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The plain mans path-way to heaven wherein every man may clearly see whether he shall be saved or damned. / Set forth dialogue-wise for the better understanding of the simple, by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
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Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.
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I finde saith hee more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nets and snares and her hands as bands Hee that is good before God shall bee delivered from her but the sinner shall be taken by her Wee doe therefore plainly see in what a labyrinth and dangerous case they be that are left of God and given over to whoredome and harlots and therefore it is said Prov. 6.5 Desire not her beauty in thine heart neither let her eye-lids catch thee for by a whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread and the adulteresse hunteth for life which is precious Pro. 5.3 4. Againe hee saith Albeit the lips of an harlot drop as an honey-comb and the roofe of her mouth is softer then oyle yet her latter end is bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword All these prudent speeches of the holy Ghost doe most evidently shew unto us what a fearfull thing it is to commit whoredome and so to fall into the hands of whores and harlots Therefore Job saith of the wicked Job 36.14 Their soul dieth in youth and their life among the whoremongers Phil. You have very well shewed out of Gods book the great danger of whoredome and adultery And it is greatly to bee lamented that men in this age make so light of it as they do and that it is so common a vice nay that some alas with griefe I speak it do professe it live by it and prostitute themselves wholly unto it Theol. Such men and women may justly fear the plaguing hand of God for the Lord saith by his Prophet Though I fed them to the full Ier. 5.7 yet they committed adultery and assembled themselves by companies in harlots houses They rose up in the morning like fed horses for every man neighed after his neighbours wife Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation Phil. Me thinks if men were not altogether hardened in this sinne and even past feeling and past grace this threatning and thundering of God himselfe from heaven should terrifie them Theol. A man would think so indeed but now we may take up the old complaint of the Prophâ—t Ieâ— 8.6 I hearkened and heard and loe no man spake aright no man repented him of his evill saying What have I done Every one turneth to their race as the horse rusheth into the battell Antil Tush whoredom is but a trick of youth and we see all men have their in perfections Theol. You speake profanely and wickedly For shall wee count that but a tricke of youth 1 Cor. 1â— 8 for the which the Lord smote three and twenty thousand of his owne people in one day Shall wee count that but a tricke of youth for the which the Lord threatned David his owne servant 2 Sam. 12.10 that the sword should never depart from his house Shall wee count that but a tricke of youth for the which Hamor and Sechem the father and the sonne Gen. 34.25 and many other both men women and children were cruelly murdered by Simeon and Levi the sonnes of Jacob Shall wee count that but a trick of youth for the which the Lord slew Hophni and Phineas 1 Sam. 4.11 the two sonnes of Eli the Priest in the battell of the Philistines Shall we thus set all at six and seven and make light of such horrible villanies Doth not the severity of the punishment shew the greatnesse of the sinne Doth not the Apostle say 1 Cor. 10.11 These things came unto them for our examples upon whom the ends of the world are come And yet you passe it over with a tush and a trick of youth as if God were to be dallied with No no be not deceived God is not mocked They which will not bee moved now in hearing shall one day bee crushed in pieces in feeling And they which now call whoredome a tricke of youth shall one day howle and cry yell and yelp for such tricks with woe and alas that ever they were born Antil Oh Sir you must beare with youth youth you know is fraile and youth will bee youthfull when you have said all that you can Theol. Yea but God doth allow no more liberty unto youth then unto age but bindeth all upon paine of death to the obedience of his commandements Titus 2.6 The Apostle saith Let yong men be sober minded David saith Wherewith shall a young man cl anse his way Psal 119.9 In taking heed thereto according to thy word The wise man saith Remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12.1 And further addeth that if they will needs follow their lusts their pleasures and their own swinge yet in the end hee will bring them to judgement arraigne them condemn them and tame them in hell fire well enough Phil. Yet wee see men are so violently carryed after their lusts and so desperately bent that they will have the present sweet and pleasure of sin come of it what will Come sicknesse come death come hell come damnation they are at a point they will pay the highest price for their lust They will purchase their plâ—asures with the losse of their soules O wofull purchase O damnable pleasures Thâ—ol Sweete meate will have sowre sauce and a dram of pleasure a pound of sorrow Such cursed câ—itifes shall at last pay a deare shot for their pleasures Such desperate wretches shall one day know to their everlasting woe what it is to provoke God and to sin with so high an hand against him They shall well know in spight of their hearts that vengeance is prepared for the wicked and that there is a God that judgeth the earth Heb. 1â— 4 Let all men therefore take heed in time for whoremongers and adulterers God will judge And the Apostle saith flatly That whorâ—mongâ—rs and adulterers shall not inherit the kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6.9 Heb. 12. Let therefore no fornicator or unclean person be found among us as was Esau but let us abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul 1 Pet. 1.2 And let every one know how to possesse his vessell in holinesse and honour and not in the lust of concupiscence as the Gentiles which know not God 1 Thes 4.5 Herein let us consider the wise speech of an ancient Father Sinne Chrysost in Matth. while it is in doing ministreth some pleasure but when it is committed the short pleâ—sure thereof vanisheth away and long sorrow cometh in stead of it Neither let us here reject the saying of a wise Heathen Isocrat ad Demon. Shun pleasure for fear of smart Sowr things follow sweet and joy heavinesse Antil Yet for all this you shall not make mee beleeve that whoredome is so hainous a matter You make more of it then it is Theol. True indeed for you and such as you are will beleeve nothing against your
