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death_n	act_n	adulterer_n	adultery_n	52	3	9.3645	5	false

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A22141	Brotherly reconcilement preached in Oxford for the vnion of some, and now published with larger meditations for the vnitie of all in this Church and common-wealth: with an apologie of the vse of fathers, and secular learning in sermons. By Egeon Askevv of Queens Colledge.	Askew, Egeon, b. 1576.	1605 (1605)	STC 855; ESTC S100302	331,965	366

wherein it was prophaned and Theophrastus in Plutarke checked Pericles for this thing As for periurie wherein his name was abused they punished it seuerely as examples in their stories do witnesse For the fourth precept of keeping his Sabboth they ordained lawes for the like though abusing their knowledge they misused it with multitude of ceremonies and ridiculous rites Touching the second table in generall their precept of charitie was Do to others as ye would be done to which our Sauiour saith is the Law and the Prophets For the first precept of honouring our parents Homer bad the same and gaue the same motiue That thou maist liue long vpon earth And Solon as Tully reporteth made no law against parricides because he thought none would be so vnnaturall and vngodly as to kill his parents For the second Thou shalt not kill their reuealed law of naturall knowledge taught them this abundantly prohibiting homicide by their publike lawes as their bookes witnesse And such was their seueritie against it that from the building of the Citie the space of 620. yeares none was killed by anie priuate hand within the wals as Dionysius Halicarnasseus reporteth For the third Thou shalt not commit adulterie their lawes were seuere against it and punishments of it grieuous The Egyptians lawes punished it with a thousand stripes in the man and cut off the nose of the woman to deterre others from the like Diod. Sicul. lib. 2. de reb antiq cap. 2. Cael. Rhod. lib. 21. cap. 45. Solons law permitted that a man might kill the adulterer when he found him in the act The Athenians mulct it with a mullet vide Cael. Rhod. lib. 27. cap. 4. Plato with death lib. 9. de legibus The Lemnij so contemned the goddesse Venus that none wold sacrifice vnto her onely because they thought she had committed adulterie with Mars Alex. ab Alex. lib. 2. cap. 14. The Leprei led the men three dayes through the Citie contemning them all their life after and made the women stand vp in the market place to be a spectacle of shame eleuen daies Cael. Rhod. lib. 21. cap. 48. Alex. ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 1. The Cretans mulct it largely and excluding adulterers from all office and dignitie crowned it with ignominie Aelian var. hist lib. 12. Cael. lib. 21. cap. 45. The Arabians punished it with death Alex. ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 1. and Parthians no sinne more seuerely The Pisidians made them be both led together on an Asse thorough the Citie for certaine dayes Stob. ser 42. The Thracians punished it grieuously Among the old Germaines adulteram excisis naribus maritus s Alex. lib. 4. cap. 1. Tacit. expellit say stories and lashed her thorough the towne The barbarous Gothes as Procopius relateth made it capitall The Romaines made them do publike penance in a long robe Cael. lib. 21. cap. 48. and made it lawfull to kill their wiues for that fault whereof Valerius shewes many examples lib. 6. cap. 1. But of all most famous is the law of Zaleucus who when his owne sonne was accused of adulterie before him and adiudged to lose both his eyes for the fault would not heare the whole Cities intreatie for the one eye but pulled out one of his owne and another of his sonnes to satisfie the law Val. Max. lib. 6. cap. 4. Volater lib. 20. And thus by this reuealed knowledge were the Gentiles a law to themselues For the fourth precept Thou shalt not steale Solon by his law punished theft double Draco by his ordained that he qui stercorandi causa stercus bubulum abstulisset aut olera who had but stolen a little ordure or dung should die for it Alex. lib. 6. cap. 10. ex Gel. lib. 11. cap. 18. The Scythians punished no fault sorer The Indians iudged it the greatest The Atrians stoned it The Phrygians if one stole but an instrument of husbandrie made it death Stob. ser 42. Alex. lib. 3. cap. 5. and the lawes of the twelue Tables in Rome punished night-theft with death Gel. lib. 11. cap. 18. Alex. lib. 6. cap. 10. For the fift Commandement Thou shalt not beare false witnesse the Egyptians punished lying with death Diod. Sicul. lib. 2. cap. 2. the Persians and Indians imposed perpetuall silence on him who had thrice lyed Alex. ib. For periurie the Indians cut off the toes and fingers yea the outward members of the periured Alex. lib. 5. cap. 10. And for false accusation see how king Assuerus hanged Haman Esth 7. 8. and the Pisidians threw them headlong from a rocke Alex. lib. 6. cap. 10. For the sixt and last Thou shalt not couet the bookes of Philosophers Poets and Historians are full de fraenandis affectibus to speake nothing of their lawes Did this Ethnicke knowledge and learning teach and perswade them to do the things of the law and can it not helpe to informe our vnderstandings reforme our minds and conforme our wils also Yes doubtlesse being made powerfull by the word of the spirit and fruitfull by the spirit of grace may it helpe to breed holinesse in vs that made them so wise so prudent so iust so sober so temperate so continent that without law by this naturall knowledge they did the things of the law seeing as Peter Martyr noteth if we t Comment an Rom. 2. looke on the manners life and conuersation of Cato Socrates Aristides and such heathens we shall find they go beyond the Iewes and exceed many Christians Wrought it so much good in them who had not the spirit of grace and can it worke nothing in vs who haue the spirit of sanctification 4 That learning the abuse whereof Saint Paul condemneth in popular Sermons may be lawfully vsed therein but Col. 2. 8. Paul condemneth the abuse of Philosophie and the deceit of secular learning Ergo. Our moderne interpreters expound this place of the abuse when it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle speakes doth beguile with paralogismes and vaine deceipt through the traditions of men according to the rudiments of men and not after Christ As that the world is eternall was a paralogisme of Aristotle that the soules go into new bodies was a paralogisme of Plato and Pythagoras that pleasure is the chiefest good a paragolisme of Epicurus So in Diuinitie difference of meates a paralogisme of the Iewes and Papists and such like Otherwise when it doth not beguile and brings such paralogismes the Apostle alloweth it therefore Paul spake warily saith Austia● adding it of Philosophie after the elements of the world and not after Christ and vaine deceit saith Theophylact least he should deterre vs from hearing Philosophy Seeing then he biddeth the Colossians beware in their Preachers of Philosophie which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beguiling with vaine deceit and not after Christ he alloweth that which agreeth with the analogie of faith to be heard of the people at Colosse This place vseth u Lib. 3. hist Eccles cap. 14. Socrates for