Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Secondly, Overcome the Devil when he tempts you to the youthful sin of Uncleanness. It is a passage relating probably to the young men of Sodom, in Job 36. 14. They die in youth, their life is among the unclean. The Uncleannesses into the Quagmires whereof young men too often plunge themselves, to use the Apostles cleanly language, 'tis a shame to speak of them. 'Tis a monstrous and a cursed wantonness, wherein young people too often indulge themselves; and some things that are counted the parts of a gentile breeding do but cast oil into the Hellish Flames of that wantonness: I mean particulars ⟨p. 72⟩promiscuous Dancings, against which the faithful Servants of God in all Ages have born their very zealous Testimonies. The Apostles in Rom. 13 13. and in I Pet. 4. 3. condemn that which we translate Rioting and Revel•ing, and they join it with Uncleanness; now the most accurate and renowned Critics in the Greek Tongue, affirm Dancings to be intended by the word that is used there. Hence Chrysostom calls a Dance, a Diabolical practice; and says, The Devil is one of the Company where 'tis […]. Austin made no stick to say, The miserable Dancer Knoweth not, that as many paces as he makes in Dancing, so many steps be takes to Hell. And the Ancients with one mouth call a Dance, a work of Satan, which all Baptised persons are bound unto the R•nu••iation of. Yea, whole Councils and Synods in the primitive Times have bitterly stigmatized promiscuous Dancings; and in later Ages the Waldenses declaimed against them as, The processions of the Devil.

Secondly, Overcome the Devil when he tempts you to the youthful sin of Uncleanness. It is a passage relating probably to the young men of Sodom, in Job 36. 14. They dy in youth, their life is among the unclean. The Uncleannesses into the Quagmires whereof young men too often plunge themselves, to use the Apostles cleanly language, 'tis a shame to speak of them. 'Tis a monstrous and a cursed wantonness, wherein young people too often indulge themselves; and some things that are counted the parts of a gentile breeding do but cast oyl into the Hellish Flames of that wantonness: I mean particulars