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A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

before and with falshood shameful deceit withdraweth stealeth it from the right heires she ladeth first her honest poore husband with great shame great trauel labor sorrow and pain in that he is compelled to bring vp those adulterous children which are not his own Moreouer she dishonoreth her father her mother her kinred her children euen her lawfull children who in time to come will be ashamed of her and of whom doubt will be made in the world whether they be lawfully begotten or no. Therefore when they speake of their mother or heare her named they are abashed and ashamed Adultresses also make their husbands to be despised and of no reputation though they be honest and vertuous men These and such like innumerable confusions shame hurt hishonour and filthinesse follow vpon abhominable adultery besides the poisonings murders treasons manslaughters and other mischiefes that ensue by reason of the same which I ouerpasse This did the ancient and noble men of old time weigh consider and therfore righteously and vpon iust occasion haue they appointed the punishmēt of death as due for the abhominable sin of adulterie Yet adulterers alledge for their defence that this rigorous punishment of death appointed by god hath not bene executed or put in practize at any time vpō the offenders For Dauid was an adulterer say they and yet receiued no punishment therfore Yea the Lord Christ himselfe did abrogate and dissolue the punishment of adulterie forsomuch as he commaunded not the woman taken in adultery to be put to death Iohn 8. but bad her go her way and sinne no more and for because no man condemned her he also let her go To this I answere God hath once alreadie reuealed his will in his lawe concerning the punishment due to this sinne now if men do not execute the punishment according to Gods commaundement yet remaineth the law of God irreuocable and sure Therefore this is a vaine obiection And albeit all sentences and iudgements that haue beene executed of olde vpon adulterers be not extant in holy Scripture it is no maruaile For Gods booke is not so generall a Register that wee must looke to finde in the same the actes and punishments of all vnthriftes and brothels and the execution of all such malesactours The storie of Susanna telleth howe it was like to haue gone with her which plainly sheweth that such execution was then in vse Dauid also committed adulterie once in his life which was the occasion of the horrible murther also which he committed so that he caused not onely his faithfull seruant Vriah but other noble men in like maner to be slaine What came of it Truth it is he was not stoned to death But what chaunged vnto him Surely euen as he had dishonoured another mans childe so sawe he shame vpon his owne children while he liued and that with great wretchednesse For Amon defloured Thamar his owne naturall sister and they both were Dauids children And Abshalom did miserably slay Amon his brother for committing that wickednesse with his sister Thamar Not long after did the same Abshalom driue his owne naturall father Dauid out of his Realme and vnnaturally and shamefully lay with his fathers wiues Whereupon there followed an horrible great slaughter in the which Abshalom was slaine with many thousands mo of the common people Now let euerie man indifferently weigh with himselfe whether it be not a lesse thing once to haue execution and to die then to abide the death of so manie and that so long with such miserie and sorrow Therefore was Dauid more grieuouslie punished then if he had beene but once stoned to death Let euerie man then learne here by this example that none can escape the hande of God although the worlde lay no hand vpon him God neuerthelesse punisheth and that with a more heauie iudgement when hee doth it not here but deferreth it vnto another worlde And whereas they make Christ a maintainer of adulterers that is too intollerable wickednesse Christ neuer gaue libertie to sinne for hee sayth I came not to breake the lawe but to fulfill it Saint Paul also sayth To the righteous there is no lawe giuen but to the vnrighteous and disobedient to wheremongers to periured to liers and blasphemers And to the Galathians he sayth Walke ye in the spirite so are ye not vnder the lawe Therefore forsomuch as adulterers do walke in the flesh and not in the spirite they are vnder the lawe neither hath the Lord taken the lawe and punishment from them Moreouer as touching the storie in the 8. chapter of Saint Iohn we must consider that the Lord said vnto the adultresse Woman hath no man condemned thee And when she had answered No man lord He sayd Neither do I condemne thee For with this answer laid he before her the sentence of the Iudges to strike her cōscience that she might feele and see what she had deserued But forsomuch as he was not come nowe to giue sentence as a Iudge but to saue hee woulde not condemne her and therefore neither medled with the law nor act The Lord was now come to haue mercie vpon sinners and to call to repentance Therefore said he also to this woman Go thy way and sinne no more By which words the Lorde doth warne all such as are tang●●● 〈◊〉 adulterie to cease from henceforth and to amend In so doing God wil haue mercy vpon them and take from them the same dishonour paine and punishment which they haue greatly deserued For God hath no delight in the destruction of a poore sinner but will rather that they conuert and liue But if they will not turne if they will needs be stiffe necked and set foorth their shameles foreheads then verily doth God watch ouer their wickednesse and sayth thus vnto them by the mouth of the Prophet Hieremie In the desire of vncleane lust they are become like vnto stallandes euery one neieth after his neighbours wife should I not punish this Wherefore all they that do persist in this wickednesse may dayly looke for the heauie vengeance of God to fall vpon them Therefore that thou mayest eschue the same and the contagion of so foule a leprosie embrace these fewe lessons as speciall preseruatiues 1 Eschew idlenesse and euer be occupied in some honest labour 2 Auoyde all occasions of euill all suspect houses and wanton companie 3 Beware of filthie communication wanton songs and histories of bawderie 4 Vse sobrietie and temperance in meat drinke sleepe and apparell 5 Looke not to narrowly vpon the beautie of a woman 6 Be dayly conuersant with such persons as are both chaste honest vertuous and godly 7 Remember often the passions of Christ for sinne 8 Consider the certaintie and suddennesse of death and of the day of iudgement 9 Vse dayly faithfull and feruent prayer vnto God for the gracious gift of chastitie and of cleannesse of heart So dooing thou shalt be sure to reape the fruit to thy continuall

