John Trapp on Proverbs 7:17

Verſ. 17. With Myrrhe, Aloes, &c.] This might have minded the young man, that hee was going to his grave; for the bodies of the dead were ſo perfumed. Such a meditation would have much rebated his edge, cooled his courage. Jeruſalems filthineſs was in her skirts: and why? ſhee remembred not her latter end, Lam. 1.9. As the ſtroaking of a dead hand (they ſay) cureth a tympany; and as the aſhes of a viper applied to the part that is ſtung, draws the venome out of it: ſo the ſerious thought of death will prove a death to fleſhly luſts.Mr. Wards Sermons. I meet with a ſtory of one that gave a looſe young man a Ring with a deaths-head, with this condition, that hee ſhould one hour daily (for ſeven daies together) look and think upon it; which bred a ſtrange alteration in his life.