A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

there is as great a Monstrousness and Disorder within, when the Soul is under the power of a ruling Lust. All should be in subjection to the Law of the Mind. God made Reason to have the Sovereignty and Dominion, and we give it to Appetite and Lust. A Man is drawn away by his Lusts; James 1.14. Every Man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own Lust, and enticed. The Affections are like wild Horses in a Coach, that have cast their Driver; they draw away the Soul by violence, and Reason hath no command. Again, Lusts make us not only brutish like Beasts, for Beasts are led by Appetite, and Man by Reason; but worse than Beasts: for Beasts can do no more, and ought to do no more; they have not a higher Rule, Appetite is made Judg. Yea, (and which is more) we exceed them in Lusts; Beasts, which are wholly led by Appetite, desire things only nigh at hand, and which are easy to be gotten: but Man's Lusts rummage throughout the whole Course of Nature; sometimes they desire things impossible. The Lust of Beasts is less inordinate than the Lust of Men; for the Beasts only desire to satisfy Nature, which is contented with a little. You cannot force a Beast to take more, when Nature hath its fill: but our Desires know no bounds; and we desire not only necessary things, but superfluous, such as are burdensome and cumbersome to the Soul; Lust only maketh them necessary. A Horse, when he hath taken his measure, will take no more. Every other Creature naturally is carried only to that which is helpful to its Nature, and shuns that which is hurtful and offensive: Only Man is in love with his own Bane, and fights for those Lusts that fight against the Soul. Again, it is Lust that makes our abode in the World dangerous; and it would be a safe Place, were it not for Lust; 2 Pet. 1.4. The Corruption that is in the World through Lust. The fault is not in the Object, in Gold, in Wine, but in the Heart of Man; not in the Creature, whom we abuse to this excess, but in our own Lusts. God made them to be Creatures for our help, and Lust turns them into Snares for our ruin. As when a Vessel is filled with filthy Liquor, and it runs dreggy, the fault is not in the Piercer that broacheth it, and giveth it vent, but in the Liquor it self. Lust is the cause of all the Hurt that is done us in the World:

there is as great a Monstruousness and Disorder within, when the Soul is under the power of a ruling Lust. All should be in subjection to the Law of the Mind. God made Reason to have the Soveraignty and Dominion, and we give it to Appetite and Lust. A Man is drawn away by his Lusts;