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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. XIIII. Of the sin of Adultery, and the heinousness thereof.
CHAP. XIIII. Of the sinne of Adulterie, and the hamousnesse thereof.
And thus have I entreated of the sin of fornication,1 which is that sin of uncleanness that is committed between single or unmarried persons, and have showed the heinousness of it, and the grievousness of the punishment which doth accompany it. In the next place I am to speak of the sin of adultery, which is that uncleanness that is committed by those that are either married or betrothed; for the law of God as deeply condemneth, and as severely punisheth the latter as the former, as appeareth, Deut. 22.22.24.2 In which argument I will observe the same order which I did in the former, showing first what it is, and the kinds thereof, the heinousness of the sin, and the grievousness of the punishment. Adultery is the defiling of another's bed with the act of uncleanness; as the name it self also signifieth; For it is called, Adulterium, quasi ad alterius thorum accessio. The which sin is of two kinds: for either it is single, or double adultery. Single adultery is that uncleanness which is committed, either between a married man, and a single woman, or a married woman with a single man. Double, when as both the parties are married, who defile themselves one with another.
ANd thus haue I intreated of the sinne of fornication,1 which is that sinne of vncleannes that is committed betweene single or vnmarried persons, and haue shewed the hainousnesse of it, and the grieuousnesse of the punishment which doth accompanie it. In the next place I am to speake of the sinne of adulterie, which is that vncleannesse that is committed by those that are either married or betrothed; for the law of God as deepelie condemneth, and as seuerely punisheth the latter as the former, as appeareth,