An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Lastly, That which is commonly the consequent of wealth and plenty, they were infamous for uncleanness and wantonness. For there was a Temple to Venus, where were a thousand Maids, besides others set apart to be prostituted, which was accounted so glorious, that thereby they could the better advance themselves in Marriage. Here also they adored the Heathenish god of all uncleanness called Cothys. Insomuch that [Greek or Hebrew], saith Suid••, is as much as to be wanton, to be lascivious. To corinthize was as much as much as to be unchaste. Here Demosthenes is said to refuse that whore, which demanded so great a price for the carnal knowledge of her, saying, ⟨p. 69⟩Tanti poenitentiam non einam; and because their abominable uncleanness was at so dear a rate; therefore (say some) came that Proverb, Non cuivis datur adire Corinthum; though Suidas and others, understand it of the difficulty of reaching into the Haven; and it should seem that after many were turned Christians, yet they were very prone to this bodily filthiness; and therefore in no Epistles doth the Apostle so industriously set himself against fornication as in this; and here was that abominable uncleanness committed even amongst them, while a Church, That was not so much as named amongst the Heathens.

Lastly, That which is commonly the consequent of wealth and plenty, they were infamous for uncleanness and wantonness. For there was a Temple to Venus, where were a thousand Maids, besides others set apart to be prostituted, which was accounted so glorious, that thereby they could the better advance themselves in Marriage. Here also they adored the Heathenish god of all uncleanness called Cothys. Insomuch that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, saith Suid••, is as much as to be wanton, to be lascivious. To corinthize was as much as much as to be unchast. Here Demosthenes is said to refuse that whore, which demanded so great a price for the carnal knowledge of her, saying, ⟨p. 69⟩Tanti poenitentiam non einam; and because their abominable uncleanness was at so dear a rate; therefore (say some) came that Proverb, Non cuivis datur adire Corinthum; though Suidas and others, understand it of the difficulty of reaching into the Haven; and it should seem that after many were turned Christians, yet they were very prone to this bodily filthiness; and therefore in no Epistles doth the Apostle so industrlously set himself against fornication as in this; and here was that abominable uncleanness committed even amongst them, while a Church, That was not so much as named amongst the Heathens.