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The Heathen accounted a life of pleasure, a life of beasts: What man would not rather dye, says Tully, ⟨p. 121⟩cited by Lactantius, then to be turned into the form of a beast, though he should retain the mind of a ¹man? How much more miserable is it for one to be in the form of a man, and to have the mind of a beast, yea, of a wild beast? Guliel. Parisiensis calls luxury a scab, and says, the salt-water of tribulation must purge it; and he brings in Augustine giving the same name unto it, confessing that he was wont to delight in the scab of his lusts. This scab, says Parisiensis, makes the mind of man ulcerous, running with filthy putrefied stuff, and abominable to God, above that, that any man would think, which no bodily filth does.

The Heathen accounted a life of pleasure, a life of beasts: What man would not rather dye, says Tully, ⟨p. 121⟩cited by Lactantius, then to be turned into the form of a beast, though he should retain the minde of a ¹man? How much more miserable is it for one to be in the form of a man, and to have the minde of a beast, yea, of a wilde beast? Guliel. Parisiensis calls luxury a scab, and says, the salt-water of tribulation must purge it; and he brings in Augustine giving the same name unto it, confessing that he was wont to delight in the scab of his lusts. This scab, says Parisiensis, makes the minde of man ulcerous, running with filthy putrified stuff, and abominable to God, above that, that any man would think, which no bodily filth does.

1. 1Tribulatio est aqua salsa quae scabiem purgat, abstergit. Haecscabies luxurla est; delectabar scalpi scabiem libidinum mearum. Facit animam humanam ulcerosam, sanie abominabili, defluentem, propter hoc Deo Deo incred i biliter abominabilem.