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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.
Other nations which did not inflict death upon the adulterers, punished them with tortures, as bitter as death. The Egyptians decreed that the nose of the adulteress should be cut off,1 and that the adulterer should be beaten with a 1000. stripes, almost unto death. Zaleucus King of the Locrenses made a law that the adulterer should lose both his eyes: which law when his own son transgressed, notwithstanding, that the people being inclined to pity, would have had his fault remitted, he would not condescend, but caused one of his own,2 and one of his sons eyes to be pulled out. Among the Germans, as Cornelius Tacitus recordeth, the adulteress being stripped naked before her kindred and friends, had first her hair cut off, and afterwards was beaten with cudgels through the town by her husband.
Other nations which did not inflict death vpon the adulterers, punished them with tortures, as bitter as death. The Egyptians decreed that ye nose of the adultresse should be cut off,1 and that the adulterer should bee beaten with a 1000. stripes, almost vnto death. Zaleucus King of the Locrenses made a law that the adulterer should lose both his eies: which law when his owne sonne transgressed, notwithstanding, that the people being inclined to pitie, would haue had his fault remitted, he would not condescend, but caused one of his owne,2 and one of his sonnes eies to be pulled out. Among the Germans, as Cornelius Tacitus recordeth, the adultres being stripped naked before her kindred and friends, had first her haire cut off, and afterwards was beaten with cudgels through the towne by her husband.
- 1Diodor. Sic. lib. 1. cap. 6.
- 2Aelian. in varia hist. lib. 13.