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A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130

unless it be within ten Days after the Offence committed And if any Person shall travel upon the Lord's Day and be robbed the Inhabitants of the Hundred shall not answer for the Robbery but upon notice of such Robbery to them or some of them given or Hue and Cry for the same to be made they shall make or cause to be made fresh pursuit after the said Offenders with Horsemen and Footmen according to the Statute 27 Eliz. upon pain to forfeit as much Money to the King's Majesty as might have been recovered against them by the Party robbed And no Person or Persons whatsoever upon the Lord's Day shall serve or execute any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree except in Cases of Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace but that the Service thereof shall be utterly void and the Person or Persons so serving or executing the same shall be as liable to the Suit of the Party grieved and to answer Damages to him for doing thereof as if he or they had done the same without any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree at all Having shewed what Provision the Law makes for the Observation of the Lord's Day I shall proceed in the next Chapter to give an Account what some Texts of Holy Writ command in such Case to be observed Note that by the Statute 1 Jac. 1. Ch. 22. No Shoe-maker shall put his Wares to sale upon Sundays on pain of three Shillings and four Pence and also to forfeit the full value of the Wares sold CHAP. VIII Of the several Texts or Places of Scripture relating to the due Observation and Sanctifying of the Sabbath REmember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of thy Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man Servant nor thy Maid Servant nor thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in Six Days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and 〈◊〉 that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Six days thou shalt do thy work and on the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine Ox and thine Ass may rest and the Son of thy Handmaid and the Stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. Speak thou also unto the Children of Israel saying Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you Every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth any work therein that Soul shall be cut off from amongst the People Six days may work be done but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest holy to the Lord whosoever doth any work in the Sabbath day he shall surely be put to death Exod. 31. 13 14 15. Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in Earing-time and in Harvest thou shalt rest Exod. 34. 21. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary I am the Lord Levit. 19. 30. 26. 2. And while the Children of Israel were in the Wilderness they found a Man that gathered Sticks upon the Sabbath-day and they that found him gathering Sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the Congregation And they put him in Ward because it was not declared what should be done to him And the Lord said unto Moses the Man shall surely be put to death all the Congregation shall stone him with Stones and all the Congregation brought him without the Gamp and stoned him with Stones and he died as the Lord commanded Moses Num. 15. 32 33 34 35 36. Keep the sabbath-Sabbath-day to sanctify it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee six days thou shalt labour and do all thy Work but the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter nor thy Man servant nor thy Maid-servant nor thine Ox nor thine Ass nor any of thy Cattel nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates that thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant may rest as well as thou Deut. 5. 12 13 14. Six days shall Work be done but on the seventh day there shall be to you an Holy day a Sabbath of Rest to the Lord whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death Exod. 35. 2. Blessed is the Man that doth this and the Son of Man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any Evil. Isa 56. 2. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa 58. 13 14. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy Convocation ye shall do no servile Work Num. 38. 25. Thus saith the Lord Take heed to your selves and hear no Burden on the Sabbath day nor bring it in by the Gates of Jerusalem Neither carry forth a Burden out of your Houses on the sabbath-Sabbath-day neither do ye any work but hallow the Sabbath-day as I commanded your Fathers But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath-day and not to bear a Burden even entring in at the Gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath-day Then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Jer. 17. 21 22 and 27. Thou hast despised mine Holy things and hast profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 22. 8. Moreover this they have done unto me they have defiled my Sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths Ezek. 23. 38. And the Lord said unto Moses How long refuse ye to keep my Commandments and my Laws See for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two days abide ye every Man in his place let no Man go out of his place on the seventh day So the People rested on the seventh day Exod. 16. 28 29 30. Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the Wilderness they walked not in my Statutes and they despised my Judgments which if a Man keep he shall even live

