,transcriber's note3 ,a few typographical errors have been corrected3 they are listed at the end of the text4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,curtezan unmasked3 ,or1 ,,the ,,whoredomes ,,of ,,jezebel ,painted to the ,life4 ,with ,,antidotes against them2 or ,heavenly ,,julips to cool ,men in the ,fever of ,,lust4 99 99 99 99 99 ,prescribed by a ,spiritual ,physician4 99 99 99 99 99 ----,sanctum nihil est ab inguine ,tutum1 ,non ,matrona ,laris1 non ,filia ,virgo1 neqq2 ipse ,sponsus lvis adhuc1 non ,filius ante pudicus4 ,juvenal4 ,satyr4 #c4 99 99 99 99 99 ,london1 ,printed for ,henry ,marsh1 at the ,princes ,arms in ,chancery-,lane4 #affd4 #a 99 99 99 99 99 ,,prov4 #e4 vers4 #c1 #d4 ,the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb1 and her mouth is smoother then oyl3 ,but her end is bitter as wormwood1 and sharp as a two-edged sword4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,text here presents you with a strange woman2 with whom though ,i desire not to procure you a familiar acquaintance1 yet ,i'le give you such cognizance of her1 and excite that abhorrency of her baseness in all your minds1 that if any have heretofore been sick for want of her company1 he shall now be as sick of it2 after ,i have made it appear that this #a;beautiful ,siren1 having a ,womans face1 ends in the ,serpents tail2 and discovered1 not onely the ,virgins-face of this unsatiable ,harpye1 but her cruel talons also shrowded under her wings4 ,that you may therefore 7as#b ,amnon #b did upon ,tamar7 bolt the door upon this strange woman1 and no longer endure the whoredoms of this painted ,jezebel2 ,i'le endeavour to characterize her to you1 and by the infallible clue of ,truth conduct you through all her intricate and winding ,labyrinths4 ,be pleased therefore1 for the explication of the word ,strange to take notice1 that this ,epithite was by the ,grcians attributed to their common ,prostitutes1 which they called ,greek3 xenas1 strangers3 ,and hence1 ,i conceive1 it was that the ,comoedian called #c;,glycerium who was thought to live by the unlawful submission of her body1 ,peregrinam1 a stranger1 a strange woman4 ,but ,i have onely hitherto told you her name2 ,i shall now therefore proceed further to describe her to you by her sordid actions1 which will ascertain you of those miseries which are her constant waiting-women or attendants4 ,that ,i may therefore speedily prosecute my design1 ,she is one whom not ,argus's hundred eyes1 nor brazen walls1 nor the most vigilant ,guards can secure from her lascivious incontinency3 the bars and #d;hedges which ,nature has made for her #c tongues confinement are not sufficient to restrain it within the limits of a modest discourse2 and should we lock up her impure lips with a command of silence1 yet could we never limit the infiniteness of her lascivious thoughts1 with which she would as freely commit fornication1 as if she were at liberty1 and in the enjoyment of the greatest voluptuary2 and we may say of her what ,scipio in another case said of himself1 #e,she is never less alone than when alone4 ,she tricks her self up with such variety of gauderies as if she were to expose her body to bring the ,devil to her lure1 and tempt the ,tempter himself to love her2 and were that opinion of ,tertullian true1 ,that the ,devils and fallen ,angels had carnal commerce with the ,daughters of ,men1 and they should desire one to satisfie their lustful appetite1 ,i'de recommend the strange woman in the ,text unto them2 who 7like ,circe7 is an amiable ,sorceress1 and when she hath once charmed her ,gallant with youthful blood sparkling in his veins1 and beauty dancing in his face1 into the endless ,circle of her lust1 hee'l find a difficult #frecovery4 #d #g,physitians tell us1 that the reason we have in ,feverish distempers our ,paroxysme but every second1 third1 or fourth day1 and not at every circulation of the blood about the body1 is1 because the blood when it arrives to the heart must acquire such a degree of corruption before it can effect it1 and therefore because this corruption is not sensible before many circulations have been performed1 it cannot so soon create a ,paroxysme3 ,but in this impure and libidinous strumpets heart 'tis far otherwise2 for she endures the ,paroxysmes of the ,fever of ,lust every hour and moment1 and the circulation of her lusts in her heart is sooner performed then that of her blood4 ,medea had not more damnable ,arts to preserve youth and beauty then she1 who has perfectly attain'd the ,art of making new beauty1 new hair1 and counterfeit teeth2 and not thinking she hath charms enough to render her amiable1 has recourse to the ,merchants1 as unto ,natural ,magick1 to buy there what ,nature would not give her1 and to make her self liked in spight of ,nature's disfavours2 and being accustomed to #e varnish over her decayed ,cheeks1 and the ruines of a good ,face1 with the fresh colours of an adventicious ,paint1 she by her licentiousness seems to usurp the power and liberty of ,painters1 who 7according to the ,poet7 #hwere priviledg'd to do what they pleased2 and 7to say truth7 she is an exact ,painter in all her actions2 