The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

1. It bringeth judgements on the body, destroying its health and strength, filling it with rottenness; it is the seminary of many incurable diseases. For the flame of Lust consumeth the Vital moisture, and the unnatural fire of burning Concupiscence extinguisheth the natural heat, which two are the Fountain of Life and Strength. An Incontinent person is the sink of all Corruption, a bag of Filth and Rottenness, and hath more diseases attending him, than an Hospital. For the righteous God hath appointed, that they who sow to the flesh, should of the flesh reap a plentiful Harvest of Corruption.

1. It bringeth judgements on the body, destroying its health and strength, filling it with rotteness; it is the seminary of many incurable diseases. For the flame of Lust consumeth the Vital moisture, and the unnatural fire of burning Concupiscence extinguisheth the natural heat, which two are the Fountain of Life and Strength. An Incontinent person is the sink of all Corruption, a bag of Filth and Rotteness, and hath more diseases attending him, than an Hospital. For the righteous God hath appointed, that they who sow to the flesh, should of the flesh reap a plentiful Harvest of Corruption.

2. As it causeth a Corruption in the body, so likewise a Consumption in the goods and estate of a man. Who so keepeth company with Harlots, spendeth his Substance. Prov. 29. 3. Lust not therefore, saith Solomon, after a strange woman in thine heart, for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread, Prov. 6. 26. Thus it was with the Prodigal, who no sooner fell into the company of Harlots, but presently consumed, and wasted all his substance, and was reduced to such extreme Poverty, that his desire was but to be fellow-Commoner with the Swine, (of all Creatures the most nasty and filthy) that he might fill his belly with their husks. Wantonness is usually accompanied with want, partly because it is a sin, which bringeth the curse of God upon a mans estate: and partly because it is many ways a costly sin, much being spent in feasting and Revelling, besides gifts and rewards. When Lais that famous Courtesan of Corinth asked Demosthenes a great sum of money to lye with her one night, he answered her wisely, that he would not buy repentance at so dear a rate.