may purisie us It is not enoug● to know our Duty our Helps to Vertue● and to this of Chastity in particular and our Temptations and Hinderances but if we would have Grace and Strength enabling us to practise accordingly Prayer must procure it But besides Prayer of it self is a special Help in this Case Pray ●hat ye enter not into Temptation Mat. 26. 41. that ye be not drawn away of your own Lusts ●nd enticed and allured with the pleasure of this Sit● For then are you Tempted as St. James 1. Prayer is an excellent fence and preservative against this Temptation ●nd therefore David Prays Make me a clean Heart O God Ps 51. 10. and keep thy Servant back from presumptuous Sins then shall ● be undefiled and innocent from the great of●ence in the Church Translation of the Psalms However Davids great Offence was his Adultery with Bathshcba that cau●ed the Murther of Vriah her Husband A Praying Christian may plead thus with God It is for thine Honour to kill ●very Corruption It is thy work to San●tifie and Purifie our Hearts Christ gave himself for that end to redeem us from all ●niquity and purify to himself a peculiar peo●le zealous of good works or that we may ●eny our selves and do Violence to our corrupt Nature Crucifying the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts thereof Mortifying our Members Fornication Vncleanness inodinate Affection c. That our Bodies m● be pure and undefiled Members of Christ and not the Members of an Harlot Th● our Bodies may be preserved everm● chast and uncorrupt Temples fit for t● Holy Ghost to dwell in That we may scape the pollutions which are in the Wor● through Lust and adorn that pure and u● defiled Religion which we profess O Make us clean Hearts O God and ren● right Spirits within us that we may reme●ber our own evil ways and our doings that we not good and loath our selves in our own sig● for our Iniquities and our Abominations T● is very fit to bring us to Repentance e● for a Personal use or in behalf of the N●tion And for young persons that th● may have Grace to flēe Youthful Lust And to follow after Righteousness Faith C●rity calling upon the Lord out of a pure Hea● Prayer is a drawing nigh to God A● God draws nigh to us with his Grace a● Spirit when we draw nigh to him he nigh at hand ready to help us but ● stand at a great distance from God looks upon us too as a far off when ● make no Conscience of this duty of Pra●er When we absent our selves from t● Throne of Grace and are not seen wi● God in Secret then God hides his Face from us and upon Gods withdrawing and deserting our Spiritual Enemies are present the Flesh and the Devil and the Al●urements of the World they Tempt At●ack and prosper How others find it I ●annot tell but I am sure I find that the Devil is busie with me whenev●r I neglect Prayer some evil thoughts or other he ●ollows me with but then my Heart is ●ure when I am most constant in Duty ●nd keep closest to God in Prayer which God never appointed in Vain but as a means and a very choice means to fetch ●n Grace and help against the World the Flesh and the Devil But I think it is im●ossible for those Christians to have pure Hearts or good quiet Consciences who ●ive in the neglect of daily Prayer We ●all find our selves strong in the Lord and ●he power of his Might or his Almighty ●ower engaged for us when we give God ●is due in Prayer and then our Lusts will ●e weak But when we neglect prayer ●e are weak our strength is gone our sup●ort and our props drawn from under us ●nd nothing left to bear us up and keep ●s from falling It is Gods usual course ●hen People for a long time leave God in ●ot Praying or Reading c. and doing the good they shall do in Religion not o●ly to with hold his further Grace b● to withdraw the present measure and lea● them first to Temptations that they m● awaken them and if they amend no● then to fall under them doing those Wic●ednesses and Abominations which shall b● bitterness to them in the latter end Wh● Sin or the love to your Lusts work o● Prayer then you may Sin on in a cour● of Sinning until you be hardned in Sin and past Feeling or Remorse for Sin B● if you hold on in Prayer which should ● a mighty Encouragement unto you yo● will weaken Sin even strong Lusts

a time only thus soliciting him they are as a Disease grievous to one that useth to enjoy his Health he is in pain and misery as one that hath a bone out of joynt they are as a wound to his Spirit as an heavy burthen the Man is restless and uneasie and cannot be satisfied until he get rid of these unclean Spirits and recover his former purity again As for our own sins so for the sins of the Nation to bewail them and lay them to heart as it is a great help to the Mortification of Lust so is it an infallible sign being conjoyned with the former that our heart is purified and the love to this sin mortified In the 2d Ep. to Pet. 2. ch 7. and 8. Verses you will find Righoeous Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked and again it s said in seeing and hearing that he vexed his righteous Soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds And so Jer. 9. and 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place that I might leave my People and go from them for they be all Adulterers Jer. 23. 9 10. Mine heart within me is broken c. for the Land is full of Adulterers Psal 119. