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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.
That it self also hath many fearful punishments attending upon it, for it ruineth a mans estate, it exposeth his name to infamy and reproach, it maketh him a slave to his own filthy lusts, and a vassal to an odious strumpet: it infatuateth the mind, and bridgeth upon the body loathsome diseases, and untimely death: it subjecteth a man to Gods fierce wrath, and causeth impenitency and hardness of heart: it setteth the offender upon a continual rack, and haunteth him like a hellish fury: and in a word, it dispossesseth him of the joys of heaven, and casteth him headlong into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. And if having put into the one scale these manifold evils of sin and punishment, we also put into the other the pleasure and profit of this sin, and consider with our selves how that we undergo all these mischiefs for the satisfying of our brutish lusts, and for the enjoying of a vain, short and beastly pleasure; it is not possible (if we be not altogether blockish and void of common sense) but that we should hate and abhor this sin, and earnestly labour in the use of all good means, whereby we may be preserved and delivered from it.
That it selfe also hath many fearefull punishments attending vpon it, for it ruineth a mans estate, it exposeth his name to infamie and reproch, it maketh him a slaue to his owne filthie lusts, and a vassall to an odious strumpet: it infatuateth the mind, and bridgeth vpon the bodie lothsome diseases, and vntimely death: it subiecteth a man to Gods fearce wrath, and causeth impenitencie and hardnesse of heart: it setteth the offender vpon a continuall racke, and haunteth him like a hellish furie: and in a word, it dispossesseth him of the ioyes of heauen, and casteth him headlong into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. And if hauing put into the one skole these manifold euils of sinne and punishment, we also put into the other the pleasure and profit of this sinne, and consider with our selues how that we vndergoe all these mischiefes for the satisfying of our brutish lusts, and for the inioying of a vaine, short and beastly pleasure; it is not possible (if wee be not altogether blockish and void of common sense) but that we should hate and abhorre this sinne, and earnestly labour in the vse of all good meanes, whereby we may bee preserued and deliuered from it.