Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	honour_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	71	3	9.0982	4	false

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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

the 13th who was killed in the very Act of Adultery by the Husband of the Woman whom he defiled And it is a common saying of the Romish Priests That their Children warm themselves by other Folks Fires The Vows of perpetual Chastity or Continence have occasioned other harm than that of Secret Whoredoms and Murthers even Marcion the Heretick had vowed Chastity but afterward polluted himself with Whoredom and was cast out of the Church and coming to Rome and being denyed the fellowship of the Church he fell to Cerdon and Augmented his Errour of a Supream Invisible God Secondly a Visible God Creator of all things Thirdly the Devil as a mid-thing between the Visible and Invisible God This Heresie spread it self in Italy Egypt Palestina Arabia Syria Cyprus Thebaida Persia and many other places They denyed also the Resurrection Marcion called justly by Tertullian Primogenitus Diaboli the first-born of the Devil Now by way of Tryal and Examination whether you have attained to this Purity of Heart and Mortification of Lust First Mortification must be laid at the Root of the Tree a deadly Wound be given Sin at the Heart It is not enough to Lop off some of the Branches to cut off some of the outward Acts of Sin for these will grow again in time To cleanse the Streams will be to little purpose if the Fountain be left unscowred that will send forth such foul waters again as shall make all Mire and Dirt. Thus the Heart must be purged and cleansed from filthiness else the Life will be polluted and unclean The labour at the Pump of the Ship in casting the Waters out will signifie little while they neglect to stop the Leak The Heart lets in all these Evils which defile the Man Therefore the Heart must be rectifyed and the abundance of wickedness stopped and suppressed there First Rule to know when the Heart is purged and purified is when the Will is resolved for Purity against all the Temptations to the contrary and that with a serious and deliberate fixed and settled purpose and resolution Suddain Purposes as they are taken up without consideration of the difficulties they shall meet with so they fail in time of Trial and Temptation but when all the hinderances are weighed and all the allurements of the Flesh and a Man finds himself armed with a Christian Courage and strong in the Lord and the power of his might what hardship and difficulty soever there be in this mastery of his Lusts for the words mortifying and crucifying the Flesh with Affections and Lusts import that there is a great deal of pain and misery in the Duty much of Self-denial in this Purification of the Heart then such a Purpose such a Resolution as this is like to carry it for Voluntas domina membrorum the Will commands the outward Man and if the Will be fortified and fully bent against Whoredoms Adulteries and also other acts of Lust against corrupt Communication lewd Company lascivious Songs c. the man is like to be and act accordingly for Men do not use to be forced to these grosser sins against their Wills though I deny not but that corruption is working in the Saints and stirring them up through the instigations of Satan to the doing the evil which they would not do and hindering them from doing the good which they should and would do in the Combate between the Flesh and the Spirit as Rom. 7. 14. Where I am carnal or corrupt sold under sin saith the Apostle that is a Slave to Satan under the bondage of corruption naturally led captive by the Devil at his pl●a●ure and by our own Lusts 2 Tim. 2. 26. The evil which I would not that do I Now if I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin that dwelleth in me Rom. 7. 19 20 21. In actual sins commonly at least and ordinarily God doth not use to charge any more of sin upon us than there was of the Will in the deed even so much evil was there in it yet here we must distinguish between such sins as were voluntary at first and afterwards Persons may be given up unto them and sin involuntarily and be but a spiritual Curse and Judgment from the Lord upon them or when there is some other sin which is voluntary and allowed of sinning that sin knowingly and wilfully Persons may justly be punished with some other sin involuntarily and yet culpably Next when there is a real Hatred and Enmity between us and our Lusts As 1. When there is an effectual resistance of the Temptations to this sin such a resistance as prevails against the Temptations from without and our own Lusts and overcometh and escapeth the pollutions which are in the World through Lust 2. When a Christian holds out Praying against his Lusts and that with a real and unfeigned desire to be preserved from the evil of them and useth all holy means and Ordinances of God in Faith and dependance upon God for this preserving Grace There is never a Prayer hearty Prayer but it gives a wound to the Flesh and our Lusts a mortifying blow 3. When there is a Zeal against this sin in one kind as well as in another and that not out of an hypocritical pretence to seem holy and more pure than others but out of a sense of the evil and a concern for the Honour of God and our Religion There is much of Anger and Indignation in Zeal and that argues somewhat to offend and displease which we may apply to the Lusts of Men we really hate and dislike this sin when we are truly Zealous against it We are commanded in the first of Tim. 5. 22. Partake not of other mens sins keep thy self pure Every filthy speech lewd Story or unlawful Deed and Act of Lust of others which pleaseth you and delighteth you so that you dislike it not and shew not your dislike of it by leaving the Company or shaking your head or reproving and admonishing the Offenders brings a guilt upon you So that if you would be pure you must not partake of other mens sins The Third Rule for Trial of this Purity by the spiritual sight and sense of this Sin A Man that hath been used to live in a bad foggy unwholsome Air he discerneth not feeleth not any thing noisom or offensive in it it is all one to him as it were pure Air. Thus is it with one that hath an Heart habitually filthy and unclean evil lustings are not evil to him or in his Account they do not afflict him or offend him he seeth no such hurt in them but that if he forbear the grosser acts he may be a pure Saint and so they settle themselves and lodge in the Heart quietly and without molestation But a Christian that hath an habit of Purity in his heart if at any time his Lusts do stir and are tempting and continue for a time and it is but for