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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Strictly, it is taken for the sin of uncleanness; which albeit God hath in so many places threatened to confound; yet that filthiness hath the Bawds; Whores are not without their patrons. Such are first Libertines, and they will have Scripture for it. Hosea was commanded by GOD to take a wife of Whoredoms, Hos. 1.2. Some answer, this was Fictum non factum, a figure, not a fact; not an history, but a mystery. That God would cast off his old wife, the Church of the Jews for their Whoredoms, and choose a new one, even a wife of Fornications, the Church of the Gentiles:f that he might sanctify it, and present it to himself a glorious Church. So the not believing wife is sanctified by the husband, 1 Cor. 7.14. But grant it an history, yet was not the Prophet to be blamed, that Ex impudica meretrice castam fecerit uxorem; of an impious strumpet he made a chaste wife; but rather they that of chaste wives make impudent strumpets; which is the condition of those times. Howsoever, to the Prophet this act was commanded, to all us, the like is forbidden.
Strictly, it is taken for the sinne of uncleannesse; which albeit God hath in so many places threatned to confound; yet that filthinesse hath the Bawdes; Whores are not without their patrons. Such are first Libertines, and they will have Scripture for it. Hosea was commanded by GOD to take a wife of Whoredomes, Hos. 1.2. Som answer, this was Fictum non factum, a figure, not a fact; not an historie, but a mystery. That God would cast off his old wife, the Church of the Iewes for their Whoredomes, and choose a new one, even a wife of Fornications, the Church of the Gentiles:f that hee might sanctifie it, and present it to himselfe a glorious Church. So the not beleeving wife is sanctified by the husband, 1 Cor. 7.14. But grant it an history, yet was not the Prophet to be blamed, that Ex impudica meretrice castam fecerit uxorem; of an impious strumpet he made a chast wife; but rather they that of chaste wives make impudent strumpets; which is the condition of those times. Howsoever, to the Prophet this act was commanded, to all us, the like is forbidden.