The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

If a man be addicted to the lust of uncleanness: there is nothing the lust doth desire, but an unbelieving heart will make a supply of. It shall have Books, Ballads, Plays for the purpose. It shall have obscene objects, and pictures to gaze upon. There shall be nothing wanting for the fomenting and cherishing of the corruption: nothing shall be denied, that may oil and increase the flame of lust. All a man hath, all his power, all his riches, his estate shall be laid out for the fuelling of his corruption; and so I might show in other lusts.

If a man bee addicted to the lust of uncleanness: there is nothing the lust doth desire, but an unbeleeving heart will make a supply of. It shall have Books, Ballads, Plaies for the purpose. It shall have obscene objects, and pictures to gaze upon. There shall bee nothing wanting for the fomenting and cherishing of the corruption: nothing shall bee denied, that may oile and increase the flame of lust. All a man hath, all his power, all his riches, his estate shall bee laid out for the fewelling of his corruption; and so I might shew in other lusts.

But now Faith, it starves sin: it will not hold out the dug to nourish a corruption: It will — not provide for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof: It will abridge sin, and cut it short of those dainty bits, which formerly it had in the soul: It will not afford it a thought, a motion, a look, nor any thing that may fuel it, or feed it.

But now Faith, it starves sin: it will not hold out the dugg to nourish a corruption: It will — not provide for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof: It will abridge sin, and cut it short of those dainty bits, which formerly it had in the soul: It will not afford it a thought, a motion, a look, nor any thing that may fewel it, or feed it.