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because men keep not thy Law And as David wept for his own sin in this kind his Adultery so no doubt but it fetched tears from him to bewail the sins of others against the seventh Commandment as well as the rest 158. v. I beheld the Transgressors and was grieved because they kept not thy Word Where the Godly have offended most when they are recovered they use to repent most and to grieve most for sins of that kind to manifest the truth of their Repentance and grieving also for the fearful Judgments that this Sin must needs bring down upon this Nation Oh but to what a pass is this Nation come That instead of grieving at the scandalous guilt and trembling at the fearful Judgments that these Abominations have denounced against them in the Word of God are so far hardened as to make it matter of Sport and Pastime their laughter and merriment with the Adultery and the lewd Women of Great Persons How many abusive Jests are there upon the blameless Husband of the Adulteress to shame him It would not be serious enough to mention them nor the Name which is commonly given him He that would not partake of the Judgments of God and the Plagues Temporal Spiritual and Eternal when he comes to take Vengeance on the Nation for this Sin and other our Sins which without a further Reformation are not like to go unpunished must be in the number of those that mourn in Zion for all these abominations Oh how provoking a thing is it to make a mock of Sin This is one great step towards committing of the Sin to have pleasure in it when acted by others And no wonder if this Sin break forth in their Hearts and their Lives who are such friends to it in the Discourse and who are so much taken with it in the Story will be much more pleased in the acting of it and show plainly enough that they have not mortified their Uncleanness of Heart not the sweet not the pleasure of the Sin Consider the inhumanity of this practice that makes it Diversion Recreation to toss about the sins of others from one to the other until they go round the Parish and afford jocular Entertainment to all that hear and know the Offenders If a Man fell into a Pit and lamed or wounded or grievously hurt himself so as by that fall to bring his life into great and apparent Danger were not that Man to be pitied rather than laughed or scoffed at and thus it is with the Adulterous Persons they fall into a pit and snare of the Devils and of the Flesh they wound their souls most sorely and desperately and bring themselves into such danger of eternal Death and Damnation as that but very few escape and are not such Persons Objects of pity And should we not be compassionately concerned for them if we have any sense of that sad and wretched case they are in Not as many laugh at their Calamity and mock at their Misery which is most barbarous You that can weep at the Death of a Friend and are afflicted in any great Affliction that befalls them what can't you shed a tear for their Eternal Condition and the Evil which this Sin exposeth them unto The last Mark for Discovery of this Purity is from the Constancy of it Sin may be held in for a while by common Restraining Grace and so the outward Acts be forborn until the Violence of Temptation comes to try and assault their Chastity and then it cannot hold it out without an inward Principle of Grace and an Heart set against the Sin with Resolution If your Purity and Chastity hold in the heat of Summer as well as in the cold of Winter when temptation is present and you have opportunities of sin as well as when there are none of these nigh you to importune you If the manner and course of your Life be chast if it be common customary without any relapses into your old sins and Acts of Whoredom or the like for one such Act calls all your Repentance into question and may set you again into your old courses and unmortifie all your Morti●●eation especially if it proceed to a second and a third Use Hence we learn how sadly Christianity in the practice is degenerated from the Precept how much our Lusts have defiled the pure and undefiled Reli●●on Where shall we find the Purity and Chastity of a Christian The Church of Rome that boasts her self to be the Mother of all Churches or the Metropolis of Christendom she is become the Mother of Harlots in a literal sence as Rev. 17. 5. And as to their Doctrine corrupted too forbidding to marry and allowing Fornication before it And that they may not want provision for their Lust several of the Popes have not only given an open Toleration of Brothel-houses but received Salaries from them And though the late Puritan Pope as they called him excell'd his Ancestors and would not suffer them in his Territories yet they removed but a little further and set up their Brothel-houses in the very next Principality As to our own Nation that goeth under the Name of Reformed but hath as much and more need of a Reformation now in this particular than ever in the Times of Popery We read of one or two of the Romish Kings that kept their Women or rather some particular Person for this ill use but it was in corners and by stealth but hath not our late King of the Reformation out-done all that were before him in the number and multitude of his Women and their open-fac'd Boldness and Impudency So that it hath had too great an encouragement from the Examples of Great