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world_n	deny_v	lust_n	ungodliness_n	2,308	5	11.2023	5	false

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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

all on Earth and set their Affections only on earthly things earthly Enjoyments earthly bruitish carnal Pleasures whereby we are incited stirred up and provoked to filthy actings these are to be mortified Col. 3.5 to be subdued and brought under and not suffered to reign in our mortal bodies so as that we should obey them in the lusts thereof and in obedience thereto yield our members servants to uncleauness Rom. 6.12 19. But as being Strangers and Pilgrims in this World we must abstain from fleshly Lusts 1 Pet. 2.11 yea as being Christs that is Christians Members of Christ we must crucisie the flesh with its affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 In this not so much as thought is free nor desire lawful but every unclean affection is sinful which therefore is to be abhorred detested and avoided by us And this is the second way wherein we are to flee Fornication viz. as in Action so in Affection And this is all I shall say concerning the second part of our Undertaking How we are to fly this Sin III. We now proceed to the third where we are to present you with some Considerations pressing you on by way of Motive to fly this Sin of Fornication And the first is The sinfulness of it That any thing is a Sin is Motive enough to disswade from the acting of it how delightful or how gainful soever otherwise it might be The least of Sins is not to be committed for the obtaining of the greatest Goods for even of those who say Let us do evil that good may come thereof the Apostles tells us that their damnatoin is just And the more Aggravations that any Sin is capable of still more reason there is to abstain from the commission of it The greater Sin brings upon the Sinner the greater guilt that is an obligation unto the greater Punishment So that whereas some Offenders shall be beaten but with few stripes others shall be beaten with many Now Fornication taken in the simplest Sense of it is a Sin and that a great one A Sin it is for it is the Transgression of Gods Law as being specially forbidden not only by our Apostle in this Text but also by a whole Council of the Apostles assembled and acting by Divine Authority at Jerusalem Act. 15.29 And so 1 Thess 4.3 This is the will of God even your sanctificiation that ye should abstain from Fornication Yea and the Law of Man too it is a Sin lor thereby it is strictly forbidden to be committed and thereby Punishment is ordained for and inflicted upon the Committers of it so that it is a Sin and a great Sin it is too as being chargeable with many Aggravations As first it is an acting against right Reason so Aquinas Fornicatio dicitur esse peccatum in quantum est contra rationem rectam Then Reason is right when it acts according to the Will of God which is the first Law and highest Rule Inasmuch therefore as the Will of God is our Sanctification and our abstaining from Fornication therefore this Sin is a Sin against right Reason which in conformity to the Will of God dictates the quite contrary hereunto so that it seems no man commits this Sin who hath nor first debauched his Reason and so far turned himself into a beast or worse Secondly It is an acting against Charity inasmuch as that due care which ought to be taken for the Issue of the begotten is not attended unto the satisfaction of a present Lust not the Propagation of a future holy Race being the thing intended therein Whence so many base-got Children are either murder'd as soon as born or neglected or starved not long after their Birth and commonly smally cared for all their life as to either Education or Maintenance prefent Instruction or future Salvation Whence the Schools determine Fornication to be no less than a mortal Sin Fornication simplex cum contra bonum educendae prolis sit illicita est ut etiam sit lethale crimen so Aquin. 25 q. 154. conclus 3. And our Church praying in her Litany to be delivered from Fornication and all other deadly Sin intimates Fornication in her account to be also a deadly Sin And by the Canon-Law the like Penance was imposed upon the Committers of this Sin as was upon those that were guilty of Perjury Adultery Murder and other like deadly Sins ib. And as against human Charity so also it is a Sin against Christian Purity as being contrary to that Purity that was exemplified in the Life of Christ and contrary to that Purity that is in the Law of Christ contrary tog that Purity that in obedience to the Law and in consormity to the Life of Christ should be practised by all that are Christians Christ himself lived a life of exact Purity never guilty of the least Inchastity in Act in Gesture in Word in Thought And his Will is our Sanclification that we should abstain from Fornication and possess our vessel that it our Body in sanctification and honour nhot in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God 1 Thess 4.3 4 5. And that we may know his Will his grace that bringeth Salvation to all men hath appeared teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World Tit. 2.11 12. So that by the Gospel we are called to be * Rom. 1.7 Saints that is holy Persons And we are initiated into our Christianity by a purifying Sacrament the holy Sacrament of Baptism where by the outward cleansing of our bodies from their Filth by Water at their Birth or entrance into Christianity is signified what Purity there ought to be in all our lives whereof there is a beginning also wrought inwardly in us by the sanctifying Grace of Gods Spirit accompanying the outward Ordinance for the taking away of the filth of our Nature and the enduing us with inherent Holiness Whence that Sacrament is called not only the washing of regeneration but also the renewing of the Holy Ghost and the sanctification of the Spirit Tit. 3.5 1 Pet. 1.2 Whereupon as he which hath called us is holy so it is our duty to be boly in all manner of conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 To cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 to hate every garment spotted by the flesh Jude 23. and not having escaped the corruption and pollution that is in the world through lust to be again intangled therein and overcome 2 Pet. 1.4 and 2.20 The divine power hath given unto us all things that appertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue whereby are given unto us exceeding precious promises that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature,2 Pet. 1.3 4. Now what can be more contrary to this Purity than this beastly † 2 Pet. 4. 2.19 20. rom 6.19 2 Cor. 7.1 Jud.