5.1 Thes 4. It is more then once that whoremongers are threatned to be shut out of the kingdome of heauen as plainely appeareth in Paules Epistles And the Athour to the Hebrues sayth plainlie that God will iudge whoremongers and adulterers The which iudgement beginneth manie times in this worlde to shewe forth it selfe vpon the offenders in this wickednesse This subuerted the Cities of Sodom and Gomorha and the Countrey there about and slue Sichem with his people This wounded the sonnes of Iudah stabbed the Iewe and the Madianitish woman euen through the bodies of them both togither this destroied the tribe of Beniamin for the Leuites wife prostrated the sonnes of Hely the Priest in the battell This killed Vrias slue Aman and stoned many to death This cursed Ruben seduced Samson and peruerted Salomon This approueth that to bee true which is written Through the beautie of women manie haue perished What should I speake of the diseases which come through the filthinesse of this sinne vpon many men yea vpon all that fall into it as Goutes Palseis Pockes Consumptions and filthie lothsome leprocies the iust plagues of almightie God for the same The which maketh Saint Herom to breake forth into this exclamation O ignis infernalis luxuria cuius materia gula cuius flamma superbia cuius scintilla praua coloquia cuius fumus infamia cuius cinis immundicia cuius finis gehenna O Lecherie the infernal fire the maker whereof is gluttonie whose flame is pride whose sparkes are vnclean words and filthie cōmunication whose smoke is infamie whose ashes is vncleannesse whose end is hell fire And in another place O how grieuous are the fruits of lecherie more bitter thē gaul and more wounding then a sword Beside these punishments which whormongers bring vpon themselues they also incurre the penalties and correction of the Magistrate who is appointed to punish the same and such like offences For whordome hath euer beene taken for an abhomination among all honest people in the whole world insomuch that all vertuous rulers yea heathen Magistrates hath euer punished the same yea euen with the paine of death In the law of God it is written Leuit. 20. Deut. 22. Who so committeth adulterie with any mans wife shall die the death both the man and the woman because hee hath broken wedlocke with his neighbors wife Neither was adulterie so sore punished among the children of Israel onely but also among the heathen When anie of the Lepreians were taken in adulterie they were bound and caried three dayes through the city and afterward so long as they liued they were despised and with shame and confusion reputed as persons destitute of all honestie Among the Locrensians Zaleucus forbad adulterie vnder the paine of a sore punishment causing the transgressors to haue both their eyes put out And when his owne sonne was taken in adulterie his people suing verie earnestly for his pardon he did put out one of his owne eyes and an other of his sonnes by that meanes leauing to his sonne the vse of his sight and yet to the terror of his subiects not suffering example to bee giuen of the breach of his law without iust punishment In old time the Germans before they came to the Christian faith gaue the full power and authoritie of punishing a woman that brake wedlocke to her husband who at the least might strip her out of her clothes thrust her out of his house and beat her openly with roddes in the citie or towne before her friends whereof Cornelius Tacitus maketh mention Opilius Macronius Emperour of Rome as Iulius Capitolinus recordeth vsed to punish adulterers with fire causing them that were taken in adulterie to bee bound and to be burnt together quicke And among the Romans there was a common law called Lex Iulia which appointed execution to be done vpon adulterers with the sword the which law was receiued by the christian Emperours Much more may be saide concercerning the punishments ordained by magistrates where there hath bene any good gouernment of this detestable sinne which peraduenture to some will seeme verie cruell and rigorous But if they would consider the matter aright setting affection and euill custome aside and would ponder wel what adultery were how dangerous and contagious a leprosie they would not wonder so sore at the punishment For adulterie is a dishonour done vnto god by violating his holy ordinance a wickednesse sprung from the diuell an idlenesse of the flesh a shameful vnfaithfulnes a wilful trucebreaking and periurie But wedlocke is the holy ordinance of God in the which both the parties ought so to bee knit the one to the other that they bee not diuided Now al maried persons when they enter into matrimonie do make a perpetuall couenant and calling vpon God and taking him to record before the whole congregation they promise troth and faith with mouth and hand the one to the other If this then bee but a small trespasse to dissemble to breake to destroy and to tread vnder foot al this to forswear troth giuen before God and the Church and nothing to regard honestie and faith then must I needes confesse that the punishment of adulterie was verie rigorous in old time But if it be a iust thing seuerely to punish vnfaithful periury the despising of God al honestie then is also the punishment of adultrie right equal not to sore Moreouer if the losse of a good thing should be valued after the estimation of the owner then as touching this life there is no greater iniurie and damage then a man to loose his owne bodie And most sure it is that the man and his wife are but one bodie and that the husband hath no power of his owne bodie but the wife neither hath the wife power of her own body but the husband according to the doctrine of the Apostle Wherefore whoso committeth adulterie the same taketh away stealeth robbeth the other of his owne bodie euen his principall best good Or what honest person had not rather find a theef stealing his treasure to suffer the losse of his goods then to find an adulterer by his maried spouse and to reape dishonour in her Furthermore it is to be considered that through adulterie great inheritāces are altered and the right heires disinherited For oftentimes it falleth out that an adultresse hath children by an adulterer which inherit al the substance of their pretended father as lawfull children which yet are vnlawfull whereby the father looseth his honour his kinred his bodie and his goods His wife which is his owne bodie hath the adulterer defiled and the vnlawfull children take the goodes away If this be not great wrong and wickednesse then am lignorant what a man may affirme to bee vicious enough Therefore though adulterie be great wickednes both in men and women yet in women it is most hurtful and detestable For besides that the adulterers altereth the inheritance as I said