A20760:303
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.
CHAP. VI. That the fornicator grievously sinneth against whole societies.
CHAP. VI. That the fornicator grieuouslie sinneth against whole societies.
And thus the fornicator sinneth against particular persons.1 But he also offendeth against whole societies; for whereas the Lord hath given unto man a natural virtue and faculty of generation, whereby his kind might be propagated and multiplied, and hath ordained marriage as an honourable means to preserve it honest, pure and holy; the fornicator ⟨p. 148⟩perverting Gods ordinance, doth corrupt & pollute this generative faculty, with his filthy lusts and impure affections: and so poisoneth the issue and streams of humane societies even in the very fountain, and overturneth common honesty, a chief ornament of mankind, in the root.
ANd thus the fornicatour sinneth against particular persons.1 But he also offendeth against whole societies; for whereas the Lord hath giuen vnto man a naturall vertue and facultie of generation, whereby his kind might be propagated and multiplied, and hath ordained mariage as an honorable meanes to preserue it honest, pure and holy; the fornicator ⟨p. 148⟩peruerting Gods ordinance, doth corrupt & pollute this generatiue facultie, with his filthie lusts and impure affections: and so poisoneth the issue and streames of humane societies euen in the verie fountaine, and ouerturneth common honestie, a chiefe ornament of mankind, in the roote.