for the varnishes over the deformed and execrable ,name of ,whore1 with the flourishing ,title and ,colour of a ,lady of pleasure3 and whilest she discourses to her ,gallant of the unlawful use of her body1 she colours it over with the title of a great and incomparable favour2 and 7,mahomet-like7 perswades all her adorers1 that there's no ,paradise but that of carnal fruition1 and the gratification to a domineering ,lust3 ,but ,i fear that this ,paradise she puts them in will prove but a ,fools ,paradise2 for ,i believe they'l quickly conclude1 ,that the sulphureous flames which tna's fiery paunch continually vomits into the ,air bear not so forcible and durable a heat as the ,calentures of her lustful blood2 and that the poyson'd garment dipt in the ,centaur's blood1 which caused #f ,hercules to burn in living flames1 had had not such vigour and vehemency as her enflamed ,lust4 ,whilest ,i hear one ,historian talk of ,sempronia1 and give her this character1 #i,that she oftner courted men to her embraces then she was courted by them1 ,i fancy he makes mention of the strange woman in the ,text3 and whilest ,i hear another report1 that ,julia arrived to that heighth of licentiousness1 #aj,that she would leave nothing undone which she could basely commit1 either by ,action or ,passion1 judging that lawful which pleased her humour best1 me thinks he characterizes our strange woman to us4 ,king ,solomon 7understanding a hot ,prostitute7 tells us1 ,prov4 #f4 #bg4 a man cannot take fire into his bosom1 but he must be necessarily burnt2 and ,i believe that many of the ,gallants of our time1 who have thought onely to warm and cherish their lusts at this she-fire1 have at last been soundly burnt by taking her into their bosomes3 for this strange ,woman is not like the ,glow-worm1 that carries only a counterfeit heat1 nor of so cold a constitution as the ,moon was when she embraced ,endymion2 but he that #g embraces her shall find the same entertainment the ,satyr did1 that kiss'd the fiery coal and burnt his lips2 and we may say of her1 what the tyrant ,nero once said of himself and his mother ,agrippina1 #aa,that there can nothing come of her into the world but what is detestable and accursed4 ,this ,helena is hot enough to inflame ,troy2 this ,hecuba can bring forth nothing but a ,fire-brand4 ,though the ,toad hath a precious ,stone in her head1 yet her body is poysonous3 ,and so1 though this ,strange ,woman may wear a handsome countenance1 and for her superficial and skin-deep beauty seem an inestimable ,jewel1 yet1 if we view her throughly1 we shall discover the venom of her impure body2 for1 though her lips drop as an honey comb1 and her mouth is smoother then oyl1 yet her end is bitter as wormwood1 and sharp as a two-edg'd sword4 ,upon which two ,verses of the ,text1 as upon two pillars1 ,i build this practical ,proposition1 #h ,that the short and transitory pleasures which the strange woman affords us1 are accompanied with the sharpest and most permanent evils4 ,and that1 ,first1 ,because she'l wound and stain our reputation4 ,how full is the adulterer of fears and jealousies1 scorching desires1 and impatient waitings1 tedious demurrs1 sufferance of indignities1 and amazements of discoveries1 and his uncleanness is ever attended by shame which is its eldest daughter2 for let us consider how infamous it has ever been1 to be noted for a common ,pathick1 or a lustful ,amoretto1 how opprobriously ,adulterers have been used by most ,nations4 ,the ,law of the gyptians was to cut off the ,nose of an ,adulterer2 the ,locrians put out the ,adulterers ,eyes2 and 7the more notoriously to intimate his effeminacy7 others cloathed him with wool2 and ,solons ,law was this1 ,if any man take an ,adulterer in the fact1 he may use him how he pleases3 ,and in the ,twelve ,tables1 #ab;,if you #i take a man in the act of ,adultery1 you may kill him without danger of punishment2 ,impunity was intailed upon the murther of him4 ,you may observe1 that this sin of ,adultery is in ,scripture called a sin of darkness2 intimating to us1 how the ,adulterer1 asham'd of the light1 sneaks up and down in obscure recesses1 and is onely active and vigilant when others are quiet and taking their repose4 ,other sinners iniquities are in ,scripture numbred by the hairs of the head2 but we cannot number the ,adulterers so1 because as his sins increase his hairs do fall2 the ,spring of his sins is his hairs ,fall o' th' leaf4 ,the second account upon which the ,adulterer will conclude1 ,that the transitory pleasures which the strange woman affords us are accompanied with the sharpest evils1 is1 #b4 ,because hee'l finde she will impair the health of his body2 for though her ,lips drop as an ,honey-comb1 and she distil the ,quintessence of ,rhetorick in every expression2 though she does amorously caress and embrace him1 yet 'tis but as the encircling ,ivie does the ,oak1 to make him rot1 wither1 and decay4 #aj ,though he may think himself in ,heaven1 and imagine her curled ,arms about him to be his ,celestial ,zodiack1 yet hee'l 7at length7 finde them but as chains and fetters to enslave and captivate him to her insatiable ,lust2 the gratifications