A69075:1303
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.
When publicly?
When publickly?
When separation by the Magistrate hath gone before, without lawful cause.
When separation by the Magistrate hath gone before, without lawfull cause.
So much of the Commandment. What are the punishments of the breach?
So much of the Commandement. What are the punishments of the breach?
First, when many other sins are hid, this is most commonly discovered. Secondly, the sin is a judgement of it self. Thirdly,1 God will judge them oftentimes in this world, always in the world to come. Fourthly, more particularly, whipping for fornication, and death to other unlawful mixtures. Fifthly, it spendeth the goods, as also hurteth the body, and bereaveth a man of his understanding and judgement; and not only reacheth to the offenders themselves, but also to their children, as that the bastard to the tenth generation might not enter into the Sanctuary; likewise against his wife and lawful children, whilst thereby he often times maketh a stews of his house, as David did by the adultery he committed with the wife of Uriah.