Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the…Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the…

But now Lot is drunken and fitted for any wickedness, the two ⟨p. 188⟩Sisters in their turns go to bed to him and solicit him to abuse their bodies, and prevail with him, because he had not reason to know what he did. Incest is a most unnatural crime, yet the wicked nature of man is apt to run into it, and that wilfully. O what a filthy heart hath a man and woman, that can transgress all the dictates of reason to satisfy impure desires. No person comes amiss to lust, the Father will serve as well as another man, when the lewd desire hath prevailed, they care not with whom the fault be committed so that it be committed. Have none of you given way so far to libidinous desires, as to mix your selves unlawfully and without marriage with those, to whom you might not have drawn near, no not in the warrantable embraces of Matrimony? Is there not some incestuous man or woman amongst you, yea some that hath not out of weakness but purposely run into incest? The crime is not so often committed in so high a degree, but yet sometimes it falleth out in the world, that men may learn there is more evil in their nature then they would have believed, but that experience teacheth it; we have not another example of it in Scripture, but here are two at once, that we might learn to know how bad a nature we have. And so much for their sins common to both, making their Father drunk, and then going to bed to him, for matter, and for manner purposely and without remorse and without any sorrow after, for when they had borne children, they give them such names as proved that they rather boasted of the crime then bewailed it, Ammon the son of my people, Moab of my Father, as if they had rejoiced at their happiness in being with child by their own Father. It is a cursed thing to sin, more to be so hardened as not to lament it afterwards, most to make a mans self glad of it.

But now Lot is drunken and fitted for any wickednesse, the two ⟨p. 188⟩Sisters in their turnes goe to bed to him and solicite him to abuse their bodies, and prevaile with him, because he had not reason to know what hee did. Incest is a most unnaturall crime, yet the wicked nature of man is apt to runne into it, and that wilfully. O what a filthy heart hath a man and woman, that can transgresse all the dictates of reason to satisfie impure desires. No person comes amisse to lust, the Father will serve as well as another man, when the lewde desire hath prevailed, they care not with whom the fault be committed so that it be committed. Have none of you given way so farre to libidinous desires, as to mixe your selves unlawfully and without marriage with those, to whom you might not have drawne neere, no not in the warrantable imbraces of Matrimony? Is there not some incestuous man or woman amongst you, yea some that hath not out of weakenesse but purposely run into incest? The crime is not so often committed in so high a degree, but yet sometimes it falleth out in the world, that men may learne there is more evill in their nature then they would have beleeved, but that experience teacheth it; we have not another example of it in Scripture, but here are two at once, that wee might learne to know how bad a nature we have. And so much for their sinnes common to both, making their Father drunke, and then going to bed to him, for matter, and for manner purposely and without remorse and without any sorrow after, for when they had borne children, they give them such names as prooved that they rather boasted of the crime then bewailed it, Ammon the sonne of my people, Moah of my Father, as if they had rejoyced at their happinesse in being with childe by their owne Father. It is a cursed thing to sinne, more to be so hardned as not to lament it afterwards, most to make a mans selfe glad of it.