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How deplorable is the State of the habitual Fornicator, who is always hunting after Fuel for his Lechery, and so passes away his Time in riotous Feasts and Banquets, immodest Dalliances and Courtships, and the lewd Divertisements of the Play-house, the Tavern, and the Stews, till at length he finds himself arrested by the Gout, or the Dropsy, or perhaps a worse Distemper? And then the Doctors and Chirurgions must attend them with Purges, Vomits, Lancings, Scarifications, Causticks, Salivations, and the like nauseous or painful Remedies, all which when he has endur'd, 'tis a great Question whether the wretched Man will ever so repent and reform as to escape what is infinitely worse, the unquenchable Flames prepar'd for him in the other World.

From: An ESSAY of particular ADVICE to the Young GENTRY for The Overccoming the Difficulties and Temptations they may meet with, and the making an early and happy Improvement of the Advantages they enjoy beyond others. By the Author of Youths Grand Concern. By John Graile (of Blickling.) Published 1711.

It's remarkable how the texts contained in this book feel much more natural and familiar to a contemporary reader, than so many of the hopelessly overwrought ones from the 19th century do.

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How deplorable is the State of the habitual Fornicator, who is always hunting after Fuel for his Lechery, and so passes away his Time in riotous Feasts and Banquets, immodest Dalliances and Courtships, and the lewd Divertisements of the Play-house, the Tavern, and the Stews, till at length he finds himself arrested by the Gout, or the Dropsy, or perhaps a worse Distemper? And then the Doctors and Chirurgions must attend them with Purges, Vomits, Lancings, Scarifications, Causticks, Salivations, and the like nauseous or painful Remedies, all which when he has endur'd, 'tis a great Question whether the wretched Man will ever so repent and reform as to escape what is infinitely worse, the unquenchable Flames prepar'd for him in the other World.

From: An ESSAY of particular ADVICE to the Young GENTRY for The Overccoming the Difficulties and Temptations they may meet with, and the making an early and happy Improvement of the Advantages they enjoy beyond others. By the Author of Youths Grand Concern. By John Graile (of Blickling.) Published 1711.

It's remarkable how the texts contained in this book feel much more natural and familiar to a contemporary reader, than so many of the hopelessly overwrought ones from the 19th century do.