A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

5. Consider what lust is; 'tis the disease of the soul: Natural desire is like the Calor vitalis, the vi••l heat but lust is like a feverish heat, that oppresseth nature, we should get rid of it, as we would of a disease, the satisfaction of it is sweet to carnal nature, so is drink to a man in a fever; who would desire a Fever to relish his drink? Better be without the disease, then enjoy the pleasure of the satisfaction, better mortify lust, then satisfy it, in the issue 'twill be sweeter; I am sure the pains of mortification will not be so bitter as the horrors of everlasting darkness: lust let alone beginneth our hell, 'tis a burning heat, that at length breaketh out into everlasting flames: Again, lust is the disorder of nature, as 'tis monstrous in the body, if the head be there ⟨p. 473⟩where the feet should be, and the feet there where the head should be; such a deordination is there in the soul when the affections carry it, and when Reason should be in dominion, we suffer lust to take the throne; man rightly constituted, his actions are governed in this manner, the understanding and conscience prescribe to the Will, the Will according to right reason and conscience moveth the affections, the affections according to the command and counsel of the will, move the bodily spirits and members of the body, but by corruption there is a manifest inversion and change, pleasures affect the senses, the senses corrupt the fantasy, the fantasy moveth the bodily spirits, they the affections, and by their violence and inclination the Will is enslaved, and the mind blinded, and so man is carried headlong to his own destruction; now shall we cherish these lusts and brutish appetitions? The Lord forbid.

5. Consider what lust is; 'tis the disease of the soul: Natural desire is like the Calor vitalis, the vi••l heat but lust is like a feverish heat, that oppresseth nature, we should get rid of it, as we would of a disease, the satisfaction of it is sweet to carnal nature, so is drink to a man in a fever; who would desire a Feven to rellish his drink? Better be without the disease, then enjoy the pleasure of the satisfaction, better mortifie lust, then satisfie it, in the issue 'twill be sweeter; I am sure the pains of mortification will not be so bitter as the h•rrours of everlasting darkness: lust let alone beginneth our hell, 'tis a burning heat, that at length breaketh out into everlasting flames: Again, lust is the disorder of nature, as 'tis monstrous in the body, if the head be there