Warnings from the dead. Or Solemn admonitions unto all people

Such Thoughts as these leisurely and thoroughly prosecuted, will Nail thy Lust unto the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ; and let •me tell thee, there is no way to Mortify a Lust, but by Hanging it, on that Blessed Cross]

But suppose a Disposition to Uncleanness, may be such a Grain in a mans. Temper, that it may be called, His own Iniquity; what shall we do then? Why then, there is a famous Prescription, Ores, casta Legas, Jejunes, otia vites, St Servare Voles Corpora Casta Deo.

First, Pray much, and pray with him, Lord, Create in me a clean Heart. Then East as well as Pray; if you Fast, the Unclean Kind may go out: Fasting Spittle will ⟨image ?⟩kill a Boil. Nextly, Read much the Sanctifying Truths of God: It is by Taking heed thereto, that, The Young man may cleanse his way: but shun all obscene Books, as you would the Rags that had the Plague about them. Once more; Be not Idle, be not Slothful, have something at your Calling still to do. So you may come to say, as one usually too hard for the Devil did, The Devil never finds me at leisure for him. You know, when and how David fell! But permit me to add one Advice more; and that is; Call for a Chafing-Dish of Burning Coals A Chaste Person solicited unto Folly requested the young man, to do one thing for her, first; That was, To hold his hand one quarter of an Hour in a Chasing-Dish of Burning Coals for her sake. He refused this, as a very unreasonable Thing; but she then Replied, And how then can you ask me, for your sake, to throw my self Body and Soul, into the Fire of Hell, to Lie and Burn and Broil in that Fire throughout Eternal Ages! Is not that more unreasonable? Argue at such a Rate as that; perhaps one Fire will fetch out another? Even an Heathen of old, Chaffering: about an Unclean Bargain, could say, No, I won't Buy Sorrow at so dear a Rate. O Think, what a frenzy 'tis, to cast a Soul into Eternal Fire, for the Dream of, The pleasures of Sin, which also are, But