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 ⟨p. 67⟩for a season. But unto all add this; wha• will all signify, if you associate your self among the Unclean? It was with reference to Uncleanness, that it is said in Prov. 6 17. Can a man take fire in his Bosom, and his Clothes not be burnt? Why, if you take the Unclean, for your Companions, it you Drink with them, if you Dance with them, if you Game with them, and if you spend your Time, in their Nocturnal Frolics, you take Fire in your Bosoms; your Souls will take Fire from such Incentives. Be not such a Beast as to run into the Fire; A Companion of such Fools will be destroyed.
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 Boyl. 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 obscaene 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 Chast Person sollicited 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 Ly 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 p•rensy 'tis, to cast a Soul into Eternal Fire, for the Dream of, The pleasures of Sin, which also are, But ⟨p. 67⟩for a season. But unto all add this; wha• will all signifie, if you associate your selve among the Unclean? It was with reference to Uncleanness, that it is said in Prov. 6 17. Can a man take fire in his Bosome, and his Cloaths not be burnt? Why, if you take the Unclean, for your Companions, it you Drink with them, if you Dance with them, if you Game with them, and if you spend your Time, in their Nocturnal Frosicks, you take Fire in your Bosomes; your Souls will take Fire from such Incentives. Be not such a Beast as to run into the Fire; A Companion of such Fools will be destroyed.