him so nimble Mr. Ameridith replied he doubted not but to dance about the May-Pole the next Lord's Day but before he moved out of that place he was smitten with such a Feebleness of Heart and Dissiness in his Head that desiring help to carry him to a House he died before the next Lord's Day came At Walton in Surrey upon the Thames there in a great Frost Anno 1634 Three young Men on the Lord's Day after they had been at the Church in the Forenoon where the Minister pressing the words of his Text out of 2 Cor. 5. 10. That we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ c. They the while whispered as they sate And in the Afternoon they went together over the Thames upon the Ice unto a disorderly House of Gameing c. where they spent the remainder of the Lord's Day and part of the Night also in Revelling one of them in a Tavern merrily discoursing the next Day of his Sabbath Deeds and of his Voyage over the Ice but on the Tusday after these three returning homewards and attempting to pass over the Ice again they all sunk down to the bottom like Stones whereof one only was miraculously preserved but the other two were drowned Anno 1598 the Town of Teverton in Devo●shire was often warned and advised and told by the Godly Pastor thereof that God would bring some heavy Judgment upon the Inhabitants of that place for their horrible Profanation of the Lord's Day occasioned chiefly by reason of their Market-day being on the Monday and accordingly not long after their Minister's death in the said Year God sent a terrible Fire which in less then half an Hour consumed the whole Town except the Church the Court-house Almes-houses and a few poor People's Dwellings and above 50 Persons were consumed and perished in the Flames Also Anno 1612 it was again wholly burnt down except a few poor Houses they not being warned by the former Judgment but continuing in the same Sin In the Year 1635 A Profane Company of young Men went as Mr. Faucnor relates on the Lord's Day early in the Morning to Clarendon-Park to cut down a May-Pole and having loaden the Cart with it at Miln●rs-Barn entring into Salisbury one of the Cart Wheels falling into a Rutt made the young Tree in the Cart which they had stoln for a Pole to give a great shugg on one side which struck one of the Company such a blow on the Head that it beat out his Brains so that he presently died in the place and there lay a fearful Spectacle of God's Wrath both against that idle Sport and wilful prosaning of the Sabbath whilst he makes the very thing they had chosen for their Sport and Pastime to be the Instrument of executing his Fury And Dr. Teate gives a second Example of this Nature in the Year 1626. We read that Mr. Abberley a Godly Minister in Burton upon Trent did often take occasion to reprove and threaten Sabbath-breakers especially such as sold and bought Meat upon the Sabbath-day Mornings a Practice too common it seems in that place nevertheless there was a Taylor in the Town a very nimble active Fellow dwelling at the upper end of the Town who would go through the long Street as it were in Bravado to the other end of the Town and fetch home Meat on the Lord's Day before Morning-Prayer But as he came back with both his Hands full in the midst of the Street he fell down stark dead which as it pleased God says the Doctor did work some Reformation both amongst the Butchers and others When I was in Cheshire says my Author there was one Sir T. S. a Papist and at that time in favour at the Court who coming into his Country was much feasted and followed by the Gentry and upon a Sabbath day was entertained and feasted at a Knight's House where many others were present towards Evening they went to Dancing and in the midst of their Sports there was one Sir J. D. that had a great Blow given him on his Leg by an invisible Hand which made him lame for a long time after Thomas Savage a young Man who was Executed at Ratcliff Octob. 28. 1668 for Murthering his Fellow-Servant whilst he was in Newgate cryed out thus to some that came to see him O Wretch said he that I was 〈◊〉 studied how I might spend the Lord's Day in the Devil's Work I thought I could never dishonour God enough and that time I should have served God in I did most for Satan in it on the Sabbaths I used to play my Prancks I sometimes went into the Church indeed but I may speak it to my Shame and deep Sorrow I never heard one whole Sermon all the while I was with my Master and indeed I laughed at those that spent the Sabbath in Hearing and Praying and looked upon them as the veriest Fools in the World I was glad when the Sabbath came that I might have time to run to my Vile Comrades I rejoiced that then I could go to satisfy my cursed Lusts with Wherish Women O tell young Men from me that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly Sin Also while he was in Newgate one Sabbath day his Fellow-Prisoners being at Cards asked him to join with them O said he you and I have something else to do with our Time than to play at Cards is it now a time for us to be sporting away the Sabbath when we have but