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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

Eccle. 5. Riches shal not profit a man in the day of vengeance And in another place Some man is rich by his care and niggardship and then saith I haue gotten rest and now will I eat continually of my goods Eccle. 11. Lnke 12. yet he considereth not that the time draweth neere that he must leaue all these things to other men and die himselfe Couetous rich men are like vnto doues who still build their nests there who both themselues and their dammes before them lost their birds Euenso couetous men lay vp all their treasure here in this worlde where their forefathers as they know left all behind them But in the day of death and of iudgement they shall crie too late Wisdom 5. what hath the pompe of our riches profited vs At what time it will appeare what a vaine confidence they had in them which now cannot help when they haue most need Rich men haue slept their sleepe sayth the Prophet and haue found nothing in their hands Ppsal 75. that is to say Rich men haue passed ouer this life as men doe passe ouer a sleepe imagining an assurance to themselues by their great riches but when they awake at the day of their death they find that they are vtterly void of all helpe In respect whereof the Prophet Baruch asketh this question Baruc. 3. What are they now which heaped vp togither gold and siluer and which made no end of their scraping togither He answereth himselfe They are now rooted out and gone downe into hell Therfore we see how dangerous a thing it is for wicked men to haue the possessiō of riches 2. Tim. 6. because thereby they fall into many temptations and snares of the diuell and into many vnprofitable hurtfull desires which drowne men into destruction and perdition wherein they are so deepe plunged Math. 19. that with great difficultie as our Sauiour Christ testifieth they shal get into the kindome of heauen Let all rich men then learne this lesson of the Prophet Dauid who plaied the part of a good steward vsing that well and disposing that faithfully which was by God committed to his trust He giueth this counsel If riches increase set not thy heart vpon them Psal 61. Whereunto also agreeth the saying of S. Augustine Diuitiaseculares si desunt non per mala opera querantur in mundo si autem adsunt per bona opera seruentur in coelo If thou haue not worldly riches seeke not for them in the world by euill meanes and if thou haue them lay them vp by good works in heauen For of the good and godly rich it is said He hath dispersed and giuen to the poore Psal 112. Saint Ambrose saith that those things are not rightly called our goods which we cannot carie away with vs Sola misericordia est comes defunctorum Dead men carie nothing with them but mer-cie Whatsoeuer thou hast bestowed on the poore make a sure account of that to be thine but whatsoeuer thou hast bestowed vpon the world make thy reckoning that it is lost and that thou hast put it into a bottomlesse purse Discreete husbandmen do sow their graine in the most fertile soile In like maner we cannot sow our worldly substance in hope to haue a great and plentifull gaine better then in bestowing it on the poore O that we would affoord God so much credite in heauenly things as we do to our earthly seed If we want not faith we wil. Lay not vp then for your selues treasures in earth which are subiect to many casualties and perils but lay vp for your selues treasure in heauen which shall endure for euer and euer The ninth Leper is the Murtherer THE Murtherer is pollured with that leprosie with the which Dauid cursed Ioab 2. Sam. 3. saying Let the bloud fall vpon the heade of Ioab and on all his fathers house that the house of Ioab be neuer without some that haue running issues or leprie c. This Ioab talking deceitfullie with Abner Captaine of the host of Israel stabbed him vnder the short ribbes and killed him In like maner he had slain afore Amasa Captaine of the armie of Iudah For the which cause Dauid before his death gaue charge to king Salomon his sonne saying Thou knowest what Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah did to mee 1. King 2. and what he did to the two captaines of Israel whome he slue and shedde bloud of battaile in peace Doe therefore according to thy wisedome and let thou not his hoare heade go downe to the graue in peace The which commaundement Salomon obeyed For after the death of Dauid his father Salomon commaunded that Ioab shoulde bee slaine saying His bloud bee vpon his owne heade for hee smote two men more righteous and better then he Whereby it may plainely appeare that God will take vengeance vpon all murtherers who through their priuate grudge and hatred shedde any mans bloud As it is written He that sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed Gen. 9. When wicked Caine had slaine his innocent brother Abell God sayde vnto him What hast thou done the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth to mee from the earth Gen. 4. which hath opened her mouth and hath receyued thy brothers bloud from thy hand A vagabond and a runnagate shalt thou bee vpon the earth To the which Caine answereth That the vengeance of God will follow him whethersoeuer he goeth and that they which finde him will kill him Abimelech who slue his owne brethren Iudg. 9. had his braine panne shortlie after broken with a Milstone cast vpon him by a woman and presently was dispatched of the small remainder of his life by his owne page Abner of whom mention is made before slue Azahell and therefore his bloud by the iust iudgement of God was shedde in like manner by Ioab Iesabell was denoured of Dogges 1. King 21. for shedding of innocent Naboths bloud Gen. 37. Ruben abhorring bloudshed sayde to his brethren which conspired Iosephs death Shedde not bloud For hee knewe that God woulde take vengeance on the same and therefore afterwarde hee put his brethren in minde of his wholesome admonition Gen. 41. Warned I you not saying Sinne not agaynst the childe and yee would not heare and nowe his bloud is required God will neuer suffer murther and cruell bloudshed of innocents to escape without vengeance though for a time he deferre it As may also appeare by the extreame famine which came vppon the Iewes in the time of king Dauid concerning the which Dauid asking counsaile of the Lorde receyued this answere It is for Saul and for his bloudie house 2. Sam. 21. because he slue the Gibeonites Manie mo examples might be brought of the Scriptures and out of chronicles and stories to proue make manifest howe the vengeance of God falleth either first or last vpon murderers Exod. 20. For almightie God hath giuen a