A34165:78
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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The more you cocker carnal ⟨image 11⟩affections, the more, they increase upon you; and therefore you must hold the reins hard, exercise a powerful restraint. Solomon in his Penitentials gives us an account of his own folly; and how fearfully he was corrupt this way, Eccles. 2.20. Whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them, I with-held not my heart from any joy, &c. This was that which brought him to such a lawless excess, and at length to fall off from God. When we give nature the full swing, and use pleasure with too free a license, the heart is insensibly corrupted, and the necessities of life are turned into diseases, and all that you do, 'tis but in compliance with your lusts; your eating and drinking is but a mea-offering, and drink-offering to lusts and carnal appetites. I remember Solomon saith, Prov. 29.21. He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall have him become his Son at length, i.e. allow a servant too much liberty, and he will no more know his condition, but grow contemptuous, bold and troublesome, so it is here: We are all the worse for license; natural desires, unless they feel fetters and prudent restraints, grow unruly and excessive: And therefore it is good to abate the liberty of the flesh, that the body may be a servant, and not a Master; when you deny your selves in nothing, but satisfy every vain appetite, a custom grows upon the foul, and Intemperance proves a Trade, and an habitual distemper, so that you cannot when you would, upon prud•m and pious respects refrain and command your desires; and therefore 'tis good sometimes to thwart and vex the flesh, as David poured out the water of Bethlehem that he longed for, 2 Sam. 23.17. not to deny our selves in what we affect and covet; lust grows into a wanton, and bold, and imperious, and so prescribes upon us, and we are brought under the power of these things.
The more you cocker carnal ⟨image 11⟩affections, the more, they increase upon you; and therefore you must hold the reins hard, exercise a powerful restraint. Solomon in his Penitentials gives us an account of his own folly; and how fearfully he was corrupthis way,