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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.
CHAP. XII. Of the public punishments which the Lord inflicteth upon the common-wealth for the sin of whoredom.
CHAP. XII. Of the publicke punishments which the Lord inflicteth vpon the common-wealth for the sinne of whoredome.
And these are the punishments which for the sin of whoredom are inflicted upon private persons.1 Besides which the Lord imposeth many heavy judgements upon the public state, and upon the whole common-wealth: for where whoredom aboundeth, there the whole land mourneth, and being spoiled of her fruits,2 wherewith she should nourish her inhabitants, she sitteth sorrowful hanging down the head, like a miserable mother, who being importuned for food by her starved children, hath not any thing to give them to satisfy their hunger, and preserve them from famishing. Sometimes the country is so grievously sick through the noisome humours and burdenous corruptions of uncleanness, that it hath no other means to ease it self, but by vomiting out all the inhabitants, as appeareth in the example of the Canaanites, Levit. 18.25.28.3 sometimes when men neglect the punishment of these sins of uncleanness, their cry ascendeth up into heaven importuning the Lord to take extraordinary vengeance, when ordinary justice is not executed; as we may see in the example of Sodom & Gomorrah,