A20760:622
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.
The fourth cause is luxuriousness and curious niceness;1 if therefore we would subdue anger, we must subdue this vice also, and labour to attain unto decent homeliness, the Nurse of good hospitality, and the preserver of peace and quietness, for if with our first parents Adam and Eve, we were clothed with skins, that is, with mean attire, we would not be so easily provoked to anger if a spot or wrinkle be found upon our garments, if with them we did feed upon roots and herbs, we would not eat with surfeited and cloyed appetites, and consequently (our meats being sauced with hunger) our tastes would not be so want only curious, that no ordinary cookery can please them. If with Abraham we dwelled in tents like Pilgrims, we would not be so nice in decking our houses, nor so angry for a copwed: If with Jacob we had the earth for our bed, a stone for our pillow, and the sky for our Canopy, we would not be so much displeased for the hardness of a featherbed, or uneasiness of a down lodging: take away therefore luxurious niceness, and you shall take away also the most common cause of unjust anger.
The fourth cause is luxuriousnesse and curious nicenesse;1 if therefore we would subdue anger, we must subdue this vice also, and labour to attaine vnto decent homelines, the Nurse of good hospitality, and the preseruer of peace and quietnesse, for if with our first parents Adam and Eue, we were clothed with skinnes, that is, with meane attyre, wee would not be so easily prouoked to anger if a spotte or wrinckle be found vpon our garments, if with them wee did feed vpon roots and hearbs, we would not eate with surfetted and cloyed appetites, and consequently (our meates being saused with hunger) our tastes would not bee so want only curious, that no ordinary cookery can please them. If with Abraham we dwelled in tents like Pilgrimes, we would not be so nice in decking our houses, nor so angry for a copwed: If with Iacob we had the earth for our bed, a stone for our pillow, and the skye for our Canopy, wee would not be so much displeased for the hardnesse of a fetherbed, or vneasinesse of a doune lodging: take away therefore luxurious nicenesse, and you shall take away also the most common cause of vniust anger.
- 1Sect. 5. 4. Luxurious niceness.