one poor Sand left us to work for Eternity A Minister on a time preaching and pressing the Sanctification of the Sabbath had occasion in his Sermon to make mention of that Man that by the special Command of God was stoned to death for gathering Sticks upon the Sabbath day Whereupon one in the Congregation stood up and laughed and made all the haste that he could out of the Church and went to gathering of Sticks the he had no need of them but when the People came out from Sermon they found this Man stark dead with the bundle of Sticks in his Arms lying in the Church-Porch Gregory Tomonensis reports that an Husbandman who upon the Lord's Day went to plow his Field as he cleansed his Plow-share with an Iron the Iron stuck so fast into his Hand that for two Years he could not be delivered from it but carried it about continually to his exceeding great Pain and Shame Another Profane Fellow without any regard to God or his Service made no Conscience to lead his Corn out of the Field on the Lord's Day in Sermon time but he was well rewarded for his ungodly Covetousness for that Corn which with so much care he gathered together was consumed with Fire from Heaven with the Barn and all the Grain that was in it And a certain Noble-man every Lord's Day using to go a Hunting in the Sermon time the Lord punished his Impiety with this Judgment he caused his Lady to

England and Scotland by the Accession of King James the First to the Crown of this Realm the Minds and Hearts of the People were so elevated with the prospect and great assurances they propounded to themselves of the future Tranquillity Peace Plenty Happiness and great Prosperity that in all probability was thereby likely to ensue that they thereupon became less industrious and laborious in their several Callings Trades Arts Mysteries Professions and ways of getting their Livelihoods and did much indulge themselves in the pleasant enjoyment of frequent and frolick Society by them call'd Good-fellowship which oft-times happened to be with such expence of Time and Money too that many of their Families became much impoverished thereby And the antient true and principal use of Inns Alehouses and Victualing-houses being for the Receipt Relief and Lodging of such People as are not able by greater quantities to make their Provision of Victuals became common Tipling Houses and places of Entertainment and Harbour of lewd and idle People to spend and consume their Money and their Time in lewd and drunken manner contrary to the true meaning of the principal intended Purposes of such Houses as the Parliament the first Year of King James the First observes It is therefore enacted by the said Parliament 1 Jac. 1. chap. 9. That if any Inn-keeper Victualer or Alehouse-keeper within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales do permit or suffer any Person or Persons inhabiting or dwelling in any City Town Corporate Village or Hamlet within the said Realm or Dominions where any such Inn Alehouse or Victualing-house is or shall be to remain and continue drinking or tipling in the same other than such as shall be invited by any Traveller and shall accompany him only during his necessary Abode there and other than labouring and Handicrafts-men in Cities and Towns Corporate and Market Towns upon the usual working days for one hour at Dinner-time to take their Diet in an Alehouse and other than Labourers and Workmen which for the following of their Work by the day or by the great in any City Town Corporate Market-Town or Village shall for the time of their said continuing in work there sojourn lodg or victual in any Inn Alehouse or Victualing-house other than for urgent and necessary occasions to be allowed by two Justices of the Peace That then every such Innkeeper Victualer and Alehouse-keeper shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the Sum of Ten Shillings of current Money of England to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed the same Offence being view'd and seen by any Mayor Bailiff or Justice of Peace within their several Limits or proved by the Oaths of two Witnesses to be taken before any Mayor Bailiff or any other head Officer or any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace who are authorized to administer the same within the Limits of their Commission The said Penalties to be levied by the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where the Offence or Offences shall be committed by way of Distress to be taken and detain'd for the said Forfeiture and for default of Satisfaction within six days next ensuing the same then to be presently apprized and sold and the Surplusage or Remainder over and above to be deliver'd to the Party distrained and for want of sufficient Distress the Offenders to be by the Mayor Bailiff or other head Officer or Justice or Justices of the Peace aforesaid committed to the common Goal there to remain until the same Penalty be truly paid If the Constable or Church-wardens neglect their Duty in levying or in default of Distress do neglect to certify the default of Distress by the space of twenty days then next ensuing to the Magistrates aforesaid within whose Jurisdiction the Offence is committed then every Person so offending shall forfeit for every such default the Sum of Forty Shillings to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods