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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.
And as they sin heinously against God,1 so also against their neighbour; and first against the party whose yokefellow they defile; for they brand his name with ignominy and reproach, because in regard of that near union which is between married persons, the disgrace and discredit which of right belongeth to the wife, redoundeth also unto her husband, who is as it were the better part of her self. Of which we have common experience in our own country by those disgraceful nick-names which are usually, though unworthily, given to the innocent party.
ANd as they sinne hainouslie against God,1 so also against their neighbour; and first against the partie whose yokefellow they defile; for they brande his name with ignominie and reproch, because in regard of that neere vnion which is betweene married persons, the disgrace and discredit which of right belongeth to the wife, redoundeth also vnto her husband, who is as it were the better part of her selfe. Of which we haue common experience in our owne countrie by those disgracefull nick-names which are vsually, though vnworthilie, giuen to the innocent partie.
- 1§. Sect. 1. 1. He sinneth against him whose wife he defileth: 1. By disgracing him.§. Sect. 1. 1. He sinneth against him whose wife hee desileth: 1. By disgracing him.
So also they commit against their neighbour the most devilish deceit and notorious theft that can be imagined; for ⟨p. 182⟩they,1 like Satan himself, sow in his choicest ground such cursed weeds, that they are ashamed to reap, or own in the time of harvest; and graft into his best valued stock wild and wicked imps, which he carefully nourisheth as though they were his own handy-work, until their wicked and unnatural fruits discover them to be none of his. They cuckoo-like lay their filthy eggs in another's nest, making him to love, cherish, and nourish it, as if it were his own issue, till being grown to some bigness, it unnaturally seeketh to destroy the nurse,