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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

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forbidden here or no where in the morall Law The same Father in his booke de 10. Chord cap. 9. answereth an obiection which might seeme to defend it Vxorem non habeo ad meretricē vado I am vnmarried and make vse of an harlot S. Augustine answers In Deum peccas eius imaginem per diffluentias libidinis in te violasti thou dost sinne against God whose image in thee thou defacest in thy selfe by thy overflowing lusts Dominus qui scit quid tibi vtile sit vxorem concessit hoc praecepit h●c iussit The Lord who knoweth what is best for thee hath granted thee a wife this he prescribed thus he hath commanded it is therefore surely a sinne against God Tostatus argueth well to proue it a sinne every naturall act not vsed or imployed to the right end is evill as to eate and drinke non propter conservationem individui not to preserue the body but for riot and excesse is evill so to vse carnall copulation of lust not propter conservationem speciei per generationem not for the preserving of the kind by generation for the which it is appointed must needs be evill and so it is in fornication Reverend M. Latimer maintaines it to bee a sinne against God out of this text thus ex quo discimus Deum benedixisse coniugio where wee reade that God blessed marriage it is easie to gather on the contrary that all other companying of man and woman not in marriage is accursed and proues it by the wordes of my text and concludes thus seeing therefore the sanctitie and chastitie of marriage is commanded in the Law and the contrary is forbidden and all other acts of vncleanesse whatsoever which are a violation of marriage adding also to this reason the testimony of Hosea Whoredome and wine take away the heartes and the punishment of the Israelites for their fornication out of 1 Corinth 10. 8. But we must giue these Apes leaue to hug their owne and these crowes to thinke their owne birds the beautifullest It is one of the Popes purviors that carrieth in his provision no marvaile then if they haue so many Champions to mainetaine it and so many monstrous whoremongers and adulterers amongst them to practise it and so they doe both agere and docere who knoweth not this that hath read any thing concerning the filthines of both Popes and Priests in the Church of Rome Theodoricus of Niem will tell vs that in Norway and Ireland it hath beene lawfull for the Bishops and Priests to keepe their Concubines and when twise a yeare they visited the Parrish Priests that were vnder them they were wont to carrie their Concubines with them yea their Concubines would not suffer them to visit without them Here was good doing this was good stuffe and singular holines Vdulricus B. of Auspurg reports that when a certaine Pope sent to draw a Pond for fishes there were taken vp and brought him aboue six thousand Infants heads Alvarius Pelagius complaineth that the Priests liue incontinently and wisheth they had neuer vowed continencie Alvarus Chartier The ministers of the Church leaving the use of marriage follow wandring dissolute and vnlawfull lusts Nunn Bridget Priests and Deacons keepe whores that with their great bellies walke vp and downe with other women and Pieus Mirandula to name no more speakes as broadly and truely of them The Priests once lay with the women at the doore of the Tabernacle alluding to the sinne of Elies sonnes but in our time they breake into the sacred houses and Fie for shame women are to be brought in to satisfie their filthie lusts and no marvaile then if it be not sinne with such that are such egregious and shameles beastes What meanes their common Stues and open bawdie houses allowed by the Pope and even vnder his nose out of which sinne hee suckes no small advantage perswaded that dulcis oder lucri ex re qualibet Gaine is sweete howsoever it comes in as he said of the ill sent of Vrine yea the hire of an whore and the price of a dog which were had in detestation and held a thing abominable to be brought into the house of God must not misse his mouth nor shall scape his greasie chops All that bring such greest come welcome to his Mill amici curiae bed and bosome friends though never so base or beastly to the Court of Rome and Chamber of the Pope But leaving these like Swine to wallow in their own mire or like Boares and Beastes to satten in their owne filthinesse let vs in a word or two see how this Commination concernes our selues The use for vs may be in a word by the severitie of the punishment to be deterred from the filthines of the offence against which it is threatned recollect but briefly the particulars already dispatched and you shall soone see reason sufficient to disswade you from it Is vncleanes a sin come not neare he that toucheth this sinne must needs be defiled he that commeth too neare this fire shall surely be scorched for the house of an whore is the way to hell going downe to the chambers of death Againe will God be avenged of it if no body else will punish it is it that God from whom we cannot hide it nor from whose power we can not be delivered will it light so terrible first or last either in our soules or bodies goods good name or posteritie or in one of these perhaps in all of these are we lyable to such deadly strokes of Gods hand here and in danger of eternall torments in hell fire for ever after all the plagues and judgements either by God or men to be inflicted shall neither Whoremongers nor Adulterers inherit the Kingdome of heaven shall no vncleane thing enter into that new Ierusalem shall dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers be without then let him that hath an eare to heare heare what the mouth of the Lord hath spoken Flee fornication Mortifie your members which are upon the earth fornication uncleanes c. fornication and uncleanes let it not be once named amongst you c. know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ make them not the members of an harlet For if any man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God for this is the will of God even your sanctification that you should abstaine from fornication and that every one should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honor And as those shall be sure with Psalmes in their mouthes and Palmes in their hands as conquerours to follow the Lambe wheresoeuer he goeth which haue not defiled themselues with women but are virgins so those that haue given themselues over to fornication in going after strange flesh as Iude speaketh shall