sure it is within these thirty yeers these things were not known nor heard of And what say you then to painting of faces laying open of naked brests dying of hair wearing of periwigs and other hair coronets and top-gallants And what say you to our artificiall women which will be better than God hath made them They like not his handy-work they will mend it and have other complexions other faces other hair other bones other brests and other bellies then God made them Theol. This I say that you and I and all the Lords people have great and just cause of mourning weeping and lamentation because such abomination is committed in Israel Davids eyes gushed out with rivers of teares 〈◊〉 9 because men kept not Gods lawes and an horrible feare came upon him because men forsook the law of God 〈◊〉 5 1. J remie did sigh in secret wishing that his head were full of water and his eyes a fountain of teares because of the sinnes of the people Nehemiah mourned for the transgression of Gods people Nâ—hem 1â— Lots just soul was vexed with the unclean conversation of the Sodomites and sâ—â—ll wee moâ—rne nothing at all for tâ—â—se things shall wee be no whit grieved for the pride of our land shall wee shed no teares for such horrible and intolerable abominations They are odious in the sâ—ght of God and men the aire stinketh of them It is Gods marvellous patience that the Dwell doth not carry them away quick and rid the earth of them or that fire and brimstone doth not come downe from heaven and consume them Antil You are too hot in these matters of attire you make more of them then there is cause Asun I con him thank Gods blessing on his heart I shall love him the better while I know him because he is so earnest against such shamefull and detestable pride Is it not a shame that women professing true religion should make themselves such pictures puppets and peacocks as they doe And yet I hear few Preachers in the pulpit speak against it Antil I marvell you should be so earnest in matters of apparell You know well enough that apparell is an indifferent thing and that religion and the kingdome of God doth not consist in these things Theol. I know right well that apparell in its own nature is a thing indifferent but lewd wanton immodest and offensive apparell is not indifferent For all such abuse taketh away the indifferency of them and maketh them sinfull and evill by câ—rcumstance For otherwise why should the Lord threaten by his Prophet that he would visit the Princes and the Kings children and all such as were cloathed with strange apparell that is the fashions of other countries Zephan 1.8 Againe why should the Lord so plague the proud dames and mincing minions of Jerusalem for their pride and vanity in attire if there were no evill iâ— such kind of abuse The Lord saith thus in the third of Esay against those brave and gallant dames Because the daughters of Sion are haughty and walk with stretched-out necks and with wandring eyes walking and mincing as they goe and make a tinkling with their feet therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Sion bald and the Lord shall discover their secret parts In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers and the calls and the round tires the sweet balls and the bracelets and the bonnets the tires of the head and the slops the head-bands and the tablets the earings the rings and the mufflers the costly apparell and the veiles and the wimples and the crisping pinnes and the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the lawns And in stead of sweet savour there shall be stink and in stead of a girdle a rent and in stead of dressing of the haire baldnesse and in stead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning in stead of beauty Then shall her gates mourn and lament and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground Thus we see how terribly the Lord threatneth the gallant dames of Jerusalem for their excessive and abominable pride And this may well be a mirrour for the proud minious of our age which assuredly may well fear the Lord will bring some such judgement upon them as he did upon the daughters of Jerusalem For their sin is as great in this kind as was the daughters of Sion and God is the same God now that he was then to punish it Antil Tush never speak so much of these matters of apparell for we must do as others do and follow the fashion or else we shall not be esteemed Theol. If you follow them not you shall be more esteemed of God of his Angels Saints and all good men As for all others if you esteem them more then these you shew what you are Antil Well for all that say you what you will pride is in the heart and not in the apparell For one may be proud of plain apparell as well as of costly And some are as proud of their falling bands and little sets as others are of their great ruffes Theol. You speak foolishly for how know you that Can you judge mens hearts and inward affections Can you say when mens and womens apparell is sober modest and Christian like that they have proud hearts and are proud of that attire You goe very farr indeed to judge the heart You ought to judge charitably of such as goe soverly and modestly attired even that their heart is according to their attire And for you wee may rather think your heart is vain light and foolish because your attire doth strongly argue it And as the Prophet saith The triall of your countenance testifieth against you you declare your sinnes as Sodom and hide them not Esay 3.9 Phil. I pray you then set downe some rules for apparell out of the Scriptures Theol. I may well set down what I will but surely most men and women will doe what they list For verily it may be thought that many of this age have forsworne God and his word and all goodnesse For they are come to this point let God say what he will they will doe what they list For as the Prophet saith They have made a covenant with hell and with death and are grown to an agreement Esay 28.15 And I doe verily think if God himselfe should come downe from heaven in his own person and disswade men and women from this vanity of apparell yet would they still use it as it were in despight of God and as it were to anger him the more For they are so extraordinarily enamoured and so immoderately delighted with it and doe so continually and altogether dote on it and are so wood-mad of it that they will have it though men and Angels and all the world say nay nay which is more though they should goe to the Divell quicke with it And therefore it is but