whereof whilest he endeavours to shew her1 he must undergo as many gripes in his guilty ,conscience1 as ,aches in his impure and vitious ,body4 ,she1 it may be1 will foment and cherish the flames of his ,lust with these pleasing ,blasts1 by telling him that the ,virgin ,spring does not appear less chaste because many thirsts are there quenched2 and that those ,waters stink soon that continue long in one place1 but remain sweet and wholsome whilest they leave one bank and kiss another4 ,but let us 7like a prudent ,ulysses7 stop our ears to the fatal voice of this dangerous ,siren1 least1 while we sail in the ,ocean of this ,world1 we suffer shipwrack of ,grace and a good ,conscience3 ,don't let us stand to dispute the case1 and parley with her1 but rather flie from her1 and avoid her company3 ,for1 we must be extremely cold1 not to be warmed by so #aa fair a fire1 and very strong1 to make defence against so charming an ,enemy4 ,nor can we touch ,pitch with our hands1 but a foul impress will be received from it3 ,one rotten kernel of the ,pomgranate infects the fellows2 and ,st4 ,paul made that ,verse ,canonical1 ,evil communication corrupts good manners4 ,and it is noted of ,joseph1 that as soon as his ,mistress had laid her impure hands upon his garment1 he leaves it behinde him1 that he might be sure to avoid the danger of her contagious touch4 ,and we shall assuredly finde1 that she who but now compared her self to a pleasant ,spring1 will at last serve us with the bitter ,waters of ,marah4 ,for ,i appeal to the common ,adulterer1 ,whether he be not a walking ,hospital and ,pest-house of ,diseases8 ,whether he is not alwayes possest with a ,greek3 ,peirazn1 a ,devil that first tempts him to all ,uncleanness1 and afterwards terrifies and exanimates him with the greatest horrour imaginable8 and whether the violent and fervent heat of his lustfull appetite be not as unquenchable as ,hell-flames8 ,could we have ,lynceus his eyes1 and look through #ab the decayed walls of his ,body1 what rottenness should we discover in his exhausted ,bones8 how would the whole ,fabrick of his ,body appear invalid and unnerved1 and represent it self to us as the ,embleme of a ,sack of dry ,bones1 whose every part1 were it anatomized and opened1 it would corrupt and infect the ,air1 and store the ,world with as many ,diseases as the opening of ,pandora's ,box3 insomuch that he who shall be besotted with so ,lethargick a stupidity as to harbour and caress this strange woman1 ,he 7like the ,hyrcanians7 may be said to keep a ,dog to devour himself1 or 7like the mad ,romans in ,arrian7 court the ,fever of his own ,lust1 that will soon consume him1 and render him as meager and pellucid as the meerest ,skeleton2 causing withal a no less decay in his ,estate then in his ,body2 and this ,i conceive induced ,solomon to say1 #ac,that by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread1 and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life4 ,but if this be not sufficient to deter the ,adulterer from this ,prostitutes company1 ,i'le advance a step higher1 and press #ac him with a third ,argument1 to prove1 ,that those transitory pleasures the strange ,woman affords us are accompanied with the sharpest and most permanent evils3 and that #c4 ,because by her means an irreparable and irrecoverable damage will accrue to his immortal ,soul4 ,and in this ,st4 ,paul shall be my ,president1 who #ad;bids us not be deceived1 assuring us1 ,that neither fornicators1 nor adulterers1 nor effeminate persons1 shall enter into the ,kingdome of ,god4 #ae;,it was not permitted to a ,dog to enter into the ,acropolis1 because of his excessive heat in ,venery2 and so neither will it be permitted to those that 7like the ,dog7 indulge themselves in the excessive heat of ,venery1 to enter into ,heaven1 which may for its heighth be called an ,acropolis1 which 7being interpreted7 is1 a ,city built upon a ,hill4 ,let us consider how impossible it is that our ,prayers and ,oblations should be acceptable to ,god1 when they are offered with impure hands1 reeking in lust3 ,how can we expect to look ,god in the face 7whose eyes are purer then to behold iniquity7 with our impure #ad eyes8 ,how can we hope to be ,eagle-ey'd enough to look up to ,god1 whose eyes are ten thousand times brighter then the ,sun1 when we have so weakned our eyes by the ,works of ,darkness1 that 7like ,night-birds7 we dread to behold the ,light8 ,how should ,chamberings and ,wantonness hope to get room in ,heaven1 whence all kind of ,marriage is excluded8 ,when the two opposite ,poles of the ,world meet together1 and two ,contradictions at the same time prove true1 then1 and not till then1 will ,i believe that the ,fornicator and ,heaven can kiss each other4 ,how can we call ,god ,father1 who utterly renounces those spurious off-springs of our sinful lusts1 which have not their ,original1 nor derive their ,pedegree from ,god1 but the ,world and our depraved ,natures8 ,which ,s4 ,john#af intimates to us2 who making an ,inventory of the ,goods1 or rather of the ,evils of this ,world1 besides the ,lust of the ,eye1 and the ,pride of ,life1 he tells us1 that the ,lust of