Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.

Date:
1756
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Credit: Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I *9 ] INTO fuch a deplorable Condition bad the frequent pol- luting myfelj'brought me, that 1was confidering, whether I bad not deferved the Judgment that God fent to On AN ; and fo apprehenftve I was of it, that it brought me into a Kind of Dejpair, till I had Recourfe to two mojl excellent and pious Divines (whofe Works praife them in the Gates) and when I received their Advice, 1 was refolvedto break, off this Sin by Repentance and Mortification, as the only Remedy to prevent my fudden Deferuclion: For whatever you may at present think, that it is only a Relief of Nature, yet Imujl fay, that it has been of horrid Confequence to me9 God having attended me with Judgments everfence, in mojl of my Affair sin the Worlds and I cannot be fatisfied till I have let you know it, it order both to prevent your Danger and Rum : For though the Sins of Adultery and Fornica- tion be now the open Practices of'mojl Men, to the Shame and Reproach of Chrijlianity, yet lamfure this Sin of Self -Pollution befpeaks you equally notorious Sinnersy ^and puts you into a State of Enmity with God, unfits you for thofe great Duties you owe to him, renders you mean- fpirhed, defer oys the very End of your Creation, and will leave a Sting upon your Confcience, which willcofeyou dear. In all Humility, therefore, let me befeech your Care to perufethefe excellent Letters, which I have publijhed on pur- pofe, as a Warning to all fuch vjho thus defile themfelves : And as you tender your own Welfare in this World,as well •as your Soul's Good in the World to come, you will as much hate and abominate this horrid Wickednefs, as it will cer- tainly lead you to Ruin ; and then IJhall have my Defegn in the Publication of thefe excellent Councils. Your Friend, B. P. » THE Sundance of the Letters mentioned in this Pre- face (hall be communicated to the Reader in the following Chapter; whom I entreat to lend his ferious Confidera- tion, on what (hall be further faid in this. THERE are many heinous Offenders, who are har- dened in Sin, and continue in it, and all worldly Enjoy- ments, without relenting; but few go foto their Graves; D 2 moft