selves before God in _Prayer_, it will quickly be dissolved: Wherefore, 5. Let us use frequent and earnest Prayers to God, to give us the assistance of his holy Spirit; for this Devil of Lust sometimes cannot be cast out but by Prayer. When the _Romans_ were in great distress, & surprized with a sudden assault of their Enemies, they ran to the Temple to get Arms, which were laid there against an extraordinary occasion: So, if we shall be at any time assaulted by our Lusts let us have recourse to the {28} Temple of God, and take up the Arms of the Church, which are Prayers and Tears. We must not (as _Nero_ did at the burning of _Rome_) sing _Pæans_ and rejoyce, when our Bodies (those Temples of the Holy Ghost) are burning with the flames of Lust. _Numa Pompilius_, when news was brought him that his Enemies were ready to surprize him, put off the Messenger with this ready memorable Speech, [Greek: Egô de thuô], _I am offering a sacrifice to God_: So, when we have any news of being surprized by our Lusts, we may return the same answer; 'Tis enough if we are at our Prayers, which will secure and guard us from them. _Plutarch_ reports of a Boy, who though he was burnt with a coal that fell from the Altar, yet continued his oblation of Sacrifice without intermission: So let us (though we are sometimes burned with the fire of Lust) be so fervent in our Prayers to God, that the _fervency_ of them may exceed and draw away the heat of our Lusts, as a great Fire does the heat which was caused by a less.