the ,flesh is not of ,god1 but of the ,world4 ,it remains now that ,i should prescribe you some few ,recipe's and ,antidotes2 #ae which if you'l make use of1 ,i'le warrant to cure you of the ,fever of ,lust1 into which the ,strange ,woman will endeavour to cast you3 ,and my first is this4 ,first then1 ,let every one make a ,covenant with his eyes1 never to look upon any object with a lustfull and impure inclination4 ,job #ca4 #a4 ,i have made a ,covenant with my eyes1 why then should ,i look upon a maid8 ,shut your ,eyes1 those ,windows of your ,soul1 through which you receive the ,species from all sinful ,objects2 for1 through those windows a little sin 7like a little ,boy7 may creep in1 and open the ,door of your ,heart to the rest4 ,an eminent ,historian of our own ,nation tells us1 ,that whilest the ,earl of ,salisbury was at the ,battel of ,orleance1 opening a little window of the ,castle1 where he was to view the ,enemy1 a little ,lad killed him with a ,cannon planted and discharg'd against the ,windows4 ,so1 it may be1 whilest thou openest thy ,souls windows1 thy ,eyes1 to look upon a beautiful ,object1 a small ,lust may chance to shoot thee with a temptation1 and leave thee dead in sin for ever4 ,scipio and ,alexander both of them are #af reported to have taken fair ,captives3 ,scipio would not suffer his to come into his sight1 lest he himself might be captivated by their beauty2 but ,alexander gave his ,captives admittance into his presence3 ,and though ,alexanders was the greater continency1 yet ,scipio took the wisest course2 for1 #ag',tis dangerous to look upon that by which we may at length be ensnared2 the exposing of ,beauty to be seen1 and the loss of ,modesty and ,chastity follow one another4 ,let us therefore attend to our blessed ,saviours words1 who tells us1 #ah,that whosoever looks upon a woman with an intention to lust after her1 hath committed adultery with her already in his heart4 ,when we come into the presence of moving ,beauties1 we must do as men usually do when the ,summer ,sun grows potent and vehement2 though we admire their ,beauties greatness1 yet we must shun it's heat2 each place can afford us a shadow to hide us from it4 ,the ,poets tell us1 that when some young men had beheld the three equal beauty'd ,gorgones1 they were thereby deprived and divested of their human shape1 and metamorphosed into stones3 #ag ,so1 if we be not cautious how we too lasciviously gaze upon powerful ,beauties1 who knows how soon we may be so callous and obdurate1 and our hearts be rendred so stony1 that without the least regret or remorse we may first fall into the profound ,abyss of ,adultery1 and thence to that bottomless one of ,hell4 ,we must not do by a beautiful ,object as by the ,crocodile1 but quite contrary2 for we must be sure not to look first upon it1 and then we shall remain secure from its killing glances3 for1 he who is still looking1 and always gazing1 acts like him who drinks ,wine in the very heighth of a ,fever4 ,but if still men will look upon fair ,objects1 let the same use be made of them which the wiser sort of ,catholicks do of ,pictures2 let their beautiful features serve to raise our ,devotion to ,god1 and make us admire his curious workmanship4 ,and since ,women are of late grown so proud and licentious as to expose and prostitute themselves to the eyes of men in unseemly and immodest gestures1 and they onely shew themselves true ,britains in this1 that1 like the ancient ,britains1 they delight to paint #ah their bodies1 and 7like the ,rain-bow7 display their transient and fading colours2 let us1 when we see such as these1 call to mind these ,considerations to allay those inordinacies which may otherwise arise in our thoughts from the contemplation of so vicious objects4 ,let us consider1 ,that they are but vain ,dames1 to bestow such curious cost on so woful and sordid a piece of dirt1 which 7it may be7 would otherwise resemble the clay ,prometheus us'd before it was inform'd and animated2 ,that 'tis their folly to guild a clay ,wall1 and enamel a ,bubble1 when they can give no other then a ,womans ,reason for it4 ,let us consider1 ,that ,women have no beauty but what we are pleased to give them2 and that if we call them fair1 'tis but in the way of ,poetry or ,complement3 ,and that these dim ,cynthia's would be very obscure1 if they borrowed not that light they have from the ,sun of mens favour4 ,or suppose we are so candid and ingenuous as to grant them beautiful1 yet we may see by experience1 that their ,beauty is like a sweet and much coveted ,banquet1 which is no sooner tasted but its delicious ,luxury is #ai swallowed up by ,oblivion4 ,let us think with our selves1 ,that there's no conformation of lineaments1 no composition of features1 no symmetry of parts so exactly combin'd and compacted in one person1 but a critical eye may discover some imperfection3 fairest ,cynthia is not without her spots1 nor beautiful ,venus without her moles4 #b4 ,if you would be cured of the ,fever of ,lust1 into which the ,strange ,woman will endeavour to cast you1 use a moderate1 slender and ascetick ,diet4 ,be content with that with which ,nature her self wil be