by Warrant from any such Magistrate within the Limits of their Jurisdictions respectively under his Hand and Seal if Payment be not made within six days next ensuing the taking of the said Distress and the Surplusage if any be to be delivered to the Party distrained and for want of sufficient the Constable or Church-wardens so offending to be by such Magistrate committed to the common Goal there to remain until the said Penalty or Penalties be truly paid Notwithstanding the Restraint put upon Inn-keepers Victualers and Alehouse-keepers by the Act of Parliament aforementioned and the Penalty to be incurred by them for suffering Tipling in their Houses the People did still continue their Bowsing Tipling and Carousing which by little and little arrived to that height of Excess that it usually ended and does so still in downright Drunkenness and grew so habitual and practicable that it was and still is even in a manner become an Epidemical Vice through the whole Realm for Punishing and Suppressing of which odious Sin in the fourth year of King James the First an Act of Parliament was made inflicting a Penalty upon Drunkards and such as continue drinking in Ale-houses In the preamble of which Act the Parliament takes notice of several Sins occasioned by and proceeding from Drunkenness as appears by what follows Stat. 4 Jac. 1. Ch. 5. Whereas the loathsom and odious Sin of Drunkenness is of late years grown into common use within this Realm being the Root and Foundation of many other enormous Sins as Bloodshed Stabbing Murder Swearing Fornication Adultery and such like to the great dishonour of God and of the Nation the overthrow of many good Arts and manual Trades the disabling of divers Workmen and the general impoverishing of many good Subjects abusively wasting the good Creatures of God It is therefore Enacted That all and every Person and Persons that shall be drunken and of the same Offence of Drunkenness shall be lawfully Convicted shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose five Shillings to be paid within one Week next after Conviction to the hands of the Church-warden of that Parish where the Offence shall be committed who shall be accountable for it to the use of the said Poor and if the Persons convicted refuse or neglect to pay then the same to be levied of their Goods by Warrant or Precept from the same Court Judg or Justices before whom the said Conviction shall be And if the Offenders be not able to pay the Penalty then to be committed to the Stocks for every Offence there to remain by the space of six Hours And if any Officer of the Place where the Offence shall be committed upon a Precept sent to him shall neglect his Duty in correcting the Offenders or in due Levying the Penalties where Distress may be had then the Officer so offending shall forfeit ten Shillings to the use of the

day in the service of Satan which Almighty God hath hallowed and commanded to be set apart for the Service and Worship of himself For this Day in many Places of the Realm being prophaned and neglected by a disorderly sort of People in exercising and frequenting Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes Common Plays and other unlawful Exercises and Pastimes thereon And for that many Quarrels Bloodsheds and other great Inconveniencies did grow by the Resort and Concourse of People going out of their own Parishes to such disorderly and unlawful Exercises and Pastimes neglecting Divine Service both in their own Parishes and elsewhere Therefore by the Statute 1 Car. 1. Ch. 1. it is enacted That there shall be no Meetings Assemblies or Concourse of People out of their own Parishes on the Lord's Day within this Realm of England or any the Dominions thereof for any Sports or Pastimes whatsoever nor any Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes Common Plays or other unlawful Exercises or Pastimes used by any Person or Persons within their own Parishes and that every Person and Persons offending in any the Premisses shall forfeit for every Offence three Shillings and four Pence to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed And if any one Justice of the Peace of the County or the Chief Officer or Officers of any City Borough or Town-corporate where such Offence shall be committed upon his or their view or Confession of the Party or Proof of any one or more Witness by Oath which such Magistrate hath power to administer shall find any Person offending in the Premisses the said Magistrate shall give Warrant under his or their Hand and Seals to the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where such Offence shall be committed to levy the said Penalties so to be assessed by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods of every such Offender rendring the said Offenders the overplus and in Default of such Distress that the Party offending be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of three Hours And if any Man be sued or impeached for the Execution of this Law he may plead the general Issue and give the matter of Justification in evidence and no Man to be impeached by this Act except he be called in question within one Month next after the Offence committed The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction not to beabridged by this Act but that the Ecclesiastical Court may punish the same Offence