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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The lust of the Flesh, modo hic sit been, pleasing the Flesh goeth a great deal further than the Monks Bellies, who yet have a lusty share in it; as one of their own said, They had all things so complacent, that they wanted only a Vicar to go to Hell for them when they should die. The Bishop of Romes Kitchen and Purgatory mutually support one another. Disorders of Life hold up Celibacy in Men in Orders. The lust of Idleness inviteth to Stage-plays, the nurseries of Vanity and Vice; to Cards and Dice, in defiance of that Canon which pronounceth them unlawful Games. A lusty Dinner makes the Veins so strut, they can leap or fly to Heaven by their Free-will, without the necessity of Free-grace, so strong is Flesh and Blood without the Spirit of God. Sure he who hath an Immortal Soul within him, and a Dubious State to himself, as that dreadful Eternity before him, should never be sick of his time that lies upon his Hand, one hour whereof millions of Worlds can't redeem.
1. The lust of the Flesh, modo hic sit bene, pleasing the Flesh goeth a great deal further than the Monks Bellies, who yet have a lusty share in it; as one of their own said, They had all things so complacent, that they wanted only a Vicar to go to Hell for them when they should die. The Bishop of Romes Kitchin and Purgatory mutually support one another. Disorders of Life hold up Celibacy in Men in Orders. The lust of Idleness inviteth to Stage-plays, the nurseries of Vanity and Vice; to Cards and Dice, in defiance of that Canon which pronounceth them unlawful Games. A lusty Dinner makes the Veins so strut, they can leap or fly to Heaven by their Free-will, without the necessity of Free-grace, so strong is Flesh and Blood without the Spirit of God. Sure he who hath an Immortal Soul within him, and a Dubious State to himself, as that dreadful Eternity before him, should never be sick of his time that lies upon his Hand, one hour whereof millions of Wolds can't redeem.
2. Covetousness is a weighty Argument: Thousands are enough to break the Loins of most Mens minds, too heavy for the back of the strongest Rationalist in the World; the Scale of Judgment cannot turn ⟨p. 245⟩