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Show ~ Part. I. Sea. l· An Addofs to P~otejlanti: Voi.. l. But where is that retired Breeding, which inade our Women as famous for their Virtue, as they were always held for their Bettuty ? Alas! There hath been a fort of Induftry ufed to fubdue their Native Modefty, as if it were il1 breeding to have it; and Arrs praEHfed to make them hardY againft their own Blufhes, and mafter their fhy and bafhful Difpofhion (fo peculia.r to Chafti_ty) into an ~nconverced Confidence: as if. it were .their Perfelbon to · be' mfenfible of til, :Jnd to be tame at all Thmgs a 'Vmue .. Strange! That Sobritty lbould be uun'd into Levity! and L11}1 called Love! and Winronnefs, good JJum()Jir! To introduce which, nothing h:uh been. fo pernicious as the Ufe of Ployt and Romance.s amongft us, where the warm :1nd uneven Paffions of our Youth, eafily nanlported beyond the Government of their Reafon, have been mov'd and exc:ired to try that irt' Earneft, which they have heard or feen in Jeft. But which way ioever this ungodly Latitude came in, cert:J.in it is, that wh:!t forty Years ago waa not fit ro be named in Convcrf:.uion, is now practiCed without any Scruple. lt1llrriage, which is God's Ordinance, and as lovely to chaft Minds as lawful, is now grown a dull Thing, old and clownifh, kept up only for lifue, and that becaufe the Law will have ic fo; a Sort of Formality" not yet thought fit to be abrogated: So that what was once ordained of God for many other Helps and Comforts, and per .. mitred by the Holy Apoftle to prevent Lufi (herter marry than b~rn) is by the extra\•agant Growth of Vice turn'd to quite the contrary. For fame Men and (which is worfC) fame w·omen roo, have faid, They could love their Wives tmd Httjbands, if tbty were not their Wives anJ. H11jbonds; tho' that be the true Reafon, why they ought to love them. It is in fhort to fay, If they were in that Condition, in which they ought not to love them, they could love them~ but being in that Condition, in which they ought to love them, they declare, they cannot love them: Yet, Alas I they muft be called Chrifiians, and Children of God: What a Shame is this; and what Scandal to Society? But for God's fake, let this Impiety be laid to Heart I led not the Marriage Bed be lo horribly defiled, let not out Virgins be fo bafely abufed: It deftroys H0tto11r, Fortitude, Health: It pollUtes Houfes, and m:1kes the Iffue of the Nation Spurious. It occafions great Unkind~ nclfes, Rents, Confufions and Divifions in F:Jmilies, between Husb:wd and Wife, Parents and Children, Mafters, Miftreffcs, and Servams: Ic fpors their Name: But above all, the poor Children are unhappy, that weJr :m Ignominy they never deferved. In fine, it teaches Young Men to flight Marriage, and married Men to break their Contra8:s. It Religion were not interdled in it, yet the \'ery Breed of rhe Nation is vifibly injur'd by 1t: Good Horfe·Mcn are more nice and careful in their Steeds: The Policy of thefeKingdoms is concern'd in preventing theM.ifchiefs, that fol· low fuch LicentiotH PnrOices. But if we wilJ confider the Share that Religion has, both in Virginity and in Marriage, we fhlll find many fevere Sentences paft upon rhe Viola· I~od. 2o: 14. tors of them. Thou Jb.alr not commit Adultery, faith God. Tbe .Adultertr Lev. 20. to. jha11 be put to De nth, fahh the fame God. I wiU he a fwift Witnefs ogainfl ~1(;~rl6 ~· 3 t he JJdulterer, fahh rhe Lord. Know ye not, that the.enri£bteotJJ jha/1 not 11, 18, ;9:!o', inherit tbe Kingdom of God? Be. not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor !do/dCh. 3• 17. re:s, nor A_du!terers, nor Effemmate Perfom, nor .d.buftr.r of t bemfe!ve.r umb /dtt'!kmtl. And the Holy Apoftle gives the Reafon, The Body U not for Formcatton, but for the Lord, and rbe Lord for the Body: Know ;-e not (faith he) that your Bodies are the Jl1embers of Chrift? Shall It ben rake the Members of Chrifl, and malu them the Members of an Harlot ? God (~rbid! Flee Fornictltiott: !fe tbnt commiuetb Fornication, jinnetb ngainfl_ his own .JJoJy. What ! (fatth he) know ye not, y_our Body is tbe Temple of riJe Holy Ghojf, Whic!J H in y~u, wbic~ ye have of God, and ye are not your own_! For ye rtre bought w11b a Prue; therefore gloriji.e. God in your Bmly and m yo11r Spirit, which are God's. 1{ any Man defile the Tettple c.f Go.