contented1 and then #ai;a little will suffice you2 and if you do this1 #bjyou will act according to the ,rules of ,discretion and ,prudence4 ,use ,fasting and severe ,abstinence1 which are the proper ,abscissions of the instruments and temptations of lust4 ,and to this is reducible a restraint from all morose delectation1 and looser banquetting3 ,you must not desire to be fed at ,vitellius his board2 you must not desire ,nero's effeminate baths1 nor ,tiberius his naked ,pictures to incite your lust2 you must not hunt all grounds1 draw all seas1 search every #bj brook and bush1 or dispeople the four ,elements to please your wanton lusts1 and try experiments upon your judicious palates2 but as you must abstain from #bathings unlawful1 so also from lawful too3 ,you must not onely take care you transcend not the ,bounds of ,temperance and ,moderation1 but you must sometimes abridge your selves of your necessary repast2 assuring your selves1 ,that the more #bbyou deny your selves1 the more you shall receive from ,god4 ',tis storied of ,richard ,nevil ,earl of ,warwick1 7stiled also ,make-,king17 that in the great ,battel at ,ferrybrigg between ,henry the ,sixth and ,edward the ,fourth1 when he perceived his side almost worsted by ,henry the ,sixth1 he slew his ,horse with his own ,sword1 and then uttered these ,heroick expressions1 ,let all that will fight stay with me2 and then 7according to the ,ceremony of those times7 kissing the ,cross upon his ,sword1 he fought with singular courage and prowess3 ,so in the conflict between our ,lusts and us1 let us kill and mortifie our ,bodies1 which 7in the language of ,socrates7 are our ,soul's ,horses1 and then excite every ,faculty #ba of our ,souls with these words1 ,let all that will fight stay with me2 and when we have done thus1 let us kiss and take up our ,cross1 and fight stoutly under ,christ the ,captain of our ,salvation against our ,lusts2 it being impossible to keep the ,spirit pure1 whilest 'tis overburdened with too much ,flesh1 and exposed to all entertainments of ,enemies by fomentations and pamperings2 remembring the divine counsel of the #bc,philosopher1 ,that we must not take care for the ,body simply as the ,body1 but as subservient to the ,soul4 ,and that you may be the better induced to do this1 remember 7as the fore-cited ,author #bd;has well said71 ,that your ,soul is your self1 but your ,body yours2 for 'tis the ,soul which uses1 but that which is used by it is the ,body3 ,and by this separation of the ,soul from the ,body1 you will preserve your nature from confusion1 nor think that things ,greek3 ta entos which are without concern you1 nor contend for those as for your self1 and so consequently avoid too much care of your body2 not resembling those1 that1 so that ,sumpter-horse the ,body be hung with gaudy ,trappings1 and pamper'd1 #bb care not with what rags they cloath the ,soul4 ,we may also consider that these high pamperings and feasting our selves have no real pleasure in them2 and this ,i am sure was the ,orators judgment1 when he said1 #be;,i would not fancy or imagine with my self as if luxurious gluttons lived pleasantly1 and such who vomit upon the table again what but now they took off1 and with their crude stomacks1 carried from ,feasts1 the next day ingurgitate themselves into them again2 who1 by reason of their laziness and surfeiting1 see the ,sun neither rise nor set1 and are in indigency of those ,estates which they have profusely expended3 none of us 7saith he7 ever thought such gluttons as these live a pleasant life4 ,and the same ,author tells us1 #bf,that there is no less pleasure to be taken in a slender and spare diet1 then in the most exquisite dainties2 there being no less delight in the ,persian ,nasturtium1 then in the richly furnished ,syracusan ,tables1 so much cry'd down and #bc discommended by ,plato4 ,but this shall suffice for the second ,recipe3 and my third is this4 #c4 ,secure your ,heart so well that no ill thought creeps into it1 and proves an incentive to lust2 let not the smallest ventricle of your heart conceive an evil thought1 lest at last it bring forth sin4 ,one little ,flie will taint and corrupt a great quantity of flesh2 and so one little thought hovering about thy heart 7like a little ,flie7 will quickly taint it4 ,be sure therefore 7like the ,emperour ,domitian#bg7 alwayes to be catching and killing these ,flies4 ,consider1 that if you indulge your selves in wicked thoughts and lustings1 there wants nothing to the consummation of the act but some convenient circumstances1 which because they are not then attainable1 the act is for a time impeded1 but the malice nothing abated3 ,for #bhthe ,law of ,not coveting no less forbids sinful desires and concupiscences then sinful actions2 for no man desires or lusts after any thing #bd but what pleases him3 ,but every complacency or delight in an unlawful matter1 although short and transient1 nay1 although at last repulsed and cohibited from breaking out into an external act1 hath contracted by that very motion the blemish and spot of an internal sin4 ,and hence ,s4 ,augustin1 following the ,doctrine of ,s4 ,paul1 affirms1 #bi,that the concupiscence