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A89544	The reformed gentleman, or, The old English morals rescued from the immoralities of the present age shewing how inconsistent those pretended genteel accomplishments of [brace] swearing, drinking, [brace] whoring and Sabbath-breaking are with the true generosity of an English man : being vices not only contrary to the law of God and the constitutions of our government both ecclesiastical and civil, but such as cry loud for vengeance without a speedy reformation : to which is added a modest advice to ministers and civil magistrates, with an abridgement of the laws relating thereto, the King's proclamation and Queens letter to the justices of Middlesex, with their several orders thereupon / by A.M. of the Church of England.	A. M., of the Church of England.; Bouche, Peter Paul, b. ca. 1646.	1693 (1693)	Wing M6; ESTC R20084	100,071	189

comes it to pass that the Magnanimity and Courage of the English has of late degenerated into Softness and Effeminacy And the Nation which before was a Terror to her Neighbours is now by those bewitching Dalilahs rob'd of its former Vigour and become almost as weak and Pusillanimous as the rest So fond have we been of imitating the French in all their Vices Fashions and Accomplishments of late that we have followed them to a hair in all things even their Cowardize their tricks and poor sneaking Stratagems not excepted 13. It would be a tolerable Bargain did the Wretch come off with no worse then the Miserie 's incident to Sensuality in this life 4ly The last effect of Fornication is withiut Repentance Death Eternal but alas he has an after-reckoning to pay beyond the Valley of the shadow of Death 'T is not his Mind Body or Estate His Reason Life or Fortune but the Loss of his Soul which must quit the score of that Guilt contracted by the pursuits of these Vncleannesses which he has not repented of Eph. 5.5 For no whoremonger has any Inheritance in the kingdom of Heaven but will be judged by God the Righteous Judge and by his irrevocable Sentence consigned over to have his Portion in that Abyss of Fire and Brimstone which burns for ever and ever Rev. 21.18 In this Burning Tophet he will then struggle tho' in vain and in the anguish of those Torments he will in all probability wish tho' it be too late that he had never given way to his corrupt Nature that he had never harkned to the flattering Motions of Flesh and Blood that he had never yielded to the prevalence of his Inclinations How then will he execrate himself and curse his merry Companions that allured him to and Taught him this Diabolical Art How will he then wish that his Eyes had been plucked out and his Eye-strings had cracked before they had gazed upon Vanity and betraid him into a snare How will he wish then that his Arms had fallen from his Shoulder-blade before they had been defiled with unclean Embraces That his Tongue had cleaved to the roof of his Mouth before he had uttered such immodest Discourse That his Ears had been stopped with a perpetual Deafness before he had listned to the filthy Communication of others That he had been thrown into the Fiery Furnace before he had leaped into the Bed and Arms of an Harlot But why should I inlarge upon those things since Hell is little regarded by the generality of Mankind and the Torments of the Damned are looked upon as fictitious Bugbears to frighten deluded Man from his Paradise of Voluptuousness and the Accounts of Holy Writers concerning a future State are generally dis-believed And if they will not hear Moses and the Prophets nor believe Jesus and his followers How can we expect they should give credit tho' one of their old Companions arose from the dead 15. I come now in the next place to consider the mischiefs of that Branch of Vncleanness Adultery and the Effects thereof Adultery where one or both the Parties concerned are in the State of Matrimony and which is not only condemned as being Sensual and opposite to a direct Command in the Decalogue but also as it is unjust injurious and inconvenient to the Publick Society of which we are Members This Sin has not only the Brutality of the two former but is acted with all the Malice imaginable against both God and Man I know not by what kind of Fascination this Vice has prevailed within these few years but so common is it grown that 't is matter of sport and pastime to have the Ingenuity to defile ones neighbors Bed And 't is reckoned a small business to pay Quid pro Quo and a Jest to Horn the Horter But as common as it is yet the Crime loses not one grain of its real Estimate Let the Adul●erer and Adulteress please themselves with never so merry Thoughts of the contrary For they thereby incur the Guilt of breaking the whole Law Affront God