-1, bimfooll God deflroy. 0 cJn Men pro(efs to believe thefe Things, and lead that wretched Life they live I But yet again hear this Man of GOO : Eur Frw11i· ' catiM, {roi.; j;· An .Addrefs to 'Pro~Jlants caflon, And all rJnci!tlnnifs, or Covetollfttef.r, let it not b • 7'J 5, you, tU huometh StURts; neuber Pt!thrnif$, 110,. [ool;fo ;,nee nameJ ttmongfl 1679• f1Jbrcb are not conveme11t ~ but rather givm of Th ,t alk.rng nor Jefltng, ~ t hat no Wboremonger, nor Unclean Perfon'g nor c::e .r. Fur tbu ye know, Pan 1. JJo!ttttr, bath any lnhenr4 nce 111 the Km do,: oj Ch {I 1J,/ltrn, wbo n ttn Sea. 3, deceroe JOU w11b vatn Wordr . for h~(a:}e 0t n 411 0J God Let no .. M(In of God upon the C~Jidren o/ Di[obedrence~· t~efe Tbmgr (OJnetb the Wrarb vntb them, and have , 0 Ft/Jor»jhtp w tb h } n~: J! therefore Pauakers hilt ratber reprove them: See rben ~ba/y~ un;:;_llzlj td Wor..tr of Dar/inefs; Eph.· t 3 , hu t w;r. d ' 'wa,. mcum(pdlly nor F. 1. 6 ,. • •• tU '.J~, re eemrngrheTune /ucauftzbeD gv·, ' as oor, ~' •7,11,1~, with the1C Two PafTages; the':firit is tti• A£1 are v_ll. I fhall conclude t6. tJnd the Bed Undefiled; hut Wbor~lllon tr.rts~ arnage u Honourt~ble 1!1 all, Heb.tl-4· ThiS is the other, BMttbe Fearfuiand:gUnbeL nd AdliiUJerb G,d tclll Judge! Rey, ::u. 8. MurJerel"l, 11nd Wbor~monger.r, and Sorcere~e;n:!J. jj /. t e Ahommoble and jball have lbtrr Pnrt tn the La!u wbub h , b t a;;rs, and aU Lyorr, f1)btcb H the SuonJ D~atb Th ·' I Mrnu Wit :J .Jr~ and Brimjlone ~!ir.~e;h~i:or ~~:~;~~i·g~~~e,~~~d0a~b~~e'v~0ti~'M~~ P~f~~d ~~I,~~~~ of fuch Imquity ; let the Law h~,;;sit's c:~lii Towns a~d fiH~IIfet', be fwept grelfors; let not God be provoked t d ft r e upon t o e Jmmoral Tranf .. God by unfeigned Repentance that $.be roy us, and let all fuch turn to verfa~ton, may return again a~ong us. 0 s~t~lf~f~fc~ and Virtuorn Con-for thts, With other Enormities' IS ready to b~r eak CIUt yetp ~za trhteh eWr argaathm, ftt huas.t Sea. 4· Of the Sin of LflxrJry, or Exce'i in Livi .... 1' .. o Seo!t. ;j: T HE Third Crying Sin of this L d · G ~ ntfs, and that in feveral Refi J". ,Its rear Lu_xury and VoJpptucuf· ing: In thefe Things there is greit E~~ef~ .A'l.arf., ~nr.F_urniru!·e. inFeafl· Ufe of any Thing. That which is Lawful·. . n fi ir'f:J,.s ts the Immoderate Ufe of it What is ll bl In It e , may be abufed in the and ViO;als? The :EnoJe ~f ~~~arit ~se\what is Nrk abufed than Clorhd warm, diftinguifh Sexes . but the End i o cover a ednefs, keep People for Ornament for Pride' for Luft s perverted. Ic is now ufed more to the Perfon 'that wears' it, th:tn ;n~or=f~e~~fite·mA Md to drEffi R~fpe8: a. wretched Way to Honour yet fuch is th F iJ f ean, an emmate, Things are more Reverenced.' It o ens Doo~ o y o the. Age, ~hat (~W tatches, carries away the Cap and rb/ Knu froms, gcfts ~cce~, abrams Dtf· ruth. is, _rhis V,mity abufes the Reafoq of Jufl E,j-p,';;. e~ 'renceQs. ~he if platn, IS not to be known amo Fi Cf4 l . ' or rue ui,lay, found all Reafonable DijlinOion n;nd'~ehofet c.~· "I tm lt do~ not onlf'con· P~ople, but it begets Pride: Th~ think them lVI q,re-es t .at ~re among F1!1e; Plain Clot~es muft give tlem the Wayfe!~Js fbe111iv~:d1n~f k~:y are · ~;~:i ~~a;g~~;;;;t~;r~~S!J.~~;r:~o·ltl:~~};.•• Jl.~:~.~~·i:r~ '~!r.~~i In It too; 10t t1s not fo much the Apparel, as the Tri'lllmin . ;~~~!o:~~ge~ut~r~t~ur, tbe il1f{1e,r/behFigure, that prevails: And~~f~~~ a 1 . . ~ ft es grow u e eas, t at are not half worn out This is n 019utty agam the Good ?f the Government, as well as a ~init G d :~~ ~~~~a:urz! ;Jf.nd there Il{o firhong a Te~ptation in. it, th;:t not a f~ the . 0 me, as we as t at the Fme turn Nought In fhorr Th reLs no rood, no Advantage, Prudence or Conveniency in rhis Excefs ~ i e aw .o .God and of the Land rebuke it : The third Cha rer of !Jniab t~ at;oft 1nt1rely employed againfi ir, in which God does noi only rebuke If.l. 'j: w:m aughty Loo.-t~, tbe Wanton Eyes, ttnd Enticing Mun and Beb.viOIII" of the nwn e~of tbofe T. tlmts, ~ut declares his R~folution too, Tbdt ht coo11ld take Ch !i' e BrtrU_ery o therr Ornaments, Cbatns1 Brnctlell Rings JeWels and S. ~nfcahle Sifit.r o .Apparel, and that their Pe1[11me foould be' IMrned inro d I rnA;; ~~~d rnftead of a Girdle rbrre jhou/d be a Rrnt, and in[lead of WeU·fn l1ttir,. |