of the flesh is sin in a good man1 ,because he has in him a disobedience and reluctancy against the government of the rational faculty4 ,again1 ,he sins that inwardly lusteth or desires1 although he follow not those desires by a consequent act1 ,because such motions are not pure passions1 but involve negations of due acts which ought to have been in lieu thereof3 ,a man may be incestuous #cjthat never bodily commits the act2 and from these impure fires1 which men kindle and cherish within them1 they are usually in love with their deformed lusts1 as ,alcus was with the warts #ca;in his ,boys face1 though they are deformed marks4 ,when ,brutus and ,cassius assaulted ,csar with a design and resolution to murther him1 we read1 that as soon as he saw ,brutus he cryed #be out1 ,greek3 ,kai su teknon2 ,and art thou here my ,son1 my ,darling8 and opened his breast to him4 ,so when any ,lust comes to assault us with a design to make us dead in sin1 we court and caress it in ,csars words1 ,art thou here1 my ,darling8 and open our hearts and breasts unto it2 whereas we should alwayes be prepared with preservatories against it4 #d4 ,let your discourse be alwayes chast and pure3 ,decline with great care all undecent obscenity in your language1 chastening and confining your tongue1 and restraining it with ,grace2 for1 as ,st4 ,james tells us1 ,jam4 #c4 #b4 ,if any man offend not in word 7tongue7 the same is a perfect man1 and able also to bridle the whole body4 ,either be silent1 or speak those things which are better then silence1 is a good ,rule here4 ,every bad tree is known by its bad fruit1 and an unclean man may be trac'd by his unclean discourse2 it being a shrewd symptom the ,will is depraved1 when our ,discourse is unchaste and obscene4 ,and in this #cb;,hierocles concurrs with me2 ,the ,will of man #bf 7saith he7 adhering long neither to ,virtue nor ,vice1 utters forth expressions inclining to both1 as resembling the contrary affections in it4 ,this advice therefore of ,tyrius ,maximus is very soveraign2 #cc;,i require such a pleasure in words which ,virtue may not disdain to make her ,waiting-woman and attend upon her4 ,st4 ,james calls the ,tongue a fire1 ,jam4 #c4 #f4 ,and the ,school-men call the ,lusts of the ,flesh 7,fomes7 ,tinder4 ,let us therefore be careful that the ,fire of our ,tongue light not upon this ,tinder1 and kindle it4 ,modesty and a becoming ,blush is the ,fence of all ,virtue2 and when this is broken down by obscene talk1 the ,banks will overflow with impure ,streams4 ,a ,rose1 when it hath lost its blush1 and begins to look pale1 by those symptoms you may conclude that 'tis a dying4 ,it hath ever been accounted a true ,rule1 ,qualis ,vir1 talis ,oratio4 ,we know the ,bird by the ,tune1 the ,beagle by his ,mouth1 and a ,man by his ,words4 ,we cannot expect that he that hath lost his voice with his ,chastity should sing ,praises to ,god so melodiously as another that is chaste1 virtuous1 and continent4 ,a #bg stinking breath is not a more sure symptom of putrid ,lungs1 then an obscene ,tongue of an unclean ,heart4 ',twere better that this ,clapper stood still1 except it could give a purer sound2 it were better this ,clock never struck1 except it were for other ends then to awaken our ,lusts1 and put them in motion4 ,and ,i look upon obscene discourse but as an impure ,breath coming out of the mouth1 which is fit for nothing but to make an ,exhalation or ,ignis fatuus1 which 7if we follow it7 will lead us into ,bogs and precipices of ,uncleanness2 but if we fall down1 and prostrate our selves before ,god in ,prayer1 it will quickly be dissolved3 ,wherefore1 #e4 ,let us use frequent and earnest ,prayers to ,god1 to give us the assistance of his holy ,spirit2 for this ,devil of ,lust sometimes cannot be cast out but by ,prayer4 ,when the ,romans were in great distress1 surprized with a sudden assault of their ,enemies1 they ran to the ,temple to get ,arms1 which were laid there against an extraordinary occasion3 ,so1 if we shall be at any time assaulted by our ,lusts let us have recourse to the #bh ,temple of ,god1 and take up the ,arms of the ,church1 which are ,prayers and ,tears4 ,we must not 7as ,nero did at the burning of ,rome7 sing ,pans and rejoyce1 when our ,bodies 7those ,temples of the ,holy ,ghost7 are burning with the flames of ,lust4 ,numa ,pompilius1 when news was brought him that his ,enemies were ready to surprize him1 put off the ,messenger with this ready memorable ,speech1 ,greek3 ,eg de thu1 ,i am offering a sacrifice to ,god3 ,so1 when we have any news of being surprized by our ,lusts1 we may return the same answer2 ',tis enough if we are at our ,prayers1 which will secure and guard us from them4 ,plutarch reports of a ,boy1 who though he was burnt with a coal that fell from the ,altar1 yet continued his oblation of ,sacrifice without intermission3 ,so let us 7though we are sometimes burned with the fire of ,lust7 be so fervent in our ,prayers to ,god1 that the fervency of them may exceed and draw away the heat of our ,lusts1 as a great ,fire does the heat which was caused by a less4 #f4 ,avoid ,idleness1 and be sure alwayes to be well employed4 ,i may give