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Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common…Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common…
Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common sins; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkenness, whoredom, and bribery. Wherein the greatness and odiousness of these vices is discovered; and the means and remedies, which may either preserve, or wean men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common sinnes; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkennesse, whoredome, and briberie. Wherein the greatnes and odiousnesse of these vices is discouered; and the meanes and remedies, which may either preserue, or weane men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By Iohn Dovvname Batcheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, 1609
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.
In prolemdilata ruunt periuria patris, Et poenam merito filius ore luit.1
- 1Claudianus in Curctium.
And as this sin of perjury is in an extraordinary sort abominable in Gods sight; so doth he punish it with extraordinary ⟨p. 74⟩plagues, and besides those usual punishments, which are common to all offenders; he hath inflicted upon perjured persons such fearful judgements from time to time, which have been so fit and proportionable to the sin, that one might read their offence written in their punishment, as it were in great text letters set over their heads. And thus did the Lord punish the breach of the covenant made with the Gibeonites, and confirmed by oath, with three years famine, and with the death of seven of Sauls posterity, who had violated this oath;1 and that not in a secret manner, but openly declaring what was the sin for which he inflicted these punishments. So because Zedechia broke the oath of the Lord, which he had made unto Nebuchadnezzar, he had his sons slain before his face, and that he might never behold cause of comfort after this sad spectacle, his eyes were presently put out, and he being bound with chains was led captive unto Babylon, where he slavishly lived, and died wretchedly: all which punishments were inflicted upon him principally for his perjury,2 as appeareth, Ezech. 17.15.16.18.19.
And as this sin of periurie is in an extraordinarie sort abominable in Gods sight; so doth he punish it with extraordinarie ⟨p. 74⟩