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1 One asking his advice how he might best avoid concupiscence, he said to him,1 that a continual examination of our selves by the law; a reverent and daily meditation2 of the word; a painful walking in our honest calling; a holy shaming of our3 selves, and fearing of our selves before our friends; a continual temperance in diet, sleep,4 and apparel: a careful watching over our eyes, and other parts of our bodies; a zealous
prayer, and watching, when need required (for he still recommended a religious fasting:) these are the means to mortify concupiscence, which being wisely, and in some
convenient time used with moderate exercise of the body: if they do not prevail, it is like that God doth call a man to the holy use of marriage: howbeit, it is to be observed, that
in watching and fasting we are not to prefix certain set times, this day, or that day, but then to use it when God calleth us unto it by fit occasion, without the which care the often use of these exercises will breed a want of reverence of them.
1 ONe asking his aduice how he might best auoide concupiscence, he said to him,1 that a continuall examination of our selues by the law; a reuerent and daily meditation2 of the word; a painful walking in our honest calling; a holy shaming of our3 selues, and fearing of our selues before our friends; a continuall temperance in diet, sleepe,4 and apparell: a carefull watching ouer our eyes, and other parts of our bodies; a zealous5 iealousie to auoide all occasions of person, time & place, which might nourish concupiscence;6 a godly frequenting of persons, times, & places, which may breed in vs true mortification;7 together with an humbling of our selues, with the shame of our sinnes past, with8 the griefe of sinnes present, and with feare of sinnes to come: lastly, a carefull vsing of fasting,9 prayer, and watching, when neede required (for he still recommended a religious fasting:) these are the meanes to mortifie concupiscence, which being wisely, and in some10 conuenient time vsed with moderate exercise of the body: if they do not preuaile, it is like that God doth call a man to the holy vse of mariage: howbeit, it is to be obserued, that11 in watching and fasting we are not to prefixe certaine set times, this day, or that day, but then to vse it when God calleth vs vnto it by fit occasion, without the which care the often vse of these exercises will breede a want of reuerence of them.