as if this Act had not been made This Statute 1 Car. 1. Ch. 1. only prohibiting unlawful Sports Games and Pastimes on the Lord's Day Carriers Waggoners Wayr-men Carmen and Drovers being out of the Statute having no Veneration for the Lord's Day kindness for themselves nor pity for their Beasts did make a Common practise of Travelling upon this Day and Butchers did usually kill and fell Victuals on the Lord's Day So in the 3 Car. 1. An Act was made prohibiting Carriers Drovers c. to travel on this Day on pain of twenty Shillings every Offence and Butchers for killing and selling Victuals thereon on pain of six Shillings and eight Pence for every Offence But this Statute standing but upon contiunance and expiring after the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following Several of these Persons returned again like the Dog to his Vomit to their former accustomed Prophaness And tho this Statute 3 Car. 1. Ch. 2. was by the Statute 17 Car. 1. Ch. 4. continued and made perpetual yet the unnatural uncivil Civil War between the King and Parliament breaking out shortly after this Statute was much neglected and seldom put in Execution two Witnesses being required for the conviction of the Offender which was troublesome So by the Statute 29 Car. 2. Ch. 7. it is enacted That all Persons whatsoever shall on the Lord's Day apply themselves to the observation of the same by exercising themselves thereon in the Duties of Piety and true Religion publickly and privately And no Tradesman Artificer Workman Labourer or other Person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly Labours Business or Work of their ordinary Callings upon the Lord's Day Works of Necessity and Charity only excepted And every Person being of the Age of Fourteen Years or upwards offending in the Premisses shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of five Shillings and no Person or Persons whatsoever shall publickly cry shew forth or expose to Sale any Wares Merchandizes Fruit Herbs Goods or Chattels whatsoever upon the Lord's Day or any part thereof upon pain of forfeiting the same Goods so cryed or shewed forth or exposed to Sale And no Drover Horse-courser Waggoner Butcher or Higler their or any of their Servants shall travel or come into his or their Inn or Lodging upon the Lord's Day or any part thereof upon pain of twenty Shillings for every such Offence and none shall use imploy or travel upon the Lord's Day with any Boat Wherry Lighter or Barge except it be upon extraordinary occasion to be allowed by a Justice of the P●ace of the County or Head Officer or Justice of the Peace of the City Borough or Town-Corporate where the Fact shall be committed on pain of five Shillings for every such Offence and if any Person so offending in any of the Premisses shall be thereof convicted before any Justice of the Peace of the County or chief Officer or Justice of the Peace of the City c. where the Offence shall be committed upon his or their view or confession of the Party or proof of any one or more Witnesses which Oath the said Magistrates are impowered to administer then the said Justice or chief Officer or Officers shall give Warrant under his or their Hand to the Constable or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where the Offence shall be committed to seize the said Goods so shewed forth or put to sale as aforesaid and to fell the same And to levy the said other Forfeitures or Penalties by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods of every such Offender distrained rendring them the overplus of the Money raised thereby and in Default of such Distress or in case of Insufficiency or Inability to pay the Party offending to be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of two Hours And all Forfeitures to be imployed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the said Offence shall be committed Save that any such Justice Mayor c. may out of the said Forfeitures reward the informer according to their Discretions so as such Reward exceed not a third part of the Forefeitures But this Act is not to extend to the prohibiting of dressing of Meat in Families or dressing or selling of Meat in Inns Cooks-shops or Victualling-houses for such as otherwise cannot be provided nor to the crying or selling of Milk before nine of the Clock in the Morning and after-four in the Afternoon No Person to be impeached prosecuted or molested for any Offence before mentioned

committeth Adultery with a VVoman lacketh Vnderstanding He that doth it destroyeth his own Soul Prov. 6. 32. A VVound and Dishonour shall he get and his Reproach shall not be wiped away ver 33. The Lips of a strange VVoman drop as an Honey-Comb and her Mouth is smoother than Oil. But her and is bitter as Worm-wood sharp as a two-edged Sword her Feet go down to death her Steps take hold ●n Hell Prov. 5. 3 4 5. and 2. 18. and 7. 27. A Whore is a deep Ditch and a strange Women 〈◊〉 a narrow Pit Prov. 23.27 and 22. ●4 Such i● the way of an Adulterous Woman she eateth and wipeth her Mouth and saith I have done 〈◊〉 Wickedness Prov. 30. 20. O that I had in the Wilderness ● Lodging Pla … Way-faring Men that I might leave my People and go from them for they be all Adulterers an Assembly of Tr●acherous Men. Jer. 9. 2. Will ye steal murder commit Adultery and swear falsly and burn In●ence unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not Therefore I will cast you out of my sight Jer. 7. 