The effects of Adultery further illustrated in its being a Breach of our Duty to God our neighbor and our selves Injure Others and Act as Enemies against ●hemselves As by considering the following ill Effects thereof will easily and manifestly appear 16. God certainly is displeased at it being diametrically contrary to a Command which he delivered with Thundring and Lightning at Mount Sinai in these express words 1st Adultery is a sin against God Thou shalt not commit Adultery His Edicts are not to be despised neither are his Commandments to be cast behind our back Who are we that shall make bold with our Maker and trample his Institutes under foot and reckon his Ordinances not worthy our Observance Can we dispute the lawfulness or unlawfulness of his Orders Or shall we act in opposition to an Almighty's Decrees 17. But farther you break not only the Commands of a Just Jehovah 2ly Adultery a sin against others and first against the Publick but maliciously strike at the Root and aim at the destruction of that Society to which you belong Our English Community allows no such promiscuous Copulations and therefore has carefully provided that every Man shall be the Husband of one Wife He therefore that climbs up into his neighbors Bed to defile it doth what in him lies to put an end to all the Decorums and Observances which the strictness of a well constituted Christian Government requires at our hands Adultery is a Sin which no Nation or People tho' never so barbarous has maintained By the Levitical Law it was punished with the immediate death of both Parties Lev. 20.10 Deut. 22.22 The Alchoran of Mahomet not only forbids a Lascivious Eye but punishes the Adulteress convicted by four of the same Sex with perpetual Imprisonment The Pagan Indians at Dominica Cuina Bantam and Japan punish the Adulterers with loss of Life Scotch History The barbarous Chineses have the same sense of the guilt and inflict no less a punishment upon the Delinquent At the City of Pequin the Jointures and Dowries of Adulteresses are bestowed upon the Hospitals of Female Orphans In Patame a Province joyning to China they have a Custom If any Persons of quality become guilty of this Offence that by Choice they shall be strangled by their next of Kin. At Brasil the Crime seemed of so black a Dye that the inraged Husband had Power and Authority at Will to be the Judge Jury and Executioner of his own Adulterous Wife But at Angola a City in Aethiopia the Penalty was more moderate and the Offender only lost his Nose by the Bargain These and the like Punishments were inflicted by the very Heathens which sufficiently let us see what Constructions they made upon the odious and detestable Sin of Adultery and enough to shame us into a better Consideration of the nature of such a Beastiality Our own Laws both Civil

Corruptions of the Age That those who are in the Gall of Bitterness and involved in the Labyrinths of Sin may extricate themselves and come out of the Midst of Sodom and fly for Refuge to a Spiritual Zoar before the Destroying Angel overtake them with his Plagues it is the Design of the following Discourse to shew To which end I have not spared to draw those Vices I have handled in their proper lively and real Natural Colours To lay the Plague the Curse and the Judgment at the Right Door To call the Blasphemer the Intemperate the Unclean Person and the Prophane by their Proper Names And to tell them of the Miseries Calamities Wants Diseases and Death which are their Portion in this Life and of the never-dying Worm the never-ceasing Pains the never-ending Torments and the Eternal Unquenchable Flames which without God's Mercy upon their Repentance will be their Lot in another World And truly I am so far from wishing any severe word in the Ensuing Treatise unwritten that I am afraid of nothing so much as that being infected with the Epidemical Prudentials of the Times I have treated Vice too gently and used the Vile Enormities too favourably I could wish with all my Soul that every word therein were as sharp as Arrows and as keen as a two Edged Sword that they might stab the Sins I have treated on to the very Heart and bring the Offenders to such a Pass that they might be necessitated to flee to Jesus for the Soveraign Balsom of his Blood to heal their wounded Consciences and that being there they might see the necessity of living a Holy Life lest they set their own as well as their Saviours Wounds a bleeding afresh I have but one Word more to add which is to advertise the Reader that I had an Intention of treating upon some other Malignant and Capital Vices but perceiving that thereby I should swell this Work to a larger Volumn than I designed this Manual should be and considering that by advancing the Price above the Vulgar