A65285:2475
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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(3.) Look to your Lips. Take heed of any unseemly Word that may enkindle unclean Thoughts in your selves or others. 1 Cor. 15.33. Evil Communications corrupt good Manners. Impure Discourse is the Bellows to blow up the Fire of Lust. Much Evil is conveyed to the Heart by the Tongue. Psal. 141.3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth.
(4.) Look in a special manner to your Heart. Prov. 4.23. Keep thy Heart with all keeping. Every one hath a Tempter in his own Bosom. Matth. 15.19. Out of the Heart come Evil Thoughts. And thinking of Sin makes way for the Act of Sin. Suppress the first Risings of Sin in your Heart. As the Serpent, when Danger is near, keeps his Head: So keep your Heart, which is the Spring from whence all lustful Motions do proceed.
(5.) Look to your Attire. We read of the Attire of an Harlot, Prov. 7.10. A wanton Dress is a Provocation to Lust. Curlings and Towrings of the Hair, a Painted Face, naked Breasts, are Allurements to Vanity. Where the Bush is hung out, People will go in and taste of the Liquor. Hierom saith, Such as by their lascivious Attires endeavour to draw others to Lust, tho no Evil follow; yet these Tempters shall be punished, because they offered Poison to others, tho they would not drink.