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

1. Fullness of Bread and Drink, eating to Gluttony, and drinking to Drunkenness. As Temperance is the best preserver of Chastity: So intemperance in Eating and ⟨p. 89⟩Drinking is the Nurse of Uncleanness, the Oil wherewith the flame thereof is kindled and increased, Jer. 5. 7, 8. They were as fed Horses in the Morning, every one Neighed after his Neighbours Wife: implying, that when men are fed to the full, like pampered Horses, they will Neigh after their Neighbours Wives: But take away the fuel, and the fire of Lust will soon go out. Whereupon Lycurgus to prevent all filthiness and uncleanness in Sparta, prohibited all Feasts and Banquetings by a Law: for he knew that Gluttony and Drunkenness were the Mothers of Wantonness and Voluptuousness.

1. Fulness of Bread and Drink, eating to Gluttony, and drinking to Drunkenness. As Temperance is the best preserver of Chastity: So intemperance in Eating and ⟨p. 89⟩Drinking is the Nurse of Uncleanness, the Oyl wherewith the flame thereof is kindled and increased, Ier. 5. 7, 8. They were as fed Horses in the Morning, every one Neighed after his Neighbours Wife: implying, that when men are fed to the full, like pampered Horses, they will Neigh after their Neighbours Wives: But take away the fuel, and the fire of Lust will soon go out. Whereupon Lycurgus to prevent all filthiness and uncleanness in Sparta, prohibited all Feasts and Banquetings by a Law: for he knew that Gluttony and Drunkenness were the Mothers of Wantonness and Voluptuousness.

2. Filthy and obscene talk is another occasion and incentive of Lust. For as the Apostle speaketh, 1 Cor. 15. 23. Evil communications corrupt good manners. Many, I know, take too much liberty to themselves herein, and make nothing of it, but do flatter themselves with a conceit of the purity of their hearts. But let such know, that filthy and unclean words do argue a filthy and unclean mind. Obscene words being but the excrements and overflowings of a carnal and corrupt heart: for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Thy stinking breath smells of a foul Stomach.