9 15. I have seen thine Adulteries and thy Neighings the lewdness of thy Whoredom and thine Abominations on the Fields We unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jer. 13. 27. Because they have committed Villany in Israel and have committed Adultery with their Neighbours Wives and have spoken lying words in my Name which I have not commanded them even I know and am a Witness saith the Lord. Jer. 29. 23. For the Land is full of Adulteries for because of swearing the Land mourneth The pleasant Places of the VVilderness are dried up and their Course is Evil and their Force is not Right Jer. 23. 10. In thee have they discovered their Fathers Nakedness in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for Pollution And one hath committed Abomination with his Neighbours Wife and another hath lewdly defiled his Daughter in Law and another in thee hath humbled his Sister his Father's Daughter Ezek. 22. 10 11. By Swearing and Lying and Killing and Stealing and committing Adultery they broke out and Blood to●cheth Blood Therefore shall the Land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish Hos 4. 2. Whoredom and Wine and New Wine take away the Heart Hos 4. 11. I will not punish your Daughters when they commit Whoredom nor your Spouses when they commit Adultery for themselves are separated with Whores and they sacrifice with Harlots therefore the People that doth not understand shall fall Hos 4. 14. I will come near unto you to Judgment and I will be a swift Witness against the Sorcerers and against the Adulterers Mal. 3. 5. A Fornicator in the Body of his Flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a Fire All Bread is sweet to a Whoremonger he will not leave off till he die A Man that breaketh Wedlock saying thus in his Heart Who seeth me I am compassed about with darkness the Walls cover me and no Body seeth me what need I to fear the most High will not remember my Sins Such a Man only feareth the Eyes of Men and knoweth not that the Eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the Sun beholding all the ways of Men and considering the most secret parts Ecclus 23. 16 17 18 19. Thus shall it go with the Wife that leaveth her Husband and bringeth in an Heir by another She shall leave her Memory to be cursed and her Reproach shall not be blotted out Ecclus 23. 22 26. Three sorts of Men my Soul hateth and I am greatly offended at their Life a Poor Man that is proud a Rich Man that is a Lyar and an Old Adulterer that doteth Ecclus 25. 2. The Whoredom of a Woman may be known in her haughty Looks and Eye-lids Ecclus 26. 9. Be ashamed of Whoredom before Father and Mother and of a Lye before a Prince and a mighty Man Ecclus 41. 18. But I say unto you whosoever looketh on a Woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her already in his Heart Math. 5. 28. Out of the Heart proceed Evil Thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts false Witness Blasphemies Math. 15. 19. Mark 7. 21. But that we write unto them that they abstain from Pollutions of Idols and from Fornication and from things strangled and from Blood Acts 15. 20. God gave them over to a Reprobate Mind to do those things which are not convenient Being filled with all Vnrighteousness Fornication Wickedness Covetousness Maliciousness full of Envy Murder Debate Deceit Malignity Wisperers Rom. 1. 28 29. I wrote to you in an Epistle not to company with Fornicators 1 Cor. 5. 9. Know ye not that the Vnrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Abusers of themselves with Mankind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Meats for the Belly and the Belly for Meats but God shall distroy both it and them Now the Body is not for Fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body 1 Cor. 6. 13. Neither let us commit Fornication as some of them did and fell in one day three and twenty thousand 1 Cor. 10. 8. Having therefore these Promises dearly Beloved let us cleanse our selves from all Filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness c. Of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 21. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto Lasciviousness to work all Vncleanness with greediness Eph. 4. 19. But Fornication and all Vncleanness or Covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as becometh Saints Neither Filthiness c. For this ye know that no Whoremonger unclean Person nor coverous Man who is an Idolater hath any Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God Eph. 5. 3 5. Mortify therefore your Members which are upon the Earth Fornication Vncleanness inordinate Affection evil Concupiscence and Covetousness which is Idolatry For which things sake the Wrath of God cometh on the Children of Disobedience Col. 3. 5 6. For this is the Will of God even your Sanctification that ye should abstain from Fornication that every one of you should know how to possess his Vessel in Sanctification and Honour not in the Lust of Concupiscence as the Gentiles which knew not God 1 Thess 4. 3 4 5. Knowing this that the Law is not made for a righteous Man but for Whoremongers for them that defile themselves with Mankind c. 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. Lest there be any Fornicator or profane Person 〈◊〉