an idle #bi man that character one #cd;gives of ,themistocles when out of imployment1 ,that he will be luxurious1 dissolute1 lustful1 and intemperate4 ,mans heart is a ,mill ever grinding some grist or other2 and ,i may add1 ,if there be no grain for it to work upon1 it sets itself on fire with lust4 ,let us consider1 that whilest we are idle1 and not imployed1 we can expect no assistance from ,god1 if we should be assaulted by ,lust3 according to that of the ,historian3 #ce,when we once give our selves over to idleness1 we shall in vain implore the aid and assistance of ,god1 for then he is angry and offended at us4 ,no1 no1 let us rather be in continual action and imployment1 and be diligently conversant in our several lawful vocations3 ,for 7as the same ,author tells us7 #cf,we cannot by a few weak prayers only and faint ,supplications obtain aid and assistance from ,god2 but by watching1 and being in continual action and consultation1 all things will succeed prosperously unto us4 ,it was a saying #cj of ,appius ,clodius1 #cg,that it were better for the ,romans to be busied and imployed1 then remiss and idle2 ,because great ,empires by agitation and motion are excited to ,vertue4 ,and it was anothers complaint1 #ch,that ,idleness 7that great enemy to ,discipline7 corrupted and spoiled the ,roman ,souldiers4 ,and so may we complain1 that ,idleness hinders us in our ,spiritual ,warfare against our ,lusts4 ,whilest ,atalanta was imployed in hunting with ,diana1 she kept her ,virginity pure and immaculate2 but when she fell into ,idleness1 she indulg'd her self in the gratification of her insatiable ,lusts3 ,so1 whilest our ,souls are employed in hunting after knowledge1 and other things which are commendable and praise-worthy1 they may preserve themselves from ,lust and ,uncleanness4 ,it was a saying of a ,latine ,poet1 #ci,take away ,idleness1 and you break ,cupids ,bow3 ,and ,i may say1 with more then ,poetical ,authority1 ,take away ,idleness1 and you break the ,devils ,bow2 for ,idleness is the ,bow out of which the ,devil shoots the fiery ,darts of his ,temptations at us4 ,and if1 after all these ,means used1 you cannot #ca contain your selves within the bounds of ,chastity1 then #g4 ,enter the sacred ,bonds of ,matrimony3 ',tis far better thou shouldest marry then burn4 ,take ,st4 ,pauls counsel1 who1 #djto avoid fornication1 bids every man have his own ,wife1 and every woman have her own ,husband4 ,and though ,i cannot but esteem a single life and holy ,clibate 7which was consecrated by the holy ,jesus in his proper person7 to be an excellent ,virtue2 yet since every one hath not that gift of continence which our ,saviour had1 and ,god hath instituted ,matrimony as an ,ordinance1 and the holy ,jesus hallowed it and made it honourable with the expence of the first ,miracle 7we read7 he ever performed on ,earth1 and made it more sublimate by making it a ,representation of the ,union betwixt ,him and his ,spouse the ,church2 it is a thing highly commendable in it self1 and to be made use of as a great ,preservative against inordinacies in our ,affections and unruly ,passions3 ,and a ,learned ,author puts it in the ,catalogue of such ,arts #dawithout which a man cannot live well and #cb happily2 and says1 ,that although to live a single life is not totally repugnant to ,humane ,nature1 yet it is repugnant to the ,nature of most ,men2 ,because a single life and clibate are onely fitted for the most excellent ,minds1 and such as are refined from the dross of impure concupiscence4 ,and another ,author brings in ,romulus speaking to his neighbouring ,nations1 #db,that they would not grudge to mix themselves together in a joynt ,allyance and ,consanguinity4 ,and though the ,roman ,state seemed to countenance a single life1 because they afforded ,dignities to certain ,vestal ,virgins1 yet the number of those ,vestals was but small2 and then the ,dignities and ,priviledges which they had were no other but that they were made equal in ,state to married ,wives2 they were preferred before all that lived unmarried1 but not before married persons4 ,but whilest ,i am speaking of this ,order of ,vestal ,nuns1 ,i cannot but endeavour to excite in you an abhorrency of those destructive ,nunneries into which the ,papists cast their ,virgins in their #cc infancy1 and before they come to maturity of years1 or are 7which they can never be7 able to judge of the strength of their own continency4 ,into what ,stews have these ,nunneries been frequently converted1 by reason of restraining those from the sacred ,ligament of ,marriage who have not so absolute a command over themselves as to abstain from unlawful carnality8 ,how is that sacred ,fire1 which among the ,romans of old was preserved by their ,vestal ,virgins1 by these changed into ,flames of ,lust1 which all their ,holy-water will never allay or extinguish8 ,oh6 that these sottish abusers of the ,holy ,ordinance of ,god called ,marriage would but call to minde how the blessed and immaculate ,virgin 7our ,saviours ,mother7 was betrothed to ,joseph1 lest honourable ,marriage might be disreputed1 and seem inglorious1 by a positive rejection from any participation