Reach I should rob the Inferiour Rank of People of the benefit thereof and so lose the very end of publishing it for a Generall Good I confin'd my self to speak only of those sins which seemed to bear the most uncontroulable sway in this our Island And truly I could not but think it most proper to handle those Crimes and lay them Open and Naked to the World which are accounted by the Greater Party for Little Venial and the Pecadilloes of the Age at which the Deity seemed little or not at all concerned and in the Commission of which they notwithstanding hoped for Heaven and Eternal Happiness How egregiously are mistaken they will if they have but the Hearts to consider find in the sequel And oh that every one who Reads this were wise that they understood those things and that they would consider their Latter End That they would cease to do Evil and learn to do Well That they would chuse Life and not Death Light and not Darkness That every Soul may Depart from the Error of his Ways and be reformed that the Reformed may as much as in them Lies endeavour to reclaim the whole is the Earnest Desire as well as the Endeavour of him who is a Well-wisher to the whole Israel of God and especially to the Welfare of our particular Son Farewell Advertisement A Book newly Published entituled Ecclesia Reviviscens A Poem or a Short Account of the Rise Progress and Present State of the New Reformation against Vices and Debaucheries Printed for Tho. Salusbury THE INTRODUCTION Man considered in his three states of Innocence Nature and Regeneration A short view of the Church from the Primitive to out Times A survey of the Degeneracy of the present Age and the little Reason the open Debauchees have of styling themselves Church of England Men. The Guilt of this Nation in general aggravated in that neither God's Mercies can Win it nor his Judgments Terrify it into a serious Reformation 1. MAN that Curious The consideration of Man First in his state of Innocence Vpright stately Fabrick of an Almighty Make in his short Period of Innocence attracted to himself the Admiration Love and Obedience of all other Creatures which were subservient to him as their Lord and Denominator To him did all the moving and creeping Animals of the Earth the Winged Fowls of the Air and the Sealy Fish of the Deep become most willing Tributaries To Him did the Firmaments above those Orbs of Light the Sun Moon and Stars afford their milder Influence To him did all the Sweets of Paradise and the Natural Product of the Fertile Earth yield Delight and Satisfaction To him in a Word was all the Creation so Obedient as if Man were the only Master-piece of God and Nature and those other Created Beings but so many Ornaments to set him off with the greater Lustre Add to this his Harmonious and Symmetrical Body His being endued with a never dying God-like and reasonable Soul Enlightened by a clear Vnderstanding Guided by an Vncorrupted Will Moved by pure and Seraphick Affections and placed in a Rank a little below the Angels 2. Man considered in his state of Nature 2. No sooner did he fall and transgress that one Commandment by eating the Forbidden Fruit but the Scene of Glory quickly changed to that of Ignominy and Reproach His Body became Distemper'd Frail and Miserable His Soul lost the Divine Impress and became filthy and abominable His Vnderstanding was darkned His Will Corrupted and Depraved His Affections Vitiated and Debauched and his whole Man out of Frame He had neither Peace without nor Peace within but all in a storm led an Vnquiet Disatisfied and discontented Life All the Creatures now rose up in Actual Rebellion against their transformed Lord vindicating their Creators Honour upon one that had so shamefully abused it And the lashes of a Wounded Conscience upon a sense of his Guilt were more afflictive to him by far then his being whipped out of Paradise ever was What dismal Effects his Posterity met withall is apparent from God's Justice in giving them up to a reprobate sense to commit Iniquity with greediness and then plaguing them with sundry Diseases and divers kinds of Deaths For from the very moment of the Fall the Intellectual became subject to the Sensitive Faculties the Rational nobler part of the Man was enslaved to that ignoble part which he held in common with Brutes and the Soul bowed down and was conformable to all the Lusts and impetuous Passions of the Body 3. In this languid condition lay the greatest part of the Posterity of fallen Adam for nigh four Thousand Years In the height of that Impiety which proceeded from those Corrupted Principles was it that the old World was destroyed by a Vniversal Deluge of Waters and the new One in its Nonage was dispersed by a Jargon of Languages at the Confusion of Babel Of all the