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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

suffer the vengeance of eternall fire for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge And now before we part I must speake a word or two to you not long and yet too late our unworthy neighbour I must say to you as Ehud sayd to Eglon I haue a message vnto thee from God but not with a Dagger in my hand to kill you but with good counsell from my heart to keepe you that you cast not away your selfe The words of the wise they are like goads and nayles not like Iaels nayles to be driven into your head but like S. Peters nayles to be fastned in the heart and I pray God they may haue no worse successe then his had for they were pricked in their hearts and sayd men and brethren what shall wee doe Sorrowfull and ashamed of the evill past and desirous how to learne to goe and sinne no more And while I shall performe this last worke of charitie to your soule which God make profitable unto you as my soule desireth let mee intreat this favour from you which Daniel desired of Nebuchadnezzar let my counsell be acceptable unto you and suffer a word or two of exhortation Account me not your enemie because I tell you the truth hate me not because I haue not used to prophesie good unto you dealing plainely when I found you faultie or if you doe it shal be all one with me Ego liberabo animam meam I will discharge my conscience before God and men and then your bloud be upon your owne head you shall fall or stand to your owne master You haue heard out of this text the foulenes of the sinne of fornication and how roundly and tartly God usually proceedeth in the punishment of it This hath beene your sinne and this sinne hath brought you to this dayes shame ut poena ad paucos timor ad omnes God grant it may doe you good and that others by your punishment may learne to be wise How long you haue loved and lived in this sinne your owne conscience can tell you best by your owne confession since October 1626. neere three yeares and that which is worst to keepe an whore under your wiues nose too long and too much if you bethinke you well if it had beene lesse and never so little You haue heard that Whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge if such a thunder-clap will not startell and awake you I may iustly feare you haue slept your last and that you are not only dead but with Lazarus stinke in the graue Rowse vp your selfe Awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead that Christ may giue thee light I haue heard of that publicke protestation that you made where you first did pennance in that Honorable and Worshipfull presence at Pauls-crosse of an ample and large restitution and satisfaction to such as you had wronged even to threefold had you said more you had not promised too much and had you ever climed vp on a tree to see Christ as Zacheus did and with no worse heart then he you would haue enlarged your tongue whatsoever you would haue done with your handes and promised to restore foure-fold as he did But wordes will not carry it Good trees are knowen by their fruits and not by their leaues and good Christians not by their wordes but by their liues I will not wonder to see light eares of corne to prike and peare vp themselues aboue all in the furrowes or field not to heare an emptie caske to make the greatest noise I should thinke my selfe an happie man if I might presume to take you at your word in the meane time let mee tell you what I thinke that the world or wise men at the least will never beleeue it till they see it and till then you shall shew some wisdome to say lesse and doe more be not verball in your purposes and protestations but reall and royall in your performances Let me tell you plaine what I thinke and that is this that you haue run your selfe mightily in debt by this your sin vnto divers which must be discharged or you must lie by it a while and die for it at the last I speake not of your purse or charge before your filthinesse was found out while you lived closely in vncleanesse I haue heard then you were base and fordid enough perhaps so provident as to provide something against a rainy day I speake not of your expenses in Newgate or other prisons whither you haue beene most iustly committed by Authoritie I know you are not behind hand for paying these scores these you haue cleared But some other Creditors haue entred actions against you and will be paid before you can be discharged What doe you thinke you owe to God whom you haue so highly dishonored in the violation and transgression of that sacred and holy Law of his peremptorily forbidding the sinne of vncleanesse Item to the world I meane not by the world such as your selfe such as loue filthines as well as your selfe for I know that birdes of a feather will fly together those that runne with you to the same excesse of riot will easily forgiue you and not stand with you if it were a greater matter then this but I speake of those that professe Religion in truth and sinceritie and so cannot but hate this sinne wheresoever they finde it here you haue drawen bloud and that will beare an action and must be answered you haue wounded Religion given iust cause to the sonnes of Cham to laugh at your nakednesse and as Nathan told David by this deed you haue given great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme What satisfaction can you ever make to that servant of yours who by your base and beastly fornication with her came to a shamefull and vntimely death Blessed had you both beene if you had never seene each others faces for had shee never knowne your face nor you her body you might perhaps I say verely perhaps haue proved a better husband then before and she lived in time to haue beene a wife for as good a man as your selfe she lost her life and living and dying helpt to saue yours I dispute not by what meanes shee was wrought brought to it the Law was satisfied and I am contented What satisfaction can you make to God or the world for the bloud of that sweete new borne babe murthered and made away by her by putting it aliue by some secret conveyance into the house of office an office fit for a whore and no mother I do not say nor charge you to be privie to the putting of it into the privie I shall leaue that to God and your owne conscience who if you were will not goe behind your backe when time shall serue to tell you of it I iudge you not you were acquitted from the Law of man God grant you may come off as faire with God that he