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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.
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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, Lev. 20.13. the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 9. that abusers of themselves with man-kind, shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If there be any light of nature left in a mans mind, he cannot but see the wickedness of this fact; for seeing the Lord ordained the conjunction of man and woman, for the impeopling of the world and multiplication of man-kind, it cannot but be against nature altogether to power out lust in such a foul fashion, as that it becometh utterly impossible to attain the proper end of such meeting, wherefore they are carried brutishly after sensual pleasure with averseness from the fruit that God and nature intend, which do give themselves over to this filthiness. This is the crime of Sodomitry, so entitled from these Monsters of men that were the first public committers of it. But how ordinary it was in Athens and Rome among both Latin and Grecian even Philosophers and men accounted worthy and excellent? the Stories will not suffer us to be ignorant. And S.
1The crime it selfe is that base and vile, and worse then brutish wickednesse, of confounding the sexes which God hath in the creation distinguished. For he made the Male and Female, but these beasts would needes so much as was in them, take away that so necessary and usefull destinction, and would have abused Males as if they had beene 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 boyling of their unruly appetite there was not a woman to be had, but meerely out of the sinnefulnesse of their desires, which made them take more delight in that which was against nature, and leaving the naturall society of the woman, they flamed in their lusts towards man-kind, and as they had no question wrought villanie one with another, so now they would have violently committed the same outrage upon others. This is an horrible sinne, forbidden by God in the Law under paine of death,