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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30987	A treatise of fornication shewing what the sin is, how to flee it, motives and directions to shun it : upon 1 Cor. VI, XVIII : also, A penitentiary sermon upon John viii. II / by W.B., M.A.	W. B. (William Barlow), b. 1617 or 18.	1690 (1690)	Wing B848; ESTC R10545	68,090	89

holy Job did Job 31.1 and make a Covenant with your Eyes that 's the way neither to look or think on Maid or Wife so as to lust after her and so one proper Expedient for the flying of Fornication 6. Flee Drunkenness This is an Apostolical Advice Be not drunk with Wine so our Apostle Eph. 5.18 for therein is excess 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he had said Thence springs all manner of lewdness and filthiness it debauches to all manner of lasciviousness and lewdness ‖ Ibid. Oculis excitatur libido sed ebrietate succenditur The Eye stirs up Lust but Drunkenness sets it on fire * Valer. Maximus Proximus à Libero patre ad inconcessam Venerem gradus est There is but one step from excessive Wine to unlawful Lust Drunkards and Whoremasters go together and 't is rare who is one is not the other Vino accenditur libido ebrietate inflammatur said Eric Putecinus Wine kindles Lust Drunkenness inflames it Immoderate Wine puts the Body into excessive heat and the excess sof that heat inrages it with untamed Lust And therefore wittily to note thus much unto us did the ancient Poets match Vulcan and Venus i. e. Heat and Lust together Lot's Daughters made their Father drunk with Wine and the next news you hear of him is That in his Drunkenness he lay with and committed Incest with his own Daughter Gen. 19.33 c. Et quem Sodoma non vicerat vina vicerunt D. Hier. ad Ocean Solomon disswading from the love of Wine by reason of the mischiefs of Drunkenness amongst other mischiefs named to disswade therefrom mentions this as one that it would incline to Fornication Thine Eyes saith he Prov. 23.33 shall behold strange Women as if he had said 'T will set thee a working and lusting after strange Women And every days experience doth so confirm this that I spare further labour to prove it only mentioning to you one Example which I chiefly choose to speak of because it is so notorious It is recorded by St. Augustine in his 33 Serm. ad Fr. in Er. of the Son of one Cyril a noble Citizen of Hippo who had a Son whom he loved even above his Maker not contradicting him in any Desire nor correcting him for any Fault This riotous youngster not content to roar it abroad and spend his Father's Estate comes home drunk and now mark and remember all especially fondly indulgent Parents he villanously ravished his own Mother big with Child one of his Sisters he endeavoured to deflower two of them he wounded that they died and for his Father him he killed outright A terrible Example to all Drunkards and enough sure to wound any Heart that is not cauterized to a serious abomination of so exceedingly sinful a sin as Drunkenness is Avoid Drunkenness therefore if you would not be guilty of Whoredom and follow not that as ye would flee Fornication Lastly Flee Gluttony Gluttony and Drunkenness were ancient Companions and grow too much to be again so in these days And well might they go so inasmuch as the one as well as the other is an incentive to lasciviousness Jesurun waxed fat and kicked that is waxed wanton upon his high feeding Deut. 35.15 it is a Metaphor taken from fat wanton Horses So Jer. 5.8 They were as fed Horses in the morning every one neighed after his Neighbours Wife High feeding is a great Incendiary unto hot lusting it fills the Body with superfluous Nutriment Spirits and Moisture which are the suel of Lust Whence St. Hieron saith Difficile inter Epulas ervatur pudicitia And St. Bernard Periclitatur castitas in deliciis It is a hard thing to feed high and keep chastity which is in great danger by the delicatest fare For as Ericius Putecinus saith Pascitur libido convitiis nutritur deliciis Lnst is fed with Feasts and nourished with Dainties In Gen. 32.6 it is said of the Israelites that they sate down to eat and to drink and rose up to play i. e. to play the Wantons to play the Whoremasters to commit Fornication and to act unnatural Uncleannesses as were usual for Idol-worshippers to commit and act at and after their Idol-feasts They did so then and they do not much otherwise now they eat and drink and rise up to play and too much of their Play is of this kind even playing the Whores and Woremasters and committing filthiness one with another And therefore if you would not be given to Lust be not given to Gluttony avoid not only the use of all salacious Food and lustful Meat but all inordinate excessive intemperate feeding on any Meat Nunquam vidi continentem quem non vidi abstinentem He is never continent that hath not been abstinent And therefore follow not Gluttony if ye would flee Fornication And thus much for my fifth Direction Sixthly Exercise Mortifications upon your Body in order to the subduing of your Flesh This is an old and approved Remedy the success whereof upon trial hath worthily been recommended to Posterity Use frequent Fastings not from some kind of Food only but from all either Meat or Drink and those of some strength and continuance and that not when we are unable to eat but are desirous of Meat like the Fasts we read of kept by the Saints in the Scripture which were continued for some days in which they did neither eat nor drink that is not until Night and that which they took then was very little and of mean quality a bit of Bread course Bread and a draught of Water tho' some I suppose did even forbear from that too neither eating Bread nor drinking Water This is a way that will bring the Body low enough in time and humble the Flesh and quench Lust Sine Cerere Libero friget Venus so the Comaedian observed Take away Diet and Drink the Fuel of Lust and the Heat of it will abate and the Fire of it goeth out But because the Body cannot be maintained either in Health or Life without some Food and so there is a necessity of eating let your ordinary and constant feeding be for the quantity of it very sparing and for the quality of it mean and course no matter how unpleasant so it be not unhealthful Sumenda sunt alimenta tanquam medicamenta We must in this case take Meat like Medicines as St. Augustine said no more than needs must to keep us alive and preserve us in health * S. Bernard Sufficit ut comestabilia sint non concupiscibilia 'T is enough that what we eat be wholsom tho' it be not toothsom Thus by often forbearances to eat at all and a constant thin Diet little and mean when we eat we shall starve Lust and subdue our Flesh and bring that Enemy of ours like a Town pined out with a long Siege to our own terms And that none may think this Prescription unpreacticable this was the way of Eremitical Living in former Ages