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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…
Prototypes, or, The primary precedent presidents out of the book of Genesis showing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithful and painful preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whately's life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the author to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his own copy.Prototypes, or, The primarie precedent presidents out of the booke of Genesis shewing, the [brace] good and bad things [brace] they did and had practically applied to our information and reformation / by that faithfull and painefull preacher of Gods word William Whately ... ; together with Mr. Whatelyes life and death ; published by Mr. Edward Leigh and Mr. Henry Scudder, who were appointed by the authour to peruse his manuscripts, and printed by his owne coppy.
London: printed by G.M. for Edward Langham book-seller, 1640London: printed by G.M. for Edvvard Langham booke-seller, 1640
Example 14: THE FOURTEENTH EXAMPLE.Example 14: THE FOVRTEENTH EXAMPLE.
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.
1I proceed now to a third sin, and that is their unnatural filthiness, in offering to commit that foul crime of buggery with the strangers that came to lodge amongst them for a night, and were but men as they conceived by their outward behaviour, though indeed they were Angels. Take notice of the lewdness of these, worse then beasts, and learn to have it in utter detestation. First, the crime it self. Secondly, the circumstances aggravating the crime.
1I proceed now to a third sinne, and that is their unnaturall filthinesse, in offering to commit that foule crime of buggery with the strangers that came to lodge amongst them for a night, and were but men as they conceived by their outward behaviour, though indeed they were Angels. Take notice of the lewdnesse of these, worse then beasts, and learne to have it in utter detestation. First, the crime it selfe. Secondly, the circumstances aggravating the crime.
- 13. They were unnaturally filthy.
1The crime it self is that base and vile, and worse then brutish wickedness, of confounding the sexes which God hath in the creation distinguished. For he made the Male and Female, but these beasts would needs so much as was in them, take away that so necessary and useful distinction, and would have abused Males as if they had been Females, and turned men into women for the satisfaction of their prodigious lust, and that not out of a kind of forced necessity, because in the boiling of their unruly appetite there was not a woman to be had, but merely out of the sinfulness of their desires, which made them take more delight in that which was against nature, and leaving the natural society of the woman, they flamed in their lusts towards man-kind, and as they had no question wrought villainy one with another, so now they would have violently committed the same outrage upon others. This is an horrible sin, forbidden by God in the Law under pain of death,