of that transcendent honour6 ,i could heartily wish that these our ,romanists would but imitate the brave example of the old ,romans1 who thought none eligible to be ,jupiters ,priests but such as were #cd ,married2 and 7as ,tacitus and ,suetonius tell us7 set a ,fine upon their heads who refused to be united in the holy ,bonds of ,matrimony4 ,it was out of respect to this1 that the ,emperour ,augustus sent for ,germanicus his ,children1 and hugging and caressing them in his ,royal breast1 signified by his countenance1 and other signes of his hand1 that others ought to imitate ,germanicus in marrying with joy and alacrity4 ,and thus you see ,i have asserted and maintained the laudable ,priviledge and ,ordination of ,marriage2 and now cannot but be convinced that you think1 in this my last ,recipe of ,marriage ,i have prescribed you pleasanter ,physick then in any of the former3 ,if therefore you cannot obtain a cure from them1 you may from this joyned to them4 ,suetonius tells us1 that ,galba selected a ,jewel to beautifie and adorn the ,goddess ,fortune2 which 7on the sudden7 as if it deserved a more sacred ,deity1 he dedicated to ,venus4 ,but ,i hope1 that we1 after we have selected those ,pearls of price our ,souls for ,gods service1 shall not #ce dedicate them to ,venus and our sensual appetites2 for we are most certainly informed by the ,text1 ,that the end thereof is bitter as wormwood1 and sharp as a two-edged sword4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,finis4 99 99 99 99 99 ,notes4 #a ,mulier formosa supern definit in piscem4 ,hor4 de arte ,pot4 #b #b ,sam4 #ac4 #ah4 #c ,terent4 in ,glycerio4 #d ,greek3 herkos o dontn4 ,homer4 #e ,nunquam minus solus quam cum solus4 ,tull4 de ,offic4 #f ,sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras----,hic labor hoc opus est--,virg4 #g ,bartholin4 in ,tractatu de motu ,chyli4 #h --,pictoribus----,quidlibet audendi semper fuit qua potestas4 ,hor4 de arte ,pot4 #i ,spius petiit viros qum petebatur4 ,salust4 #aj ,nihil quod turpiter facere aut pati posset infectum relinqueret1 quicquid liberet pro licito judicans4 ,suet4 #aa ,sueton4 in vit4 ,neron4 #ab ,moechum in adulterio deprehensum impun necato4 #ac ,prov4 #f4 #bf4 #ad #a ,cor4 #f4 #i4 #ae ,rouse in ,archolog4 ,attic4 #af #a ,joh4 #b4 #af4 #ag ,periculosum est illud per quod quis aliquando captus sit videre2 prop se consequuntur proponi formam exponi pudicitiam4 ,senec4 #ah ,matth4 #e4 #bh4 #ai ,natura paucis contenta4 ,sen4 #bj ,nunquam aliud natura aliud sapientia dicit4 ,hor4 #ba ,ut semper abstineas ab illicitis aliquando etiam a licitis4 ,sen4 #bb ,quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit a diis plura feret4 ,horat4 #bc ,greek3 ,ou gar smatos hapls epimeleisthai dei alla smatos dianoia hupermenou4 ,hierocl4 #bd ,greek3 ,eu eis h psuch to de sma son to gar chrmenon h psuch1 to de h chrtai to sma4 #be ,nolim mihi fingere asotos1 qui in mensam vomant1 qui de conviviis auferantur1 crudiq2 se postridi rursus ingurgitent1 qui ,solem 7ut ajunt7 nec ,occidentem unquam viderint nec ,orientem1 qui consumptis patrimoniis egent1 nemo nostrum istius generis asotos jucund putat vivere4 ,tull4 de ,finibus ,bonor4 ,malor4 #bf ,in tenuissimo ego victu1 i4e4 escis contemptissimis potionibus non minorem voluptatem percipi arbitror quam rebus exquisitissimis ad epulandum4 ,tull4 ibid4 #bg ,sueton4 in vit4 ,domitian4 #bh ,lex non concupiscendi1 origines delictorum1 i4e4 concupiscentias voluntates non mins qum facta condemnat4 ,tertull4 de ,pudicit4 #bi ,peccatum est1 quia illi inest inobedientia contr dominatum mentis4 ,aug4 lib4 #e4 c4 #c4 contr ,julian4 #cj ,incesta est sine stupro anima qu stuprum qurit4 ,sen4 #ca ,nvus in vultu delectat ,alcum1 erat deformitas1 at illi placebat4 ,cic4 #cb ,greek3 ,h anthrpi nu proairesis mt' en aret aiei estsa1 mt' en kakia1 kai tou dia phns proiontas logous epamphoterizontas apegensin hs eoikotas tais enantiais auts diathesi4 ,hierocl4 #cc ,greek3 ,toi auts deomai h do ns logou hn ouk apaxisei h aret hopadon aut ginesthai4 ,tyr4 ,maxim4 #cd ,simul ac se remiserat1 nec causa suberat quare laborem serret luxuriosus1 dissolutus1 libidinosus1 ac intemperans reperiebatur4 #ce ubi socordi atque ignavi te dederis1 nequicquam ,deos implores1 irati atq2 in festi sunt4 ,salust4 #cf ,non votis neque supplicationibus muliebribus auxilia ,deorum parantur1 vigilando1 agendo1 bene consulendo1 prosper omnia cedent4 ,sal4 de ,bel4 ,lat4 #cg ,negotium melis populo ,romano quam otium committi qud imperia prpotentia agitatione rerum ad virtutem capessendam excitarentur4 ,flor4 lib4 #c4 #ch ,res disciplin inimicissima otium milites corrupit4 ,paterc4 lib4 #b4 #ci ,otia si tollas periere ,cupidinis arcus4 ,ovid4 de ,remed4 ,amor4 #dj #a ,cor4 #g4 #b4 #da ,sine quibus vita commod duci nequit4 ,grot4 de ,jur4 ,bel4 ,pac4 #db ,ne graventur homines cum hominibus genus sanguinem miscere4 ,liv4 ,decad4 lib4 #a4 99 99 99 99 99 ,corrections made to printed original4 ,page #a1 ,prov4 #e4 vers4 #c1 #d43 ',prov4 #c4 vers4 #c1 #d4' in original4 ,page #bh1 ,we may return the same answer2 'rerurn' in original4 ,note #f1 superasque evadere ad auras2 'aurus' in original4