The secret preceptor; or, The grandeur & vigour of man, physically, mentally, and morally vindicated

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Pagina 19 - Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Pagina 19 - Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
Pagina 19 - If one of these miserable cases could be depicted from the pulpit, as an illustration of the evil effects of a vicious and intemperate course of life, it would, I think, strike the mind with more terror than all the preaching in the world.
Pagina 18 - The sin of self-pollution is one of the most destructive evils ever practised by fallen man. In many respects it is several degrees worse than common whoredom, and has in its train more awful consequences. It excites the powers of nature to undue action, and produces violent secretions, which necessarily and speedily exhaust the vital principle and energy- hence the muscles...
Pagina 22 - Having endured so long under this blighting, withering curse, my constitution, naturally very strong, is broken down, and my mind, as well as body, completely enervated. I am haunted day and night with lascivious thoughts and dreams, suspicious of my friends and disgusted with myself. My memory has lost its power. Unable to fix my attention, my mind is filled with terrible forebodings, fear of insanity, and at times it has cost me a continual effort to retain my reason.
Pagina 30 - ... walk and move with a diminutive, cringing, sycophantic, inferior, mean, self-debased manner, as if depreciated and degraded in his own eyes ; thus telling you perpetually by his shamed looks and sheepish manner that he has been doing something low, mean, contemptible, and vulgar. His secret practices have impaired both his physical and mental manhood, and thereby effaced the nobleness and efficiency of the masculine, and deteriorated his soul, besides having ruined his body.
Pagina 16 - ... this vice in the first place. Were this the peculiar vice of the low and vulgar, there might be more excuse for the apathy and false delicacy that pervade the community respecting it ; but it invades all ranks. Professed Christians are among its victims. ' " William C. Woodbridge, in the
Pagina 19 - Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart ; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness...
Pagina 31 - arises from the spinal marrow. Young married people, and those of a lascivious disposition, who are given to unnatural enjoyments, are afflicted with it. They have no fever, and though they eat well, they fall away and become consumptive. They feel as if a sting or stitch descended from the head along the spinal marrow. Every time they go to stool, or have occasion to make water, they shed a great quantity of thin seminal liquor; they are incapable of procreation; and they frequently dream of the...
Pagina 19 - ... appetite ceases, for the stomach is incapable of performing its proper office; nutrition fails; tremors, fears, and terrors are generated; and thus the wretched victim drags out a miserable existence, till, superannuated, even before he had time to arrive at...

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