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A11228 The picture of a vvanton her leawdnesse discouered. F. S. 1615 (1615) STC 21491.3; ESTC S957 13,656 24

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most part returne worse then when they went Thais O my Sophronius you forget your selfe Rome is accounted a holy place the Pope is called Christs Vicar they call others which consent not vnto them Heriques and professe them selues the onely Catholiques of the world Sophro. I know Thais that Rome is accounted a holie place but I thinke they that esteeme it so haue not bin there for though it was some times an holy Citty where many of Gods Saintes did liue yet now it is become an vnfaythfull Citty a Cage of vncleane Birdes a receptacle for perfidious and fugitiue personnes and a sinke of al euill When I diligently obserued how licentiously how viciously how inordinatly men liued there committing most sinnes without checke I did admire how they could call that place Holy where men did lead such vncleane liues The Pope is called Christs Vicar and is borne vpon mens shoulders and worshipped as a God but he doth not follow the steppes of Christ herein but doth cleane contrary to the preceptes of Christ and therefore he may rather be called Antichrist And whereas the Romanists call others Heretiques who dissent from them I can assure thee Thais that they hold and maintaine foule and shamefull Heresies as I can proue by the holy word of God And whereas they call themselues Catholiques appropriat that name vnto themselues they doe but as some that called themselues Iewes and were not Iewes as S. Iohn doth teach Reuel 3. 9. for they hold many things contrary to the holy Catholique Fayth Thais If this be true my Sophronius which you say I doe the more admire that you should returne so holy from so vnholy a place We see that men generally are so besotted and inchaunted with the pleasures of this life that they affect those places where they may most inioy them and desire rather to abide there where they may haue libertie to inioy the pleasures of the flesh then where men are warned to auoyde these Syrenes and haue the Iudgements of God denounced against them for their sinnes I speake this from my owne experience Tell me therefore my Sophronius by what meanes you are so transformed Sophro. I will tell thee my Thais plainely wishing that it may be as profitable to thee as it hath bin gainefull to mee I chaunced by the goodnes and grace of God to fall into the companie of a graue Father who was a Protistant Minister who had bin at Rome to seeke his Sonne who secretly had slipt from him to see the Countrie and to learne fashions but hearing that he was returned to Venice he came backe againe as we trauailed togeather he inquired of me of what Countrie I was I told him an English man he demaunded of me the cause of my comming into those Countries I answered him to see Fashions and to vnderstand the state of the Romish religion which I heard commended in mine owne Countrie and also to obserue the manners and fashions of the Catholiques which I had heard exceedingly praysed of our English Catholiques in my owne Countrie And when he had heard me to the end he spake on this manner vnto me My Son saith he for so he called me speaking in Latine Beware and take heed of those Popish Catholiques which are the Sinagogue of Sathan and thanke God that you are come out of Rome yea out of Babilon who exalteth her selfe as a Queene and yet is that Strumpet spoken of in the Reuelation of S. Iohn And beleeue mee Poperie is a bundle of Iniquitie For haue you not seene how Curtizans are suffered maintained vnder the Popes nose yea many of the Popes haue had their Paramours The Stewes and Brothell houses are euery where alowed They boast of the Scriptures and yet they falsifie them keepe them from the people that they may keepe them in blindnesse They iustifie themselus and yet are most wicked Their Clergie liue in all manner of pleasures of the flesh They hold it that a Priest liuing in Adulterie Fornication doth not sinne so much as when he taketh a Wife The Iesuites which is the last Order amongst them and the worst doe hold it meritorious to kill the King of the Countrie if he be not of their Religion And therefore who soeuer holdeth the grounds of Poperie is in a most dangerous estate But my Sonne search the Scriptures as our Sauiour Christ exhorteth and they shall reueale vnto you the misteries of our Saluation and discouer all their iuglings impieties I gaue him great thanks and haue followed his counsell Since which time I haue been studious in the Scriptures and euery day I perceiue the grosse errours of the Papistes their counterfait Holinesse their deepe Hipocrisie and their great Iniquitie Now therefore my Thais if you tender your owne saluation detest Poperie and forsake this ill kind of life that you haue led yet there is hope if you earnestly repent God will receaue you for hee would not the death of Sinner but rather that he should repent To day therefore whiles God doth admonish you heare his voyce and harden not your hearts against God so shall you escape eternall condemnation Thais If this kind of life my Sophronius be so euill if it be so dangerous and if so great a punishment doth belong vnto it I maruaile that it is so common and I marnaile why some haue affirmed that Fornication is but a tricke of Youth and that it is no fault for a Young man to commit Fornication Sophro. I told you that the vniuersalitie of a sinne doth not make it to be no sinne nor excuse a sinne for we ought not to follow a multitude to doe euill And whereas some say that it is but a tricke of Youth to commit Fornication that it is no fault these are the words of Heathen men which had not the light of Gods word such euill Words corrupt good Manners But the Word of God doth tell vs Heb. 13. 4. ● Cor. 6. that Fornicators and Adulterers God will iudge and punish Neither shall Fornicators and Adulterers enter into the kingdome of Heauen Thais This is a heauie sentence if it should be executed and indeed my Heart trembleth to heare it If the state of this life which I haue ledde be so odious to God and lyable to so great punishment I will by Gods grace forsake it But alasse Sophronius how shall I liue How shall I maintaine my selfe Sophro. I am glad to heare that you feare the Iudgements of God threatned to sinners in his Word No doubt Gods spirit will rest vpon them that tremble at his Word and I hope that God will make me an instrument to conuert you And whereas you demaund how you should liue how you should maintaine your selfe I will tell you what I would aduise you You shall secretly and sodainly gather vp all your Apparell your Stuffe and I will helpe you to conuey it to my House and I would haue you to serue