A69075:1281
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What is fornication?
When two single persons come together out of the estate of Matrimony:1 where it is manifest that the stews, permitted, yea authorized and defended in Popery, are unlawful and expressly forbidden in the Law; and the Kings commended in the Scripture who took away such filthiness out of their land: The rather, considering that by them, not fornication only, but adulteries, yea incests also were committed, when as both married and unmarried came thither, and oftentimes some of the same blood or affinity committed villainy with one whore: so far is it that they are remedies of uncleanness.
When two single persons come together out of the estate of Matrimony:1 where it is manifest that the stewes, permitted, yea authorized and defended in Poperie, are vnlawfull and expresly forbidden in the Law; and the Kings commended in the Scripture who tooke away such filthinesse out of their land: The rather, considering that by them, not fornication onely, but adulteries, yea incests also were committed, when as both maried and vnmarried came thither, and oftentimes some of the same blood or affinity committed villanie with one whore: so far is it that they are remedies of vncleanenesse.