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cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19261	A white sheete, or A warning for whoremongers A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there.	Cooke, Richard, 1574 or 5-1639.	1629 (1629)	STC 5676; ESTC S108659	25,390	52

made one by anytie of matrimoniall coniunction such as was the sinne of Shechem with Dinah and of Zimri with Coshi The other kind of this vncleanesse is Adulterie which is a plaine a palpable breach of holy mariage The word adulterium some haue thought to haue beene derived of quasi ad alteram of comming to or accompanying with an other which I thinke is something short others better tell vs that adulterium is ad alterius thorum accessio the climing vp vnto the bed of another as y Aquinas defineth it to be the vnlawfull companying together of them that are coupled together such as was the sinne of Ruben David with Bathsheba and of Absalon with his Fathers concubines both which the Apostle tells vs God will iudge Secondly we haue them discovered by their nūber whoremōgers adulterers meaning not some one but all such speaking indefinitely generally in the plurall number aiming at every man mothers sonne God in cases of iustice being a God of pure eyes that can behold no iniquitie a God that taketh no pleasure in wickednes neither shall any evill dwell with him He is neither accepter of places nor persons He that gaue such a strickt charge to his delegates deputies not to countenance a poore man in his cause and charged them also not to haue respect of persons in Iudgement but to heare the small as well as the great and not to feare the face of men This God I say thus strict and punctuall in his precept vnto others that iustice might be caried in a right line and levell will not lay heauie burdens on other mens shoulders and not mooue them himselfe with one of his fingers but will be as impartiall against all sortes of sinners whose repentāce and humiliation after sinne committed comes not forth speedily to meete this God as Abigail did David or the inhabitants of Tyrus and Sidon to pacifie Herod displeased with them Let no vncleane person dreame of a dispensation in his sin I know God never hath nor will grāt any that is enough for Dominus Deus noster Papa of Rome as his base claw-backes and Sicophants blasphemously stile him God scorns to liue by so base and beastly rents commings in anima quae peccat morietur that soule that sinneth shall die The Lord will cut off head taile branches and rush in one day and if happily it should finde any favor with men which God fobid yet let it hope for none with God Gods purpose is otherwise if such mend not their maners for Whoremōgers c. The next thing to be handled and dispatched in the text is the Iudge before whom they should be tried and that is God for Whoremongers and Adulterers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God then shall be their Iudge truely termed and stiled by Abraham to be the Iudge of all the world shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right and surely so he is the only Lord chiefe Iustice of all the world riding no lesser or shorter circuit then the compasse of all the world Two wayes is God said to Iudge per se per suos by himselfe or by some others immediately or mediately vsually by both and in both together In taking vengeāce and inflicting punishment vpon offendors what or who is it that is not at his command readily and chearefully to be at his becke to doe his pleasure When God goes about the devastation and conflagration of Sodome and Gomorrha by the iudgement of hell out of heauen by raining downe fire and brimstone from the Lord out of Heaven God will be their Iudge but Gods Angels shal be his executioners When God intendes to coope vp that blasphemous mouth of Rabshekie and to take downe the pride and insolencie of his Master God will bring it to passe by an Angell and men Yea what creature is so meane despiseable or contemptible which God cannot quickly arme with strength and power enough to avenge the quarrell of God in the confusion destruction of the proudest offendors Lice frogs catterpillers out of the very dust and ashes of the earth can God muster vp an armie to fight against Pharaoh when he comes to plague him and his people By all which or by any of which whatsoever is effected these are but the instruments God is primus motor the especiall agent and mover God by these and in these bringing to passe his intended purposes and good pleasure in the punishments of such as shall dare to provoke him by sinning against him It is true that vsually most an end God hath put the power of punishing into the hands of subordinate authoritie of whom he hath said Dij estis yea are Gods by God appointed to take vengeance of them that doe evill yet whatsoever these doe in courts and causes of Iustice iustly and sincerely is Gods owne act it is hee that doth it these are the mouthes and hands of God from whom they speake and for whom they strike when offenders suffer If any shall aske why the Apostle tels vs that God naming none but God will haue the hearing and hādling of such fowle matters as these himselfe will sit in iudgement vpon whoremongers and adulterers I suppose that happily it might be for these severall causes and reasons First the church and people at this time being vnder persecution and dispersion they could haue no publique court of Iustice nor any law civill or Eclesiastick to punish this sinne or secondly if there were meanes for the suppressing of it yet it was not so stricktly looked after as was fitting as may appeare by that indulgencie which the incestuous person found in the Church and Congregation of Corinth But the chiefe and principall cause as I coniecture was in terrorem peccatorum for the greater terrifying of such offenders that al such filthy wretches and beastly livers might be assured that they could neither sinne so secretly but they should be discovered nor after sinne committed scape vnpunished if there were none that either would or could looke after them yet God himselfe would plague them for it for whoremongers and adulterers God c. Two things amongst many make the wicked bold and presumptuous to fal vpon any sinne with greedinesse Hope that their sinne shall not bee seene and secondly weakenesse in authoritie if found out and taken with it It often hapneth that as other sinners so Whoremongers and adulterers are so close and cunning in their vncleanesse that the most vigilant and observaut eye of authoritie can take no notice or knowledge of it it is a peece of the mistery of their iniquitie and a tricke in that blacke Art Si non castè tamen cautè if they can be but secret they thinke they are safe enough The eye of the Adulterer waiteth for the twilight and saith none eye shall see him and disguiseth his face